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This is a bit more experimental than what I usually do, but I had fun. :)

The vague idea behind this was "Force Ghost Anakin loses his shit"

#anakin skywalker #star wars fanart #star wars #fanart #my art #POV: you just said “idk senator amidala was kinda mid tbh” #<<<prev tags from my art blog

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anybody out there who actually likes Kaliyo, maybe skip this one.

Holy shit she drives me nuts. Just--this most recent mission with her. she sells information to her anarchist buddies and is angry when I (well, my agent) call her out on it??? "Don't expect me to be loyal to the Empire like you" mf I DON'T. but the least you could do is not put my job (and life) and everyone else on this ship's jobs (and lives) at risk.

"I get it, I'm your prisoner" I DON'T WANT YOU HERE EITHER

sometimes I almost like her, and then--

idk I think I might be getting too invested in my imp agent's life, lol. never in my life did I think I'd hate someone who works against the empire so much. if it were any other character-- yeah, you go girl. but no. it's fucking kaliyo

#swtor #swtor spoilers #imperial agent spoilers #imperial agent #kaliyo djannis #rant #i want to strangle her right now #i'm getting way to heated about this lol.

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The Midi-chlorian essay only a few asked

(or, How Is Anakin Skywalker a walking biological horror)

So I made this post and a few were actually interested, also i needed to write down all of this or I wouldn't be able to sleep.

The way I went just from "hahaha they're just mitochondria before becoming forced symbionts and losing all autonomy" to the Medical Horror that would be Anakin Skywalker .

Let me explain, going from this theory, let me tell you that the average mammal cell can have between 800 to 2000 mitochondria. In Star Wars we're told that the average living being, has 2500 midi-chlorians per cell. The difference isn't that big, so we can assume that mid-chlorians are smaller than our real-life mitochondria, and it would make sense since the mitochondria have the best possible living conditions, whereas midi-chlorians, if they're free-life bacteria (as in, they aren't forced to live in the cells of another being) it would make sense if they're just smaller, let's say, sneaky, to increment their chances at living.

So Midi-chlroains don't just produce ATP, Force sensitives have a minimum of 4000-5000 midi-chlorians per cell. That's...a big number, but not very horrific. See, the amount of mitochondria is related to how much energy the organic tissue requires. The cells of muscular tissue and neurons are the ones with the highest mitochondria count. Also the mitochondria in the neurons are mobile and flexible, because just thinking burns ATP.

We can assume that using The Force burns insane amounts of ATP, so I assume it makes sense for Force Sensitives to have big amounts of Midi-chlorians. But! The problem with this is that we're told that the Midi-chlorians are attracted to the force, not born within it. But any multicelullar organism (with a few exceptions) need the mitochondria. Mitochondria have their own ADN, and they're always inherited from the mother, so we can assume that there's two different types of midi-chlorians: The ones any normal being borns with, and the ones that get attracted because of the baby's force potential. Either that, or both the mithocondria and the midi-chlorians exist simultaneously.

Which means that Jedi (or anyone who wants to know, really) would need to take several blood tests for midi-chlorians count. Because a newborns midi-chlorian count wouldn't be the same through a babie's infancy. UNLESS...The midi-chlorian infection (yes, i'm calling it that) ocurrs already since the pregnancy, if the force is strong enough for a fetus to be a possible force sensitive in the future, then I guess the midi-chlorians would get attracted to the parent during the pregnancy as well.

WHICH BTW, IT FITS WITH PADMÉ BECOMING FORCE SENSITIVE, at least for a while, like the discarded ROTS concepts. But also, would mean, that poor Shmi became a hella strong force-sensitive person as well, at least for a while.

And it would be a biological advantage if we take this route, because it would possibly make the pregnant being stronger and with a higher supply of energy.

It also explains why the jedi would only take a single blood test when the force sensitive is just a baby, because the infection is already settled. It can also be argued, that any baby born with a fairly high amount of midi-chlorians (like the 4000 per cell count minimum) would only increase, if only slightly, as the force sensitive grows because the midi-chlorians will get attracted regardless.

