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Tia. 21. Spends a concerning amount of time crying about Jedi.

Multifandom/personal blog, but heavy on Star Wars. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are my OTP to end all OTPs, I ship Ahsoka/Rex as well, and love all things related to the Obi-Wan/Ahsoka/Anakin family unit.

My GIFS and other edits are under the 'mine' link below.

10 Days of Star Wars Meme

Favorite Male Character (Part Three of Three): Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader

“This is Anakin Skywalker: The most powerful Jedi of his generation. Perhaps of any generation. The fastest. The strongest. An unbeatable pilot. An unstoppable warrior. On the ground, in the air or sea or space, there is no one even close. He has not just power, not just skill, but dash: that rare, invaluable combination of boldness and grace. He is the best there is at what he does. The best there has ever been. And he knows it. HoloNet features call him the Hero With No Fear. And why not? What should he be afraid of?

Except… fear lives inside him anyway, chewing away the fire-walls around his heart. […]

That is the kind of fear that lives inside Anakin Skywalker: the dragon of that dead star. It is an ancient, cold dead voice within his heart that whispers ‘All things die.’ In bright day he can’t hear it; battle, a mission, even a report before the Jedi Council, can make him forget it’s even there.But at night…at night the walls he has built sometimes start to frost over. Sometimes they start to crack.

At night, the dead-star dragon sometimes sneaks through the cracks and crawls up into his brain and chews at the inside of his skull. The dragon whispers of what Anakin has lost. And what he will lose. The dragon reminds him, every night, of how he held his dying mother in his arms, of how she had spent her last strength to say ‘I knew you would come for me, Anakin…”

The dragon reminds him, every night, that someday he will lose Obi-Wan. He will lose Padmé. Or they will lose him.

‘All things die, Anakin Skywalker. Even stars burn out…’

~ Revenge of the Sith Novelization by Matthew Stover

tagged → #Star Wars #10 Days of Star Wars Meme #my edits #Mine: Star Wars #Anakin Skywalker #I firmly take the position that no character gets a worse deal from the films than Anakin himself #I hate how in TPM instead of focusing on how truly horrific it is #that this little kid has already learned the only reason it'll matter if someone decides to murder him is because #he's property that'll have to be paid for and not because his life as individual human being has any worth #we get too many cutesy scenes just focusing on how precocious he is and the tone is all wrong #and in AOTC and ROTS we don't see Anakin going through things so much as we see things happening TO him because his headspace isn't explored #nearly as much as it should be; and because we're seeing Anakin at his worst 90% of the time it's hard to sell him as a sympathetic figure #I understand why it's hard for so much of the audience to feel invested in his fall to the dark #when the films don't ever really let us see Anakin existing in the light #and it's even more frustrating when you look at how well Anakin is handled in the EU in comparison #because when you have the time to truly delve into Anakin's headspace you get to see how complex and sympathetic he really is #I like that we see how a childhood of slavery eternally affects every thought Anakin has and every choice he makes #that we're shown how damaged he truly has been by a life he didn't ask for #but how hard he tries to do the right thing all the same because he genuinely wants nothing more than to help people #I love that we actually get to see Anakin at his best and understand how likable he truly is and why the people who love him do so #that we're show shades of grey- times where Anakin was arguably right to stray from the Jedi way and the more compassionate person for it #and just altogether I really feel like when you have the full picture of who Anakin is and what drives him then he is a fantastic character #the boy who was brought up a slave and was determined to never let anyone take his or any other being's freedom ever again #only to grow up and take every wrong turn and not only enslave the galaxy but himself all over again #to Sidious and to the suit and to the darkness #the man who cared so fiercely for so many but whose unhealthy concepts of love and what's right in the name of the greater good #led him down the path paved with good intentions to hell only for him to find his way back to the light #in one final act of true selflessness brought on by the enduring love he held for his child