As the wormsign increased, the cinnamon smell of the spice did tenfold. No one in the Republic had linked the worms to the spice. No that was a secret the Sevari kept closer than any other.
She could feel the sand shifting beneath her feet, a rhythmic noise sounding like a loud drum. The vibrations, the sound- they needed silence! She’d told the offworlder to silence his blade, slow his steps, where was this rhythm coming from?
It betrayed them.
She motioned with a hand from him to be silent, but glanced back at the shift in his voice. His filter was not akin to those the offworld miners used. Theirs had been silent, at least they were smart enough to know rhythm of any kind would only advance their time of death.
Chani let out a huff of exasperation as his sword ignited again. “ Fool!” She breathed, already moving away from the Makers so distractedly intertwined with each other.
She admired his awareness, his skill, but she has no respect for the fool who would place a target so easily upon himself.
She was still moving, rhythmless as she drew her crysknife. With one swift inhuman motion she plunged the bone-like blade into his wrist. If he would not turn the machine off she would make him incapable of holding it.
It was not so deep to remove the appendage, but merely sever the vital muscles that formed a fist. She was not wasteful. Not of flesh nor blood. The blade was sheathed as her spare hand came to rip the rhythmic mask from his face.
Spice addiction be damned. If he was so certain his companion was alive, then this man needed to stay alive long enough to find him. She tossed the machine towards the combating worms, held fast where she had stabbed him to stay any blood and ran.
They had to get to the rock caves. Only that promised safety.
UNPREPARED FOR HER attack, the blade sinks mercilessly between metal welded && fastened to act as bone, unstringing the mechno sinews that hold his hand tight around the pommel of his lightsaber. Anakin drops the weapon with a scream borne more of frustration than pain.
Anger builds up behind his eyes, shards of glass sticking into his skin && twisting like knives. Darknesslicks the edges of his vision, heat fining through every capillary, erratic sparks that tease up fleeting fires. && all Anakin can think about is how much he wants tohurther for attacking him. Had she stabbed his flesh hand his reaction would have been much more visceral.
The oxygen filter falls between the loose sand, crushed beneath the ever-shifting shapes created in the dunes by the sandworms. Anakin doesn’t have time to mourn the loss, instead diving for his saber with his working left hand so that it too isn’t lost to the sand.
Anakin doesn’t allow her to pull him along, && yanks the Fremen back towards him, something ragged &&dangerous burning beneath his dark brow. ❝ You’re lucky that was my mechnohand. ❞ He attempts to curl its fingers around her wrist, but the interface module embedded in the wrist of his arm had been destroyed by Chani’s knife.
He turns his lightsaber back on, extending it to Chani’s throat as he holds out his short-circuiting hand for the knife. ❝ Give me your weapon. ❞ They still have a few minutes before the sandworms notice them, && Anakin intends to make use of it.
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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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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