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adragonsfriend · 7 months
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Leia in Amavikka Culture
This is coming from writing Elder Sisters.
To my reading of Fialleril’s stories, in Amavikka culture, Ekkreth represents the idea that the masters may control a lot, but they cannot stop all of the clever little rebellions. That’s what it means when Ekkreth says, “the chain has not been forged that can hold me.” Leia says the same thing in The Slave Who Makes Free, but it means something different when she says it.
First encountering Leia's character, my brain immediately asked, "why doesn't this massive powerful dragon just go step on Depur? we don't need no stinking Ekkreth stories, we just need the story of how Leia stepped on Depur one time." But that's not how mythology works. It's the wrong question entirely, because mythology is about representing and understanding the real life situations of an entire people. A better question is what does it mean that Leia doesn't just eat Depur?
Leia is strong, strong enough to endure anything, and to break any chain. Eventually. Leia is not about the ability of the people to go on a rampage and destroy Depur’s palace or rip all his chains like tissue paper, because they don’t have that ability, and destruction is the work of Depur. Leia represents the ability of the people to endure hardship until every chain is broken, because one day they will be. Together, Ekkreth and Leia are opposing forces—rebellion and endurance—that each make the other stronger. In fact—little rebellions (Ekkreth the parent) are what make the long-term endurance (Leia the daughter) possible. Writing this story was a discovery of that subtlety in Leia’s purpose for me, which is part of why it came out as a coming-of-age story for her, and why it fell into place with Anakin beginning to settle into the past for the long-haul. 
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that-gay-jedi · 1 year
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'double agent vader series' ????? 🥵 i know the post implies it's unfinished but if you have a title or a link for it please share 😔
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Okay so the 'bad' news about Double Agent Vader is it's only got canon ships. Any time I ever recommend a non-obikin fic, know that it's TOP TIER because I can't read them otherwise. It helped that a lot of it's gen or not very romance focused BUT it's also so, SO well written that I fucking enjoyed the bits of HanLeia in it, a ship which usually makes me throw up in my mouth.
Everyone loves Double Agent Vader because it's the origin of the Amavikka, the OG Tatooine slave culture which absolutely fucks, but honestly? Even as popular as it is, it's STILL MASSIVELY UNDERRATED bc there is so much else to like besides the gorgeous worldbuilding!!
People are sleeping on phenomenal characterization, immense narrative effectiveness (the painful parts are painful, the funny parts are funny, the hopeful parts are hopeful, etc) and the level of emotional nuance in complicated relationships.
It also masterfully fills in material previously untouched in the OT (it's largely focused on Anakin's relationship with Leia for example) without disrespecting or neglecting what canon focused on (contains my absolute FAVOURITE portrayal of Luke Skywalker HANDS DOWN).
Like okay. You know how I say the rebels remind me of the grassroots af local punks I got in with as a teen who helped me start to deprogram? That didn't start when I watched the OT. That started when I read Double Agent Vader.
Especially the fic "Empire Day" after which I was like "this author has DEFINITELY spent a shitload of time with some irl group analogous to the Rebellion" because I felt like I was back on the couch at one of the illegal squats laughing at the last political joke a friend of mine told me before fleeing town bc he'd become enough of a problem for local Nazis that he was legit gonna die if he stayed. They got right everything contemporary media tends to get wrong about it. I just.
Fwoo. Deep breath cause I realize I did not start at the beginning here AT ALL lmao.
The premise of Double Agent Vader is that about ~4 years after the events of RotS, Palpatine sends Vader to visit Tatooine as a punishment to remind him of his place. But instead it reminds him of his people. And he soon starts thinking of himself as Anakin again, in his head referring to Sidious as depur instead of master, and starts working for the Rebellion behind Palps' back, and. What if OT but Vader is a rebel spy? And his cover is so deep most of the rebels don't know. They don't even fucking know.
This is an author who understands Anakin so well. I can't say much more without spoiling it.
And like. Years before the Kenobi series came out (last individual fic in the unfinished series was completed in like 2017), this was THE story that gave Leia the attention she deserved.
I'd give a fuckin kidney for this series to have continued up to RotJ, which was probs the author's initial plan. As it stands, it goes up to shortly after the end of ESB.
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junhwe0309 · 2 years
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What Ekkreth Knew of Fear
Shmi once told Anahkeen the story of how Ekkreth became free, because Depur has a thousand cruelties, but Ekkreth has a hundred thousand tricks. No one can hold the Sky-walker forever, because the Sky-walker wears a thousand faces and countless forms.
