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[reconstructwriter]

So I Finally Finished Attack of the Clones

...for the very first time. When did this movie come out again? I am late, is there still room on this bandwagon? Anyway more thought vomiting on this movie...

Sith Pattern: I do appreciate that Palpatine is old, rich, white male fascist. Dooku is old, rich, white male fascist. Anakin shakes things up a bit by starting out young and poor but he’ll get there and has the rest down. Meanwhile our heroes are Padme Amidala, Mace Windu, Yoda, Bail, etc. Would have loved for George Lucas’ original casting of Obi Wan to have gone through! This does make Mirror!verses and morality flip AU's very weird because the Galaxy is being saved from aliens by three white guys? Unfortunate implications aside I can suspend a lot of disbelief about laser-swords and magic IN SPACE but I gotta draw the line somewhere.

Anakin’s attachment: Is well-shown here with convenient comparison to Cleigg – her husband and her son, the two who should love Shmi the most. At her funeral Cleigg is all ‘you’re in a better place. Thank you for the time we had,’ vs Anakin’s ‘I wasn’t strong enough to save you, I won’t fail again’ and ‘I miss you’. Exact opposites. Cleigg was entirely focused on Shmi while Anakin was focused on himself.

Also Anakin’s focus kinda screwed up Obi Wan’s mission when he wasted precious moments FINDING Anakin to get his galactically-important message through.

Mace Windu Not Killing Dooku: Shatterpoint, along with some fanfics, has Mace beating himself up for not ending the war by killing Dooku but my man you’re too hard on yourself! You only killed Jango when he decided to fuck around and find out with you in the death arena. Dooku did not fuck around and find out so your only chance would’ve been to throw away all your Jedi morals and stab him in the back! Thus risking becoming Darth Tyrannus 2.0 and screwing the galaxy.

Jango why did you fuck around and find out? I get Mace held a laser sword to your throat and you had a working jetpack going into the arena…but that arena is No Man’s Land. Even if Galidraan was canon you could’ve stayed back and taken pot shots.

The scene with Boba giving one last keldabe kiss to his father’s helmet is heartbreaking! Ouch!!!

Padme: So I kinda get being willing to confess her terrible taste in men on Space Fantasy Death Row. She doesn’t want to live a lie and is straight up expecting to die so what does it matter if she confesses? And then she does live so consequence time! Still feels like she’s ignoring the genocide – or George Lucas is ignoring the obvious implications. Genocide does work for foreshadowing Jedi genocide and Nazi comparisons (boy howdy does it!!!). But murdering every single member of an entire tribe down to the babes in arms doesn’t work for ‘Anakin doesn’t Fall here, he just dips his toe in the Dark’.

Padme otherwise doesn’t seem too terribly out of character throughout. She stands her ground against Anakin and where she does give in – rescuing Shmi – or chooses to go after Obi Wan? Well both did do her immensely big favors it’d be weirder if she brushed them off. Plus, rescuing both comes with additional benefits – no assassin will look for her on Tattooine (it worked before) and Obi Wan’s rescue could offer the opportunity to discuss peace with the Separatists before war happened.

And it did – in the cut scene :P

Dual with Dooku: So Anakin did put his duty first when Padme fell in the (barren, sans enemies) sand with an ally but damn if his attachment to her wasn’t still affecting him. The hot-headed idiotic attack was the worst possible timing! Why does everyone beat Mace up (including the man himself) for not killing Dooku but give Anakin a pass when he had every chance of ending the war Right There if he’d been able to keep his head on straight for two minutes.

The End: As with the first movie, we end with Mace and Yoda clearly knowing what the Sith are doing, though they're split with Mace believing Dooku while Yoda thinks its a trick. And I think they’re both right because I read somewhere Dooku and Palpatine were hoping to sow doubt between the Jedi and the Senate but also was telling the truth – from a certain point of view. Anyway, they aren't oblivious. Yoda straight up says the Shroud of the Dark Side has Fallen.

The last scene really drives that home! How the beginning of the war is the beginning of the Empire. The war kills the Republic and this is repeatedly smacked into our brains with the imagery of Palpatine standing at the head of everyone else, the most powerful Supreme Chancellor ever as the army of white-clad troopers marches out into the galaxy below him. The Destroyers lift off. The Empire’s freaking theme music plays.

Overall the movie had its high points and stinkers but that was a damn fine end!

[aj-artjunkyard]

I think the prequels should’ve made Owen Lars Anakin’s full brother. I think we should’ve had gruff 19/20 year old completely Force-null Owen in TPM and make the audience assume for a moment that that’s young Darth Vader, but nope, it’s the tiny blond Yippee boy who’s playing with droids.

I want to play with old Ben’s line about Uncle Owen in ANH “He thought (Anakin) should’ve stayed here, not gotten involved (in the clone wars)” as Owen urging Anakin to quit the Order in AOTC because a war is brewing in the Republic, telling him their mother sent Anakin away to be safe, and would never approve of him becoming a soldier.

Then Uncle Owen in OWK with that same dismissive attitude towards Obi-Wan but this time it’s not just protectiveness of Luke but also because he blames the Jedi for corrupting his little brother

[tranakin-skywalker]

Wait you're making a fic for your torgruta au?? Tell me more please

Yeah, I've been thinking about writing a fic about it for a while now. Most likely it's going to be a series of oneshots so I can hop around to different parts of the story I find interesting.

A lot of the ideas are coming from the hyena discord, so I can't claim them as my own. But they are just too good to pass up. Like togruta making infrasound with their montrals and constantly projecting their moods. So when Anakin first gets to the Temple he's constantly screaming for him mom at a pitch that only other togruta can hear.

