#eldritch Anakin skywalker

[constellation-skirmishes]

s t a r b o r n

[aj-artjunkyard]

Want so badly for any full-potential Anakins to be the same size as Vader, if not bigger.

Obsessed with the idea that he just keeps growing, that by the time he’s in his late twenties he’s over seven foot tall.

Full-potential Anakin being the size of the Mortis gods and having the same distinct aura of other, so much so that they have to scratch out the ‘human’ in his med-file (they were never fully sure of that one anyways)

[singswan-springswan]

I see your haunted Coruscant and I raise you: tired dad Anakin (eldritch) explaining to exasperated wife Padmé (unhinged chaos magnet masquerading as a complacent mother) that no, he's not worried about their children whom they've neither seen nor heard from in minutes? Months? Days, Anakin, because the Force loves them so dearly and anyway they are ancient beings (five years old) full of wanderlust and memory and anyway kids need their adventures don't they? Besides he knows where to find them should the need arise. He's never seen their hideout (core of the planet) but if he followed the dark into the ground and asked the locals who haven't seen the sun what stalks the streets when it's quiet, and if he followed the sound of laughter from a place he cannot name and shadows shift when he slips between breathless forgotten avenues and buildings soar where there is no sky and the shadows move, the shadows are not alive but stay away from death, if he followed the taste of decomposed memories he's sure he could reach out to the space where touch has no feel and he would find his children there, drifting like songbirds on a whisper of unlit sun, pouring from one lonely abandoned rusted over coruscanti skeleton to the next. And he's sure pretty sure he could bring them home in time for dinner. Would she want that? Yes Anakin, tell them we're having pizza.

[cinderfeather]

Favourite Eldritch Vader | Anakin lines I've written:

"Take off your mask," Luke ordered. "I will look into the eyes of my father's killer as he dies." “I wear no mask," said Vader. 

— The Sith in Yellow

“Sometimes I have dreams….” Anakin swallowed. “Dreams I swallow stars.”

— The Right Hand of Justice

“Ha,” said Luke. “Then all I have to do to defeat you is not be afraid of you.” Vader tilted his helmet directly at him. A bolt of fear tore right through him. Luke felt cold, like he was being eaten alive by the cave-eel, drowned by the dianoga, and flying down the Death Star trench all at once. He dug his fingers into Vader’s steel arms, gasping. “Good luck with that,” Vader replied.

— Skeptics of the Force

“Is that your spare armour?” quipped Han. “Looks pretty uncomfortable to me.” “That armour isn’t for me,” replied Vader. “It is for Luke.” “What?” gasped Leia. “It’ll kill him.” “No,” said Vader. “Not as long as he remains in his true form.”

— Unpublished draft

[backpackingspace]

Listen all jedi are eldritch being HOWEVER anakin is even more eldritch to the point where other jedi are like what the fuck is this

[lazerswordweilder]

Notes on my Eldritch Anakin au (using force for general references to the force and Force for the ‘person’, also calling ‘force beings’ just Beings because I don’t know what else to call them)

1. He’s a baby in Being terms but he is half human and so he definitely isn’t a baby, just not fully an adult either. It’s not a full on and off sort of thing; he’s mentally (even more so by mortal terms) an adult (albeit a young adult) even if he is a bit reckless and overconfident and stuff that generally comes with being a young kid, his body is also mature by human/most mortal standards but in terms of Beings is not, the whole force and powers aspect is the only thing he’s much closer to a kid than an adult on (albeit having more control than a being his age usually would).

The Force isn’t actually a deadbeat dad, Anakin just was too young to talk to the Force expect for in a few very brief moments. This got easier as he got older and for the majority of his life with the Jedi (and probably at least a year past that) his communication with the Force was the equivalent of a toddler cooing or crying or ect at their parent which while giveing some communication doesn’t really do all that much.

2. The Son and The Daughter (definitely not their real names but I can’t think of any names for them I don’t really think they’d have any mortal names) from mortis are Anakins half siblings and in this au while it isn’t like my Balance Siblings au (which I have posted nothing about on tumblr) where he’s the embodiment of balance such as how the Son is the dark side and ect, he does represent balance to some level. Also The Father did not click with what I think the Force would act like so I’m pretending he doesn’t exist in this au.

3. Anakin is a mix of a mortal/human and Being and I believe he has to both acknowledge and keep up the health of both sides to some affect/effect, I’m not sure how exactly this would work. Before he could communicate with the Force he wouldn’t have to care about that, he’d be doing the bare minimum for both sides and probably had really crappy health. These needs would result in things like his mortal body, while it does kind of, cease to exist when he goes into a deep trace in the force whenever he ‘reforms’ it it is still his body not just one created to show himself to mortals, and so if he spends to long away from/out of it it makes him sick, and if he were to wear or do anything that blocked off the force for extended periods of time he’d also get really sick, stuff like that.