In the desert, a red and black bird flew, and when it came time, a god became chained to mortal flesh, borne of no father and shed of his feathers. When Anahkeen was born, rolling thunder and chilling rain blanketed Tatooine.
When Ekkreth walked amongst mortals once more, he hungered. He hungered because Qui-Gon Jinn told him the Jedi were not here to free slaves. He hungered because he wanted more than anything, for Obi-Wan to listen to him, because he is Anahkeen’s father, despite how he will never acknowledge it. He hungered because he walked free but the nameless and numbered did not. He is hungry, but never starving.
He burned and seethed, the anger rolling around him like shifting sands, because Ar-Amu teaches her children anger. May anger nurture sparse roots and water harrowed leaves and remind those who carry fear to hold it close to their hearts so that they may till rebellion. The Amavikkan have no water to waste on tears.
Anahkeen rages and disobeys with gnashing teeth in ways that the Masters chafe at. He defies his superiors and breaks bends rules, both small and big. He plots a hundred thousand little acts of resistance and prays countless times to the desert gods. It is easier to let others come to their own conclusions than to tell them of your own suffering. Obi-Wan does not know and tries to impart the importance of serenity and discipline onto Anakin. Bandomeer is a place long lost to Obi-Wan.
But Anahkeen cannot forget what Shmi Sky-walker has taught him. He knows as he prays, all gods who receive homage are cruel. Ar-Amu cries no longer, but instead raises frenzied sand and howling dust to tear off the skin of the Krayts and bury both Depur and Amavikkan alike. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshiped. Shmi whispered to him under a dark sky and shifting lands that it is through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. 
Fear is the path to the oasis. Fear leads to the soil, and the soil leads to the seeds. The seeds lead to rebellion. Half gods are worshiped in food and flowers. Real gods are paid in blood.
All these things Anahkeen remembers and holds close to his heart change very little. Shmi still paints the desert red as her final moments worship the gods. Obi-Wan becomes more lost to him. Ahsoka always leaves him. All these things Anahkeen buries have yet to make a difference. But now years of blood have tilled the seeds.
He Who Brings Rain knew in his blood that the storm would rage on, and he that one day, he would father from the storms, Lukka and Lei-yah. Two children born amongst blood and suffering and destined for lives their father could not understand. For the mighty one and the desert storm, two ways and infinite manners to communicate love in a language borne from secrets and lovelessness, it is the greatest gift a father who had nothing could give.
It is with this realization of what will be that Anahkeen changes what could be. It is treason.
“Fives... I believe you.”
Dukkra ba dukkra.
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sparksinthenight · 3 months
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Come Now, Vikka
Come, now, vikka, come now
Before the night turns day
Take my hand, please understand
We have to go away
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Come now, young child, come now
To where there’s only love
My name it is Sky-Walker
We’ll follow stars above
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Come now, fighter, come now
To where you will be free
Where you will free many more
Be brave and walk with me
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Come now, comrade, come now
To where the Mother grows
To wild lands of desert sands
Beside the river’s flow
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Come now, wild one, come now
I know you hear the call
Know the call of Sky-Walker
Which rings through one and all
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Come now, brave one, come now
Break your mind out of chains
The love the Mother gives us
Will bring us all the rains
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Come now, vikka, come now
To find love and rejoice
Bring the rains to everyone
You have to hear our voice
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ragingcitrustree · 2 years
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So it looks like the tatooine slave culture au is kinda super dead insofar as worldbuilding goes which sucks a lot because I love the shit out of it and digging into the guts of a culture just gives me all the feelgood juices. Since @fialleril has been inactive for about three years now, I’mma start digging into their amatakka conlang and try to make it something usable for fics and shit, with the eventual goal of writing the amavikka stories fully in their language.
Here’s the plan:
Build a dirty ancestral conlang for the tusken indigenous ppl, based loosely off of fialleril’s work.
Note: I need a full-ish conlang here for what I plan to do with it, including a relatively large lexicon and moderate grammar and syntax. Amatakka will be derived mostly from this tusken conlang, as will modern tusken language if I need it, with loanwords from Basic (English), Huttese, and whatever other stuff I end up with.
Build (or steal) a dirty conlang for the twi’lek folk
Again, I need a lot of lexicon, with some grammar and syntax, though it doesn’t need to be as developed since I’m mostly going to be using this to fill in the final lexicon and flavor the syntax and grammar of amatakka to make a creole.
