The quiet is alluring , lulls her into the false sense of safety ; she hasn’t had a moment like this in ages . Fear on the thick of her lips , eyes wide and searching in the moonlight , yearning for something to give her life meaning ; a purpose beyond simply existing . He must think that he knows her ; sees the wealth seeping from her gold-stained fingertips & assumes that her life as been all pomp and class . Surely he’s come to the conclusion that she hasn’t been marred by the staggering pain of misfortune . He isn’t entirely wrong .
Within her , deeply , a strangled voice screams ━ ( you don’t know me !!! you don’t !!! ) ━ scrapes against the walls of her vocal chords , begging for release . But she remains quiet , a master in the art of silencing herself around big men . An inferiority beaten into her mind at every step of the way , maiming her skin with unyielding obedience . The feeling of reverting back to her youthful conformity is akin to the feeling of falling & below her pointed heels the ground threatens to rise up and consume her whole .
But she is no longer that woman ━ ( a fact that is easily forgotten in the right company ) ; drowning herself to keep men afloat . She has been baptized with innocent blood and lulled to sleep by slaughterhouse screams ━ and never again will she burn to keep a man warm . Never again will she silence herself and cower to make a man feel powerful .
Fingers tremble ; she grips her scarf to keep them from shaking noticeably . Feigning confidence is easy , but her heart beat stutters in her chest and is amplified to her ear drums . Pulsating & deafening ; a siren warning her of the strife that will surely come if she doesn’t stop . Yet , she finds herself unable to quit ━ a consequence of counterfeiting bravery , occasionally you begin to believe it yourself . The floorboards creak against her shifting weight , one last protest against the words about to shoot from her mouth as quickly as bullets from a gun .
❛ I imagine I’m not important to you , just another pawn ━ on what must be a large playing field . An insect , crushed easily beneath brutish steps . Tell me , do you have any sort of humanity left ━ or has that all been burned away too ? ❜
VADER STANDS THEN, as fast as a snake poising to strike, all its deadly grace transfigured into a bipedal posture. Toneless, he turns to her, that backlit face sculpted from discipline && shadow. && a grim smile edged by moonlight, mingled with a trace of low-burning lamplight that sets his long incisors aflame. A predator by every definition; somewhat amused by the quick stream of her assumptions.
Fear makes people chatty, prone to demanding information they cannot understand — anything to distract from the coiled dragon across from them.
She wants to make this personal, his impassivity understood as a dig at her value rather than a product of Vader’s preexistingapathy. He only thinks so little of her because she hasn’t yet proven herself to be someone worth thinking much of. But still the fine threads of his patience strain dangerously close to snapping. His temper is a forest fire, && he finds new ways to immolate with each passing day.
She speaks of burning without the wisdom to realize the flames would consume her too. She’s thinks her incautiousmettle to be immortality. A common mistake. Vader had made it once himself. && he’ll wear the scars from it to his grave.
❝ You imagine quite a lot, Miss Dolor. ❞ He had turned to look out the large window behind his desk at some point, actions too quick or too quiet for Vija to catch. He has an incomparable ability to fade into the dark. ❝ You are here for a job, not an interview. ❞ Footsteps pound against the hardwood floor as Vader slices across the room, moving to tower over the girl, a feral glint in his eyes. ❝ You would be wise to remember that. ❞
Hello and welcome to my blog! Thank you for taking the time to read my rules, I'll try and make this as quick as possible.
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I'm happy to write one-liners, paras, novellas, crack, or pretty much any content so long as my writing partners discuss it with me before hand.
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I'm multiship and ship-exclusive. Meaning I'll ship with multiple people but only with one version of each character.
*Padmé is an exception to this rule as her relationship with Anakin is canon and vital to his characterization.
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I hope i don't actually have to say this but just in case: god-modding will not be tolerated. If we're writing a battle scene i'd rather just pre-determine the winner than get into an ic dick-battle.
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CANON.
AU.
PRIVATE.
TAKE THE LIGHT INSIDE YOU.
