#vader and ahsoka

[rants-of-rae]

Ahsoka on Choosing (and Fighting) to Live, and why it matters that Anakin was the one to complete this lesson

Ahsoka has been playing the neutral game for a while now. Don’t engage, it at all possible. Avoid conviction , which Anakin points out that she lacks. Anakin tells Ahsoka that her training isn’t yet complete. There’s still a last lesson for her, and it’s one that transforms her in the end.

That message? Fight.

This is not about merely physical survival. This is about spiritual survival, the survival of who Ahsoka is in the Light.

It’s exactly the lesson Anakin had to learn for himself. He had to learn to fight for the Light inside him; he had to fight Vader to find himself again and protect the core of who he is. He couldn’t teach her that before, all that time ago. He didn’t know. He could teach her to be a soldier, yes, but as Ahsoka knows and as we found out in this episode, her training from him wasn’t complete. Because he had only recently learned t he final lesson himself, which he is now in the World Between Worlds to teach her. He tells her:

He knows it’s already within her, but she resists the message. Ahsoka lives through the past once again, and Anakin is trying to show her how she wasn’t just fighting to live in a physical sense, she was fighting to save her self in the spiritual sense, her soul in the Light side of the Force. She fought to save herself when she left the Jedi Order. She fought for what she believed was right in the siege of Mandalore.

But in one thing, Ahsoka has remained neutral, avoiding a solid conviction. She won’t fight Anakin, she won’t take that step.

But that’s not what Anakin wants. In the same way that Luke initially didn’t want to fight his father and eventually had to in order to protect what is good and true inside of himself, Ahsoka has to choose that, too. Anakin had to learn that and choose to live himself, too. Luke and Anakin have gone before her; it is Ashoka’s turn now. Anakin pushes her.

Ahsoka walks right up to the edge. She engages in the struggle, as she is meant to. She touches the Dark side, and she chooses to back away from it. She chooses to fight for the Light inside her. She chooses to live.

It’s exactly what Anakin wanted her to learn. His reaction is interesting, because he appears almost sad for a moment.

But I think it’s because he’s shocked at how comparatively easy it was for Ahsoka to resist the Dark side, in contrast to himself. He realizes she’s so much stronger on that front than he ever was. He’s surprised, ashamed of himself perhaps, but ultimately proud of her. “There’s hope for you yet,” he tells Ahsoka.

This experience changes Ahsoka forever and from this she becomes Ahsoka the White.

Ahsoka has found balance now. She learns that in the struggle to hold on to the Light inside of her, she has to take a stand in the end. It’s what Luke learned, it’s what Anakin finally learned, and Ahsoka has finally found that hope, too. Anakin wasn’t able to finish her training all that time ago because he didn’t know the lesson yet; now that he does, he has returned to her in the World Between Worlds to finish her training. He brought balance yet again, and Ahsoka has found peace with her past. She was never “just a soldier,” she was always so much more. Anakin brought her hope, and now its Ahsoka’s turn to carry the flame.

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[the-wanderer]

#Star Wars #star wars spoilers #star wars rebels #star wars anakin #Star Wars Vader #star wars clone wars #star wars meme #vader #darth vader #Ahsoka #Ahsoka tano #lord vader #dad vader #vaderkin #vader and ahsoka #ahsoka clone wars #anakin and ahsoka

[jedislight]

"Anakin Skywalker, he was my Master."

#ahsoka tano #darth vader #*novasedits #star wars rebels #ahsoka and vader #vader and ahsoka #swedit #userjesslynn #tusernaij #userregan #angelblr #tusergeo #tusergio #usermaggo #userbariss #usermelanie #tusermelissa #xuserann #xuseremily #flashing gif

[aspenstarflare]

Vader yelling at the inquisitors after Ahsoka beat them up without breaking a sweat:

Vader: You insignificant useless imbeciles! You couldn’t beat two poorly trained Jedi, when there were two of you and a entire legion of storm troopers?!

Seventh sister: But my lord, Ahsoka Tano appeared out of a shining beam of light and destroyed us. It’s well known she’s been trained by-

Vader: [Chuckles]

Seventh sister and Fifth brother: ?????

Vader still laughing: That’s my girl. You two stood no chance. Surprised you even survived lmfao.

Seventh sister and Fifth brother:

Seventh sister and Fifth brother: . . .

