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padme-amitabha · 3 years

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Not sure if this has been asked already, but what is your idea/story for Vaderdala? I guess Vader's story would be pretty unchanged, but how does Padme's story go for Vaderdala?

The most common storyline with Vaderdala is the Padme Lives AU and I really like reading about it. It almost always goes the same way - Vader finding out Padmé is alive, decides to overthrow Palpatine, meets his kids, gets magically healed and they all live happily ever after.

But if it were up to me I think I would also go for a slightly different storyline. Only in terms of fanfics, of course - I still prefer the original story. But in fanfiction I would really want a story where he resurrects Padme somehow (maybe with the help of the Nightsisters) or idk some ancient Sith alchemy. I don’t think Padme would ever be the same again but I would love the bride of Frankenstein/Dracula vibes because I’m a sucker for gothic romance 💀 It would not have a happy ending by any means. Padmé would not survive in the end anyway and Vader would stay a widower. Only everyone would learn that Lady Vader is dead but they won’t know it was Padme since she would most likely cover her face. The story would still be the same but it wouldn’t be very surprising when the galaxy finds out Vader had children - since he openly had a wife in the first place. Luke and Leia would probably learn more about Padme too. I thought of this AU after making this post when I realized Anakin/Vader is like the second Peverell brother. Which is why the romance was always doomed.

I don’t think he would ever resort to cloning Padme since that wouldn’t be her without her memories and he wouldn’t ever accept it even if Palpatine had offered him a clone.

I would love time travel AUs where Vader goes back to the events of TPM and help Amidala save secure Naboo (and also bonding with her, his mother and his younger self). I kind of had a plot bunny too where he has the chance to save Padme before Mustafar ever happened via time travel and Padme doesn’t recognize him obviously but he eventually convinces her to come with him to find Anakin (in the future) and there’s this Shrek-and-Fiona dynamic going on 😂

Hell, I would even love a good Vader and Jedi!Padme fic. The only tropes I can’t stand for Vaderdala is dark/abusive/out of character Vader forcing Padmé to stay against her will because that is not how he would have reacted at all. And definitely not suitless Vader fics. I find it really shallow when most fics almost immediately heal Vader and restore his good looks and limbs as if that’s the only way Padmé will stay with him. Can we normalize characters with disabilities and permanent injuries? Anakin kind of deserved it and it’s more interesting to see how he adjusted to live with these.

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irhinoceri · 4 years

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An Annotated List of Mine Own Fic - Star Wars Edition

All stat counts accurate as of 9/24/2020.

Out of the Dark Valley - Words: 324,621 Chapters: 53/53 Comments: 932 Kudos: 1599 Bookmarks: 384 Hits: 53562

The big one. The first time I seriously wrote fanfic and I was operating under the “go big or go home” mindset. A 300k time-travel/Padme lives!/Vader redemption fic that has some awkward plot contrivances and drags in the middle, but, you know, people seem to like it overall. Perhaps my greatest contribution to fanfic as a whole is creating the tag “Time Travel-Fuck-It-Up Again” because I now see other people using it (always must be in conjunction with the “Time Travel Fix-It” tag).

Love Like Ghosts - Words: 11,287 Chapters: 6/6 Comments: 50 Kudos: 360 Bookmarks: 79 Hits: 6064

Essentially Lord Huron songfic (won’t be the last). It’s my second most popular fic, which I wrote kind of on a whim, kind of to take a break from working on OODV at the time. I had read some Vaderdala fic and wanted to try my hand at it. Mixed results, imo, as I also struggled with the problem I see in most Vaderdala fics—keeping Padme at all true to her canon characterization while still having a relationship with Vader. They are bitter and resentful of each other for the bulk of the fic which is my specialty. I did enjoy exploring a darker take on Padme and what it would mean if she took Anakin up on his offer and tried to take Palpatine down from within, so yeah I’m still pleased with this one.

Artoo Knows - Words: 1,758 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 15 Kudos: 128 Bookmarks: 33 Hits: 979

An angsty story based on a song that is the musical equivalent of a shitpost. My ex once said, “I can’t believe you made me sad about R2-D2″ after I sent him the link. He’d been lamenting that I wasn’t writing original fiction anymore and was wasting my talents. Ah well.

it’s a bad wind that don’t blow somebody some good - Words: 6,341 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 22 Kudos: 166 Bookmarks: 33 Hits: 2513

My Barrissoka fic. I was getting really into the whole “canon can’t fuck a good character up so bad that fandom can’t figure out how to course-correct” school of shipping problematic dynamics and getting real deep into Barriss-Was-Right-If-Not-Totally-Justified-For-How-She-Went-About-It feels. It really does cement that I love post-bad-breakup-reconciliation as a trope. Also used a very obscure song by an obscure band as inspiration for the title and mood of the piece, which made me feel very cool and sophisticated, at the time. I saw The Secret Machines live in concert in 2005 and it’s still one of the most transcendent concert experiences I’ve ever had.... RIP Benjamin Curtis.

