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secretfandomrambles · 7 months
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a small continuation of the Child Apollo au
just want to add to the Apollo kiddie-ified AU: Apollo is physically at the age a child starts losing their teeth. While knowing about this in theory (he’s a god of knowledge, youth and healing, of course he knows that children lose their teeth)…he is still pretty freaked out when he starts losing his teeth.
Zeus and the majority of the other gods did not know that humans lose their teeth. They are freaking out. Leto demands Zeus end Apollo’s punishment before he loses more body parts. Zeus wants to, but unfortunately as Apollo and Meg accepted destroying Python as their mission for Apollo regaining his divinity, Zeus can’t just return his son’s power before Python is dead.
the only ones not freaking out about this new development among the Council are Artemis, Athena and Dionysus. Artemis, because she is also a goddess of youth and has been around young girls for millennia, Athena because Apollo has subjected her to graphs about children’s development and teeth was included. And Dionysus, of course, was once Mortal himself and knows very well the pains of puberty and losing and growing teeth.
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secretfandomrambles · 10 months
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Why You Do Not Tell Apollo “Yo Mama” Jokes
Not sure where this would go in my various Trials of Apollo AU’s (and I still have not read the Trials of Apollo series, so there might be something incorrect).
But I am thinking that it would both be very in character (mythologically speaking) and also a reminder for the characters that “Lester” is still very much a god even with being rendered mortal, if, during his attempts at archery, Apollo overhears either Holly or Laurel make a “your mama joke,” about him.
He reacts without thinking, eyes flickering gold for just a second as he spins around and lets the arrow in his hands fly. It hits the mark, and the girl who dared to disrespect Leto in her son’s hearing falls to the ground with an arrow in her gut. Only spared because Apollon had enough presence of mind to remember that he is mortal, vulnerable. And while Artemis would agree that the girl’s words deserved punishment, Zeus likely would not, that Nike would take offense at him killing her daughter.
This prevents him from making a dangerous oath that he would almost immediately break (though he still makes the oath swearing off music). It gives him hope and the understanding that his powers are still there, lurking beneath the surface.
Meanwhile, Kayla Knowles is both impressed by the shot, horrified that the other girl got hurt. And also reminded that while he might appear to be a goof-ball most of the time, Apollo is extremely protective and takes slights to his mother and sister deadly seriously.
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secretfandomrambles · 11 months
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Another Trials of Apollo AU
Yes, yes I know I’ve got a myriad of aus floating around on here. But I’ve been thinking about Athena, Apollo and their relationship to Zeus. And that slid into the whole “prophecy of Zeus’s son overthrowing him,” au.
So…mythology (and even pjo canon) shows that gods don’t necessarily need to have an intimate relationship with each other or with mortals to have children. There also are differing myths regarding both Athena and Apollo’s births and if the other had already been born at the time.
With that being said. What if Apollo was secretly the son of Zeus and Metis? If Athena was born before Zeus got involved with Leto. If Metis managed to become pregnant with Zeus’s son while in his head, and when Zeus laid with Leto, Metis slipped her newly born son into Leto’s womb as she became pregnant with Artemis.
The reason why Apollo resembles Koios is due to the fact that a) Zeus and Leto are cousins, and b) all four of their parents are children of Gaia and Ouranous. Apollo knew the truth, but over the eons has buried his memory of his origins deep in the recesses of his mind. He chooses to claim the title of Artemis’s twin, rather than Athena’s younger brother, rightful claimant of Zeus’s kingship. And everything is fine. Until. Until Lester, and the trials.
See, when making a deity mortal, their mortal flesh can be changed drastically. But the things that cannot change between their true forms and their mortal forms are their eye color, and their facial features. And in this au, Lester heavily resembles Athena. His eyes burn blue with just the hints of gray around the pupil.
