There are too many sources of input for her to properly address the situation fully. The scream, the wires ( by Shai-Hulud, wires in a human arm! That wasn’t normal), the saber.
When she first noted the wires her hand sprang back, only to be caught by his. Her expression showed disgust and above all else, fear. Even when the saber was lit, leaving the cosmic hum to break the silence, her fear stood plain on her face. the old teachings rang in her mind like a bell “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
The blade singed a few of her stray hairs, the crisp burning smell present only for a moment, the cinnamon smell of the spice overpowering everything else. she doesn’t say anything, doesn’t break whatever false safety he’d given them.
“When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, he causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.” She recited.” Surely this is not the place for us.”
Her voice was lilting, her tones smooth and calming. The endless blue-within-blue eyes focused solely on his. They willed him to understand the dire situation they were in. The need for silence. And above all else, her determination to survive. She’d given her word to look for his companion should they live through this, and she would not break her word.
Chani stood with an inhuman stillness, one honed from many years living on the desolate planet. years of surviving. He had to see that she did not do anything without cause to. But then offworlders seldom understood anything of desert life.
“ Invoke the amtal rule in a safe place.” Shed reinstated the near silence of her voice. She was going to live.
But that didn’t mean she felt any less terrified of his arm.
HER EXPRESSION IS fear bracketed by revulsion; prompted by the exposure of the inner mechanics of his prosthetic. Anakin’s muscles bunch in defense, but memory sweeps aside the hot rejoinder trapped behind his teeth. Acutely, he remembers the mission plan, the Fremen’s nearly fanaticaldislike of droids— the very reason he doesn’t have Artoo at his side. Does their prejudice against sentient machinery extend as far as mechnolimbs? Anakin grimaces at the possibility. If his assumption is correct, he won’t have access to the tools needed to fix his arm until after he returns to his ship. That poses a problem in any territory, especially a hostile one.
Anakin meets her blue gaze with a wall of black ice: dark, hard, && dangerous. ❝ There is no god, ❞ he recites in return. ❝ Only the Force. Now give me your weapon before we’re both killed. ❞ Tense like a coiled spring, Anakin resorts to to staring her down. A boulder of silence, daring Chani to wrench a scrap of compromise or concession from him. His presence grows as stifling as the desert sun, but behind them the worms let out another bellowing roar.
Barely-bridled anger && desolation keeps Anakin still. But the sandworms haven’t mastered thestatuesque quality of the Jedi’s resolve, && begin to take notice of the two shapes on the horizon that had escaped their sightless senses before. Anakin can yield patience from stubbornness, but beasts of nature wait for no one.
❝ Time’s up. ❞ Anakin doesn’t need two hands to call upon the Force to restrict Chani’s grip on her weapon. Either she drops it of her own volition, or he makes her.
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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