his hand shakes, tremors, and padmé’s biting back the frown that threatens as she pours for him. to HER it seems as though she’s messed it up, upset him in a way she’d definitely not intended but — she doesn’t KNOW him well enough to console him. ( though, for a brief moment prior she could’ve sworn she felt something BRUSH against her, not physically, but she’s connected enough to the force to know when there’s that hint of contact. )
❝ oh i uh, i’m not really an adherent to anything in particular, i just know what i feel, if that makes any sense at all, ❞ because padmé CAN NOT just announce to a stranger that she can tell the future occasionally, or that sometimes, if she tries, she has uncanny insight into people around her. padmé just HOPES he understands and smiles as she passes him his coffee. she’s ALSO willing him to take a seat at the counter ( during night shifts she half doubles as bar tender, though the focus is always on coffee ) as she moves to grab a rag in an attempt to keep busy.
❝ actually i was raised in a sort of — my parents believed in the power of the universe as a whole so to speak, ❞ and they believed that padmé would lead them into it, as their queen, but that’s not exactly first conversation fodder. being a JUVENILE when everything had gone to shit had saved her from being on the news too much. she was a FREAK, sure, but padmé had done her best to put her life back together despite Naboo. ❝ i’m sure this is NOT the cookiest thing you’ve ever heard working with old ben, right? — oh, i’m sorry, where are my manners? i’m padmé and welcome to JAVA THE HUTT. ❞
HER EYES TRACK the tremble in his fingers, subsisting evidence of his history of inner && outer aggression, as incriminating as the thin white scars that branch across his arms. Anakin bends his eyes to the counter top as he takes a seat behind it, suddenly self-conscious. Anxiety rips through his bones, threading through skin && muscle. He can feel it vibrating through his tendons && aching like ice in his teeth. Once it would’ve had the ability to immobilize him, locking his joints && stringing out his sinews until he was forced into a fetal position on the floor.
Not Anymore. Anakin knows how to wield himself away from the edge. The panic still exists of course, that bestial dread of abandonment that’s been ingrained into him. But he has a name for the monster now. Once you recognize the dragon, you can learn how to tame it.
One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand… ❝ Have you ever heard of the Force? ❞ He’s taking a risk mentioning it in casual conversation like this, && Anakin doesn’t like the idea of having to redirect her attention away from the topic if she has no idea what he’s talking about. But the coalescence of la Fuerza around her small form says to him that it won’t be a problem.
❝ Old Ben? ❞ He lifts the heavy gold of his hair away from his neck, rubbing absently at the knob crowning his spine. ❝ You mean Obi-Wan? He’s not even forty. ❞ &&maybe Anakin is defensive. The idea of Obi-Wan ‘growing old’ seems incongruous with the youthfulsarcastic energy that surrounds the shop keeper. The man does do a lot of yoga.
Anakin slides the coffee cup closer to him, raising it to his mouth with his good hand && spluttering when he realizes he’d left it black. He not-so-stealthily hides the grimace around his swallow. ❝ Urgh— I’m Anakin. ❞
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.
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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.
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