Athena is the first to realize something is off about Apollo’s mortal form. She manages to assure Zeus when he notices that it was simply the Fates making Apollo’s mortal form innocuous. Artemis is the second to truly realize something is up when she goes to heal Apollo, and feels no maternal bonds to Leto other than those which he had clearly built himself and her mother had eventually reciprocated. But a goddess’s bonds to her children originate from her, not the child. Diana knows something is very wrong. And then she finds the withered and dead husk of a maternal bond Apollo has to someone else near the sparking paternal bond. But whomever was the one the bond originated with has long since faded. Diana says nothing to Apollo or anyone else. When she returns to Olympus Athena meets her, and Artemis sees that like Apollo, Athena also has the withered /dead remains of a maternal bond sitting beside the electric living paternal bond all children of Zeus carry (whether they want to or not). Artemis is confused, but she still does not say anything. When Apollo reascends to Olympus, Athena is one of the first to greet him. In her stern and emotionless seeming mask, she gives him a firm nod, holding his gaze in hers. Which for Athena, is the equivalent of a bone-crushing hug.
Eventually, Artemis corners both Apollo and Athena about their dead maternal bonds and the truth comes out. There is drama, yes, anger, feelings of betrayal. But ultimately, the three of them band together along with Zeus’s other children, intent on either forcing Zeus to change or force him off his throne.
They refuse to let the death of Crest, Money Maker, Jason Grace and so many other demigods be in vain.
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secretfandomrambles · 11 months
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For a Future Percy Jackson/Harry Potter Crossover I am working on.
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secretfandomrambles · 11 months
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So! Given that my little Child Apollo fanfic idea is getting more attention than I expected, I just want to let you all know, that, yes, I do intend to write it…I have to actually read the books first though lol.
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secretfandomrambles · 11 months
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@vermiculoparasein​ I plan too ;) most if not all of the outlines I publish I plan to eventually write. I like getting them out of my brain first though.
Not sure if this would be amusing or horrifying. But I’m imagining a Trials of Apollo AU where Apollo is sent down to Earth in the same physical form that he was in when he fought Python the first time. Which in my mind, for whatever the reason, makes him appear about 7-8 years old.
Most things end up happening the same but no one takes Apollo seriously because he looks like a second-grader. (However, Apollo doesn’t get beat up by Cade and Mikey, and Diana spends a few minutes cuddling Apollo because that’s HER baby brother and she misses him.) Plus, Cabin Seven has more than one moment where they are holding back hysterics and the urge to wrap their Father up in bubble wrap because Apollo is a tiny fragile mortal who supremely overestimates what he’s capable of doing in child-form (and don’t get him started on talking about their mortal parents, this situation is already too weird). Chiron is also despairing because he already dealt with young Apollo being weirdly paternal once before, and now he has to deal with it again (Dionysus is outwardly laughing but inwardly panicking because he’s seen far too many children die and he knows what Zeus is like when it comes to letting other gods try to help someone he’s decided to punish)
Meg is suffering from cognitive disonnance because she was half-joking when she claimed Apollo’s service and is now stuck with a child-like ex-god who has a bunch of children of his own.
Bonus: Zeus is questioning his life-choices because child!Apollo keeps getting himself almost adopted by random strangers for some reason (and a part of him is furious and intending to strike them all down because Apollo is HIS son, not THEIRS) and this was not the punishment the king of the gods intended for him (and all the other gods are quietly side-eyeing him nervously). Leto is furious because that’s her baby and she wants him safe and not to go fighting that evil snake again (at least he isn’t a four-day old baby this time) but Zeus refuses to listen to her.
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secretfandomrambles · 11 months
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Bast adopts Twin Greek Deities + 1 Demigoddess
Just a random piece of crack I just thought of:
Artemis tries to stop Zeus from turning Apollo mortal. She also gets sent to Earth as a mortal as punishment. The injured, traumatized teenage ex-gods get Meg McCaffrey as their “master,” but while they are trying to get to Percy Jackson’s house they take a wrong turn and end up near the 21st Nome.
