❛ ━━━━ You mustn’t show fear to a predator , Vija . Don’t give it a reason to chase you . If you encounter a wolf in the woods , stand your ground . Appear as big as you can & it will know you aren’t prey . ❜
Her father’s words echo in her mind ( stupid & childish ) , replaying like a movie reel , black and white and nothing in between .
Vader is a wraith . Darkness encompassed in a human body , a predator of the worst kind . In the darkness he ploys silently , obviously well trained in the art of secrecy . Before she has a chance to react , he is upon her ; looming like a tidal wave in the catastrophes of an ocean . Her body threatens to capsize before him , drowning in the violence that clings to his figure like dark tendrils . It takes every bit of willpower she has to remain before him ; still and silent . Hands drop to her sides and ball into fists ━ jaw clenching with enough pressure to snap her teeth .
A job I don’t need ━━━ stray bullets catch in her lips , yearn to shout those words at Vader with all the venom of a deadly viper . She resists though , because this job is about more than just the pay ━ the money Aphra is paying her is a sum she could easily make in a month ━ it’s about freedom . A desire to do something for the sheer pleasure of it instead of a warped sense of duty .
The creature before her can’t possibly understand that ━ can’t possibly understand her ; he couldn’t , even if he tried for a thousand years . Talking back to him is useless , mustn’t bother him at all . It’s possible he doesn’t even hear her words beneath all the layers of armor that cling to him . Animalistic & impure , her feet carry her forward ━ too far in to run now , suffocating on the water within her lungs .
❛ I , ❜ a long pause ; heart beats thundering in her chest like a broken metronome ━ the sudden loud ticking of an old clock . ❛ I will not cower before you . I am not afraid of men like you . ❜
Lips part ; the desire to speak on her tongue . But she chokes on words that won’t come , strangled by an invisible hand wrapped tightly around the base of her throat , forcing her to cease speaking . Words falter , wide mouth curves into a subtle crescent shape . Dark eyes ━ an augur of desolation & prophet of misfortune ━ focus on his face .
BRAVE WORDS MEANT to summon an insubstantial state of security. That which can arm her against his presence, insidious && cloying as it is.
He’s a man who smiles with every synonym for darkness locked behind his long teeth. She’s a tourist, on vacation in an underworld she can’t possibly comprehend the intricacies of. Driven to a life of potential crime due to boredom — an heiress’s stagnation damning her to the depths of Chicago. Where all manner of shady business is conducted, && cheap thrills are easy to find. Vader was groomed his purpose, to be the shadow standing before the man with his finger on the pulse of the city. He’s only known one other life before this, one he can never — will never — return to.
❝ You should be. ❞ His smile looks like something that isn’t supposed to be alive, something that died a long time ago. ❝ You’ve never met a man like me. ❞ Try as she might to delude herself into thinking otherwise. She has faced wolves before, mangy beasts with hungry maws that lap && howl at her heels. Begging for a shared bed or any other form of careless intimacy to sate their growling stomachs. Vader lost his appetite for such encounters long ago. He starves for a different kind of sacrifice. He doesn’t want her submission, just her compliance.
❝ Miss Aphra brought you here for a reason, but you have me questioning her judgement. I don’t need you for this job; you should stop acting like I do. ❞ It’s only Aphra’s word that got her this far, && Vader is more than willing to throw her back into the night should she continue to prove too defiant to be an asset of any value to him.
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.
I only roleplay with mutuals. All my opens are for mutuals unless otherwise stated. But if we're not mutuals you're welcome to ask me questions and send me memes. I'm absolutely oc-friendly. So long as you have a rules page and an about, we're good.
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.
(I will tag anything in my writing or reblogs that I think may be triggering. If there's something that triggers you untagged on my blog just pop me an ask and I'll be sure to tag it for you.)
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.
I'm not exclusive. Not unless you ask and we've established a good writing dynamic. I'm not a big fan of auto-exclusivity and if you require this of your followers there's a good chance I'm not going to follow you.
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.
I'm not going to send in passwords on rules. It's an anxiety thing. rest assured i will read your rules. don't worry.
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verses
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.
