#|| THIS IS BOTH ANAKIN AND VADER

[thenegoteator]

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

-- 'One Art' by Elizabeth Bishop

you ever think about how after everything Ahsoka told Vader "I'm not leaving you" and it wasn't enough

#ahsoka #star wars #anakin skywalker #darth vader #swr #tcw #xuserann #my art #going FERAL about these two again actually #and about poetry. #something something about losing. and leaving. and being left. and coming back too late. #imagine ahsoka hearing how vader died. #padme and luke both said 'there's still good in him' and ahsoka KNEW that and yet he would not show it to her. #i'm chewing drywall

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

the hopeless romantic in me cried when I started watching tbosas only to get that same horrible feeling I get when I watch the star wars prequels.

something about a doomed hero turned villain losing his love and I'm on the ground crying because why couldn't things just have turned out differently? why did he have to make the choices he did? why wasn’t love strong enough to save them? why did they have to lose everyone? why did they have to get so twisted up and far away from the person they used to be? why wasn't the good in them strong enough to fight off the bad?

#they both killed their brother #they both lost their love #they were both munipulated #I know how it ends and yet here I am hoping something will be different this time #this kind of story absolutely destroys me #they had so much potential for good #coriolanus snow #anakin skywalker #president snow #darth vader #lucy gray baird #padme amidala #coriolanus x lucy gray #snowbaird #anakin x padme #anidala #hunger games #ballad of songbirds and snakes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #star wars #attack of the clones #revenge of the sith #star wars prequels

[r-2-peepoo]

Coriolanus Snow and Anakin Skywalker are perfect examples of really interesting characters who had every chance to do the right thing but repeatedly chose wrong even though they were surrounded by good people, all because they had one person whispering in their ear and convincing them to be selfish and to hurt people instead. There is no point where they have to do what they do, it’s their choices that make them compelling.

They’re also both incredibly controlling over the women they claim to love but are quick to try and physically harm them when they realise that they’re actually human beings who will not blindly follow them. It’s very clear they were possessive, not actually in love. To sincerely love is to respect someone’s agency and neither of them were capable of that.

Another trait they both share is that, despite being layered and well written but fundamentally flawed characters who turn to evil by their own free will, if you cast an attractive actor to play them, there are always going to be people who blindly ignore the entire plot just to defend them and justify their actions. Being a victim of abuse or oppression does not excuse you from being a perpetrator.

#‘anakin and vader are different-‘ #i am under your bed #the entire original trilogy is rendered utterly pointless if that is the case (which is most certainly is not) #cant even blame george lucas for this one bc it’s still so obvious #anakin CHOOSES to return to the light bc of luke. it was always him and this was always about his choices. #whereas snow is just committed to evil lmao #tired of anakin’s pretty privilege #notice how they both had a best friend and a love interest trying to convince them to be better? #snow had sejanus and lucy gray and anakin had obi wan and padmé #anakin skywalker #coriolanus snow #star wars #the hunger games #tbosas

[mmelolabelle]

or; amidst all the horror and trauma of Anakin Skywalker’s relationship with Leia Organa, the most tragic terrible thing might be the way their lives echo one another

#i am feral for anakin + leia parallels #the terrible irony of leia who *rightly* hates him #being anakin skywalker’s child down to her very bones #meanwhile anakin/vader’s choices condemn his daughter to anakin’s greatest fear; losing the people she loves one right after the other #and they both fight on until they die because it’s not in either of their natures to just…stop #anakin skywalker #darth vader #leia organa #princess leia #skywalkers #skywalker family #bail organa #shmi skywalker #star wars #sw edit #the skywalker saga

[banjodroid]

I think it’s equally heartbreaking and hilarious that obi-wan never quite says he misses Anakin, in fact often rues the fact that Skywalkers and their special brand of chaos seem to plague his life, but also every other line is reminiscent and nostalgic and sad about how anakin always forgot to pack his socks or the look on his face the first time he saw rain or how he’d use the chosen one thing to wheedle extra desserts