Build (or steal) an absolute minimum huttese language, just enough for sounds and words and minimal grammar
I barely need grammar or syntax here because this is mostly for loanwords. There is probably already a Huttese conlang out there, though it may have the not!English problem that a lot of conlangs have.
When I have what I need for the tusken and twi’lek languages, I’ll build the amatakka phonology, morphology, syntax, grammar, and lexicon.
I already kinda have some of the phonemes because I started with a deconstruction of fialleril’s work, but quickly ran into issues. Anyways it should have similar phonemes to fialleril’s stuff is what I’m getting at
Some notes: I absolutely love fialleril’s culturebuilding and worldbuilding, but their conlanging lacks a certain verisimilitude: most of the sounds are similar to english, the syntax appears to be very similar, and it kinda reads as a cypher of english. I think we can do better and I think that their incredible worldbuilding deserves a language that can do it justice. I’m going to do my best to stay consistent with what they’ve got already but if I need to change stuff I will.
My initial thoughts for the various conlangs I’m looking at:
Tusken language will have evolved in rocky cliffs, caves, and windy deserts. It will not have a lot of consonants and will be relatively vowel-heavy because consonants get distorted really badly in those environments.
It remains to be seen what phonemes there are for the language the twi’lek ppl have since I’m fairly certain that there is already a conlang for them, but canon has their planet as very diverse ecologically so it’s whatever.
For Basic, I’m just gonna use English since I’m lazy and that’s what they use in the movies. It’ll mostly be loanwords put through a phoneme filter, just like Huttese loanwords.
Anyways that’s all ig.
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marinamar4 · 16 hours
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Do you think that when Fialleril started writing, he thought that at some point his stories would be references for practically the entire slave culture of Tatooine?
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drelmurn · 11 months
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Finally getting around to working more on my Tatooine Slave Songs series, here’s a verse I’m working on for the prophet Akar Hinil.
Shoutout to Griffin Ed and the Consonance Filk Convention 2023 for inspiring me to pick this up again.
Lyrics:
Depuran called for the clean up crew, after half of them had died Tibora drugged the fish supply, they made Depuan cry, They stole a house of slaves that day, and vanished into sand Some went on to freefolk ways, and others joined their band.
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woodswanderer · 2 years
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I’m in love with @fialleril’s double agent Vader verse and I’m just picturing the bespun reveal being like,
They’re on the falcon, doing tge introductions, and leia had just told Luke and Han that Vader is her teacher and their double agent, and Luke is very suspicious and like, spitting acid, until anakin says,
“Ek masa nu ekkreth ka.”
And Luke, just like shoots back 5 feet and croaks, “…the fuck?”
And there so much emotion, and Luke yells at leia for a bit, like how could you not tell me, me own father was alive and STILL a slave!
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anneowl2803 · 2 years
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Go check out my fix-it fic!
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booklindworm · 2 years
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Amatakka and Amavikka
Amatakka (noun, not gendered, no plural)
the secret language of the Amavikka
Etymology: Compound of amu, ama ("mother, the mother's") + takka ("tongue, way of speech, language")
Synonyms: Huttspace Slave Creole
Amavikka (noun, neutral gender, singular)
A member of the Amavikka ethnic group which is comprised mostly of those enslaved or freed from slavery, originating in Huttspace
Any slave, especially in Huttspace
Etymology: Compound of amu, ama ("mother, the mother's") +vikka ("child, children")
Amavikka (noun, neutral gender, plural)
The Amavikka ethnic group, a secret and closed society
Amavikka (adjective, not comparable)
Of or pertaining to the Amavikka ethnic group
Words (a conlang) and concepts designed by @fialleril for use in their magnum opus Double Agent Vader (or see here on a3o or here on TV tropes). The story is magnificent and absolutely something you should read, should you have the time (and if you haven't yet).
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There are some things that all troopers know Nat born's will never understand.
All the troopers grew up in a world where perfection was the standard and anything less resulted in death. Where individuality was a crime and being anything more than just another number was a danger, Where saying the wrong thing in front of the wrong person could get you killed.
All troopers know this, but post Kamino the Guards have had it drilled into them all over again. If they want to survive In the Senate they have to fall back on the lessons they learned on Kamino.
The Corries know that there are some things that nat born's will never understand. Things that Nat born's shouldn't understand.