#darth vader #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #seventh sister #fifth brother #vader and ahsoka #anakin and ahsoka #anakin is such a dad #ahsoka out there beating up everyone #we love our child soilder who had to become op through difficult training to survive all the truama #vader out there wiping his non existent tears at how cool he raised her to be #he’s also very proud at the drematic skywalker entrance he pulled #star wars the clone wars #star wars rebels #the clone wars incorrect quotes #star wars incorrect quotes #also get ahsoka some therapy man

[disastertriowriting]

#star wars #memes #star wars memes #writing memes #writing #WIPs #darth vader #vader #ahsoka tano #ahsoka #vader and ahsoka #star wars rebels #star wars rebels memes

[fanditty]

My videos never rlly do well but we’ll try it

Anakin never really got to see who Ahsoka grew up to be

#art #fanart #star wars #anakin skywalker #Anakin #darth vader #Vader #ahsoka #vader and ahsoka #star wars ahsoka #Star Wars rebels #starwars

[fanfictasia]

Angstpril Day 24

The Ghost Of You

Spoiler: This is an excerpt from The Sith Strike Back

“Are you okay?” Ahsoka queries, crouching in front of him.

Vader blinks, the question catching him by surprise.

“You keep acting… I don’t know. Weird. And it’s weird enough I was able to beat you.”

“It has been a long time since I last saw you,” he replies quietly.

“What happened to me? After – after this?”

“I – I do not know. I found your lightsaber not long after everything fell and I knew you survived but I do not know where you went.”

“We never saw each other again?” Ahsoka asks, biting her lip. He can see the lingering anxiety there and he can sense her longing. She misses him, what he was, but that’s not who he is anymore. He can’t be her Anakin.

“Only once. It did not end well.”

“What do you mean?”

“We fought.” For a moment, he’s half expecting to see the older her instead of the young one. He wants to hear what she has to say about it, to talk to her again, but this isn’t his her. Even if this is really the ‘her’ he remembers. It feels like he’s looking at a ghost.

Ahsoka’s eyes widen, something like horror flickering through her gaze. “I – I can’t imagine that. I mean if you were a Sith – I don’t know. I can’t believe this is the future.”

He’d say that too if he hadn’t been living in it for two decades. “You had reason to be angry,” he tells her, numbly. He doesn’t know what her relationship with that other boy there was, but…

Ahsoka leans forwards unexpectedly, winding her arms around him. Vader freezes only for a moment but pulls her close. She slides half into his lap and he squeezes her a little tighter. Never wants to let go. He can’t even believe what she's doing. He doesn’t even understand why. She knows that he is. But to be fair, she doesn’t know what he’s done yet.

“I missed you,” she murmurs, into his shoulder.

“I missed you too… Snips.” He ignores the way his voice is wavering as he says it.

#star wars #star wars fanfiction #fanfiction #angstpril #angstpril 2024 #angstpril day 24 #angstpril day twenty four #day 24 #day twenty four #darth vader #vader #ahsoka tano #ahsoka #vader and ahsoka #angst #family #the ghost of you

[fangirlingindefinitely]

The Part Of Me That’s Lost

#ahsoka tano fanart #ahsoka tano #ahsoka #ahsoka fanart #anakin and ahsoka #darth vader #darth vader fanart #star wars rebels #star wars art #star wars fanart #star wars #star wars rebels fanart #rebels ahsoka #vader and ahsoka #rebels fanart #sw rebels

[reevesartisse]

SITH! OBI-WAN & ANAKIN SKYWALKER | WHAT IF? STAR WARS BY ME. I always liked the idea of Obi-Wan corrupted by the dark side, so i made this. Star Wars really needs a what if show.

#obi wan kenobi #obi wan and anakin #anakin skywalker #sith obi wan #anakin fanart #star wars fanart #ewan mcgregor #hayden christensen #anakin #darth vader #ahsoka #satine kryze #general kenobi #revenge of the sith #what if

[hayden-christensen]

Not only is Hayden a brilliant actor, he’s one of the most skilled athletes I’ve ever seen. He learned fast and is now leagues ahead of everybody. He is terrifying. — Nick Gillard

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN as ANAKIN SKYWALKER/DARTH VADER Ahsoka - Part Five: Shadow Warrior (2023)

#swedit #starwarsedit #star wars #ahsokaedit #ahsoka #ahsoka s1 #ahsoka spoilers #anakin skywalker #anakinskywalkeredit #darth vader #starwarsblr #flashing tw #*mine #*2023 #*gifs #10k #ignore the colouring those scenes are impossible #BUT YEAHHH HIS LIGHTSABER SKILLSSSS #suitless vader with the red lightsaber is just. 😵‍💫

[scarroxana]

HE IS STAR WARS

#anakin skywalker #star wars #darth vader #ahsoka #obi wan kenobi #luke skywalker #hayden christensen

[rants-of-rae]

Kenobi: Skywalker’s Only Hope

Let’s talk about Anakin’s final “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope” as seen (as I will argue) in the final episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi (Part VI) [spoiler warning!]

