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#this is an au of mine where anakin didn't go dark but the empire still fell so he and ahsoka fucked off into hiding#and found lil baby cal#also anakin thinks padme is dead and she thinks he's dead#overall no one's having a good time#ahsoka tano#cal kestis#star wars#fanart#fan art#my art
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Fox, in some social gathering he, Bail and Breha were invited to: So...I know I'm here because I'm married to these two, and Cody is here because Kenobi is here, but why are you here again?
Rex: Because these two are here *points to Anakin and Padmé*
Fox: Are you guys like. You know.
Rex: ..........honestly I am not sure, but at this point, I'm in way too deep to leave
Fox: What do you mean by that?
Rex: Observe
Luke and Leia, running up to Padmé: Mom! Can we go and-
Padmé: Oh, you need to ask your father
Luke and Leia, running to Anakin: Dad! Can we go and-
Anakin: Oh, um. Did you already ask your mom?
Luke and Leia: Yes, and she said to ask you!
Anakin: Okay, uh. Go ask Rex if you can go?
Luke and Leia, running up to Rex: Rex! Can we go and-
Rex: No, you'll die and break your legs. Now sit down for a moment and have some juice
Fox: ....oh.
Rex: Yeah.
Fox: This might be a problem
Rex: You don't say
#insert the meme 'any guy can be a babygirl but it takes a man to be a single mother' here#fox sends that one to rex a couple of days after this#rex is this close to threatening the twins with sending them to tatooine to do some moisture farming#luke and leia didn't get to unleash their full potential of being absolute menaces in canon#because they grew up as the only child of their families#and also because bail&breha and owen&beru#padmé and anakin are both way too unhinged themselves to be able to keep their children in check#so rex is doing the heavy lifting#he has no idea what he is doing but everybody is still alive so. a win is a win#he is also not entirely sure what is going on with their relationship#but last week anakin gave both him and padme a cup of coffee and a kiss on the cheek and no one said anything about it#so rex isn't saying anything now#commander fox#captain rex#padme amidala#anakin skywalker#luke skywalker#leia organa#anidala#bail/breha/fox#codywan#rexanidala#sw#tcw
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do you think your empress padme (or maybe padme in general?) is the jealous type? 😈😈
Evil Padmé and Vader, jealous??? Naahhhhhhhhh. Lmao, of course they are, yes.
I mean, they both are possesive and obssesive, and only works because their kind-of-damage fits well with the other's kind-of-damage (like a puzzle!), Padmé's desire to see Palpatine dead came more from angry possesive rage than...seizing over the galaxy (how dare he! to treat her husband like that! no one should get to order him like that! except her)
But, tbh there's very little that could trigger their jealousy, like who's out there wanting to shake Vader's bones? (In universe, not here in tumblr(?))
Maybe Boba, idk, that would funny "Could you not hire THAT Bounty Hunter?"
"Why?"
"I don't like how he looks at you"
"....He...wears a helmet...?"
And Vader is a good dog, I mean, good obedient dark lord general husband, he won't kill someone that looks at Padmé unless she asks (or that someone is being actively harmful).
Empress Padmé's possesiveness shines through her orders, she likes to keep him close like her bodyguard instead out there in the galaxy and she likes that she's one of the few that sees him behind the mask, she likes to keep a minimal staff so they can be as intimate and private as they can, and that kind of thing
#in a way is very similar to vader's her possesiveness is mostly about keeping him safe and happy she is a bit condescending with him#vader is even more angry if he gets jealous but he's also so pathetic and the last braincell that had some degree of dignity got burned#so even if Padmé flirted with someone else he would like just wallow in misery and want to throw himself into fire again#rather than to make any moves bc he still doesnt understand why padmé is with him lol#if miraj scintel still lived in this au and somehow was still very into vader well now that would be hilarious lmao#thanks for the ask!#rambling#empress padme#vaderdala
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Me watching the prequel movies: "Padme's alright, but she's kind of boring and I don't care for her that much."
Me watching Clone Wars: "Padme Amidala could dropkick me, step on my neck, and spit in my face, and I would thank her. She is so cool and smart and I want to be her and also maybe be her assistant. She's a savvy politician who believes in peace but is not afraid to shoot a bitch if needed. Revenge of the Sith Anakin doesn't deserve her."
#star wars#star wars prequels#star wars the clone wars#sw tcw#padme amidala#sw prequels#sw padme#literally did not give a shit about her while watching the movies#then i watched the show and oh my god she is amazing#every time there was a padme episode i absolutely loved it and had an amazing time#actual girlboss#also now i can actually understand why she was so loyal to anakin even when he became a trainwreck#their relationship was imperfect but actually really sweet and i saw the chemistry#they felt like a power couple sometimes and really balanced each other out#and while anakin always had some aggressive tendencies#i understand how padme would be caught off guard and still love him/think she can change him#she's seen him at some of his low points and he bounced back so how is this different and why is he acting different?#it's actually really sad#i didn't care when she died while watching the prequels#but when i watched the show i'd suddenly feel really upset because i'd remember what's going to eventually happen to her#this strong and amazing woman would die of grief while giving birth after her husband betrayed her and that was heartbreaking#and then years later her planet would be destroyed by that very husband she had once loved so dearly#god damn it now i'm sad
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hear me out on this ok. ROTS AU where Anakin still turns to the dark side but that's Palpatine's problem.