There’s also the less eldritch-ly sides of both of this, like classic human stuff, for example: he still needs to eat and drink and take care of his body to a lesser but still there extent, which he frequently pushes the limits of, although I’m sure he could find many weird ways to accomplish this. The Daughter learns of this and immediately begins researching human children (despite Anakin being well past 20 by this point) and making an effort to support him which she drags a reluctant The Son into.

4. WHEN DEOS HE START TALKING TO THE FORCE???

[steepedfoxglovetea]

The Lunatic of Tatooine

[dreaminghour]

A Desolate Place (3139 words) by dreaminghour

Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply, Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Eldritch Anakin Skywalker, Mission Fic, Pre-Relationship

Ahsoka wonders, not for the first time, if Anakin is lonely.

Written for Day 3 of @anakin-rarepairs-week 2023 and very belatedly posted.

Thank you for reading ♡ Fic log → @dreaminghour-archive

[averagechickenenjoyer]

This gets even wilder when people find out that Vader was Anakin Skywalker.

The people of the galaxy remembered the war hero, the hero with no fear, the one who was the champion of the Republic, the one who never backed down, who never gave up, even after the fall of the Jedi and as the memory of their religion faded, people still remembered the champion.

And than the truth comes out. The god of death and the champion are one and the same, and the whispers only grow, some say he refused to betray the people and took on a new form, one of fear and death. That he became consumed by his own rage, and became a god of death, whose only drive was to slaughter and maim any who would betray the Empire. Others claim that the god of death was a clone of the champion. The truth only makes the fear and paranoia surrounding Vader grow, and it reminds the people of the forgotten CIS why they used to fear seeing the 501st Leigon descend upon their planets, because it meant the Champion was near and any who dared cross his path met swift end upon his bright blade of blue.

Lukes myth only gets worse. In canon he’s already known as a being to fear by the Empires remnants after Endor. But than it’s found he’s the son of the god of death, of the champion. That’s when the rumors REALLY start to get crazy. Some theorize that like his father, he became a being of death, one powerful enough to fell the god of death. Others believe Luke to be a demigod, born of an unholy combination of life and death. Despite what they believe, all remnants of the Empire shudder and cower at the very mention of his name, fearful that even mentioning him will summon him and they will meet deaths cold embrace at his green blade.

I saw this and now I can’t stop thinking about the Skywalkers as legends, myths, really, because…

Darth Vader the death god, this is perfect. He doesn’t set out to create this persona, not really. He doesn’t really plan anything that pertains himself anymore, anyway, but… he is the most lethal person in the universe. He kills and tortures and destroys, and he knows no mercy. His black cloak and mask is easily recognizable among the white armor of the Stormtroopers, and they feel safer when he’s around. He can’t be killed, they say, can’t be touched by enemy fire. When you stay close enough to him, they can’t reach you, either. He can protect you from cruel and incompetent officers, he can punish them. You can feel his power in your bones, can feel it make you stronger. As long as you follow his orders, you are safe, but nobody can help you if you displease him. He is a god, after all. He does not know mercy.

Padme Amidala is much more of a local myth, really. Both the Rebellion and the Empire try to co-opt her for their own ends, but… she just wasn’t that important to the bigger picture, you know? She was a senator during the Clone Wars, and she gave some nice speeches, but soldiers don’t really care about senators. She was beautiful and clever, and she is remembered kindly, but the only place where she is really a legend is Naboo. There, she is not a senator, but the queen who freed them, the queen who made peace with the Gungans, the queen who fought. Her picture hangs in almost every house of Naboo, dressed in traditional robes, her make up and hair perfect. She doesn’t look like a person, not really, more like an idea. They say that one day, when the time is right, she will return for them, and save Naboo again. She is theirs, after all, their queen. The only one that matters, really.

Luke Skywalker, the boy who blew up the Death Star, a soldier and a trickster and a boy. The first legends start after the battle of Yavin, after he was one of three pilots who survived, after he destroyed the machine of death. He was just a nobody, a nineteen year old farmboy, and yet he was the only one who succeeded. He can’t be human, can he? Not really. He must be some sort of demigod, young and reckless but powerful, still. Stormtroopers fear him, because this boy… their blasters bolts don’t hit him half as often as they should. Sometimes they do, that’s how they know he’s not like Vader, who is untouched by violence, but… they know they are good shots. And yet, they can’t kill him. And the rebel soldiers know that, too. Nobody tells him that, and his friends don’t really believe the legends, because they know him to be an idealist and a dork and the guy who was freezing like hell on Hoth because he’s from the desert, but… the rebels who don’t know him? He’s their myth. And then Bespin happens, and he survives a fight with the god of death himself, actually survives, and how can you not think of him as a demigod, as a spirit, maybe? And they are proud of him, because he’s theirs. Stormtroopers though, they are terrified, because they know better than to expect mercy from gods.