Padawan Exchange - Words: 9,132 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 9 Kudos: 58 Bookmarks: 12 Hits: 907

A friendship fic for Anakin and Barriss, formed as an idea for what they were up to while Luminara and Ahsoka were teamed up in that one episode of The Clone Wars. Initially thought of as a crackfic, it becomes kind of serious because I couldn’t resist planting those seeds of doubt about the nobility of the Jedi Order in Barriss’ mind. Has less than 1k hits on Ao3 but gosh darn it, I think it’s one of my better ideas for a fic to this day.

Through Neighborly Eyes - Words: 1,280 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 4 Kudos: 59 Bookmarks: 5 Hits: 889

This was supposed to be the first of several side fics set in the universe of OODV, but alas it is still the only one. A glimpse at Barrissoka raising Mara Jade after she’s rescued from Palpatine’s evil clutches as a child... since those characters disappear from OODV only to appear five years later and I wanted to put them front and center to explore the dynamic. Honestly, the fact that I never did follow up is one of my most shameful failures as a fic writer.

I just want to start a flame in your heart - Words: 3,763 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 1 Comments: 15 Kudos: 27 Bookmarks: 3 Hits: 352

THE BEST FIC I’VE EVER WRITTEN. The TFA/Fallout Finnrey crossover songfic that I posted, thinking, “I’ve peaked and nothing will ever be better than this.” 352 hits. That’s how life is, sometimes.

The Third Most Iconic Duo: A Star Wars Musical - Words: 11,735 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 22 Kudos: 38 Bookmarks: 7 Hits: 572

Kinda weird modern AU where Finn and Rey (and others) exist in a world where Star Wars also exists as a fictional property, and they are playing the characters of Han and Leia in a musical. This fic causes me pain because it written in the halcyon days before TLJ when I was sure Finnrey was canon and Rey Skywalker was the only logical answer to The Parentage Mystery. Hence this fic has definite ReySky elements, but, to be fair it’s not the focus of the story. Rey’s dad in the fic is unnamed though I of course envision Mark Hamill in the role. Honestly the fact that this has more hits than my other Finnrey fic pains me because it’s not as good.

#my fic #writing #star wars

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padme-amitabha · 4 years

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Hello since you mentioned you are anti Disney are you anti Reylo too? What are your thoughts on other ships

Hmm I wouldn’t exactly call myself an anti Reylo. To be an anti you need to have strong feelings against something and I feel nothing about these two characters and the entire sequel trilogy. Kylo and Rey are so poorly written and underdeveloped characters to the point they feel like blank slates in my mind. So I don’t really care about them getting together. But I’ll acknowledge some parts of their relationship seemed abusive (especially their interaction in TFA) and them getting together after TFA is by no means healthy. Still I’m just not passionate enough to argue against this ship. The only ST ship I like is Finn/Poe because they are cute together have been through a lot together and their relationship could develop over the course of the films.

I’m okay with Jyn/Cassian though they lack solid character traits as well but it’s fine because I think Rogue One was a plot driven movie anyway so fanon works on them are cool. Not sure if it’s an actual ship but I do like C3PO and R2D2 together. With Luke and Obi-Wan, I don’t necessarily think romance is necessary but I’m open to most ships involving them. I do occasionally enjoy Obitine, Codywan and Siriwan. I have a soft spot for Siriwan because of the legends novel ‘Secrets of the Jedi’. If anyone hasn’t read or heard of it, I highly recommend y’all to check it out. I’m fine with Han/Leia though I’m not a big fan of their dynamic (especially in ESB) but I still think it’s great.

Now about the ships I actually don’t like: You can say I’m anti all master/student relationships because I personally just find it really icky. All of the masters and students have big age differences and the masters knew the latter as children/preteens and in some cases raised/groomed them so no. All master/student bonds are meant to be platonic and anything else just feels wrong.

