Anakin is weird even for a Force sensitive. He is a conduit of the Force, perhaps even a Force entity in human form. Whatever the case may be, that makes for a strange human. Even as a child he picked up things far easier than he should have, while also picking up the darker forces at work in Tatooine's criminal sector. This would help make it easier for Sidious to influence later.
Most of the following abilities are locked for Anakin unless he is tapping into his Eldritch Force powers, or until he has learned to harness his full potential. The latter does not happen until he's much, much older.
Force Healing: Anakin is not adept at using the force to heal others but he naturally heals a lot faster than most, even by fellow Jedi standards. During the Clone Wars he tanks his injuries and is usually fine by the time they return to base, but this also means he ends up in the med bay more often when he's taken on too much.
Telepathy: Repressed before he entered the Order. Anakin was able to read the minds of most beings around him, his mother included. He unknowingly blocked this ability himself due to trauma when he was 4.
Precognition: Anakin's precognition allows him to perceive events before they unfold at all times. This is not limited to prophetic dreams, though he has many of those as well. Anakin is literally so connected to the Force that he can see several seconds into the future at all times. It's not something he's able to explain, and it's often something that makes him seem impulsive, rude and downright frustrating at times. If he were to meditate, he could possibly see different futures, or a specific person's future.
Retrocognition: Anakin can see into the past of objects, places, people etc. this takes a lot of patience and meditation Anakin lacks in, and so he can only do so when his emotions are heightened or the area, thing, person is exceptionally loud in the force.
Time manipulation: partially responsible for Anakin's slowed aging. As he's grown in his abilities, so too has that slowed his aging. As for active usage, he can reduce times speed and therefore appear to teleport in combat. He can also accelerate it. This is for short durations.
Memory & Mind control manipulation: connected to suggestions. Anakin can erase memories, create fake ones and also send memories to someone else. He can also create suggestions so strong that they take over that person's sense of self.
Disintegration: Usage of the Force to completely annihilate objects and people. Usually done through an explosive force push.
Death inducement: A near instantaneous ability to cause a person's death. Usually by cutting them off from the living force.
Astral / physical projection: he can astral project, but also open pathways through the Force into the world between worlds that allows him to actually send himself across planets, places, etc.
Anakin's usage of these abilities have drawbacks. He is human at the end of the day and while he can theoretically channel limitless power from the force, he can die if he pushes himself past his limits. This is called force exhaustion and in Anakin this threshold is more to do with a physical inability to channel the force and less to do with a depletion of his energy stores.
In Anakin this looks like severe bleeding from facial orifices, burst eye capillaries, severe fatigue with muscle pain, temporary nerve damage that causes paralysis, nausea / vomiting of blood, dizziness, fainting, seizure and coma. -- there is usually a progression though Anakin can rest for short periods and push through causing symptoms to return faster.
Abilities are subject to change / additions. Feel free to suggest things hehe.
Anakin is weird even for a Force sensitive. He is a conduit of the Force, perhaps even a Force entity in human form. Whatever the case may be, that makes for a strange human. Even as a child he picked up things far easier than he should have, while also picking up the darker forces at work in Tatooine's criminal sector. This would help make it easier for Sidious to influence later.
Most of the following abilities are locked for Anakin unless he is tapping into his Eldritch Force powers, or until he has learned to harness his full potential. The latter does not happen until he's much, much older.
Force Healing: Anakin is not adept at using the force to heal others but he naturally heals a lot faster than most, even by fellow Jedi standards. During the Clone Wars he tanks his injuries and is usually fine by the time they return to base, but this also means he ends up in the med bay more often when he's taken on too much.
Telepathy: Repressed before he entered the Order. Anakin was able to read the minds of most beings around him, his mother included. He unknowingly blocked this ability himself due to trauma when he was 4.
Precognition: Anakin's precognition allows him to perceive events before they unfold at all times. This is not limited to prophetic dreams, though he has many of those as well. Anakin is literally so connected to the Force that he can see several seconds into the future at all times. It's not something he's able to explain, and it's often something that makes him seem impulsive, rude and downright frustrating at times. If he were to meditate, he could possibly see different futures, or a specific person's future.
Retrocognition: Anakin can see into the past of objects, places, people etc. this takes a lot of patience and meditation Anakin lacks in, and so he can only do so when his emotions are heightened or the area, thing, person is exceptionally loud in the force.
Time manipulation: partially responsible for Anakin's slowed aging. As he's grown in his abilities, so too has that slowed his aging. As for active usage, he can reduce times speed and therefore appear to teleport in combat. He can also accelerate it. This is for short durations.
