#tatooine slave culture

[spiderbae2319]

We don’t talk about Leia killing Jabba enough. Her grandmother and father were born into slavery. Her blood was that of the desert sand and the shackles of bondage. Leia was never more a Skywalker than the day she strangled her slave master with the very chains he used to bind her. The daughter of Anakin Skywalker was the one who killed Tatooine’s most notorious slaver, and I find that really beautiful.

#tatooine #tatooine slave culture #Leyyah Skywalker #leia organa #princess leia #leia skywalker #anakin skywalker #star wars #star wars prequels #star wars original trilogy #shmi skywalker #jabba the hutt #return of the jedi

[fandumb-thoughts]

I love the idea of Anakin sneaking people into his bedroom or whatever to surgically remove slave chips and everyone thinking he sleeps around (I have ZERO clue what fanfic that might’ve been from, but it 100% came from a fanfic that I read) because imagining a conversation about it is so funny.

Obi-Wan: So, you and Padmé. Anakin: Since when is this your business? Obi-Wan: Since you made me turn a blind eye at every goddamn opportunity you had to sneak someone into your room. Anakin: Okay, but—to be fair—I didn’t sleep with any of them. Obi-Wan, who has operated thus far as under the impression that his former padawan was a high-key slut: You never what.

#star wars #sw prequels #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #tatooine slave culture #padme amidala #anidala

[ani-and-the-corries-au]

There are some things that all troopers know Nat born's will never understand.

All the troopers grew up in a world where perfection was the standard and anything less resulted in death. Where individuality was a crime and being anything more than just another number was a danger, Where saying the wrong thing in front of the wrong person could get you killed.

All troopers know this, but post Kamino the Guards have had it drilled into them all over again. If they want to survive In the Senate they have to fall back on the lessons they learned on Kamino.

The Corries know that there are some things that nat born's will never understand. Things that Nat born's shouldn't understand.

So no one in the guard quite knows how to feel about the strange fallout of the Shiney squad's Jetti Cadets apparent discovery of the Guards position on Courcant.

It starts small, the guard notices that the boy stops being weird about the fact that most of the Corries don't use their names, when asked, the boys. "It's because I know that you have them now." raises more questions than answers, because apparently the boy just figured out that they used their designation numbers around the Senate because their names were a secret on his own. He also seemed to get an unreasonable amount of joy from the fact that all the clones chose their own names.

If it has stopped there then it probably wouldn't be so weird, but it didn't. From sneaking in extra medical supplies and food, (actual food, not just ration bars) when he discovered that 'depur' was cutting their budget for stuff that they needed to function, to the way he seemed to intrinsically understand their need for secrecy, and their reasoning for it. "secrets keep us safe." Without anyone seemingly telling him.

They all agreed that they weren't gonna ask about how the boy had managed to rangle several senators around to the truth of the situation and his point of view with only a few words to one of them. A point of view that not only had them working on trooper sentient rights bills, but also had them aiding in his more under the table helping.

At first it was weird and confusing, both because this kid was a nat born, and because how did a Jetti Cadet develop this kind of understanding, he was a child. It took them a while to connect the dots, Even as the boy started unconsciously dropping hints.

At first it was that weird little nickname he had for the Senate and Senators, in a language that even the most nerdy of Corries didn't seem to understand. They weren't sure what a Depur was, but apparently it applied to the Senate and was probably not a good thing.

The next clue was the stories, because as Anakin spent more time with the guard, becoming more of a Vod'ika than a Jetti Commander and subsequently beginning to learn more and more about the secrets that they kept from the rest of the Senate.

As the boy learnt about the lighter side of the inner workings of the guard, and how to speak the clones particular brand of Mando'a, the guards began to learn stories about Ekkreth, Leia and Ar Amu, stories about secret plots and tricking the The infamous Depur in ways that resulted in the freedom of those he enslaved.

About secret Languages, Tzai, Jappor snippets and secret rituals. About the ways one could steal back some control from the Masters in ways that they would never even notice. About things that the boy claimed that all Slaves should know, lessons that would help keep them safe from their Masters. A term that by now the guards suspended was not referring to the kind the Jedi had.

By the time the boy causally mentioned that he and his mother had been enslaved prior to him being taken to the temple, the Guards already had a pretty decent picture of the situation.

The fact that the boy had been adopting them into his own culture right under their noses had been vastly more surprising. He'd been a little awkward when he'd admitted it. Saying that he knew that they were sort of Mando'ade, but they could be Amavikka too if they wanted.