There must be a limit, or more like, a balance, that the midi-chlorian and the force potential of the individual met. As in, there's just enough force within the individual for a certain number of midi-chlorian, and all of this is probably decided already during the fetus formation or very early on the baby's life.

Now, Anakin...would be an abomination. Because his cells are so full of midi-chlorians, that it's scary to think how the cells aren't exploding or downright giving malfunctions to the rest of the cellular organelles.

If we go by the route of "midi-chlorians start infecting the force sensitive host mother during pregnancy" it means there were high chances of a misscarriage or an incompatibility between Shmi and Anakin, because holy cow, Anakin is just too much.

But you know what also, it could potentially mean? That Padmé's pregnancy was a risky one, fron the start -slowly nods-. Luke and Leia's force potential was lower than Anakin's, but there's still a lot to unpack there in terms of compatibility. We are never given the exact count of midichlorian count for the twins, but let's pretend it was low enough for Padmé to not inmediatly have a miscarriage. That, and also, maybe, Padmé isn't strong in the force to manipulate it, but maybe just close enough for the pregnancy to be carried to term, let's say, her midi-chlorian count is 3900, close enough.

Something similar with Shmi, I'm taking for granted that she also had a difficult and risky pregnancy (on top of it being a pregnancy she had no agency). It becomes worse because, unlike the twins, Anakin is just...50% human. The only possible genes Anakin has are from Shmi. So he's probably...genetically, almost a clone of Shmi but with a massive infection of Midi-chlorians (yes, this implies that Anakin has homogametic sex chromosomes, aka XX, there's no other possible explanation because he literally only has Shmi's genes to work with!).

But he's Space Jesus, though,so let's pretend that the "no father genes" helped with this and allowed Anakin to grow into a...normal-ish baby despite it all.

Midi-chlorians must be extremelly small, closer to the size of a virus in this case, viruses vary on size and the way they infect the cells is by hijacking the nucleus, which then can produce more viruses instead of its own proteins. This can vary anywhere between a production of 50.000 to 100.000 viruses produced by infected cells.

Which, btw, still fits somewhat with the mitochondria theory, because mitochondrias are believed to have been from a genus of bacteria called Rickettsia, which used to be believed to be the in-between of Viruses and Bacteria due their small size and extreme endosymbiotism.

Still, we aren't even told how many midi-chlorians Anakin had, just that it was over 20.000 and thus the chart couldn't even register it. Even if we're just counting 21.000 midi-chlorians per cell, that's...a lot. Even if the relationship is symbiotic and positive in nature, that's excessive, an infected cell will usually die faster. So Anakin's cellular death must be on record time.

The life span of a cell varies highly depending of the type of cells, white cells can live about 2 days, others about 5, and then there's others that live about 6 years in average.

Forget all of that, Anakin's cells die anywhere between a few hours and a week. Which also means a super fast regeneration and healing (Hey! that tracks, that's how he didn't die even though he should have, on several ocassions).

But that's not the only problem here, the production of energy is strong with this one, too strong. Again this should make the cells burst due too much ATP because of an increase on osmotic pressure. Anakin is producing so much damn ATP (which we can assume it becomes glycogen stored in muscles and fat tissue) his need to be active and just doing something skyrockets, he might as well be the equivalent of being high on meth since birth.

The accelerated cellular formation and death, gives me the horrific idea that Anakin was probably one of these babies that are born premature, but also that he probably was bron with, idk, teeth and already lots of hair. Maybe that's also why he got so tall of all sudden, lots of cellular grow, huh.

Anakin seems to age normally by what are we given by canon. So despite it all, his life-span or aging doesn't seem to be compromised, this is probably because of how strong he is with the Force. In the sense that...he needs the midi-chlorians to handle this much power, but he also needs the force to handle with that many midi-chlorians, otherwise he would have been already born dead.

