Togruta headcanons that partially fall in line with what @cyareclones also thinks:
- tapetum lucidum, that thing that animals eyes do in the dark when they reflect the light and look like they’re glowing. Generally, Togruta have better night vision than humans.
- they’re big, average 7 ft at the forehead for both males and females
- meso carnivores
- there are upper and lower chambers for montrals, which extend to the base of the skull/top of the lekku. The upper Chambers (the “horns”) pick up on high frequency vibrations, and the lower chambers pick up the low frequency ones
- in moments of complete relaxation, they purr. This is an important milestone for Togruta infants
- Togruta gestation is 10 months, and the likelihood that they’ll have multiples of any kind of exceedingly rare
- Togruta lekku length coincides with stress levels experienced in adolescence, hence Togrutas on the planet of Shili will have shorter lekku due to the stress of the environment and the presence of their natural predator, the akul. Togruta outside this environment (say, like the Jedi Temple) are likely to develop very long lekku and high cresting montrals
- face markings come with similarities and unique family resemblances the way key features like noses or eyes do.
- although they are not prehensile and so aren’t sensitive enough for things like communication, the lekku can still sustain fatal injuries because major blood vessels run through the upper portion of them.
- their body temperatures drop when they sleep and they need to be warmed up to reach full mobility. They are a hot breakfast people.
- More flexibility in the hands and feet
- a Togrutas shoulders and the outer edge of their lekku always perfectly line up. You won’t get a tog that has lekku wider than their shoulders.
Cooper woke me up two hours before I needed to be awake and I can’t get back to sleep, so here’s 4am blogging:
What if the reason that Anakin and Padme were able to hide in plain sight for so long is that it’s really common for Jedi to have friendships that seem unusually close and intimate to outsiders?
Like. We actually do have some canon evidence that it’s normal for a Jedi to be besties with a major political figure! Obi-Wan and Bail, Qui-Gon and Valorum–wasn’t Yoda pals with the Wookie leader?
Jedi having Epic Friendships/brothers-in-arms-type relationships regardless of venue is probably their default cultural portrayal, in-universe. “Jedi are just super intense about that stuff, it’s the Force or something. It doesn’t mean they want to fuck you.”
…This means that in the good end AU where Palpatine explodes and Anakin’s secrets come out there’s a massive cultural whiplash to the effect of, “does that mean they were all fucking in secret?!”
Yoda and Chief Tarfful have to publicly deny any allegations of a sexual relationship.
The iconic weapon of the Jedi, the lightsaber, is a weapon which 1. can only really be used at close-range (unless you throw it, which you can only really get away with if you’re using the Force to begin with), and 2. requires massive amounts of skill and training just to avoid slicing your own face off, let alone actually using it regularly (and again, you probably need Jedi reflexes and precognition just to get a foot in the door).
There’s a reason why they chose this weapon instead of, well, literally anything else. That reason is that killing isn’t what Jedi are all about. They don’t want to kill people. They aren’t “great warriors”; “war does not make one great” and all that. George Lucas describes the Jedi as “intergalactic therapists”; first and foremost, they’re negotiators and diplomats, bringers of peace, and they certainly aren’t made for war. Indeed, a situation where killing is the only option is considered a failure state.
Thus, the lightsaber is the weapon of the Jedi because when your only weapon is a lightsaber, killing requires intentionality. It requires training, practice, and so much control, so many different kinds of control. The lightsaber at your hip is simultaneously a signifier that you don’t want to use it, and a warning that if left with no other choice, you will use it with deadly skill and efficiency.
Sith use lightsabers specifically to flex on the Jedi.
“Go ahead, spit it out,” she muttered. “You look…” Like a goddess of love and war and hope and ecstasy. Like a glimmering star that I have somehow been blessed to hold. Like the rest of my life. “…nice.” He wanted to kick himself.”
