#and tells vader

[tennessoui]

Anakin: I have a bad feeling in my stomach when I talk to this incredibly handsome man with pretty eyes and nice hair and a nice voice

Anakin: obviously he is a supervillain

superhero anakin is actually incredibly based for this i hate what having a crush does to me. all my crushes have been supervillains in disguise with the potential to be absolutely life-ruining

#asks #superhero anakin au #the poor guy is just confusing his spidey sense with his butterflies #pour one out for him #and also for obi-wan who will probably be 1000% indignant whenever anakin tells him he thought he was a supervillain lol #but this is idiot4idiot so i feel like theres gotta be a moment #when obi-wan is dating mechanic anakin #and mechanic anakin asked him out to keep tabs on him #and obi-wan who has been growing closer to/seeing a lot of vader #says yes because mechanic anakin is being very suspicious #but then obi-wan decides that mechanic anakin is a supervillain #and tells vader #that he thinks the guy he's gone on several dates with is a super villain #and vader who is anakin is like ??? what!!! why??? #and obi-wan is like idk he just gives off that vibe. serial killer at the very least #and anakin now 1000% indignant in his own right is like SERIAL KILLER???

[bibxrbie]

"Luke Skywalker isn’t like the old Jedi. He saves Vader with his attachments!”

Wrong!

Luke Skywalker, at the end of Return of the Jedi, after his confrontation with the Emperor drags Darth Vader through the destructing Death Star. He’s desperate, knuckles white under the heavy weight of his father’s body, a little boy dragging his dad to safety. He sets Vader down for a moment, to catch his breath or maybe to get a better grip. He goes to grab Vader again, but Vader, uncomfortable and in pain, asks Luke to take off the mask. He wants to see Luke through his eyes instead of the eyes Palpatine built for him. Luke refuses, says that removing the mask is a sure way for Vader to die. Luke doesn’t want Vader dead, he wants Vader alive. Not to hold him accountable for his many evil acts, but for the same reason why Luke Skywalker can’t kill Darth Vader; Vader is his father and Luke loves him.

And yet, after a moment, Luke removes Vader’s mask. He doesn’t want to, he hesitates, but he removes the mask with enough slowness to allow Vader to take it back. In that moment, Luke sets aside his desire for Vader in his life, sets aside his desire to see him live, and sets aside his entire mission, the reason he was even on the Death Star in the place. In his compassion for his father, Luke stays with Vader until he dies. It is this moment where we see him be the best damn Jedi he can be. I’d even argue that this moment is the greatest example of non-attached love we see. Because Luke lets Vader go! He lets his father die, and in some ways, by removing the mask, he too kills Vader, he stays with him until his last moment, gives him the kindness of granting his last wish and finally chooses Vader.

And Luke doesn’t have to do this. If Luke Skywalker’s love for his father was an attachment, he would ignore Vader and continue dragging him to the escape pod, put his desire for a father as his central focus and ignore Vader’s wants and discomfort. Maybe he would even save him. But he doesn’t. Instead, he watches as Vader dies.

He builds a Jedi burial for his father and watches it burn the remnants of Vader and Anakin Skywalker away. He mourns Vader, he mourns what they could’ve had as father and son, considers what ifs and maybe-if-I-did-this. Vader/ Anakin is released from his mortal body, from his ‘crude matter’ and Luke lets him go. He says one final goodbye to Anakin. Then, he joins Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, and the rest of the Rebels and celebrates their victory. He lives in the present and celebrates what he has instead of what he lost.

Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi. Everything about Luke Skywalker serves as the foundational cornerstone of the Jedi, everything about the Jedi as a culture and philosophy is reflected in his character. Luke’s desire for the New Jedi Order isn’t to throw away the values of the old Order, but to vitalise them, breathe life back into dying lungs, and rebuild a path that people set out on their way to destroy. (Yes, his Order is different from the Old, but that’s because it has to be. He doesn’t have the resources or the safety of the Old Order.) The philosophies of the Jedi are difficult and they aren’t for everyone, and like the perfect Jedi that Luke is, he struggles and stumbles and sometimes he even rejects it. But, no matter how far he falls, it is a way of life he chooses again and again and again. It is a way of life that welcomes him back each time