Memory & Mind control manipulation: connected to suggestions. Anakin can erase memories, create fake ones and also send memories to someone else. He can also create suggestions so strong that they take over that person's sense of self.
Disintegration: Usage of the Force to completely annihilate objects and people. Usually done through an explosive force push.
Death inducement: A near instantaneous ability to cause a person's death. Usually by cutting them off from the living force.
Astral / physical projection: he can astral project, but also open pathways through the Force into the world between worlds that allows him to actually send himself across planets, places, etc.
Anakin's usage of these abilities have drawbacks. He is human at the end of the day and while he can theoretically channel limitless power from the force, he can die if he pushes himself past his limits. This is called force exhaustion and in Anakin this threshold is more to do with a physical inability to channel the force and less to do with a depletion of his energy stores.
In Anakin this looks like severe bleeding from facial orifices, burst eye capillaries, severe fatigue with muscle pain, temporary nerve damage that causes paralysis, nausea / vomiting of blood, dizziness, fainting, seizure and coma. -- there is usually a progression though Anakin can rest for short periods and push through causing symptoms to return faster.
Abilities are subject to change / additions. Feel free to suggest things hehe.
Padme and Anakin aren't married at the end of aotc, but they are together. They talk about Anakin leaving the order once the war is over. Anakin is on the fence. They talk about the Republic and the state of the Galaxy. Anakin listens as he always does and keeps his thoughts of frustration to himself. Padme knows better than he does.
RotS takes place over the course of a month instead of a week. Anakin is struggling with insomnia, prophetic dreams, PTSD, the confusing and oftentimes competing needs of the Order and the Republic. Every talk with Palpatine sounds more and more.... Strange, and yet he's the only one who is talking sense. Especially when the Force is telling him Padme is going to die against all odds and the Jedi "want him to simply accept that. After everything".
Palpatine spent years and years and years pushing Anakin to the breaking point. He used a combination of force suggestion and plain manipulation to slowly corrupt Anakin's mind. Every violent, dark urge was influenced. Every suspicion cast into further doubt. All doubt about the Jedi worsened. His fears were strengthened. Palpatine's honeyed words both worsened his paranoia while feeding him faux encouragement.
He pulled Anakin away from his support system. Obi-Wan was sent to Utapau, and Anakin couldn't trust in Padme, not when she wasn't a force sensitive herself and didn't see what he saw every night.
How could he not believe her death was coming when he saw every infinite option seconds before he made a choice, before someone else did, before it happened. His mother died in exactly the way he had seen in his dreams. He had seen others die throughout the war, events occur that mirrored dream sequences until he stepped into stop them. The Force tells him he can sway the order of the world, if only he knew how.
Palpatine makes it sound so simple. All the complicated pieces fall into place. If he just follows the right master.
Anakin fights Obi-Wan, psychotic, confused, heavy with regret. The Force tells him too many things. His mind is screaming. Padme is going to die if only he could control this one thing spiraling out of control.
Obi-Wan cuts off his prosthetic hand, his left leg and injures the other. Mustafar's sands are hot. Hotter than the dune sea at midday. He is set aflame, but the fire doesn't take all of him.
Post ROTS & through Kenobi.
Anakin Skywalker is dead, long live Darth Vader. Palpatine tells him Padme Amidala is dead. The truth is, she has fallen into a coma and their children sent across the galaxy to be hidden.
Anakin sets himself on fire even further and allows the grief and depression to take over everything he ever held dear. He allows himself to believe he is in control and not just shackled to a new master. He forces himself to believe he is not a slave because if he does, then everything he has done has been for nothing.
Darth Vader leads the Inquisitors. He hunts down remaining Jedi. He kills them, turns them. Some, on his kinder, more lucid days, he lets go. These moments are rare and far apart.
Palpatine, Sidious, punishes him for the most minor of transgressions. He shows Vader his place often, and slowly Vader realizes he's not in control and he never has been.
One year after Order 66, Vader seeks out the Kaminoans to help heal his wounded lungs. Sidious had purposefully left him weak in a body that could not fully heal. Even Anakin's natural Force healing could not undo the damage fast enough. And so, he commissioned the Kaminoans in secret, without Sidious knowing. An unbelievably difficult task.
He builds PROXY to help him in this and many other matter, including sparring.
Five years later, Vader kills a former Jedi on Kashyyk and is greeted with 7 year old Galen Marek. He takes him in as his secret apprentice and has PROXY watch over him.
He doesn't mean to care for the boy. It happens anyway.
Eight years after Order 66, Vader raids a rebel ship and kills an undercover Padme Amidala. His mind unravels and he nearly commits suicide. It's by mere luck Sidious's star destroyer pulls the ship into its docking bay. (OPTIONAL FOR PADME RPERS, can be discussed)
Vader attempts and fails to kill Sidious.
