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elionwriter · 3 years ago

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STAR WARS TOP TEN CHARACTERS AND RELATIONSHIPS (PART 3)

7) PADME AMIDALA

Usually when characters are "TOO GOOD" they end up being unrealistic and unlikable. NOT HER! A queen by election, an uncompromising senator, a great speaker, a true defender of democracy, a politician that fights in the front lines if necessary and definitely the one true fashionista of the Galaxy. Padme, both in stile and principals, reflects all the good and opulence of the High Republic, an age of stability, greatness and awareness in which debate was a preferable weapon to actual weapons even though she had no problems handling a blaster. Even though we are presented with many great politicians throughout the series no one is quite as resourceful or capable as her. Not even the great Bail Organa. She manages to gain and hold the respect of most senators, even her rivals, despite her young age; she brokers seemingly impossible negotiations, at one point almost bringing the Clone Wars at an end via a peace treaty with the Separatist Alliance; with a single speech she stops the production of new clone batches saving the Republic from bankruptcy. And yet, despite all this wisdom and capacity her greatest asset is her pure and kind heart. It's truly heartbreaking that she of all people found herself in such a painful and controversial relationship. Her love for Anakin is ultimately her downfall as she realizes too late how far gone he is. If anyone ever died of heartbreak is her. It seems a contradiction that someone so strong could abandon herself to sadness in such a manner and yet this single weakness makes her all the more precious, pure and beautiful. With her death all the goodness of that age is burried too leaving the Galaxy colder, dimmer and scarier.

8) HERA SYNDULLA & SABINE WREN

While the entire Specter crew is worthy of the spot, I want to celebrate its queens. I already called Ashoka Togruta pride, but for a species whose females are usually objectified and reduced to cantina dancers, Hera really elevates Twi'leks to the next level. Daughter of a famous and respected leader, Hera inherits that leadership and creates her own rag-tag team to guide the Galaxy towards insurgency against the Empire. It's always a brave decision to stand up against power and tyranny but to do so when one doesn't even know if they're alone in that effort is a titanic feat. Hera leaded the Spectres before the rebel alliance was even formed and had a pivotal role in their operations both as a strategist and an A class pilot. Acting as the mother of the crew she is one of the main reasons the other characters of her team remained alive and bloomed to their full potential. If it wasn't for her, Ezra Bridger wouldn't have joined the fray. Also, she manages to make Han Solo admit that the Ghost is better than the Falcon. Can one blame Kanan for falling head over heels in love with her? And Sabine, well...she is proof that one can be level-headed and hot-headed at the same time. A sassy, trigger-happy, genius, teen Mandalorian with a talent for street art. If you don't love her for this alone then it's definitely all her colors and wicked style that are gonna knock it out of the park. Not only does she change hair-cut and dye each season of "Star Wars: Rebels" she gives her armour a different paint-job too! While Din Djarin's armour is probably the most beautiful and impressive structure and defence wise, Sabine turned hers into a proper masterpiece. Her artistic merits are so good that even art expert Grand Admiral Thrawn wants to collect some of her works. At one point, she wields the dark sabre and manages to unite Mandalorian clans against the Empire's puppet leader. The fact that she had been accepted as a leader by her people but still decided to take a step back and pass the power to older and wiser Bo-katan Kryze is truly a point in her favour. Unforgettable is her relationship with Ezra, built on camaraderie, mutual trust and frienship. Wherever Ezra has ended up Sabine will keep searching for him until he is safely back home.

9) CAPTAIN REX AND THE 501

The prequel trilogy doesn't really tell us much about the clones and what happened during the years of their faithful service to the Republic before the tragic events of order 66 unfold. Thank goodness a lot of additional material got that covered! (Anyone watching the Bad Batch?!) All clones should be celebrated and mourned but no clone captured the heart more that Cpt./Commander Rex along with all the 501st. legion. The faithful and elite group of soldiers led by Anakin Skywalker and Ashoka has proven itself both in and out of the battlefield. Not only did this squad survive the treacherous General Krell, they managed to win the battle he was actively trying to sabotage, get a full confession out of him and imprison him. Not only this, it was one of the squad members, Fives, that almost uncovered the full plot against the Jedi order designed by Chancellor Palpatine. While all clones regarded each other as brothers there was a special bond that tied the men of this group and its leaders. Rex went to extensive lengths to retrieve his lost companion Echo, a move that Anakin supported; Fives ran to Rex and Anakin to reveal his discoveries and had they all not been interrupted, even in his frenzied state, the two seemed willing to listen to his side of the story. There was a solid complicity and trust between Anakin and his men to the point that he revealed to Rex his secret relationship with Padme (Something he didn't openly speak of even with Obi-Wan and Ashoka) and told him of her pregnancy. In exchange, Rex always trusted his general even when he got them all in the most dangerous and unorthodox situations, looking up to him and regarding him as the best of the Jedi even years after the war had ended (when complimenting Kanan's skills he purposefully underlines that he's still not as good as Skywalker). But the most heartwarming instance of all is when Rex and the 501 greet Ashoka, banished from the Jedi order and the military, with painted helmets to remind of her markings still referring to her as Commander. Rex goes always above and beyond his duty, aiding Ashoka and the rebellion years after being dismissed from service. Even as an old timer, he proves that the new Stormtroopers have nothing on him and that he is truly the ultimate soldier and friend. I only wish he could have met Luke, considering he was one of the very few who knew Anakin was expecting a child and he never realised that Anakin hadn't died at the end of the war but had become Darth Vader.

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bedlamsbard · 4 years ago

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I got a couple of different asks about Luke and Ahsoka in other side AU 10, so I guess I will just make it a regular post after all so I can answer all of them at once.

@slecnaztemnot:

Okay i just read your latest other side chapter and I wanted to ask about Ahsoka and Luke dynamics. I wonder what exactly where their heretics disagreemts about the jedi doctrine? while i can guess some of the stuff like attachements i guess i mostly see ahsoka as nonjedi and therefore someone who should not be attached to doctrine about attachements (haha) so i am wondering how you see her. i would actually love your take on how their first meetings went. continued in next ask, 1/2

1/2 continuation since most people write them as Ashoka immediately spilling the beans about the whole Vader situation to Luke and yours Ahsoka didn't. So I am curious what do you think Ahsoka feels about it. I got of course lot of it from the fic itself so i am mostly asking about how did you base your interpretation, if that makes sense and what led you to the narrative choices to portray their relationship in such way.

@comentter:

I'm most interested in what Luke and Ahsoka know about each other. Luke doesn't know much about Ahsoka obviously, but does he have any idea why she seems to hate him? He must be desperate lol. And how much does Ahsoka know about what happened on the DS2? And how much does Kanan know about these events? What was Hera able to tell him and what else did Luke and Ahsoka tell him? I always figure that everyone but Luke and a few people he told (like Leia) think the Emperor and Vader from the DS2 explosion.

I now have this image in my head of Ahsoka spending time with Rex and her laughing as Rex does something like tell a joke or a specific gesture. Then Luke walks by, does the exact same thing and Ahsoka is like "Of course, you'd do this stupid thing, you idiot!" :D

I think shortly before I started writing this sequence I had seen some cute art of Luke and Ahsoka hugging, which is a pretty common art trope and which has never sat quite right with me. I also have the tendency to want to do the opposite of common fanon, which I can’t leave out either. I also wanted to logic out what the hell was going on with Ahsoka’s charaterization in her Mando episode on a Watsonian level rather than a Doylist one (which I did a few weeks ago), even if other side takes place well before Mando and doesn’t intersect with it in any meaningful way.

When it came to the Luke and Ahsoka relationship (or lack thereof), it came down to three questions for me:

Who knows what?

What do they know?

When do they know it?

I made the decision early on in the chapter to leave Leia out of this relationship entirely, since the new canon seems to at this point in time (within a year of RotJ) be keeping it relatively quiet that she and Luke are siblings, and it’s not something that Hera would have a reason to know. (Note also that this entire sequence is told from Hera’s POV, which plays into the “who knows what when” angle.)

As per Rebels S4 (not the epilogue, because Mando’s thrown that out the window), Ahsoka knows (or has good reason to believe) the following:

Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader, Sith Lord

Darth Vader was directly or indirectly responsible for the genocide of the Jedi Order and the deaths of any Jedi who survived the Purge (”you and your Inquisitors saw to that”)

Padme Amidala is dead

Obi-Wan Kenobi is dead (Obi-Wan was not dead, but she has no way to know this)

no Darksider can return to the Light side

At the end of RotJ (not taking into account anything that happened in the comics or ancillary novels, which I’m not up to date on), Luke knows (or has good reason to believe) the following:

Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker

everyone Anakin ever knew is dead, mostly because of him

Vader returned to being Anakin Skywalker at the end of his life

(Leia presumably also knows all of this, perhaps with a few more details based on things her parents might have told her, but her feelings about Darth Vader are: Bad, Do Not Want, to be glib about it.)