And sure, maybe it was a little dark that part of the reason the boy spent so much time in the barracks was because it felt familiar, but also this kid cared about every single one of them, to the point where he apparently sees them as family.

Well it really was no wonder that it was agreed that the entire guard would do just about anything for their Ad'ika. Including possibly stopping said Ad'ika from doing the same for them. (Bloody Skywalkers)

#ani and the corries au #padawan anakin #anakin skywalker #the courscant guard #child anakin skywalker #tatooine slave culture #of the fialleril veriaty #i had this thought in the middle of the night #its a long one but i had to write it anyway #Anakin is an Honorary Vode #and he also has several hundred siblings/new family members #they both adopted each other #tw slavery #mostly referenced but its there #the two way culture exchange is my favorite part of this au #mandalorian culture #Clone trooper culture #Corrie guard culture #the image of the Corries kind of mixing the clone brand of there mandalorian heratage with Anakin's Amavikan stories #The guards randomly weaving Amatakka in to there conversations and leaving there other siblings deeply confused #because Anakin never said they couldn't tell the other Troopers about what he told them #but he did say that they should use there own judgement #so they do

[lawsofchaos1]

Star Wars Promptlet

In one universe Obi-Wan Kenobi bows shallowly at the end of his formal report of the Battle of Naboo and requests the Council free the mother of his new Padawan from slavery on Tatooine. The Council makes agreeable noises and Obi-Wan tells himself that they will act on his request. However, wary of being accused of attachment, wary of his Padawan being taken away from him because he's too young, too inexperienced, too emotional, too much of a failure, Obi-Wan never checks and he never asks again.

In another universe, Obi-Wan Kenobi sees the dismissive body language of the Counselors during his report - it can't possibly be a Sith they whisper in the eddies of the Force - and he doesn't make a request before he leaves. Instead, he shows up at Quinlan's door in the middle of the Temple's night cycle and his creche mate takes one look at his face before putting on his Shadow blacks and sneaking them past the Temple guard.

Forty one cycles later, Obi-Wan picks Anakin up from where he'd been undergoing the crash course of So You Think You Want To Be A Jedi Knight in the Initiate's hall (which went shockingly well, Anakin making friends left and right and filling in some severe baseline knowledge gaps most of the Temple inhabitants took for granted). He hands his Padawan a small, carved bracelet - a broken chain - made from one of the few native plants of Tatooine, a gift from Shmi, and watches Anakin's eyes grow liquid-wet in joy and wonder.

Most people gloss over that Qui-Gon had bought Anakin and not Freed him, Anakin had noticed. Obi-Wan never needed to be told the difference. And Obi-Wan hadn't bought Shmi, he'd simply provided her what she needed to Free herself. And maybe a substantial portion of the Mos Epsa slave quarters along with her. (But that pesky little slave rebellion that started while Obi-Wan and Quinlan just so happened to be on planet absolutely definitely for sure couldn't be traced back to them. They'd made certain of that.)

The Temple still just shy of outright forbids Padawans contact with their birth parents, but every so often - although at least once a year - Obi-Wan sends Anakin on some strange errand that inevitably ends with him slipping into a booth and finding himself sitting next to his mother for a few precious hours of catching up. Their first meeting (after hearing all about how his mother Freed herself and so many others of course) is all about the new friends he made during his moon-cycle in the Initiate's dorms and how four of them have decided to claim him as a crechemate since apparently every Jedi needs crechemates and he came in too old to get them the normal way. Anakin thinks from watching Obi-Wan with Quinlan and Bant and Garen that this means he has siblings now.

(A few years later Anakin's definitely-siblings get sent with him on his weird errand that happens to be on Anakin's life-day and Shmi makes them all a cup of desert-scented tea and welcomes them into the family. Anakin doesn't cry, it's just the steam from the tea making his cheeks wet.)

When Palpatine starts showing a little too much interest in a young Padawan, Anakin listens when Obi-Wan warns him something might be wrong. After all, his Teacher is a Chain-Breaker- why would Anakin doubt him when his words suggest that Palpatine may be too close to a Depur to be trusted? His crechemates also don't like it and his mother says words he didn't know she knew in her own reaction.

The anonymous report Anakin submits to the Senate Guards that they might want to check in on Senator Palpatine and his creepy obsession with young kids stays anonymous, but it does get leaked and the ensuing media storm starts strong and ends stronger with the discovery of a Sith Master.

In short, Obi-Wan helps Shmi Free herself and a war that breaks a galaxy never starts.