Ten years after Order 66, Vader finds Obi -Wan Kenobi and all but begs him to finish what he started on Mustafar. Obi-Wan refuses.
Vader returns to his base. Takes a 12 year old Galen Marek and plans to disappear. Before he can, Sidious's secret agent faces off with Anakin. Exhausted and still injured from his fight against Kenobi, Anakin loses and flees at the last second. Darth Vader defects. Anakin's clone, Stormslayer, picks up the mantle. Long live Darth Vader.
Post Kenobi
Anakin goes by Anson Starkiller. A name picked up from scattered memories of fighter pilots and neighboring slaves on Tatootine. He is a former bounty hunter, a mercenary. His history is carefully curated from Anakin's memories and crafted fiction. Truth and lies that everyone believes.
Galen is his apprentice. Anakin allows him to tell whatever variation of the truth he feels like and Galen tells just about everyone that Anakin killed his father. This has the side effect of either people being wary of him or straight out hating him. Some even try to take Galen away-- only the boy tells them he's not going anywhere. (He has to kill Anakin, just not yet.)
He helps the rebellion on a very touch and go basis until he decides he can help. He's disfigured enough that no one recognizes him even from old holos, and the years under a mask keep anyone from picking up on his true identity. He stays well away from anyone who would know him.
Anakin is surly, difficult to work with, has a terrible attitude-- but a solid reputation of being good at what he does, reliable, dependable and he has plenty of secrets that help the rebellion more than hinder it. Very few ask questions and even fewer want to.
I've noticed a few people in their bgs they choose to just exclude any thought on An.akin in their backgrounds even if the characters should be familiar. What's that about
Like obv everyone has their own ideas and don't want to push any on anyone's portrayal but I always feel like it's nice to see an idea of what people think of potential relationships? This isn't just Abt ana.kin this is like in general lol. So I'm curious is it cause some ppl prefer to be very open or... Don't wanna step on toes?
AU where Anakin is not freed by qui gon and wins his and his mother's freedom in a podrace in his teens because Cliegg Lars only had enough money for one slave so he never bought Shmi's freedom. He continues working for Watto because he doesn't have anything else until eventually he becomes a pilot..... Something something.
My for u page: I hate to tell you this but Luke loves his dad and that's attachment. Love doesn't exist without attachment even Ben and sat--
Me: oh my god oh my fucking God omg no. No no no NO. when you love someone and say I can't live without them that's unhealthy attachment. When you love someone and can let them go in spite of that love because of that love, that's the healthy version!!!!! THATS THE VERSION. THAT THE JE.DI. TRY (and fail) TO PUSH FORTH. Ana.kin understands this but his love is also based in FEAR OF LOSING THAT WHICH HE LOVES which is normal, but not to his extent that is UNHEALTHY ATTACHMENTTTDJDKDNDKDK
Person u can die on the hill but you're understanding is wrong. You're incorrect!
Padme and Anakin aren't married at the end of aotc, but they are together. They talk about Anakin leaving the order once the war is over. Anakin is on the fence. They talk about the Republic and the state of the Galaxy. Anakin listens as he always does and keeps his thoughts of frustration to himself. Padme knows better than he does.
RotS takes place over the course of a month instead of a week. Anakin is struggling with insomnia, prophetic dreams, PTSD, the confusing and oftentimes competing needs of the Order and the Republic. Every talk with Palpatine sounds more and more.... Strange, and yet he's the only one who is talking sense. Especially when the Force is telling him Padme is going to die against all odds and the Jedi "want him to simply accept that. After everything".
Palpatine spent years and years and years pushing Anakin to the breaking point. He used a combination of force suggestion and plain manipulation to slowly corrupt Anakin's mind. Every violent, dark urge was influenced. Every suspicion cast into further doubt. All doubt about the Jedi worsened. His fears were strengthened. Palpatine's honeyed words both worsened his paranoia while feeding him faux encouragement.
He pulled Anakin away from his support system. Obi-Wan was sent to Utapau, and Anakin couldn't trust in Padme, not when she wasn't a force sensitive herself and didn't see what he saw every night.
How could he not believe her death was coming when he saw every infinite option seconds before he made a choice, before someone else did, before it happened. His mother died in exactly the way he had seen in his dreams. He had seen others die throughout the war, events occur that mirrored dream sequences until he stepped into stop them. The Force tells him he can sway the order of the world, if only he knew how.
Palpatine makes it sound so simple. All the complicated pieces fall into place. If he just follows the right master.