#this is all obi wan thinks about in a certain point of view man #this kid haunts him like a ghost he just can’t shake his whole life and that’s both so compelling and so tragic #the kid you raised murders the family who raised you and you still love him #he tries to kill you and everyone else you care for and you still love him #his wife dies and you hide his kids and he hunts you down and you still love him #through it all obi wan loves anakin skywalker which is why they both died on mustafar and why both of their lightsabers were buried #there will always be a part of obi wan kenobi that loves anakin skywalker #which is why the only men on the Death Star could be darth Vader and Ben- hense why the second he boards Vader is only ‘darth’ #birdtalksstarwars #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #NOT SHIP

[tennessoui]

au where because palpatine is anakin’s confidante during his teenage years, he gets to hear all about the latest love of his life and how this relationship is The One, This Is It, Senator, Anakin Is Sure He Is In Love, only for the relationship to crash and burn a few weeks/months later, which results in dark! bad mood! anakin who swears to never see or speak to the temptress who played with his heart ever again

which gives sidious Ideas about how to most successfully ruin anakin’s relationship with obi-wan, aka the only thing really firmly keeping anakin in the light, so that he can twist anakin into Falling and becoming his sith apprentice.

after all it turns out that while obi-wan kenobi is damn near unkillable, he isn’t unfuckable (in the eyes of the vast majority of the galaxy.....anakin included)

and so palpatine becomes the number one obikin shipper, the og stan, the fan with a plan. he sets them up on countless dates and fancy dinners, gives them his opera house tickets, pays for them to be serenaded by the Coruscanti orchestra.....all because he thinks that once they get together it’ll be only a matter of time before they break up and then anakin will be so betrayed and distraught that he never talks to obi-wan again

but that....keeps not happening and palpatine just keeps bankrolling their dates at increasingly fancier and fancier places, all the while Anakin is in his In Love and Life Is Wonderful phase, Kenobi shyly thanks Palpatine for his kindness, and Sidious has to keep reminding himself that the happier and higher Skywalker feels the further he’ll Fall.......right? right???

#kit's silly lil aus #obikin #no obi-wan doesnt realize what's going on in this one #hes too distracted by anakin #torn between they never ever break up #vs they're constantly breaking up and making up in the same day #they both have a fight and think that means it's over #but then they're trying to call the other and apologize because they don't want it to be over #i think that would annoy the hell out of palpatine lol #he's trying to turn a crying anakin in his office #vader's theme playing n the background #only for obi-wan to comm him and anakin tto fly out the door for make up sex #guys omg look its actually a silly lil au

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Anakin Skywalker in Ahsoka/Ben Solo in The Rise of Skywalker

Like grandfather like grandson

#both dramatic b*tches walking out of the smoke/rain like that #ahsoka #anakin skywalker #ben solo #darth vader #kylo ren #star wars #the rise of skywalker #hayden christensen #adam driver #we'll ignore that you can't really see ben but it's him trust me lol

[magnusbae]

" They had tortured Anakin’s mother for a month. Just to test her resolve. Was it any wonder that Anakin had been left with such a deep, festering wound?" " He could do this for Anakin. His Padawan was dead, his brother, his son, his friend. He could give him this. A fearsome anger unleashed. Vengeance."  " He felt his anger rise, and he took pleasure in it. It was growing inside him and obliterating everything else. He wanted to be overtaken. He didn’t want to be careful. He wanted only the white heat of satisfaction." -The Last One Standing - Jude Watson

#I often think about how Obi-Wan wanted‚ CRAVED‚ to slaughter the sand people FOR Anakin. Deliver Vengeance to his dead Padawan. #Not even to a living person who could benefit from it‚ but to his Padawan who‚ to the best of his knowledge‚ burnt alive by his own actions #So I'm thinking to myself... what if he had? What if Vader found him that way— having sensed great darkness through the scar of their bond. #Obikin #Vaderwan #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #Jude Watson #star wars art #starwarsart #star wars #obi wan #anakin #buns.d #buns.all #anyways #This is just a rough concept‚ given the fact that this is both my bedtime and my app keeps crashing the second I open it... #this is as far as it goes :') #'Hu raka' apparently means 'I surrender' which fell on anger-deaf ears... #sw books #sw art

[kittenfangirl20]

While I saw people arguing over who would win in a fight between Anakin Skywalker and Paul Atreides, I was thinking about how bad ass it would be if they teamed up and kicked ass together.

