#He Is My Friend || Anakin Skywalker

[artmelody]

Happy Birthday to Hayden Christensen! 🎉🎂

#Star Wars #anakin skywalker #hayden christensen #he brought my favorite character to life #And despite what some say #I think he did amazing #Also this is funny since my best friend’s birthday is today too

[ossidae-passeridae]

Opinion on 15 or 17? Or both 🫢

Questions from here

15. Opinion on Anakin’s characterization discrepancies between Clone Wars and the prequels? [i.e., the broification of Anakin Skywalker]

The short answer to this (from a Watsonian-esque perspective) is that the Clone Wars show is, at its core, a narrative told from Ahsoka's POV. Ahsoka, as Anakin's padawan, has a very rose tinted view of him — he's a hero, he's a charming rogue, he's able to get out of every situation — and of course she does! She's a child, he's his teacher and guide, it's normal to look up to people in those roles in your life when you're young.

In the movies, though, we're seeing Anakin from a removed third person perspective, which is to say we're seeing him as he really is. Ahsoka can't conceptualise Anakin crying from overwhelm, the same way that kids can't conceptualise their parents doing the same. But he does (very prettily, might I add). The 'real' Anakin is awkward, and cries when he's emotional, and is more than just the confident front he puts on for other people.

From a Doylist perspective, I'm just 😩 at Filoni trying to make Anakin "cool" in TCW because he thought he wasn't manly enough or whatever. Spray bottle direct to the face for him.

17. What event is Anakin’s point of no return in his fall to the dark side?

Baby boy is doomed by the narrative before he's even born <3 So his conception I guess 🤣

Putting that aside though, I think it's not when he killed the Tuskens after his mother's death — though that is undoubtedly a Dark act — but when he decides to keep it a secret from Obi-Wan and the rest of the Jedi. He doesn't own up to his actions, which he clearly knows were wrong. It isn't that he keeps it to himself, either! He tells both Padme and Palpatine, both of whom have enormous political power.

But he doesn't tell the Jedi. He decides to let fear — of what the consequences might be, of what Obi-Wan might think of him — rule him. Because how they (he) perceive him is more important to Anakin than atoning for his actions.

And that's not a once-off, Anakin choosing to keep this secret. That's a choice he has to make over and over every day, a fear that hangs over him like a pall — the fear that they'll find out what he's done, the fear that someone will tell them, or someone will sense it, or that he'll somehow give it away.

It's a fear that impacts every single choice he makes from that moment on, and every moment he continues to let that fear rule him, he's giving more and more power to the Dark.

(All opinions expressed above are solely those of pass e. ridae and do not express the views or opinions of any affiliates or associates, passerine or otherwise)

#dae asks #star wars #anakin skywalker #the eternal tension between doylist and watsonian readings of media #I love Anakin so much but that man has never seen a bad choice he didn't immediately want #in the words of my immor(t)al friend mid: #anakin sees a bad decision and asks 'is anyone gonna make that' and then doesnt wait for an answer

[rexscanonwife]

Ok FINE maybe I'll listen to Epic the Musical

#jane journals #self insert talk #sortaaa im gonna do some screaming in da tags. but first #star wars #the phantom menace #attack of the clones #anakin skywalker #shmi skywalker #🔥 general hothead 🔥 #UROGGGHH THROWING UP AND CRYING AND ASKING WHERE MY PHONE IS 😭😭😭 #ITS SAD ENOUGH WHEN I THINK ABOUT ANAKIN FOR TOO LONG #but when i think about his MOM #the only person. only FRIEND he had for the first 8 years of his life #and being unable to save her was just the first of a domino effect of wanting to hold on to the people he loves #a cycle that drove him to the dark side #i dont think it was a bad kind of selfishness but it WAS selfish #and exacerbated by the jedi and EXPLOITED by palpatine UGGHH #i think if brea had been there it might have been a little easier on him #but...yeah. have fun with this

[antianakin]

A question, if I may? Do you think Anakin, as he was when he first joined the Jedi Order in TPM, was doomed to fail as a Jedi, so to speak? In-universe, not out-of-universe meta. At that point, do you think it could have gone either way for him, in that he was still capable of becoming a Jedi? And may I be cheeky and ask for full details of why you think that, one way or another?

I've written a post about this before because my answer to this kind-of encapsulates my primary interpretation of Anakin as a character.

In case people don't want to click the link, I'll rehash it a little below.