Now, there’s one other factor here, which is Rex. Rex knew Anakin and knew Ahsoka and was in the Rebel Alliance -- we know that he was on Yavin IV prior to Luke’s arrival and we know that he fought in the Battle of Endor. (And turns up in a couple of scattered art panels from the comics.) If we want to take his brief appearance in Galaxy of Adventures with Han Solo’s strike force as canon, then he may have also known Han and probably Luke -- certainly his ears would have pricked up at the name “Skywalker.” (Okay, there’s one other factor, which is R2-D2, but Artoo never tells anyone anything despite knowing...everything. Or most things, anyway.) Rex doesn’t seem to know that Anakin became Darth Vader (I believe there’s an interview somewhere where Dave or Pablo or someone says that a meeting between Rex and Vader would be “awkward,” but there’s no canonical reason to believe that he knew about the Anakin/Vader connection), but he probably found out at some point that the 501st was the battalion involved in the assault on the Jedi Temple. He also, as of Rebels S3-4, assumes that Vader killed Ahsoka -- presumably Ezra would have told him as much as he could. (And Ezra does know that Vader is Anakin, so he may have told Rex that as well.) Rex also knows that Anakin Skywalker was having an affair with Padme Amidala, but presumably didn’t know about (a) the marriage or (b) the pregnancy, because how would he know?

Then we come to Ahsoka’s return and unfortunately the current canon gives us no time point for when it actually happened: presumably Ahsoka did not or could not return to the greater galaxy at the point she “left”, during the fight on Malachor (3 BBY), because as of Rebels S3-4 everyone still believes she’s dead. Maybe she’s still stuck on Malachor without a way to get off, who knows; maybe after S4 Ezra grabbed her into the World Between Worlds she decided to stay on Malachor until she ~caught up with the main timeline, which...you then have to believe that Ahsoka is going to deliberately remove herself from the war, which I can get to, but is not something I’m totally comfortable with. Or she pops out in the timeline at the same time that Ezra returns to the main timeline and is able to more or less immediately return to the main timeline narrative, plus or minus a few weeks. (There are, after all, still a couple of Advanced TIE fighters parked in the Sith temple, even if they were potentially damaged in the temple collapse. Ahsoka could have repaired them or used the comms systems to call for a pick-up -- this is, btw, what happens in Crown.) We don’t know when the S2 finale scene/S4 WBW scene of Ahsoka walking back into the temple actually takes place in the timeline; it doesn’t have to be at the exact same time as the rest of the S2 finale sequence (since obvs Vader dragging himself out, Maul flying off, and the Rebels crew looking sad doesn’t all take place at the exact same time).

Other side AU is deliberately vague about when Ahsoka returns from the World Between Worlds/Malachor/to the Rebel Alliance; it’s not stated in the story, but I made the assumption that she came back shortly after the (non-epilogue) end of the Rebels finale, but was still deeply messed up from her Malachor revelations. (Also, like, Sidious, I guess, but she was probably so messed up about Anakin/Vader that Sidious being around barely registered.) Since she never seems to have held a formal position in the Rebel Alliance, I assumed that after she returned and let everyone know she was still alive, she then immediately took off to try and figure out what the hell happened with Anakin at the end of the Clone Wars, since she saw him like a week before he snapped and at the time he seemed fine.

The problem is that almost everyone involved is dead.

Now, at this point (shortly before Scarif and ANH), a few people are still alive who then die shortly, but whom Ahsoka may have no reason to believe were involved. Bail Organa, for example, is still around, but aside from him being Padme’s friend Ahsoka doesn’t have a reason to know that Bail was there when Padme died -- and since they were in contact for the nineteen years preceding there’s no reason for her to assume now that he was keeping something for her. Back in the comics (before I stopped reading them), Vader did some digging to figure out what was going on with Padme and his child; Ahsoka probably would have done the same digging (without having to torture anyone), but without necessarily knowing that Padme was pregnant. Knowing the date of Padme’s death (same as the Republic, essentially), she may have had a previous assumption that Padme was assassinated on Palpatine’s orders, but knowing that Vader is Anakin probably moves that assumption closer to the truth, that Anakin was somehow involved in Padme’s death one way or another. Sooner or later Ahsoka will turn up the fact that Padme was pregnant, come to the obvious conclusion that Anakin was the father, and possibly find out the same thing that Vader does in the comics -- that the child was born before Padme died. (But also probably not that Padme was carrying twins, but even if she found that out, it wouldn’t make a difference.)

While Ahsoka is doing her digging (and there really isn’t much information out there to find), the events of Rogue One and ANH happen, and Ahsoka comes back to the Rebel Alliance to find out which of her friends are still alive. (Maybe Rex is with her at this point, who knows.)

Everyone in the Rebel Alliance is talking about some young hotshot named Luke Skywalker.

Luke Skywalker who has a very familiar lightsaber, who claims his father was Anakin Skywalker, and who had some kind of relationship with Obi-Wan Kenobi, who turned up on the Death Star, fought Darth Vader, and died.

Ahsoka has just spent the past few months trying to figure out what happened with Anakin, and as best she can reassemble the facts it mostly comes down to “Anakin did something dumb for Padme, that something dumb was ‘turn to the Dark Side and kill literally everyone,’ and then Padme died, the Republic was overturned, and the Jedi Order was wiped out.” Ahsoka presumably walks into a room, hears the name Luke Skywalker -- maybe sees him -- and is all at once face to face with the living evidence of just how badly Anakin fucked up.

This is just too much for Ahsoka to deal with at the moment, so she takes off again, and spends the next five years brushing in and out of the Rebel Alliance doing odd missions that can really only be done by a trained Force-user. Rex, who seems to have a more stable position in the Alliance, is always going to side with Ahsoka over anyone else; if she tells him not to tell Luke that she knew Anakin, he won’t. (And for that matter, he may have somewhat fraught feelings about Luke himself.) She may have the odd interaction with Luke -- who has heard that there’s another Jedi in the Alliance and wants to be friends/get real training -- but Ahsoka just does not want any part of this. It’s irrational! She knows it’s irrational! But this is the living evidence of Anakin’s failure, Anakin who last she saw him TRIED TO KILL HER, who was at least partially responsible for the deaths of everyone she ever knew. (And honestly, finding out that Vader topped it all off by killing Obi-Wan is not going to help.)

Ahsoka may also be feeling a certain amount of survivor’s guilt: if Ezra had not pulled her out of the Malachor temple at that exact moment, she came pretty close to bringing the temple down on both herself and Vader, and may have succeeded in killing him. She did not do so, and who knows how many people died because of that in the years between Malachor and Yavin? (Just because Tarkin was the one who gave the order doesn’t mean that Ahsoka may at least partially blame Alderaan’s destruction on Vader, if she knew he was on the Death Star then.) She knows he killed Obi-Wan.

The Yoda lineage is very good at going “yikes, I am going off to live alone and beat myself up over my failure for years” and Ahsoka is very much an example of that lineage.

She and Luke have a relationship of “Hi, I’m Luke Skywalker, do you want to talk?” and “I have to leave immediately,” maybe with the odd “please stop using that lightsaber grip it is physically painful for me to watch, do it like this instead, okay, bye.” Luke probably told all of two other people about what happened with Vader on the Death Star, Leia and Han; he has no reason to tell anyone else about it because it won’t matter to them. Why would he tell Ahsoka, whom he has no relationship with? He doesn’t know that Ahsoka knew Anakin Skywalker and would only know if one of four people told him: Ahsoka herself (no), Rex (no), R2-D2 (maybe), or Admiral Ackbar (would never have occurred to Luke to ask, might have occurred to Ackbar to say). (We also don’t know that Mon Mothma knew Ahsoka very well, or at all, for that matter; they never interacted in TCW.)

As for her swinging harder into overt Jedi-ness by Mando after her blatant “I am no Jedi” of Rebels, it reads to me as a response to the Anakin/Vader revelation (especially the attachment thing). She had made certain assumptions in the TCW period (see her saving Rex in the TCW finale) and prior to Rebels; Kanan’s method of Jediness was something she could accept in the time period and in those circumstances; the Anakin/Vader revelation shattered all of that, followed immediately as it was by Kanan apparently going full Jedi self-sacrifice despite his attachments. (Her reaction to Ezra being a trauma response about two very different circumstances.) All of a sudden what she thought might have been mutable based on the circumstances became something that had to be adhered to in case of dangerous results, which she had just had brought home to her in extremely bad circumstances.

I made a crack somewhere about Mando’s central tension being between “being Mandalorian” and “being doing Mandalorianness”; I think in the post-OT period with Ahsoka and Luke we’re seeing something similar with “being Jedi” and “being doing Jediness.” Even if Ahsoka isn’t actively claiming the title Jedi anymore (because what does that accomplish in most contexts?), she’s leaning far more into the tenets of the Jedi Order -- which Luke doesn’t know and doesn’t know he doesn’t know.