#lawsofchaos rambles #star wars #obi wan kenobi #alternate universe #canon divergence #star wars prequels #anakin skywalker #obi wan and anakin #tatooine slave culture

[alea-says]

On Tatooine, Skywalker isn't a name you inherit - it's a name you earn.

The Sky Walker. Ekkreth. The slave who makes free. Every one of Ar-Amu's children know that, if they find a skywalker, a skywalker will help them go free.

Because names on Tatooine have meanings. Slave names, depur call them. Slave names, the free men call them. But to Ar-Amu's children, they are promises.

A Skywalker will do all they can to release the children from their chains. A Darklighter will show them a path through the darkness, away from depur. A Whitesun will provide them with the papers needed to walk freely under the suns.

Depur do not care what names their slaves choose for themselves, so long as they are slave names. But Ar-Amu's children know the value of calling things by their names.

Ar-Amu's children know how to walk beneath the notice of depur. There is safety in secrets. And the best secrets are always the ones that do not appear to be secret.

Anakin, son of Shmi, earns his name when he is 3 years old.

Shmi is already a Sky Walker, has been so since before Anakin was born. Her skill with mechanics and electronics makes her a valuable slave and an even more esteemed Sky Walker.

So it is no surprise to Anakin to find a young female twi'lek ducking behind the small curtain that separated Shmi's alcove from the rest of the slave quarters (a level of privacy no slave would begrudge a Sky Walker).

There is a heavy, bulky collar fastened around the twi'lek's neck, and Anakin knows immediately why she is there. A new slave, not yet chipped, held only by the bomb collar around her neck - she seeks a Sky Walker to remove the collar and set her free.

But Shmi is not there. Gardulla had requested Shmi's presence as she entertained her guests. Almost all of Gardulla's slaves are up above, ensuring the hutt is able to impress.

The twi'lek's eyes are wide and scared. It will not be long before her depur discovers her missing. It is unlikely she will be able to sneak back to where she is meant to be.

So Anakin takes her hand. He sits her down on the barely-there pallet that serves as bed for both himself and his mother. He can feel his heartbeat racing in his fingertips, but he is also calm.

"The Sky Walker is not here," he tells her softly, "but if you are willing, I will try to free you."

The decision is hers. Any wrong move in disarming or removing the collar and it would blow them both to pieces. He is the son of a Sky Wakker but not yet a Sky Walker himself. She must decide what she is willing to risk for her freedom.

Anakin already knows what he is willing to risk. He already knows what name he wants to earn.

He is Anakin, son of Shmi Skywalker, and one day he will be able to call himself Anakin Skywalker.

The twi'lek nods.

Anakin's hands are steady as he reaches out, a thin piece of wire pulled from the hem of his ragged tunic. It takes five breathless minutes, but he is able to remove the collar.

It sits between them, heavy with threat, not yet disarmed, but open. Its circle of bondage broken.

"Sky Walker," the twi'lek breathes as she stares at him, and Anakin smiles back at her.

*

When Anakin joins the Jedi, he asks the council whether he should change his name. They stare back at him in confusion.

"Change your name, why would you?" Yoda asks. But Anakin doesn't know how to (or even if he should) explain. "Skywalker, your name is," Yoda continues. "Skywalker, it shall be, hmm."

Anakin hopes it means the Council understands. He is a Sky Walker, it is his privilege and his duty to free slaves.

But the Jedi are not there to free slaves.

And Anakin begins to hate his name.

He does what he can. Turning a blind eye here. Leaving supplies there. Accidentally unlocking chains. But it never seems to be enough.

He is a Sky Walker, it is meant to be the purpose of his life, but instead - he runs around obeying the senate and the Jedi council.

Until he begins to fear the council knew what they were doing when they told him to keep his name.

Because a Sky Walker is a slave who makes free.

*

When they make him a general, Anakin wants to throw his name as far away from himself as he possibly can.

How can he be a Sky Walker, a slave who makes free, when he is leading an army of slaves?

*

When Vader hears the pilot who destroyed the Death Star goes by Skywalker, he is not surprised. The Death Star was a chain the Emperor wielded to bind the galaxy to himself, and Sky Walkers are good at breaking chains. He thinks nothing more of it.

Until he learns the Sky Walker is force sensitive.

Sky Walker is a name that must be earnt, a title and a promise and a badge of honour. It is a slave name. The name of a slave who makes free.

Or, the name of one who could have been a slave, who comes from a family of slaves, and risks it all to make others free.

