#Still better than palpy and vader tho

[skeletons-eat]

Merlin au

"Ser Sevander!", came the voice of his youngest sister, screeching in a way that only ten-year-olds managed to do, "What about this one?"

The redheaded man, Ser Sevander as Cody had gathered, turned his head towards Omega who held up an uprooted flower in one of her, very much dirty, hands for him to inspect.

But before he could give her an answer to the inquiry her twin, Cody's youngest brother, interrupted her, offended.

"Hey! Wait for your turn, Di'kut" Boba spit at his sister, "I was here first!"

"Now Children..." Ser Sevander interrupted in a low voice, frowning.

"-ody! Ka'ra, are you even listening to me?"

He was snapped out of his eavesdropping by Fox's annoyed tone.

"Who's that?" Cody asked instead of giving his own twin the satisfaction of an answer.

"I-", Fox pinched the bridge of his nose, " are you SERIOUSLY asking about the twins new tutor?"

The twins had a new tutor.

Huh, he didn't hadn't approved that.

"No, Cody, Grandfather didn't let you approve this one because he knew you would scare them all off before the twins could."

Fox was stressed and annoyed, tension in his upper body and pace too controlled and fast to be anything but.

Cody was aware about how the upcoming celebration placed a lot of stress on the Commanders shoulders, and he almost pitied him.

Well, If it weren't for the fact that the same celebration would be the day their father announced his retirement, effectively handing over the mantle to his oldest son, Cody hinself, he would truly reserve the sorryness for someone who wasn't himself.

They turned another corner towards the the main council chamber where all generals, the current ruler, Jango of clan Fett, his heir, Cody, to his own eternal despair, and the head of the guard, Fox, would assamble once a month, discuss the current state of affairs inside Manda'yaim and out.

Cody stared at the Fox.

Fox sighed, "No, you didn't say that out loud, yes, ba'buir thought you had enough to do already, and yes you should probably go to sleep."

The grand doors of the meeting room opened in front of them, distracting both brothers momentarily, although Cody couldn't help but think back to the new tutor again.

Ser Sevander. A man he had never seen before and yet..... Someone who seemed eerily familiar to him. Too familiar.

[magic-owl]

i wish these had numbers to not take up room but alas: what is your absolute favorite ship? what’s a ship you like that most people don’t? what is the most underrated ship, in your opinion? (choose any of your fave pairings for the following bc I'm curious about all your faves) rate [pairing] from 1-10 and explain why. what’s your favorite headcanon of [pairing]? what’s your favorite canon moment of [pairing]? favorite AU ideas for [pairing]? what song(s) remind you of [pairing]?

Thank you my dear! You are my Star Wars Friend so I’ll keep it SW focused (if you wanted to ask this to solely find out what else I liked BESIDES SW sorry lol just let me know and I can redo it). This got long because turns out I have a lot to say about my ships so answers under the cut!!! xD

Absolute favorite ship: This one’s kinda hard but I’m gonna have to go with Obi Wan/Anakin! I also like them a lot as a trio with Padmé, but overall I gotta say these two are just my faves? Why? Because they are such a M E S S and gosh I just love them so much. Ppl say they don’t like each other very much but come on, have you watched the TCW, have you watched RotS, they’re the greatest team there ever was, they’re constantly fretting and worrying about each other, they’re always teasing (the constant banter omg boys pls) at each other and hyping the other up and believing in each other and Ahsoka literally calls them her adoptive guardians in the Ahsoka novel, that’s how much of a family they were and ugh they’re just so married. And they’re such a TRAGEDY and it breaks my heart and it’s delicious to watch because in the final fight it’s just heartbreaking betrayal because through it all they love each other so much and that’s WHY they’re so furious with each other because to them it feels like the ultimate betrayal. Even after (when after everything, Obi Wan still loved Anakin too much to kill him himself) they’re constantly on the other’s mind, and ugh the pain hurts but in such a good way, and how in the end Anakin did the right thing and Obi Wan was RIGHT THERE to help guide him back to the light in spirit and now they can rest happily together for eternity (with some spare stressing about, ya know, Kylo Ren and the impending return of Sidious, but never mind all that). and on top of that, it’s my fave because I also absolutely love their relationship platonically as well, as much as I LIKE to see them together, it’s not necessary for me because they have such an enjoyable dynamic. *coughs* Sorry, so yea, they’re my disaster faves! 😅