Leia Organa, the Last Princess of Alderaan. They don’t call her queen until years later, don’t really remember that Winter exists, either. She’s a symbol, more so than she is ever a person, because Leia herself, Leia the person, she’s on the edge of breaking, she’s full of hate and grief and despair, and that’s not inspirational, is it? So she lets them believe it. But there are legends about her, legends about her standing and seeing her planet be destroyed, of her surviving, still and beautiful as a statue, but alive, powerful. The Princess most of the rebels know wears white, long, beautiful gowns, her hair in complicated braids. She speaks loudly, with a clear, strong voice. She stands, despite everything. She stands. And she survives. Soon, there are rumors. She can’t be killed, they say. She was a prisoner aboard the death star, she saw the destruction of her home planet, and yet, she lives, yet, she fights. If she’s not dead yet, can the Empire even touch her? Can she even bleed? Or is she made of ice? Or is it fire? For Leia Organa is a myth of duality. The white princess made of ice, and the passionate fighter with fire in her veins, a blaster always at hand and the best at inspiring troops before a desperate battle. Ice and Fire, that’s what Leia Organa is made of, not flesh and blood. She’s the only one who sort of realizes the myth that’s grown around her, and she uses it, sometimes. Not too much, because she can’t control it, but sometimes.

Just… the Skywalkers as terrifying legends.

[stealingpotatoes]

local senator discovers her children are literally descended from the force

(ko-fi requests are open!)

[fanfic-obsessed]

Eldritch Everyone

I have read fantastic stories where Obi Wan/ the Jedi are Eldritch creatures and other stories where the Clones are Eldritch, because of Kaminoan experiments. Let's merge the two with a twist. 

The twist is they are different types of eldritch beings who do not know the other is Eldritch. 

As always disregard any established lore that contradicts this. 

With the clones it is because of Kaminoan experimentation. It will never be quite clear what the Kamnioan’s were trying to do…or if they accomplished their goal. But the Kaminoan experiments on the Clones (with the exception of Boba Fett) genome connected with…something beyond. Something they had no idea what to account for. 

For the Eldritch Clones I am taking heavy inspiration from the incomparable Quarra’s The Force of my Love.  The Clones are a hivemind, existing paradoxically as part of the hive and individually all at once.  Their forms are nigh on indestructible and mutable, meaning they can shapeshift (they, in fact, make the choice to keep Jango Fett’s face and shape as their ‘main form’-partially due to spite, partially because the Kaminoans expect it). They are able to travel instantaneously to any clone that is part of the Hivemind(by contrast this instantaneous travel is limited to only to other members of the hivemind).  Unlike Quarra’s clones they cannot tell the difference between Sith and Jedi(for reasons that will be elaborated on later). They have eidetic memory which, combined with the hive mind, means that what one knows all of them know and none of them ever forget.  This version of the clones have no particular connection to Mandalorian culture, nor any other culture, save perhaps the Jedi (The propaganda that they are created for the Jedi still exists and frankly pales in comparison to how awesome the Jedi actually are). 

The Jedi are Eldritch through their connection to the Force, which is sentient (by certain definitions) but so utterly alien to anything on the mortal plane that there is no direct comparison. Now it needs to be made clear from the first that it is not just Force sensitivity that makes one Eldritch, the connection to the Force is just not strong enough.  There are additional rituals that the Jedi, and the Sith of Old, go through to become what could be considered Avatars of the Force (specifically the Light Side for the Jedi). These rituals were passed down from before the split between Sith and Jedi.

