Son

The Son, also known as the Fanged God, was a male shapeshifting Celestial and a part of the Ones, a family of powerful Force wielders who lived on the ethereal realm of Mortis. Like his family, the Father and Morai, the Son was a being who possessed a unique connection to the Force. As the counterpart of his sister, Morai, who was a paradigm of the light side of the Force, the Son was the embodiment of the dark side. Their father maintained a delicate balance between his children until his growing infirmities led him to lure the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker to Mortis, hoping that the Chosen One would take his place. The Son, who resented the Father's authority, yearned to escape into the greater galaxy — a goal both his father and sister were determined to prevent.
The Son and his sister, Morai, shared a mutual enmity for each other and held a rivalry that mirrored the two opposing sides of the Force — despite this rivalry, however, the Son did still care greatly for her. He longed to escape into the galaxy, but his ambitions were hindered by his father, who sought to permanently bind his children to Mortis where he could maintain balance between the two. During the Clone Wars, a civil war fought between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Son saw an opportunity to undermine the Father's rule with the arrival of Anakin Skywalker, the prophesied Chosen One. In his desire to escape Mortis, the Son masterminded a plot to turn Skywalker to the dark side as he believed that only the Chosen One could release him from the confines of Mortis. As a result of the Son's actions, Ahsoka Tano was briefly corrupted, but his Padawan's fall to the dark side failed to turn Skywalker as he, Jarik Shan, and Obi-Wan Kenobi refused to harm the young learner. Instead, the Son fatally wounded his sister when he attempted to kill the Father with the Dagger of Mortis, an unintentional act that he came to regret.
Despite the loss of his sibling, the Son proceeded with his plan to leave Mortis. Through the Son's ability to see the future, Skywalker foresaw a series of events, all directly connected to his imminent future, and joined forces with the Son in order to end the war. When the Father erased the young Jedi's memories of the visions so that the future would proceed without alteration, the Son, once again denied of the chance to leave Mortis, fought with his father and the Jedi in a final confrontation. Much to his horror, the Father's suicide robbed the Son of his immortality, allowing the Chosen One to kill the dark being.
==Personality and traits==
From Morai's point of view, her brother could not be anything other than manipulative, deceitful, resentful and homicidal because his personality was a reflection of the nature of the dark side of the Force. Throughout the centuries, the Son was grudgingly subservient to the Father's will, but a lack of independence caused him to resent the control that the Father exerted over his life. Longing to be free with the full power of the dark side at his command, the Son was initially content to bide his time until the Father's immortality faded, leaving the latter powerless to further restrain the Son. The only times he would willingly work with his Father was when fighting Abeloth.
Regardless of the Son's affiliation with the dark side, he remained emotionally attached to Morai, the only one he ever loved. However, in spite of the Son's affinity for his sister, the Daughter was also a source of her brother's hatred due to her status as the embodiment of the light side. He did not hesitate to attack her whenever he felt provoked into doing so. Nevertheless, her unexpected death at his hands deeply affected the Son, causing him to mourn the loss of his sister in secret. The Son also cared greatly for Abeloth while she lived with them as "the Mother," and was left sad and deeply angered after her transformation into a twisted and chaotic entity.
Aside from his anger and lust for power, the Son showed himself to be a patient and calculating individual, as well as a meticulous schemer who sought to utilize every advantage at his disposal. By abducting Ahsoka Tano and stating his intentions to leave Mortis, the Son baited his enemies into a trap that was designed to bring him the Dagger of Mortis and the Father in one place; the only setback in his plan was Morai's interference in the Son's attempt at committing patricide. He was also subjected to occasional fits of rage and impetuousness whenever he encountered obstacles to his ambitions, such as when Anakin Skywalker initially refused to join him and when the Father made clear that the Son would never be allowed to enter the physical universe.
Much like Darth Sidious, the Son saw himself and the dark side as the natural remedy to a galaxy that was falling increasingly into a state of anarchy and chaos. He firmly believed that the power of the dark side was capable of forging a new and everlasting era of order and tranquility that he and the Chosen One could establish a balance throughout the universe, but only through full submission to the dark side.
==Powers and abilities==
While the Son's powers came directly from the dark side of the Force, much like the Sith Lords themselves, his connection to the Force existed on a level far beyond the domain of the Sith. Given his existence as a manifestation of the dark side, and combined with experience that stretched over eons of time, the Son's proficiency with the power of the dark side was virtually unmatched by any other Force-user with the exception of his family members. The Son was highly skilled in Force lightning, which he held as his primary form of attack; unlike most wielders, the Son's Force lightning was red. He also proved himself to be a skilled practitioner in several variations of telekinesis, an area that only Morai and the Father rivaled him in.
An immortal and indestructible being, the Son was immune to the attacks of mortal individuals; only a handful of individuals, such as the Father, Morai, Abeloth, and the Chosen One were capable of being a challenge to the Son in battle―however, as said by the Father, there were also other beings who were also capable of challenging the Son's power directly. Like the rest of the Ones, the Son wielded the ability to transform his appearance into virtually anything he wanted. Aside from his primary humanoid form, the Son favored the appearance of a large, winged gargoyle which he utilized for purposes of combat and travel. He also took on the forms of Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, and a diminutive creature during the Jedi's stay on Mortis.
His ability to use the offensive applications of the dark side notwithstanding, the Son was also able to channel the Force in less combative ways. The range of his more passive uses of power included his self-manifestation within one of Skywalker's dreams, the ability to appear and disappear at will without alerting others to his presence and a unique capacity to literally infect an individual with the dark side's influence—a power which gave him an enhanced measure of control over Ahsoka Tano's mind.
In the Son's form as the Fanged God, he was so powerful that channeling his power could burst minor blood vessels in the physical bodies of his followers and pawns, raising telltale bruises on their cheeks and around their eyes. It was also said that he was the one who conjured up the Wild Hunt each year on Dathomir for the Nightsisters. It was said that he could also seep through the borders that separated his realm from the physical realm though it does not take much of his effort to do so.
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