So, Palpatine decides last minute that ehhhh maybe dooku could come in handy later and he doesn't encourage Anakin to kill him, and Dooku gets arrested and imprisoned in the Jedi Temple awaiting trial. (Also he didn't get his hands cut off because of uhh plot reasons?)
Fast forward.
Palpatine is encouraging Anakin towards the Dark side, tells him about Plagueis the Wise, etc. etc. But see, the thing is, Anakin is at the end of his tether, probably hasn't slept more than three hours over the past week, and has no remaining impulse control or inhibitions, and upon hearing that the Dark Side can save people from death, his first thought is, "wait a sec, we've got a Sith Lord in-house at the moment!" and he sprints out of the space opera and books it back to the temple.
Now, Dooku has been calmly waiting in Temple custody, confident that Darth Sidious will arrange his escape. But THEN Anakin barges into the cell like OMG THE CHANCELLOR TOLD ME THE SITH KNOW HOW TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DYING AND I'M HAVING DREAMS ABOUT SOMEONE DYING AND I NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE THEM
At which point, Dooku realizes Palpatine's plan. He's going to tempt Skywalker to the Dark side and REPLACE DOOKU. this is totally uncool.
So he's like "...who are you dreaming about, exactly?"
Anakin freezes. He can't admit it's Padme because their relationship is top-secret and he can't admit how important she is to him so he tries to think of a good fib and goes "uhhhh OBI-WAN! Obi-Wan, it's Obi-Wan, I'm dreaming about Obi-Wan dying-" and he just throws himself into the drama because now he IS imagining obi-wan dying because Obi-Wan is fighting grievous at the moment and he MIGHT ACTUALLY DIE and that's in addition to Padme dying and he's totally spiraling at this point- "pleasepleaseplease you gotta help me he's like the only father i've ever known I don't know what i'll do without obi-wan I have to save him YOU GOTTA TELL ME WHAT TO DO I'LL DO ANYTHING--"
Dooku begins to smile.
(Would stealing Skywalker out from under his Master's nose be petty? Oh, yeah.)
(But it would also be very, very satisfying.)
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Obi-Wan calls in to a council meeting to report his defeat of Grievous, but before he can say so, Mace announces that Dooku has escaped and the Sith Master has been killed.
Silence falls between the eleven councilmembers (eleven, not twelve, because their newest one is conspicuously absent. Obi-Wan wonders just what Anakin's up to now. Honestly, that boy will be the death of him.)
Obi-Wan clears his throat.
"...indeed," he says, trying to handle the shocking news with composure. "Well... at least we're down to one Sith, now."
Another awkward pause.
"Yeah, about that--" Mace begins.
#Dooku totes anakin back to the Separatists but Anakin's loyalty has really only ever been to like 3 people so he kinda doesn't care#as long as he doesn't have to fight obi-wan or ahsoka he's cool with it#his favorite part of the job is when he has to 'kidnap' padme and/or their kids for uhhhh Political Reasons#and they get to hang out as a family#obi-wan is always the one sent to 'rescue' padme#the rescues mostly consist of obi-wan rolling his eyes while Anakin and Padme draw out a goodbye longer than a midwesterner#(secretly obi-wan thinks it's kinda funny)#also as Anakin is now a Sith he learns about all the Sithly Plans including the clone chips and he immediately panics#'THIS COULD HURT OBI-WAN OR AHSOKA WE HAVE TO STOP IT'#and offers free healthcare (aka chip removal) to all clones on separatist planets (including active warzones) and somehow it works?#despite being the most drama-queen Jedi out there Anakin somehow becomes the most chill sith ever#like he will absolutely fly off the handle if anyone threatens Obi-Wan or Padme or Ahsoka but he's not into the causing-suffering thing#(which I know isn't how the dark side works really but for the purpose of funnyness yes it is)#he's pretty calm in general though! still wants to help people!#dooku sends him to conquer a republic planet that's fighting the separatists and he gets there and he's like#WELL OF COURSE THEY'RE FIGHTING US! LOOK AT ALL THE PROBLEMS WE'RE CAUSING FOR THEM! THEIR ECONOMY IS IN SHAMBLES!#*to the planetary leaders* don't worry I know someone in the Senate who can help with relief aid. in the meantime let's talk treaties!#when he gets back dooku is like YOU ARE A *SITH* YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO CAUSE *SUFFERING*#and Anakin is like I TIED ALL THEIR SHOELACES TOGETHER WITH THE FORCE WHILE WE WERE IN DIPLOMATIC MEETINGS WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!?#jessica's random thoughts#star wars au
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Ah, has Padme noticed that Obi-Wan is assigned to Senate duty and that's why she's making assumptions about why Anakin is worried?
this chapter and the last chapter take place within like...an hour or so of each other -- so no one knows yet about obi-wan's new assignment cause he's been given it only a little bit ago!
i think padmé really is trying in this chapter, trying to speak anakin's language and understand him - and i think she really does, as much as she can. she's relating her experiences of being worried about anakin to anakin's experiences being worried about obi-wan (which baby, honey. are you really not going to notice that you're talking to anakin as if he's obi-wan's wife).
in my opinion, she's not really making assumptions about why anakin is worried here. anakin flat out tells her that he was worrried that obi-wan was injured, that that's why he stayed.