I say Sith of Old here, because Bane, in creating his rule of two, did away with many of those rituals (never realizing their worth) because several of them required more than 2 participants.  There are three rituals in particular that apply here. First is a ritual to allow oneself to fill completely with the Force (making themselves, for a lack of better terminology, larger than their mortal forms), which Bane kept as he believed it simply made one more powerful (and could be accomplished alone). The second ritual, also one that Bane kept, helped to hide the Banite Sith from the Jedi(it also disguised what was happening to the Banite Sith due to the first ritual, even from themselves), though that had always been a side effect of the ritual, not its intended purpose; this ritual is the reason that the Clones cannot sense Jedi and Sith seperately. The third ritual makes one a conduit of the Force (letting the Force pass through oneself) which Bane did away with. It is important here because mortal beings are not meant to be filled to the brim with the Force, without the release valve of the second ritual it causes them to rot from the inside out.   This is important because by the old definition of Sith, the Force Cult that has dedicated themselves to being the Avatars of the Dark Side of the Force, there has not been a Sith since Darth Bane (barring one exception) and why the Banite Sith tend to rot while still living, the longer they are immersed in the Dark Side.  Dooku did not rot because he had done the rituals as a Jedi, though he had not dedicated himself specifically to the Dark, so he never took on the title of True Sith. Ventress, through her training with Ky Narec, had also completed most of the Jedi rituals, meaning she was not a Sith but as closer to it than Palpatine. It was actually Maul who, in growing up submerged in the Dark like he had been, accidentally completed a version of the lost second ritual, and became a True Sith in the old meaning of the word. 

These rituals are meant to immerse a Force Sensitive in the Force itself, giving the connection more strength than it would have otherwise.  The Force abilities that we see the Jedi, and the Sith use, are because of the Rituals and why those that do not go through either version have much subtler/weaker abilities. It also means that the Jedi (and the Sith of old+Maul) give off the eerie impression that, no matter the size or species, they are somehow so much larger than they appear. That there is something beneath their skin trying to get out. Also being plugged directly into Force in the way that they are skews the way they view reality.   It can be hard for the Jedi to connect with beings that are not at least a little Force Sensitive and the Jedi care deeply, but sometimes cannot see what the actual problem is (saying ‘there is no death there is only the force’ is not meant to be a trite saying nor do many of the Jedi quite understand why it is not as comforting as they think it is).

At the beginning of the Clone Wars, both the Jedi and the Clones hide their eldritch nature from each other. Both groups had experienced how showing their nature to the wrong people can break minds and they had no wish to hurt the other. 

The first sign that something was…strange was how in sync both groups were.  The Jedi marveled that the clones never cringed at the sight of them (and that which moved under their skin when they lost focus). The Clones were ecstatic that the Jedi never questioned when they had knowledge they should not have, nor the few occasions when multiple clones spoke from the same mouth.  

Nat born officers would make comments, not directly but meant to be overheard, how the Jedi Padawans grew more ‘other’ every time they visited the Temple on Coruscant. The clones would only stare blankly, to them it seemed like the Padawans were simply growing into themselves. 

Various Jedi and clones began to fall into love (Familial, romantic, sexual, platonic, and other).  It is Depa Billaba and Gray who first confess, and in confessing reveal their respective natures (Depa is the one who made the first move-as soon as the Clones knew of the Jedi’s nature they each sought out their Jedi).

The main reason that Jedi do not get in romantic relationships with non Force Sensitives (and Padme has no Force Sensitivity) is that theri nature pushes them to connect at the deepest level they can with their loved ones.  This can mentally damage non Force Sensitives.

For Obi Wan, if Cody had not confessed, Obi Wan never would have.  He had tried, before, to have romantic relationships with non force sensitives. A few times he had even managed to deny his own nature until the relationship dissolved naturally (Obi Wan, like most Jedi could be…odd, even when trying to fit in). It had become clear through his life that it just was not worth the pain to act on those kinds of feelings.  The knowledge that Cody could bond with him fully, was interested in him both romantically and sexually was a joy. Obi Wan was not even off put that by dating on clone, he was in affect dating all of the clones at once (who were also dating other Jedi)

Sometimes the Clones and Jedi switched partners. For instance Mace Windu, who was primarily dating Ponds, loved the Theater, which Ponds was ambivalent about but Bly also loved the theater (which Aayla actively disliked). So Bly and Mace had a standing monthly date night to a variety of theaters all over the galaxy, and at least once a year end up acting in a performance. Or how Fox was one of the only Clones that was not bored stupid at the Anniversary Ball, a pretentious event of a small but rich mid rim planet to celebrate the ratifying of a treaty, that Obi Wan is required to go to every year (even the years he was actively at war). So Fox is Obi Wan’s date, while Cody and Vos (who primarily dated the Coruscant Guard), would use the night to break up some kind of ring(slavery, drugs, smuggling, etc.)

Rex found that he fit neatly into Padme and Anakin’s relationship, somehow providing a stabilizing influence on their bond.  Padme and Anakin had bonded after the first battle of Geonosis but it was a case of Anakin being young and stupid and reckless, and Padme not actually understanding what Anakin was talking about when he tried to explain the risks (She thought he was saying that it might hurt her, and she was reassuring him that she trust him to be careful. He thought she was saying that she knew about the risks and was Force Sensitive enough to not be harmed).  There was already some damage done to  Padme’s mind (mostly in terms of willpower, personality, and impulse control) by the time Rex joined the bond, and not all of it was correctable, but most was. 

