#shmi skywalker

[holybagelsstuff]

Trust me, Anakin Skywalker. No one ever hated you more than you hated yourself.

[cyclesofthemoon]

Leverage except Prequels Star Wars:

Nate is Dooku right before his Fall. He’s decided to run off and Handle Things Himself instead of becoming a Sith in the wake of (his son’s) Qui-Gon’s death.

His crew:

Hitter - Infamous bounty hunter Jango Fett. Trying to hunt down the people the Galidraan governor sold his armor to.

Hacker - Nine year old Anakin Skywalker, supervised by his mother Shmi. He managed to find their slave chips before Gardulla the Hutt sold them on and they’ve been stealing both credits and people ever since. Shmi thinks the whole idea of stealing from rich people is fantastic, btw. Anakin’s just happy his mom is happy.

Thief - twenty-two year old ex-Sith apprentice Maul, who managed his escape from Sidious by literally blowing up his house one time. Still technically on the run. Wanted in sixteen separate systems for credit fraud.

Grifter - Hondo Ohnaka, down on his luck and looking for a new crew. Dooku has tried to him no fewer than six times, which is why Hondo says yes when he asks him to do crimes.

It would be such wonderful chaos.

[mirrorofliterature]

Luke learns about his grandmother young.

Not his Nana - he has known Nana forever, with her kisses and hugs and smiles - his other grandmother. His dad's mum.

His grandmother who died before he was born.

Shmi. Shmi who had the kindest soul and warmest smile, even when she had nothing. Grandma.

Whenever his Dad talked about his mum, there were tears in his eyes.

When Luke and Leia were seven, they went to Tatooine with Mum and Dad, the planet Dad hated, simply to visit his grandmother's grave.

Luke misses his grandmother, still, now at 19, that dull ache of family he never got to meet never going away.

Luke is 19 when he learns how his grandmother died.

"Did the Jedi know Grandma was still a slave?"

Shmi became free two years before her untimely death.

His mother smiles, sadly. "Yes. They knew. The old Jedi Council was rigid to the point of heartlessness, as you know. Grandma had helped their own, and Dad missed her fiercely, but the Jedi expected him to forget his own mother. They could have made sure she was free of slavery. They didn't."

"Right," Luke says, mouth dry.

Shmi's life did not matter to the galaxy.

But it mattered to his family.

Luke never knew his grandmother Shmi.

And in this universe, Luke Skywalker does not want to be a Jedi like his father before him.

He wants to help people.

Like his grandmother before him.

[khaosnyxian]

The entire Skywalker family are space native americans and I have the evidence I am just too tired to elaborate right now

[lucyskywalker]

The way Shmi and Anakin had the same kriffing fate

Both captured and enduring torture for a long period of time, only to die in the arms of their child. A child they were unable to see growing up. A child they loved, so endlessly, so desperately, so selflessly.

And the last feeling they have, despite all the pain they endured, is of relief and joy, for finally being able to see them again, with their own eyes.

[elrhiarhodan]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 86/? Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice Series - Jude Watson & Dave Wolverton Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Qui-Gon Jinn & Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker, Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Bail Organa, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Quinlan Vos, Rael Averross/Qui-Gon Jinn, Dooku/Shmi Skywalker, Bail Organa/Breha Organa Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Shmi Skywalker, Qui-Gon Jinn, Anakin Skywalker, Watto (Star Wars), Quinlan Vos, Padmé Amidala, Darth Maul, Original Characters, Mace Windu, Sheev Palpatine, Reva Sevander | Third Sister, Yoda (Star Wars), Adi Gallia, Vokara Che, Plo Koon, Other Character Tags to Be Added, Sifo-Dyas (Star Wars), Siri Tachi, Bruck Chun, Cin Drallig, Yaddle (Star Wars), Hego Damask | Darth Plagueis, Komari Vosa, Rael Averross, Bail Organa, Bail Antilles, Dooku (Star Wars), The Force - Character, Breha Organa Additional Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Obi-Wan Kenobi Needs a Hug, Slave Obi-Wan Kenobi, Force Inhibitors (Star Wars), Qui-Gon Jinn is a Good Jedi Master, Sane Anakin Skywalker, Ages are Different from Canon, The Force Doesn't Work Like This, Jedi-Positive, Obi-Wan Kenobi-centric, Qui/Obi is Endgame, Anakin Skywalker doesn't fall to the Dark Side, Yoda is a little shit, But We Love and Stan Our Grandmaster, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Additional Warnings in Chapter Notes, Jedi as Found Family (Star Wars), Life-bonds, Good Jedi Master Dooku (Star Wars), BAMF Obi-Wan Kenobi Chapter Summary:

The newly appointed Senator for the Chommell Sector has an unproductive call with her monarch, Queen Jamillia, and then a very productive conversation with representative for the native Gungan population, who are neither subject to the Naboo monarchy nor members of the Galactic Republic.Back at the Temple, Yan and Obi-Wan are summoned to the High Council.  It seems they have a mission.  Yan is as excited as a senior padawan going on his first solo mission.  

[eldritchdemigodskywalkers]

shmi skywalker for the ask bingo!

shmi, forever underrated, forever beloved <3 i just wish the jedi apologists would stop using her as a mouthpiece and a caricature. IMO most of anakin's best qualities, he inherited from shmi; the main issue is that she is doomed to be a tragic figure in the narrative and she never received the justice she deserved :(

[bingo card!]