Thus the doctrinal dispute.

Ahsoka grew up in the Jedi Order. That’s what she knows, that’s how she knows how to be a Jedi; for her being a Jedi is being part of the Jedi Order, whether or not the actions associated with performing Jediness are being actively practiced. Luke doesn’t have that context. For Luke, being a Jedi is...being doing Jediness. (This is super awkward phrasing.) Performing the actions of a Jedi. Luke has a few holocrons, but I’m guessing that a lot of what is on those holocrons makes the assumption that whoever is opening with them has the context of being a part of the Jedi Order and doesn’t explain really basic stuff about the Order or what that means. Luke’s Jedi Order is not going to be the Republic Jedi Order made anew; it’s going to be something that has a resemblance to it and is based on a similar view of the Force, even arguably its heir, but is just not going to be the same thing. It can’t be. Luke doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.

Kanan, of course, is coming into all of this from a similar context as Ahsoka: he grew up in the Jedi Order, it’s what he knows, it’s who he is. Except Kanan never walked away from the Order, so while Ahsoka had been disconnected from her Jediness at the time of the Purge, he never lost his -- part of Ahsoka’s tension from TCW S7-Rebels was “I can’t be a Jedi because the Order is gone” and Kanan’s was “can I be a Jedi without the Jedi Order?” (Ezra is a whole ‘nother thing but is somewhat outside the scope of this.) The Jedi Order never factors in Luke’s Jediness at all. (There’s some lineage doctrinal dispute here as well -- the Yoda lineage seems to be very closely connected to the Order as the font of Jediness, the Windu-Billaba lineage somewhat less so. The Yoda lineage is like...the hardcore conservatives of the Jedi Order, though, and are probably not typical.)

Poor Kanan came back from the dead, after a week in another universe (which had its own problems; he’s been trying to very gently convince his counterpart that even after being an Inquisitor for months he can still be a Jedi), into Luke trying to build a new Jedi Order from scratch, Ahsoka firmly believing it couldn’t and shouldn’t be done and not wanting to be in the same room as Luke at all (not to mention that she really did not believe that they should have gone for “hey, let’s send Hera Syndulla to another universe” as even being an option), and both of them having essentially incompatible notions of being a Jedi at each other -- this is probably the most time Luke and Ahsoka ever spent in each other’s presence. They’ve probably never articulated their problems at each other, just assumed that the other knew them. And Kanan has his own “how to be a Jedi” approach, which is from a very different than either Ahsoka or Luke because despite originating from the same context as Ahsoka, he had a very different path to get to his present position.

As for what Kanan knows -- uh, pretty much only what Hera knew, and Hera knew very little? She was friendly with Luke and Leia, but didn’t have much interaction with them -- she states that she had a tendency to avoid Luke because even if she would never say it to Luke’s face, she silently believes that if any Jedi should have been in the Rebel Alliance, it should have been Kanan and Ezra and not this relative newcomer. If the Death Star 2 news about Vader and Palps was never common knowledge, then Hera wouldn’t have known it. Kanan’s in a position of having to play catch-up, but also having a completely different priority (finding Ezra). He sat through this meeting where after they’d finished grilling him on “you were in ANOTHER UNIVERSE and also you CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD?” they politely sniped at each other with a bunch of context he didn’t have and flat out decided that wow, he did not want to deal with this at all, whatsoever.

(This is also not stated in the story, but Luke and Ahsoka also disagreed about whether Jacen should be trained or not: Luke said, yeah, of course, when he’s a little older! and Ahsoka said nope, he’ll be fine, it will go away. Hera was just very “...I will deal with this later” about it since it wasn’t an urgent issue.)

#also thanks to reena-jenkins and isweedan for talking this out with me #other side au tag

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halfblood-demigods · 4 years ago

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I love the idea that Ahsoka meet Luke and Leia and told them about their parents so I decided to write a short story about it.

Ahsoka never expected to be here sitting with the son and daughter of her former master, she never even knew that Anakin and Padme had had kids

She knew the two were in a relationship (you would have to be blind not to, although she bet the late Kanan Jarrus could have still realized it) but she didn’t ever think their relationship was that serious.

It wasn’t until after the war was over and she had returned from her mission to find Ezra Bridger that she meet the twins and found out the truth.

Since then she had been telling Luke and Leia stories about their parents, and Obi-Wan Kenobi (or old Ben Kenobi as Luke knew him)

“What was dad like?” Luke would ask

and Ahsoka would struggle to find the right answer because Anakin Skywalker was so many things, and not all of it was good, and how could you describe that to his child, who never met the man but had also met the shell of him that was left when he went to the dark side.

Yet, over time Ahsoka managed to explain, she told him about Anakin’s bravery that bordered on stupidity sometimes during the clone wars.

And talking about that would lead Leia the ever political mind to ask more questions about the clone wars, about the politics of it and every time she did Ahsoka would have to close her eyes and stop for a second because all of a sudden Leia would remind Ahsoka of her mom so much that it hurt.

Ahsoka would tell them about the clone wars and how there mom and dad both fought in it, just in different ways. She would tell them about how kind there mother was. How much she cared about the Republic and finding a peaceful solution that would benefit the most people. About the time she tried brought Ahsoka with her to try and broker a deal with the seperatists. About how she cared so deeply about what she believed in, and how she never gave up. How she treated Ahsoka like her own daughter and how much Ahsoka knew that there mom would have been looking forward to meeting them.

That just lead to more questions, questions that were even harder and more painful to talk about.

“What were the clones like?” Luke asked

And Ahsoka brought Rex to them, and together they old them about as many clones as they knew, trying to keep there stories alive as they told them. About Fives, and Tup, and Hardcase, And Jesse, and Echo, and Cody, and Gregor, and Appo and so many more clones who individuals wit there own unique story.

And then Leia asked the question they knew was coming but was going to be hard to talk about “Why did the clones kill there Jedi then, I know they said that the Jedi commited treason and we know that wasn’t true, so why would the clones kill them.”

Adn even though it was hard they told them the truth, about the chips in the clones brains, about Tup, and Fives discovering the whole thing and tried to tell everyone but no one believed him, about how all the clones were forced to execute order 66, about how Ahsoka removed Rex’s chip, and eventually they told them about crashing the ship and the death of all of the 332nd.

As they talked and they told stories, they began to heal, Ahsoka and Rex, bt they knew that it would always be painful. How sometimes even just someone calling for master or general Skywalker would cause them both to look around beofre realizing that anakin wasn’t there, and he never would be again.

Over time the questions changed, and the story’s began to have fewer details, but Ahsoka knew that no matter how many story’s she told, there would be thousands that would go untold, forgotten to both Ahsoka and time.

Ahsoka learned more stories from Luke and Leia too, about what Obi-Wan had been doing all those years, about the time that Leia meet the ghost crew, about Vader’s final moments, where he became Anakin again.

Ahsoka spent time with Luke and Leia, she cried with them as she told them sad stories, and laughed with them over silly things there dad did when he was younger. She grew attached to the Skywalker family once again.

As Ahsoka grew old, she stayed connected to the Skywalker family, she watched as Luke opened his Jedi academy, as Leia and Han got married, as they had there first kid a son named Ben, in honor of the man that had protected Luke on Tatooine for all those years, and protected there dad for years before that.

And eventually Ahsoka passed, a peaceful death in her sleep, after a long and meaningful life.

And when she joined the living force, the first thing she heard was:

“Hey Snips, I think it’s finally time to catch up.”

Ahhh!!! I hope you enjoyed this. I came close to tears so many times while writting this. I love the idea that Ahsoka meet and talked with the twins after everything. Cause I think they deserve to get to know their dad from someone who also cared about him even though he did bad things. I just love the idea and it was just so much fun to be able to write. Also did you catch that siege of mandalore reference at the end? I thought that would be a fitting way to end this story. Again I hope you enjoyed!

#star wars #post rotj #ahsoka tano #luke skywalker #leia organa #captain rex #anakin skywalker #fanfic #obi-wan kenobi #ben kenobi #ben solo #ahsoka meets leia #ahsoka meets luke #siege of mandalore #i'm sad now #snips #snips and skyguy

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twilightofthe · 5 years ago

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Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, annnnnnnd Luke Skywalker

Probs gonna be a long post since I Cannot Shut Up, so here we go!

