#and anakin is mr rochester (raising two kids alone with droids in the big house or possibly the fancy spaceship he inherited mysteriously)

[arianeemorythethird]

actually you know what, while I still stand firmly behind "the real villain of rex's tcw-era gothic horror story is rex with a control chip in his head" I think there's another option I'm ignoring here...

in classic gothic horror, of course, a hero has two main ways to resolve the problem of the monster:

✅defeat the monster

✅become the monster

and in canon, rex - being the overachiever that he is - gets to do both!

but gothic romance introduces a third, exciting option:

✅marry the monster

and I think rexwalker is definitely at its sexiest when it involves an anakin who is anywhere on the path from rots-era anguished doubt, to full-on commitment as darth vader, turning all his immense capacity for love and his ride-or-die, damn-the-consequences loyalty towards one ordinary (brave, determined, genuinely good) clone

#rexwalker #star wars #anakin skywalker #rex #rexwalker jane eyre au WHEN #obviously rex is jane (broke traumatised veteran looking for work in a galaxy shattered by the aftermath of the clone wars) #and anakin is mr rochester (raising two kids alone with droids in the big house or possibly the fancy spaceship he inherited mysteriously) #(he and the house/ship are full of secrets) #(probably there's a red lightsaber stashed away somewhere which rex WILL recognise with horror) #and there is also a person hidden upstairs in the attic... who rex will also recognise with horror... #no it's not padme it's PALPATINE of course #probably gone mad in the aftermath of an attempt to take over the galaxy (that killed padme too I guess) #anakin is still protecting him from galactic justice and caring for him because he can't stop loving him #but he hates him too #and can't stop blaming him for padme's death #padme herself is i suppose the dead wife haunting the narrative with her inescapable presence... #we can have a rebecca crossover too. as a little treat. #lol this is such an insane AU but I'm obsessed with it now #my meta