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antianakin · 1 year
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I think what I'm starting to realize is that Darth Vader is redeemable.
Anakin Skywalker is not.
Darth Vader, the guy we're introduced to in the Original Trilogy, who we don't really know anything about, who Obi-Wan remembers fondly even as we know he's gone bad, who ISN'T associated with the end of the Jedi. Erase all the context of what we now know about Anakin Skywalker, his relationships with the Jedi, his actions on Tatooine, the way he treats Padme, his relationships with the clones, his relationship with Ahsoka, all of that. Erase it all.
All we have is Darth Vader. A guy whose worst acts are honestly relatively small and who is almost always up against a bigger villain. It's Tarkin who technically orders the destruction of Alderaan. And Tarkin dies at the end. By ESB, we start seeing the Empire and Vader's relationship to Luke is revealed, someone we love, someone we want the best for. So when you get to ROTJ and Luke says he might still have good in him, minutes before we meet the Emperor himself in person, it's not that hard to believe him. It's not that hard to believe that one last act of kindness is all it takes to absolve him.
Put everything else aside, JUST looking at the Original Trilogy, Vader's.... not THAT bad. His redemption works fine.
But Anakin Skywalker? Anakin Skywalker's been killing babies since he was 19 years old and never stopped. Anakin Skywalker betrayed 10,000 people who considered him family overnight. Anakin Skywalker betrayed several million good men into being brainwashed and turned into betrayers themselves. Anakin Skywalker betrayed the Republic he served, and the wife he did it all for.
You don't come back from that. You just don't.
Darth Vader without Anakin Skywalker's story was redeemable.
NOTHING Darth Vader ever does in the original trilogy is at the level of what we see Anakin Skywalker do over the course of the prequel trilogy and The Clone Wars show. Nothing. Nothing comes close except Alderaan and that's nowhere near as personal or direct as what he does to the Jedi and the Clones. It's also not a betrayal of any kind.
Anakin Skywalker's not redeemable. What he did can't be undone or fixed. There's no amends he can make because the people he'd need to make amends TO are all dead. Because of him. There's nothing left to BE redeemed.
And most of us CAN'T divorce Darth Vader from Anakin Skywalker anymore, you're not really meant to. They usually WANT you to remember Anakin Skywalker when they bring in Darth Vader to stories these days. Which makes that last moment of ROTJ just feel... so unearned now. So frustrating. Because the more we get to see, the more we're forced to remember everything Anakin Skywalker's done over the course of his life, the less his redemption works. Because the more we see, the more atrocities are revealed. More massacres, more murders, more planets and people eradicated from the galaxy forever. At what point does it become impossible to truly be redeemed for everything you've done? At what point is it impossible to ACTUALLY go back?
And it doesn't matter which version of the force ghost you get, either. If it's the older version, then Anakin gets to present himself as if he'd never done those things. If it's the younger version, then Anakin gets to present himself ONLY before he did some of his worst acts (although he's still a baby killer, let's not forget, so that's... suspect). Either way, the things he's done get to be forgotten. They no longer matter. Those people he killed, the people he betrayed, who will never be the same as they were. The galaxy he helped bring to its knees over and over again, that will take decades AT LEAST to recover from what he did to it, can't forget. But he gets to. He gets to forget.
And I don't find that very satisfying anymore.
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ruttama-art · 10 days
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the new chapter is... 11 pages.
Two of which are cover pictures.
It's finally happened. I'm no longer excited for new manga content. I have nothing to look forward to anymore when a new "chapter" drops.
Like... seriously?? 9 pages of content? I'm sorry but can it be anymore clear that Yana does NOT care about Kuro anymore? Like AT LEAST take a fucking hiatus so the story isn't being destroyed by this AWFUL pacing
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ahammkara · 1 year
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being a gambit fan is the most heartbreaking existence one can live
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eggbagelz · 9 months
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melloianv2 · 1 year
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“A Tinkaton and Gholdengo is best friends for years. One is friendly, and the other is...kind of aggressive. Despise their differences, these two somehow have a very good friendship. One day, the two was just hanging out. A mysterious wormhole to come out of nowhere, Nihilego comes out the wormhole and kidnaps Gholdengo. Nihilego then takes Gholdengo to wormhole. Tinkaton pulls out a hammer and decides to follow the Nihilego, leading her to HollowLand. When she made it, the only entity she saw was a coin named Coiny, who have some connection to Gholdengo. She and Coiny goes on adventure to save Gholdengo.” Gothorita is the main antagonist here, somehow found a way to drug (without using status effect abilities) Gholdengo. Nihilego does nothing else besides what happened in the intro. The main Party Members/Partners are related to the story, as each of them have a love one or best friend that was kidnapped as well. Ending up in HollowLand in result. Usually they all have bad traits, as it post to be important part of why their friends was kidnapped according to Gothorita.
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spacephrasing · 3 months
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don't fucking talk to me about lanarcher
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i-was-a-well-kid-once · 10 months
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George: the human body has 7 trillion nerves and some people manage to get every single one of them
Lockwood, from another room: I SAID I WAS SORRY
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semisolidmind · 11 months
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I COME HERE TO SEE YOU'RE IN H*RNY JAIL WATT
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crystalmagpie447 · 5 months
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clawing the ground
running around on all fours
mom said no to the fnaf movie (BAHAHDGSHUJ)
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coping with cryptid sightings
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person4924 · 13 days
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do u think my history teacher would appreciate me stabbing her 23 times as a reference to julius
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loife1m · 3 months
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SHIT I FORGOT TO STUDY FUCKING GEOGRAPHY DAMMIT
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sevikasenby · 6 months
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idk why i thought that making an edit of sevika’s hands was a good idea but here we are 😵‍💫😵‍💫
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joyce-bi-ers · 1 year
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i love how inception implied that Arthur and Eames vaguely know each other because they’ve probably worked together before ( „Mhh, Arthur. You still working with that stick in the mud?“)(„Eames? No, he’s in Mombasa“) but the fandom just went no they’re married actually
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serikyl · 1 day
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Hero’s new goal is finding and killing Scam Likely
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frogofalltime · 4 months
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I AM GENUINELY SO MAD I GOT UP REALLY EARLY FOR NO REASON BECAUSE OUR LECTURER DIDN'T EVEN SHOW UP
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donutdisturblivball · 2 years
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no bc can u imagine how pissed will would be if mike and eleven broke up in s5???? bro goes through sm pain to keep their relationship alive single handedly and then they just. break up.
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