Well, my personal opinion is, if it ain't on-screen, it's open to interpretation. The comics, novels, cartoons, games, and toys are all subjective bits of merchandising, with the movies being the final word.
My personal take on Assajj is that she should be creepy-looking. She's a STAR WARS villain. I kinda feel that all the 'realistic' versions of her paint her as a rather unscary black & white photo of a bald supermodel. If I was in charge, she'd have those nasty Sith eyes, sharp teeth, and the complexion of a cadaver. All the result of dabbling in the Dark Side of the Froce without ANY instruction; she's the result of years spent 'exposed to the reactor without wearing a radiation suit'.
I'm neither right nor wrong; it's just one fan having fun. The ONLY thing I stand firm on is that there's no right Assajj or wrong Assajj, until she show's up in a movie or in a live-action TV show. Even in animation, there's still a subjective abstraction going on. Anything we all do is just customization fun.
Here's a point: where do her lightsabers go? If you go by the first HASBRO figure, she wears them on her hips, like a gunfighter. That's what Sideshow did for their 12" figure. But if you look at the ART OF ATTACK OF THE CLONES book, pages 112-116, she's got them crossed in front of her in an 'X' pattern. The last sketch on page 116 where she looks like she's got them on holsters? She's buckling/unbuckling her belt, and it just looks they're side-mounted; they're not HANGING ON HER HIPS. But someone at either HASBRO or Lucasfilm licensing didn't look too hard at the drawing, so now we have the holster version, although none of the original designs indicate it. So, which version is right? Which is wrong? None of them,, and all of them.
But that's just my opinion. It's my toy and I can do what I want with it. Nyeh.
-AH!
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atomhues