The Egyptian cat goddess Bast is hanging around in cat form, sees them, and seeing their injured, bedraggled forms, her Mama Cat instincts are activated and she basically adopts them. The four of them end up going on a nearly year-long adventure so Artemis and Apollo can free the Oracles and regain their Divinity, with frequent side-trips on the Egyptian side of things.
By the time they defeat Python and the Twin Archers regain their Divinity, Bast has been named “Second Mom” by the Twins and Meg, and she decides to start a custody war with Zeus and Demeter.
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secretfandomrambles · 11 months
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Not sure if this would be amusing or horrifying. But I’m imagining a Trials of Apollo AU where Apollo is sent down to Earth in the same physical form that he was in when he fought Python the first time. Which in my mind, for whatever the reason, makes him appear about 7-8 years old.
Most things end up happening the same but no one takes Apollo seriously because he looks like a second-grader. (However, Apollo doesn’t get beat up by Cade and Mikey, and Diana spends a few minutes cuddling Apollo because that’s HER baby brother and she misses him.) Plus, Cabin Seven has more than one moment where they are holding back hysterics and the urge to wrap their Father up in bubble wrap because Apollo is a tiny fragile mortal who supremely overestimates what he’s capable of doing in child-form (and don’t get him started on talking about their mortal parents, this situation is already too weird). Chiron is also despairing because he already dealt with young Apollo being weirdly paternal once before, and now he has to deal with it again (Dionysus is outwardly laughing but inwardly panicking because he’s seen far too many children die and he knows what Zeus is like when it comes to letting other gods try to help someone he’s decided to punish)
Meg is suffering from cognitive disonnance because she was half-joking when she claimed Apollo’s service and is now stuck with a child-like ex-god who has a bunch of children of his own.
Bonus: Zeus is questioning his life-choices because child!Apollo keeps getting himself almost adopted by random strangers for some reason (and a part of him is furious and intending to strike them all down because Apollo is HIS son, not THEIRS) and this was not the punishment the king of the gods intended for him (and all the other gods are quietly side-eyeing him nervously). Leto is furious because that’s her baby and she wants him safe and not to go fighting that evil snake again (at least he isn’t a four-day old baby this time) but Zeus refuses to listen to her.
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Son of Metis fic continuation
Given that I recently have dove into the Trials of Apollo fandom (despite not yet having managed to a) read the books or b) finish the Heroes of Olympus series), I am adding a little bit onto the original storyline.
Apollo definitely knows that Athena’s been hiding her baby brother since the day she emerged from Zeus’s head.
Apollo told Artemis and the two have been discretely watching and nudging things to train the boy for his future as their king for the last 12 years—and covering for Athena.
Zeus, as is shown in the Trials of Apollo series (and the parallels made between Zeus and Nero) is a horrible parent and not a good king.
Which leads me to the forth thing: Apollo, who given that he has some hope for things to finally change is able to admit that his father is awful, is (along with Artemis) definitely planning a coup to replace Zeus with Perseus once he is ready.
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Perseus Jackson: Son of Apollo
I read a really good Percy Jackson is a son of Hermes fanfic…and now I kind of want to read (or write) a fanfic with Percy as a son of Apollo, but rather than having his abilities leaning toward mainly toward Healing, Archery and Singing, Percy’s abilities are geared toward Apollo’s more obscure domains…particularly the ones of pestilence and prophecy.
Obviously, it would need a lot of thought and research, but I think it would be fun for Percy to live up to the meaning of his name: Destroyer.
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secretfandomrambles · 2 years
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I don’t have any real concrete ideas for this, but, I’ve been reading Avatar!Zuko fics the last few days, so:
What if Zuko is the Avatar, and thanks to the Fire Nation nobility’s idea of raising children, he is primarily raised by his own past lives (Roku, Aang, the Water & Earth Avatars)?
Or…Kyoshi lives a bit longer and Zuko is her successor rather than Roku. And Zuko is very obviously raised by her.
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secretfandomrambles · 2 years
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Good Omens/Lucifer tv Fanfic idea: Crowley isn’t “technically” an angel. He was created as the very first Serpent (imbued with angelic levels of intelligence, speech, abilities, immortality, etc.) by Lucifer before he was cast out of Heaven (Crowley was kicked out after biting Amenadiel and sending him to the infirmary while in Large, Menacing Snake Form).