OBI WAN (see look I told you this was gonna be long)

How I feel about them: HELLO HI YES I LOVE HIM A NORMAL AMOUNT. Okay okay, besides the fact that he is Very Nice To Look At (c’mon, I must, I have EYES), I genuinely love Obi Wan because he wants to be a good person so, so badly, and he’s always ALWAYS trying to be better because he doesn’t believe he already is a good person. His life is a literal living hellhole and he doesn’t crumple under all of that tragedy like literally everyone else does, he takes a moment, puts a cheeky smile back on his face, and gets back up and keeps going. He can be a hypocrite, he tends to look over things he really shouldn’t or gets the wrong idea about things and just shuts off what he doesn’t want to deal with, he’s overconfident and a little snobby and petty and a bit of an asshole, and he makes mistakes because he is human, and I love him for all of those flaws because if he was perfect, I wouldn’t like him as much. He’s funny and reckless and would literally die before letting anything he cared about get hurt, he wants to do everything at once so he can help everyone and he literally gives all of himself to a cause because he cares and y’all, he is the most distinguished disaster I have ever come across and he deserves peace and rest and loved ones who don’t die in his arms or betray him and he’s one of the most brilliant fighters I have ever seen and he just draws you in. You can’t help but want to watch him.

Romantic ships: I will love him and Anakin together past my dying breaths; they’re soulmates. I can also enjoy seeing him with Quinlan or Ventress, and of course Satine.

Non-Romantic OTPs: Anakin again, I just love them and will take them any way I can get. Also Cody, Cody is great. And Ahsoka-- especially post-Order 66 (c’mon Kenobi movie don’t let me down now). And Padmé! Ugh, I’m mad TCW refused to let us see the Obi/Pads friendship the movies promised us they had.

Unpopular Opinion: Two big ones. First, that Anakin is the most important person in his life. I can’t see it any other way, and I know other people would disagree. Second, that he’s a good person and ALSO kinda a jerk. He’s one of the most popular figures in this fandom with the most mercurial fanbase. I’d say a good 85% adore him, but then the 15% who don’t hate him with a burning passion. Seriously, it’s like to these people Palpatine was a better Master to Anakin than he was, jeez-- I’m digressing. Anyway, it’s like in retaliation, the other 85% have put him up on a pedestal as someone who’s done no wrong whatsoever. And here I am in the middle like, I love him to hell and back and always will, he’s legit one of my favorite characters, but he isn’t perfect. Like I said, it’s hard for me to like perfect characters with no flaws. So yea, I guess that’s it.

Something I wish would happen/had happened with them in canon: MORE OBIKIN MOMENTS BECAUSE I’M NEEDY. Ok but in reality, there’s a couple things, most I’m discovering have to do with female characters. I wish he hadn’t faked his death when Ahsoka was there. I get why Anakin had to be there to witness it, otherwise he wouldn’t believe it, but Obes, my dude, there was no reason why you had to (further) traumatize a sixteen year old over this. She really did not need to have you die in her arms, you of all people know how shitty that feels. I also want to know why he didn’t speak up (or if he did and we didn’t see it) at Ahsoka’s trial. Was he being punished for Mandalore? Going off of that, I wish we actually got to see him mourn Satine for more than 0.5 seconds of him looking sad after she died and then it literally never being brought up again (I’m looking at you here, Season 7, give me SOMETHING). I’d also like to see him having some sort of meaningful interaction with Leia that would make her naming her only child after him make more sense (I actually have a really good penpals style idea about this, but I don’t know if I’d be able to write it before the Kenobi show comes out and josses it). Also, I heard that the original Twin Suns episode of Rebels was supposed to have Kanan going to Tatooine with Ezra, and I really would like to see a Kanan/Obi Wan interaction, it just sounds like so much potential for angsty goodness!!! ;_;

AHSOKA

How I feel about them: My brave, brave girl! She was what got me into the prequels in general, if you can believe it (wow, my star wars watching order is just WEIRD), I had to know more about her after seeing literally one glimpse of her in Rebels and then saw the Tumblr fandom explode. She’s enduring and snarky and clever and a total badass and I adore how we got to see her grow from a spunky little kid into a shining, confident young woman who I’d follow anywhere. Anyway, I love her and god did she deserve so much BETTER FROM EVERYTHING. HER LIFE SUCKED TOO AND SHE TOLD LIFE TO FUCK OFF AND KEPT GOING.

Romantic ships: I adore her and Kaeden Larte from the Ahsoka novel and you can pry my headcanon that they’re still together up to the Sequel trilogy out of my cold dead hands. Also Barriss Offee (WHY DO ALL MY STAR WARS SHIPS HAVE A PATTERN? CAN WE NOT BE BETRAYING EACH OTHER FOR FIVE SECONDS PLEASE). Also Riyo Chuchi, that was really cute!!!

Non-Romantic OTP’s: Snips n’ Skyguy all the way!!!! But also argh, I adore Ahsoka and Rex and everything about them and Season 7 is going to KILL ME. I also love seeing Ahsoka and Padmé interact, and I really do like the little bits we see of her and Obi Wan and I want MORE of them >:(

Unpopular Opinion: This is gonna sound weird since I just said that seeing Ahsoka in Rebels was what got me into TCW and the prequels, but I really didn’t like her characterization in Rebels all that much after I went back and saw her in TCW. I know she grew up and was traumatized and matured, but Rebels!Ahsoka just seemed a bit too severe, a bit too peaceful (she’s always been a firebrand), a bit too quiet. Yea she grew, but I feel like the environment she grew up in wouldn’t foster the personality change she got in Rebels. She was a bit of a hot mess in TCW, and the Ahsoka novel kinda showed more of that personality in an older version of her and felt more right than what we got in Rebels.

Something I wish would happen/had happened with them in canon: A GROUP HUG WITH ANAKIN AND OBI WAN IN SEASON 7, PREFERABLY HER PICKING THEM BOTH UP LEGEND OF KORRA STYLE. Ok but really there’s a LOT of things. First, that she never liked Lux Bonteri. I’m sorry, I’m petty. He just reminds me way too much of my IRL friend’s stupidass boyfriend who I Do Not Like and I never got what Ahsoka actually saw in him ;p Second is that I did not like how Ezra saved her in Rebels. It’s a grumpy point for me because I certainly like how she managed to outlive the entire Order that kicked her out, it’s poetic, and if they did have Vader kill her I’d still be grumpy because it would be just another Prequel era woman who got killed off because she wasn’t in the OT while the males all find some way to be alive despite not being in the OT. HOWEVER, you will never convince me that Kanan wasn’t the one who deserved that time-travel fixit. Kanan had a family-- a CHILD, who he left behind. Kanan had a future, and a story point that was just left unfinished and unsatisfying for me and other fans, if what I’ve heard was right. As much as it would annoy me, Ahsoka dying facing Vader makes sense from a narrative point because it would follow the path that Vader destroys everyone he ever loved until he meets Luke. Kanan’s death felt sudden and forced, and the fact that they had the audacity to use his death to be like “oh no Kanan had to die and become a Spirit Wolf solely to tell Ezra he needed to bring AHSOKA back”, come on. Rebels didn’t establish Ahsoka and Kanan having any sort of meaningful relationship, it makes no sense for that to be his final wish, so it just feels a LOT like favoritism on Filoni’s part. So yea, I don’t know what I wanted to save Ahsoka because I did want her alive, but it definitely shouldn’t have been at the expense of Kanan. Meh. Ok, but on a happier note, I really wanna see Anakin’s ghost on Endor reuniting with her again cuz that would be sweet and make me cry. I also wanna see Ahsoka interacting with Obi Wan on Tatooine in the new show because please it would be perfect, she’s already met Leia, now she can meet Luke! Also, if we could actually see her find Ezra, that would be very nice, thank you.

LUKE

How I feel about this character: Luke Skywalker is one of the bravest, most kindest men in the galaxy. He’s not the stereotypical macho hero, he’s goofy and he whines and sulks and he makes dumb jokes and he rushes right into things, but he’s determined as all hell and once he loves you, he’s never letting go. He wants to fix everything! He has so many ideas! He’s so bright and you can’t help but fall in love with his smile and his sparkling eyes and you want all his dreams and plans (because he has so, so many of them) to come true, and he will make them come true, because he is stubborn like both of his parents before him. He worked through the discovery of his beloved father being a monster, and not only did he love him despite that, he did the unthinkable and BROUGHT HIM BACK. LUKE BROUGHT ANAKIN HOME BECAUSE HE LOVED AND BELIEVED IN HIM AND HE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO DO IT. I just wish he had gotten the happy ending his parents never did (and that he had had for 40 years before it was ripped away whoops I got salt on this haha).

Romantic ships: Complicated. I think he would be really cute with Ezra if they ever actually met; their personalities would mesh nicely and I think they’d make a great team! However, I don’t really ship him with anyone else, and me the ace again is projecting major aro/ace vibes onto him because I can *blows raspberry*

Non-Romantic OTP: BROT3 WITH HAN AND LEIA!!!! FOREVER AND ALWAYS!!!!!!!! Y’all but they literally saved the galaxy together, and Luke and Leia love each other so much they knew there was a connection from the very beginning and always supported each other and the BEST space siblings, argh that forehead kiss was my favorite part of The Last Jedi I cry but I also love the chaotic dumbass duo that is Han and Luke and how they’d legit die for each other and have each others’ backs. And, Luke and R2 will always always make my heart melt because these guys are the best team! And Chewie, cannot forget Chewie, Chewie loves his stupid blonde little brother. Ya know what, I’ll also add in Rey for the pure potentiality of what could have been.

