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[youngtitan213]

“When your girlfriend finds out you died on your latest adventures with the avatar” AKA: I saw a movie 🤓

lol not my fault I imprinted on Suki as a kid. “I’m a warrior, but I’m a girl, too.” Ahhhh she’s the realest. ❤️

Draft sketch under cut

babieeeessss

[baskinrobinsalwaysfindsout]

Anakin: Am I in trouble?

Obi-Wan: Take a guess.

Anakin: No?

Obi-Wan: Take another guess.

[marvelstars]

"Obi-Wan is wise but he has not heart" - Anakin Skywalker

This always comes out on novels both legends and new canon and is strongly implied in Tcw so I believe it´s a character trait Anakin believes Obi-Wan has. In fact this belief from Anakin was quite common especially after AOTC and before ROTS.

There are a lot of reasons for Anakin to believe it, first of all, Obi-Wan tried his best to become an aloof Jedi master so Anakin would become the "perfect jedi chosen one" but Anakin came from a warm family and community so Obi-Wan´s aloofness was understood by Anakin as lack of affection which made him feel emotionally isolated during his years at the temple given Obi-Wan was his main caregiver but he hardly if ever showed him affection the way his mother or his friends at Tatooine did, so Anakin grew up to greatly respect Obi-Wan´s force habilities but learned not to expect him to cover or even understand his emotional needs.

The interesting part is that he still loved him and respected him as a father and didn´t try to change this part of his personality, Obi-Wan was Obi-Wan and Anakin would not try to change him.

This got to a breaking point after Shmi died, because given Obi-Wan lack of wory over Anakin´s mother well being and subsequent death, this didn´t made Anakin love or respect Obi-Wan less but he stopped trusting him altogether and came to this conclusion, Obi-Wan is a wise Jedi Master but he doesn´t have a heart and Anakin could not change this.

This perception helps to explain why Anakin even tried to keep contact with Obi-Wan even after the whole Hardeen bussines in which Obi-Wan quite mercilessly used Anakin´s affection for one of his missions, Anakin forgave Obi-Wan because for him Obi-Wan was acting just like he was an aloof Jedi Master who cares for the mission and the order first and foremost and Anakin´s affection is a sacrificial character trait and comes secondary to this.

This also helps explain why Padme and Palpatine became Anakin´s primary confidants and while he still cared for Obi-Wan, he knew he could not trust him with his heart or his affection of his toughts, Anakin wasn´t even sure Obi-Wan would even care.

The ironic thing is that this change in Anakin made Obi-Wan less neurotic about being the perfect Jedi and actually try to become comrades and fellow Jedi once Anakin stopped asking him to play a role he didn´t ever want to play but just when Obi-Wan tought Anakin was alright, it all came down, because this kind of misunderstandings have consequences.

Obi-Wan and Anakin loved each other but never truly understood each other.

[shattered-sky]

This is just the first time she’s fallen back

[kexobi]

Less than a year after The Phantom Menace and Obi-Wan and Anakin get their first off-world mission. So they go out to this planet and it’s this beautiful, colorful jungle and Anakin is just in awe of it all. He can’t stop smiling and excitedly fast talking about everything and for the first time since Qui-Gon died Obi-Wan finally feels like he has a handle on things and he can’t stop feeling so proud at his padawan. They sit beside the fire that night talking and Anakin finally really opens up to him. It heals something in Obi-Wan.

But then Anakin wakes up sick. He’s feverish and has a weird rash and Obi-Wan tries to figure it out and he asks Anakin if he’s vaccinated for Jungle Fever and Anakin is like “what is a vaccine?” and Obi-Wan panics. He’s a poor, formerly-enslaved kid from the Outer Rim, of course he isn’t vaccinated. How did this not come up earlier? Obi-Wan spends the next few days in a perpetual cortisol spike carrying his barely-conscious padawan through the jungle back to their ship.

Finally, they reach the ship and Obi-Wan flies back to Coruscant like he’s trying to escape pirates. He takes Anakin back to the Halls of Healing and spends hours pacing in front of the examination room, his brain cycling through a rolodex of worst-case scenarios. Eventually, the Jedi Healer invites him in. The healer turns to Anakin and tells him to tell Obi-Wan what he just told them. Anakin just looks up at him and goes “I ate a colorful beetle.” Obi-Wan goes back to their quarters and stares at the wall for a couple hours.

[karinannas]

One of my favorite things in fanfics is when Adrien is actually allowed to have feelings, something the show rarely lets him do.

