This is a google doc that has as far as I’m aware, all times Raphael Santiago is in the Shadowhunter Chronicles or is mentioned as of March 13th 2021. They should be in chronological order. Different scenes are separated by lines. The book or short story the scene is in is in bold at the top of the scene. I included Thule Raphael as well in a different section at the end.
i think all discussions about the jedi council go haywire because people think the statement, “individual jedi did not trust the council not to punish them when they have failed the jedi code,” means that the jedi council would have actually severely punished said individual, like that’s the piece of the argument that’s doing the heavy lifting. but it’s not. it’s that people are convinced that’s what will happen. it doesn’t have to be actually true for it to be something that heavily affects how other jedi interact with their leaders. i just saw a post that recapped that bit from dooku: jedi lost where dooku and yoda are talking about a jedi who had a son and hid her son from the council because she was terrified of being punished, and yoda, in that scene, goes, “no, we’re not that fucked up, we would’ve helped.” and the post completely misses the point of that scene, because it’s so busy cheering YODA SAID HE HAS A HEART SO HE MUST HAVE ONE! but the actual point was that no one other than yoda knows that. yoda, and the rest council, have maintained such an austere image that individual jedi would rather hide their kids across the galaxy rather than face what they think will be severe judgment from their religious leaders, and that simply is just not the relationship you should have with your religious leaders. it’s just not. that’s the piece of the argument that’s doing the heavy lifting, because it fundamentally does not matter at all how the council was willing to help any of their charges if everyone was too stone-cold terrified to ask them in the first place
continuing because i actually have pretty strong feelings about yoda - not that anyone cares much about my many musings on that weird ass little frog - and this next bit is much more theoretical and built out of my own headcanon of the jedi. i think “grandmaster of the order” as a formal title is because in the minds of the jedi, everyone in the order is considered yoda’s padawan - as their spiritual leader, he is continually available to guide his charges through their journeys as jedi. they’re his, in a way.
(and without really caring much about dooku, i just want to say that i bet having to share your jedi master with a cool couple million others probably wasn’t a great feeling, as evidenced by his later atrocities. there’s an intriguing character throughline you could cobble together here, if you take into consideration the ROTS novel, which iirc, has dooku thinking that he has sided with palpatine to create an entire sith order, and i do actually like the idea that dooku - spurning his original community and culture - is so obsessed with smoothing out the remembered pain of the community he gave up by trying to perfect it. loss to obsession to madness pipeline. and then that guy gets completely tanked by a trembling college student, fuck yeah.)
so i always approach these interactions yoda has with other jedi as being in that context, of him as the perpetual teacher of the entire order. i’ve decided this is plausible because we see yoda training jedi younglings, and advising the padawans of other jedi - ahsoka, that one time, there’s probably others i don’t really care enough about to remember off the top of my head - and advising adult jedi, like that one time he and anakin had a psychological 7 car pile up in his parlor, and we see jedi like mace drop their guard around yoda. (there’s a scene where mace is literally cuddled up on a cushion listening to yoda. it’s actually kind of precious.)
but anyway, my point is, the master and padawan relationship has every onscreen hallmark of being sacred to the jedi order, and the order sees yoda, and yoda sees himself, as holding that kind of a relationship with everyone in the order. to find out that he’s failed someone to such an enormous extent - that a jedi of his own would rather hide her child and panic, alone, without help or comfort - than face the council because they’re so sure they’ll be punished, that’s gutting. and then his own padawan falls to the dark side. and then he has to make the order to send the jedi to war. and then, if you want to believe dave filoni’s little sideshow project, he has to make the order to send the order’s children to war.
and they die in droves, because it’s war, and they die in droves thanks in no small part to his own padawan - like, even before ROTS and anakin’s Ultraviolence Rave where he paints the floors with blood - i don’t know how yoda stands the unbearable weight of feeling like he’d failed. there’s no way i can hear yoda, who was once responsible for an entire order of people and loved the children that he considered his students, telling obi-wan to take luke to his family without hearing that as an enormous concession of defeat from a little frog that has taken blow after blow after blow. yoda has spent the last hundreds of years taking care of force-sensitive children, obi-wan spent over a decade raising a force sensitive child - he could’ve easily come to the conclusion that it would be more important for luke and leia to have a jedi right next to them when the empire found them, that it was too much of a risk to leave them with non-force sensitive families, more than the risk that obi-wan or yoda’s presence would lead the empire to either one of them. there’s a lot of reasons he could’ve chosen that route instead, and if yoda was actually the stubborn, unchangeable, set-in-his-ways old frog people think he is, he would’ve done exactly that.
but yoda won’t leave luke or leia with another jedi. because he’s fucking crushed. and then it is so, so profoundly touching when he’s a ghost watching luke throw away his lightsaber, watching luke embrace and then save the last vestiges of the jedi and bring anakin back to the light - like, imagine yoda staring at that, the burning and tattered remains of everything he’d cherished. and he’d spent so long convinced it was dead forever, and then the boy he trained saves the boy he himself could not save. obi-wan isn’t the only one who showed up with anakin at the end of ROTJ. like if i could jackhammer how i feel about this into your skulls you’d understand why my posts on star wars are so long
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) dir. George Lucas
Iconic Female Portrayals: Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne in Gone Girl (2014)
Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier cool girl. You think I’d let him destroy me and end up happier than ever? No fucking way.
You think I’d let him destroy me and end up happier than ever? No fucking way. He doesn’t get to win. My cute, charming, salt-of-the-earth Missouri guy. He needed to learn. Grown-ups work for things. Grown-ups pay. Grown-ups suffer consequences.
Rosamund Pike as Amy Elliott Dunne in Gone Girl (2014)
Start with the fairytale early days; those are true, and they’re crucial. You want Nick and Amy to be likable. After that, you invent. The spending, the abuse, the fear, the threat of violence. And Nick thought he was the writer… burn it, just the right amount. Make sure the cops will find it. Finally, honor tradition with a very special treasure hunt. And if I get everything right, the world will hate Nick for killing his beautiful, pregnant wife. And after all the outrage, when I’m ready, I’ll go out on the water with a handful of pills and a pocket full of stones. And when they find my body, they’ll know Nick Dunne dumped his beloved like garbage, and she floated past all the other abused, unwanted, inconvenient women. Then Nick will die, too. Nick and Amy will be gone, but then, we never really existed.
GONE GIRL 2014, dir. David Fincher
37. Thomasin (The Witch, 2015)