The end of the world plot happens but without an antichrist to worry about (so Adam Young is the completely human twin brother of the boy who would have in another universe been called Warlock Dowling). Crowley and Aziraphale are still very much best friends (technically Zira is Crowley’s uncle, so sadly no romantic undertones).
Crowley’s real name is Nahash (which is literally “Serpent”), but the only one who calls him that is Lucifer.
Good Omens Demons are Lilim rather than fallen angels.
Amenadiel is terrified of snakes.
Crowley ends up in LA for some reason, and stumbles onto a case Lucifer and Chloe are working on early season 2. He freaks out at seeing his Parent and turns into a snake only to be caught three seconds later. Chloe misses the exchange entirely, only seeing some weird guy dressed in black disappear one moment and Lucifer is holding a large snake in his hands and cooing at it the next.
Lucifer is very very proud of his kid (even more so that Crowley managed to make Heaven and Hell back off from destroying Earth). And becomes even prouder when Crowley wraps his snake body around Amenadiel and hisses at him (even though Crowley is just telling him about a prank he pulled earlier that day).
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secretfandomrambles · 2 years
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From Arthur and Mordred To Ozai and Zuko (and the lives in-between)
[Or, where I take Arthurian Mythology, Harry Potter, and Avatar: the last Airbender and smash them into the same story-line.]
After their deaths at the battle of Camlann, Arthur Pendragon is given a choice: wait for whenever Albion needs him most, or enter a reincarnation cycle with two others in order for them to learn from and repent of their sins so that when they are finally needed, they can become the people they were always meant to be.
Arthur accepts this offer, weighed down by the crimes he committed against his son Mordred when the boy was a babe, and the senseless deaths of those who fought with him against his rebellious offspring, just to name a few things.
He ends up in a limbo of sorts, and finds his old mentor, Merlin and Mordred there waiting for him. Mordred feels immense guilt for trying to take over the kingdom and causing his father’s death, in what was ultimately a really badly thought out bid for his father’s love and acknowledgement.
Merlin doesn’t feel any guilt, whether for how he manipulated Arthur, or tried to drown Mordred as an infant, or even the debacle with Nimue. However his loyalty to Arthur is strong enough, and his heart is (usually) in the right place, which is enough for Fate and Death to give him a second chance.
In their second lives, Merlin is reborn as Albus P.W.B. Dumbledore, a wizard, Arthur is born as Tom Riddle, the non-magical son of wealthy land-owners. and just like Igraine, he was bewitched with a spell and fathered Mordred’s reincarnation, Tom Marvolo Riddle. In this timeline, Fleamont and Euphemia Potter die old and childless, James Potter never having been born. Lily Potter and Severus Snape are friends, but not in love with each orher. Given that the Mauraders never formed, Severus and many others school days weren’t made a humiliating hell. Remus did however, eventually form a friendship with Sirius Black. Harry Potter isn’t born, and the Prophecy is never given.
Tom Jr. still kills his father, rips his soul apart and goes mad while at the same time taking over the world. There is no one to stop him, until a few brave students (Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, Cedric Diggory and Draco Malfoy) go off on a hunt for the horocruxes, and eventually destroy them. Albus Dumbledore is too busy actively fighting Voldemort and has somehow never learned of the horcruxes. It is Luna who is killed by the Ring’s curse while horcrux hunting, as she longs to see the mother who died when she was a young child.
When Mordred’s present life is finally killed, his soul is stitched back together, and Death gives him and Arthur a second chance to try and make better choices, by putting them in more optimal circumstances. They rewind to where Fate feels the first knot in the tapestry of the timeline is, and Arthur is reborn again, in the 1960s as James Potter. Unfortunately, due to Fate and Death’s meddling, in 1980 Sybil Trelawny gives a prophecy dooming a child who has already suffered in two lifetimes.
