#<- kiiiinda?? it's a stretch but i'm putting it in my tag anyway

[tacticalhimbo]

y'all ever think about how it's funny that

the opera that anakin attends with palpatine is a mon calamari ballet… called squid lake, but then start thinking more about it and how there's so much thematic significance in that one off detail?

like how the whole story is practically anakin's relationship with padmé?

that a young prince, siegfried, falls in love with princess odette. odette and her companions transform into swans under the spell cast by the evil sorcerer baron von rothbart. their days are spent gracefully gliding on a lake, only to return to their human form at night. the only thing that can break the spell is true love, and rothbart will do anything in his power to stop it. and that anything happens to be marrying the sorcerer's daughter, who has been manipulated to be a mirror image of odette and thus trick the prince. the curse isn't broken because his love for odette is no longer true, she's doomed to be a swan forever and drowns herself. then he realizes he effectivlely killed her and drowns himself, sealing their love in the eternity of death?

and how that almost mirrors everything that happens between padmé and anakin leading up to the events of revenge of the sith? everything into his arc as darth vader, where the anakin everyone knew and loved had chosen his own 'death' through accepting the dark side? and how the last bits of anakin truly died when he learned that he, in effect, had killed padmé by force choking her?

because i think about that constantly, actually-

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