I’m not a big fan of crackships in general neither do I like Anakin/Vader and Padmé being paired with other people. They seem like the only couple who actually matter to the story because without them there would be no Luke and Leia. I love that George based them on Romeo and Juliet while adding bits of Othello/Desdemona to complete the tragedy. I think they only loved each other and just like Anakin’s fate it was destined to happen. I just can’t imagine them loving anyone else. I’m only basing this on the movies; I am not a big fan of TCW nor do I like they created Rush Clovis, a stereotypical clingy ex, just for unnecessary drama and made Anidala unhealthy just because the writers fail to grasp what George intended. I don’t think Anidala is by any means unhealthy or Vaderdala for that matter. I honestly don’t like the distinction because Anakin is Vader at a different point in his life. He made a mistake of choking Padmé on Mustafar because he was unhinged. For the record, he has never been fully mentally stable unlike Kylo Ren as shown in AOTC so you have to keep that in mind. Plus he still regrets doing that to her very much and she’s the first thing he asks about after his surgery. But his actions still break her heart and she loses the will to live. So Vader remains alone with his regrets and in a way this is very fitting because abuse (even if it’s unintentional or accidental) should not be tolerated. Or murder for that matter so even though Anakin’s fall is understandable, karma gets him and he loses everything. I have seen a lot of Anidala fans say Vader and Padmé is toxic but I think it’s only toxic if you make it out to be. I have seen some suitless Vader fics where Padmé is forced to marry him or be with him against her will which is very much abusive. But if Vader still has Anakin’s personality he wouldn’t be abusive at all. Ambitious and power hungry? Definitely but Anakin’s past as a child slave and his mother impacted him deeply. I think he would have respected women even more because of it and definitely wouldn’t force someone to be with him against their will. I dislike how people view Anakin as a saint or like “the good side” of him because it’s the same Anakin who slaughtered the sand people. Viewing him as different from Vader is glossing over his flaws and crimes while undermining his redemption. Vader isn’t a demon possessing Anakin; Vader is Anakin who has no one left and he’s alone and depressed. AOTC Anakin even after his dark moment acted normally with people he cared about (he didn’t exactly lash at Padmé when he returned, did he?) so I don’t think he would have been abusive to Padmé had she lived and I think Padmé would rather die than be abused. If anything Vader would have killed Palpatine much sooner if Padmé was alive.

Anyways there’s only one ship I absolutely despise and it’s a popular dark ship. I don’t think I hate any other ship with such a burning passion and it involves Anakin/Vader and a certain shitty OC from the marvel comics - an unoriginal and trashy character who exists because Disney has given certain writers far too much freedom to write their fanboyish fantasies. So they write a sort of dark Padmé who’s into women but that doesn’t stop them from shamelessly dropping sexual innuendos in every interaction with Vader. The worst thing is the writer pretends it was unintentional while pretending to “discover this ship” and I find it direspectful to the lgbt community that they wrote a character who even though she’s gay is shipped with every male character she interacts with (including Luke), because clearly her preference is not that important. She’s conveniently morally gray too because that way she can team up with both sides. I don’t like any ships where characters have a big age difference and this “dark ship” has about twenty years of it and this OC Smelly Lunatic A*hra is closer to Luke and Leia’s age. She is a mixture of Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, Padmé and even Anakin himself and fangirls over him with plenty of forced and obvious parallels. She even has plot armor and I can’t believe Vader - who kills his own officers for failure - tolerates her when she double crosses him multiple times because Disney is too afraid to kill women especially ones they created to push their own propaganda. Hell she even survives after being thrown into outer space and when she’s alive Vader is a petty villain obsessed with hunting her down and killing her and all these supposedly take place before ESB when I’m sure he had other things on his mind than this one insufferable brat. Even while she’s working for him, he doesn’t hesitate to choke her or use the force to hurt her. He only keeps her around for her skills and it’s not like he cares about hurting her so it’s absolutely toxic but people who ship them seem to think otherwise. She is also allowed to pry on his past and joke around with him which sounds so unrealistic and terrible. To top it off their last interaction involves her, a non force sensitive, trapping him and leaving him to die and giving him some much-needed life advice because she’s clearly very wise and knows better and Vader is an incompetent fool who walked into a trap. Not only does it butcher his character, it makes him a typical and petty villain. I truly can’t express how much I hate this ship and this character. It’s just laughable and insulting to Padmé to think Vader will be with someone else after he believes he killed Padmé or was at least responsible for her death in some way.

(If you happen to like her character or support this ship, feel free to unfollow because all you will ever find in this blog is rants on how terrible the character and the ship is.)

Anyways, there you go that’s my opinion on the SW ships. I’m neutral about the ships I didn’t mention above.

#my thoughts #sw ships #anidala #hanleia #reylo #obitine #codywan #siriwan #vaderdala #finnpoe #jyn x cassian #anti doctor aphra #anti aphra #anti disney #anti disney sw #anti crackshipping

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