{"id":46786,"date":"2026-05-30T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=46786"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:44:07","slug":"separated-at-birth-asajj-ventress-and-luminara-unduli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/separated-at-birth-asajj-ventress-and-luminara-unduli\/","title":{"rendered":"Separated at birth: Asajj Ventress and Luminara Unduli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How are these two characters the same person?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/yo\/swcw2bsav.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yo\/art\/swcw2bsav1.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"435\" alt=\"Asajj Ventress\"><\/a><a href=\"\/yo\/sw2bslu.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yo\/art\/sw2bslu1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"435\" alt=\"Luminara Unduli\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px -25px\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This piece of Dermot Power art, dated 9\/9\/99, is what eventually became Asajj Ventress as we know her today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/asajjluminara1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/asajjluminara1-235x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But very few ideas are approved and finalized on the first draft. So here's an earlier take on the idea, where the evil Sith lady who would have been the villain of <i>Episode II<\/i> was a Twi'lek:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/asajjluminara2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/asajjluminara2-220x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here she is as a different alien (who, with a gender swap, a shift of skintone, and a change of allegience, eventually became <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=6139\">Kit Fisto<\/a>!):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/asajjluminara3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/asajjluminara3-220x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hood from that idea carried over into the next Twi'lek design, which is where we finally began to see some more of the ornate pieces Asajj would wear:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/asajjluminara4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/asajjluminara4-220x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that leads us directly into this piece, which was the inspiration for Luminara Unduli:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/asajjluminara5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/asajjluminara5-220x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It's not hard to see the evolution when the original artist has kept such detailed records.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #141\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-141\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #141<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #198\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-198\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #198<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #174 - Episode III, Action Figures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-174-episode-iii-action-figures\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #174 - Episode III, Action Figures<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Star Wars: Creating Adventure\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/star-wars-creating-adventure\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Star Wars: Creating Adventure<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - November '15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/flippin-through-previews-november-15\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - November '15<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are these two characters the same person? &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;So Mustafar, so Musta-good! Those are some funky clones Narc getting Scarffed Rustin's Spoils of the Week #174 - Force Friday, Episode I Supervillain primary debate, part 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-46786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46786"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46804,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46786\/revisions\/46804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}