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March 11, 2023
Sounded like he’d broken his neck. Wouldn’t that be lovely?
Whose side was he on, anyway? And through the cross of their blades he saw in Skywalker’s eyes the promise of hell, and he felt a sickening presentiment that he already knew the answer to that question. Treachery is the way of the Sith.
CALLBACK
When Count Dooku flies at him, blade flashing, Watto’s fist cracks out from Anakin’s childhood to knock the Sith Lord tumbling back. When with all the power that the dark side can draw from throughout the universe, Dooku hurls a jagged fragment of the durasteel table, Shmi Skywalker’s gentle murmur I knew you would come for me, Anakin smashes it aside.
anakin has suffered more than jesus
As he looks up into the eyes of Anakin Skywalker for the final time, Count Dooku knows that he has been deceived not just today, but for many, many years. That he has never been the true apprentice. That he has never been the heir to the power of the Sith. He has been only a tool.
He has existed only for this. This. To be the victim of Anakin Skywalker’s first coldblooded murder. First but not, he knows, the last. Then the blades crossed at his throat uncross like scissors. Snip. And all of him becomes nothing at all.
Murderer and murdered each stared blindly. But only the murderer blinked. I did that.
insane lines
Bad as Obi-Wan looked, Anakin had stood over the bodies of too many friends on too many battlefields to be panicked by a little blood.
:(
Apparently Obi-Wan’s head was somewhat harder than the cruiser’s interior walls.
LMAOOO get him
This was what he’d been born for: saving people.
i hate it here i hate it
He doesn’t breathe. He doesn’t eat. He cannot laugh, and he does not cry.
insane line about grievous love itt
these are murders he recalls with so much pleasure that touching these souvenirs with his hands of armorplast and durasteel brings him something resembling joy. But only resembling. He remembers joy. He remembers anger, and frustration. He remembers grief and sorrow. He doesn’t actually feel any of them. Not anymore. He’s not designed for it.
more insane grievous descriptions . thank u mr stover..
And drop Obi-Wan? Not in this millennium.
anakin thingz
“Ah,” Obi-Wan said. At least he was finally coming to understand where he stood. Well, lay. Hung. Whatever.
severely clone wars coded
“Are … all of your rescues so …” Palpatine gasped breathlessly. “… entertaining?” Obi-Wan gave Anakin a thoughtful frown. Anakin returned it with a shrug. “Actually, now that you mention it,” Obi-Wan said, “yes.”
“But I’m a Jedi—” “That’s why I’m not giving him to you,” she’d said with a smile. “I’m asking you to look after him. He’s not really a gift. He’s a friend.”
Anakin gave Obi-Wan a fierce grin. Let someone he loves pass out of his life? Not likely. “What are we waiting for?” he said. “Let’s go!”
“Oh, so now this is my fault?” Anakin gave him a slightly wicked smile. “Hey, you’re the Master. I’m just a hero.”
“Oh, Anakin,” he said, with the sort of quiet, pained resignation that would be recognized instantly by any parent exhausted by a trouble-prone child. “Where is your lightsaber?”
“All right, all right.” The Jedi Master surrendered with a rueful smile. “You win.” Anakin grinned at him. “I’m sorry? What was that?” He couldn’t remember the last time he’d won an argument with Obi-Wan. “Could you speak up a little?” “It’s not very Jedi to gloat, Anakin.” “I’m not gloating, Master,” he said with a sidelong glance at Palpatine. “I’m just … savoring the moment.”
So now, here, for you, the situation comes down to this: you are walking between the two best friends you have ever had, with your precious droid friend faithfully whirring after your heels— On your way to win the Clone Wars.
And you, for the first time in your life, will truly be free. This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker. For now.
FOR NOW 💔💔💔
This is Obi-Wan Kenobi in the light:
LOVE this line this book instantly made me truly fully understand and wholeheartedly love obiwan like something clicked with how stover writes about him he IS the ultimate jedi in the best ways
This is why he can simply stand. Why he can simply wait. He has no need to attack, or to defend. There will be battle here, but he is perfectly at ease, perfectly content to let the battle start when it will start, and let it end when it will end. Just as he will let himself live, or let himself die. This is how a great Jedi makes war.
He reached through the Force and the Force reached through him; his blade flared to life while still in the air; it flipped toward him, and as he lifted his hands to meet it, its blue flame flashed between his wrists and severed the binders before the handgrip smacked solidly into his palm. Obi-Wan was so deep in the Force that he wasn’t even suprised it had worked.
