The Darth Maul Estrogen Brigade Interview with MaulsMate

Interviews by Fans
Title:	The Darth Maul Estrogen Brigade Interview with MaulsMate
Interviewer:	Trillium
Interviewee:	MaulsMate
Date(s):	December 21, 1999
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul
External Links:	interview is here, Archived version
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MaulsMate was interviewed for The Darth Maul Estrogen Brigade.

Some Excerpts

Well, I am not much of an Internet person. One early June night I was searching for more information about this beautiful creature we saw so little of in the movie. I have to admit most of what I found was crap. Then I stumbled onto this site. That was it. I was hooked from day one.

Some of my ideas come from music. I was listening to Duran Duran's "Come undone" and thought of the story "Of A Love Most Complicated" Some ideas come from the chat room. Most though hit me out of the blue. Some, Like the Longing parts I, II and III and The Price Of Failure are things that I just feel so powerfully about, it is like HE is telling me what to write and I am just along for the ride. A lot of ideas come to me at the oddest time. Like in church or in the middle of a conference at work. It's very strange.

When I write, no matter what I am writing. I do so with empathy for one of the characters. I see things through that character's eyes. I feel the character and it is like that character is telling the story. Regardless of what person I write the story in. So essentially, when I write this fan fiction I am writing as I think Maul would tell the story. The only time I do not write as him is for the Daydreams. Those are my own sick little perversions I share with those who are interested. Also, when I write, it must be plausible to me in some way. Maul picking flowers and singing sonnets will never happen. I cannot close my eyes and visualize it and if I can't do that then I can't put it on paper. I am not very good at humor. But the Lesson series and the Daydream series are light hearted. I know this. But even then, I cannot see Maul in any other character but the one given to us on screen. I think he has a sense of humor, but I think it would be caustic and sardonic. I believe he is capable of love, but his love is not necessarily a love many would want. I can never picture him uttering the words I love you, EVER! . So, even in the love stories I wrote, he does not. We have debates in the chatroom over this. His character, his ability to feel any emotion other than hate. Everyone has his or her own personal fantasy image of Maul, and no one is right or wrong. Whatever vision of him makes you happy. I see him as a very intense, intelligent and focused individual, who has a feral side to him. His creed, in my opinion would be "The ends ALWAYS justify the means." But I do not see him going out of his way to kill or torture because he has nothing better to do. I see him as being extremely passionate in bed, when he would bother to see to his baser needs. But truth be told, much as much as I love the smut, I do not see him spending much time womanizing.