I think Anakin never would've been a good Jedi because by the time you reach him in TPM, he's already the kind of person whose values and desires don't match up with the Jedi lifestyle. This doesn't make him a bad PERSON, at all, and he's entirely capable of getting a lot of good out of the Jedi's teachings. I think that Anakin was capable of really being able to HEAL through Jedi training, but that if he had been able to really learn from them the way he should've, he would've left the Order voluntarily eventually out of recognition that this life ISN'T WHAT HE REALLY WANTS. Anakin doesn't WANT to be as limited as the Jedi are forced to be by making themselves answer to the Senate and the Chancellor. Anakin DOES want to be able to prioritize the people he personally cares about (in the more normal way that people tend to do, not the genocidal way he does in canon).

And all of this is FINE. Honestly, I think this is the ultimate good outcome for Anakin, to spend enough time with the Jedi to allow their teachings to heal him from his past and give him control over himself to the point that he can pursue the life he really wants in a healthy way. I think Anakin was always capable of being an incredible person and the character we see in TPM is entirely capable of going either way on that, but no, he'd never make a good Jedi.

I also think that if Anakin had been found a much YOUNGER age, like 3 or younger, he'd have been perfectly capable of being a good Jedi. It would remove his attachment to Shmi and the way they had to live their lives, it would allow him to have a better foundation of Jedi philosophies, and it would help him to really see the JEDI as his family rather than constantly searching for a "real" family beyond them. This interpretation comes straight from Lucas himself, who has said that if Anakin had been found at a much younger age, he'd have been fine with being a Jedi, but that being found late was, in many ways, his first stumbling block towards darkness. And that's no one's FAULT, obviously (aside from perhaps the slavers who took Shmi), but it doesn't make it any less true.

Let me know if you want more details on my personal interpretation of this!

#star wars #anakin skywalker #jedi #pro jedi #anakin critical #anakin skywalker critical #my friend and i came up with an entire au where anakin is born with a dyad connection to obi-wan #this also allows obi-wan to be a part of anakin's life as long as shmi is #and - through obi-wan - that connection to the jedi as his family too #he learns jedi things via obi-wan - both philosophical and physical #and this allows obi-wan/qui-gon to find him at like 4 years old #and this ultimately keeps him from meeting palpatine until he's already been knighted #so he identifies as a jedi more than just in name the way he does in canon #and while he struggles occasionally the way everybody does; he's not the selfish greedy fascist asshole he becomes in canon #he's a REAL jedi - in all of the ways that's supposed to mean #this au was born out of us trying to figure out just what it would take to ensure anakin didn't fall #and it took A LOT of work to give him all of that #because it requires both being brought to the jedi v early AND eliminating palpatine until much later in his life #BOTH of these things have to happen or anakin's fucked

[butw0rldenough]

Maybe it's the story that will define you. You never know.

— Molly Templeton

#molly templeton’s review of The Fall my beloved #anakin skywalker #darth vader #obi wan kenobi #padme amidala #luke skywalker #kenobi series #prequel trilogy #original trilogy #anakinedit #swedit #sw edit #kenobiedit #obiwanedit #vaderedit #the people who loved him kept saying there’s still good in him he was a good friend he can return to the light #it was so much better than the story anakin was telling himself which was full of pain and death and hate #and finally he saved himself saved his story by letting someone loving and hopeful rewrite it

[malloyka]

cabanel's 'fallen angel' but make it anakin skywalker

ive seen this parallel pointed out several times so someone has definitely already drawn this but heres my take on it >:)

#star wars fanart #anakin skywalker #also gave him black nail polish bc i know he would wear it #i showed my friend the prequels for the first time the other day and now theyre brainrotting me #uhhhhh yeah. sorry if someones already drawn this exact thing i had fun tho it was good digital painting practice

[annabellebuns]

My mom: "Ooh. Is that Jesus?"

Close. It's his bestie.

#Funnily enough she's not even religious #I guess the hood makes everyone look like they're jesus #Look at this fool #I would say he needs friends but he lost the bitchslapping contest with his bestie and killed all the rest... #my poopy art #anakin skywalker #revenge of the sith

[grace-nakimura]

evidence: here.