It is not the Jedi and the Clones that disrupt Palpatine’s plans (though the chips never worked, so eventually they would have). It was Dooku, Ventress, and Maul. Maul was the first True Sith, though it was accidental, in almost 1000 years. Dooku knew what it meant to be Jedi/Sith in the original sense and could tell that Palpatine did not. Ventress, like Dooku, had gone through the Jedi versions of the rituals (those rituals may have been passed down since before the split, but time had caused a bit of difference).  Because Palpatine has the deeper connection to the Force but not release valve, for lack of a better term, he is more immediately powerful but in the long run is doing far more damage to himself than he realizes.  Sometime before Maul would have gone after Satine, he encounters Ventress, who recognizes him as an actual Sith and brings him to Dooku. 

These three decide that they are going to destroy Palpatine (for being a Pretended Sith) and rebuild the actual Sith Order with the full Sith rituals. Maul is a bit surprised to realize that he, by himself, is more than a match for Palpatine (Since this was the man that had tormented him since childhood; he always had the picture that Palptine was bigger than life). Dooku then publishes all of the wrong doings he knew of from Palpatine’s entire circle-CIS and Republic alike- (and he knew about 80% of what was eventually uncovered). Then all three of them fuck off to Morriban to begin their research into resurrecting the Sith Order. 

The Jedi Order and the Clones collectively decide to let them, on the basis that at least they know where the three Sith are and it keeps them busy.

[constellation-skirmishes]

he weeps for the stars,

for they are him and he is them

but no one listens to his cries

why?

why do they ignore his pleas?

the stars are screaming

and he is the only one listening

lineart & basic color bc i like how they turned out. a lot.

i was trying out new brushes and loved them. so. here you go. :)

i originally had text. surrounding. but then i got feedback and removed it. also, theres typos! i need a cuppa.

[marinamar4]

I don't know if I've mentioned this already, but... A fic where Obi-Wan raises Luke and Leia... In Mortis

Yes, that Mortis. The planet of the Force. And Luke and Leia grow up in an environment so powerful in the Force that they can do things no one else can. Literally like those other fics where the Skywalkers are eldritch

And when they finally emerge from Mortis, the Rebellion doesn't know whether to worship them or fear them.

And the Empire knows that its days are more than numbered.

Because what can they do against the young man who literally erased the death star like he had an eraser?

(whoever has read the WITCH comic where Elyon erases the Meridian prison will understand)

What can they do against the little girl who came out of a spaceship into empty space where Alderaan should be (or any other planet that they destroyed in that story) and without a spacesuit or anything started running and dancing and where she "stepped" on the world was beginning to reform?

And all that time, the only one they obey is Obi-Wan, who raised them. And every time someone asks Obi-Wan to "control" the twins because of the chaos they're causing, he just gets a look saying "Who, me?"

[meteor-moon]

there was a boy with stars in his eyes

[mangzoart]

“What’s it like to hold a demi-god?A wild child of the force? Does it burn? Does it ache? What is it like to hold the stars, sun, and galaxy in your hands, Obi-Wan? Is he tender? Is he sweet? Or does he want to feast on bones and meat?”~ A Sky Walker

A little poem I wrote for a star-crossed demigod and padawan

[ultrainstinctslasher]

To continue on my previous thoughts, Eldritch Luke Skywalker would be a menace, in a good way of course. Imagine being a Rogue pilot and thinking, 'hey, I'm a bit thirsty," and your boss, who loves you so much, who loves everything too much, comes from the other side of the base and gives you a cup of your favourite drink. Luke wouldn't even know what he's doing either. It would be as if he was thirsty, because everything is him, and he is everything, and he is also nothing, and everything is nothing to him, you know?

But what about his abilities in the force? Unimaginable. Planets could be destroyed through mere thoughts. Star destroyers blown to bits simply if he wills it. People can torn apart with a little push of the force. But he wouldn't. He would never kill so many people at once, he would never repeat the mistake of the death star. He knows his power now and he will control it and use it fairly. He's the type of guy to never attack with his opponents back to him.

Here's a thought. Luke could survive virtually anything, e can even survive the literal vacuum of space, but he. can't. swim. He was raised on a planet where water had to be harnessed through the moisture in the air, what do you think? It doesn't mean he would drown, no no. He would push entire seas apart so he doesn't, and the force lets him and coos because it thinks its adorable that its grandson is so scared of water, and would even let him destroy every water planet in the galaxy if he wanted to.