Ezraul

**Ezraul** (**Ezr**/a and M/**aul**) is the enemy relationship of **Ezra Bridger**and **Darth Maul.**

## History

### Season 2

Ezra and Maul first met each other in the abandoned Sith Temple on Malachor during "Twilight of the Apprentice." It was when Ezra was separated from his companions Kanan Jarrus and Ahsoka Tano due to a cave-in that Ezra met the former Sith Lord, Darth Maul. Ezra remained wary of the stranger and threatened him with his lightsaber. Maul insists he is no threat to the teenager and reveals that he is at Malachor for knowledge, just like Ezra and his friends have come here for. He agrees to help Ezra get out of the lower levels of Malachor if he shows the location of the prize that will know how to defeat the Sith: the Holocron. Neither of them trusted each other, leading Ezra to tell Maul to call him by Jabba, one of his commonly used aliases,During their conversation and way to the Sith Holocron, Ezra learned that Maul was once a force-wielder and accuses him of being a Sith. However, Maul revealed he was not one anymore, for the Sith lord Darth Sidious was responsible for taking him from his mother and killing his brother, leading Ezra empathizing with the old man and revealed that he lost his parents from the Empire, as they both suffered from a loss. Maul taught Ezra the Sith Code and encouraged him to embrace the dark side. His encounter with Maul left an effect on Ezra, as he was able to open the Sith Holocron, something only a one who could think like a Sith could open.

### Season 3

In "The Holocrons of Fate," Ezra and Maul formed a Force bond with each other after they combined the Sith and the Jedi Holocrons they had. He saw Kanan as a threat to his plans on making Ezra his next apprentice, even trying to kill Kanan twice, once he had both the boy and the holocron.

Maul mostly used their bond to his advantage by creating hallucinations and tormenting Ezra, especially in "Visions and Voices." Maul attempted to make Ezra forget his past ties with his family but the boy refused, as his loyalty to his friends came first.

In "Twin Suns," Maul continued to use his bond with Ezra to his advantage and lured the boy to Tatooine to bring Obi-Wan out of hiding. However, he never harmed him and instead, allowed him to leave, before his duel with Obi-Wan. Ezra appeared to have sensed Darth Maul's death through their Force bond, which finally ended., both the bond and the torment that Maul put Ezra through.

## Quotes

“***Ezra Bridger:**What's inside?
**Maul:** Help me and find out.
**Ezra Bridger:**Show me this doorway.
**Maul:** Please, this way.
**Ezra Bridger:** You first.
**Maul:** Do you not trust me?
 **Ezra Bridger:** I don't know you.
**Maul:** W-Well, then let's change that. Call me "Old Master. " And you?
 **Ezra Bridger:** Call me "Jabba."
**Maul:**  Hmm. Come then, Jabba.*”
―Ezra and Maul use aliases when they first meet

“*(**Ezra Bridger:** Were you a Jedi?) No, no. But I was once a Force-wielder, long ago. Long, long ago.* ”
―Maul to Ezra Bridger

“*Then you were a Sith!"
"The Sith. The Sith took everything from me. Ripped me from my mother's arms. Murdered my brother. Used me as a weapon and then cast me aside. Abandoned me! Once I had power, now I have nothing. Nothing.*”
―Ezra and Maul

“*I know how you feel. The Empire, it took away my home, and my mother and my father.*”
―Ezra empathizing with Maul

“*You mean* my *apprentice? My apprentice is activating the temple, or more precisely, this battle station, which I shall use to exact my revenge on all my enemies*”
―Maul reveals his true intentions with Ezra to Ahsoka and Kanan
## Trivia

* Following their encounter, Maul continues to address Ezra as "Apprentice" rather than his real name, calling him "Ezra" a couple of times. This shows Maul's "affection" for Ezra is more of an unhealthy obsession and desire to have Ezra become his apprentice and flourish under his teachings instead of Kanan's
* Maul appears to be at least fifty years older than Ezra, having been around since before the Battle of Naboo,which was thirteen years before Ezra was born.
* Unlike other alliances, Maul never kills Ezra for refusing him, uunlike the past in *The Clone Wars* where he killed the Black Sun's leaders for refusing to join the Shadow Collective and thratened to kill Ahsoka if she did not join his cause to take down Sidious together.
* The former Sith tried to kill Kanan multiple times in a poor attempt to make Ezra join him.
* Ezra is not the first young light side Maul tried to recruit, as he tried corrupting Ahsoka in season 7 of *The Clone Wars*.
* They both lost their families because of Palpatine, ended up alone for years, and have strong affinity with the Force and fell into tragedy. The two reminscent on that and how they bonded.
	+ However, while Ezra did continue to hate the Empire for taking his parents and Kanan Jarrus, Ezra learned to he had let them go because he was surrounded by the love of his surrogate family, the Ghost crew while Maul led the anger consume him because he had no one to help him overcome loss and seek vengeance on Obi-Wan and Sidious, which led to his death.
* Maul may have developed a slight fondness for Ezra and Maul genuinely wanted him as his apprentice.However, he still used Ezra to achieve his own goals and it is made clear by Sam Witwer that Maul does want Ezra to serve as a replacement for his dead brother. As mentioned before, this desire to recruit Ezra is no more than an unhealthy obssession
* Ezra's second blade is green and Maul's is red.
	+ Since green and red are both opposites on the color wheel, their lightsabers reflect on the fact that Ezra and Maul are opposites.
* Maul stating he wants to walk on Tatooine "as friends" and " as brothers" signifies he wants to replace Ezra with Savage, showing once again how one-sided their relationship is.
* Despite not being a Sith, Ezra considered him on.
* Maul meets Ezra the same way that Yoda med Luke: Both befriended the young Jedi, pretended not to be a threat, claimed they are not going to hurt them and to put their weapons away. They also handle their lightsabers as walking sticks.
	+ He also approached Ezra as Palpatine did with Anakin: posed as a kind old man, appearing as a supportive mentor though actually trying to turn them against their masters and into their next apprentice.

## Fanfictions Links

Ezra Bridger and Darth Maul on Archive of Our Own (73 Fanfics as of 2020)