Are Mae And Osha A Dyad?
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Star Wars canon has evolved and grown since the first movie back in 1977. During the 90s and early 21st century, it grew more with the introduction of the prequels and more books in the Expanded Universe. When Disney bought Star Wars in 2012, rather than go through everything out there, they decided to label everything pre-acquisition that wasn’t film to be Legends, and everything new would be considered canon.
One of the more interesting additions to the canon was the concept of a dyad. We learned about this in The Rise of Skywalker when Palpatine tries to siphon energy from Ben and Rey to regenerate. It was expanded on in the canon book The Secrets of the Sith, where it was stated that the link between Rey and Ben occurred naturally.
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The definition in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary states that a dyad is two individuals (such as a husband and a wife) maintaining a sociologically significant relationship. That doesn’t exactly work in the Star Wars case, but the central premise is there. Two people who are closely linked (the husband and wife part is pretty funny, considering the kiss Rey and Ben shared at the end).
Most recently, from the show The Acolyte, we learned about how the twins Mae and Osha were born. We didn’t get all the information necessary to complete the picture, but it was learned that they were conceived through the Force. Their mother, Aniseya, used the Force and the vergence on Brendok to create them and had a member of her coven, Koril, until they were born. While it’s presented that they are twins through much of the early episodes, toward the end, we learn that they are, in fact, the same person. They are literal copies of each other. As such, they are uniquely connected.
An interesting question arises regarding the two women, however. Are they a dyad?
The straight answer is no. Canonically speaking, the dyad was a belief and prophecy maintained by the Sith Eternal cult, and its origins predate that of the Rule of Two that Darth Bane instituted. Sith lords like Plagueis believed he had one with his apprentice Sidious, who then believed he had one with his apprentice Vader. It seemed to be solely the focus of the Sith, and not the Jedi, and the Sith believed it was the future of the Sith, something that would make them more powerful than ever possible.
Looking at Mae and Osha, it seems like it would be there since one seems to be light and the other dark, but the dyad that we saw in Ben and Rey happened naturally. The Sith lords mentioned above tried their damnedest to make the dyad through their will but to no avail. That being the case, it would stand to reason then that trying to create a dyad is fruitless. Furthermore, the fact that the coven on Brendok isn’t Sith suggests that they don’t subscribe to the dyad prophecy, so when Mother Aniseya used the vergence to manipulate the Force into creating Mae and Osha, she was not setting out to create a dyad.
The prophecy and doctrine of the dyad also seem to suggest that the two individuals linked by the Force are unrelated. If we open the possibility of the prophecy to include light side users, that would open it to Mae and Osha, as well as Luke and Leia. Instead, I think they’re just two people connected by the Force simply because they shared a womb. I don’t think that qualifies as a dyad.
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An interesting point of canon that has come to light in this though is that the real dyad grants the bonded an uncanny level of power never seen before. For example, the power to heal with the Force. We saw this in The Rise of Skywalker when Ben healed Rey. Curiously though, we see Qimir (the Stranger from The Acolyte) use healing on Osha when she’s left behind by Master Sol and Mae.
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