I especially love when his identity issues are explored and when he's allowed to feel genuinely hurt if Marinette chooses Adrien over Chat Noir. Whether that's revealing her identity to Adrien before Chat, making a decision that benefits Adrien while sacrificing Chat, or simply lying to the partner who's been by her side all this time out of fear that Adrien might learn the truth... which is currently happening in canon.

Because from his perspective, he's spent all this time fighting beside Ladybug, protecting her, trusting her, sacrificing for her, and believing they were partners. Of course it would hurt to realize that, when push comes to shove, Chat Noir is the one who's expected to understand, accept it, and move on because Adrien's happiness takes priority.

It's not about wanting Marinette to choose Chat Noir romantically over Adrien. It's about acknowledging that Chat Noir has his own relationship with Ladybug, one built on months of trust, and that Adrien would naturally expect that bond to matter a little more than the show allows it to.

[skysgalaxy]

So funny to me that people get so offensive (maybe not the word but going with it) for some reason when people compare Luke to Padme because he sees the good inside of him and wants to save that good along with the same breath thinks everyone doesn't see Anakin inside of him too

Because while most (including myself) will full health defend that Luke is indeed his mother's child but also I can see Anakin in him before turning over to see that there is life everywhere and see that he has that raw determination to something about it and won't allow anything to stand in his way (along with his talent with the creativity part of fixing machines)

I mean did we not see how unsure of Lar was about allowing Luke to ever leave the farm because he was worried on how much Luke resembled Anakin at that age and younger to which he didn't want that part of him to be released because of the worriment his Uncle had

The determination of wanting to help others and to be a plot just like his father was to the point of him becoming a Jedi to the same road that lead to his very own destruction

But it probably hurt Lars the most to see that same face of his brother's on his now nephew to which it hurts because he can see the Anakin he once knew as someone who was filled with light and hope

Most people say that Luke is indeed Padme because of going such lengths even to risking his own life to prove that there was still good in Anakin and why so many says that he is indeed Padme's child it doesn't mean one is overshadowing the other it's just how it is because if Luke didn't then in some way he would be like Leia and then the whole story plot would be pointless

[californiannostalgia]

((reblogs were off but I HAD to archive this, holy fuck))

[perthshirecottage]

Movie plot about a person that fully dedicates themselves to a job to the exclusion of anything else, isolating themselves from family and friends, suffering from burn out, and in the process becoming someone unrecognizable only in the end to remember who they are at their core, changed forever but moving forward with a new understanding of life and a better work/life balance.

Did I just describe Spider Man Brand New Day or the Devil Wears Prada?

[perthshirecottage]

I saw Spider Man BND yesterday and I absolutely loved it! But the question that I could not figure out is how does Peter afford to live?! Like yes he had a crappy apartment but that apartment is in NY so it’s still expensive. Then he has all those crazy gadgets. Like he’s got thousands of dollars worth of equipment. Possibly tens of thousands with that machine that can make and repair his suit and create an inhibitor. Plus the materials to create his webbing and a freaking inhibitor! And he buys flowers for May every week. Yet it seems all he does is Spider Man stuff so he doesn’t have time to work. In Toby’s movies we could clearly see that he struggled to hold down a job even when he was desperately trying. Delivering pizzas wasn’t feasible because he was constantly getting distracted by Spider Man duties. The reason the job at the Bugle works so well for him is precisely because he can do the job while simultaneously being Spider Man. No need to choose between time as a vigilante and time at his job when they’re both the exact same thing. I’d say that Tony left him a big enough fortune to survive for years comfortably without having to work but since Peter Parker doesn’t exist he can access an account that was never created for him. And he wouldn’t be eligible for any of May’s death benefits. So is Tom’s version like a freelancer photographer? And not just of Spider Man. Like does he have a Fivver account of all these insane photos? Like NY from the top of the Empire State Building. Times Square from impossible angles. And people buy it for unique wall art? Or does he sell on Etsy? These wild pictures on tshirts and totes and coffee mugs? Passive income that allows him to spend more money on his equipment than he does on his apartment? How does he survive?!?

[siobhanreef]

any take on Anakin Skywalker that reduces him to a single-sentence archetype is not just incomplete but outright wrong.