Unpopular Opinion: Well it’s certainly not unpopular to anyone I talk to, but Lucasfilms disagrees with me, so I’m gonna put forth that I don’t care WHAT the explanation is, I could never ever ever see Luke even thinking about murdering his nephew in his sleep, not just a “slip up”, not “only for a second”, no. Yes, people can change in thirty years, and I’ve begrudgingly accepted a lot of his actions in TLJ, but not that one. Luke would NEVER. A more unpopular one I have would be that he’s not as much of a “innocent cinnamon roll” as fandom makes him out to be. We see from the beginning of Episode 4 that Luke has the Skywalker temper and he’s a bit on the rude side, even though to me that seems a little more like issues with a filter that he works on developing throughout the OT. But yeah, people tend to declaw him a bit and forget this is the same sarcastic, snarky guy that can and will happily kick the ass of basically anyone who he can’t talk his way out of trouble with (in this, he is very much Obi Wan’s apprentice).

Something I wish would happen/had happened with them in canon: LET HIM APPEAR TO REY WITH ANAKIN’S FORCE GHOST 2K19!!! PLEASE JJ I BEG YOU YOU LITERALLY NAMED THE MOVIE AFTER THEM. Also, please just let him take an active role in Episode 9. I understand it’s about the new protagonists, but please do not include the Sequel Trilogy in the “Skywalker Saga” if you’re just gonna sideline him the entire time. If he couldn’t have his original happy ending, please let him be happy at the end of all of this.

#i’m proud of myself i could have added a LOT more sequel salt in Luke’s section than i did you’re welcome #i also will go off completely unprompted over the IRL friend’s stupidass boyfriend and almost did #so be very thankful i showed restraint xD #our only ho #snip snap #twin sun

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mistical52 · 7 years ago

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Star Wars Fanfic

Part of a series of time travel oneshots (Time Force Continuum)

Summary: A rebel loth-cat and a snippy padawan swap places. Only one of them didn’t exactly go to the right spot.

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Everything was way too bright. Sunshine streamed through the tent, glaring at Ezra through the gap in the material door. The boy was about to roll over and go back to sleep, only he didn’t remember going to sleep in a tent. He could have sworn that he laid down in his bunk with Zeb snoring below. Edging up Ezra fingered his lightsaber as he felt out around him. There were a lot of people outside the tent, bustling around and yelling commands. It sounded like the rebel base, only slightly different. Suddenly Ezra’s senses touched a blinding light in the force. The boy instantly recalled his presence and hid himself under layers of shielding, hiding as best as he could. Despite the fact that the light was so easy and warm Ezra was so used to hiding from anything remotely force sensitive and he wasn’t about to let go of the habit that had kept him alive for so long. Ezra stiffened and stood up, the presence was coming towards him, karabast! Unhooking his lightsaber Ezra scanned for an exit, though theoretically the whole structure was an exit, it was just material and he could easily cut through it with a single swipe of his sabre. Unfortunately downing a tent in a populated camp would surely be noticed. Ezra saw the shadow of a looming being and for a second he though he heard a cold harsh hiss of Vader’s respirator.

The tall man tore back the floppy excuse for a door and stared with wide eyes at Ezra for the briefest moment before his surprisingly young face morphed into a dark scowl. “Where is Ahsoka?” The man asked. Everything about this guy screamed ‘do not mess with’ from his posture to his voice, even his force presence. “Who?” “Don’t play games with me. One moment Ahsoka was here and the next she’s gone and you’re in her place. Who are you and what have you done with my padawan?!” The man growled stalking a step closer to Ezra. The man did look familiar, Ezra knew he’d seen him before but he couldn’t recall where. “Anakin!” Another voice snapped, “He’s just a boy!” The other voice said as the man with a well-trimmed beard came into view. “This boy is where Ahsoka should be!” Exclaimed the taller man gesturing roughly to Ezra. “Master Skywalker?” Ezra asked finally recognizing the man. Ezra only vaguely noticed how Anakin’s head snapped towards the rebel. “And Master Kenobi?” Ezra felt weak in the knees, he was so glad that it wasn’t an enemy. The rebel sat back heavily in the bed and ran his hand over his recently cut hair, “I must be having a dream. Or a vision, like the one of Yoda. And you’re alive! Well, of course you’re alive.” Started Ezra gesturing loosely to Obi-wan, “You sent out the message. But Master Skywalker, I thought you were dead. Everyone thinks you dead. Ahsoka thought you were dead.” The last part was quiet. He couldn’t, Ahsoka, the loss was still too fresh.

Ezra’s mind quickly switched gears and he jumped up with a smile on his face, “Kanan will be so happy to know that you’re alive! Maybe you can help him. He, hasn’t been much of himself lately … Though I’m sure with other Jedi around he’ll feel a whole lot better. I try my best but there’s not a lot I can do.” Ezra gave another excited jump and continued, not actually paying attention to the confused looks the two Jedi shared, “And the Rebellion! If you two helped I know we could turn the tides! We’d finally be able to defeat the Empire and bring back peace!”

~~~

Everything was way too dark. The black depth was dotted with the occasional red specks that, to Ahsoka, indicated a storage facility. The low rumbling of the engines tried to lull her back to sleep. But the cold darkness, more than just the inky shadows around her, squeezed at her heart and yanked at her force senses. It was like the stain of Dooku, only worse, much, much worse and way too close for her liking. The whole ship reeked of the Dark side. In fact, Ahsoka’s breath hitched, whoever the fiery darkness belonged to was still on board. She hastily clamped down on her presence, hushing it till it was hopefully dull enough to seem like just another crew member. Slipping off the crates she had been sleeping on Ahsoka tried to get her bearings. At the present she had no idea where she was. Last time the Togruta checked she had dropped down onto her bed in the 501st and the 212th’s campsite. Someone would have woken her if they had to move and they certainly wouldn’t have dumped her in a storage hanger if they couldn’t. Ahsoka snuck around and scouted out the area. Judging by the hum of the engines they were probably in hyperspace, and on a rather large ship. Though the last judgment partially came from the sheer size of the storage hanger. It was huge, the ship was at least the size of a Republic Cruiser. Skulking around the larger crates and the tall shelves Ahsoka found out where the door was, and the fact that there was only one door. There were also a couple of vents she could get into if she climbed the shelves and had a force assisted jump. But Ahsoka would rather not climb into the vents unless she had to. She didn’t know this ship and if it was a big as she though it was then it was likely she’d get lost. The Togruta reached out subtly, as to not draw the attention of the darksider beast, and tried to grab her master’s attention. Ahsoka couldn’t feel him. She couldn’t feel the vast light that was her master, all she could feel was the dark burning that drenched the ship in the colder side of the force. The padawan tried Obi-wan as well but the darkness stifled the bond to her grandmaster. Frustration and a hint of fear bubbled up but Ahsoka quickly let them out with her next breath.

Suddenly the room felt much colder as the only doors hissed open. Ahsoka hid, jumping silently behind a stack of crates and stifling her breath. Harsh light spilled into the inky depths of the hanger. The force was so cold yet at the same time that burning darkness was horrifically close. The Jedi learner dimmed her force presence to nothing as the hiss of a respirator echoed on the walls. “I know you’re in here. Come out.” A deep baritone voice hung in the air. He was, nothing was supposed to be this cold, nothing should be this dark. Oh sweet force what had she walked into? Ahsoka clenched her teeth and tried ease down her nerves. The darksider, Sith, he was definitely a Sith what else could hold that much darkness? Wasn’t alone, there were other beings outside the blast doors, probably waiting in case she tried to run. The shadows were weighing down on her, trying to drown her. She had to get out.

Ahsoka smoothly ran and leapt, latching onto one of the towering shelves before scaling it silently with ease. Using the force she wrenched open a vent and launched herself up towards it, the force boosting her movements. As Ahsoka jumped something tugged at her ankle, pulling her off balance and forcing her to dive back down to the floor. The all-powerful essence cushioned her improvised landing. Rolling to keep her momentum the Togruta whipped out her sabres, igniting them and stood battle ready. Ahsoka didn’t know how long she’d last but if she was going to go out, it was going to be fighting.

