Padawan Anakin with a group of initiates all ‘Falling’ at the same time
Maybe a Gathering gone wrong or something. Everyone is captured. Pirates or bounty hunters or just awful people.
No knights or the knights are killed.
Anakin is trying to protect the younglings.
Sacrificing himself if he can.
The kids are too young. They’re not supposed to be in the field yet. There’s a reason you’re supposed to be a certain age before field missions. Before being chosen as a Padawan.
They can’t handle their emotions.
They try to save Anakin right back but Fall, too.
Maybe they get overwhelmed by Anakin’s Falling, since he is a supernova? And their shields aren’t enough to protect them?
They survive and everyone is dead or dying but Anakin stands among a group of children, all with eyes of gold and he doesn’t know what to do.
I want there to be like a noble reason for it?
Maybe but that definitely doesn’t help the situation.
Maybe he remembers the tales of the Sith and executions.
He takes the kids and runs.
He doesn’t know what he’ll do, he just wants to protect them.
Maybe he Falls because he can’t defeat the pirates/bounty hunters otherwise
They are kids, they can’t be that dark, could they Fall by a Coruscanti Jedi point of view? Not so much Dark as too much attached, multiple Force Bonds attached? The question is more along the lines of Anakin knowing that, though.
They are holding each other together so closely that they would break if you tried to separate them? The pieces make a coherent whole together, but otherwise they would just be broken?
What if the younglings fell first and Anakin fell so that they wouldn’t be alone.
Like the idea that the younglings would be hunted or at the very least isolated and he couldn’t let that happen (Bariss and Ahsoka could be part of that group, they are in the right age range, right?)
He promised to protect them and he kept them alive but ultimately failed in the way that matters most to the Jedi.
It also could be about healing and building far away from what you used to know and considered home.
So the situation is too much too soon and they all fall. And Anakin with his too big heart and shields that still don’t block emotions as much as they should is overwhelmed and he could fight it but…
But these kids need him. They’re scared and terrified and he knows that they aren’t going to risk heading back to the Jedi, not with the horror stories told about Sith and Dark Side users.
He can’t leave them. They need someone, anyone. Even if that’s probably him.
You could have them pick up other Force Sensitives kids in bad situations as they flee and protect each other. Like a travelling clan of Forces Sensitives.
The use of the word clan makes me wonder if this version of Anakin would look into alternative Jedi philosophies, like Vizla.
And the Jedi mourning Anakin plus the Initiates because they think they’re dead.
The Jedi eventually track down the pirates, but the base has so much blood and darkside surrounding it that they assume that the pirates were blindsided by a dark force user/sith and the children were taken. The Jedi finding the building and feeling the overwhelming about of dark side energy that was used there.
Privately the Council almost hope they’re dead because they think that it would be a kinder fate than to be tortured and broken by the Sith.
Quinlan not being able to get a read on anything because it’s so heavy with pain and dark side energy.
All he sees is gold eyes and screaming.
He doesn’t notice that it’s more than one pair. Doesn’t realise that they’re each filled with tears and oh so young.
Obi-Wan is convinced that Anakin is still alive because the bond didn’t snap but it might as well have because it’s never been so solidly closed to him.
Anakin was always leaking emotions and thoughts through the bond and now all that meets Obi-Wan is a durasteel wall.
Also, Anakin becoming a bounty hunter to make sure the kids get enough food
If he looks into the Mandalorian Jedi, as a way to teach the Fallen kids, he could become Mando and do the bounty hunting as a way to take care of them. Just an idea, though.
What if they all become bounty hunters and no one realises that they’re Sith or Dark Side users? Until a fight ends in a helmet being knocked off.
I like the thought of the kids forming a new Order of nomadic Force Users, you could fit so much Force worldbuilding here as they figure things out away from Coruscant.
What if dar jettii Ani and his gaggle of kids has a run in with Jango Fett. Depends on canon or fanon interpretation really.
I would imagine that Jango would absolutely adopt this smol child (teenager) and his band of even more smol children.
Wouldn’t that be hilarious? Jango with 8 new kids?
One sullen teenager that refuses to trust. And then he plops Boba in Anakin’s arms and Anakin just freaking melts and it’s all over from there.
So, this Jango has his hatred of Jedi balanced by his love of children?
Or is it part of his plan against the Jedi to encourage Force users to create an alternative that won’t make the same mistakes the Jedi did that led to the slaughter of his people?
I don’t know since Anakin & Co. here aren’t exactly Jedi. Though I think this Jango would have his hatred of Jedi balanced by his love of his 8 foundlings.
Anakin pitches a fit when he finds out about the clones and Jango doing right by them
And all eight new kids have lightsabers, but they’re not Jedi, so……….Boba/Jango might get the Darksaber in this!!!
Anakin finds out that Vizla has a Jedi artifact and just gets it back.
Hands it to Jango: “Like what? You needed this, right?”
Jango is a tired new dad. So Anakin is just like running around doing whatever and causing his dad stress.
What if Jango adopted them and didn’t tell them?
Like, he said the words and Anakin didn’t understand. The others did too, because they had that class, but Anakin didn’t
I mean Anakin would jokingly call him “buir” or “dad” at one point or another and Anakin is like “why do you even care”.
When he sits the fuck down and stops running around trying to protect everyone and puts the time in to sort his shit.
Read: When Jango gets the kids to sit on him when he starts looking like complete shit.
Yeah, Jango absolutely enlists his siblings’ fellow former-Jedi to get him to slow down and relax.
They have it out at some point that Jango adopted him probably when he’s gotten himself injured and doesn’t understand why Jango won’t leave him
and Jango’s like “You kriffing di'kut, you’re my son” and Anakin’s like “?!?!?!? What?!?!”
Anakin can speak several languages but not mandoa. Jango tries to teach him, but his accent is atrocious.
Anakin can understand Mando'a and he sometimes uses some words, but he can’t speak it.
Plus, he sometimes crosses Mando'a with another language or several and it just becomes an incomprehensible mess unless you understand all the languages he’s crossed Mando'a with.
how about Mando'a’s too close to something else he knows.
He keeps getting it super confused with another language.
Like french and spanish, but there’s no cross meanings, so it might sound the same, the meanings AREN’T.
At this point, everyone just goes “you need a translator droid if you want to speak with Anakin”
However, he will offhandedly speak in another language or start writing in one language and end in another no matter how fluent he is.
And his accent is still atrocious. The closest comparison is the bastard compromise between Texan and Yorkshire.
Anakin is that one person who will use words from whatever languages are the best to speak about any given subjects.
Or whichever language he associates with a given subject. That’s why he learned how to speak binary in the first place.
Boba becomes fluent in binary before speaking fluently in Mando'a.
I wonder how the discovery of Kamino would pan out in this.
Anakin accidentally starts a clone rebellion, and oops, it looks like there might be a Revolution on Kamino.
Slave rebellions are always very very good.
Dex: Ah yes Kamino, or how the Mand’alor got his groove back. Outer Rim politics got wild a while back let’s just say. Long story short, the Mand'alor adopted eight new children, one of them pitched a fit about clones, and things devolved from there.”
The Clone Wars are going to be a wreck.
Sheev running around his office like: “Now, where did I put that”
He is furious because there’s an army missing, his future apprentice is missing, his future apprentice has a stable support system
basically, his plan just collapses.
Obi-Wan starts to cry because oh thank the fucking force they’re alive but Anakin and the kids misinterpret it.
Anakin’s just like “I’m sorry, I wasn’t going to let them be hurt anymore! I wasn’t going to let anything else happen to them!” Obi-Wan: “WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!”