I've decided that that's actually how he first meets Ahsoka. She hears him making his lost, scared, where's mom, where's family sounds and seeks him out to comfort him. Ahsoka would be about four here, and would have left Shili recently enough that she could still remember what those noises mean, even if Tatooine togruta sound different from Shili togruta. (to a Shili tog Anakin's distressed noises sound like he's being maimed, but that's just because of the generational trauma and general awfulness of being a togruta on Tatooine. What they would think of the vocalizations he makes when actually being maimed we will not think about)

So Anakin and Ahsoka end up growing up together right from the start, and the main reason Anakin is so insistent on being knighted early is so that Ahsoka can be his padawan. It's a private thought he has to himself at first, but as Ahsoka gets older and no masters are showing any interest in taking her on she starts to panic. Anakin tells her that he'll just have to get knighted before she ages out so that he can be her master. And then the Clone War starts and he realizes that keeping his promise means bringing her onto the battlefield with him where she could die and he's not sure if he'll be enough to keep her alive :)

Because Shmi is a togruta too she does not get bought by Cleigg Lars. I am just. not dealing with the implications of that. (Listen. I want to read Shmi's marriage to him as a good thing, but I have a very hard time doing that.)

Now, there's actually a comic (Legands, I think, not Disney canon) where Gardulla goes to Watto and tries to buy Anakin back after he wins the Boonta Eve Classic. So have some fun thoughts about what would have happened to Anakin if he hadn't gone with Qui-Gon.

In the fic, Gardulla goes to buy Anakin but of course he left with the Jedi, so Gardulla decides she'll take Shmi as payment for Watto's debts. After all, if Shmi already had one child who turned out to be a talented podracer, well, she might have more. Hence the younger sibling that comes about shortly after Anakin leaves.

When Anakin goes back to Tatooine because of the nightmares about his mom he finds out that Watto sold his mom back to Gardulla and has to go to her to buy his mom's freedom. Which would be traumatic, on multiple levels. Anakin finds out that a month before he arrived, Shmi tried to escape with the sister Anakin didn't know he had, and Gardulla had their chips detonated. Gardulla even gives him their triggered remotes as proof.

(Of course unbeknownst to Anakin, Shmi and the sister survived and are living with a village of other escaped togruta.)

A lot of canon still happens the same, including Anakin's fall, Order 66, Mustafar, etc. But when Bail Organa sees Ahsoka at Padme's funeral he tells her that he can take her to a mutual friend of theirs. Ahsoka thinks (hopes) it's Anakin at first, and is devastated when she realizes it's Obi-Wan (and then hates herself for feeling disappointment because she should be happy that Obi-Wan is still alive, but he's not Anakin, and this means that Anakin must be dead).

There's no Lars family and the Organas would have a harder time explaining a non-human daughter, so Ahsoka and Obi-Wan end up taking care of the twins. They eventually find their way to Tatooine because it's out of the Empire's notice and, well, because it's a connection to Anakin (Ahsoka's trying to hold onto anything she can that connects her to her brother and Obi-Wan is in his self-harming phase.)

And it's there that they eventually run into a little community of togruta and a woman who looks suspiciously like Anakin who has the last name Skywalker. But hey, Shmi gets to meet her grandkids at least. Even if it happens at the same time that she finds out that son she thought she'd sent away to a better life and hasn't seen in 13 years is dead. (Obi-Wan sees how much Anakin's death destroys Shmi and decides to never, ever tell her what he became. Vader will be his burden and it's a secret he will take to his grave. Anakin Vader is dead, and he'll save them from ever finding out how it really happened)

Of course, 15 years later Ahsoka goes to rescue some rebels from a walking death omen in black when she realizes the infrasound calls he's shrieking out of his mangled montrals is devastatingly familiar.

[redrikki]

Star Wars Prequels Fic Masterpost

May the Force Get With You - The night her son is conceived Shmi has the best sex dream of her life. Something with a krayt dragon or a bantha or maybe just a ray of light. Too bad that's not what happens. Turns out, the Force is a lousy lay and a worse father. (Shmi/The Force) WARNING: Implied/referenced non-con

Second Wind - Ahsoka takes the wrong exit from the world between worlds and ends up with a second chance to save her master. (Shmi, Ahsoka)

Pain Management - Anger can get a slave killed. Shmi teaches her son some coping strategies. (Shmi, Anakin, Watto)

The Anchor That You Can't Leave Behind - On the queen's yacht headed back to Naboo, Anakin and Padmé miss their mothers but Obi-Wan doesn't get why. (Anakin, Padmé, Obi-Wan)

The Force is in the Details - Slavery is as much a state of mind as it is a bomb under her skin. The chance cube lands on red and Shmi struggles with being free. (Shmi, Padmé, Jedi Council)

Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose - When Obi-Wan told him he was free at Qui-Gon's funeral, Anakin took him at his word. There may, however, have been something of misunderstanding. (Anakin, Obi-Wan)

Wordspring - Anakin’s words dry up in the middle of his fourth month at the Temple. If Obi-Wan can't get them flowing again, maybe someone else will. (Anakin, Obi-Wan, Jedi, Palpatine)

For Amidala - Her handmaidens had all poured so much of themselves into Amidala, it was like they were part of her now. Padmé didn't know if she had the strength to let one go. (Padmé/Handmaidens)

Bridal Carry - On Naboo, it's tradition for the groom to carry the bride to their marriage bed. With Anakin's new prosthetic, it's more difficult than it sounds. (Anakin/Padmé)

Across a Crowded Room - It's a party in his honor, but it turns out the Hero Without Fear isn't good with crowds. Padmé to the rescue! (Anakin/Padmé)