she's really just trying to get him to realize that he shouldn't go running off to be by obi-wan's side every time he gets an intrusive thought that obi-wan could be hurt when logically there's a very slim chance that he has been been and a very big chance that he could get help IF he ever was. because the war is over. obi-wan has amazing access to the best healthcare on coruscant. he would be FINE if he felt a sudden twinge in his chest or whatever.
it's just that anakin doesn't want to hear that. anakin doesn't want to live in a world where he can't drop everything to get to obi-wan's side. anakin doesn't want space between him and his master. he doesn't get why he should. if that's because of the war, like he sorta implies in the chapter, or if it's always been like that for him--for them, i don't think matters as much right now as the fact that anakin and anakin's wife are on solidly opposite ends of this debate
and it's really only going to get more rocky from here as we move away from the end of the war and both of them have different expectations of what comes next
#asks#couples counseling au#obikin#it's not been mentioned yet because obi-wan and padme haven't started working in the senate together yet#but i think one of the aspects of the fic im looking forward to the most#is moments where obi-wan and padme talk and obi-wan gets an outsiders pov into anakin and padmes relationship#but it also sort of feels still like padme is the outsider#aka she tells him in a cold and cutting argument they have#that anakin woke up from nightmares screaming obi-wan's name for three weeks post the end of the war#like im just excited to get obi-wan's pov of anidala where its very obvious to the readers that anakin is not as obsessed with his wife#as he is with his master#and yet obi-wan doesn't quite notice#and padme won't quite admit it#and anakin isn't actually involved in teh conversation at all#but so anyway i think when she's speaking in this chapter she's speaking from her own experiences watching and trying to comfort anakin#post end of war#and her own experiences missing anakin during the war#it's just anakin doesn't have room in his dialogue/his head to really give that the weight it deserves#because he's obi-wan all the time
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Thinking about if Anakin fully killed Frei. Like... they "fight" and he runs her through with his lightsaber but instead of being immediately horrified by his actions he moves on to the younglings and the rest of the story goes on as canon.
Except!!! Darth is constantly haunted by her Force Ghost.
Everything he does is constantly critiqued and gets snarky remarks.
Just imagining him force choking some empire goon or officer and he hears Frei behind him go, "That'll show 'em. Killing off your staff one by one. Great job Ani."
And he just drops them with an annoyed sigh then turns to glare at her.
And after the og trilogy? When he's redeemed and they're reunited as force ghosts. Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. The first thing he does is kiss her cause even as a sith he couldn't help but miss and love her. And they spend eternity together in the afterlife.
#i like my new timeline better but i also love the idea of haunting dead naming darth vader#he's trying to give an important order or speech and she keeps interrupting and distracting him#Leia shows up in a new hope and Frei's like 'Wow! Isn't she JUST like Padme? you know? the senator you had an affair with?'#'man. i guess all it really takes is one time... well at least something good came out of it.'#'I'm still not impressed it happened though.'#And Vader is desperately trying not to tell her to shut up because no one knows she's there#except in the kenobi sho Obi-wan definitely saw her bitcjing at him#that's the first peace vader had was right after that first fight she went and hung around obi wan for a bit#and when he found her with him for the second fight he gets really jealous and is like conflicted about the whole thing#like 'nooooo! don't haunt anyone else! you're MY ghost gf!'#death by anyone's hand but his would never taste as sweet#prisma rambles#prisma self ships
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Curious how people say that Palpatine & Anakin should have been kept apart because a politician wanting to mentor a teenager should be suspicious, but the same isn't said about Padme & Ahsoka.
I'm observing that Anakin wasn't allowed a solo mission until he was 19, but Yoda let Ahsoka accompany Padme to Alderaan alone at age ~14, and Anakin let Padme borrow her long enough to go to the Separatist capital at about ~15.
So maybe the Jedi were more protective of Anakin than many of us tend to assume.
#ahsoka also claims to be friends with riyo chuchi#and is allowed to go off with her too#seems to me that maybe hindsight is 20/20 but double standards still exist#anakin skywalker#palpatine#ahsoka tano#padme amidala#prequels#clone wars#tcw#star wars#also worth noting that when anakin was finally given a solo mission Obi-Wan was against it#specifically because of Anakin's personal attachment to the person he was assigned to protect
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actually you know what, while I still stand firmly behind "the real villain of rex's tcw-era gothic horror story is rex with a control chip in his head" I think there's another option I'm ignoring here...
in classic gothic horror, of course, a hero has two main ways to resolve the problem of the monster:
✅defeat the monster
✅become the monster
and in canon, rex - being the overachiever that he is - gets to do both!