#luke skywalker #star wars #pro jedi #jedi positive #luke skywalker meta #luke skywalker loves being a jedi and i'm so tired of people pretending he doesn't #I hate you 'time-travel fics where Luke judges the Order for how they've handled things' #Luke would be the people's padawan actually chasing everyone down to acquire every bit of knowledge that they have #star wars meta #jedi order #the jedi #anakin skywalker #darth vader #the original trilogy #a new hope #empire strikes back #return of the jedi #if I tell you that luke outgrows anakin/vader? if I tell you that Vader is just the start of his Jedi growth and the end of it? then what? #Iong post #it kind of ran away from me

[bon-sides-sw]

They're catching up

#star wars #bons art #my art #ahsoka #ahsoka tano #ahsoka show #anakin skywalker #darth vader #world between worlds #Yeah anakin telling his good padawan all his warcrimes she might have missed

[kana7o]

[I used to know my place was the spot next to you]

#obikin #sw #yeah ive been listening to speak now (Taylors version) all day can you tell #this ones my favourite from the album its so *chefs kiss #anyways i like thinking of force ghost obiwan hanging out with vader and watching him with sad eyes #but maybe also a little happy? bc he can finally be close to anakin agan after all this time? #or i shouldnt say happy but im not sure what that feeling is #anyway im glad i finally drew this bc its been pingponging in my head for probably a month now

[inquisitor-apologist]

Thinking about how, at the end of the day, at the fatal moment, the sunset of the Republic, it wasn’t Yoda, or Obi-Wan, or even the Chosen One himself standing in the way of Palpatine. It was Mace Windu.

Mace Windu, the inventor of Vaapad and Master of Form VII, the Jedi's strongest duelist, the only person to ever defeat Palpatine in combat. Mace Windu, Master of the Jedi Council and the youngest Master ever appointed to it, the revered leader of the Order. Mace Windu, who forgave even those who tried to kill him, who risked his life over and over again for his troops, who, after 3 years of desperate war, tried to negotiate with battle droids. Mace Windu, who knew the clones were created by the Sith and chose to trust them, who saw every Shatterpoint in the Republic, and loved it still, and fought for it until his last breath, until he was betrayed by Anakin, who he believed in and trusted despite everything.

Mace Windu, High General and hero of the Republic, the embodiment of the Light, the last and greatest champion of the Order, the best Jedi to ever live.

#I’ve said my piece goodnight #don’t play with me Mace Antis I have receipts for every last one of these #pretty much everyone agrees that he was the best duelist there was and he obviously won the fight #Anakin's choice wouldn't make thematic sense otherwise #also vader did not defeat palpatine in combat sorry he just grabbed him while he was distracted #it literally had to be a fair fight and Anakin had to be the one to choose to create the empire that's what the prequels are about #Star Wars databank calls him ‘revered’ shatterpoint tells us he was the youngest (real) member of the council #Boba Fett (tcw) and Prosset Dibs (comics) tried to kill him and he asked for amnesty and forgave them #literally just watch the Ryloth arc he spends most of his screentime saving his men #in tcw season seven he pleads with the battle droids to surrender hoping that no one else has to die #there's the part near the end of tcw where the council realizes that the clones were created by Dooku but Mace and the rest of the council #trust the clones so much they're willing to ignore it #the scene from Mace's POV in the rots novelization talks about how much he loves the republic and how he was blindsided by Anakin's betraya #because he trusted him!! we see in aotc that he has more faith in Anakin's abilities than Obi-wan #and he defeated the most powerful sith of all time single-handedly #BEST JEDI EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! #sw prequels #star wars prequels #prequel trilogy #sw prequel trilogy #star wars prequel trilogy #sw rots #star wars rots #revenge of the sith #star wars revenge of the sith #galactic republic #pro mace windu #mace windu #pro jedi order #pro jedi

[currentlyonstandbi]

on another note can we please talk about how balanced anakin seemed this episode? if we're running with the idea that anakin's born from the force, that he is the force made flesh, then it follows that he's all the force is in its entirety - that means both light and dark, both anakin and vader. but so much of his inner turmoil over the duration of his story has been from being told you can only ever be one or the other; jedi or sith, light or dark. it's been so hammered into our minds that when one falls from the light to the dark, it's near impossible to come back.

so seeing anakin during the fight against ahsoka and the way he called on the dark side when he needed its strength? the way he wielded it like it was no more than another weapon? and how easily he was able to release it when he didn't need it anymore? phenomenal. absolutely phenomenal .