Domestic Life Was Never Quite My Style - Despite her best efforts, Padmé is pregnant. Now she has a difficult decision to make. (Anakin/Padmé)

You Call That Family? - After Anakin left the Order to be with Padmé, Obi-Wan faces some unexpected resistance when he goes to collect the twins. (Obi-Wan, Anakin/Padmé)

Birthright - The Force called him to his family and Anakin is not prepared to give them up. Not even to the Jedi Council. (Anakin/Padmé, Obi-Wan, Jedi Council)

Once More With Feeling - Anakin dies in his son's arms at the end of Return of the Jedi and wakes up in Obi-Wan's towards the end of the Clone Wars. The Force has given him an opportunity and he plans to make the most of it. (Anakin/Padmé, Obi-Wan, Jedi Council, Palpatine)

Nothing to Write Home About - A month after losing his wife, Cliegg Lars decides to write to her son. Anakin Skywalker gets the pen pal he never knew he needed. (Anakin/Padmé, Cleigg/Shmi, Owen/Beru, Ahsoka) Abandoned WIP

For the Greater Good - Count Dooku has never seen the appeal of Anakin Skywalker, but, when the Chosen One breaks with the Council over the treatment of the clones, he decides acquiring the boy's allegiances might be worthwhile after all. (Anakin, Dooku, Palpatine) Abandoned WIP co-written with @grand-duc and @thendstartsnow

Bursts of Stardust - Parts I, II & III - Collection of short tumblr prompts (Anakin/Padmé, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Shmi, various Jedi, various clones)

The Ocean - I have a good and I have an evil. I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing. You are a welcoming back from the ocean. Pamdé is drawn to the wildness in Anakin. (Anakin/Padmé) Baby's first fanvid!

[saint-sebastian-coded]

My Star Wars Fic Masterpost

updated: 28/9/24

Completed Multichapters

oh my brother, my brother, my brother (who have you become in the wake of all that's happened)

rating: teen

category: gen

no archive warnings apply

relationships: obi-wan kenobi & anakin skywalker, obi-wan kenobi & luke skywalker, anakin skywalker & ahsoka tano, anakin skywalker & luke skywalker

characters: obi-wan kenobi, anakin skywalker, luke skywalker, ahsoka tano,

additional tags: time travel, obi-wan is going through it, obi-wan needs a hug, baby luke skywalker

obi-wan ends up two years in the past with baby luke.

oneshots

Homesick

rating: teen

category: gen

no archive warnings apply

relationships: anakin skywalker & luke skywalker, leia organa & anakin skywalker, obi-wan kenobi & anakin skywalker

characters: anakin skywalker, leia organa, luke skywalker, obi-wan kenobi, shmi skywalker (mentioned)

additional tags: luke skywalker is shmi skywalker and cleigg lars' child, leia organa is shmi skywalker and cleigg lars' child, brief rexwalker, protective anakin skywalker, protective obi-wan kenobi

when anakin returns to tatooine, he meets some younger family members (au where luke and leia are his half-siblings).

nothing but myths now

rating: mature

category: gen

major character death

relationships: obi wan kenobi & leia organa & luke skywalker, obi-wan kenobi & anakin skywalker, obi-wan kenobi & ahsoka tano

characters: obi-wan kenobi, mace windu, leia organa, luke skywalker, sola naberrie, ahsoka tano

additional tags: anakin skywalker is dead, padme amidala is dead, suicidal thoughts, briefly, alternate universe - canon divergence, baby luke skywalker, baby leia organa

anakin and padme are dead. the temple takes in the twins.

empty halls to fill with grand self-mythology

rating: general audiences

category: gen

no archive warnings apply

relationships: ct-7567 / rex & ahsoka tano

characters: ct-7567 / rex, ahsoka tano, wedge antilles,

additional tags: post- star wars: a new hope, echo base (star wars), reunions

rex and ahsoka meet up at echo base after the death star is destroyed.

let the ultraviolet cover me up

rating: general audiences

category: gen

no archive warnings apply

relationships: luke skywalker & mace windu, anakin skywalker & mace windu

characters: mace windu, luke skywalker, anakin skywalker

additonal tags: child luke skywalker, discussion of canon typical slavery

luke wanders through a wormhole on tatooine and ends up a few years in the past and a few thousand light years away in mace windu's office.

[padawansuggest]

Shmi: Ani! I haven’t seen you in years! Four to be exact!

Anakin: *holding a 1.5 year old baby on either side of his chest in a sling* Sorry, mom. That war was tougher than we all thought it would be. Remember that guy I told you about that raised me instead of the guy that won me in a gambling bet with Watto? Lol yeah apparently pregnancy is contagious, I got him and the consort of Alderaan pregnant.

Shmi: …listen. I. I know it was a while since I changed you. But you don’t have the parts to sire.

Anakin: Listen. It’s been a long nine months. Anyways. Force got baby fever again, you’re about to be a mother.

Shmi: *holding up a stolen baby Luke* Don’t you mean Grandma????

Anakin: I don’t. I sure freaking don’t.

And then they explain Shmi is the sire of a girl in a man she’s never met before. Then. She looks over at Cleigg. Who feels. Fear. And the need to protect his loins.

She doesn’t get her husband pregnant. But the proximity DOES spread to Owen who is very annoyed at it.

Obi-Wan is like 8 months pregnant and very annoyed and sleeps in a pile of clones every night because his nesting instincts means his closest troopers got dragged into his nest and haven’t been allowed to leave yet. He’s on pregnancy number 2 and so is Bail lol. Shmi has never seen a ship as large as the Negotiator and the amount of culture shock her and the Lars family are undergoing rn is epic.

