Ezra and Maul

### Intimacy level

Enemies, Temporary Friends; Sometimes Reluctant Allies; Maul see their relationship as a potential master/apprentice and a replacement for his dead brother, but it's one sided; Ezra hates Maul from his betrayal, blinding Kanan an Ahsoka on Malachor, Maul uses Ezra for personal gain; Force-bonded through them converging their Holocrons

### Status

Separated

**The enmity/relationship between former Sith Lord, Darth Maul, and Jedi Padawan Ezra Bridger.**

## **History**

The duo 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 one trusting the other, Maul told Ezra to call him "Old Master" while Ezra told him to call him "Jabba."

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 reveals it was the Sith who took his mother and brother. Ezra empathized with the old man and revealed that he lost his parents from the Empire, as they both suffered from a loss from family members. Maul taught Ezra the Sith Code and encouraged him to embrace the dark side.

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. 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, with Maul having a corrupted but slight fondness for Ezra.

## Trivia

* Maul and Ezra's relationship is purposefully modeled after Vader's relationship with Starkiller in the Star Wars Legends video game, *The Force Unleashed*, which is also a nod to Witwer preciously voicing Starkiller in the video game.
* Maul's an example of what Ezra could have been if he had let his embitterment towards the empire get the better of him and fall to the Dark Side. Unlike Maul, Ezra had his friends' care anda love for him guide Ezra down the right path.
* When Maul announced he was taking Ezra away from Kanan, Freddie Prinze Jr. said that Kanan acted like an overprotective father.
* However, it reflects more on Palpatine and Anakin's relationship. Maul also acts as a supportive, wise old man befriending an impressionable young Jedi with trust issues between himself and his mentor whilst secretly manipulating him, exactly like Darth Sidious did to Anakin.
* Ezra and Maul's first meeting nearly resembles Yoda and Luke's, in which both Maul and Yoda act like feeble old men and tell Luke and Ezra respectively "Away with your weapon. I mean you no harm"f before revealing their true nature.