It is telling that this Luke Skywalker uses his name freely in the Rebellion - a declaration that he sees the empire, the emperor, as depur.

On its own it is not much, something someone not from Tatooine would not understand.

But Skywalker is force sensitive.

So Vader goes digging.

Luke Skywalker, raised by Beru Whitesun and Owen Lars. Best friends with Biggs Darklighter.

First known as Luke Lars, before his name was changed to Skywalker.

For someone else, anyone else, it would seem innocuous. It is easy enough to find out that Skywalker is a slave name on Tatooine. For the boy to have initially gone by Lars would have been a way for him to be protected from his parent's past. For him to claim the name would be a child deciding to claim their history despite the slavery in it.

But Vader knows better. He knows how names work on Tatooine.

The boy becomes a Sky Walker the first time he frees a slave.

The disjointed recording of the Princess's cell they recover has him boldly proclaiming, "My name is Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you."

For one of Ar-Amu's children, such a declaration would have been a comfort. A promise. Vader sees how the Princess does not understand what she has been told.

The Imperials see the boy's behaviour as naivety, but Vader knows better.

It does not surprise him that the boy moves quickly up the ranks of the rebellion. It does not surprise him that the boy is fearless in the face of the empire's might, that he laughs each time he escapes the traps laid for him.

He is a true Sky Walker.

The boy might not have been a slave on Tatooine (and Vader checked, because if there was one thing he would not allow it would be that), but he was the son of a slave. Grandson of Shmi Skywalker.

And he earnt his name again and again and again.

There is another name the boy could lay claim to. Another name he has earnt, Vader finds.

A name the Princess earns, also, as she chokes Jabba with the very chain he sought to hold her with. Starkiller.

One who has killed depur.

It is a name the boy earnt long before he joined the rebellion. That he chooses to go by Skywalker instead is telling.

He would rather be known for making free than for killing.

Vader admires him, even as he despairs. For he knows the end result of being a Skywalker beneath the weight of the Emperor. He knows the power of the Dark Side. All he can hope is to keep the boy, his son, from being enslaved.

But the Sky Walker refuses to join him.

Refuses to acknowledge the power of the Dark Side.

Refuses to admit defeat.

And perhaps, Vader thinks, it is better that way. Dukra ba dukra. His son will not relinquish the name of Skywalker, he will not turn, so he will die free.

But Luke is a Sky Walker, and Sky Walkers are those who make free. Not content to just free themselves, they are those who will walk directly into the grasp of depur if it means freeing others.

On Tatooine, names can be earnt.

And so Darth Vader earns again a name he'd thought lost to him.

He is the son of Shmi the Sky Walker. Father of Luke the Sky Walker - who calls Vader by his earnt name. Who walks calmly into the grasp of the emperor in the hope it will save his father (it does).

Dukra ba dukra.

He is Anakin Skywalker, he is a person, and he dies free.

.

.

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(Again, highly inspired by @fialleril's work, which if you haven't read, you absolutely must)

#star wars #tatooine slave culture #fanfic #anakin skywalker #luke skywalker #tatooine mythos #darth vader #the power of names

[h4lftruths4ndhyperb0le]

Research for a fic is so dangerous because I was looking into fanon surrounding Tatooine to use as background knowledge for the first two chapters of a ling fic and the next thing I knew I had literally ten tabs open and a list of reading material about fanon Tatooine slave culture and the amatakka dictionary and it’s all so good

#amatakka #star wars #star wars fanfiction #tatooine slave culture

[adragonsfriend]

Leia in Amavikka Culture

This is coming from writing Elder Sisters.

To my reading of Fialleril’s stories, in Amavikka culture, Ekkreth represents the idea that the masters may control a lot, but they cannot stop all of the clever little rebellions. That’s what it means when Ekkreth says, “the chain has not been forged that can hold me.” Leia says the same thing in The Slave Who Makes Free, but it means something different when she says it.

First encountering Leia's character, my brain immediately asked, "why doesn't this massive powerful dragon just go step on Depur? we don't need no stinking Ekkreth stories, we just need the story of how Leia stepped on Depur one time." But that's not how mythology works. It's the wrong question entirely, because mythology is about representing and understanding the real life situations of an entire people. A better question is what does it mean that Leia doesn't just eat Depur?