but gothic romance introduces a third, exciting option:
✅marry the monster
and I think rexwalker is definitely at its sexiest when it involves an anakin who is anywhere on the path from rots-era anguished doubt, to full-on commitment as darth vader, turning all his immense capacity for love and his ride-or-die, damn-the-consequences loyalty towards one ordinary (brave, determined, genuinely good) clone
#rexwalker#star wars#anakin skywalker#rex#rexwalker jane eyre au WHEN#obviously rex is jane (broke traumatised veteran looking for work in a galaxy shattered by the aftermath of the clone wars)#and anakin is mr rochester (raising two kids alone with droids in the big house or possibly the fancy spaceship he inherited mysteriously)#(he and the house/ship are full of secrets)#(probably there's a red lightsaber stashed away somewhere which rex WILL recognise with horror)#and there is also a person hidden upstairs in the attic... who rex will also recognise with horror...#no it's not padme it's PALPATINE of course#probably gone mad in the aftermath of an attempt to take over the galaxy (that killed padme too I guess)#anakin is still protecting him from galactic justice and caring for him because he can't stop loving him#but he hates him too#and can't stop blaming him for padme's death#padme herself is i suppose the dead wife haunting the narrative with her inescapable presence...#we can have a rebecca crossover too. as a little treat.#lol this is such an insane AU but I'm obsessed with it now#my meta
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Update on how reading Thrawn: Alliances is going
I am s t r u g g l i n g to finish it..im barely past halfway
#to those of you who warned me..i should have listened to you#yall were right it really isnt the same as that first book#i'm still gonna finish it though because i have the uncontrollable need to learn everything i can about my hyperfixations#i really like the clone wars era flashbacks...but every time it switches back to the empire era stuff i get bored and put it down#so far my favourite parts have been:#anakin being a dumbass trying to hide the real nature of his relationship with padme from thrawn#vader being a dumbass worrying about whether or not thrawn knows he is anakin#vader being a delusional dumbass referring to anakin as a separate person even IN HIS MIND#vader shutting down every mention of anakin by just saying#anakin skywalker is dead#and thrawn being like#sure jan#the chapters ive liked the most though are the ones from padmes pov....i wish there was more of that#anyways im 60% in and i have 9 days to finish it :)#also the further i get into this book the more i miss eli#i still think thrawn is an awesome and super interesting character#but man i miss his dynamic with eli#thrawn#thrawn: alliances#darth vader#anakin skywalker#padme amidala#palpatine#the clone wars#thrawn: alliances spoilers#thrawn novels#star wars novels#eli vanto#mitth'raw'nuruodo#chiss ascendancy
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I think a lot of people would laugh if I said Padmé was attracted to Anakin's maturity, but when he's not showing off or being selfish, he can be very mature indeed. In fact it's these moments of maturity that lead his teachers to wrongly assume he's responsible enough to pursue a relationship with Padmé without letting it interfere with his Jedi commitments
I'm certain Padmé was attracted to Anakin for his maturity. She saw him as the "boy she knew on Tatooine" and the only way to have that idea broken is by showing him as a grown-up, as someone who is intelligent and has mature thoughts about things. And I think there's a scene in aotc where she does.
It's the scene where she and Anakin are travelling to Naboo as refugees, and she asks him about what it's like to be a Jedi and whether or not he can love people, since she believes it to be forbidden.
Anakin's response is incredibly deep, and thought out, and mature: "Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life. So you might say that... We are encouraged to love."
He proves then and there that he knows the rules, and that he has his own reasoning for them, his own "philosophical" understanding of them. Personally I really love the "which I would define as" part, because it shows he's been thinking about it long and hard (perhaps as a means for self-justification because he doesn't fit the actual dogma).
Her reply is looking at him with the most loving eyes, the first way she looks at him like that, and saying "You've changed so much". This is the first time she sees him as someone grown, as someone she has to learn to know because she actually doesn't know him anymore, she knew the kid he used to be, not the grown guy he is now.
It's a shame the scenes where they visit Padmé's family were deleted because I feel they show a more relaxed, young adult Padmé who has parents and an older sister that treat her like the daughter and younger sister Padmé is, and Anakin acting as a grown person who offers a bit of reassurance and comfort to Padmé's concerned relatives, and wants to make a good impression. It makes their dynamic, them rediscovering each other (Anakin seeing Padmé not as a queen or as a woman who has an ambitious political career, but a girl with parents and a sister; and Padmé seeing Anakin the way her parents and sister do: a young man who clearly has passionate feelings for her) much more organic and natural.
However I don't really agree with the idea that his teachers "allow" (or, rather, look away from) his relationship with Padmé because of his maturity. I don't think they really consider their relationship at all. Obi-Wan does, but he turns a blind eye because he loves Anakin and knows Padmé makes him happy. Not because he thinks Anakin is mature. As for the rest, e.g. Windu or Yoda, I don't think they know Anakin and Padmé are together, and if they do I don't think they care. Anakin is their biggest asset during the war, he's the poster boy, a beloved general, the hero with no fear. Forcing him to leave the Order in the midst of a conflict is counterproductive, and it would bring a lot of bad press for the Jedi. As long as he complies with the Serious Stuff the council asks him to do, as long as his presence helps the morale of the troops and the republic in general.... They've got bigger things to worry about than Anakin occasionally slipping into Senator Amidala's bed.
Still, I truthfully don't think that's the case. Regardless, I 100% agree: Padmé is really attracted to Anakin's maturity, and in fact it's what makes him appealing to her from the beginning. That and his amazing cheekbones.
