#dark side magic

[foreverbaby25]

[the-far-bright-center]

That's a unique interpretation I hadn’t seen before. I agree that Obi-Wan and Padme aren't as close as fandom seems to believe, and there are times that Obi-Wan even demonstrates a callous disregard for Padme's safety and well-being. So I appreciate this take because it emphasises Obi-Wan's betrayal of Padme on Mustafar, which is all too often glossed over. The focus is always on what Anakin does to her in his rage about Obi-Wan (which is indeed most TERRIBLE), but it's important to point out Obi-Wan's actual role in all of that as well.

My own thoughts about what exactly caused Padme's death go back and forth between different theories. I've never fully settled on just one explanation, in large part because Padme's death has always been SO upsetting to me that most of the time I prefer not to think too long and hard on it. Honestly, sometimes I really do believe that she literally did just die of a broken heart. This is a tragic love story, after all. And since she specifically says to Anakin that 'you're breaking my heart', it's understandable that some interpret this as Anakin 'killing' her even if he didn't actually physically do so. But, your idea could also contribute to this, in the sense that Padme was already broken-hearted because she thought Anakin believed she didn't love him anymore and that she'd brought Obi-Wan there to kill him, and then to find out that Obi-Wan had 'killed' him and that she had uknowingly lead him there to do so could indeed have been what caused her to 'lose the will to live'.

That being said, I also vacillate between the 'broken heart' idea and the extremely horrifying theory that Sidious drained Padme of her life-force in order to bring Anakin back to life in the Vader suit. (Though this theory and the one discussed above aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, and there are interpretations that could allow them both to be true simultaneously.) One of the reasons I consider this is the fact that Sidious always wanted Padme dead. He'd already tried to have her assassinated back in AotC, even. I believe he viewed Padme as both his political arch-nemesis as well as his main 'competition' for Anakin. So, I think Sidious always planned for Padme to die. He was NEVER going to actually 'save her life'—that was merely the false promise he used to lure Anakin to the Dark Side. And the other reason I can't help but consider this theory is the fact that Anakin and Padme's hearts both stop together. Then, Anakin is revived in the Vader suit. Again, that parallel could just be symbolic of their status as star-crossed lovers, but the whole thing also has a Frankenstein's creature meets Faustian pact with the Devil vibe to it.

Hot take, but if Padme lived she would have never forgiven Obi-Wan for what he did to Anakin. Padme already disliked the Jedi for being so unfeeling and after she saw Obi-Wan was able to (from Padme's point of view) just flip a switch and go kill Anakin, she would dislike him instantly.

Also this post isn't meant to hate on Obi-Wan, but I've seen a lot of takes about how things would have turned out if Padme lived and I don't think I've ever seen anyone discuss how her relationship with Obi-Wan would have been after Mustafar. So yeah, here it is. It would have been bad. Not in the way that Padme would actively try to harm Obi-Wan, but she would keep herself and her children as far away from him as possible. So you know, Obi-Wan would lose not only Anakin, but Padme and the twins too.

[jeeaark]

Anymore goofy bloopers from failed rolls from either play through? Such as getting killed by Astarion when he first drinks your blood?

Unfortunately (or fortunately for me), Durge practically killed it with his skill checks. But I did have blooper moments because I made the murder lizard a wild magic sorcerer.

Lots of imp summons. Always sicked shovel on them.

Felt bad for killing Wyll's cambion summon.

[bastart13]

How do you imagine hybrids work in love and legends? We've seen elf/humans.

So there are 6 different species and aside from the mermaids, they're all compatable to have children.

I headcanon life expectancy, colouration, and the shape of facial or body features to be gradient traits, so they pretty much randomly combine between the two parents like any other child

Magical traits are probably more binary. So a fairy hybrid child could inherit the eyes, wings, and/or sparkles, or none, with no middle ground. A demon hybrid will usually inherit a faded form of the markings, but they won't always be able to transform or earn horns. Dwarf hybrids might inherit the ability to echolocate vs just having larger ears.

If two species with strong magic have a child, they're more likely to inherit magical traits (e.g. elves and fairies with strong magic vs humans and dwarves with low magic)

Considering the domains are all friendly with each other, I imagine it's fairly common to have mixed ancestry and there's no real taboo aside from the grief of lifespan differences

[voidedjuice]

Gunslinger

[icyjus]

[shapelytimber]

not sure if you've answered this before but for the sapphic au... how did leia and luke get made if their parents are both cis ? are they force babies, created by anakin meddling with the force just as sidious did and thereby killing padme? or maybe they just went to star wars sperm bank idk. desperately curious to see if you have an explanation in mind or if they just kind of popped into existence (sorry I just get wrapped up in silly details with everything)

Oh am I glad you asked !

Only hole in my flawless explanation..... There is no way in hell Anakin in topping regularly in this relationship. So gotta assume the moment they tried to switch it up a bit they got magic stap babies.

[ea-paperbits]

Women in STEM are just witches in white lab coats instead of black robes

art source: abigaillarson-Poisonous Plants irenhorrors-Drawlloween Laboratory

[nellybrook]

[greentrickster]

“I’m sorry. For English.” rolls through my head every time I’m reminded of what a freaking nonsense language it is in context of someone else learning or trying to comprehend it.

(Also, this is a really cute, fun comic in general, highly recommended!)

[succulentsiren]

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[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

albus severus is the human embodiment of be gay do crime, in this essay I will-

[gretchenzellerbarnes]

"anakin would've never turned to the dark side had qui gon lived." utter. bullshit. not only is this particular hot take an insult to obi-wan it completely robs anakin of his agency, because at the end of the day it was anakin's decision to pledge his loyalty to palpatine and to destroy everything that the people he loved held dear. that's what makes anakin skywalker such a compelling character, and as darth vader a tragic and iconic villian... because he did this to himself.

[orange-artblog]

dark cream week: day 7 - white smoke

shattered by galacii-gallery

cross by jakei95

dark cream week by @zu-is-here

a bit brighter below cut

i made a little extra for this :]

[beautycollektor]

[raayllum]

have we talked about how even more similar young!viren's outfit is to callum's yet or

The gold trimming, the sleeves, the dip below the throat that arc 1's Viren's larger shoulder coverings mostly well, cover. In some ways it feels like Callum's high mage outfit borrows from both these Virens, which is pretty fitting, honestly (while maintaining some of his own Callum'y flair, of course)