Owen is gonna be the next to demand child support, but then it turns out it’s Beru’s and he’s all 🥺🥺🥺 about it.

AU that’s much like the similar one I posted where Anakin is trans and him and Padme both get pregnant with force babies at the same time (no Anakin isn’t worried, he failed health class because he insisted his mom got pregnant without another person and they said nuhuh, he thinks he’s pregnant cause he wished hard enough, and Padme won’t go public with her concerns cause she has NO idea what bullshit rumors people will come up with about it and is too tired to deal with it rn) and Obi-Wan has to step in and be their voice of reason, BUT!!!!!

Different idea???? Obi-Wan avoids them. Why??? Why abandon your baby Padawan who can do no harm in his time of need??? Well, because he is Stewjoni, and if the force is handing out free babies rn, he doesn’t wanna be the next target here. Anakin tries to be sympathetic but then he’s crying into the toilet cause his tummy hurts and he’s been disowned (this is the first time he’s ever thrown up with Obi-Wan available without getting his back petted for it!!! He’s scared!!) but then suddenly Obi-Wan is there sighing all deep and giving him a cold washcloth and petting his back and hair and that’s much better, thank you.

Obi-Wan is much more irate when he’s the one throwing up two months later and claiming this is all Anakin’s fault for spreading around pregnancy like the flu from a sticky crechling, what a jerk! Seven masters have already come forward to demand they do something about the pregnancy pandemic, and six more are like ‘lol it’s chill I like this, my babies are nice’ (we’re looking at you Plo) and then the war is abruptly over cause too many Jedi got knocked up and Palpatine tried to force the issue and got his neck snapped for it.

[roseunspindle]

a different path 2

- meanwhile back on tatooine, after becoming free, Shmi sets about the long task of officially starting the slave revolution. There’s has always been one, sort of, but it was more just the underground, and no real intent/genuine way to change things.

- it’s different now, now there is hope, there is help, there is the start of a plan.

- Cleigg Lars is not part of the plan. Well, he and the other moisture farmers are part of them plan but not...the plan does not include him smiling shyly at Shmi, nor bringing her her favorite fruits from the market when he comes to town. These were not part of the plan, but, but it’s nice, he’s nice. Shmi remembers when she was young wanting dashing and daring, but now. Nice is wonderful, and while Cleigg may not be dashing, he is gentle and good, and he’ll hold the hand of an escaping slave while Shmi or Beru cuts out the transmitter. Daring he most certainly is, if not in the way young Shmi envisioned. This is a man who built a small, hidden surgery in his home to keep slaves hidden. This is a man who built a small hide space in his speeder to transport runaway slaves to his farm. If that is not daring, Shmi does not know what is.

- two years after they meet, Cleigg asks her to marry him, and with all her free ability to say no, Shmi says yes.

- Anakin comes to the wedding. Her boy is growing like a weed and Shmi and his Jedi mother commiserate on this. His Jedi father merely scoops the gangly fourteen year-old up even now, like he weighs nothing, giving a laughingly protesting Anakin purring kisses on the top of his head. 

- Shmi is happy when Cleigg, Owen and Anakin appear to get along. Anakin is not a farmer, but he has helped farm on dozens of worlds, and Cleigg and Owen are not warriors, but they are fighting a war, and above all that, all three speak mechanic and are happy with it. Beru takes to teasing Ani immediately who accepts it was eye rolling complaints, becoming siblings in the way only a freed boy and first freeborn child can.

- Padme, who has been in contact with Shmi and has made sure Naboo one of the stops on the freedom trail (the ease which this happens is aided by the fact that a former slave boy had helped free the entire planet, not once but twice, first with pod racing and second with destroying the droid control ship) is also in attendance.

- Shmi wonders when she will attend the wedding of this brave young woman and her son. For the age gap has grown smaller as Ani gets older and the smiles the two exchange are shy and sweet.

- Shmi and Cleigg get married in the light of the setting suns, with their family surrounding them. The desert wind blows and in the distance and Kryat dragon screams. It is a wonderful day.

- Four years later and all is ready, the slavers know something is happening, Ani, his Jedi parents, Obi-wan, Padme, her handmaidens, and many Nubian volunteers and well as the resistance fighters themselves are gathered. It is a bloody week. But by the end the Hutts are run away or dead, slavers await either republic trial or some have gone to feed the sarlac.

- Anakin and Padme have little time to talk, it isn’t until a week and half after the end of the rebellion that they truly speak, and Anakin is still bloody, though this time due to having just delivered a baby. He is washing his hands when Padme finds him and she hands him a towel.

- Anakin is a much different person than the one in another universe, this one does not take himself to seriously, for sure he has just aided in the freedom of his people, which brings him unending joy, but odds are when they return with the prisoners to Curoscant, Master Nu will set him to work putting away returns or maybe reading stories to younglings. He is a Jedi and no task is to big or to small, which i the biggest lesson he has learned. 

- He is also not stifled by a code that simply couldn’t fit him, instead, Yananna had given her nine year old padawn a different version, one that suited the emotion driven boy better and would help him embody the Jedi she knew he could be. 

- Emotion, yet peace. Ignorance, yet knowledge. Passion, yet serenity. Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet the Force

- in many ways one would assume this was the same as the other code but it is subtly different and Ani has fixed many machines, plowed many fields, and performed many kata’s while contemplating this version of the code.

- however, this code comes with the acknowledgement of emotions, but that even with them, one can find peace, anakin is angry and part of him will always be angry by the fact that he was a slave, the peace comes from knowing that he has a right to this anger, but also that he will not let anger be his new master.