#ask#anakin skywalker#padme amidala#anidala#skyberrie#i wrote this post twice lmao cause the first time i was kinda working#and i left it in my drafts to finish it and then it wasn't there#clearly im technologically incompetent but thats a story for another day#i still think this version of the post is better than the lost one lmao#btw i LOVE anidala related asks#so keep 'em coming#also big KUDOS to hayden for acting the way he did in the refugees scene bc the way he says 'so you might say we are encouraged to love'#makes me absolutely FERAL. he knew what he was doing ppl. he knew#its soft and sweet and gentle but also certain. idk how he does it#hayden i love you
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Radioactive Eldritch Jedi
Okay so when I say radioactive. The Force is primordial and eldritch and the jedi (and any other force users of a comparable level) resonate with the echoes of this primoridal of-the-world-and-yet-not-the-world energy like your body when you’re so close to a marching bacd you can feel the drums in your bones and they’re not the music or the instruments, they’re only the echo thereof, but the echo of something from the depths that bore the universe is still A Lot.
And when you look at them. There’s teeth that aren’t there the next minute, you could count them again and again for half an hour and never get the same number twice in a row. And that’s not mentioning when their teeth don’t fit in their mouth, don’t match each other, when there aren’t teeth in their mouths but claws...
That’s just one element of their face which is one element of their body.
You can smell them, even the species that don’t have particularly good senses of smell though it is far more distracting for them. Something fresh with light or rotting with dark, herby or sea salty or citrusy or floral and threaded with sweat or blood or sex to suit whatever they’ve been doing and it wouldn’t be remarkable except they smell simultaneously like their species and like something else entirely in a way that is clearly but indescribably not caused by soap or perfume or oil.
There’s a resonance in their voices. Something like there’s a drumbeat in their throat, like they’re speaking with the vibrations of a song you’ve always heard without knowing it, but always perfectly understandable. The sound of jedi singing in harmony with feeling has reduced cities to tears of joy or tears of pain, blood dripping from their ears in mirror of their tears.
Don’t get me started on their shadows, on the way they move in the dark
And they’d be leaking this strangeness 24/7 except they keep themselves so tightly shielded, not only hiding themselves so that they appear uncanny and not terrifyingly Other (they’ve been there time and time again and it is a problem. There are Consequences) but also keeping any of this force-energy-resonance leaking out into the world. Places where force sensitives have lived a long time thrum like a pulse, are touches with the energy of generations of force users relaxing enough to let their shields lower and their selves to leak and brush the walls and tables, etching their presences into the place like fire into wood, and when this touches people it changes them.
Not immediately. Not quickly. It can take months for anything to change and this is why jedi keep their shields maintained, because if you’re fully shielded nothing will happen, and this is part of why attachments are risky, because the emotion can affect the shields can change the one you love, because to say you love a jedi is not the same as accepting all that they are and being willing to change along with them because you can’t dodge that forever, and saying you’re willing to do this isn’t the same as being willing.
The changes aren’t quick, and not as Eldritch as the jedi, but they are permanent and definitely Other.
When shields crack or break, when a jedi lashes out with the force, it brushes an imprint on everything around them (those with any kind of vision skills can find this difficult or comforting to deal with, like a too-large gulp of hot tea) and a few times on the same thing doesn’t matter. Genuinely. Repeition is an entirely different matter.
War is hell.
War is hell, and the jedi are holding on to each other for support, clinging interlocking arms, but they’re scattered around the galaxy and it’s so hard to actually reach each other.
Sometimes to know you’re supported isn’t enough. Not when you can’t reach their shoulder to lean on, for just a moment.
And the clones are going through hell with them, are dying around them, and they reach out to support the jedi who are doing their best not only to help them survive but to help them live in a war that wants them dead for a senate that doesn’t care and the jedi recognizes them as people so they reach out and the jedi can’t help but reach back.
The clones catch them when they fall, love them in different ways each as sure as the tides, and the jedi relax into it without realizing. Their shields crack over and over again because war is hell, but they also find them relaxing them, instinctively and unconsciously, because so little is certain but the clones’ willingness to go to hell and back for them is one of them and they feel safe.
And the echoes of the force that resonate in the heartbeats-nervepulses-bloodflows of the jedi leaves imprints on the clones that rises like paint added layer by layer and it changes them.
The clones don’t have a childhood of familiarity to fall back on, much less the shielding techniques to keep them looking “normal.” What they have is legions of brothers willing to support each other come hell or high water or unending clankers and jedi who at first beg their forgiveness for changing them (because it wasn’t supposed to happen and because they like how they are but everyone already sees them as strange and to beg forgiveness for making them like them is many jedi’s first instinct) then teach them how to hide it when they need to and the comfort of singing together, their voices ringing through their ships in tune with the thrumming in their blood, bone-deep.
#i am back on my bullshit#too many good ao3 fics made me obessed#the thing about their smells is inspired by a fic by @bitter-chocolate-stars#so for clarity#i wouldn't say for certain that this doesn't happen to padme#but it happens a hell of a lot slower because the war keeps them apart often and because#she's not around anakin as often when he's overwhelmed enough to leak force energy on a regular basis#so there isn't the time and less of the situation#though there are probably some small changes by the end of the war#also about the coruscant guard#palpatine would have to be VERY certain the jedi were ignoring them to do anything sithy in their prescence bbecause it'd leave an inprint#he might still be a bastard but he'd be cautious#about that at least#incidentally if they ended up with quinlan vos or other shadows and the same thing happened to them as to the frontliners#palpatine would probably catch on and be like oh shit#and put whatever he was making them do on the down low#because if jedi are around the guard enough to change them that's an issue for him cause they're now watching#star wars#clone wars#eldritch#eldritch jedi#the force is eldritch#eldritch clone troopers#kinda at least
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I'm back on my Bail/Breha/Fox bs (I haven't left even for a second but anyway) and I was thinking of that one post where someone said that just imagine the political implications these three together would cause, and I think there would be one moment where everything would start to go different with them in the timeline, and it's the wrong Jedi arc.
