ahphra.

IT’S   AN   EASY   CHOICE   ,   too   easy   for   something   that   could   so   quickly   get   her   killed   ;   yet   what   else   was   she   to   do   ?      Cut   her   losses   and   RUN   ?      At   any   other   time   she   would   have   ,   a   stolen   ship   carrying   her   far   ,   far   away   ;   but   she   is   a   lone   rowboat   caught   in   a   gale   ,   at   the   mercy   of   the   winds   /   at   the   mercy   of   what   FATE  has   planned   .      (   How   could   she   have   ever   thought   to   escape   it   ?      How   could   she   have   forgotten   that   it   could   never   have   been   ANY   OTHER   WAY   ?   ) 

So   when   she   RUNS   ,   she   runs   inward   ,   dodging   the   searing   sting   of   blaster   bolts   ,   ignoring   the   shouts   and   the   stench   of   BATTLE   .      (   And    who   would   have   thought   that   loyalty   would   make   her   put   her   life   on   the   line   /   who   would   have   thought   that   she   could   be   LOYAL   at   all   ?   )

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She   is   GUNS   -   BLAZING   ,   fight   -   ready   as   her   own   skills   allow   her   easy   entry   onto   the   BRIDGE   .      She   barely   has   to   think   to   bypass   security   ;   she   has   been   doing   so   for   so   long   .      (   And   if   he   kills   her   for   seeing   him   in   this   state   ━━━   for   him   at   his   WEAKEST   ,   brought   low   by   mortal   machinations   ━━━   then   so   be   it   .   )

                       Miss   me   ,   boss   ?                       

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               TRAPPED WITHIN HIS own darkness, Vader finds himself on the banks of Mustafar, reliving a memory he’s played out a thousand times before. Flames lick the stumpy remainders of his legs, ash && anger mixing to a bitter bile on his tongue. His blood pounds like razored sheets of light, bisecting his skull at a dozen different angles. The pain is immense, raising raging sandstorms across the scoured floor of mind, generating waves of high thin static that breaks out between his eyes, spheres of sharp crystal, expanding until the fire consumes him whole. 

               In the vision he lets out a shriek of rage, so pure, so refined in its fury, that it lacks all humanity

                   You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you!
                                                                                       I HATE YOU!

               It’s not real. It’s not real. It’snotrealit’snotrealit’snotrealIT’SNOTREAL—-

               Vader opens his eyes && finds himself still heavy && inert ( useless ) as before, with Cylo’s ugly face twisted into gruesome, gloating display he has little strength to look away from. Black fur boils at the borders of the Sith lord’s vision, but he refuses to be pulled under again. 

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               An alarm rings out, informing the bridge of a breach in security that has Cylo running from the room. Either to flee or to find a real weapon to defend himself with. Vader remains kneeling, motionless as a toppled statue, only able to turn his head in the direction of a familiar voice.

               Aphra. 

               He has no words, no commands. She came here with her own plan ( hopefully ) && he can do little more than allow its execution. 

 
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independent & private roleplay blog for anakin skywalker/darth vader of all star wars media. written by scout. || est. feb 2016.