Anakin fights Obi-Wan, psychotic, confused, heavy with regret. The Force tells him too many things. His mind is screaming. Padme is going to die if only he could control this one thing spiraling out of control.
Obi-Wan cuts off his prosthetic hand, his left leg and injures the other. Mustafar's sands are hot. Hotter than the dune sea at midday. He is set aflame, but the fire doesn't take all of him.
Post ROTS & through Kenobi.
Anakin Skywalker is dead, long live Darth Vader. Palpatine tells him Padme Amidala is dead. The truth is, she has fallen into a coma and their children sent across the galaxy to be hidden.
Anakin sets himself on fire even further and allows the grief and depression to take over everything he ever held dear. He allows himself to believe he is in control and not just shackled to a new master. He forces himself to believe he is not a slave because if he does, then everything he has done has been for nothing.
Darth Vader leads the Inquisitors. He hunts down remaining Jedi. He kills them, turns them. Some, on his kinder, more lucid days, he lets go. These moments are rare and far apart.
Palpatine, Sidious, punishes him for the most minor of transgressions. He shows Vader his place often, and slowly Vader realizes he's not in control and he never has been.
One year after Order 66, Vader seeks out the Kaminoans to help heal his wounded lungs. Sidious had purposefully left him weak in a body that could not fully heal. Even Anakin's natural Force healing could not undo the damage fast enough. And so, he commissioned the Kaminoans in secret, without Sidious knowing. An unbelievably difficult task.
He builds PROXY to help him in this and many other matter, including sparring.
Five years later, Vader kills a former Jedi on Kashyyk and is greeted with 7 year old Galen Marek. He takes him in as his secret apprentice and has PROXY watch over him.
He doesn't mean to care for the boy. It happens anyway.
Eight years after Order 66, Vader raids a rebel ship and kills an undercover Padme Amidala. His mind unravels and he nearly commits suicide. It's by mere luck Sidious's star destroyer pulls the ship into its docking bay. (OPTIONAL FOR PADME RPERS, can be discussed)
Vader attempts and fails to kill Sidious.
Ten years after Order 66, Vader finds Obi -Wan Kenobi and all but begs him to finish what he started on Mustafar. Obi-Wan refuses.
Vader returns to his base. Takes a 12 year old Galen Marek and plans to disappear. Before he can, Sidious's secret agent faces off with Anakin. Exhausted and still injured from his fight against Kenobi, Anakin loses and flees at the last second. Darth Vader defects. Anakin's clone, Stormslayer, picks up the mantle. Long live Darth Vader.
Post Kenobi
Anakin goes by Anson Starkiller. A name picked up from scattered memories of fighter pilots and neighboring slaves on Tatootine. He is a former bounty hunter, a mercenary. His history is carefully curated from Anakin's memories and crafted fiction. Truth and lies that everyone believes.
Galen is his apprentice. Anakin allows him to tell whatever variation of the truth he feels like and Galen tells just about everyone that Anakin killed his father. This has the side effect of either people being wary of him or straight out hating him. Some even try to take Galen away-- only the boy tells them he's not going anywhere. (He has to kill Anakin, just not yet.)
He helps the rebellion on a very touch and go basis until he decides he can help. He's disfigured enough that no one recognizes him even from old holos, and the years under a mask keep anyone from picking up on his true identity. He stays well away from anyone who would know him.
Anakin is surly, difficult to work with, has a terrible attitude-- but a solid reputation of being good at what he does, reliable, dependable and he has plenty of secrets that help the rebellion more than hinder it. Very few ask questions and even fewer want to.
seriously tho are we all of the op that obi-wan is straight up the most savage for just leaving anakin there to burn to death? like dont get me wrong here, he deserved it.
but anakin coming back like HOLY SHIT I HATE THIS MAN SO FUCKING MUCH HE NEEDS TO DIE IN THE FIERY PITS HE LEFT ME IN is so valid.
rumours had travelled upon the mouths of frightened stars, carried from system to system until even the distant swamps of dagobah whispered of the emperor’s new hand. DARTH VADER they called him: palpatine’s iron clad hound, a towering omen of black steel & crimson light before whom cities bent their knees and brave men remembered fear. the name itself brought no revelation. eleven years prior, within the murdered heart of the jedi temple, yoda had heard it bestowed upon another. beneath marbled vaulted ceilings still choked with smoke & corridors made sacred by crimson rivers of their fallen. the holorecording had unfolded its blasphemy in cold saphire light: anakin skywalker kneeling before the hooded ruin of the republic, the hero with no fear bowed at the feet of the MONSTER he had sworn to destroy. yoda had watched sidious lay that cursed title upon him like a funeral shroud, had watched the boy rise beneath a stranger’s name whilst, beyond the recording’s pale shimmer, the temple smouldered around them like the pyre of an age.