See, ageing has a lot to do with stem cells. Anakin's stem cells need to be highly prolific and potent to keep cellular division happening at such a high rate, we can infer that any force sensitive has potent stem cells, so the force must inherently affect stem cells. So Anakin's stem cells must be monstruosities in efficiency. If Anakin donated stem cells to someone else, that person would either have a strong inhumne reaction against them or they would get some of the worst cancer ever seen. Again I'm no expert, but the fact Anakin doesn't develop cancer at all as soon as he was born is already impressive. The rate in which Anakin's cells die must be ridiculous, even has a baby, he must have required tons of energy and endure lots of stress which...tracks. The fact he gets electroshocked, burned, gravely wounded or whatever every week or so, must help him to no develop some cancer, which is a bit funny.

But it would also mean he can go long periods of time without eating or resting like...a normal human. Not saying that he doesn't need it, though, but his neural activity and use of the force must be high at all times to burn out that much energy. Theoretically, the production of glycose and glycogen helps him through long periods without sleep or food so he doesn't get long-term damage, or at the very least the ability to keep going, like I said, maybe is like being on drugs all the time; there's still the need to sleep and eat, but he can push his body to keep surviving beyond what's considered normal without having long-term damage. (Don't get happy, this isn't taking into account all of the stuff that happens to him, lol)

The balance between burning too much energy and not burning enough must be insane as well. As Vader, a lot of this probably watered down because all of his energy must be saved for...you know, surviving all the torture. But as a young teen/man amist war? Oh boy.

I'm not an expert, but I'm theorizing that putting Anakin in an induced sleeep must be...fricking hard. Painkillers that work on him? fricking hard. Anesthesia? Probably the same used for big animals, he must be insane and awful for a doctor to work with! Just imagine it, he probably gets injured in such a way that would have anyone else fall unconscious, but Anakin remains awake and with tremendous amounts of adrenaline triggered by a stress response sustented by the extreme amounts of energy that the midichlorians produce.

When it happens in the central nervious system, excess of ATP can produce neuronal dysfunction. In fact, many degenerative mental illnesses have a lot to do with a malfunction of the mitochondrias. There's a corelation also with neurodivergency sometimes, like autism or ADHD. I will leave it there.

And with all of this...I also conclude that Anakin, on general basis, doesn't like sugary things and doesn't even rationalize why, but is because he has already enough glycose. Having something sugary probably gives him a headache.

God what has Star Wars done to me.

#anakin skywalker #anakin is a crime against nature #science #anyways im absorbing this entire post into my very being #this qas a fascinating and entertaining read #Doctors hate him: this man is an abomination in the eyes of god

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If a Jedi ghost overshoots on timetravelling...

Anakin and Obi-Wan deciding after a few decades of force ghostings that things are seriously screwed up beyond repair and that they're going back to when he was a baby are Fixing Things.

Only the Force takes that as when Obi-Wan, not Anakin, was a baby, so Anakin ends up chilling in the Jedi temple as a not-quite-a-force-ghost and hanging around Obi-Wan as he grows up again.

Problems:

Obi-Wan is trying to keep Anakin and his own adult-mind secret, but Anakin is getting increasingly pissy about Obi-Wan's childhood issues (Bruck, Bandomeer, Qui-Gon Jinn).

People are starting to think the temple is haunted. Which. Yes. But also no.

Obi-Wan's crechemaster is seriously conserned that he might be possessed

Because there is no record of their species/appearance/gender and because Anakin picked up some Mando'a from the Clones, people are mistaking him for the ghost of Tarre Vizsla.

It's kind of hard to avert a centuries old Sith plan when you're a tiny child and an intangible being of light and feels.

Turns out that when you want a master, Jinn won't want you, but when it seems like you're getting tutored by a rage-filled ghost from beyond suddenly he's in the way, making it hard to chat with your ghost friend.

Eventually Anakin is going to be born, which means a vanished ghost and a too-wise child brought to the temple who will grow up to look just like the ghost. So Anakin really needs to not do anything stupid. Or so Obi-Wan keeps reminding him.

#obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #au #timetravel au #timetravel aus are probably my favorite #but CRACKY timetravel aus are even better #also i know this wasnt in ops vision but #i want to imagine qui gon being able to see anakin because hes already such a weird dude #“it is an honor to take you on as my padawan young kenobi” #obi wan: :') #“also who's your glowy friend?” #anakin: *space-deer in headlights*

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“Swoosh me; I am deadlier that way” - General Obi-Wan Kenobi

Just another day in the clone wars.

(Image ID to follow once I get the time to go back and enter them all for previous posts too!)

#obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #fanart #i adore the colors in this

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Did I miss something?

#obi wan kenobi #gifs #never noticed his face before lol

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He really just fell spread out like that huh

#anakin skywalker #okay rbing this version too #what a whore

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He really just fell spread out like that huh

#anakin skywalker #official comics #@ whoever illustrated this: #why that angle #not complaining just wondering

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I thought that wasn't really canon anymore with Disney? I mean, not that I care if it is or isn't technically canon anymore, lol. It'll always be canon to me.

So, I know in current canon there's not actually a confirmed reason for Anakin's scar (besides maybe shaving accident) but,

Assuming it was still made by a lightsaber, how well do you think he can see out of that eye? Even if it missed the eye itself, surely having a laser sword that close to your eye has to do some damage, right?

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So, I know in current canon there's not actually a confirmed reason for Anakin's scar (besides maybe shaving accident) but,

Assuming it was still made by a lightsaber, how well do you think he can see out of that eye? Even if it missed the eye itself, surely having a laser sword that close to your eye has to do some damage, right?

#anakin skywalker #star wars #tcw #my personal headcanon is that his vision in his right eye is shit #and he kinda uses the force to compensate #it's not the same as his normal vision #but it works

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#luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #darth vader #funny #shitpost #vader: im dying please dont ask me difficult questions

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i think we're gonna have to kill this guy, anakin

#obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #fanart #I adore this artstyle!! #i love how defined and sharp the eyes and eyebrows are against the redt of the image!

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I imagine Palpatine clapping his hands and skipping around like a kid in a candy shop everytime some tragic shit happens in anakin's life that he can use as manipulation fuel

#sheev palpatine #darth sidious #anakin skywalker #star wars

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the 501st finest (please this is the dumbest thing i've ever made)

#anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #gremlin ahsoka #fanart #gremlin ahsoka is gold

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Now I would appreciate a fic where Anakin Skywalker just kills Palpatine on accident. I was watching revenge of the sith and through the whole sequence of Obi-wan and Anakin saving Palpatine from the ship I was thinking: “Anakin is waving his damn sabre EVERYWHERE it’s a miracle he hasn’t hit something on accident” and then bam: idea.

In Anakin’s defence there’s a LOT going on so like it’s not his FAULT that he wasn’t looking where he was slicing and the next thing he knows Palpatine’s head is no longer on his shoulders but rolling down some flight of stairs and Anakin just sort of,, pees himself a little.

“Oh. Shit.”

A whole mile away Mace Windu is sitting in his quarters and suddenly the migraine in the back of his head disappears and he’s like “whoa.” And then jokingly is like “who had to be sacrificed for that damn ache to finally go away.” Turns out!

Obi-wan, through a holo-call, (with Anakin skywalker furiously sobbing and heaving through snot and coughs in the background): hey so, we should look into getting Skywalker some ADHD medication.

The Jedi council: why? What has happened?

Obi-Wan: just a little loss of focus, it happens to the best of us.

#anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #mace windu #sheev palpatine #ive seen this post so many times hpw jave i not reblogged it yet?

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anakin and aayla childhood friends? Yes

#aayla secura #anakin skywalker #fanart #them beinng friends (especially since childhood) is everything to me

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Alright, fuck it, here's my contribution for May the Fourth. Pretty man feat. my atrocious taste in men and a scribbly blurry Coruscant background

Tumblr please please please don't destroy the quality

Bonus Holt Kazed tattoo ver below cut, because weird space-snail tattoos, hell yeah

#star wars #anakin skywalker #fanart #my art #why do i love him so much when he's a mass murderer #and also when his charisma stat was maxed at age nine and just went atrociously downhill #<<<Prev tags from my art blog