Anakin is a study in contradictions. He’s kind, selfless, cares deeply for his loved ones, and craves the praise of others, and he’s also impulsive, arrogant, self-centered, and defiant, and these character traits all stem from the same core of who he is—an insecure, lonely child who grew up in hell with only one point of light to guide him. the three characters he’s closest to each have a completely different idea of who he is, because who he is doesn’t always make sense unless you dig beneath his surface emotions and get to his motivations. Palpatine sees him as a blunt instrument, a powerful but controllable weapon he can use to enforce his will, while Obi-Wan sees him as an unstable time bomb, poised to go off at any moment and needing to be guided carefully into only blowing up at the right moment to fulfill his destiny, and finally, Padmé alone sees him as a person, whose name is Anakin, her loving husband, the father of her future children, and a good person at heart who is starved for empathy and compassion from the people in his life. Padmé is the only one of the three who really takes the time to understand Anakin; Palpatine only sees the parts of him he can manipulate, and Obi-Wan only sees the parts of him that he can’t control.

I’m sorry if that’s too much nuance and you’d rather just call Anakin an incel or a ‘republican boyfriend,’ but by doing that you are fundamentally no longer discussing the canon character of Anakin Skywalker.

[chronologyxxx]

oh the anidala as bad parents thing is especially egregious , I have seen several fics that aren't even trying to bash them, but make them into awful parents so much that Luke and Leia would prefer Obi-Wan to be their real dad, or when he's the one helping to raise them like he knows better, it's maddening. At that point one has to ask why is Obi-Wan joined at the (anidala) hip, why is he suddenly so superior and good as a parent 😭

Even with Ahsoka this happens, there are so many fics and AUs that are like "If Obi-Wan was my master, everything would be better" and Ahsoka having more trust in Obi-Wan than Anakin. I have even seen fics where the 501th wished they were under Obi-Wan's command and not Anakin...geez, just, sounds like every single character must be so into Obi-Wan one way or another, it hurts

tbh i can't even be mad at this phenomenon because it’s just so hilarious. obiwan is the most incompetent person in the universe for the role of a parent, and he has no desire to take it on, so it’s just funny. like, look at poor anakin: obiwan is 16 years his senior and personally took on the responsibility of raising him, yet he never fails to let anakin know they aren't equals, that he’s just a stupid young naive little padawan who needs to know his place, and the guy still refuses to ever acknowledge himself as the dad... insisting only on being a brother... how could he possibly be a good father to other people's children when he can't even bring himself to admit he’s the parent of the kid he’s raised since the age of nine and who's calling him his father? obiwan may be a competent lightsaber wielder, but he's a very emotionally immature person. it's 2026 already, this needs to be acknowledged😭

honestly, considering how he resented mini anakin for stealing qui-gon's attention and disliked padmé for distracting anakin from his jedi duties, i can easily imagine him not being particularly fond of luke and leia, seeing them as the primary reason anakin left the order lmao

and i don't care about tcw that much tbh, but, yeah. do people realize they can write characters as they actually are and let them have flaws? honestly, turning sw into a story about how obiwan kenobiwan was the most perfect person in the galaxy and beloved by every single character isn't really what i want to do with my free time, but whatever😐

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

no because what do you MEAN turner and shawn only lived together for 20 episodes 😭 what do you mean that's all I have to rewatch 😭 what do you mean he's a great friend and it's not home, what do you mean jon pulls back then disappears for 18 years, what do you mean he was like a son to me, what do you mean I always regretted that I never adopted shawn, what do you mean don't take turner away from me, what do you mean they're not father and son WHAT DO YOU MEANNN 😭

[siobhanreef]

I adore the way Anakin walks back “so have you… grown more beautiful, I mean” with “for a senator” because WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ANAKIN WHAT IS THE IMPLICATION THERE WHAT ABOUT HER JOB IS RELEVANT TO YOUR PREVIOUS SENTENCE

(the implication is that he’s a fucking dork who is stumbling over his words at the sight of his crush but still)

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Anakin Skywalker: I’ve only slept nine hours over the past four days so I’m right on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Anakin Skywalker: [bites his phone] Anakin Skywalker: This isn’t a bagel.