Leia is strong, strong enough to endure anything, and to break any chain. Eventually. Leia is not about the ability of the people to go on a rampage and destroy Depur’s palace or rip all his chains like tissue paper, because they don’t have that ability, and destruction is the work of Depur. Leia represents the ability of the people to endure hardship until every chain is broken, because one day they will be. Together, Ekkreth and Leia are opposing forces—rebellion and endurance—that each make the other stronger. In fact—little rebellions (Ekkreth the parent) are what make the long-term endurance (Leia the daughter) possible. Writing this story was a discovery of that subtlety in Leia’s purpose for me, which is part of why it came out as a coming-of-age story for her, and why it fell into place with Anakin beginning to settle into the past for the long-haul. 

#star wars #fialleril #double agent anakin #biting his own tale #tatooine slave culture #SW rant #star wars yeeteth

[lapseinrecs]

Golden Boy

By hallotheism

On Archive of Our Own

Status: Complete; Oneshot; 2,149 words

Summary: “I lived on Tatooine before the Jedi bought me. Oh, hey, that was a pretty good shot of my first barrel roll! Can we rewind?” Throughout the bridge, every clone in the room goes still.

My thoughts: shit hits hard.

#Star Wars #anakin skywalker #rex clone wars #cody clone wars #ashoka tano #oneshot #complete #prequel trilogy #tatooine slave culture

[furious-blueberry0]

Okay so since I wanted to make something with Beru and Owen, I started searching a bit about Tatooine culture, and oh my god guys, I found @fialleril's work on Tatooine Slave Culture, and it's great!!!

I spent all day reading their old postes about it and I'm honestly in love.

And while reading all this I was also reminded of the concept of Blood Slave from the fic "It Happened Quiet" by HopelesslyLost on Ao3, which was also a good and beautiful read.

So now I spent like an hour daydreaming about Beru being a Blood Slave until the age of 17, fighting for her master entertainment, in games where it was either kill or be killed.

But then one night, after nearly dying in her last match, she heard Ar-Amu's whispers in her dreams, and so, in the middle of the night, with the phrase dukkra ba dukkra (freedom or death) singing in her blood, she woke up and used her remaining strenght to take her freedom, by killing her master, choking him to his death.

And so Beru becomes a kol-depuan, an Unfettered (a slave who kills their master), running away in the night from her master's house and into the infinite dunes of the desert.

And here she gives herself her new name, as a free person: Khepatag, Whitesun, because, as her father once told her: "There is nothing as strong and unstoppable as the suns at the height of the day"

And so, when the suns are finally high in the sky, and their light hits her face, she screams, with all her might:

"Ek masa nu Beru Khepatag ku!"

"I am a person with the name Beru Whitesun"

#Okay this was pretty fun to write #tatooine #tatooine slave culture #star wars #beru whitesun #beru lars

[mayhaps-a-blog]

Thinking about Anakin’s sand monologue and I had a thought. I could totally see “sand” being shorthand on Tatooine for anything unpleasant that one can’t say aloud.

Think about it. Slaves are tightly controlled, even the things they think or say can be grounds for punishment. Can’t complain about the masters; can’t complain about the overseers; can’t complain about the punishments, or the work, the unspoken rules and restrictions that shape every slave’s life. Anything that might label them as “ungrateful” or “troublesome.”

So, what can they talk about?

The karking sand.

It’s coarse, it’s rough, it’s everywhere, it’s fucking everywhere. Don’t you just hate it? They say to each other, glaring over at the slave masters.

Don’t you just hate this fucking sand?

#star wars #just some thoughts #analysis #headcanons #tatooine #tatooine slave culture #anakin #anakin's sand monologue #sand #slavery #language

[strawberriesinmoominvalley]

At nineteen, Padmé Naberrie has her life under control. As padawan to Qui-Gon Jinn, she gets to travel the galaxy helping people. As lineage sister to Obi-Wan Kenobi, she has an inbuilt best friend and someone to help stop Qui-Gon causing mass disturbance. When the three of them depart on a mission to Kamino, she doesn't expect anything out of the ordinary.

Then, of course, her world collapses with the discovery of the clone army. As the galaxy dissolves into war, she finds an unlikely ally in Anakin Skywalker, a revolutionary from Tatooine who helped to lead his planet to freedom from the Hutts. Now trying to help a clone revolution and fight a war, Padmé makes up her mind to find the Sith who started all this.

Inevitably, this will either destroy the Republic or destroy her. She hasn't quite worked that out yet.

chapter four: It was irrevocable: some part of Padmé had died on Naboo and she would never be able to heal that gaping hole inside of her.