- Padme invites the Jedi and Shmi and Cleigg to visit Naboo, and after a few months of making sure Tatooine is settled and peaceful, they make the trip.

- Anakin and Padme, however more amture Anakin especially is, ares till young, idealistic, and have a tendency to follow their hearts before their heads ever catch up. So Anakin is barely eighteen when he and Padme get married.

- It is different though. They know each other better, both view the other person as a living breathing, flawed person, however wonderful they find the other to be.

- Their families know, sure, the rest of the Galaxy must be kept in the dark but the people they love most know, and are happy for them. (Pooja and Ryoo make adorable flower girls).

- Obi-wan is uncertain about all of this, but cannot deny that the force had sung with joy as each slave breathed free for the first time. And it is glorying now in this marriage. 

- He must meditate on this, and if perchance his meditations stray towards what this might mean for himself and a certain duchess of Manadalore well...

[originaljediinjeans]

Me: *inhales* SHMI SKYWALKER AND CLEIGG LARS ARE THE MOST UNDERRATED RELATIONSHIP IN THE STAR WARS SAGA. THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK. 

[gch1995]

The apologists are exhausting- Attachment =/= Love but baby Ani's problem was for being too attached to his mother at nine and she is left a slave. Oh and the Jedi completely had plans to free her but Cleigg Lars did so immediately so no skin off their nose. They just didn't bother to tell Anakin about it. These people need to watch the Phantom Menace again.

Yeah, there is such a thing as healthy loving attachments. It’s impossible for human beings to be emotionally/psychologically healthy without forming them. Look what happened to Anakin, Obi-Wan, and the overall Jedi Order of the prequels when they tried living in total denial of attachments. They destroyed themselves and helped destroy the the galaxy around them. The Jedi were definitely overdoing it with that whole no attachment rule in them

As a child before getting involved with the Jedi, Anakin seemed to be a pretty normal kid with healthy attachments. it’s only after he gets involved with their fucked up space cult of emotional denial that he starts developing BPD like symptoms of mood swings, a rather obsessive love, and intense fear or abandonment.

I agree that the Jedi Council, Obi-Wan, and the Republic did Anakin, Shmi, and the people of Tatooine very dirty in the prequels.

[ashthewaterghoul]

“What if Qui-Gon Survived”

Chapter 10

Padmé’s silver Noobian ship exited hyperspace and was confronted with Anakin’s home planet, Tatooine. Anakin landed the ship at the coordinates that Qui-Gon had sent them and waiting just outside the homestead was Anakin’s Master and a young man, who looked not too far in age from Anakin. After introductions were made, they all went into the homestead and padawan was reunited with his old droid, C-3PO. When he saw his mother, bruised and scared, he fell to his knees and a silent tear or two rolled down his cheek.

“Anakin?” Her weak voice croaked

“Yeah, it’s me, Mom. I’m here.”

Her pale hand reached for his face “Oh, my handsome, grown-up son.”

“It’s okay Mom, it’s all over.”

“I’m so proud of you, Ani. I love you so much.”

“I love you too, Mom.”

Anakin wanted to give his mother the biggest hug he could, it had been ten years since he’d seen her after all. But, the frail state of her body simply wouldn’t allow it, so he just lightly held her body and her weak arms hung around her son’s neck. Qui-Gon walked into the room.

“Come, Anakin, your mother needs rest.”

The young Padawan reluctantly agreed and gave his mother a kiss on the forehead before leaving the bedroom.

The Jedi Master put his hand across his Padawan’s back and guided him through the homestead to the small dining area, where Beru poured some blue milk for everyone.

“It’s a pleasure to finally meet you, Anakin.” Owen said shaking his hand “Your mother has told us many stories about you. I only wish we could’ve met under better circumstances.”

Anakin nodded his head, “It was Tusken Raiders, you say, that did this to my mother?”

“Yes, it was.” Another voice answered “Cleigg Lars, Shmi is my wife. I’m sorry I didn’t go and look for her, I just can’t ride again yet” he motioned to the stump just above where his kneecap used to be. After a brief conversation about how Cleigg met Shmi, Anakin excused himself and went out of the homestead and walked towards a speeder.

“Where do you think you are going, my Padawan?” Qui-Gon’s voice said from behind.

“I’ve never seen this part of the planet before, forgive me if I want to explore it.”

“No, that’s not it. I know of your intense dislike of this planet and a fair few of the creatures that inhabit it.” Anakin sometimes forgot how skilled his Master was with people and their emotions.

“How would you feel if your mother was beaten and tortured to within an inch of her life?”

“Anakin, you know that is a question I cannot answer. I was taken to the temple as a baby, I have no recollection of my mother.”

“I can’t bear to think that those animals could roam after what they did.”

Anakin’s shifting presence in the force unnerved the old Jedi.

“Revenge is not the Jedi way, my young Padawan.”

Anakin finally turned to face his Master, fury emblazoned across his face, and the look in his eyes resembled that of a confused, frightened young boy.

“I almost lost Padme, then there was no contact from you for days, I haven’t heard anything from Obi-Wan for just as long and my mother almost died.”

“Anakin, I know you are angry right now, but remember your first night in the temple? When I told you about Tahl? How I acted when she died?”

“Yes.” The young man said hanging his head.

“That’s one part of my time as a Jedi I don’t want you to go through. And look, you didn’t lose Padme or me or your mother. I’m sure Obi-Wan will be in contact soon, he’s doing his job, the same as you and me. Now, come inside and spend some time with your step family.”

“But, Master, Jedi aren’t supposed to have attachments.”

“So the council says, but what they don’t know won’t hurt them.” Qui-Gon winked at his padawan and walked back inside. Anakin chuckled in disbelief and followed him in.