James has flashes of his past lives, as King Arthur and Tom Sr. He grows up feeling a sense of entitlement and that those around him are never what they seem. He has nightmares that push him to learn spells to test for drugs in his food and drinks, convinces his parents to let him learn to fight with swords. But it is only when he faces Voldemort on October 31 1981 that he really Remembers. By then, it is too late, and he dies again at his son’s hands.
Mordred has been reborn as Harry Potter. With no living father to direct his anger at over his living circumstances, and no mother dripping poison in his ears turning him against his father, he constantly searches for something that he is never able to name in the adults around him. The Dursleys’ fear of him is an odd comfort, and when he hears Petunia speaking of him with her neighbors, something about her words, warning them away from him, about how strange he is (he has heard this before, from someone he cared just as little) he smiles. Harry grows up despising the Dursleys’ and somehow realizing that he doesn’t belong with them.
Interestingly, when Harry starts Hogwarts, he goes into Ravenclaw. He also has a deep loathing of Albus Dumbledore for which he cannot explain. His times of battling Voldemort are confusing and disorienting.
Eventually Harry dies, is yet again reunited with his father, and gets the memories of his past lives downloaded into his brain. Coming back to life after his past self kills him? Harry ends the battle and just, goes to the nearest pub and gets thoroughly trashed.
Life goes on, as it always does, and Harry dies a second time, and is reborn in another universe, as a prince and a Firebender, named Zuko. Zuko’s father Ozai is the reincarnation of Arthur/Tom Riddle/James Potter. While Zuko’s uncle Iroh is the reincarnation of Merlin/Albus Dumbledore.
Things really only start to change the night Zuko is forced to fight in an agni kai after accidentally “disrespecting” his father. And he refuses. Ozai moves to strike, but the moment before his hand lights Zuko’s face on fire, a white light knocks them away from each other. The next half-hour is spent with Ozai and Zuko unconscious while they’re dealing with sorting through three life-times worth of memories.
Zuko wakes up first, and after getting his dual dao and packing a bag, tries to get out of the palace as quickly as possible, certain that Father is going to kill him for, y’know, killing him three times over.
The servant who intercepts him and drags him to go speak to his father deserves a raise with all the shouting and struggling the poor man has to deal with. Zuko ends up grounded for all the crap he pulled as Voldemort.
The underlying tension between Ozai and Zuko eventually explodes when the Avatar returns and Iroh’s memories of *his* past lives return.
[Looking at it, this probably would need like, at least three different books to do this justice]
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secretfandomrambles · 2 years
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I can’t believe I have only found one (1) Coco genderbent fanfic where it’s only a couple of the Riveras with their genders switched, and fem!Hector’s murder is made even worse than in canon…
well, they do say that if you want to read something, you’re gonna have to write it yourself (or something along those lines)
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secretfandomrambles · 2 years
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I’m going to preface this by saying that I have neither read the books or watched the show, but I have a Game of Thrones AU idea:
What if Jon Snow, Bastard of Winterfell, was actually Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar and Elia), and Arya is his younger sister & Lyanna’s daughter Visenya Targaryen (here raised as Arya Snow)
Jon wouldn’t get Ghost then, would he…but weren’t there legends of the Rhyonar having water magic?
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secretfandomrambles · 2 years
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Because I apparently can’t help myself, I made an Ao3 account and have started writing fanfiction. Therefore, I may end up writing these story outlines myself.
You can find me on Ao3 as hauntedwizardtree. Right now I have the first chapters of a Lucifer fic and an Encanto fic up, and those will be my priority until they are finished.
However, you can comment on this post as to which of my fic Outlines that have been posted on this blog you would like to read a full story of first!
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secretfandomrambles · 2 years
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The Force’s Adventures in Parenting (Star Wars AU)
Author Note: So I actually had this thought a while back, before I had a tumblr, and mentioned it in an anonymous comment on a tumblr blog dedicated to Star Wars, in case someone manages to find that original comment. And anyone reading this, sorry, this has gotten very very strange.