During their final duel of Kenobi (Pt VI), Obi-Wan is able to (literally) crack Vader’s facade. Behind the helmet, he sees Anakin. He calls his name, too stunned to do anything else.

Vader looks at him and tells him that “Anakin is gone.”

Yet as Obi-Wan cries and apologizes to Anakin, we see the facade crack more as we catch a glimpse of Anakin, tortured emotions across his face.

Vader then says something very surprising. He says “I am not your failure, Obi-Wan. You didn’t kill Anakin Skywalker. I did.”

This is significant for two reasons. 1) it’s a callback to Mustafar (“I have failed you, Anakin, I have failed you”) and 2) this is also, arguably, a sliver of Anakin here — whether it’s a desperate move by the suppressed Anakin to assuage Obi-Wan’s guilt or is simply (Anakin’s) self-loathing and self-hatred, which are also canonically emotions that fueled Vader, is up to you.

The brief raw emotional vulnerability quickly fades, however, and Vader is back to threatening Obi-Wan, who finally comes to the conclusion that Anakin is well and truly gone, and decides to leave him, turning his back on him as he had done on Mustafar.

But the thing is, Vader can’t keep going on without Kenobi. The passion he has for Kenobi- whatever nature that may be- fuels Vader’s power. As Obi-Wan walks away, Vader cries out to him, calling his name twice.

The fact that he calls Obi-Wan’s name twice is really important, because I argue that this is coded as Anakin’s ‘distress signal.’ In “Twilight of the Apprentice” (from SW Rebels s2), Anakin also calls out to Ahsoka after his helmet has been slashed by her. “Ahsoka…. Ahsoka,” he says, initiating the outreach. She responds by whispering his name back in return (twice), further showing the importance of the double use of the name.

Which is why it’s a really big deal (!!) that when Obi-Wan finally tells Vader he’s given up/finally believes Anakin is well and truly gone, Vader initiates the contact and cries out to him. Twice.

This was Anakin’s last attempt to communicate his ‘distress signal’ to Obi-Wan, to tell him that Anakin needed his help. Anakin knew that he would never escape Vader if even Obi-Wan came to believe that Anakin was gone. Anakin cried out to him, knowing that Obi-Wan was his only hope.

Reading the text this way makes Vader’s final scene all the more tragic. In talking to Palpatine, Vader reinforces his desire to chase Kenobi. “He will not evade me again,” he says. (He’s my only hope, I cannot let him evade me again). Like a moth drawn to flame, Vader (or really Anakin inside of Vader) needs his Master. He cannot give up the flicker of hope that Obi-Wan presents.

That is until Palpatine yanks on his leash, reminding Vader of his dependency on him. He calls him out for his feelings over Obi-Wan weakening him, then vaguely hints that if Vader cannot overcome his past, then there would be no further use for him, and Palpatine would destroy him.

This is the final nail in the coffin. Vader sinks back into his chair. Defeated. “I serve only you, my Master,” he says, and we hear the Imperial March swell in the background.

Vader has resigned himself to his fate. Anakin slips away inside of him, not to reemerge until Return of the Jedi ten years later with the aid of his son. Until then, we see an increasingly cold, detached Vader, one that truly lost all hope when Kenobi called him “Darth” and accepted that Anakin was gone. If Kenobi had lost all hope, so did Anakin.

#obi wan kenobi spoilers #obi wan kenobi #kenobi spoilers #darth vader #anakin skywalker #obi wan and anakin #star wars #star wars rebels #ahsoka tano #part vi #obikin #vader and ahsoka

[usersukuna]

DARTH VADER/ANAKIN SKYWALKER in AHSOKA (S01E05)

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[jedislight]

See You Again • Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano

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[that-dumb-dinosaur]

look me in the eye and tell me this isn't one of the coolest shots in any star wars tv episode. and don't even get me started on when his voice overlapped with Vader's-

#and the other one when they were fighting too???? #the scream i scrumpt #oh star wars the thing that you are #the lighting getting darker and the clones being out of view in the second shot #i'm going insane #trexi pterodactyl screeches #ahsoka show #ahsoka series #ahsoka spoilers #star wars #ahsoka show spoilers #ahsoka series spoilers #ahsoka #anakin skywalker #darth vader #kenobi 🤝 ahsoka: not being really my favorite sw shows but having crazy anakin/vader shots

[disastertriowriting]

Ahsoka: If we don’t get out of this alive… If we’re both about to die… I love you, Anakin! *Neither of them die* Vader: … Ahsoka: … Vader: So do you wanna talk about somethi- Ahsoka: No thank you.

#star wars #incorrect quotes #incorrect star wars quotes #ahsoka tano #ahsoka #darth vader #vader #vader and ahsoka #basically them on malachor #XD