~~~

“The Empire?” Obi-wan asked while his former padawan took an entirely different route. “Ahsoka thinks I’m dead?” “Yeah, you’ve been missing for” Ezra quickly counted, “sixteen years.” Anakin gawked, “That’s not possible.” “Anakin’s right, he hadn’t even joined the order then. I believe you have us confused with another pair.” Ezra shook his head, what where they getting at? “The Negotiator and the Hero with No Fear right? Rex and Cody are your commanding troopers and Ahsoka was Master Skywalker’s padawan.” There was only a small beat of silence as a light scowl crept across Anakin’s face. “What do you mean was?” “Don’t you remember, she, left the order.” Now Ezra was confused, why didn’t Master Skywalker remember something so important? Before the taller man could cry out his disbelief the tent flap was opened and Rex slipped in. Ezra flinched at the white armour and his fingers twitched towards his sabre. “I’m sorry Generals but we’ve got a schedule to keep, you can’t just keep talking to the Commander all day.” The Clone only had eyes for Anakin and Obi-wan before he turned to Ezra. The only outward sign of Rex’s surprise was how he stiffened ever so slightly. “Rex?” Ezra started joy radiating from his as he recognising the clone’s markings, “What are you doing here? Why didn’t you tell us these two were alive?!” The Rebel stepped towards the Clone feeling more at ease with a familiar person.

“I’m sorry kid but who are you?” Rex asked, he didn’t expect to be recognised by a Jedi outside of the handful he knew. The kid was probably a learner still, but that still begged the question, where was Commander Tano? “It’s me Ezra Bridger. Don’t tell me you ran into a pipe again.” The boy said with a smirk, like he knew him. Rex bristled, he ran into a pipe that one time and everyone gossips about that embarrassing moment? “Look kid, sir I have never met you before.” Rex responded honestly, choosing to not even acknowledge the pipe comment. The orange cladded kid folded his arms with a playful smile, “Yeah right. Still Rex you should have told Hera or Kanan that you knew some other Jedi.” Rex sighed, he didn’t know what was going on but he was curtain that it was Jedi business. The Captain pulled off his helmet and looked the kid in the eyes, “K-Sir I have never met you before.” In an instant the boy jumped back and ignited his lightsaber. Staring straight at Rex he opened his mouth, “Who are you?!” Every instinct Rex had was screaming at him to defend himself but he pushed past that as he heard the hiss of General Skywalker’s sabre, “You said it before kid, I’m Captain Rex of the Five’o-First.” Rex said calmly holding his free hand up, “I may know your name now sir, but I still don’t know who you are. So would you like to tell us how you seem to know me?”

“You’re not Rex. You’re not the Rex I know. But, he, he was the Captain of the Five’o-First and he was friends with Ahsoka. And he knew and worked under Master Skywalker.” Ezra’s head was spinning, what in the name of the force was going on?! “He also told good stories about his brother Cody and Master Kenobi, and the battles of the Clone Wars.” Ezra took in a shaky breath as Anakin slid in front of Rex, keeping his Captain safely behind him. “You, you sound like him, you talk like him, in the force you feel like him, you have the Jaig eyes on your helmet in the same colour. It’s the same kriffing helmet too. You just don’t look like him.” Ezra deactivated his lightsaber and tried to take in calming breaths, he was panicking and he knew it. Something just didn’t feel right, something just felt wrong. “This isn’t a dream is it.” Ezra whispered.

His General noticed that the kid was panicking and lowered his weapon slightly and once the boy switched his off so did Skywalker. Rex’s General slowly edged closer to the boy clearly not sure what to do. Captain Rex on the other hand slipped right by General Skywalker and gently grabbed the boy, Ezra’s shoulder. “Hey kid it’s alright, no one’s gonna hurt you. Here just sit down.” Rex started gently pushing the teen down onto the bed. He’d dealt with some of his brothers having a panic attack, it wasn’t often but sometimes the war got to them. “General can you get Ezra some drinking water?” “Sure.” Responded Anakin putting his long legs to work and hurried out of the tent.

~~~

“Guard the door and monitor the vents. Make sure she can’t escape.” Commanded the thundering voice. The men in white scrambled to obey the Sith’s commands. The men weren’t vod, the armour was wrong it looked flimsy and too clean. Imposter’s then, they were probably planning an attack from behind. Ahsoka had to stop them! That was, if she could get past the looming monster of darkness. The door closed behind the last of the Clone imposters as they hurried about their duties. As soon as the door shut the bay was plunged back into darkness with the only light being the small cargo lights, Ahsoka’s sabres and the Sith’s life support suit. A ghastly breath was drawn in by darksider, “Ahsoka?” Her name was drawn out in that deep voice and it sent a spike of fear down her spine. How did he know her name?! “That’s my name, don’t wear it out.” The snippy padawan snapped, her bravo squashing some of her fear. Ahsoka was about to turn off her lightsabers and use the cover of darkness to hide but the hangers lights suddenly clicked on. The Togruta winced and closed her eyes against the blinding lights then she realised that she was open to attack. Ahsoka jumped back using the force to boost her and guide her. But the padawan nether heard the hiss of a sabre nor felt the danger of an attack. When Ahsoka could open her eyes she found the Sith exactly where he was before, having never moved an inch. He had the perfect opportunity to attack, why didn’t he? Was he waiting for it to be a fair match? Because if he was then he’d have to wait several more years before she would probably even prove a decent opponent. Unless this guy had a low lightsaber aptitude? Ahsoka doubted it. The pawawan shot destress and determination across the bond to her master, hoping that he would figure out she was in trouble. The man, if he could even be called that seemed to stiffen ever so slightly. Did she broadcast her emotions aloud? If so why did he stiffen instead of attacking? And why was he just standing there?

After a cold moment the Sith started to move forward and Tano tensed. The Sith seemed to hesitate then stepped back to where he was. “Ahsoka, what are you doing here?” She’d like to know that herself, “Wouldn’t you like to know, Sith.”

Ahsoka was getting desperate, she didn’t know what this Sith was doing or what his motives were. He hadn’t even tried to kill her and yet he had a ship full of fake vod. Ahsoka knew that whatever his plan was she wouldn’t like it. She needed to contact her master, she needed to warn him about the danger. Ahsoka doubted that she would live through this so she had to make sure that someone knew. The Togruta grabbed the force and pushed past the cold, latching onto the training bond and following it to her master. Skyguy’s end was a bit rough around the edges, which was weird, but it was still there. Ahsoka was so relieved when she found it, and he was so close. Master, there’s another Sith and they’re- But Ahsoka cut herself off when she reached the end and only found that dark burning in the spot where Anakin Skywalker should be. Ahsoka snapped out of the force the world sharply coming into focuses around her. The Togruta barely registered it when she dropped her sabres. The Sith stepped forward arms outstretches as if to steady the teen but he thought better of it and stayed where he was. The fiery darkness was all around her and the padawan hugged herself, as if to shield herself from it. Ahsoka slowly looked up to the Sith with sad pleading eyes, “Master?” It was little more than a croaky whisper. The man didn’t say anything but his silence was conformation enough. Before Ahsoka stood her master, Anakin Skywalker a Sith.

~~~

It wasn’t long before General Skywalker returned with a canteen of water and by then Rex and General Kenobi had managed to calm down the kid a little. “I’m sorry. I realised that I’m not where I’m supposed to be.” Ezra said before taking a drink from the canteen. “That’s an understatement.” Skywalker said folding his arms and raising an eyebrow. “Ezra who is your master?” The older general asked. “Kanan, Kanan Jarrus.” Came Ezra’s instant response. Rex recognised the name, the kid had said it before when he said that Rex should have told him about other Jedi. What did he mean by other Jedi? “You might know him better as Caleb Dume?” Ezra added with a question in his tone. The two Jedi shared a glance, “Do you know him?” General Skywalker asked Obi-wan. Kenobi toyed with his beard, “Yes I know a being in the Temple by that name. Although he is thirteen.” “Thirteen, as in years?” Anakin asked with doubt that could be seen even several klicks away. “That’s the only person. He’s only an initiate.” Informed General Kenobi.

Ezra chocked on the water he was drinking, “Kanan’s thirteen?” He spluttered. “I wonder what he looks like without his beard?” “If he’s anything like Obi-wan then he’ll look baby faced.” Suggested Anakin with a humorous tone. “Considering he’s younger than me I’d bet.” “If you don’t mind how old are you kid?” Rex asked trying to be polite. “Older than you.” Ezra said with a playful yet snide smirk, “I’m sixteen.” “If you’re anything like Anakin then I pity your master.” Obi-wan said somewhat mimicking Anakin’s earlier joke. “Hey,” Master Skywalker protected as Kenobi smirked. Rex spoke up, “In my book-” “Experience outranks everything. I know.” Ezra said with an eye roll. He knew Rex’s motto. Both Jedi and Rex looked genuinely surprised. “I’ve worked with the old man a couple of times.” Ezra said with an easy shrug. “Old man?” Rex asked looking half insulted. “Yeah well where, when I come from you have this bushy white beard” Started Ezra gesturing around his own jaw, “and a shaved head with a-” The Rebel froze. He didn’t have the scar. Rex didn’t have the scar from when his chip was removed. Ezra grabbed Rex’s head and twisted it from side to side looking for the scar.

