if you would join us so a common question that I sometimes see in
comments and one that I got quite heavily in the last livestream that we
did was how did Palpatine conceal his sith eyes from showing the entire time I
mean if he was Chancellor and he had Seth eyes surely the Jedi would notice
now there are many different theories and ideas and things like that that
people have however there's nothing that has concrete evidence or even canon or
legends evidence regarding this answer so this one is gonna be another fan
theory by me but it's gonna be one that I think makes pretty good sense and it's
on par with a lot of other people's theories as well the reason Palpatine
didn't have SIF eyes for that entire period of time as being Chancellor is
because the Sith can fluctuate between having Sith eyes so one thing that I
really tried to show in the Vader fan film was when Vader's eyes turned from
Seth yellow back to blue it's to show this very same idea in the sense that
when you are carrying out deeds or harboring emotions or having emotions
that would elicit some sort of dark rage or some sort of dark sith power then
your eyes will be set yellow we see this case in point with Anakin he had to kill
the younglings and after that when he killed the separatists on Mustafar his
eyes turned Sith yellow however they're not that color when he goes to see Padme
who just arrived to see him having SIF eyes really depends on your emotions so
when Palpatine is playing the uncle or father figure grandfather figure even
the mentor to Anakin and to the entire Senate as being this nice old sweet man
there are no emotions there or at least they're very very hidden and Palpatine
was a master of hiding his emotions and hiding his true intentions now again
when Anakin was fighting obi-wan his eyes were blue this is because in my
opinion he was still adapting to the dark side sure he was using it but he
wasn't able to fully tap into that hundred percent rage at all times
whereas Sidious who has been a dark side user for decades has that ability we see
this case in point once he reveals himself as Darth Sidious or in other
words takes over the galaxy and turns it into the Empire he doesn't feel the need
to hide anymore he doesn't feel the need to hide his true exterior which is what
happened to him after mace redirected the lightning
back to him it raises the question did Palpatine subdue his emotions and not
really tap into the dark side fully during his battle with mace is that why
he actually lost because he didn't really go super saiyan if you get that
Dragon Ball Z reference but then of course once he does have his SIF eyes
after his face is disfigured he unleashes as he said unlimited power now
we also know from revels as well if you didn't know from legends Palpatine was a
connoisseur in SIF magic he was basically like an evil wizard and so I'm
sure he had a few brews and potions here and there and a couple spells that would
help conceal anything that he needed now in some articles and books regarding
Star Wars it's said that his face was actually
just a mask the face of sheev Palpatine was actually just a cover-up for what
was underneath which is what happens when you used the darkside for so many
years you become really disfigured and ugly but in Canon it's actually because
the Lightning deformed and melted his bones and face that's why he looks like
that so the final answer I have for this in the theory regarding why Palpatine
could conceal his eyes from the Jedi during the whole time being Chancellor
is because he did not tap into the dark side in those moments it was only once
he did is when his eyes truly changed color and he was fully tapped in to the
dark side and all of its power something else I'd like to point out as to why
duke who didn't have Seth eyes is because he was a strong dark side user
but at the end of the day he was really just a strong force user in general he
was using all sides of the force he started out as a Jedi became an
extremely esteemed that Jedi Master and then he started to learn the dark side
and it's actually noted that Palpatine only gave him a crash course in the dark
side and I don't really think Duke who was that hell-bent on being SuperDuper
evil just like Anakin was Dooku just merely had a different side of politics
he just bought for a different side at the end of the day he just got tired of
what the Jedi were constantly pandering to which was the Senate in the Republic
and felt that they kind of just disillusioned themselves from what the
force really is and because of that he went over to the side of the separatists
and led that whole thing under Sidious of course but at the end of the day he
wasn't really a super duper evil Sith Lord that wanted to just go around
killing and maiming everybody like Palpatine did he wanted to rule the
entire galaxy under his iron fist Dooku wasn't so much
like that he still was but he wasn't so much as bad as Sidious or even Vader
hope this answers the question let me know any other theories you have down
below have an awesome rest of your day and may the force be with you