In which the Force is sentient, and actually takes some interest in their son’s life. Unfortunately, due to the Force’s nature, they don’t understand human development or embodied sentients for that matter. So they mostly regard Anakin as a toddler.
While a regular person would think that this would cause issues with Anakin’s emotional development and growth, it turns out that the Force’s keeping an eye on their child thanks to their skewed idea of sentient development, actually helps. Because what parent is going to be happy with their two-year-old’s babysitter (yes, the Force regards the Jedi as Anakin’s babysitters after they take him from the abusive toydarian who was holding him and his mother in chains) allowing the child to spend time with some weird old guy who practically forced said babysitter to allow them access to the kid? No-one.
Strike one on the being allowed to babysit the Force’s kid, Jedi.
The Force talks to Anakin, both in his dreams and otherwise, doing their best to make up for the fact that before Anakin wasn’t old enough to understand them when they spoke, or to recognize when they held him. Anakin despises meditation, not because it is difficult—it’s not—but because he hates losing the feeling of rightness, of completeness that he gets when being so close to the force, and has to reorient himself because his physical form doesn’t have enough eyes or limbs. And he misses his tail. And Anakin learns things, about the Sith, the Jedi, and of Balance between them. Every attempt he makes to tell others is brushed off as Anakin still acting like the child Qui-Gon brought from the Outer Rim.
When Shmi dies, and Anakin temporarily loses his mind and slaughters the Tuskens, the Force is not pleased, but as They are basically an incorperal eldritch entity that’s as old if not older than the universe and basically encompasses the entirety of said universe, they’ve got a very weird outlook on beings and basically regards others who are not Their child as being like houseplants. Anakin’s attack could then (on the Force’s part) be compared to a toddler throwing a tantrum and ripping up the grass and dirt on the front lawn because their favorite toy had been broken irreparably and couldn’t be replaced.
For the Plant Analogy, the Force considers the Jedi to be oddly aware flowers and Anakin having been dropped into a field of them to play while the Force looks on indulgently. Palpatine is the poison ivy that is slowly spreading through the field. It looks harmless, but causes pain once in contact with a person. Padme is the tree sapling Anakin found randomly growing in the field.
The Force finds Anakin and Padme’s relationship to be rather sweet, in the way parents indulge their small children who declare they want to marry so-and-so when they grow up. The fact that the two lovebirds end up having an intimate physical relationship is completely ignored as the Force doesn’t count Anakin as being a physical entity, but instead as another (much, much younger) Incorporeal eldritch Entity who has been placed in a soft, squishy jumpsuit that bleeds red liquid when it gets damaged when interacting with the “plants” because his true eldritch form is rather vulnerable at this stage.
Dooku’s fighting with Anakin is the first time the Force really realizes that Anakin’s physical form getting damaged causes him actual pain. The Force initially wants to give him a new “jumpsuit” but seeing as it took nine months last time to make it for him, the Force simply manipulates Anakin’s midichlorians to make a new arm for him, while healing the damage done to his body.
Within a few weeks, Anakin gets an apprentice, Ahsoka Tano, who becomes one of his best friends and a surrogate younger sister. When she is killed on Mortis, the Force, wanting to avoid another tantrum (in light of how Mortis helps Anakin to channel his true power despite being a literal cosmic baby) helps Anakin to bring her back.
A side effect of Ahsoka being brought back is that she can see Anakin’s true eldritch form, and it is adorable (the way a lion or tiger cub is adorable, up until it gets big enough to eat you). It…takes some getting used to on her part. No one believes her about his true form, except Obi-Wan, Padme, the men of the 501st and the 212th (who have all seen some weird stuff happen when being around Skywalker).
In other news, Palpatine has a heart attack while at a press conference which he’s invited Anakin to attend. Totally unrelated to the Force getting fed up with him trying to groom their baby to become a Sith. There is also an accidental defenestration afterward, that none there can explain, including the Jedi. The Force isn’t talking, they are above such trivial things as mortal laws.
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