“Karabast!” Ezra cried standing up and letting go of poor Rex’s head, quickly turning to the Jedi, “You have to get it out.” “What?” Asked Master Skywalker. “The chip, you have to get the chip out!” Ezra said starting to get frantic. He didn’t know when the order was activated, for all he knew it could be tomorrow. He couldn’t just let them all die. He couldn’t let Rex and his friends suffer. “Ezra calm down, what chip?” Master Kenobi inquired gently. “The chip. All the clones have chips inside their heads. You have to get them out now!” Rex looked alarmed and Anakin was scowling. “Why do we need to remove them with such haste young one?” Kenobi asked somehow managing to remain neutral. “Because otherwise the Clones will kill the Jedi.” Ezra blurted. A hand sharply took his shoulder and spun him around. “What?” Started Rex, “My brothers and I would never do such a thing. How dare you even-” “Not you the chips! The chips make you and your brothers little more than droids.” Explained Ezra. “And, how would you, know that.” Questioned Rex as he jabbed the Rebel’s chest. “Because Kanan told me. Because you told me, because Ahsoka told me. Because Wolfie and Gregor told me! Because you all watched as it happened.” Ezra cried waving his arms the feelings for those he cared about ringing clear in his voice and through the force. The tent was silent, the only thing that stirred was the breezes that brushed against the material structure.

“You, Gregor and Wolfie removed your chips before the order. But you didn’t manage to convince anyone else.” Bridger started quietly. “What happened to the rest of my brothers?” Came a near whisper from the Captain. “Some died fighting the Jedi, but it was mostly the Jedi who were whipped out. Others stayed in the army and served the Empire. I’m sorry but I don’t know what else happened. I’ve only been told bits from, well mostly you and Kanan with a little from Ahsoka, Wolfie and Gregor.” “So Ahsoka’s fine?” Rex asked. “I.” Ezra couldn’t look at him, he couldn’t look at Master Skywalker or Master Kenobi so he stared at his feet as he shifted them. “She survived the extermination. But, she.” Ezra swallowed trying again and looked straight at Rex. “She died recently saving Kanan and I from a Sith.” The shock and cold emptiness jumped out through the force shaking Ezra’s core. Some of the emotions came from Rex and a little from Kenobi though most of them radiated from Skywalker. “No. She can’t be. She was here only a few minutes ago, how can she be dead?!” Rage and other dark emotions started crawling out from Master Skywalker, “Who killed her?” He snapped. Ezra tried to remain calm, this was to be expected, Anakin Skywalker was Ahsoka’s master after all. “A Sith named Darth Vader.” The Rebel answered. The anger died a little and Master Skywalker faltered, “I, I haven’t heard of a Sith by that name.” “He appeared around the start of the Empire. And he is not someone you want to mess with.” Ezra said as he shuddered. He never wanted to be near Vader again, if he could help it.

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Ahsoka took a step forward. “Master, that’s really you isn’t it.” Ahsoka quickly scooped up her lightsabers and kept gradually moving forward. “Master, where am I?” She asked tenderly. There was a pause for a moment before the huge man answered, “In hyperspace.” The Jedi padawan snorted, “I guessed that. But where are we?” Another pause, was he trying to be dramatic or did he actually need to think about it? “On my flag ship, the Devastator.” He finally replied. “And where are we going?” Ahsoka pressed. “That is none of your concern.” Her master responded. Ahsoka didn’t manage to resist the urge to roll her eyes even as she stepped closer to the dark presence. “Can you at least tell me why you’re, different?” Ahsoka said not being able to stomach the word, Sith. He seemed to carefully consider this question. “The galaxy is no longer the one you left it as. The Clone Wars has finished. It finished almost sixteen years ago.” Ahsoka froze as her stomach churned. Sixteen years, it had been at least sixteen years! “It can’t be. You’re lying.” The padawan tried but she could feel the truth in his words. “I will not lie to you Ahsoka.” Confessed the Sith. “The vod.” Ahsoka started grabbing at her chest, “What about my vod?” She asked as she looked at the dark man with wide imploring eyes. “No longer in service.” Informed her master in that cold voice that echoed throughout the hanger. Her look must have done something though because he master took a step forward gently, “The ones who survived retired.” He elaborated sounding a smidge less harsh. “Did. Did we win?” Ahsoka asked softly. “Yes.” The Togruta let out a small sigh, all of their work, all of the loss had not been for nothing. “Follow me.” The Sith, Ahsoka’s master instructed before turning and walking towards the door. “Do not bother trying to escape, we will be in hyperspace for several more days.” Ahsoka followed, “I could hide from you for longer than that.” The door opened and her master paused tilting his helmet towards her just a fraction. “Do you wish to test that theory?” Once again Ahsoka was reminded that Anakin, the beautiful bright light was now a burning darkness within the force. He was a Sith, she should stop thinking of him as her master.

The fake troopers raised their blasters at her when she exited. “Stand down.” Commanded Skywalker his voice booming through the volocator. “Return to your posts I will deal with the Togruta.” The impostors in white saluted then ran off to their duties.

The hall was quiet with the faint sound of footsteps in the distance. Ahsoka and her master were alone again. Her master, the Sith started moving again striding down the hall at an impressive speed for someone only walking. “What do I call you? Do you still go by Anakin Skywalker or do you go by something else?” The padawan asked not really wanting the answer. “Anakin Skywalker is dead.” Said the cold voice far too easily, “My title is Darth Vader.” A stiff breath entered Tano’s lungs. This was all one big mess. One impressive pile of poodoo. “What happened to you?” Ahsoka asked softly. For a second she thought her twisted master didn’t hear her, then the armoured man spun around so fast Ahsoka almost tripped backwards. “You left me.” Vader hissed. Ahsoka’s eyes widened, “What, I would never-” Started the padawan, but Darth Vader cut her off. “Padme betrayed me, Obi-wan burnt and maimed me!” The dark lord growled. “No” Ahsoka started to deny, “we would never-” She paused. The young Togruta felt his searing rage through the force. She had felt her master’s anger before but never like this. The padawan didn’t want to believe it, but between the force singing ‘truth’, the wrath behind his words and the sheer power of his fury that expanded though the force she couldn’t be ignorant any longer. The young Togruta set herself, setting her determination in a new goal. “Well I won’t leave you! Not this time.” Ahsoka ended softly. The man’s rage faltered, if only for a moment. “Say whatever you please youngling, it will make no difference.” Said the Sith with his diminished rage that faded every second. Her master spun on his heels before proceeding down the corridor.

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SW AU - Fate of the Master Chapter 11

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It took them about three and a half standard days to get to Alderaan. Everyone on the ship was on edge. Ahsoka had been in touch with Rex, Hera and Commander Sato, but no one had any updates on Bail. The only thing they knew was that the Empire had put into action a full scale invasion on each of the three worlds. The rebels were spread thin trying to help, and only on Chandrila had any of them broken through the blockade. She wasn't worried about blockades really, especially now that they had Anakin again. He'd always been the master of breaking them and now, he had insider information on imperial tactics.

The ghost crew had agreed to meet them when they got to Alderaan. Anakin had requested Kanan and Ezra's help. He was convinced that a group of Jedi appearing right about now was exactly what the galaxy needed to see. The three of them had taken turns training Luke during the trip and he was doing incredibly well. Ahsoka really wasn't sure she was ready to run into yet another war after everything she'd told Bail, but the Jedi order wasn't reformed yet and as far as she was concerned, rescuing might still be part of their jobs.

They came out of hyperspace into the middle of a fire fight. There was ships and lasers everywhere. They bobbed and weaved through the brunt of it, mostly ignored by those already in the fight. Anakin was back in his element; even Hera, a renowned pilot, had trouble keeping up with him. Ahsoka hoped this wouldn't be one of the times he crashed, but to her surprise he wasn't taking the same risks he used to. The ghost pulled up leading the ties that had caught sight of them into a circle and then paraded them right in front of their starfighter. Anakin hit all three on the first pass. The two ships then weaved through destroyers and rendezvoused on the edge of the battle where they were able to slip down to the surface.

The damage to the castle was pretty extensive, but it didn't seem to be crawling with storm troopers. There were too many tanks and walkers nearby to land safely nearby, so they hid themselves in the mountains.

Ahsoka noticed that Luke was gripping the back of the chair so hard his knuckles were turning white. "Are you okay?" She asked him.

He looked up at her, eyes wide. "I can see her, she's hurt real bad."

Ahsoka put her hand on his shoulder. "We'll find her. Don't worry." And then she led him into a quiet corner of the ship. "The Jedi always taught to not feel emotions, but that's impossible. You will always be feeling something. But when we're fighting to survive out there, we have to be focused. Feel the force, use it. Let it give you peace and clarity. If you can quiet your worry and your fear, you will be able to hear her. Do you think you can do that?" He nodded. "Good," she said. "Stay close to us."

Anakin landed the ship about five clicks away from the castle. Kanan and Ezra joined them there. Huddled together, they discussed strategy.

