#look chase your joy write your truths or whatever but. if you're gonna go in on the tusken massacre full out

[other-peoples-coats]

anyway, unrelated, I keep rotating mineshaft || in my head in relation to obi-wan and a post-war fic where order 66 either doesn't happen or is slightly less total, sidious does die, and the creaking facade of the republic somehow manages not to collapse utterly in the face of, uh, all that fuckin fall out.

Mostly it's the 'ok so he fell and did something horrible but the war but he sided with the sith but he's your brother-son-student but--' tangle, and then the absolute horror of finding out about the tuskens.

like is there a plot? no. but I do keep spinning a post war find out about the tuskens (and padme's cover up!! my god!! post all of it's own!!!) as like. the last straw, right. like you're working though it, you think you can -- if not forgive, really, but work though the unimaginable, contexualise it all as well, the war--

and then haha psych babies first genocide! literally for years! covered that shit up and never ever mentioned it! how can you trust that he was engaging with the process, whatever it was, if that was never gonna come up, how do you look back and trust anything, how--

(how did you miss it. what else did you miss.)