yet anakin had departed for mustafar, & obi wan had returned alone, grief clinging to him like ash upon the survivor of some godless fire. of what had passed upon that burning world he spoke little, & yoda, beholding the devastation carved into his former student’s face, had not demanded more. for eleven years, he had believed the flames had completed what sidious began, that the chosen one had been swallowed beneath rivers of molten earth & laid amongst the innumerable dead of the order he had betrayed. now rumours whispered otherwise. the fire had taken his flesh, his limbs, the breath from his lungs, yet refused him the mercy of death; anakin skywalker had survived mustafar, entombed beneath iron, chained to agony & loosed upon the galaxy beneath the name first spoken amongst the ashes of his home.
RARELY did the ancient master forsake the green sepulchre of dagobah, yet whispers of a surviving jedi master & the younglings sheltered beneath her protection had proved too grave to ignore. too many children had already waited behind sealed doors for salvation which never came, trusting until the final heartbeat that someone would reach them. so yoda had come. quinlan had borne the survivors towards the waiting ship, shepherding those last trembling embers beyond the empire’s grasp, whilst the grandmaster remained behind to hold the darkness at bay. verdant fingers tightened around the polished crown of his gimmer cane as the respirator laboured between them, each mechanical breath dragged from ruined lungs like the bellows of some dying forge. amber eyes climbed the black enormity before him, finding neither conqueror nor sith, but the tomb of a tempestuous boy who had once laughed in the face of death, all bright fury & reckless mercy.
❝ good ... ? ❞ the word passed softly into the iron rhythm of anakins breathing, stripped of accusation, victory & every sermon the sith had perhaps prepared himself to endure. gimmer cane touched stone, quiet as the first handful of earth cast upon a grave. still his gaze did not waver from that lightless mask, though sorrow gathered within it until even the stars might have drowned ❝ DEAD, i believed anakin skywalker to be. claimed by flame, returned through fire to the force, as all our dead must be. & yet before me now, the ashes of that farewell stand breathing ❞
"You were right to believe," Vader said. He had no attachment to the name any longer. It belonged to a weak-minded fool whose idealism and arrogance had led to his downfall. Now, Darth Vader stood in his wake and that weakness had been shed like a dead skin, left to burn in the molten lava of Mustafar. What remained was far stronger than anything Anakin Skywalker could have been, no matter what the Jedi before him believed.
(Never strong enough, though, whispered a traitorous voice in the back of his mind. If any of this were really true, could they have sprung this trap? Would you be standing here so pathetic, or using all that so-called power to kill one of the last paragons of a bygone age?)
"He is as dead as you will be soon, enough." No matter his weakened lungs. He would break away the damaged machine and be better for it. Hadn't he spent enough time building his stamina in safety? Pain was power. He only dulled his abilities by submitting himself to this crutch. The only way to prove he would ever be free of Sidious' mechanical prison was to test it in a trial by fire.
Gloved fingers unlocked the mechanism on his helmet. It clicked and hydraulics hissed as he removed it. It fell to the ground beside him with a heavy thud and he lifted his jaw, peering down upon the old master without the red veil. The mocking hiss of the respirator was silent and that alone brought a wicked smile to his face, even as his next breathe wheezed.
"Tell me, Master Yoda, did Obi-Wan tell you he killed Anakin Skywalker?" Vader took a step closer, drawing on the Force like he could generate it himself. Deft fingers twisted the lightsaber into his hand, unignited. Did the old Jedi feel it? The weight of the darkness that Vader pulled around him like the very cape at his back? As deep and damning as the sunlight that used to exude so brightly. A black hole that would diminish all light.
If Anakin Skywalker was the twin suns, scorching the sands of Tatooine, then Darth Vader was the rare eclipse, a night with no stars, the end of hope. This is what it looked like to abandon yourself. This is what it meant to be a walking corpse. Rising out of the ashes meant burning, and burning was violent. How could anything rising out of it be anything other than the antithesis of light?
"Or did he fail to mention his lack of conviction?" With that he ignited his blade, hot alarm red splashing across the durasteel plating, the scorch marks of blaster bolts in stark contrast. "Allow me to show you how much more merciful I can be."
At this point all cw threads should probs just be post Ahsoka leaving. Extend the timeline. This is also sort of s joke bc I just constantly forget about her.
Anyway Anakin getting flirted with but he's so oblivious because all there is is Padme that he's just confused as to why people are trying to get a moment alone to talk to him.
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