(i know not everyone is onboard with the theory but i do believe he's finally taken up the mantle of The Father and represents true balance in the force now like it was always foretold. and maybe yes, ahsoka has come to represent The Daughter and the unwavering good that is the light side of the force)

#star wars #ahsoka series #ahsoka spoilers #anakin skywalker #darth vader #ahsoka tano #star wars meta #ahsoka episode 5 #can you tell i still haven't recovered #hayden christensen

[rugwurm]

#myart #off game #off mortis ghost #off vader eloha #off queen #off batter #can you tell i liked the vader eloha fight yet

[jaguarys]

On the note of the snippet I posted. Ultimately what makes me go batshit insane about the Sith is that it's truly not about the magic of it all. It's about people being hurt and hurting others in turn.

What it is to become a Sith is to enmesh yourself, forever, in pain. It's at the very forefront of the doctrine, but even ignoring the mentality of it, on the basest level it is about physical and emotional pain. In agreeing to be an apprentice, you're agreeing to years of torture. You're agreeing to anything your master chooses to subject you to; they themselves have suffered as you have and they're chomping at the bit to inflict it upon you too. They have convinced themselves this pain has made them strong, but it has only made them vindictive.

Becoming a Sith is not about becoming powerful. It's about surviving the sheer horror of the training itself and convincing yourself survival is the same as control, that it's the same as power. It's about taking the seething, burning hatred you feel for the person who has tortured you and passing it onto your student, and repeating this for centuries. It's about licking your own wounds, not only the physical but those of centuries of disgraced Sith before you, hiding in the shadiest corners of the galaxy with no one but the person you hate most and believe you owe everything to.

The Sith are fundamentally pathetic, fundamentally impotent, fundamentally miserable, and it simply cannot be extricated from the mess of it all

#at the end of the day i truly can't help but feel bad for them #because damn. get some help. break that cycle. i believe in you #can you tell i've spent WAY too long thinking about the scene in which palpatine is tortured by plagueis and going Oh. #So that's not a palpatine thing huh. that's just a sith thing #personal #star wars #star wars meta #star wars analysis #palpatine #sheev palpatine #sw palpatine #palpatine star wars #star wars palpatine #darth plagueis #darth vader #count dooku #darth maul #sw sith #star wars sith #sith #the force #fandom: star wars #type: meta

[redbean-nom]

my cody theory for tbb s3

the legendary "boba fett" is actually like twenty different clones (including the real Boba). anyone at risk of being recognized (usually officers/arcs) can go into bounty hunting as "boba fett". it soon becomes the clone equivalent of like john doe. they share a bounty guild account (bc it uses biometric id and they're close enough to register as the same person).

"boba fett" soon develops a reputation for getting missions done 1) incredibly well and 2) incredibly fast. the fast part is because there are at least eight people all doing different bounties at any given time. the well part is because "boba fett" is an informal collective of escaped clones of particular distinction in battle.

by the time the real Boba is an adult, the "boba fett" clones have built up his bounty hunter credit score so much that he can pretty much take whatever job he wants for max rates.

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tbb s3 #commander cody #boba fett #redbean art #predictions #why is cody a bounty hunter? well #he still hasnt gotten dechipped yet but he can choose to accept bounties that send him after important imperial targets #so this is his way of circumventing his very-deteriorated chip #bc he is still following orders from /somebody/ #and its not like the emperor ever explicitly ordered him to never take bounties on imperial admirals... #vader can tell the bobas apart #hes worked w enough clones to figure out how to differentiate them solely from force signature #(palpatine could absolutely learn to if he ever bothered. but. he doesn't) #but only the real boba works for him anyways so it doesn't really matter to him #(after all anything keeping cody from joining rebellion leadership is good in vader's books) #to be clear its not a formal group or anything. it's just twentysome escaped clones who all decided to impersonate boba

[galactic-rhea]

Funny that you use the Anakin Trans gun image because iirc its like. canon that he invents the term transgender in star wars.