A ship I like that most people don’t: See above lol. I get aspects of the Obikin ship can be problematic in the whole power dynamic and age difference thing, but I’ve only ever shipped it after Anakin was knighted as an adult when there’s literally not a problem with it (it was weird for me because I watched the prequels totally out of order. I actually saw the TCW cartoon FIRST and then I saw RotS and then I didn’t watch the first two for a while after that because I was a fool and listened to prequel bashers who said the first two weren’t good, so when I started shipping them as adults that was all I saw them as). To be honest, for the most part the PT fandom is done with the drama since ya know, like a good half of the SW general fandom still hates us, so no one’s really vocal about not liking it and our shipping community is mostly left to ourselves, but every once in a while I’ll come across a joke post/fanart of the two and OP will be all snarky in the notes like “tag as a ship and I’ll come after you with my spiked bat” (someone’s exact words btw) and it’s like ok jeez, do not interact then, was minding my own business dude...

My most underrated ship: Hmmmm....... Gonna have to go between Luke/Ezra and Satine/Padmé. Skybridger I understand since they’ve literally never met in canon, but come ON, they’d get along like a house on fire and argh they should have met, it would be great. I honestly don’t get why Pads and Satine aren’t more of a thing (THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE AN OFFICIAL SHIPNAME ;_; ) cuz c’mon they’re the subtler explosive yin to Obi and Ani’s wildfire yang. They get along great and work together really well, and they both seem to have a type. I am doing them a little better in my new OT4 fic, and I hope ppl like it!!! Ya know what, I’m also gonna add Kaeden (cute girl from the Ahsoka novel!) and Ahsoka because even if a lot of ppl actually ship them, they hardly have any content and neED MORE DANGIT THEY WERE SO CUTE!!!!!!!

Gonna go with Obikin for all the following ones cuz I haven’t had the chance to gush about my boys in a while and you’ve opened Pandora’s box

Rate them from 1-10: 10, plus a hundred more points because I love them, then subtract that hundred again cuz Anakin is an gotdang idiot who ruined it and now they both make me cry. My scoring reasons are that they make me feel all the emotions and I love them Ever So Much and argh.

Fave headcanon: Oh boy, I’ve got a couple actually!

Whenever they’re talking/arguing over the phone, they’re always subconsciously mirroring each other’s actions even when they can’t see what the other is doing. It’s kinda creepy because you’ll hear yelling and it’ll look like one of them’s talking to an invisible person in front of them when it’s actually each other.

There has been multiple instances of them both getting injured in battle because they were distracted watching the other be a total badass (not that either will admit it)

Neither of them are morning people. AT ALL. Obi Wan actually has self-discipline and is able to get up with an alarm and crankily drag them both up, but both are almost impossible to deal with until they’ve had caffeine in them, and it’s been established that unless you want to risk murder, neither of them talks in the morning until caffeine has been provided.

There has been many, many cases of accidentally taking the other’s robe and not realizing it but thinking to themselves that said robe feels more comforting than usual today.

A mutually drunken arm wrestling match absolutely turned into a mutually drunken makeout once. Neither can remember it, and they wonder why some of the clones have been acting funny all week.

Half of the Temple thinks they’re already dating.

Ok I’ll stop it here

Fave Canon Moment: Ughhh, this is HARD. I really like the “any closer and you’d be kissing it” line in TCW, basically any moment in TCW when one of them refers to Ahsoka as “OUR padawan”, the extra long stares and unnecessary touches they give each other in TCW, the elevator scene in RotS movie (THE NOVEL MAKES IT A MILLION TIMES BETTER), also in RotS the way Anakin is half-ready to straight up fight Palpatine when he suggests leaving Obi Wan behind to die, the RotS “No loose wire jokes” bit, the RotS “Roger. Roger.” bit (OKAY JUST THE WHOLE FIRST HALF OF THIS RIDICULOUS MOVIE), the way Vader built his big stupid castle where they had their breakup, the way he’s constantly mentioning Obi Wan when the convo wasn’t even about him, seeing them together again at the end of RotJ (whoops you asked for one, you get MANY SCENES)

Fave AU ideas: Again, there’s a couple!