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[starsandthedyad]

Headcanons I have for the au where Anakin didn’t slaughter all the sand people, but did defend himself, and left the Jedi Order after the Battle of Geonosis:

He establishes a good relationship with his step father and step brother and considers them his family. He does visit them from time to time throughout his life.

He ends up establishing his own droid repair shop on Coruscant with Padme’s help. His business flourishes, especially during the Clone Wars. He ends up having several apprentices who were either orphans in the lower levels or Coruscant or Jedi younglings who never were able to become padawans and decided to leave the Jedi Order instead of joining on Jedi Corps or freed slaves. He later establishes a second shop on Naboo.

He and Padme get married like a year later than in canon because they had to make preparation. You know their wedding was fabulous and romantic.

Padme’s (and Anakin’s once they get married) nieces were the flower girls at their wedding.

I imagine he and Padme got married on Naboo.

Cleigg and Owen Lars and Beru (still Whitesun) were invited to the wedding and came.

His and Padme’s marriage is healthy and loving.

He helps Padme and her friends (former hand maidens) free slaves from non-Republic planets.

Anakin earns the nick name of the Senator’s husband, which he loves. He becomes well known for being supportive of his wife and treating her as an equal and even willing to listen to her practice her speeches before she says them on the Senate floor.

At some points during the Clone Wars, he works as a pilot under Padme’s friend, Senator Bail Organa, to help deliver supply and help planets torn apart by the War. He also helps Naboo with their relief missions as well.

Probably at some point, the Jedi Order does recruit him as a soldier to fight for them.

He and Obi-Wan do reconnect. 

I will leave this up to Obi-Wans, of course, but possibly Obi-Wan takes on Ahsoka as his next padawan learner or potentially follows Anakin’s example and leaves the Jedi Order to be with Satine. If Obi-Wan does go to be with Satine and Anakin and he maintain a friendship, Anakin would totally visit Mandalore from time to time

Anakin and Padme get invited to Owen and Beru’s wedding and attend.

After several years of marriage, he and Padme becomes pregnant with Luke and Leia. Since Anakin is not in the Jedi Order, they obviously don’t have to hide their marriage, much less that they are having a child together. This also enables Padme to have regular check ups and prenatal care. I imagine that Anakin can sense the twins, but at times, it feels like two lights and others one. They get the confirmation that they are having twins during one of Padme’s check ups.

They relocate to the lake house on Naboo just before the twins are born.

Luke and Leia are born on Naboo and Anakin cried tears of joy when they were born.

Since the twins are Force sensitive, they could communicate instinctually through the Force to their parents their needs, which honestly made them relatively easy babies to care for.

I’ll leave it up to the Padme, but after Luke and Leia, they could have more kids.

They do get a visit from the Jedi Order so that they Jedi could take the Skywalkers kids to train them. Padme and Anakin flat out refuse, deciding that their children should be old enough to make a decision to be a Jedi on their own. Also, the Order wouldn’t risk kidnapping the Skywalker kids because they don’t want to look bad and Padme and Anakin are too well known at this point.

I imagine that Owen and Beru had a child or two together of their own and Anakin and Padme bring their kids to Tatooine to visit their cousins.

Anakin also helps his step father, step brother, and step sister-in-law when they need help paying the water taxes.

The Skywalker family was there for the funeral of Cleigg Lars.

At some point, they adopt a Tooka cat or two that they found on the streets of Coruscant.

Anakin is the kind of husband and father who carries around holos of his family to show to people.

Anakin teaches all of his kids how to build and repair droids and fly.

He and Padme totally frame and put up their kids’ art work.

At one point when the twins were kids, the family went all over Naboo to see every single waterfall because Anakin likes waterfalls. This also served as a study to know how many waterfalls there are on Naboo and where they are located.

@orphicdawn, @beautiful-kind-but-sad, @afaroffadventure, @thesarcasmofasoldier, @tofeelthecold, @vxderlordofthesith, @sinsof-ourfathers

[reconstructwriter]

Had Another Breakdown and Watched Attack of the Clones

And wow, what a B-Movie title but I’m already committed to this terrible life decision so I might as well continue. Got through the Phantom Menace so how much worse can this be?

Warning! Another long post! Also tw for Attack of the Clones shit including genocide and slavery.

The Watto scene: Not only does it double down on Watto as a Jewish stereotype – seriously, WHY?!? – but a scene where a former slave meets their enslaver after ten years of growing up and mystic training with a laser sword? I expected a lot more. Watto should’ve voided his bowels because this has to be Worst Case Scenario for a slaver! At best he was a little ‘nervous friendly’. And Anakin is already well-established as ‘man-child who Loses His Shit at the drop of a hat’. Like dude, where’s your angst and teenage fits now cause boy does this situation fit the bill! But nope, NPC fulfills their NPC duty and off they go.

Fanon Anakin vs Canon Anakin: I was introduced to the former and slowly learned what he’s really like and oh wow is he such a terrible mess of a human being no wonder Mace Windu noped his training. His Fascist statement is extra YIKES for Padme since she’s one of those Senators who’d be forced to agree. The first temper tantrum alone sounded way out of line given the relatively professional setting, let alone the creepy boundary-breaking stare. The ‘I’ve been dreaming about you for ten years’, the ‘my feelings are suffering’ speech – also taking place with him in shadow for extra broody effect. And his first genocide (I can’t believe we’re already keeping track here!) And he KNOWS BETTER is the worst thing. He admits, out loud, that he knows better and still does the thing Padme why did you say yes to this mess?