#myedits #mygifs #sw #swedit #star wars #anakin skywalker #obi-wan kenobi #askywalkeredit #obiwanedit #obiwankenobieedit #kenobieedit #tcwedit #tcw #pls do not tag as obikin ! #* story: my friend and i write together and based off the video clip of ewan snoring #their hc is that obi wan snores bc of apnea and numerous times he's broken his nose #it was meant to be silly pls be nice #also the coloring pls forgive me for my sins

[billowypantss]

obikin oneshot where anakin isnt totally 100% sure that obi-wan loves him, so instead of doing something normal about it, he devises a bonkers and extremely unethical plan to get obi-wan to ingest truth serum and then ask him if he loves him❤️

#(obv obi wan does love him so he says yes) #and afterwards while anakin is giggling twirling his hair skipping back to the jedi temple #obi wan is just like #Phew glad those separatists who slipped that truth serum in my drink didn’t get any important war info out of me!! #i’m so lucky my best friend anakin was there to whisk me away to a private area until the drug wore off😌 #he was so nice to keep me distracted by talking to me and only asking me safe obvious questions we both know the answer to #obikin #obi-wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #my post

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

When Leia asks Obi-Wan, "Are you my real father?" and he says, "I wish I could say that I was," that means so much. He says it because he wishes he could remove the painful reality of Leia's true father being someone so evil, and he wishes he could offer the comfort of knowing her real father. He says it because he was Anakin's brother, his best friend, his other half, and if anyone could have raised his children for him it would have been Obi-Wan. He says it because he is drawn to Leia; he loves the pieces of Anakin and Padme he sees in her, but what's more, he loves her, and he wants to protect her for more than just whose child she is.

But most of all, he says it because he wishes he could have raised her--and Luke. He wishes he could have trained them to be Jedi, like their father, but without the pain that scarred him and eventually drove him to the Dark Side. He wishes he could have had a family in them, that he could have been free to show them the love that he has for them. But he hasn't been able to, because of the danger that would put them in.

He wishes he could say that his love wouldn't kill what he touches.

But he can't.

#star wars #kenobi series spoilers #kenobi series #obi wan kenobi #leia organa #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #quality meta seal of approval #not to hype my own post up i just put that on all meta posts so that i can find them #meta #my meta posts #kay can i just catch my breath for a second #and like he didn't even like kids when he was younger. he found young anakin frustrating and annoying #but now he's so clearly fond of leia and is so paternal and protective...he calls himself her father at basically every chance #like it's a twofold thing of wanting the family he never had (and to fill the whole left by the jedi family that was slaughtered) #and also in some way he feels that taking care of the children would make it up to anakin somewhat for his failure to anakin himself #like it's his last duty as his friend and brother #it's the last thing he can do for him really #and he can't even do that because obi-wan himself is a threat to them. because he loves them. just like he loved anakin #like he still does. #kay has a party in the tags #(and it was that love that made obi-wan turn and leave without striking the final blow...) #(it was that love that made obi-wan overlook the warning signs and trust anakin because 'he's never let me down') #(he trusted anakin. and now we can see that he is struggling so hard to trust anyone else. and it hurts him so much) #(and somehow even his lack of trust still fails and leads vader to them and endangers leia and it's still his fault) #(it's just...'what if i can't?' and he tries anyway and finds that he was right: he can't.) #right in the feels #augh the pain

[gildeddlily]

watching star wars shows is so mind blowing cause I have to remember that canon!anakin actually is a piece of shit and that the way I write him is kinda ooc cause unlike some other ppl (prequels<33) I don't wipe out his trauma, and I try to think ab and portray the effects it has on him and how it influences him! like if I got trauma from the relationship I have with my parents he'll have it from a childhood spent as a slave! every chance is a perfect chance to talk shit ab the prequels and cw!! ahsoka's slaps btw

#I actually love clone wars #it's one of my comfort show #but #not him making clones die just bc he wants to save r2d2 #and don't say he did it for the info r2 had. he didn't do it to save the information #but in my au he's their brother and thinking ab them makes him cry cause they're practically slaves!!!! #anakin skywalker #captain rex #ahsoka spoilers #aotc anakin is not beating the asshole allegations #realizing he isn't really rex's best friend is the worst thing that happened to me!!!!