Superpower AU: Can’t decide whether I’d put this in canon or modern. Most powers in this AU are stolen from inspired by X-Men, DC, and other popular media, so I’m torn between Anakin having Jean Grey/Dark Phoenix style powers while Obi Wan had a variation on Rogue’s with additional energy manipulation. OR it would be a thing where Anakin could commune with the dead a la Klaus from Umbrella Academy while Obes had sort of Avatar-style wind/flight powers. (Both are relevant for different plots).

Sith AU: I know these are far from unpopular in the SW fandom, but the way I’d do it would be to try and write two stories at once, update one every other week so one update a week total. The stories would what would happen if either of them became the Sith Apprentice after the events of Episode 1, and how their dynamic would be during Ep 2 and The Clone Wars with one of them on the other side. It’s funny because the way I’ve plotted it, the Sith!Ani fic would have very big Good Omens vibes, while the Sith!Obi one would have very strong Under the Red Hood vibes, so two VERY different dynamics going on xD

WWII Spies: This is one I 100% plan to write someday, even tho it is a very long time from now. It’s basically following Anakin as an American naval pilot who got injured in a crash and discharged. He still wants to serve and eventually his talent gets him into the intelligence end of the war and sent to Europe where he meets Ben, who’s been working with British intelligence since it broke out, and sparks fly. I’m kind of cheating here cuz as of now this is an Obianidala story, not just Obikin, but it’s one I’m very excited for

Phantom of the Opera AU: This idea I had when I realized that Anakin as Vader is kinda a Lot like the Phantom, but he’s also a Lot like Christine too. So it turned into Anakin as a talented ballet dancer getting preyed on by Palpatine!Phantom (there is NO romance there, Palpy is a total creep and will be treated as such) with Obi Wan as a combination of Raoul and Madame Gery and I have a bunch of ideas and idk if it’s gonna be an actual thing, but I want it to.

Shapeshifter AU: Canon, not very complicated but they can all shift into animals. Obi Wan is a kind of cougar panther cat with a fluffy ginger tail, and Anakin is a big grumpy black Krayt Dragon with a stump for a front leg.

Not A Jedi!AU: One in canon in which set like the Sith!AU, two different stories exploring how their dynamic would be if one of them wasn’t found by the Order. As of now, I’ve got Anakin as the warrior pirate prince of Tatooine, after having grown up and staged a slave rebellion, then promptly put his mother on the throne, and Obi Wan’s there to negotiate something during TCW and things happen. For the Obi Wan one, he’s a political journalist and war correspondent who keeps on running into Anakin’s assignments and popping up where he’s stationed and Anakin has to keep this idiot from getting himself killed/stop asking me annoying questions that criticize the Jedi and the government.

Dark!AU: A kind of morbid canon divergent fic where Padmé dies early and unexpectedly (Palps didn’t plan it). Anakin goes off the rails and Obi Wan agrees to go with him on a murder vengeance roadtrip to try and keep him from Falling or the Sith from getting to him. He kinda fails and they both Fall in a way and it ends with them hunting down Sidious’ players one by one. I’m not entirely sure I want to continue with this tho because it plays strongly on the Fridged Woman trope, which I can’t stand. I’d have to figure out how to give Padmé some sort of active role after her death...

Songs to describe them: There’s a couple (I could have very well gone cranky but I decided to do (mostly) serious))(also my music taste kinda stinks)

Icarus— Bastille

Anna Sun— WALK THE MOON

Animal I Have Become— Acoustic cover by Vitamin String Quartet (original by Three Days Grace) (seriously y’all listen it’s sooooo gooooood)

Warriors— Imagine Dragons

My Demons— STARSET

Ignorance— Paramore

Set Fire to the Rain— Adele

Stubborn Love— The Lumineers

How to Save A Life— The Fray (yes i am aware it is stereotypical angst song leave me Alone it FITS)

Viva la Vida— Coldplay (tbh this fits like the entire PT but I liked it)

Raised by Wolves— U2 (another more PT-centric, but this one works dangit)

Bonus Broadway Song! : Confrontation from Les Miserables (now that ya think of it, that would be a pretty good AU too.....)