Padmé is close friends with Bail. She is close friends with Breha. They belong very closely to the same political movement and couldn't make things work without each other. I'm not saying Padmé's political career is wholly dependent on her relationship with Bail, but them working togerher is one of the main things that keeps them afloat against the war. Now, Bail would be professional enough to work with her even if they have personal differences (which they do already), and he knows better than putting one person above everything else, but I do think he wouldn't take Anakin threatening Fox lightly. I don't think he would make up a huge fuss, but he would, most likely, make his disagreement about his behavior known to Padmé. Now, Padmé knows about the whole Tusken massacre, so she knows how Anakin can get when something gets in his way. She knows, even though she wants to pretend that Anakin is a good person, that her husband is perfectly capable of treating people he doesn't like badly and even worse. She can try and tell herself that no, Anakin wouldn't do anything, but she knows. This is about Ahsoka, after all, whom Anakin has said is like a little sister to him. His personal feelings are on the line.
Padmé can either be delusional about it, tell herself that nothing will happen, and hey! Maybe nothing will happen! But she cannot be entirely sure. Because what if. What if something does happen. What if something happens to Ahsoka, and Anakin reacts badly? What then?
She would have to decide then. Does she stay with Anakin, to the end, and thus claiming that his personal feelings are more important to her than what's good for everyone, and thus ending his friendship with Bail and Breha, which would more than destroy her whole career and put everything she stands for in danger? Or does she say no, and stand with her ideals, no matter what Anakin feels is correct or justified? Because this time it's not a group of people who have no impact on her life and who she can forget about. This time she would have to decide her course of action even before anything happens.
Maybe trying to decide would make her think harder about their relationship in general. Maybe, just maybe, something that he does having consequences to her would make her do something about it before it's too late.
#I find Padmé absolutely fascinating because oh boy does miss ma'am do questionable choises in her head#she was also willing to put things like ending the whole republic and killing kids behind her to still have anakin but#in that situation she was desperate and everything was already gone#the only thing she still had was anakin#so it would be interesting to make her have a thought experiment about similar-ish situation before everything else is already gone#and Bail is a good sport. my god does that man have patience over shit#but I don't think Padmé making a decision that Fox is less valuable than Anakin's feelings to his face would be a thing he could work with#and it would at least make him make her think about what is actually important to her#bail/breha/fox#commander fox#bail organa#breha organa#padme amidala#sw#tcw
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And on today's fandom petpeeves
God fucking redeeming Vader. Like, I'm sorry but Darth Vader IS NOT REDEEMABLE.
Is Vader am interesting character ? Yes.
Is he somewhat tragic? Kinda.
He also MURDERED CHILDREN.
BABIES.
WILINGLY.
And Vader is 100% aware of his choices. He KNOWS what he did. He's a monster and that's just what it is. Anakin? Sure he is redeemable- he can still be brought around. But Vader? Absolutely the fuck not
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Since I apparently need to make this clear. This is in context to Vader lives fanfics specifically
#Darth Vader#Star Wars#fandom petpeev#Anakin Skywalker#did the jedi order fail anakin? yeah they kinda did pretty big time#but Anakin also kinda got himself there as well#anakin COULD have left the order. he wouldn't have been the first to do so#wouldn't have been the first one to do so#clearly as we know from Ahsoka he could haven continued to fight in the war as a liason#so don't even TRY to bring up that argument#fact in point remains#Darth Vader is not a redeemable character#still a good one tho#also really padme? REALLY? moody 19 year old teenage Anakin is what you settled for ?#as a nearly 30 year old woman?#REALLY?!
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WIAT okay okay Star Wars AU where during order 66 Anakin ends up sacrificing himself to finally complete the prophecy and bring balance to the force by destroying the sith. He does this by merging with the force and he basically ends up loosing his humanity in the process.
It’s like they’re just one now. He took ‘being one with the force’ to the next level. Like when the Jedi said that shit they meant what happens after death Ani they didn’t mean THIS my guy.
You know how it’s kinda sorta a thing that Padmé got her life force snatched by Palps to give to Vader?? Something like that would probably happen here. Palply would’ve stolen her life force and Anakin would’ve merged with the force to save her.
It’s like yay he did it!! And everyone is celebrating and they’re so full of relief because it’s going to be okay! Anakin killed Palpatine! He saved the clones!! And Padmé goes running up to him, she holds out her arms and she cannot wait for him to pick her up and spin her around and-
She phases straight through him.
And suddenly everything comes crashing down when they realize he can’t stay. That he has to go, that he loves her but he needs to be out there and there’s nothing anyone can do. He’s Anakin Skywalker, child of the force, and now he has to be one with the force as well. That’s just how the prophecy was written.