[46hasu]

Based on The Weight of Words by @subtlehysteria which is now easily one of my fav DinLuke fics of all time

Couldn’t decide on whether I liked it colored or not so here’s both~

And this meme

#Star Wars #dinluke #Skydalorian #lukedin #obiwan kenobi #luke skywalker #lottie draws sometimes #this scene had me screaming and sobbing #but as I was drawing it out the meme came to my head #and I just couldn’t unsee it #like if Anakin had appeared at that scene then I imagine it would have went like that #‘Luke dont be mad at him it was my fault too!’ #‘IM MAD AT THE BOTH OF YOUUU’ #but he didn’t which is good for him I guess #also I realized too late I was drawing obi wan in his armor not robes #but then the implications of his force ghost ass wearing an armor before admitting how he fucked up was too funny #also I was halfway through coloring it and didn’t wanna redraw that #Grogu having the time of his life rn #I’d be laughing too if the edge lord that killed my friends was getting yelled at by my (soon to be) dad #who is also his son

[haaam-guuuurl]

The day before filming Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 5

#star wars #hayden christensen #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #darth vader #friends #obi wan kenobi spoilers #attack of the clones #my posts #listen no shade intended he looks good and i LOVE the flashback this is just the very first thing that came to my mind when i first saw it #😂 #was this better in my head?

[palfriendpatine66]

Crowdsourcing ideas for future chapters of my fic on Ao3 ....

If we wanted young Luke and Leia to call Obi-Wan a fatherly name that isn't dad (because Anakin is dad) ... what would it be? Maybe I'm missing something super cute but not loving any alternatives I think of Potential Bonus Points if you find a way to make Ben work

(potential spoiler but probably not: the only thing I've got so far is BEN - Because Everybody's Nosy (Leia's suggestion as Obi-Wan is teaching her to read) It does have Leia sass written all over it, but its the level of tooth rotting fluff I'm going for. We need something super cute that reminds Obi-Wan that he's loved by these cuties

#help me obikin friends of tumblr you're my only hope #anakin is a good dad #and obi wan is an amazing dad to be obviously #now we just need something super cute to remind him that he's loved by these cuties #my fic #obi wan kenobi #leia organa #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #obikin

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

So there’s probably only about five people on this website who care/will understand this, but I can’t help the connections my brain makes so I’m going to type this up anyway.

The Similarities between Obi Wan Kenobi and Artham Wingfeather (~*spoilers*~ for The Wingfeather Saga and the Obi Wan Kenobi show):

They were both legendary warriors in their day. Obi Wan was a Jedi general and Artham was a Throne Warden, they were in the highest caliber a fighter could be for their worlds.

They were young. Idk, maybe it’s because I’m almost 26 now, but this hits me differently. Artham was probably in his 20′s when Anniera fell, and Obi Wan was probably in his early 30′s when the Republic fell apart.

They both lost their brother. Their little brother, who they loved and protected and would have died for. They both thought their brother was dead. But nope, actually their brother was alive and it was *so much worse* than they could have imagined.

They each blame themselves for what happened to their brother. And they shouldn’t. It wasn’t their fault, this was so far beyond both of them. But it still torments them.

They run. They hide. For years they hide and slowly lose themselves more and more keeping watch over the children of their brother that they swore to protect. Because if they couldn’t save their brother they were not going to lose those kids. Luke and Leia, Janner, Tink and Leeli are all they respectively had left to live for.

The caretakers of those children tried to keep them away. Podo and uncle Owen both make it very clear that they don’t want these people anywhere near their kids. Ben and Peet don’t leave.

(oh yes because they changed their names. They’re not Obi Wan Kenobi, legendary Jedi or Artham Wingfeather, Throne Warden of Anniera anymore. They’re just Ben and Peet, those weird guys who live out in the middle of nowhere)

But when they are called upon. When those children need them they come. Oh do they come. They may not be what they once were but they cannot sit back and watch something happen to those kids.

(And they are kind and they love them and they protect protect protect)

It’s been ten years, but they’re doing their best. And slowly, slowly they come back to themselves. It takes pain and suffering and confronting their demons and nightmares and the voices in their heads and they think they deserve this but they don’t they don’t-

And they can’t save their brother. But they can rescue Leia and Leeli and Kalmar. They can train Janner and Luke. And in their own minds they can redeem themselves by doing these things, by being there for the children when they couldn’t save their fathers.

And in the end, they come back to themselves.