Anakin did not want them splitting up; they'd have better luck staying together. This wasn't a battle to win, this was a rescue mission. They were going to sneak through the lines, helping people as best they could, without drawing lots of attention on themselves. They found a small group of storm troopers and decided to use them as disguises. With Kanan, Ezra and Luke now dressed in imperial armor, they marched forward towards the castle.

Once in the castle though, they were forced to split up, there was too much ground to cover. Kanan and Ezra, still dressed as storm troopers had gone out to cause a diversion. Ahsoka and Luke had gone to find Leia. And Anakin and Obi wan went off in search of Bail and his wife, and any other survivors they could find.

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Luke led Ahsoka straight through the castle, purely on instinct, to where he'd seen Leia in the vision. The place was a disaster zone, so progress was slow. When they finally found her, she was trapped under some debris. Dried blood decorated her normally white dress, but she was alive and alert.

"My name's Luke," he said as him and Ahsoka started lifting the debris off her. "I'm here to rescue you!"

"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" Leia asked.

"What? Oh right." He said and removed the helmet. He helped Leia stand, she was weak and not very steady, so she had to lean on him in order to walk.

"Luke! Look out!" Ahsoka said force pushing him and his sister through a door and letting it close. An explosion rocked the place, and Luke protected Leia from more falling debris, eyeing the wall they'd just been pushed past to make sure it didn't fall on them.

"Are you okay?" He asked Leia, helping her up again after the dust cleared.

"Yeah," she said. "Just not very popular the last few days!" He smiled. He'd only just met her, of course, but he loved her already. He pushed on the door, but it didn't budge. They were in what was left of a bathroom, so there was no other way out. He pushed again, the door wiggled a little. Then he tried to use the force to open the door. He could hear some things scraping on the other side as if they were being pushed away, but the door still wasn't opening far enough for them to get out.

"What's that?" Leia asked, pointing to the weapon hanging from his belt.

"A lightsaber," Luke replied, trying again to force push stuff out from in front of the door. Leia grabbed it and ignited it, causing Luke to step back so it didn't hit him. And then she shoved it in the door and started cutting a hole with it.

"Well I was right," she said while she worked on the door, "you're definitely not a stormtrooper."

"I'm a Jedi. Well... I'm training to be one." Luke said sheepishly as he watched her work.

"Well... keep training." She said sassily.

They both pushed the cut part out when she finished and climbed through. She handed the lightsaber back to him as he caught her arm around his shoulders to steady her. "Maybe you should hold onto that for now."

"Naw," she replied tiredly, "but find me a blaster, and I'll help." They stumbled through the debris, but they didn't see Ahsoka anywhere. She couldn't have gotten that far. Then he heard something move under several layers of broken debris.

"Dad!!" Luke yelled.

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Anakin felt his son's yell more than he heard it. He took off running in that direction, Obi wan right on his heels. He'd heard the explosion, but he didn't think any of them had been near it. But now, that's exactly where he was racing to. He skidded around the corner to find Luke desperately trying to dig through some wreckage. A pretty teenage girl sitting to the side trying to help him. But no sign of Ahsoka. Then he heard the reason why they were digging.

"Step back," he said. Luke and Leia both looked up at him in surprise, but obeyed. Him and Obi wan used the force to move several layers of junk. Revealing Ahsoka who'd been trapped under a fallen wall. She was badly hurt. One leg was sticking out at a weird angle, she had blood down the side of her face, and there was shrapnel sticking out of her side. "Luke, help your sister to the ship. I'll be right behind you. Be careful." His son nodded at him and again helped Leia up.

"Will she be okay?" Luke asked fearfully.

"Yes," Anakin breathed, hoping he was telling the truth.

"I'll go see if I can find Bail and Breha," Obi wan said leaving Anakin alone with Ahsoka.

"Ahsoka," Anakin whispered. She stirred a little and opened her eyes. "Ahsoka, I need to get you to the ship, but I have to move you. It's going to hurt a lot! You need medical care."

She smiled wistfully at him, "the only thing I need is your love."

"Love won't save you," he said choking up. He'd said the same thing to Padmé before she'd died.

"You're wrong, Anakin..." she said reaching up to touch his lips with her fingertips. He kissed them as they brushed by. "It's the only thing that ever has..." she swallowed as blood dribbled out of the corner of her mouth. "It saved you, too."

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"It's the princess!" Someone in the gathering crowd, yelled. Luke was supporting Leia as she limped down the street. He had one arm around her back and in his other, the lit blue lightsaber that had belonged to his father. She was holding a blaster with the hand that wasn't thrown around his shoulders, but he'd told her to switch it to stun.

When they'd left the castle to head back to the ship as their father had instructed, he thought they needed to sneak away. But then he'd seen Anakin behind him, carrying Ahsoka in his arms; tall, strong, confident and radiating power. And suddenly Luke had felt calm, like he knew just what to do. And he had diverted his course to the main road.

"The Jedi saved her!" Someone else cried.

"Look! It's the queen too!" The crowd started cheering, as Obi wan fell in step not far behind Anakin. Walking between him and Bail, was Breha. Behind them were a few servants and some other survivors. Kanan and Ezra caught up with them as they too caused whispers to erupt through the crowd. They were wearing storm trooper armor, but had the helmets off. And their lightsabers were still lit as they deflected stray blaster bolts.

"I thought the Jedi were dead!" Came a voice to their right.

Luke paraded them down the street daring the imperials to fire on them. They seemed to hesitate at first, but then did open fire. As Kanan, Ezra, Obi wan and Luke deflected bolts away from the royal family, Luke yelled behind them not to kill. As they continued to march, they sliced weapons in half and acted only as a protective unit.

"They rescued the royal family." Another onlooker spoke.

The crowd of people had been so happy to see the royal family alive that they'd jumped into the fray. Pretty soon, the imperials were overwhelmed as more and more people rose up to resist.

"It's not the Jedi that are the enemy, it's the empire!" Citizens on all sides were now knocking down storm troopers.

The group of Jedi were allowed to pass without further incident.

Luke led them back to the ship where they took off and headed to the medical base on the far side of the city.

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Bail was looking around him at all the people gathered there. He was proud of his people. The ones that stood up to the empire. The ones that seemed to realize that the Jedi had not been the enemy after all. He was despairing for all the lives lost on his home planet and the others. But to see the people rise up gave him hope. Perhaps after all this time, the tide could finally turn.

He was sitting next to the bed where Leia slept. She had a few major injuries, but thankfully nothing life threatening. Breha and him had been far enough from the first blast that they'd been able to rush as many people as they could find into a shelter. The following blasts had buried the shelter entrance and they'd been trapped. But he hadn't been able to get to Leia. For the four days they were trapped down there he had no idea if she was okay or even alive. It had been the hardest few days of his life.

Then to see Obi wan smiling down at them from the entrance of the shelter, it had been a miracle. His old friend in many ways represented a symbol of hope and light. But now that everyone's wounds had been tended to and stabilized, came the harder task of diplomacy. Secrets long kept had completely unraveled, and the truth reared its painful head. Anakin now knew about both his children. And the empire now knew that Obi wan and other Jedi were still alive. Marching through the street like that had been a bold move. But perhaps... that was exactly what had been needed. If other systems began to see the Jedi as a symbol of good again, they'd rally to help defeat the empire. Ahsoka had been clear that the Jedi, if restored, should not be pulled into another war. But maybe if they were seen rescuing and providing relief rather than fighting or leading battles, it would still provide the advantage they needed.

Bail's thoughts wandered to the boy. In such a short amount of time he had showed incredible proficiency with both a lightsaber and the force. He imagined if given the opportunity Leia would demonstrate the same ability. But Luke was nothing like what he'd always pictured. He always imagined he'd be a miniature version of his father. Which, as terrible as it was to admit it, was the main reason he'd volunteered to adopt the girl. In dramatic irony, his plan had backfired, if either of them was more like Anakin, it was Leia. But now that he was finally getting to know Anakin, maybe that wasn't such a bad thing.

Anakin had been known for being a true symbol of good. He had constantly won battles many believed to be lost causes. His reputation as a general had been legendary, even amongst the separatists. He was notorious for losing ships, but otherwise had one of the lowest casualty rates of any of the generals. He was brilliant, if not reckless. He could see why Padmé would find him attractive and interesting. And clearly every one that had been close to him, had loved him deeply.

But as he was finally starting to understand, Anakin had had so much baggage and emotional instability, he'd been like an armed bomb just waiting to explode. The Anakin that Bail was getting to know now, was quite a bit different. He was still powerful and dangerous, but he was calmer and more thoughtful. And he was now burdened with the difficult task of atonement. Both with those he'd hurt and himself. Bail did not envy him. Everyone around him seemed to be willing to give him a second chance, and he supposed, he deserved it. He may have made some terrible choices that led him down such a dark and lonely path, but to her last breath, Padmé had believed there was still good in him. He was sorry that she couldn't be here to see that she'd been right. But it was only fair to her memory, to try and help him in any way he could. Whatever happened from here on out, they were all in this together.

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