Freed from slavery on Tatooine and freshly initiated into the Jedi Order, Padawan Skywalker works tirelessly to prove himself to the meticulous Council and earn his Knighthood. But with age comes uncertainty, and the beginning of a series of terrible nightmares featuring his mother's death. Every day the bright, enthusiastic child Qui-Gon Jinn brought to the Temple grows more and more distant from himself and others.
WEAPON OF WAR.
The galaxy is at war but Anakin Skywalker is fighting more than just external battles. Suspended between his loyalty to the Order and his loyalty to his wife, Anakin struggles to find a guiding light in the increasing darkness. And now that the nightmares have returned with his wife as their new feature, Anakin has begun to grow more and more desperate for a method to save Padmé from what he believes to be her doom.
THE WORST PARTS OF HIMSELF.
Anakin Skywalker died with the Republic, and in their place rose the Empire and its right hand: Darth Vader. Who will stop at nothing to rid the galaxy of every lingering memory of the life he had before his fall.
WHAT A MESS I LEAVE
Redeemed in the eyes of the Force, Anakin Skywalker has been granted sentience beyond death, allowing him to reach out to his descendents and warn them against repeating his mistakes.
FILTH TEACHES FILTH. stranger things Before 008, before 011, there was subject 001. Anakin Skywalker, the first of an entire generation veined with strange, incomprehensible powers. Disappeared at sixteen after his mother's mysteriously unreported murder at the hands of a local gang. His escape preceded 11's only by a few years, && now he's back in Hawkins on the trail of Brenner's prodigy.
SPANDEX & STEEL. marvel/dc
Born and raised in Tatooine, New Mexico, Anakin didn't think himself any different from the rest of the lonely souls living in the desert. That is, until his mother was killed by local gang members, jumpstarting a series of strange murders that forced him to go on the run. He's a metahuman, a mutant; with strange powers he can't control and the blood of several seriel murderers on his hands. Sometimes he owns a small car shop just outside of town, and sometimes he doesn't have a home at all.
WHEN THE WAR WINS. modern
Anakin, a war vet secluded in a no-name town in the middle of New Mexico, works to overcome his ptsd by becoming a hermit && buying the house his mother died in. His progress has been shaky, for obvious reasons.
DON'T CALL THIS REDEMPTION alternate ending
Believing himself to have died after passing out at the end of ROTJ, Vader, or Anakin now, awakens to a post-war galaxy to discover the eternal peace he sought is still far out of reach. Now a prisoner of the New Republic, Vader works alongside the Rebellion in secret as they dismantle the last vestiges of the Empire.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF LEGACY.
A private verse tied into ahphra's Sith verse and shadcwpreacher's alternate background. In this verse, after being rebuffed by his son, Vader looks to train Doctor Chelli Aphra as his apprentice.
The dark is generous, and it is patient. It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt. The dark can be patient, because the slightest drop of rain will cause those seeds to sprout. The rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark is the soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light. The dark’s patience is infinite. Eventually, even stars burn out.
AND WE ASK OURSELVES
Are monsters born, or made?
Let me tell you the story that's been scored into the stars. The family that turned the galaxy upside down. There was a man, with the weight of a prophecy lining his shoulders, and a thermonuclear furnace in his heart. He loved a woman, a proud, strong, kind woman who loved him equally, despite the anger, and the Darkness that grew in him. And the man watched her die every night in his dreams.
That man told himself if he can carry a prophecy, he can prevent a dream from becoming reality. Whatever it takes.
Whoever it takes.
SO WHAT HAPPENED
The man exchanged his loyalty for her life, and killed the people who raised him. He ended a war in one night, the fire of the gods burning behind him on a metal moutaintop.
The woman he loved was no fool, she could sight a fire started in her name. A queen knows when someone is bowing.
She meets him on a molten planet, begs him to stray from the Darkness. But there is a shadow in the place of the man she loved, a monster.
He takes her breath to silence her, doomed to paranoia on the arrival of his brother, who is too, in some ways, a shadow. Forced to kill the man meant to save them all.
So the man dies, and is reborn. Baptized by fire. The woman he loved dies too. And eventually, even the brother dies.