Padme being mind controlled: a fairly common fan theory to answer the above question, but in-movie Padme straight up asks Anakin if he will use a mind-trick on her (in the context of a 20 questions game so not serious). Anakin’s response is ‘mind tricks only work on the weak minded’. On the one hand, implies Padme is too strong-willed for Anakin to influence through the Force – but on the other hand this also suggests to me that he would if he could!?!?

Though Anakin was the one to suggest keeping the relationship a secret, which did surprise me so no guilting Padme about ‘wanting a marriage like a free man’ like I thought. Padme is the one who says she won’t live a lie. Good to know for future reference.

Are droids sentient or not? Dex outright says droids can’t think but I honestly don’t know if this is in-universe how droids work or if Dex is having a Cleigg-on-Tusken-People moment.

Jedi are Arrogant? Lots of people have cited Madame Nu’s confidence in her archive’s integrity as evidence the Jedi are arrogant and horrible justification of Sith crimes follows. But Obi Wan thinks there’s something more going on and Yoda encourages everyone to help find his lost planet in one of the only nods to ‘funny trickster teacher Yoda’ we get in the movie. To me this seems a hint that the Jedi are unprepared for betrayal from within. Which Dooku’s, Anakin’s and the Clones’ mind-controlled betrayals all blindside the Jedi Order.

Jango: I’ve been torn about him since I learned about him. On the one hand, understandable vengeance motive (per legends anyway), on the other hand selling his own kids into slavery and probably knowing something about the chips and genocide order because I can’t otherwise imagine the legends version assisting the Jedi.

Jango does state in-movie ‘they’ll do their job well’ in a way that sounds just a bit ominous but I don’t know if he’s being accidentally vague or deliberately giving a subtle hint he knows about the Jedi betrayal plan. If this version is just in it for Boba and the money and doesn’t have the motive of his Legends counterpart, why would the Sith ever need to tell him? Dunno, but I was surprised to not hear him say anything derogatory about his clones. I mean he’s still selling his children into slavery in a way George Lucas doesn’t grok but he doesn’t actively deride them like I’ve read in fanfic. It’s a low bar but not as low as Anakin’s.

Made for the Jedi? So the Kaminoians confirm the clone army is specifically made for the Republic but commissioned by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. Glad the movies cleared that up.

Scene Contrast: Kamino is Dark and Stormy with creepy sterile whiteness everywhere in complete contrast to Naboo’s sunny and lush green paradise. The clone army is grown and trained in creepy white lab while the robotic army built in a dark but organic underground hive. Obi Wan sneaks onto Geonosis through the light of day to investigate galactic concerns. Anakin on Tattooine stalks the Tusken people in the dark of night for personal stakes.

The (Other) Horribly Racist Cliché: Speaking of which, I get we’re supposed to assume Shmi was abducted but, um, Cleigg isn’t even a witness – like I initially thought – but is guessing abduction based on tracks in the desert sand and his incredibly racist bias. Are we supposed to doubt every word out of his mouth? If Shmi had been in a bed (even tied) I’d have assumed patient before prisoner.

Anakin’s Genocide: He goes off to save Shmi as ominous music plays and the suns go down, at which point he doesn’t just walk the fascist talk and do baby-Vader’s first genocide but also foreshadows his betrayal and genocide of the Jedi! Which really reinforces the Sith/Nazi and Jedi/Jewish parallel here – Hitler and the Nazis got their Holocaust ideas from White America’s treatment of our native and PoC counterparts. So too does Anakin the future Sith start his genocidal tendencies with the Native people of Tattooine.

But nobody in-universe seems to get that?!? Blorbo!Anakin authors recognize that thar was some FUCKED UP SHIT!!! (Usually by pretending it didn’t happen or re-writing the scene into something less Moral Event Horizon.) Padme’s response would fit better Anakin murdering the literally disarmed Dooku – morally wrong, against the Jedi Code but somewhat understandable but genocide? Cleigg is narratively supposed to be kind and sympathetic but he practically sent a demon after people who’s land and water he’s stealing! The person acting most realistically is the perpetrator and all Anakin admits (again) is he’s a Jedi and therefore should be better. But this still feels like he should have come back to Padme yellow-eyed and Dark Sided!

Once again, George Lucas’ racism screws up the story he’s trying to tell. Ugh. Okay, enough movie time for now. Sorry I’m a hopeless binger despite my friends and kitties’ best efforts.

[theseventhveil1945]

cleigg lars really bought shmi and then married her🤢🤢🤢🤢

[tranakin-skywalker]

Fuck it, we're making this a Shmi lives au

Instead of being bought and freed by Cleigg Lars, she escapes from her owner but her chip is detonated in the process, leading Anakin to believe she's dead when he goes back for her in AotC

Realizing that the implications of the Shmi/Lars thing is so so much worse in the togruta au

[redrikki]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Fic Masterpost

Second Wind - Ahsoka takes the wrong exit from the world between worlds and ends up with a second chance to save her master. (Shmi, Ahsoka)

No Place Like Home - Ahsoka’s return to the temple after her first deployment was strange, made even stranger by the fact that it shouldn’t be strange at all. (Ahsoka, Rex)

Secret Tunnel - War in the Outer Rim! While fighting on the mining world of Mumblety, Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano is tasked with mapping the tunnels along with a team of clones. When trouble strikes, will she have what it takes to save the day and complete the mission? (Ahsoka, Anakin, Fives, Echo)

Love and Support - After Padmé is shot at a conference, her mother insists she come home. Padmé, of course, is going no where. Episode tag to 3.07 "Assassin." (Padmé, Ahsoka)

Eat, Snip, Love - Ahsoka can't remember the last time she had a home cooked meal. Anakin and Padmé are determined to change that. (Ahsoka, Anakin/Padmé)