Bonus Broadway Song! : The Tango Maureen from Rent (I always imagined this one as Obi Wan and Padmé about Anakin, but it would be about something other than cheating cuz canon has established Anakin views cheating as a worse crime than murder, so yea)

Bonus Broadway Song! : Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better (aight this one’s mostly a joke but come ON don’t tell me that’s not completely them xD)

[atrophiedcompassion]

day 3: Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. possible TLJ spoilers under the cut

oh god, AOTC. long, overlong, stuffed with really pointless stuff. i still have no clue why they’re trying to kill Padme. i understood she could’ve been a pawn in Palpatine’s plan in TPM, but he seemed to manage without her.

Anakin is a huge creep. he is a fascist little creep who wants what he cannot have and does not refrain one bit from the creepiness. and that only in relation with Padme! overall he’s the arrogant prick no-one would ever take seriously.

why Padme falls in love with him is a complete mystery. unless she actually likes being fawned over by that misogynist creep, there’s absolutely no reason for her returning his feelings. if he’s security, why the hell does she treat him like a romantic partner? she spends a lot of time with him, in romantic places, doing romantic things, sending a lot of mixed messages. the writing is as sexist as possible, padme isn’t overt in her flirting/emotions until they’re about to enter the gladiator pit, and her declaration there comes out of the blue! girl, didn’t he tell you like 2 days before he had slaughtered a bunch of tusken raiders? women & children too!?! but i guess the hero must get the girl and the girl must fall in love even if there’s not only nothing to love, but the guy is an outright psychopath and murderer!!

the jedi are complete morons, that’s very clear. they sense the dark side of the force around the chancellor who’s also a shady politician but never act up on it!?!? and anakin’s tusken raider genocide is never once mentioned, NOT EVEN ONCE. yoda makes a face and that’s it.

the movie is abysmal and if it weren’t for way too much jar jar in TPM, this would certainly be the worst of the prequels.

however, i have no beef with Hayden Christiansen’s acting. he does his best with the poor material given and he NAILS the creep part with Padme.

now, ROTS. slightly better, indeed it has some redeeming scenes and the plot is a little more trimmed.

however, seeing it back to back with AOTC, i have to admit i was wrong about Anakin’s turn. it’s not just Padme’s well being that is the bargaining chip. sure, this is the hook and SIdious exploits it so well, it’s basically why he chops off WIndu’s hand. i mean, one scene he’s the one acknowledging Palpatine is the Sith and he’s turning him in, and the next, he’s rushing to save Palpy with Padme on his mind.

i had been seeing unsynced gifs and thought the face he makes when Sidious tells him that only 1 person managed to learn the secret of keeping one alive can be interpreted as him understanding he had been duped. but no, that is the face he makes as he kneels right after Windu’s been thrown out the window, that brief moment of regret.

but then, as he pledges allegiance and the Sith tells him they will work together to save Padme, his resolve is strong, unwavering. NO, NO, Anakin was in for the whole nine yards, he was in for the power, out of his frustration with the Jedi/Council and out of his love for strong armed govt (which may be just a throwaway line in AOTC, but it’s there. it’s what he wants). Anakin is still in that mood throughout the rest of the film, during the confrontation with Padme, jealousy clouding his judgment, during his duel with Obi Wan (i think the Jedi are evil!! wtf), and up until he is told Padme is dead.

so if they are paralleling with Kylo Ren, both Vader and him chose in a way, even if Anakin chose based on a lie, which will probably be revealed was the basis for Ben’s choosing too.

that is when everything crashes down and he can be just a puppet for the Emperor, which is why he is seen smirking and Vader in his new suit smashes the room. the Emperor has won, Vader has no other purpose, no other person on his side, but him. the seduction is only then complete.

this went differently with Kylo Ren, who refused to be a puppet and went for even more power, the supreme power. power which Vader only craved for a hot minute, before he learned he has nothing to live for.

somehow this time the twins’ birth/vader’s creation was not that powerful. sure, i sucked in a long breath as the facemask part dropped onto Vader’s face and he then took his first Vader breath, but unlike any other times, this scene didn’t break me. i mean, up until R1, this was THE scene in SW that made me bawl with audible hitched breath, every time! lol

Portman’s acting is abysmal in ROTS, less in AOTC, she is flat even when Obi Wan tells her Anakin was seen killing children. wtf.

so basically, Anakin/Vader never realised that his nightmares were sent by the Sith, and by being this daft and narrow minded, he actually helped the dreams come true, as Padme does die in childbirth (sort of). now i know the Force can help a lot, but when Obi Wan leaves Vader to die, he’s not only missing all his lower body, but he’s actually on fire!? how does he survive for as long as it takes the Emperor to find him?! jeez. and Padme gave up on life and just died. i want to believe the theory that Sidious siphoned Padme’s life to Anakin, otherwise it’s very contrived.