#star wars #anakin skywalker #darth vader #dune #paul atreides #mau #maud’dib #hayden christensen #timothée chalamet #honestly i love both very much

[constellation-skirmishes]

solar flare

l: you killed my mother you bastard

v: she was dead the moment she stood against my master

#luke skywalker #darth vader #anakin skywalker #cloud city #bespin #vader vs luke #force ghost padme au #star wars fanart #something about father vs son. light vs dark. with luke fighting for both his parents against their perceived killer #thinking about how luke knowing padme is his mom changes this fight #but still not knowing vader is his dad #reveal coming up soon. maybe. <3 #luke and vader #lukka's workshop #happy 100th post yippie

[wegog]

*My wife is gone. I miss her so and in my grief I will destroy the world she loved*

*My wife is gone. I miss her so and in my grief I will save the world she loved*

#star wars #anakin skywalker #darth vader #padmé amidala #padme amidala #dishonored #corvo attano #jessamine kaldwin #anidala #vaderdala #corvojess #and i ship both

[carcassarkis]

Finally we’ve got the Revenge of the 6th wolf 😔

#my art #star wars #star wars fanart #revenge of the sith #revenge of the sixth #that’s a thing right #because fifth and sixth both sound like sith #anyways #darth vader #anakin skywalker

[tranakin-skywalker]

Same Scars

trans Luke for @darth-ban with bonus trans Vaderkin

#myart #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #trans luke skywalker #trans anakin skywalker #vader lives au #i'm assuming they're both in for a medical check up post rotj

[sainztander]

#listen........ i'm consumed by them #HE LITERALLY CAME BACK BOTH TIMES AS SOON AS OBI-WAN CALLED OUT TO HIM ALL TEARY AND UPSET #i NEED to scream cry wail w someone talking about vader's arc in this show because honestly!!!!!!! #anyway this star wars product is about obikin just like every other star wars product ever since 1977 <33 #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #darth vader #kenobi series #kenobi spoilers #obikin #owk spoilers #obi wan kenobi spoilers #n tag

[mmelolabelle]

Occasionally I ponder the heartbreak of Anakin Skywalker; who even as a child only ever wanted to use his abilities to help, from whom the universe kept asking more and more, taking and taking and taking when he was much, much too young, until he broke and proceeded to break the whole galaxy along with him. Then the ruined shell of him still kept going as Darth Vader, not because he was particularly enthused by Palpatine or the cause, but because Anakin Skywalker was a creature of sheer will and impossible power and there was nowhere left and nothing to do but go on and on and on - until Luke. Unstoppable force meet immovable object.

Then after Anakin comes Leia Organa, who is Anakin Skywalker’s daughter in her very bones, who even as a child only ever wanted to use her abilities to help, from whom the universe kept asking more and more, taking and taking and taking when she was much, much too young. No matter what happened there was nowhere and no way for Leia to break because the galaxy was already broken. Even if she wanted to, she couldn’t because she knew what would happen, what she would become if she did (Vader). Because Leia Organa was a creature of sheer will and impossible power and even as her family and the New Republic crumbled around her there was nowhere and nothing else left for her to do but go on and on and on.

#they are my tragic parent-child duo and i love them #those solo shots of OT Vader staring out across space alone #vs ST General Organa doing the same thing #my HEART #the difference between their outcomes is less that leia is an inherently stronger person #but because she was raised by people who were in a position to both protect her as long as they could and knew that they had to do so #and supported and loved her unreservedly #anakin was taken away from his mother (and Shmi bless her could only do so much) #and the jedi didn’t even realise that they needed to protect him #much less TRY #idk i get emotional #anakin skywalker #darth vader #leia organa #leia skywalker #princess leia #sw #star wars

[jaca3rys]

When they're doomed by the narrative and have literally 1 (ONE!!) happy scene together 🤭

#your honor theyre my comfort power couple #⚖️🖤⚔️ #anakin skywalker #star wars anakin #hyperfixation station #anidala #padmé amidala #anakin x padmé #anakin Skywalker x Padmé Amidala #i would die and kill for both of them actually #POLYCULE #they need more happy/kiss scenes together #mainly because i want more shit to send to my fiancé and say us #but also because they just deserve it okay #do you see my vision they could have kissed on Mustafar #star wars episode iii: revenge of the sith #star wars darth vader #star wars #star wars episode i: the phantom menace #star wars episode ii: attack of the clones