Lighting Rod - Anakin gets electrocuted…again. It probably says something bad about his life that he's getting used to it. (Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka)

Dateline Felucia - Embedded with the troops on Felucia, a reporter from HoloNet News paints an intimate portrait of the men of the 212th Attack Battalion. (Obi-Wan/Cody, Boil/Waxer, various clones)

If Not For These Bad Dreams - Fives has dreamed about killing every Jedi he ever met. It turns out, he's not the only one. (Fives, Tup, Kix, Jesse)

Across a Crowded Room - It's a party in his honor, but it turns out the Hero Without Fear isn't good with crowds. Padmé to the rescue! (Anakin/Padmé)

All's Well That Ends Well - In the aftermath of the Deception Arc, Obi-Wan reclaims his face but not everything is back to normal as Ahsoka struggles to let go of her anger over what happened. (Ahsoka, Obi-Wan, Anakin)

Coming Out of My Cage, Doing Just Fine - On the way back from Kadavo, it finally hits her. In this war, she’d been outmatched, outmaneuvered, and outgunned, but she’d never felt powerless. Not like she did in that cage on Zygerria. (Ahsoka, Anakin)

In Our Bed After the War - After the mission to Zygerria, Padmé and Anakin have a difficult conversation. Trigger Warning: mentions of rape (Anakin/Padmé)

Domestic Life Was Never Quite My Style - Despite her best efforts, Padmé is pregnant. Now she has a difficult decision to make. (Anakin/Padmé)

Once More With Feeling - Anakin dies in his son's arms at the end of Return of the Jedi and wakes up in Obi-Wan's towards the end of the Clone Wars. The Force has given him an opportunity and he plans to make the most of it. (Anakin/Padmé, Obi-Wan, Jedi Council, Palpatine)

Nothing to Write Home About - A month after losing his wife, Cliegg Lars decides to write to her son. Anakin Skywalker gets the pen pal he never knew he needed. (Anakin/Padmé, Cleigg/Shmi, Owen/Beru, Ahsoka) Abandoned WIP

For the Greater Good - Count Dooku has never seen the appeal of Anakin Skywalker, but, when the Chosen One breaks with the Council over the treatment of the clones, he decides acquiring the boy's allegiances might be worthwhile after all. (Anakin, Dooku, Palpatine) Abandoned WIP co-written with @grand-duc and @thendstartsnow

Ahsoka the Vampire Slayer - Ahsoka is the Chosen One, the Slayer. The one girl in all the world with the power to fight the forces of darkness, or at least she was until she died. She got better, but now there's a new Slayer in town and things with her Watcher are strained at best. Add in a bunch of zombie mind control bugs and Ahsoka's week could be going better. (Ahsoka, Anakin, Barriss Offee, Luminara Unduli) Star Wars/Buffy the Vampire Slayer fusion.

Bursts of Stardust - Parts I, II & III - Collection of short tumblr prompts (Anakin/Padmé, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, various Jedi, various clones)

[january-summers]

Have some fridge angst Star Wars AU not!fic.

Obi: You look tired

Ani: I don't sleep well anymore

Obi: Because of your mother?

- guarding Senator Amidala on Coruscant, Attack of the Clones

They've had this conversation before. They've spoken of Anakin's dreams before. Persistent dreams mean things amongst Jedi, so why would Obi-Wan be so 'dismissive' of them?

Because he thinks he's protecting Anakin.

After Naboo, after Qui-gon and the Sith, after making his stance so strongly about training 'the boy', Obi-Wan found himself floundering. He knows about the force, he can send Anakin to the healers when he's sick, but he doesn't know how to raise a child, he certainly doesn't know how to raise a child from outside the order.

He always thought when he took on a padawan of his own, he'd have his master to ask for advice.

But he doesn't, and after Anakin's somewhat tumultuous entrance to the Order, Obi-Wan worried that his padawan would suffer for Obi-Wan's failures as a teacher.

So he called in a favour on the sly, to track down the one person he was sure could help him.

It took a few weeks, but just as he felt like everything would fall apart, it happened. Contact.

Shmi Skywalker was bemused by his request for aid, concerned to hear about Qui-gon, and happy to give him advice. Their communications became common place, updates and advice exchanged, and they reached a point where Obi-Wan considered the woman a friend.

When Shmi began speaking about a man named Cleigg, Obi-Wan is supportive, and offered what aid he can. Called in a few favours to supply the last of the needed funds for the two to buy Shmi's freedom.

And then Obi-Wan got a call, not from Shmi, but Cleigg. Just hours after Obi-Wan finished consoling a nightmare addled Anakin that his mother was fine, Shmi's husband told Obi-Wan that Shmi had been taken by raiders, that she couldn't be found, that she was dead. (Obi-Wan doesn't know her force signature well enough to search her out, can't dispute it, must accept what he's been told.)

How could Obi-Wan tell Anakin any of it?

How could he tell him his mother was dead?

Anakin never tells Obi-Wan that his mother survived for a month after that call, and maybe it was an unknowing kindness for Obi-Wan.

Obi-Wan never has the chance to give Padme the recordings of Shmi singing the lullabies and reciting recipes for Obi-Wan to learn for Anakin, for the children Anakin won't tell him they're having.

(Also, because I couldn't figure out how Obi-Wan even knew about the Lars, like? when did Anakin tell him about them? Or did Padme? but when?! Like, I know he knows they were on Tatooine, but did the boys ever talk about it!?)

(Edit: just finished RoS, I had forgotten it was Yoda who said 'send the boy to his family on Tatooine', because Yoda? knew about the Lars family?)