#Darth Sideous

[anoray]

For everyone out there filled with angst over how young Ahsoka Tano and Caleb Dume were while fighting in the Clone Wars, I am with you.

Let's just remember the true evil mastermind who conjured up the war, clouded and manipulated the Jedi Council, and reveled in the death of their child padawans on the battlefield:

Yeah, that guy.

#ahsoka #ahsoka spoilers #caleb dume #ahsoka tano #child soldiers #darth sideous #you evil swine

[direwolfrules]

I've said it once and I'll say it again. Lego Star Wars Palpatine is the best interpretation of Palpatine I've ever seen.

He's cunning, he's smart, and he thinks long-term.

He's also a shortsighted idiot prone to extreme overreactions when things upset him.

The minute he no longer has to play "benevolent mentor" to Anakin, after Anakin Fell and Vader was born, he acts like a huge dick to him. Which is canon accurate!

#sheev palpatine #star wars #lego star wars #darth sideous #vader

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

What do you think about the whole Jedi and Sith are ancient religions that no one believes in Original Trilogy and then in the prequels that happened like two decades ago everyone believes in the Force and them? Like Doylist explanation is obvious with the prequels releasing later but what Watsonian explanation works if any can?

I think it's easier than you think and that Palpatine did a very good job wiping them off the map.

The Old Republic

First, let's take a look at Jedi in what we see of the prequel films, around 20 years before the OT takes place. Jedi are fairly isolated. They're a big part of Coruscant, yes, right across from the Senate but they remain in their temple and rarely venture outwards.

There are also not many of them, in the entire galaxy there are enough Jedi to be able to occupy the temple, with no sign of a Jedi temple on every major planet in the galaxy. They are a drop in the ocean.

What this means is that there are likely planets who never had any contact with the Jedi whatsoever or, if they did, it was very sparing with once every few centuries.

Relatively few planets would have frequent contact with the Jedi Order and likely this was directed through the Senate. This means only certain segments of the population are typically going to see the Jedi (i.e. things like Padme needing bodyguards, Padme being the queen of Naboo and not your random person).

Most ordinary people know next to nothing about the Jedi and have never seen them. What they hear is tall tales, and as the war goes on for three years and plagues the galaxy, dissatisfaction as the Jedi are just as responsible for destroying their homes as the Seperatists.

People don't talk about the Force, don't understand it, and don't know what it is Jedi do beyond voodoo witchcraft magic.

Palpatine Takes Over

The Jedi Order is utterly decimated. There are a few survivors, but they must go into hiding and even then are hunted down one by one by Vader.

Palpatine now gets to say whatever he wants.

He tells people that the Jedi religion stole their children, that they oppressed the people and brought war to their doorstep, etc. Temples are destroyed, artifacts erased, and if you want to live you don't fucking talk about it.

To most people, then, especially those born afterwards or those who were just children: the Jedi Order is something that once existed but seems little more than a religious cult.

The Force is not something anyone sees actually used, if they know the term at all, and Jedi seem more and more fantastical and ridiculous to your common person just trying to scrape by.

And if there were these Jedi, then where are they now and why are they all dead? If they had these great powers, surely they would have survived.

And so, Palpatine is able to rewrite history.

These Things Do Happen

There are regimes today that have rewritten events, or else denied them outright, that happened only a few decades ago. These events are not discussed, out of fear of severe punishment and consequences, and there are people who are now adults who were born afterwards who have never heard about it or only in vague whispers.

They know next to nothing about it, if they know anything at all.

Even with all the access to the internet, there are places where it will look as if these events never happened.

It is not unrealistic to me that Palpatine could accomplish the same thing when it comes to the Jedi.

#star wars #star wars meta #star wars headcanon #prequel trilogy #original trilogy #sheev palpatine #darth sideous #the jedi order #meta #headcanon #opinion

[teacherdespair]

Reindeers relate.

#star wars #teacher despair #christmas #merry xmas #anakin #Palpatine #meme #funny #rudolph #rudolf #the red nosed reindeer #reindeer #prequels #revenge of the sith #emperor #Darth sideous #did you ever hear the story #darth plagueis #the wise #ironic #episode 3

[spicyhamsamson]

I think Palpatine would look at a meme with a fuckin big tit anime girl or a cropped screenshot of stuff we can’t show on this site and be like

“My apprentice, come over here and look at this. Is it not funny?”

And Vader, a demisexual who has only been attracted to one person in his entire life(who is now dead) would look at this, genuinely unable to understand it, and say

“It. It is most humorous, my master.”