So no one in the guard quite knows how to feel about the strange fallout of the Shiney squad's Jetti Cadets apparent discovery of the Guards position on Courcant.
It starts small, the guard notices that the boy stops being weird about the fact that most of the Corries don't use their names, when asked, the boys. "It's because I know that you have them now." raises more questions than answers, because apparently the boy just figured out that they used their designation numbers around the Senate because their names were a secret on his own. He also seemed to get an unreasonable amount of joy from the fact that all the clones chose their own names.
If it has stopped there then it probably wouldn't be so weird, but it didn't. From sneaking in extra medical supplies and food, (actual food, not just ration bars) when he discovered that 'depur' was cutting their budget for stuff that they needed to function, to the way he seemed to intrinsically understand their need for secrecy, and their reasoning for it. "secrets keep us safe." Without anyone seemingly telling him.
They all agreed that they weren't gonna ask about how the boy had managed to rangle several senators around to the truth of the situation and his point of view with only a few words to one of them. A point of view that not only had them working on trooper sentient rights bills, but also had them aiding in his more under the table helping.
At first it was weird and confusing, both because this kid was a nat born, and because how did a Jetti Cadet develop this kind of understanding, he was a child. It took them a while to connect the dots, Even as the boy started unconsciously dropping hints.
At first it was that weird little nickname he had for the Senate and Senators, in a language that even the most nerdy of Corries didn't seem to understand. They weren't sure what a Depur was, but apparently it applied to the Senate and was probably not a good thing.
The next clue was the stories, because as Anakin spent more time with the guard, becoming more of a Vod'ika than a Jetti Commander and subsequently beginning to learn more and more about the secrets that they kept from the rest of the Senate.
As the boy learnt about the lighter side of the inner workings of the guard, and how to speak the clones particular brand of Mando'a, the guards began to learn stories about Ekkreth, Leia and Ar Amu, stories about secret plots and tricking the The infamous Depur in ways that resulted in the freedom of those he enslaved.
About secret Languages, Tzai, Jappor snippets and secret rituals. About the ways one could steal back some control from the Masters in ways that they would never even notice. About things that the boy claimed that all Slaves should know, lessons that would help keep them safe from their Masters. A term that by now the guards suspended was not referring to the kind the Jedi had.
By the time the boy causally mentioned that he and his mother had been enslaved prior to him being taken to the temple, the Guards already had a pretty decent picture of the situation.
The fact that the boy had been adopting them into his own culture right under their noses had been vastly more surprising. He'd been a little awkward when he'd admitted it. Saying that he knew that they were sort of Mando'ade, but they could be Amavikka too if they wanted.
And sure, maybe it was a little dark that part of the reason the boy spent so much time in the barracks was because it felt familiar, but also this kid cared about every single one of them, to the point where he apparently sees them as family.
Well it really was no wonder that it was agreed that the entire guard would do just about anything for their Ad'ika. Including possibly stopping said Ad'ika from doing the same for them. (Bloody Skywalkers)
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adragonsfriend · 6 months
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Cultural relationships to Pain: Sith, Jedi, Amavikka
Writing This Story can Kill You, I finally managed to articulate why I think Dooku seems so surprised to be betrayed by Sidious in ROTS, despite the whole 'betrayal is the way of the Sith thing,' and in the process I wrote a smol essay. Anyway,
So I think Dooku’s understanding of the Sith is incomplete not just because he fails to realize that the apprentice is always a slave never a partner of the master, but because he sees the Sith ways of gaining power—drawing from pain, rage, suffering, humiliation (your own and others)—as a means to an end. To him that pain is to be endured on the path to power.
But Sith doctrine properly understood is that the pain has to embraced, and continue to be embraced even when power is achieved. You have to want pain of all kinds to be a part of your being and part of the world. This is the difference between a regular darksider and a sith, the difference between drowning and diving in. A regular darksider falls because they have pain of some kind they can’t escape and can’t deal with, so they reject their experience of that pain so deeply that they project it outward. A Sith has a different relationship with pain. They are not coping with pain by refusing to acknowledge it, but instead by reveling in Pain in all its forms.
‘Passion’ in the Sith Code doesn’t refer to the modern meaning, eg, “I found my passion, and made it into my dream job!” It refers to passion like ‘the suffering and death of <insert your prefered martyr here>.’ They are saying, essentially, Pain is good, Pain is a natural part of the universe, Pain is an end in itself. This is something Dooku fails to understand, and I think it’s what allows him to be surprised that Sidious betrays him: he fundamentally doesn’t understand the paradigm in which Sidious is operating.