#IN THIS AU HE WOULDVE BEEN ABLE TO SAVE HER#but because the skywalker family isn’t allowed to be happy they’re still not allowed to be together#they switch places in a sense#instead of Anakin begging Padmé to come with him#its Padmé begging Anakin to stay#and he just can’t because it’s not Anakin anymore. It’s him but also not.#he actually did his job this time and he STILL doesn’t get his hea damn#this is basically just ‘what if he sacrificed himself earlier lol’#anyways#SON OF THE FORCE SON OF THE FORCE SON OF THE FORCE#oh btw like Padmé never got the chance to tell him she was pregnant I’m so sorry#star wars#darth vader#anakin skywalker#sw#obi wan kenobi#sw prequels#star wars prequel trilogy#padme amidala#star wars the clone wars#padmé amidala#star wars prequels#star wars au#sw au#Padmé depressed: my husband turned into the force#obiwan who is equally depressed: that’s rough buddy#GOD I HAVENT EVEN TALKED ABOUT OBI HES SO FUCKING SAD MAN#he just spends hours on end mediatating endlessly trying to grasp any hint of his brother his padawan his heart and he can feel him but he’s#NOT THERE waugh#one with the force au
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@kine-iende
I feel like I'm kicking a hornet's nest by answering this, but what is this blog for if not controversial opinions on things.
Just as a quick disclaimer, Soft Wars is obviously a FAN WORK, so I am not trying to attack the author of this series for their chosen interpretations of things, their characterization choices, etc by stating my opinions on this. Everyone is allowed their own opinions and interpretations and tastes and I applaud this work for the well-written epic that it is and the clear impact it's had on the fandom as a whole.
TL;DR at the end under the cut.
With that out of the way, I think it does some things REALLY REALLY WELL, and some things that I like considerably less. As this reply says, it's really high quality writing with some interpretations of characters I don't personally like or agree with (I won't say they're "bad" because just because I don't like something doesn't make it bad).
Firstly, I really love the way Soft Wars chooses to portray the clones, the focus it has on them already HAVING a chosen culture before the Jedi that they've created amongst themselves, a lot of their own independence, and the strong and unique relationships between the different clone characters. Cody does not feel like he could be replaced with Fox or Ponds or Bly and be effectively the same character, for example. They also all have such unique relationships among each other and with their main Jedi counterparts which was really interesting to see. I love me a niche pairing sometimes.
I particularly love the way Fox and Ponds' relationship played out as someone who identifies as asexual and at least a little aromantic, too. I also really like the way Obi-Wan's sensitivity to touch is handled within his relationship with Cody and how respectful Cody is of that, it's one of my favorite aspects of that relationship in Soft Wars.
That being said, I'm not the BIGGEST fan of the way the Jedi are portrayed all the time. Sometimes it's really great, and I do like it! It's by no means ANTI Jedi, there is no virulent hatred aimed at the Jedi in the narrative. But it absolutely falls into the category of showcasing the Jedi as repressed and somewhat complacent and if they just were a little more Mandalorian, a little more like Anakin, they could've saved themselves from genocide and they'd just be generally happier and healthier people.
This obviously makes itself MOST known with the way the relationship between Rex and Anakin (and Obi-Wan to some degree) gets treated. Rex becomes like Anakin's replacement father-figure because Obi-Wan just didn't quite hit the mark well enough because he's too much of a Jedi and doesn't cater to Anakin's specific needs which is why Anakin falls for Palpatine's manipulations so much. Rex's blatant dislike of Obi-Wan which he BARELY keeps in check and which everybody is aware of because he blames Obi-Wan for Anakin being kind-of a selfish juvenile shithead is... certainly a take on that relationship. Rex tends to give Anakin a lot of advice that I personally see as just obvious normal Jedi philosophy and values as though it's clearly something Anakin wouldn't have learned from the Jedi already.
I'm also not a huge fan of the way Obi-Wan's relationship to Cody plays out in conjunction with the "pledge" to Cody as vod'alor. The fact that Obi-Wan DOESN'T pledge himself to Cody AS A POLITICAL LEADER somehow ends up meaning Obi-Wan doesn't love Cody enough and it's only when Obi-Wan chooses Cody OVER THE JEDI that Obi-Wan is truly... freed? Unrepressed? On his way to a happier way of living life because now he's willing to be in a more typical committed relationship and that's the only way to have a healthy relationship? Obi-Wan choosing Cody and the clones over the Jedi is also what ultimately gets Rex to decide Obi-Wan's not a TOTAL piece of shit and can be saved from his unhealthy toxic Jedi ways.
Then there's Cody apparently blaming MACE for the clones' situation within the GAR. Like I get that the clones would've believed the Jedi had ordered them and all that, but he's literally in a relationship with Obi-Wan who is ON THE COUNCIL and was the one to discover Kamino and the clones and could 1000% tell Cody the truth, and Cody is not presented as though he's kind-of dim and unintelligent or too stubborn to accept the truth, so it feels strange that Cody would hate Mace because he thinks Mace is the reason the clones are "enslaved" to the Republic or whatever. But I will mention here that Mace IS portrayed positively, Cody's dislike of Mace and his choice to blame Mace for their situation is NOT universal since we see a really lovely friendship between Mace and Ponds, so it's not like Mace is at all villainized. It just feels like a strange opinion for Cody to have, especially since it really only makes an appearance once and never gets explored again to my knowledge and Cody's blame seems to rest SOLELY on Mace, not the Jedi or the Council at large.
