his fate will be the same as ours

[captainrexs]

[selestesolstice]

go my stoodles

[siobhanreef]

you ever think about how george lucas spent 5 whole movies trying to deconstruct darth vader as a masculine power fantasy and a whole generation of star wars fans just decided “no you’re wrong actually he’s cool and badass, he should have been a cool evil badass all along why tf is he crying and talking about his feelings” and those star wars fans have now been in charge of making star wars for over a decade

because I think about that a lot

[generationaledits]

when the editing is out of this world

[squidlakeopera]

rip anakin skywalker you would have loved maester aemon's speech from AGOT

[evildala]

it always sticks with me that palpatine does not *need* anakin. he doesn’t need another attack dog, he doesn’t need him as his apprentice. It’s certainly easier with the chosen one by his side BUT one of Palpatine’s core traits is he does NOT care about what is easiest. Palpatine WANTED to have this enormously powerful man kneel at his feet. Palpatine spent years meeting with a teen boy in secret (which, beyond the morality of it, just doesn’t sound like a fun time) so that he could have his murderboy trophy(literally)wife sonbot monster toy.

[rancidmice]

your weapon is your life

[komsomolka]

world if padme and anakin (and the whole skywalker family) were not played by white actors

[komsomolka]

the jedi order should stay posh and british tho

[the-far-bright-center]

Immolation by Akinobu Hara / 5health

[elizabethwydevilles]

less obi-wan needed in general

[elizabethwydevilles]

[officialfoxsquadron]

all the angels have gone away // laura palmer and padme amidala

[wondlas]

it has never been more over for me

[wondlas]

im so obsessed with him constantly feeling like hes being a jedi wrong he's so scared of it even in the direct face of having done something awful after losing control he can't comprehend that this rigid adherence to the idea of what a jedi is and being a jedi before he is a person is part of why he just did something so awful in the face of loss because he never learned how to genuinely cope with an emotion ever besides quashing it down and pretending it didnt happen because a jedi wouldnt react like that because a jedi wouldnt be phased at all because a jedi would be able to see their mother die in their arms after she had been whipped and tortured for weeks and not be moved in the slightest and hes soooooo scared to not be a jedi so of course when the worst thing imaginable in all of his 19 years alive happens he blows the fuck up exponentially then tries to retreat into this extreme depersonalisation he didnt even have when he was a fucking slave

[wondlas]

padmes queen voice being artificially lowered in post to sound like the origin for Vader's low pitch and accent is crazy it makes me crazy that he was in that suit learning how to be a person again in a medical torture device & was like i guess i will mimic my dead wife's intonation she used in her stint as child queen to legitimise myself as the emperor's freaky cyborg wizard sonwife

[wondlas]

i keep thinking about it because im reading the prequel novelisations and im still on phantom menace reading the inner thoughts of this fucking 9 year old with a sweet crush on an older girl the way many average 9 year olds do and its making me SAD because anakin's listening to her and sabe doing the Queen Voice and whether its a conscious choice or not that poor kid has like 15 years before it's back to slavery and no more im a person & my name is anakin you have to be his monster you have to wield authority you have fucked up not only your entire life but an entire religious order too and you have to learn fast how to be an entirely new creature to anything you have been before. its fucking unbearable if i think about it too long. padme hasnt even been gone that long and the small amount of free will vader has left goes to imitating the way Queen Amidala spoke because that's the first thing vader can think of when creating a new persona that sounds imposing and powerful. and then i look back at the page and its just 9 year old anakin innocently watching padme & the handmaidens doing the Queen Voice. should we all kill ourselves

[raleighrador]

For anyone who questions why Anakin gets to be a force ghost and hang with his Jedi pals you need to understand that the second they all became one with the force and attained cosmic omniscience they understood Anakin for the first time ever and every single one of them immediately reacted with “should we all kill ourselves?”

[wondlas]

force ghost equivalent of a nuclear bomb dropping

[mirrorofliterature]

anakin skywalker never got the chance to participate in democracy, he never voted, he grew up as a slave on tatooine, a slave planet run by the hutts, then on the jedi temple run by an undemocratically self appointed council, and yet people love to pretend he is equivalent to someone who has the right to vote, and simply chooses not to exercise it, instead of a man disillusioned with a corrupt senate whose ideal form of government is, openly, a functioning democratic system filled with politicians like padmé

[tiresiascannotsee]

✨Darth Vader✨

well its technically Anakin but he just became vader soo... My very cool art💖

[ratchet9cooper]

I don’t think we take advantage enough of the fact that Padmé is absurdly wealthy and probably wants to spoil Anakin so badly. And me while Anakin is very easy to shop for and has very humble tastes so Padmé gets this out of her system by commissioning elaborate artworks of him.

[hanocy1am]

no matter how much he denies, anakin skywalker still live in him deep inside.