Anakin does understand it, and it’s part of what he rejects when he becomes Ekkreth in Shape Changer. I think he absolutely continues to draw on the darkside after that—he really couldn’t get away with not doing so under Sidious’ observation—and his storm-shield is the front of still embracing Pain the way a Sith should, but it has become a lie. In Fialleril's Trophies, Sidious thinks about how it’s disappointing that Vader doesn’t show much spark anymore. He's observing Vader apparently giving in to his depression instead of reveling it, and that’s a disappointment. Just like for Jedi, it’s not really about what the world does to a Sith (eg how much pain you’re in), it’s about how they react to it.
Ekkreth (the spirit) is fundamentally about freedom and an end to suffering. In fashioning himself after Ekkreth, Anakin rejects the Sith relationship to Pain (btw as does cannon Anakin in return of the Jedi by killing Sidious to save Luke, thereby, in George Lucas’ own words, ‘ending the horror’ for the rest of the galaxy). Notably, he also doesn’t embrace the Jedi relationship to Pain, which is that it isn’t an inherent or necessary part of the world and that if you can let go of your attachments, Pain will cease to exist. He says Pain is real, but I am going to end part of it (Sidious). This is the Amavikka relationship to Pain: Pain is always going to exist (Depur always tries again no matter how often Ekkreth frees the people), but it can and should always be fought (Ekkreth) or endured (Leia), not embraced. The Jedi and Sith developed in opposition to each other, while Amavikka culture developed in opposition to slavery.
To be clear: Jedi and Amavikka views are about a thousand times more compatible than Amavikka and Sith. Amavikka is not any kind of middle road between Jedi and Sith, it’s a different paradigm.
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that-gay-jedi · 2 years
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Names.
Many years ago a friend of mine, whose life story I already knew in intimate detail, posted about how she had chosen the name Aurora for herself because of the actual celestial aurora "dancing despite the cold and dark." Somehow it told me so much about her, even though none of the facts tied to this- how much she valued joy, her immensely traumatic past, her appreciation of beauty, her understanding of herself- were new to me.
We don't have, AFAIK, any canonical etymology of Anakin's name. We don't even have an extratextual origin like we do with names like Shaak Ti or Qui-Gon Jinn (the two leading theories about where Lucas could've pulled Anakin's name from both have strong evidence against them which makes it all hard to pin down).
We do know that he values his name, that he wears it with pride- in fact this is one of the very first things we learn about him. This is before it becomes one of his last ties to his mother. This apparently remains so despite the fact that it became one of his last ties to Tatooine. We know that when Darth Vader says "That name no longer has any meaning to me" it is showing us how much he completely, UTTERLY subverted himself in his Fall to the dark.
Fanon mostly seems reluctant to assign in-universe etymology to Anakin, with the notable exception of Fialleril's Double Agent Vader (where it essentially means "rainbringer"- world changer, freedom bringer, promise fulfilled, a hoped-for someday feel). Are we afraid to touch it? Or just unable to pin down something about Anakin that might inform his name?
Skywalker is easier at least in a "what was GL thinking" sense. It's even lampshaded in the TPM novelization when a stranger upon learning Anakin's name says "You walk the sky like you own it." It was chosen for Luke, also a great pilot, before we even had an Anakin Skywalker to cry about. Yet it came from Shmi who was not a pilot herself.
Idk pals I just think about names a lot and especially with how big a deal names are between Anakin and Obi-Wan but we'll never know exactly what it meant (in a literal, linguistic sense) to him. Names say so, so much about a person.
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junhwe0309 · 2 years
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A Thousand Faces but No Wings
Shmi once told Anakin a story about the saddest slaves, the ones who loved their chains so much they remained in bondage. They were so happy they could not see the tears that fell from their eyes and disappeared into the greedy sand.
Ekkreth wears a thousand faces, but Anakin Skywalker wore two. Ekkreth was a beautiful red bird, but Anakin had no wings. Ekkreth was unfettered but Anakin Skywalker was heartbound.
Anakin loved Obi-Wan and he was grateful to the Jedi, for all of their faults. They could have cast him aside so easily but took him in, no matter how begrudgingly. Anahkeen owes them a half-debt and it festers snarling resentment under the guise of begrudging compliance. The Jedi cannot help the slaves of Tatooine but they can help their slavemasters. They point their fingers at Anahkeen and do not see the ones that point at their backs. The Jedi Masters disapprove because Ekkreth has a thousand faces and a hundred thousand hidden facets to him and they see a bantha only for a bantha.
