The Acolyte

First time in a series or film that the process of bleeding a kyber crystal is shown, the only other time the bleeding process has been seen on screen was when the fallen Jedi Dagan Gera's (who was from the High Republic era) rage and hatred corrupted his kyber crystal while he was dueling former Padawan Cal Kestis in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023). The reason ligthsabers carried by the Sith and Dark Jedi are red is because the kyber crystal has been corrupted by the dark side of the Force, a dark side adept uses the Force to bend the crystal to their will, this process changes the color of the crystal to red. The canon comic book "Darth Vader" reveals that when a Sith Lord makes their first lightsaber they must kill a Jedi in combat and take the crystal from their lightsaber and bleed it to use as their own, which is why the Stranger tasked Mae to kill a Jedi without using a weapon. The canon novel "Ahsoka" (2016) also reveals that the light side of the Force can "heal" a red kyber crystal and remove the corruption, turning the crystal's color white. Which is why Ahsoka Tano's lightsabers in Star Wars Rebels (2014), The Mandalorian (2019) & Ahsoka (2023) have white blades, she took the kyber crystals from an Inquisitor's lightsaber after defeating him in a duel and healed them with the light side and used them in her newly constructed sabers.

When Sol killed Mae and Osha's mother he did so because it appeared she was trying to absorb Mae's life force into hers, Mae could even be seen beginning to vanish. He thought she was killing Mae, yet he doesn't explain this to either of the sisters. He tells them he did it to protect them but without explaining what Mae's mother was doing, or at least what he thought she was doing, his claim of protecting them doesn't make as much sense.

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