[perthshirecottage]

People who say that Anakin should have just treated his visions of Padme dying as dreams haven't been paying attention. Anakin has had visions before that he dismissed as dreams and something horrible happened! His mom was brutally tortured and murdered! Part of why Anakin crashed out so hard is because he knew he could have saved Shmi. She was out there for an entire MONTH! And Anakin was having horrible nightmares the entire time. He asked Obi-Wan for advice and was told they were just dreams and that Anakin should focus on letting go. When he finally couldn’t take it anymore and was with someone who was willing to go with instead of talk him out of it, Anakin arrived on Tatoonie only to realize that if he had acted on his dreams from the beginning then he would’ve saved his mother. She survived for so long that he could’ve even arrived a week earlier and still been able to save her. It was a large window of opportunity and he delayed for so long that he lost her.

Yes Anakin wanted the power to keep Padme from dying. But the dreams are exactly why. If he hadn’t had any dreams and thought everything was fine and then suddenly there complications during childbirth and Padme died, then Anakin would’ve been inconsolable but also there was no way he could’ve done anything. And that would make a huge difference. He’s lost people in war but when he does lose soldiers there was nothing to prevent each death. Padme’s death would’ve been hard but if she was gone and with no warning, he would’ve been able to figure out how to move on eventually. The reason that Anakin struggles so much to get over Shmi’s death isn’t because Anakin is overly attached and has no clue how to let go. It’s because he had the ability and foreknowledge to save her and did nothing. He’s drowning in that guilt and it shapes his actions moving forward.

So yes, he starts having visions of Padme dying and thinks “this is just like what happened to mom. The Force is giving me another premonition and I CANNOT IGNORE IT THIS TIME!” He probably even thinks the Force wants him to save Padme. That was the whole point and of him having visions of Shmi was to say ‘hey come save this innocent woman!’ He had no idea that it's different with Padme and was Palpatine who was engineering the dreams and not the Force itself giving him an opportunity to right a previous wrong. He thinks he's getting another chance to save a loved one and he shouldn’t sit around this time. This time he knew he could stop her death and that’s what Anakin was determined to do.

If Anakin hadn’t had those visions of Shmi. If he hadn’t known and found out after the fact that she was dead, he would’ve felt guilty but not to the same level because how could he have known? If Anakin had never had those visions, then he would’ve passed off his dreams of Padme as his own fears and he wouldn’t have done anything. Or at least not taken them so seriously.

Telling Palpatine about what happened to Shmi. The guilt. The knowledge that he could have saved her. That if he had just acted he would’ve been there in time. It’s the exact reason that Palpatine chose to give Anakin those visions. To put Anakin in an exact scenario that would push Anakin to save Padme whatever the cost.

And Yoda’s dismissal without any more information was very callous. Yoda is like who is dying in these visions. Someone you know or yourself? When Anakin says someone else, Yoda is all then death is inevitable. He doesn’t ask for details. He doesn’t try to figure out if the circumstances are something that they could help with. Just tells Anakin that there’s no hope. When Anakin knows there must be a way to prevent it because there was a way to prevent Shmi from dying. And the fact that Yoda asks about who is dying. Does that mean that if Anakin saw a vision of his own death that Yoda would’ve had different advice? Would Yoda have asked for more details and tried to see if Anakin’s death could be prevented but also explain that sometimes trying to stop the future is what creates the very situation that you’re trying to avoid? Is Yoda’s advice of letting go come because it’s someone Anakin knows? Is Yoda just trying so hard to prove the importance of no attachment that that philosophy becomes more important than anything else? As a Jedi it’s so important to not have attachment that trying to save another person’s life actually becomes a bad thing because if you’re fighting to save a life, then you’re attached. So to prove how unattached you are, you need to stand by and watch a loved one die. In that moment Yoda was ironically, so attached to the ‘no attachment philosophy’ that he didn’t care about saving an innocent life. If Yoda had tried to do something. If he’d tried to help Anakin figure out if it was even possible to save Padme, things would’ve gone completely differently. Because Anakin would’ve felt supported by others. If he’d had the support of others then it wouldn’t just be Palpatine for him to lean on. Anakin would’ve preferred to stay on the Jedi’s side. But the Jedi weren’t on his side. They were willing to let atrocities happen in pursuit of proving themselves as unattached. And does Yoda give that advise specifically because it's Anakin asking? All the Jedi are constantly concerned about Anakin and his attachments. So in doing this super strong push to make him focus on not having attachments, are they creating the problem? Instead of just letting him have normal attachments, they are so strongly pushing that he have none that it makes him cling harder to what he currently has!

So Anakin would never dismiss his visions as dreams, precisely because he knows that they are not dreams.

And for people who say, well then he should have just asked Obi-Wan for help. Again, when Anakin told Obi-Wan that he was having visions of his mom, Obi-Wan is the one who told Anakin that they were just dreams and that Anakin was being too emotional and talked Anakin out of doing anything about them. Which means that Obi-Wan probably would have given the exact same advise this time. Anakin not telling Obi-Wan wasn't Anakin being dumb. It was Anakin having gone through the exact same scenario and knowing that Obi-Wan wouldn't help.

Everything that Anakin did regarding his belief in these visions and his not asking Obi-Wan for help make logical sense. And Anakin did ask for help. He went to Yoda and tried to get advise. It's just that the advise he got was 'I'm not going to help you other than to tell you to get over yourself'.