LMAOOO OMGGG??? NKALJNJSDSFNJDFKS

Okay okay but like,,,this fact gives me, no no no like, there's LEVELS, levels and levels of amusement originated from this fact because not only my star wars blorbo supports trans people canonically (apparently) but you're telling me Darth FUCKING VADER invented the term transgender?

AMAZING

He took the be gay do crime too seriously heLP

I'm not even going to check for facts because this is too good and I'm too happy about this, THE MASSIVE MURDERER SUPPORTS TRANS RIGHT, AHHHJJHDD THIS SUPPORTS MY TRANS ANAKIN DRAWING HEEELP

I said i wouldn't check for facts but I'm GUESSING you must refer to this scene

If i could i would make this my banner

#The way this made me start stimming #yoU're telling me anakin would support my gender rights #and then he would probably kill me but because of dark side whatever stuff not because of he's a bigot? amazing #thanks for the ask! #ask #transgender #lgtb stuff #queer stuff #Anakin skywalker #darth vader #sw #star wars

[lesbinewren]

also anh is extremely funny now. 2 of the last 3 times theyve met face to face obi wan has fucked vader up SEVERELY and could have killed him but only decided not to and vader still walks into the confrontation on the death star with all the confidence in the world

#he’s still riding the high from getting to burn him in that town lol #try as hard as you can but vader and anakin can never truly be divorced #and you can tell bc of stuff like this lmao #1k

[tennessoui]

yeah im painting shit and watching a new hope on friday night and i just think it's so interesting and devastating to me personally that old ben kenobi is able to readily admit that he trained darth vader ("a young jedi named darth vader who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil") but it takes him a whole ass trilogy to admit that darth vader and anakin skywalker are the same person

#star wars #like the first one could be seen as a personal failing #obi-wan trained vader and vader killed luke's father with the skills he learned #or obi-wan trained vader and failed to stop him from turning to the dark side #obi-wan trained vader and he admits it thirty minutes into the movie #he says yes i had a role to play and a hand in the creation of darth vader #but i will not tell you on pain of death that darth vader and anakin are the same person

[iszapizza]

boba and a redeemed vader/anakin

(I wanted to draw these two in a gentle mood)

(Edit: added this small doodle)

#star wars #star wars ot #darth vader #boba fett #anakin skywalker #modern au?? hard to tell #I got stuck with the idea of anakin regrowing his hair out again and being happy and at peace with himself hhhhh #boba is probably saying something important and anakin is not paying attention he’s too happy AAAAAA #old man yaoi #them as an old couple rgrgghghg #darthfett #midnight doodles

[sticks-and-souls]

Anakin & Letting Go

I always found it to be a little skeptical that Anakin could become a force ghost after it took Yoda, Qui Gon, and Obi-Wan learning and training how to do it, and I always thought “really? Anakin? Finding that level of peace and letting go?” But after this episode, seeing the care and lesson that he imparts upon Ahsoka that he learned so painfully, I understand it from him so much better. Vader was so stuck in his complete self-hatred that he allowed nobody who had known him before as Anakin to reach him (most notably Obi-Wan and Ahsoka) because of the overwhelming extent of his shame. It took his son, who had never known him and yet who still stood before him and believed in him, loved him, sacrificed himself for him, to call Anakin back from the depths of Vader. And this Anakin, let everything go to save his son and to allow his son to save him.

And it felt so impactful to get to see this mature post-Vader Anakin reaching out to Ahsoka to teach her this very hard-earned lesson that he took the very hard road to get. Because she has Vader in her. She is everything Anakin taught her, and we saw the behaviors that led Anakin to becoming Vader—the fear of losing his most cherished relationships—reaching out of Anakin very early in the clone wars (and before) and the two of them are both very aware that he imparted those lessons on her. And then we've seen across this season—and overtly in her clone wars flashbacks—that she believes she is inextricable from these traits.

I’ve always loved Anakin as a fictional character, getting to see his earnestness, his flawedness, and his intensity (to borrow Huyang’s very accurate adjective), but this episode brought a level of humanity to him that has moved me so deeply. Life is HARD, loss gets forced on all of us no matter what, and the lessons that we learn through mistakes that we made can be extremely painful because acknowledging and taking responsibility for hurting people is actually really painful for humans (not owning up to our actions is the emotionally easier choice and George Lucas has stated time and again that the Dark Side is about taking the short-term easier choices). But it ultimately means that learning from your mistakes is an actual choice you have to MAKE. And this is the core of Anakin’s lesson. He is teaching Ahsoka that she has to choose which lessons he has taught her that she will live by, but more than that, that she is empowered to be able to choose. Yes, she has everything that he taught her—the good and the bad—but she is not condemned to live out all of the lessons. 