I don't like the way the Council gets sort-of villainized as a governing body even if its individual members are sometimes treated positively outside of it, specifically through them being pitted against Anakin in particular for no obvious reason. The Deception arc is interpreted as the Council ORDERING Obi-Wan to fake his death and then lie to Anakin about it, when it's stated really really clearly in the episode that the Council itself (or at least Yoda and probably Mace too) don't actually think lying to Anakin is the best idea but that Obi-Wan himself insisted on it for several different reasons, both strategic and personal. Obi-Wan specifically says the Council wants him to "break" Anakin, when a) it's not the Council's idea to begin with in canon, and b) that's not even what Obi-Wan's TRYING to do with this choice in canon.
This theme of pitting the Council against Anakin also comes up in a fic where Obi-Wan "allows" the Council to force Anakin to help Quinlan learn how to go undercover as a slave. It's pointed out by Cody that Quinlan is a perfectly good undercover agent and so he either shouldn't have NEEDED assistance from anyone in figuring out how to act the part or he should have other friends he could go to that could help him learn more that just... aren't Anakin (why it's a better idea to ask a different former slave for advice rather than Anakin who is a trained Jedi with access to mental health care and a lot of support just because Anakin is Anakin and so he's special does not get addressed). The implication here is that the Council just doesn't care about Anakin enough to utilize these options if it's quicker and easier to just use Anakin.
I don't like the way Ki-Adi Mundi is portrayed in Soft Wars, although I have seen a few posts on the author's page about this kind-of addressing some of the critique about the way Ki-Adi is written which... helps. Ki-Adi is apparently someone who gets a LOT of fandom hate for some reason, I assume it's a Legends thing since he's pretty minor in high canon and all of his scenes are pretty generic kindly old man stuff. Since this seems like something that's gotten discussed and brought up a bunch by other people I'm not going to dwell on it.
Soft Wars DOES undo the entire Tusken massacre because it recognizes that's something you either just undo or have to address and deal with and they went with the easier option of just saving Shmi and letting him not massacre an entire village of people down to the last child. I don't have any strong feelings on this honestly, it's clearly the only real way to pretend Anakin's not an irredeemable piece of shit by the time of the Clone Wars. Also the entire point of Soft Wars is to save everybody from death, so saving Shmi is kind-of a necessary thing to do.
You could probably also categorize Soft Wars as one of those stories that acts like if Anakin had just gotten one more lecture from someone about what attachment actually means or that the Jedi actually CAN love blah blah blah that it would've suddenly saved him from going Sith. It's not particularly accurate to how Anakin is written in canon, but it's pretty common to how people who really like Anakin and sympathize with him and relate to him like to write him as a character.
All in all, Soft Wars is exactly what it says it is. It's soft. It's soft towards Anakin, it's soft towards the clones, it's soft towards the war and the worldbuilding. It's definitely worth a read just for the way it handles the clone worldbuilding and the clear impact it has had on the way the clones have been written in fic ever since. At this point, I don't regret reading it but I also don't go back to it very often anymore and there's a reason I didn't rec Soft Wars in my Pro-Jedi Codywan rec list lol.
TL;DR: Soft Wars is not what I would consider fully Pro-Jedi but nor is it anywhere near virulently anti-Jedi and it has some really neat writing for the clones while obviously being really pro-Anakin Skywalker to the point of smoothing out most of his more uncomfortable flaws to make him a more sympathetic and likable character.
#fan fic#fic#my relationship with soft wars is that i kind-of created my own soft wars in my head to cater to my personal interpretations#rex gets thru to anakin not because the clones know better than the jedi but just because palps poisoned anakin against the jedi#and palps never saw the clones as a threat in that particular way so he never bothered poisoning anakin against THEM#so rex can say exactly the same thing as the jedi do and anakin will hear it like it's totally new information#cody's relationship with obi-wan is a LOT more respectful of his jedi values concerning commitments#so at NO POINT is obi-wan pressured into 'pledging' to cody nor does cody ever even expect it#he doesn't love obi-wan in SPITE of obi-wan being a jedi i hate that#soft wars also seems to either have the jedi reform to allow marriage or they just always had marriage and anakin didn't know#i can't recall offhand#but either way my soft wars would have no marriage#if anakin wants to stay married to padme he can damn well leave the order to do it#i also decided that anakin pledging to cody in secret ends up this major betrayal once obi-wan finds out about it#because he just BROKE HIS VOWS like it didn't MATTER#anakin keeps it a secret in part because he just doesn't want to face censure or disappointment from anyone#partly because he doesn't want to lose ahsoka and if he gets asked to leave the jedi that's obviously a consequence#but also partly because he DOES care about the jedi and they're still at war and if he has to leave the order he also has to leave the GAR#he wants to be able to be there to help protect the clones and other jedi#he doesn't want to have to abandon them#so he just keeps it a secret while fully intending to reveal it after the war is over and THEN leave#but obi-wan does find out thru Reasons and anakin faces Consequences for his actions#including losing ahsoka and probably having to leave the GAR#but he rejoins as a civilian consultant the way ahsoka does and likely via pulled strings gets assigned to a segment of the 501st or smthg#ahsoka ends up obi-wan's padawan#obi-wan and cody end up ending their relationship while all of this is going on because cody lied to him too#and obi-wan feels really upset by this but recognizes that cody is a political leader of the clones and was just doing his job#cody was protecting his people in the way he believed was best#cody was prioritizing duty over his personal relationship to obi-wan#and given that obi-wan will always prioritize duty over his personal relationships he can hardly hold this against cody
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