#Anakin did it first

[eldritch-ace]

May the fourth be with you!!! 💫✨

[anisangeldust]

Thinking about girl!dad Anakin

“That comfy babygirl? M’kay. Your mamas gonna be back with some food soon and we’re gonna have a picnic..” he settled on a blanket behind your year and a half year old daughter as she busied herself fisting at grass chunks of the soft Naboo flower fields.

It was the late afternoon in lake country, the gentle aroma of wildflowers bursting in the wind and infiltrating the senses of your young daughter. The sun was less harsh, beating rays now only whispering over the pinky horizon. Anakin gently carded his real hand through the soft curls of your daughter’s hair while she giggled and babbled at nothing in particular.

“Babwa! Rahhh vwwa!” Anakin chuckled as her chunky arms flailed in telling - what he can only presume - was the greatest re-telling her little mind had ever cooked up. “Uh huh. And how did that make you feel?” Anakin nodded along to her nonsense. Ever since she had found the ability to produce sound, he’d been obsessed with her every noise, listening intently to words he didn’t understand, having conversations that went nowhere.

Even losing arguments he wasn’t aware he instigated.

Turning her attention away from the plush meadow, her big eyes locked on her most favorite thing in the galaxy, his durasteel hand. “Dada! Bawpa? Nana!” She squealed in delight as her fat fingers tried to take off the heavy leather glove. Above all toys you’d been prepared to get when she was born, Anakins hand was the only toy on or off the list she truly cared about. Like mother like daughter.

“Sweetheart we’ve been over this. Daddy needs this. It’s not a teether. Would you like your binki?” Anakin takes her hands off his glove and reaches for the small bag you’d packed. Before he could look away, her eyes got glossy and her lip quivered like she’d been betrayed to the worst extent. “Da.. da.?” Her tiny voice cooed.

Anakin was a soft man at heart. Your daughter (who had oh so conveniently inherited your eyes) knew how to tug at his soul better than anyone, and she knew it too. He was weak for her teary wants. “Okay sweetpea. How about my glove? No hand but glove?” He offers while unclasping the buttons, and immediately the tears vanish “Dadaa!”

“She plays you like a fiddle and you fall for it every time.” You giggle as you come up to your husband and daughter with all the proper picnic accoutrements.

Anakin beams as you approach, no longer paying attention to how your daughter is, in fact, gnawing on his cybernetic finger. “What can I say? She’s my favorite little lady in the universe. You both are..” he mumbles as he leans in for a kiss.

[intermundia]

kinda fucks me up to know that the first among anakin's immediate friends and family to realize he'd become a danger to them was threepio. like what about anakin triggered his threat sensors? was it the way he moved? the expression on his face? what about the youngling slaughter clung to him? how could a droid sense the dark side when those who love him couldn't see it?

[human-rocket]

biblically accurate Anakin vs. guiding light Anakin

While I know it made sense to simplify his design, I kinda regret not making the tabards black…

[magnusbae]

Obsessed with how Obi-Wan calls Anakin right after having a conference call with the other Jedi Masters because the moment Anakin said he'll do as 'instructed' Obi-Wan knew with absolute confidence that the little shit will most certainly not do as instructed

[thechildofshadows]

anakin ended up the way he was because he didn’t have an emotional support mandalorian.

[sparrowmoss]

for an expression meme challenge thing sent from my friends

[youdrewstarsxaroundmyscars]

FIVES NO

[starry-bi-sky]

realizing i have. a lot of untapped trauma potential for clone^2 danny because i just Fully Processed Four Months Late the fact that his parents were capturing and torturing ghosts in the basement before he became Phantom. and the fact that he was on house rest for 2 weeks. during that time period. and he wasn't really leaving the house. he could hear their screaming through the floorboards

*points at clone danny* i can give you suuuuuuch a bad time babe ahaha. i've got two untouched years before you meet damian what fucks you up before then

[atopvisenyashill]

"It is such a long way," she complained. "I was tired, Jorah. I was weary of war. I wanted to rest, to laugh, to plant trees and see them grow. I am only a young girl." No. You are the blood of the dragon. The whispering was growing fainter, as if Ser Jorah were falling farther behind. Dragons plant no trees. Remember that. Remember who you are, what you were made to be. Remember your words. "Fire and Blood," Daenerys told the swaying grass.

