Skywalking Skywalker and Landing Lands :D
An unexpected/obvious take: Roan is as selfless, generous, and courageous as the best part of Anakin. Both of them are witty, observant, and open-hearted.
They both sold everything they had to help their friends, performed heroic deeds, and devoted themselves completely to their loved ones.
(We mostly see these traits in Anakin from the ages of 7 to 14, with Palpatine's influence becoming more noticeable later).
This is the part of Anakin that Ferus never recognized. This is the part of him that Anakin didn't let him know.
Therefore, Anakin's actions were seen by Ferus as capricious and selfish, while Anakin was often driven also by his sick altruism, a sincere desire to help people, a sincere readiness to die for strangers.
The difference is that Anakin grew up in slavery and poverty, and then found himself in the unusually cold environment of the Jedi, while Roan grew up in a large, loving family — the life Anakin always dreamed of.
Roan is fearless and his altruism is healthy. Anakin lived in fear from birth, it became a natural state for him, his altruism is suicidal, ill, sometimes selfish.
Roan is a part of Anakin's wasted potential. Without trauma, without grooming and neglecting, without fragile ego and uncontrollable emotions, without dissociation and constant pain.
I used to think Anakin was Ferus' parallel, and Roan was Padmé's. In any case, the parallel between these pairings exists: that's why Vader hates them so much. But Ferus is more like Padmé. A wonderful, brave, strong, and intelligent person who nearly got trapped in a loss of identity because of perfectionism, overcontrol and disconnection with true feelings, but found their true self in a relationship with another person who showed their heart and opened up a whole new world to them.
Vader killed Roan, and this is another symbolic metanarrative suicide of Anakin.