[floatontheoceanblue]

rewatched phantom menace and revenge of the sith today, and i think it's interesting how long i spent thinking that padmé was trying to fix anakin. but she's not. she's not loving him to fix him. she just truly, deeply loves him for who he is, in every moment, even at his worst. i think it comes back to them meeting so young, his readiness to risk his life for a group of strangers, his compassion and strength. it's all there in the beginning. she's seen his best.

there's a childlike naïveté (edit: idealism) to both of them, a child who is called to be a queen and a child who chooses to be a jedi, both making more grown up choices than their peers. his consistent inability to stop being so human speaks to her ideals, those that the people of naboo cherish so highly, but it's personal. he doesn't meet her as a queen and get on his knees. he sees her as an angel and then finds out she's a queen. from "are you an angel?" to "i'm a person, and my name is anakin." in a few seconds. he pushes back at her without devaluing her and withdrawing his idealization. but i wouldn't even call it idealizing. it's just open, curious, scientific even. "you're so beautiful. maybe you're an angel."

then they don't see each other for ten years, and there's a collision, a desperate humanity on both sides, a need to break free from social constraints symbolized by their love. she tries to be the grown up because that's part of her identity, being a leader, trying so hard to be responsible and think through all the outcomes. but anakin's actively struggling with the detachment of the jedi code. he's stuck in a cycle of shame where he gives into his urges and then chastises himself, or is chastised by obi-wan. padmé comforting him, even when he does something terrible, is a way of showing compassion to the part of herself that's long tucked away. it's her saying "i can't let this happen to someone else." they both chose to sacrifice in pursuit of their ideals, and the things he's externalizing are a reflection of her inner world.

they just love each other. full stop. they don't want to fix each other. they just want to love fully without compromising their individual dreams outside of the relationship, so they keep it a secret. and then palpatine weaves his web, something that padmé falls victim to as well, both in the phantom menace and in a deleted scene from revenge of the sith where she expresses that palpatine was her ambassador and couldn't be as bad as her fellow senators are suggesting. that's how manipulation works. it gets into your mind, finds your humanity, and plants seeds of doubt. it's not a moral failing to fall for it.

then everything falls apart. padmé is not trying to fix anakin. he's experienced very deliberate and intimate grooming, and his deepest fears are being constantly manipulated. her attempts to call him back to himself aren't "i can fix him." they're an acknowledgment of her trying to keep up. everything is happening so fast. the democracy she loves is dying. her husband is having prophetic dreams about her dying in childbirth. he's filled with internal conflict and trying to shut her out. and now all of a sudden obi-wan is saying he's the very evil they've been fighting. she goes to him to see for herself. she's trying to remind him of the good that's still in him, not the good he has to earn but that has always been there. she goes to her death bed loving ani. not the chosen one. the little boy who thought she was an angel. the man who never stopped thinking about her even after ten years apart. the husband who would do anything not to lose her. the way he always loved her, that's how she loves him right back. it's not "i can fix him." it's "i have seen firsthand the good in him, and no one can convince me it's gone for good."

the tragedy is not their relationship being secretly toxic. it's that they truly, deeply, unconditionally love each other, and that wasn't enough to overcome the insidious, oppressive, and universal forces working against both of them, but especially against anakin. palpatine turns him on his own wife like an attack dog. he uses their attachment to manipulate anakin expertly. he plants seeds specifically about obi-wan that fuel his fear that he's going to lose padmé even if she lives. the tragedy is that anakin tried with everything he had to keep his dream from coming true, and every step he took brought it closer to reality. his insecurities were exploited, and the "good" people he leaned on basically said "sorry fam she's gonna die 🤷🏻 and shame on you for having feelings about that" but simultaneously "trust your feelings. something's off with palpatine." confusing, isn't it? "this war represents a failure to listen." the tragedy is that padmé was right and that she would have listened to anakin if palpatine hadn't gotten to him first.

training to be a jedi physically separates them. the war, something palpatine orchestrates, physically separates them. the jedi order demands that they be emotionally separated. palpatine is the first one to suggest that it's good for them to be together. of course anakin believes him! that's his experience with padmé: goodness and love. his experience with obi-wan is more in line with someone trying to fix him. "he's overly critical. he never listens. he doesn't understand." if they'd been able to be together, padmé would have helped him. she saw so clearly that he'd been told that the boy she met on tatooine needed to be managed. and that's why he's so pulled to her, someone who loves him the way his mother did, before he chose to leave and everything went wrong. because it's not just palpatine that drives them apart. it's the jedi. he blames himself for his mother's death, and by the time he finally figures out that everything he lost started when he chose to become a jedi, it's too late. he finally gives them the blame they deserve, and all palpatine has to do is stoke the fire.

their love is so pure. their love is not the problem. it just wasn't enough. just as anakin was more susceptible to ruin because the jedi demanded he be emotionally isolated, keeping their relationship a secret became an obstacle to its longevity. it's romeo and juliet. a preventable tragedy. their love was always pure.

[annashafransky]

How The Clone Wars devalued The Phantom Menace

Ask yourself: What is The Phantom Menace to you? "Annoying Jar Jar Binks"? "Duel of the Fates"? "The fact that, oh my god, Darth Vader had a mother"?..