[booksandpaperss]

ahsoka and anakin both cutting a hole in an elevator roof when they could've just used a button they are so special to me

[maryse127]

It's been years since I watched Clone Wars but it permanently ruined me. I watched A New Hope with my brother and his girlfriend tonight and I was having MANY Feelings about Anakin fucking Skywalker. I was so brave about it too

[morganmnemonic]

Star wars discourse about the jedi is hard. Because on one hand you have people saying that the Jedi were right about attachments, and Anakin proves it. If he'd been more okay with not owning the things he cared about, none of that would have happened.

Which ignores a lot of what's going on there. Like. The jedi got their hands on a kid who'd spent nine years in slavery, who owned nothing, not even himself, and had to leave his mother behind in a horrible situation because there was no way for them to both be free. And the issue they have with this child. Is that he clings too tightly to the things he loves.

I don't think there is anything intrinsically wrong with the jedi view on attachments. It probably works great for temple raised jedi with happy childhoods. But those teachings fall really flat when applied to anakin in particular. The sheer audacity to tell a former slave that he needs to learn how to give things up. I promise you he knows. I promise you that he learned that lesson in some of the worst circumstances imaginable.

Like. That could be read as part of the point of that whole ark where his mom died. He tried to be a good jedi, to ignore his fear and let her go. But those lessons mean next to nothing when applied to his homeland. Tatooine doesn't have peaceful partings. It doesn't have gentle goodbyes. It has violence. You have to fight for the things you love, or they will be torn apart. He's never quite able to reconcile between the part of him that is a jedi, and the part of him that is a child of the desert, and in the end he chooses to become the latter and become a part of the same system of violence he was born into.

But then on the other hand people will be like "the jedis view on attachment was bad. The jedi were bad. They are the ones who made Darth vader by messing up anakin so bad".

And like, no! The jedi didn't make Darth vader. That honor goes to the manipulative sith lord who had unsupervised access to Anakin since he was nine years old.

[kingofattolia]

Kenobi Rewatch: Episode Three

• The Goth Misery Lava Castle will never stop being funny.

• "What does it feel like?" "Have you ever been afraid of the dark? How does it feel when you turn on the light?" "I feel safe." "Yes, it feels like that." Hold on a minute.... hold on... I gotta take a break to shut myself in my closet and scream really loud...

• "People are not all good Leia!!!" Yeah okay, a little sensitive on that point are we?

• It's the hallucination for me. Very normal. Nothing at all to see here.

• The "I got this! Don't worry!" / "nooooooooooo, what if it's not saaaaaafe" dynamic Leia and Obi-Wan have going on is a little concerning lol. Obi-Wan is SO emotionally dysregulated.

• "Are you my real father?" THIS TAKES ME OUTTTTT. SO MANY LAYERS TO THIS AND THEY'RE ALL HORRIBLE.

• Anakin would lose his entire mind to hear Obi-Wan talk about wondering about and trying to remember his birth family. Also I love that they re-canonized the weird "brother" thing.

• *stormtroopers approach the vehicle* Obi-Wan: *puts up cloak hood as if that makes him look LESS like a Jedi* (I love him.)

• JABIIM. JABIIM. *speechless gesturing*

• "Quinlan was here?" "Yeah, he helps now and again. Smuggling younglings." Has anyone written this story, because it screams to be written.

• "What have you become?" "I am what you made me."

• They did a really good job with Obi-Wan and Vader's first confrontation, conveying how disoriented and helpless Obi-Wan feels. The abrupt, choppy camera movement kind of gives you the idea that Obi-Wan feels like he's inside a dream, like maybe this is a nightmare he's had before.

• "He'll be fine." "No, he won't be!!!" Everyone else sees Obi-Wan as larger than life, but Leia is like THAT IS AN OLD MAN WHO NEEDS MY PROTECTION.

• What Reva must be feeling when she sees the Jedi underground railroad markings... There is so much hatred, fear, self-loathing, resentment, grief, "why didn't anyone save me," "peace is a lie," etc. going on inside of her. The realization that there are others still out there still whole, still following the Jedi way after everything, had to slice down right to the center of her self-conception.

• I FORGOT ABOUT THE SETTING HIM ON FIRE THING

• I cannot

[magnusbae]

You chose your enemies. You chose your consequences.

[arinrowan]

person: reminder that this character having a tragic backstory doesn't cancel out the abuse they inflict on another character. That abuse still happened even once we know that character's tragic backstory.

person with the reading comprehension of a wet napkin: okay but have you considered that because they have a tragic backstory the abuse they did to someone wasn't actually abuse?