sometimes i go a little insane thinking that, for over 20 years, anakin's (vader's) most important relationship was with palpatine, like... he was fully and wholy devoted to palpatine, until almost the very last second
he was as committed to palpatine, and just imagining palpatine giving him back enough crumbs that vader/anakin is like "this is enough" when as anakin he had people who loved him whole heartedly but because they didn't "accept his devotion" he couldn't see how much they loved him





