And the beauty of it isn't just the lesson, but that Anakin gets to be the one to teach it to her. The betrayal that she experienced in discovering his fall, the taintedness that she has been portraying that she feels about herself, gets specifically addressed because if he figured it out, then she definitely can too. If he is more than just Vader, then she is too. And THAT is what the "Is that what this is about?" line is actually about. It's so so important that we get to see pre-Vader, Vader, and post-Vader across her vision because the point is that yes, Vader is a part of him, and that brilliant shot of the two of them glaring Sith eyes across the blade at each other did it's job in conveying that Ahsoka is capable of that darkness too, but you are not only the darkness. You get to choose. ("You're more than [death and destruction] because I'm more than that"). And more to the point, you have to choose. Because if you don't specifically choose to fight the dark, then you're ultimately choosing to fall into it. "Fight or die."

So for Anakin to be able to reach out to her one more time, to be able to love her the way he, as Vader, had refused to the last time when they met on Malachor, and to open with “you’re never too old to learn”, because god if he didn’t learn that the hard way too. And to be able to pass on to Ahsoka how to actually let go because he himself had only just finally been able to learn it as well, feels so powerful and poignant.

And that look of pride and wistful sadness that he gives her at the end? That both she and Luke were able to learn so quickly what took him so long? And that maybe, he may have helped save her from the worst traits that he imbued upon her? That’s him having let go of his own shame. He feels grief, he feels guilt—we can see it on his face—but what has happened has happened and he has accepted that, and finally learned that letting go doesn't mean it didn't happen, it means it doesn't have to define your actions going forward.

And finally, it’s also him letting go of ahsoka. By teaching her that she will choose her destiny, he has to accept that he cannot control it either. And he has. “There’s hope for you yet.” 

So yeah, Anakin learned to let go, and getting to see him here, in this headspace of acceptance and peace, practicing and understanding what it means to be a Jedi, was so unexpectedly cathartic and revelatory for me as viewer. 

#listen this lesson IS HIS APOLOGY. he didn’t get it then but he gets it now so please ahsoka #here are the tools to break the cycle of fear and violence #i love you snips i love you snips i love you snips #i love anakin as a character but I never thought I would feel as proud of him as I do now #say what you will about filoni but to me this episode proved he actually gets the ethos at the core of star wars #I also finally feel like the show has earned the emotional sucker punch of an end credits score that kevin kiner gifted us with #ahsoka series #ahsoka meta #ahsoka show #ahsoka spoilers #anakin skywalker #snips and skyguy #ahsoka tano #darth vader #dave filoni #kevin kiner #my meta #ahsoka shadow warrior #man this was so much longer than i expected. let me tell you im a victim of parental abuse without telling you im a victim of parental abus #writing this out had me SOBBING y'all #ahsoka gets the reparation we all deserve

[kathcroissant]

this right here... this is anakin and ahsoka after pranking 501st or something

#you can't tell me otherwise #this is THEM #ANAKIN SKYWALKER MY BELOVED #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #ahsoka show #star wars #darth vader #501st #star wars clone wars #hayden christensen #rosario dawson

[anakinstwinklebunny]

BUNNY'S THINKING ABOUT ⋅˚₊‧ ୨୧ ‧₊˚ ⋅ anakin being the kind of dad that pretends to understand baby's gibberish language. He would just brag about being fluent in it and how he can "understand" perfectly every single slurring while as a matter of fact, he has no idea what's happening in that little brain

#bunny's thoughts #anakin #anakin skywalker #hayden christensen #star wars #dad!anakin #anakin x fem reader #anakin x reader fluff #anakin being a dad #HE WAS BORN TO BE A GIRL DAD #none will tell me otherwise #darth vader #anakin skywalker fanfiction #star wars ani #ani skywalker #anakin skywalker x reader #anakin skywalker fanfic #anakin skywalker fluff