Palpatine: I’m going to send it in the group dm

Vader(so fucking confused): A wise choice my master.

#darth vader #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #Vader #Anakin #padme #sheev Palpatine #Palpatine #emperor Palpatine #Darth sideous #I was thinking about this on the way home from physical therapy

[nerdhappenings]

#SW #Star Wars #Palpatine #Emperor Palpatine #Sheev Palpatine #Darth Sideous #video #analysis #GOAT #Youtube

[umbrarkzoo]

Legends say shes still alive to this day

#shaak ti #sith ani and vader are in the same comic bc…. Uh the force or whatever idk #starkiller didnt really kill her but he was present in one of her deaths lmao #grievous #starkiller #anakin skywalker #anakin #skywalker #darth vader #palpatine #sideous #star wars #star wars clone wars #star wars the clone wars #the clone wars #clone wars #megamind meme #megamind #my art #doodles #dumb

[cmbdragon98]

Anakin looked so bad by the time he was 45, getting ganked on Death Star part 2 because Actually his tin can suit he was forced to wear for about half of his life was blasting strong ultraviolet rays on him every single fucking day.

Totally to fuel his dark side powers.

#star wars #shitpost #anakin skywalker #darth vader #that and being burnt like a marshmallow on mustafar #man was set for failure by Sideous I promise you that much

[bowlerhatwearer]

Star Wars AU where Obi-Wan captures General Grievous on Utapau instead of killing him.

It makes me wonder how things would have gone, with Grievous seeing Order 66 being carried out, but also being on the run, because the newly risen Empire wants to have him of course, dead as well.

#Star Wars #Obi-Wan Kenobi #General Grievous #I can't imagine Grievous being too happy about it when he finds out Darth Sideous used him as a pawn #Palpatine definitely wants to have him dead because Grievous knows too much

[izzythehutt]

Can someone explain to me how Darth Maul knew that Sideous had picked Anakin as his replacement for Dooku as Sith apprentice? Was this ever explain in TCW?

#star wars #the clone wars #darth maul #i don't have the energy to catch up on 7 years of sw content just tell me #i guess i can buy him figuring it out since he knew sideous's identity?

[superhusbands4ever]

Ahsoka: Anakin, you are more powerful and dangerous than anyone realized

Anakin:

Ahsoka:

Anakin: Is this about the killing younglings and Jedi genocide and Padme and inquisitorious and the kidnapping force sensitive children and raising them to be Sith and the Empire and the Darth Sideous Palpatine thing??? You’re still on that??? I thought we’d moved past that :(

#ahsoka series #ahsoka spoilers #the clone wars #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano

[xstarkillerx]

I will not be proofreading but Just so you know, I am constantly refraining from talking about the parallels between Ahsoka Tano and Starkiller. It is always on my mind. I have about 5 unfinished drafts of just actual fucking essays about them being complete mirror images of each other.

But I can never hope to verbalize everything I want to say, I’m simply obsessed and haunted by them. Two children created to answer the same question, “what if Anakin/Darth Vader did get to raise a child?” And what we get (completely unintentionally, mind you as the characters were initially developed relatively In tandem by completely separate sectors of Lucasfilm), is a case Anakin being this unorthodox but wonderful mentor. He is attentive, fixing her lightsabers and keeping them after she leaves the order in the hopes that when she comes back he knows he did all he could to protect her. He is specific, building training programs that are are ruthless and put Ahsoka against a literal firing squad, but lead to her being more combat ready than any other jedi.  He loves her with his entire heart and is even chastised for not being ready to give her up to the force if she dies one day. What this leads to is Vader desperately trying to find that again in Starkiller, but it just coming out wrong.

Vader bares Anakin’s same ruthlessness but sith cannot love, sith cannot grow. Anakin’s attentiveness turns into him hand crafting a droid with knowledge of every single enemy ( jedi or sith) that starkiller may face to train him to be prepared for anything, but then making its primary program to kill Starkiller, simply to keep him alert. His specificity turns into using Starkiller’s young and innocent love for Juno Eclipse as something torment him with, Vader knowing exactly how it feels to strike down the woman you love in a state of anger and confusion. His extreme care for Ahsoka and unwillingness to let her die turns into a violent possession of Starkiller in which he revives him again and again and again against his will.

