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just… Goro Miyazaki starting his animation career with having a son kill his father, the king of a kingdom where magic is disappearing, and run away and Hayao (possibly ending) his career with a young boy refusing to take on his family’s powerful legacy over a magical world, knowing the world would die without him in favor of not abandoning his family and choosing to live contentedly in the mundane world…
star wars au where obi wan dies fighting maul and anakin is trained by qui gon, forever haunted by the memory of his master's former padawan who was the first to kill a sith in a thousand years by sacrificing himself. Anakin would NOT handle that shadow of comparison well. give it to me.
you could even have obi wan have secretly, barely survived, and been brainwashed and twisted and tortured into losing all his former memories to become the new sith apprentice for extra angst :)
Padme, the child queen, who wears her stoic face of diplomacy under a ten pound wig and headpiece, who poses pillar-straight under even heavier 50 pound elaborate gowns, who pleads to the Galactic Senate to help her planet. Her planet was blockaded, her cities invaded, her people captured and detained in camps. The queen Padme, whose pleas were democratically ignored due to the greed of corrupt senators allied with the Trade Federation that sought to seize her planet. Padme, the young queen, with her back straight and her face calm and unlined, had to bear their dismissal. Padme, who assisted in the defense of her planet with two Jedi and a boy they pulled from slavery. A boy who called her an angel and did not hesitate to risk his life to help save hers when thousands of galactic representatives so recently declared the lives of her and her planet not worth the risk or effort.
And years later when this boy cries over his mother, only just dead, and admits to slaughtering those who captured and imprisoned her, Padme thinks, “This is a man who will do anything for me, will slay my enemies, will be the anger I should not feel. He is worth the risk and effort.”
AITA? am I the asshole?
you literally make all of your own problems
i’d love you even if you were a worm
you deserved to be set on fire
you were my brother, I loved you, but yes you’re the asshole
did you ever hear the tragedy of darth plagueis the wise?
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Fuck
Marry
Kill
Padme: I would die for you. Would you die for me? Anakin: ...I would kill for you, does that count...? Padme: :/
Imagining a canon divergence au in which Padme escapes alive with Obi-Wan and they not long after find out that Anakin lives as the right hand man of the emperor, a towering angry cybernetic black caped monolith of volatile vindictiveness.
And Padme still believes in him. She goes out of her way to find situations in which they might come face to face -- putting herself in danger because while she adores and loves her children her love and focus on Anakin have always been stronger and weighted toward misbalancing the rest of her life and his tip toward insanity tipped her too -- both believing that she can make him change his ways, become the man she fell in love with, but also
but also still loving him as he his. She hates everything about him, but that pull toward him is still there. And she knows that the pull toward her has to be just as strong. She can hate what he does and detest who he's become, but she can't lie to herself inside that she will never hate him. There is love there and there is also primal attraction and a desire to have her belief and willingness to forgive validated, for her to be right and come out on top.
anyways, Padme and Vader hatefucking.
Star Wars/Anastasia (1997) AU with Han and Leia as Dimitri and Anastasia ! !
Space conmen Han and Chewie are looking for the long lost Princess Leia (of Naboo or Alderaan, take your pick for Queen Amidala or Breha) after the Empire or Confederacy invaded her planet and tore apart and killed most of the royal family. The joke’s on them though because they cast the real princess! They just don’t know it yet.
Palpatine is in the role of Rasputin of course and he knows Leia is the daughter of Anakin/Vader. He is intent on luring her to the dark side or will kill her for resisting (Vader doesn’t know about that last bit though.)