#star wars #the wingfeather saga #obi wan kenobi #artham p wingfeather #obi wan show spoilers #wingfeather saga spoilers #anakin skywalker #esben wingfeather #I am having FEELINGS about these two #they're so good and kind and traumatized beyond belief #leeli and leia be like 'he just needs some friends!' about their respective weird uncle #but listen I saw obi wan watching luke and my brain went 'peet with the igiby kids' #and now we're here #I'm not sorry #they need hugs #please give them hugs oh my gosh #not another weird crossover for me to try to write I hope

[speedgeek]

Playing around with an idea: I haven’t seen any time travel fics that go back and change the outcome of the skirmish at the Fett farm. Most go to Korda VI or Galdiraan, obvious points for major change. But how different would things be if the Fetts survived and Jaster didn't adopt Jango? I don't know how things would change for Jaster, but Jango ends up being a crucial piece to the future of the GFFA. A lot would change if Jango Fett wasn't the son of Jaster Mereel. He might not become a bounty hunter, certainly wouldn't be Mand'alor, wouldn't be in position to be used by the Sith, no clone army, no Boba- at least not the Boba Fett we know and love. Also, a different Mand'alor means a different future for Mandalore.

Here's what I'm thinking about: Anakin messes with an artifact he shouldn’t and gets sent back in time. Mission, archive duty, I don't know. I'm thinking shortly after the Obi-Wan & Anakin comic, after Palpatine has gotten involved but before he really gets his claws into him. He lands at the Fett farm while Death Watch is looking for Jaster.

Between Obi-Wan and Tatooine, he knows the shriek-hawk and black/blue armor = bad, especially when the people in that armor have somebody (Pa Fett) on their knees in front of their crying kid (Jango). Anakin doesn't need the Force to know which side to choose. He's sure Obi-Wan would attempt to negotiate, but he's not that good with words. He attacks the guy closest to him, which is the guy holding Pa Fett. The Mandalorians were surprised by Anakin's appearance (he just materialized out of nowhere) and weren't prepared for him to immediate start going at them with his laser sword. A woman (Ma Fett) comes out the house with a blaster rifle and takes out the guy holding Jango. Pa Fett tells Jango to run, Jango goes into the fields. Now, in another universe, Death Watch would've followed, gotten shot at by True Mandalorians and then would've set the fields on fire. In this one, they're too busy with Anakin, who knows enough to not bother hitting the armor, but hit where the armor isn't (several Death Watch are already in multiple pieces), and Ma Fett's blaster (she shot someone with a helmet between the eyes at a distance, she's good) to do anything about Jaster Mereel and his crew in the fields. By the time the True Mandalorians join the fight, Tor Visla's pulled out the Darksaber and is trying to hold off Anakin. But Anakin is a lightsaber prodigy and Tor's bes'kad training isn't meant for something with a non-solid blade. He loses his head to a 12/13 year old Jedi padawan.

Ultimately, Anakin would be rejected by the Jedi a second time (still has the fear issues from before and he's just killed a bunch of people with little remorse), but without Qui-Gon's support (whatever he felt on Tatooine, he's not feeling now). So, Jaster does get a kid out of that fight, just it's Anakin getting adopted instead of Jango. Fetts offer to adopt him as well and there may be threats given to Jaster regarding Anakin's well being (they owe him a debt, they will see him taken care of). Anakin eventually opens up to Jaster about his life in the future and Jaster might be taking notes about who to kill. Once he gets to Palpatine, because Jaster can't tell Obi-Wan and the Jedi don't currently care, Anakin tells him all the things Palpatine has said and the places Palpatine took him (like in the comic). Jaster's not an idiot, he knows grooming when he hears about it, and makes definite plans to kill Skeevy Sheevy (cause a leopard doesn't change his spots). He's not a Senator at this time (this is just before the election he rigged), and certainly not Chancellor, shouldn't be a problem. It's when the assassination fails, he finds out he's dealing with a Sith Lord, not a child molester. The Jedi get involved because Sith, and the entire thing starts unraveling.

Plagueis offs Palpatine as a loose end, but it doesn't save him in the end.

No Korda VI and no Galidraan, because Death Watch is gone. No Naboo and no Clone Wars because Palpatine and the Sith are gone. And everybody that's not Palpatine lives happily ever after. :)

#fic #star wars #anakin skywalker #jaster mereel #time travel fix its are my jam #jango is anakin's very annoying #little brother #arla has a crush on him in the beginning #until she gets over it and learns roasting him is much more fun #anakin has to get over the crush on padme since she won't be born for another ten years #he still misses obi-wan though #so obi-wan grows up with a secret mando friend who keeps breaking into the temple to see him #yoda thinks it's hilarious #i have no idea where this is going except fix everything by stumbling into it accidentally