Regardless, that is absolutely not important. Obviously, The Phantom Menace was intended from a screenwriting perspective as a starting point and status quo for all the characters. However, since the prequels were disliked in the U.S., the writers of The Clone Wars apparently decided that to apologize to fans for the prequels, they could safely spit on what was established in The Phantom Menace. But let us go into more detail.

How did little Anakin react to Padmé’s harmless question about whether he was a slave:

"I'm a person and my name is Anakin!"

This lets us understand that for him, slavery is a serious problem, primarily a psychological one, and he is uncomfortable when it is brought up unnecessarily.

However, what do we see in The Clone Wars, in the Zygerria arc, when Ahsoka sarcastically asks, "Remind me, why do I have to play the part of a slave?", seemingly hinting at Anakin's past with clear resentment and an attempt to press a sore spot. This is not a harmless phrase, but a direct jab at a sore spot. However, how does Anakin react?

"I once played a slave, and I didn't like it. But I find the role of master suits me much better."

W H A T?

Those who will now start making excuses that he was just joking - people do not joke about such things, especially if it is a trauma for them. If it were a trauma for him, he would not deflect like that; the Anakin from the prequels is not that kind of character. There is also an argument (I am not joking, people actually told me this) that "slavery was never a trauma for Anakin, he used his status as a slave to protect Jar-Jar from Sebulba’s beatings." However, adapting to trauma is not the same as the absence of trauma. The fact that Anakin understood Sebulba would not kill him, because otherwise he would have to pay Watto, does not mean he did not care about his position as a slave; it just speaks to Anakin’s intelligence, that he was not a fool. And yet, Anakin in The Clone Wars never showed later on that Ahsoka's phrase hurt him, although it should have. He continues to treat her well. They say that the portrayals of characters in The Clone Wars and the films are the same characters... In Anakin’s case, it is hard to believe this statement, to put it mildly... And it is the same with the following example.

Obi-Wan in the first episode, when he sees that the planet is being invaded by the Trade Federation, which will strip all its inhabitants of freedom, and the Gungans, when everyone is in danger, refuse to cooperate with the Naboo even for their own sake because of openly idiotic principles:

"You and the Naboo are inseparable. What happens to them can only affect you."

Thus, Obi-Wan is presented to us as a perceptive character who can and is not afraid to call things by their names and think strategically.

But what does Obi-Wan say in The Clone Wars, after he saw that 20 years later Satine’s enemies are still alive (and a person from HER government assured him they had been extinct for many years) and only dream of killing Satine, and two of HER close people turned out to be traitors (Vizsla and Merrick), she is clearly not coping without outside help, which speaks of her as a political bankrupt who continues to deny everything and play at independence/neutrality, although she herself, due to HER idiotic principles not to get her hands dirty, calling it pacifism, is not capable even for the sake of saving everyone on the ship of killing a terrorist, which would be more than justified, it would be self-defense (pacifism≠inaction)?

"Mandalore is in good hands as long as you care for it."

This is blind idealization. No excuses will help here, everything is written in black and white - Satine’s policy does not work without outside help. And the fact that Obi-Wan also gets involved in her adventures is not strategic thinking at all. He is trying to treat not the cause (Satine’s entire policy) of Mandalore’s endless problems, but the effect, so that Satine would feel she is not to blame for anything and would stay afloat. However, this is exactly what led to her being overthrown by Death Watch in a day.

In the films, Obi-Wan never pandered to political infantilism... And never would have... Why they see the same characters in this - it is a mystery to me...

I could have also written about how Padmé was ruined, but that is simple. In the first episode, Padmé, even though she was queen, was not devoid of humanity and empathy, especially toward Anakin... In The Clone Wars, this simply does NOT exist. Moreover, they added Clovis, whose presence and the fact that Padmé did not tell Anakin about him makes her dishonorable... But that deserves a separate post...

In conclusion, what do we have?

We are dealing with total character erosion. The Clone Wars does not expand the universe, it flattens it, sacrificing internal logic and psychological credibility of the characters for the sake of creating "convenient" content. The screenwriters took ready-made, complex heroes and replaced them with caricatured versions that refuse to see the obvious and behave contrary to their own background. This is not development, but systematic degradation, turning a dramatic saga into a set of disconnected episodes where, for the sake of a "beautiful picture" and justifying the politics of some characters, others - the very ones we fell in love with in the first episode - simply cease to exist...