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#anyway nice to know shaak ti still has way too many versions of her death glad we're keeping that tradition alive and well
stairset · 3 years
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Oh also ironically as much as I bitched about the Kanan retcon the episode had another retcon that I DID like that being Shaak Ti’s death.
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fireflyfish · 7 years
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After the end - anything you want to share n Vaderkin, and how he feels about Obi-Wan, Padme, the empire, palpatine, what he did to the jedi...Also, did AtE Anakin ever have a crush on Obi-Wan, or was it only ever Padme for him?
I would like to say that I am thrilled with the reception this little fic has received. I started it mostly for myself and my Fem! Obi-Wan feels and the fact that anyone likes it, let alone wants to know about it just fills me with a lot of happy, squeaky glee. So thank you! ^_^
So... Vaderkin’s thoughts on...
Obi-Wan: He is torn because the part of him that we would recognize as Anakin (generally wants to do the right thing, understands killing innocents is bad, loves his children and wants what’s best for them) misses her intensely. Like talking about her in his sleep intensely.
When Anakin made his Faustian deal with Sidious, he didn’t really think much further than “If I do this, it will save Padme”. Life after saving Padme has not been the happily ever after he thought it was going to be and on top of that, he had always assumed that Obi-Wan would be there. She is his former master, his best friend, his partner! Of course she would be there! Of course she would betray the Order and come be with him.
So the fact that she’s not there and more importantly, she’s not there to support him is unbalancing for him. He wants her back. Obi-Wan belongs with Anakin. He’s going to do everything he can to get her back but he’s also not summoned the might of the Empire to hunt her down because he also kind of understands why she ran. He might not ever admit that to himself but he hasn’t tried as hard as he might have in canon to find Obi-Wan because finding her means bad things and he doesn’t want to hurt her anymore than he already has.
The Vader Aspect (murder is my hobby, what is my bidding my master? Ooo! Happy days! I get to kill Separatists!) wants to find Obi-Wan and hurt her. She left him. She abandoned him. She ran away. She belongs to him and she had no right to run away. How dare Obi-Wan leave him behind? She will regret abandoning him.
Vader is much more clear about what he wants from Obi-Wan.
Padme: He loves her. As much as a Sith Lord can love anything. He loves her very, very much. He had to, right? He did all of this for her, right? He murdered Mace Windu and Shaak Ti and everyone in the Jedi Temple for her. He. Loves. Her. Padme is his angel. The light of his life. HE. LOVES. HER. He did ALL of this for her and she had better appreciate it. He gave up Obi-Wan for Padme. She is his beautiful wife and now that she doesn’t have to worry about being a Senator she can spend all her time with Anakin and their children and everything is perfect and wonderful, RIGHT????
Sadly I can’t tell you anything else because that would be spoilers but Vaderkin is insistent that everyone knows that he loves Padme. So so much. He fell to the Dark Side for her and not for his own hunger for power and glory because he didn’t want that. He just wanted to save Padme’s life.
The Empire: Eh. It’s a better organized version of the Republic. He still can’t tell people what to do and there are still too many restraints on his power but it’s slowly but surely bringing peace to the galaxy and he doesn’t mind being a High General now or being called Lord Skywalker. He feels like he’s finally getting the respect that he was denied by the Jedi Council. But now he’s been thrown in the deep end of the political pool with some very skilled sharks and he’s a little concerned he’s not clever enough to deal with all of them.
But he would be if he could find Obi-Wan, because she always knew what to do when it came to politics. And Padme is not a part of that world anymore. Period. End of story.
Palpatine: He is not as nice a master as Obi-Wan was. That surprised him. Also, he doesn’t like Palpatine’s interest in Luke and Leia and his insistence that Anakin should spend more time away from them. He doesn’t mind doing things as Vader when the call arises but he doesn’t trust Palpatine very much. Obi-Wan and Padme managed to get through to him that Palpatine isn’t to be trusted and Vaderkin suspects that Palpatine isn’t sharing all of his vast Sith knowledge with him.
But he thinks Palpatine is doing a pretty good job running the Empire and he’s okay with being the poster boy for the New Galactic Order.
He is convinced he could take Palpatine in a fight if it came down to that.
Order 66/Operation Knightfall: The Jedi, minus Obi-Wan, were traitors who deserved what they got. He does not feel guilty. No he does not see the stabbed and mutilated bodies of the murdered when he visits Palpatine in the newly re-done Imperial Palace that was the old Jedi Temple. He does not hear them screaming. He does not smell the smoke and stench of death. None of these things bother him. Nope. He’s not seeing that. No way no how.
He does not know that Order 66 was activated against Ahsoka. Palpatine keeps most of the information pertaining to Obi-Wan and Ahsoka on a tight lockdown. He doesn’t know where Rex is and he doesn’t care who is leading the 212 as long that battalion is never on his ship or in his fleet.
Did AtE Anakin ever have a crush on Obi-Wan or was only ever Padme it for him?
He had complicated feelings about Obi-Wan. Yes. He thought she was beautiful woman. But he has loved Padme since the moment he met her because she is an angel and a queen and so petite and feminine! Padme is perfect and she loves him and he loves her and they are married!
Seriously, he would never, ever entertain those kinds of thoughts about Obi-Wan because... she’s Obi-Wan and there’s no way Obi-Wan has thoughts like that. Right? >_> Especially about him because if she did he would have known about it because they were so close and there was no way she could hid something like that from him. Right? Obi-Wan? You aren’t secretly in love with someone else right? LIKE BAIL KARKING ORGANA OR THAT KRIFFING QUINLAN VOS, RIGHT???
But he was furiously angry any time Obi-Wan did what Obi-Wan does, which is attempt to flirt her way out of a deadly situation before resorting to chopping limbs off like hungry man at an all you can eat Alaskan King crab shack. That was a terrible analogy. Anyway! Obi-Wan was very much like Anakin’s “work wife” and Padme was the wife he came home to. And that worked for a very long time until it didn’t.
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