Anakin’s training of Starkiller is a hollow perversion of the values he tried to instill in Ahsoka, and what results is two padawans who outgrow their master. Ahsoka outgrows Anakin because, while they share the same skepticisms about the Jedi order, Anakin will never leave. He is comfortable stewwing in his reservations and smiling at the council through gritted teeth, while Ahsoka is not. Starkiller outgrows Vader because he realizes, for as cruel, as menacing, as powerful as his master his, he will never betray Sideous like he promised he would. He will never reject the sith because he is too comfortable stewing in his regret and self-hatred, while Starkiller is not.

#ahsoka tano #starkiller #galen marek #anakin skywalker #darth vader #the force unleashed #the clone wars #donnie does 👑

[lastminutestarwarsfan]

I've already mentioned this in a previous post but felt the need to clarify. One thing that George Lucas absolutely mastered in the prequels is the politics and the foreshadowing of what was to come.

I know the prequels get alot of hate (at least they used to until the sequels came out and we learned to count our blessings). And yeah they have their flaws. For me the biggest thing is I wish the romance between Anakin and Padmé had been better developed. They have great chemistry and I don't think the dialogue was that bad, sure it was awkward but realistic. He's been in love with her for 10 years, worships the ground she walks on. I just wish we could have spent a little more time watching their feelings for eachother grow, but tbh that's my only real complaint. They're fantastic together in ROTS when they're established.

But God overall those films display such a masterfull understanding of real life history and how domino's fall, one after the other, seemingly randomly and meaninglessly until they all come together and it clicks ans it all makes sense and you start to recognise this world you're watching morph into the world from the original trilogy. I will never forget those last 20 minutes of Revenge of the Sith. How Darth Sideous' plan that's been years in the making comes together effortlessly, flawlessly. It's at once tragic because it seems so preventable, but simultaneously feels like what was destined to happen since Episode I.

The dread starts to kick in when Obi Wan leaves Anakin to "be the hero" at the start pf the film, seeing how he's grown comfortable leaving Anakin with Palpatine, and builds steadily until the horrifying realisation that is Order 66. You realise how everything has come together, Palpetine slowly but surely amassing power in the senate, orchestrating a war in order to be able to use "special powers" you know as soon as mentioned he will never lose. Its so earily similar to how dictarships come about in real life. So like the "special powers" Hitler amassed, the Night of the Long Knives where he eliminated all his opponents.

Freedom is lost slowly, insidiously (pun intended) with the people often encouraging it, not knowing what they cheer for. It is like Padmé said, "This is how liberty dies. To thunderous applause"

#star wars #star wars prequels #sheev palpatine #dystopia #politics #oppression #anakin skywalker #padme amidala

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Huh, this Vader guy seems pretty familiar. 

Leia is picking up the mask of Darth Momin. I know that in canon, Sideous currently has it. However, I thought it would be a funny example of Vader not at all baby-proofing his castle for his little girl.

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Script Beta Reader: Dula!

Statue Pedestal  by Boki.Kun on Clip Studio Paint

#our new hope au #our new hope #onhau #leia organa #sith leia #sith ahsoka #ahsoka tano #darth vader #anakin skywalker #luke skywalker #mara jade #maraluke #star wars fic #starwars #star wars fanfiction

[thegrievousone]

Anakin and General Grievous

It's pretty common knowledge at this point that in Revenge of the Sith it is implied that Grievous and Anakin had never met face to face. So in the Clone Wars, the writers did everything they could to prevent an interaction.

The in-universe explanation given is that Darth Sideous didn't want to risk any harm coming to Anakin (for obvious reasons). Therefor he always made sure that Grievous and Anakin would never directly class.

This Chapter was used as a way for that explanation to have a reason to exist in the first place. I also made it to reutilize Anakin's and Grievous' dialogue.

Grievous would have at the very least seen pictures or footage of Anakin, which is why his line now reads as "I am surprised that it took this long for our paths to cross. However, I believe it has come at a cost. I always hoped that a general of your caliber would be a little… older.”

#star wars #a03 fanfic #general grievous #anakin skywalker #darth sidious #the clone wars

[obiwanwhat]

one of my star wars pet peeves is hearing "Did you know George Lucas named the character Darth Vader because Vader(vater) is German for father!" because a) he definitely didn't, it's been stated in documentaries that when A New Hope was first written, it wasn't planned for Vader and Anakin Skywalker to be the same person, but also b) if you look at the pattern of sith names that george lucas came up with it's blindingly obvious that he just took "evil" sounding engligh words and either modified them slightly or used them wholesale to get his Sith names (Invader -> Vader, Insidious -> Sideous, Maul->Maul, Tyrant -> Tyrannus). Like it's just really not that deep guys.

#star wars #negativity #darth vader #anakin skywalker #george lucas