He made a quarter turn to face Anakin, who was already in the air, having leapt simultaneously with Obi-Wan’s gentle murmur because Obi-Wan and Anakin were, after all, two parts of the same thing;
two halves of a whole etc etc etc don't mind me pacing going insane
though he was under strict orders to leave the Chancellor unharmed, Palpatine was about to die alongside his precious Jedi. Then Grievous shrugged, and sighed. What more could he have done? There was a war on, after all. He was sure Lord Sidious would forgive him.
lols
This is, put simply, impossible. It can’t be done. He’s going to do it anyway. Because he is Anakin Skywalker, and he doesn’t believe in impossible.
It’s just the opposite: he seizes upon the Force with a stark refusal to fail. He will land this ship. He will save his friends. Between his will and the will of the Force, there is no contest.
“I trust Anakin with my life.”
HE DOESSSS oh goddd
I have decided to share this with you because you are in the best situation to watch Anakin. Watch him. Nothing more.” “We—” Obi-Wan shook his head helplessly. “We don’t keep secrets from each other.”
:((
“But surely—” Obi-Wan stopped himself. He thought of how many times Anakin had violated orders. He thought of how unflinchingly loyal Anakin was to anyone he considered a friend.
and so he could not be far behind … and only then did she finally find him among them, tall and straight, his hair radiation-bleached to golden streaks and on his lips a lively smile that opened her chest and unlocked her heart. And she could breathe again.
yeah...
and she could have stood there forever, in the shadows, and had her fondest dreams all fulfilled, simply by watching him be alive …
me asf padme realest bitch in the galaxy
Their lips met, and the universe became, one last time, perfect.
"one last time" 😐
For Padmé Amidala, saying I am Anakin Skywalker’s wife is saying neither more nor less than I am alive.
me fr (but also ok cool dehumanise her i guess.... it's ok padme you are beloved and complex and human and we know it <3)
She shook her head. “What are we going to do?” “We’re going to be happy, that’s what we’re going to do. And we’re going to be together. All three of us.”
She had only a few months left to live. They had only a few months left to love each other. She would never see their child. And all she said was, “Oh.”
KILL MEEEEEEEEEEEE padme i miss you so bad i can't do this she deserved happiness oh my god oh my god .
“There must be some reason, then. Anakin, he’s your best friend. He loves you.”
um . ok. ok.......... ok . ok. -______- 💔
As though if he tried to save Padmé, he could end up—blankly impossible though it was—killing her himself …
NOOOOO SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
Yoda had never made any attempt to conceal what had always seemed to Anakin to be a gruff disapproval of Anakin’s very existence.
LITERALLY
So all that had been left for him was to find some way to respectfully extricate himself. And then go find Obi-Wan.
classic anakin thought process
But now here was Obi-Wan—Obi-Wan would help him, Anakin knew he would—if only Anakin could figure out the right way to ask …
actually feel violently ill oh my god oh my god he could have he genuinely could have he would have godddd
Please, Anakin—please be careful.” Anakin tried for his old rakish smile. “You worry too much.” “I have to—” “—because I don’t worry at all, right?” Anakin finished for him. Obi-Wan’s frown softened toward a smile. “How did you know I was going to say that?”
yea 💔
“This sounds like a good plan,” Obi-Wan said. “But what Master do you have in mind?” For a moment no one spoke, as though astonished he would ask such a question. Only after a few seconds in which Obi-Wan looked from the faces of one Master to the next, puzzled by the expressions of gentle amusement each and every one of them wore, did it finally register that all of them were looking at him.
obiwan best jedi continues to be unaware of it etc etc
“Anakin,” Obi-Wan said softly. He gestured to an empty seat beside him. “Please.” And something in Obi-Wan’s gentle voice, in his simple, straightforward request, sent his anger slinking off ashamed, and Anakin found himself alone on the carpet in the middle of the Jedi Council, blinking.
Anakin felt a dull shock when the Council assigned the task of coordinating the search to Obi-Wan alone. On top of everything else, now they were splitting up the team?
The Team. The Team .
Obi-Wan’s eyes shifted, and the sick fatigue in Anakin’s guts turned darker. How bad did it have to be to make Obi-Wan unable to look him in the eye?
Finally, he said, “He’s my friend, Obi-Wan.” “Yes,” Obi-Wan said softly. Sadly. “I know.” “If he asked me to spy on you, do you think I would do it?” Now it was Obi-Wan’s turn to fall silent.
😐
“The Jedi are your family—” “No.” Anakin turned on his former Master. “No, the Jedi are your family. The only one you’ve ever known. But I’m not like you—I had a mother who loved me—” And a wife who loves me, he thought. And soon a child who will love me, too.
layers here. i am upset
“I trust him with my life,” Obi-Wan said simply.
yeah 😐 said simply... undeniable simple fact of life as intuitive as breathing it just IS...