gotta say tho, the Emperor is far better than Snoke, if even for the good apprentice names he comes with, Maul, Tyranus, Vader are nothing on Kylo Ren. if i call him Kylo it feels overly familiar. if i call him Ren, that’s just his title, it’ll be like calling any of Sidious’s apprentices Darth LOL. and Kylo Ren sounds so pretentious and silly.

also, the scene the header gif is from made me LOL.

tomorrow it the final day, with ROTJ and TFA. it’ll be weird to see (especially in the specialized version) the successful Rebellion followed immediately by the rise of First Order.

[fukutomichi]

Reading Thrawn has opened sooooo many new questions and potential future plotlines. Gimme those juicy Unknown Regions mysteries! Ughh I love Thrawn for playing galactic mind games.

I’m gonna unwind a bit down there, and there might be possible spoilers for Rebels and maybe even Last Jedi or Episode 9 who knows??

I keep trying to remember what the Legends Thrawn book was about, other than having Thrawn as the really smart only alien among the Imperials... but in this new canon book...THIS BOOK opens your eyes immediately!! ⊙０⊙

NOW I know why Thrawn joins the Empire in the first place AND gives bits of clues here and there that he might actually bail from the Imperials the minute he finds out what the Death Star is all about...meaning in Rebels, he might actually go back to rejoin with his people and tell what’s going on in the rest of the galaxy (i don’t wanna give out too much from the plot uughhhh) with the help of the Rebels crew or Rukh, I mean there’s a reason why he’s gonna be in Season 4 too. It will be interesting if he’s invited to Scarif to check the Death Star plans and has a conversation with Galen Erso (omg Filoni you better had not missed the chance to have both the Mikkelsen bros voice acting in a same scene) and figures out that the Empire is just as worse as the Evil he’s trying to stop...Maybe even heeding the words of the Bendu and realizing that his doom lies with the Empire. I hope Season 4 is long enough to touch up everything important, although I’m 90% sure that it’s gonna end open-ended. (-_-)ゞ  Filoni said he’s working on something new tho, can’t wait to see how he continues even if it’s not with the Rebels crew anymore.  ╥﹏╥

Which takes me to the next thing...Thrawn’s race, the Chiss, are the stuff of legends in the galaxy, literally. And after thousands of years gone, they pop back up with Thrawn as the very first seen after such a long time. They are secretive, no one knows where they are (except Thrawn’s protege now, Eli Vanto) in the Unknown Regions...where they fear something out there as a threat. Thrawn only mentions it as “Evil”. They first thing that popped it in my brain was “oh my god space Cthulhu” lol, and the Chiss are on the lookout for a force strong enough to join with them and aid them against it. 

The logical answer so far for the evil might be Snoke. But...him? To be THAT feared by the Chiss...unless it’s not only Snoke but someone much stronger and Snoke is just his middle man. Maybe it’s time for the Sith to have a comeback. The balance is not present anymore so why not show themselves and use the absence jedi AND the strongest sith ever, Vader. Remember, Kylo is no sith and Snoke is having him around for just safe keeping, “He who controls Skywalker, controls the Galaxy”.Palpi had one Skywalker, now Snoke has one too. Ughh I just hate bullshit sith and jedi prophecies, makes things complicated even more for no reason. (¬､¬)  

I hope in the future there’s a mention of a “Star Forge” (which works really similarly to Starkiller base) THEN things will be much more clearer to me. Gimme that spicy scoop of lore!!! Make it canon!! Malachor already is damn it, USE the KOTOR lore already!! o(>< )o

I also know that the Absolution, one of the First Order’s star destroyers is hiding in the Unknown Regions, could it be that some part of the Imperial forces were instructed by Palpatine to go there and seek out what the Chiss were scared of? And that Evil just took control over after Palpi died promising them power and revenge against the Republic? It can’t be JUST Snoke. (°ヘ°)

So did the Chiss fail to stop it? Are they still out there waiting it out for the perfect moment to arise to assist the Republic or maybe even the Resistance?

Guess I’m gonna have to wait for future books and the movies to have some of these questions resolved, even if I might not be on the right track lol.