#star wars #fanfic #tatooine slave culture #padme amidala #anakin skywalker #anakin and padme #shmi skywalker #beru whitesun #owen lars #kitster banai #cliegg lars #obi wan kenobi #qui gon jinn

[ani-and-the-corries-au]

Fox: The guard doesn't really do Jedi.

Thorn: What do you call that then?

Looks over towards the tables where a Ten year old Padawan is enthusiastically explaining his life goals to a large chunk of the guard.

Anakin: And then once you're all free from Depur and his Sleemo Senators then you guys can go do whatever you want, there's a whole galaxy out there you know? And one day I'm gonna see all of them and it's gonna be totally Wizard and And maybe some of you can come with me and-

Fox: He's our Jetti'ika, doesn't count

#ani and the corries au #padawan anakin #commander fox #commander thorn #Corries Shenanigans #Thorn: Unless they're Ad'ika who claimed the entire guard as his people? #Fox: I haven't had enough Caf for this debate #Takes swig of Caf from Flask that definitely hadn't come from the stash of Goodies the Ad'ika had brought with him when hed dropped in #Thorn: Sure #Thorn: When you find your way out of your denial let me know #Tatooine Slave Culture #of the Fialleril veriaty

[avisisisis]

I can't stop thinking about death being a mercy to the slaves living in Tatooine

Death would be like freedom to them. So, to wish for someone to die is like saying ‘I love you’, since it means you want them to be free

Anakin, having been a slave, knows all too well about that. That's why he never wishes death on anybody

One day, while playfully fighting with Ahsoka, he yells “I'll kill you” and just freezes. Then his little sister Padawan says “not if I kill you first, Skyguy” and he just breaks down crying

#i was writing a fanfic and this idea just..came to my mind #him getting overly emotional when someone tells him they wish he was dead is pretty hilarious tho #the amount of angst this can have tho... #anakin skywalker #star wars #clone wars #slavery #tatooine slave culture #ahsoka tano #angst #avis talks #avis' post

[alea-says]

Star Wars AU where instead of Luke's family buying the droids in A New Hope, Luke gets involved because the rebellion hires the 'best freedom runner' around to save someone from imperial custody.

They don't know Luke is Luke or a Skywalker - he uses his runner name. And Luke only agrees to help cos the money they're offering could do a lot for the Freedom Trail.

Then, of course, Luke goes to find this person he needs to save only to determine that obviously the slave he's been sent to free is Darth Vader.

If he also happens to free a captured princess along the way, start a small rebellion in the ranks and gain the loyalty of every clone trooper left alive, well... he's used to freeing more than one person at a time.

(The rebellion don't know what to do when he returns with Darth Vader, though)

(And yes, this idea is heavily inspired by @fialleril's tatooine slave culture fics and @jackdaw-kraai's guides series)

#star wars #star wars au #tatooine slave culture #luke skywalker #fic idea #things i want but dont have time to write #darth vader

[panther-os]

(Amatakka is by @fialleril )

A newly freed Tatooine slave auntie, vaguely recognizing obi-wan: who's that?

Anakin: my depur, obi-wan kenobi

Auntie: obi-wan kenobi? from bandomeer? fucking depukrekta

Anakin: depukrekta?

Auntie, nodding: depukrekta

Obi-wan, sensing he's being talked about: what's a depukrekta?

Anakin: a former slave who now owns slaves

Obi-wan: I don't? own slaves?

Anakin: you own me?

Obi-wan: you're not my slave? I don't - the Jedi don't own slaves???

Anakin, gesturing at the clones:

(gif includes alt text)

#/incoherent noises/ #star wars the clone wars #tcw #amatakka #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #tatooine slave culture

[adragonsfriend]

Mace Windu, thinking: *Wow Anakin sure has matured a lot in the last few months since Geonosis.*

Meanwhile Anakin, who travelled 18 years back in time and so is currently like 38: hehe hoohoo I put on my bird cosplay and i make Windu do the thing I want (the thing being something Mace would've done by himself decades ago if he'd known it was a problem)

--an accurate summary of chapter 2 of Tales of Ryloth (pt 4 of Biting His Own Tale)

Also Anakin: Yeah I knew there were slaves in the senate since I was a kid, what of it?

Mace *I have literally no clue how this even became a problem in the first place but I sure am gonna fix it right fucking now* Windu: Literally nobody else knew that

#star wars #biting his own tale #mace windu #anakin skywalker #double agent anakin #time travel fix it #tatooine slave culture #granted the bird cosplay is actually a pretty mature decision #star wars yeeteth