Anahkeen knows he is many things. He is prideful because the Sky-walker does not bow to a Master. He is jealous because he cannot help but envy the other children who came to the Jedi earlier. He is accused of greed because the Jedi mistake his desperation to please his Masters for avarice. He is criticized for his laziness by the Masters in his classes because Watto wanted a smart slave but did not want a capable person. He is shown disdain for the eagerness he takes food, even when eating the proper amount because a Jedi eats to live and does not live to eat. His passion for saber-fighting is scrutinized as aggressive and almost bloodthirsty. Perhaps they are right; most of all, he is wrathful, because real gods drown the half-gods of wine and flowers in flesh and blood.
He is many things and content is the last of them. But Anakin has a beautiful wife and a duty to the men. He cannot say no, because he remembers the last time he abandoned someone he loved. The gods must have laughed as they reminded him of his disloyalty, his unending debt. When he thinks of Shmi, he thinks of all the ways he failed her. Anahkeen tried to name which of the deadly seven may apply, and when he failed, he decided to append an eighth, regret. His agony seeds shameful tears.
The Jedi can have their temple, their lavish ships and water. They can have their glowing blades, and soft robes, and endless amounts of food, and bacta and tall buildings because slaves have no use for them anyways. Anahkeen wanted nothing more than his ragged, old cotton bedsheet and the moonlight shining through the desert clouds, and the cool breeze under his feet while he ran around catching fireflies. He is almost sick of seeing so much plant life. There are even days when he misses Seek because his cruelty was one Anahkeen saw in himself and countless other faces.
But the Jedi won him a long time ago, and it was not long before his Master Knighted him and he got married. It was not long before he became a war general and a teacher to a bright, young girl. But none of them contribute to his joy now. His apprentice is long gone to the wind, becoming a woman before he could realize the girl he helped raise had bloomed. His wife is a woman he is eternally grateful for and he knows he can never repay her enough. His Master is a Jedi, and it is both good and bad. He is among thousands of Jedi and clones and he cannot help but feel so lonely in their company.
Desolation drives a man to think about times he once wanted to forget. Maybe someday he will get to go home when the war is over. Anahkeen remembers a freed Grandmother, who was born on a lush planet. She once told him a story he did not understand until it was too late.
“When a person crosses the river, Ar-Amu gives him what he wants. I don told the All-Mother I don’t want nothing much – only my home. I don’t think that’s much to ask for. I suppose she’ll send me back there. I been waiting a long time for her to call.”
If Kitster could see him now, he would feel pity for Anahkeen for the first time in his life. At least with Watto, he was useful but not important.
Some days, he reveled in his own ruin. Some days, he is not a Sky-walker. Many days, he is not Shmi’s son.
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sparksinthenight · 7 months
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What is the lifeblood of the Amavikka culture?
“Amatakka!” “Ekkreth!” “Ar-Amu!” Listen. The bonds between the slaves, between the slaves and the Desert, between mother and child, between friends, lovers, strangers, all those bonds are the lifeblood flowing through these things. The bonds between the slaves, and between the slaves and the Desert, the bonds of family, friendship, community, solidarity, home, these bonds are what breathe life into each and every aspect of the culture. The stories, the songs, the rituals, the language, the Tzai, all of that is nothing without the connections and relationships that make everything have meaning and importance. The relationships and connections between all the slaves and between the slaves and the Desert is what makes everything in the Amavikka culture have importance.
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clawedandcute · 1 year
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Headcanon: Tatooian slave women grow their hair long, long, long. It’s not practical, it’s not simple, but it is the only currency they have that they are willing to give. If they ever escape, if they are every desperate for credits, they will sell their hair to the wig makers, who will then sell to the high class suppliers in the Core.
The Amavikka find it kind of funny — on their good days. The Core pays no attention to them, never helps them, yet their hair — their long beautiful hair that they braid up and keep safe from the blistering suns — is prized to the point where the elite of the galaxy are funding their freedom.
If an Amavikka woman makes it to the Freedom Trail, you will never see her with long hair again, but you will see her with enough credits in her pocket to start a new life. And you will see a beautiful wig in a shop on Coruscant, just waiting to be purchased by a senator who doesn’t know the first thing about Tatooine.
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