#anakins therapist

[poltoreveur]

I mean, I can fix him.. but do I want to tho?

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

Sometimes I like to imagine how Revenge of the Sith would've played out if Satine had still been alive

Specifically, I like to imagine that scene with Obi-Wan in Padmé’s apartment except when Obi-Wan realises he isn't getting through to her, he just pulls out his comlink, calls Satine, explains the situation, and then puts her on speaker

[mamuzzy]

Anakin and bpd...

Whenever I see a post bashing Anakin Skywalker, I imagine myself clinging to that giant tall miserable blorbo and tell him "It's okay, love, they just don't understand you. You don't have to listen to them."

Anakin is the closest I can get for a positive bpd representation him being the sweetest little cutiepie in the world with so much love he can give, and not making him an abusive person and/or serial killer BY DEFAULT (I emphasise on this because I don't deny the horrible acts he did, but also I don't think he is a son-of-a-satan with thirst for blood since infancy), because yeah, fucking stereotypes. Ultimately the very same love ruins him, destroyes everything and everyone he loves and believes in, but it's a wonderful allegory to all the intense and often overwhelming feelings a person with bpd could feel regarding their loved ones.

[pararararablof]

Showing up at couple therapy in a mood🫠

[cameoliob]

Anakin 🤝 mental illness

(This drawings a bit older but I never posted it so its fair game)

[willowcrowned]

If Anakin hadn't been in love with Padme, do you think he still would've gone off the rails? Or do you think he would have found someone else to fixate on?

(He's the straight version of #gayDisaster, but I can't help but wonder how much of that was Padme's dramatic queen influence.)

the thing you have to understand about anakin is that he is bananas. his brain is a giant banana split with three scoops of vanilla ice cream and a pool of chocolate syrup and a single tiny maraschino cherry that comprises the part of his brain that questions his biases but that cherry is buried by the big old hunk of mushy gros michel swimming around his brain cavity just waiting to pour out of his ears at the slightest innocuous provocation. anakin skywalker thinks he’s the specialist little guy in the world and also god’s most hated creature and he hates himself for being alive and he hates everyone else for being alive and crucially. crucially. he cannot articulate any of this

and THEN. on top of the giant gooey mess that was once anakin’s brain, you add a literal evil genius, the kind of mastermind who looks at a traumatized child and is already imagining which bits of him he’s going to cut off to make a giant evil cyborg to do his bidding. palpatine took one look at the soup filling anakin’s skull and went ‘okay I can work with this’ and promptly started adding cyanide and never stopped.

there was no escape for anakin. there was never going to be an escape for anakin, because if it wasn’t padmé it was going to be obi-wan or ahsoka or rex or any one of a million other people with palpatine waiting at the end of the tunnel like the most evil grandpa you’ve seen in your life

[tennessoui]

pPLEASE tell me the archeologist au is a space The Mummy situation! Cheesy 90s dialogue and everything! Anakin knows the exact kind of danger there is in going back there but he doesn't want Obi-Wan to go alone so he HAS to tag along and make sure he doesn't die!

oh you just know anakin is grumpy enough about having accidentally picked up an archaeologist for a one night stand that he’s just glaring at him with his arms crossed and listing off how many ways it’s possible to die just on the way to the Sevanth sector, let alone to the specific planet!!!

and with every word, the fire burns brighter in obi-wan’s eyes and anakin trails off when he realizes that he’s … not dissuading this insane man from this at all.

final straw is when obi-wan pointedly shrugs and starts getting dressed and is like “you weren’t sitting alone when I saw you a few hours ago, Vader. If you won’t take me, I’m sure one of your friends will.”

anakin thinks back to all his “friends” (canon sith) who are at most reluctant work colleagues and then he thinks about any of them taking Ben, and he’s like fine nvm fuck that fine fuck you I’ll take you.

[ineffablejaymee]

nah bcs this is a violation of my mental integrity

[azurecanary]

Siege of Mandalore is so interesting cause on one hand i don't think I've ever seen a more destructive (self and otherwise) PTSD spiral in such a short span of time than Ahsoka Tano in those episodes; and on the other hand, she laid out Maul, his army, and the 332nd like it was nothing.

PTSD spiral or no, she still gets shit done.

[storyweaverofgondor]

Ok, I 100% agree that Anakin is responsible for his actions, he bad some ICONICALLLY bad decisions that led to a whole lot of pain and suffering.

But at the same time he was groomed by Palpatine from the time he was nine years old. A second Sith Lord groomed a child into being his new apprentice. That is also a thing that happened.

Also Anakin was a slave for the first nine years of his life and then joined a group where he was under the authority of someone he had to call ‘Master’. He then didn’t seem to have received any therapy for that. Like . . . that situation alone seems like it needs specialized therapy.

Then there was the whole ‘participated in a space battle as a child’ thing. Which, not the worst granted, but still! CHILD! FIGHTING A WAR! = TRUAMA!

Then there was the whole ‘I had dreams of my mother who i haven’t seen in years dying. I go the check on her and she’s been horrifically tortured and dies in my arms.’ thing. Like . . . therapy. Did he EVER GET ANY FREAKING THERAPY FOR THAT?!

Anakin, like any other mentally ill person, is responsible for the harm they’ve caused.

But at the same time . . . HOLY TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE, BATMAN!

[petz5]

i always forget what a wet paper towel anakin is

[disregardcanon]

something something the prequels as a commentary on the failures of standardization to meet the needs of individuals with unique circumstances

[byfulcrums]

“The Jedi should've sent Anakin to a therapist!” my siblings in Christ, we all know that it would go down like this:

Anakin: For personal reasons, I have decided to undiagnose myself because I do not believe I have any issues

[sithbian]

im normal after this last post

lesbian hannigram + anidala moment

padme would be hannibal + anakin is will. i cant explain im just right

[acabspocky]

smol vent post

I spent all day and all night prior writing and rewriting detailed examples of what it would be like to have Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, or Qui-Gon Jinn as a dad (based on this post💕)

While working on this, I had a really satisfying realization and mcfucking lost my shit. Dawg, I cried. I realized that I actually, legit, Know Stuff about Star Wars now😭😭 not a lot, but I RETAIN KNOWLEDGE.

In 2018 (when I hyperfixated on SW for the first time,) I have a specific memory of scrolling through the Anakin tag, seeing all these in-depth analysis and trivia posts about him. I remember being so fucking bummed out because I was never gonna be cool enough to be a Star Wars fan in the same way I'm a Trekkie; I'd never just Know Stuff about SW the same way I Know Stuff about Star Trek.

But like... MAMA, I MADE IT.

[tomfoolerytime]

I need the anidala divorce fic to exist but I don’t want to write it