Anonymous asked: That sith!rey was just ❤️❤️🙌🏻👍🏻👌🏻 I have no words
BABE you’re so sweet, I’m so glad you liked it!
First Order!Rey |
I thinkI can handle myself.#wow #SHOCKINGLY into this #i love this #can you imagine if she had been raised as a weapon to the first order’s hand #all that rage and wildness and hunger #given a lightsaber and unleashed on the world #forget the knights of ren #rey would never be part of a group like that #she would be half-controlled and half-feral #not a sith #something ELSE something cruel and razor-edged and fey #like a fire set to consume what she could of the world and drown the rest in smoke #and snoke would live with the whisper of the force that someday she might consume him #imagine if kylo ren was still brought into the first order and the first thing he met was rey #the force alight around her hands and glowing in her eyes #its favorite sunlit daughter with all the power of ages and all the hunger of a wolf #kylo would hate her #everything she was and everything he wasn’t #because kylo ren is not a wolf he is a dog who was convinced to accept the chain as a sign of his ferocity #and rey #rey is a wolf #all sharp teeth and fur gilded by starlight and blood madness #you can see it in the moment before she chooses not to kill him in the movie #her teeth are bared and there is the light of a dying star on her shoulders and her eyes are wild #rey would eat worlds whole and drink the fire of stars as her due #snoke would not survive having rey as his apprentice she would shake off her chains in shatters #and wash away her fear in the blood of those who frightened her #i need this
#this would be an amazing au and i need it like breathing
Funny you say that, my buddy, because I wrote all those tags and scoured the Internet and discovered no one had anticipated this INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC DESIRE and, since I was literally drowning in how much I needed that AU, I wrote the damn thing myself.
i just realized something: think about padme amidala’s public image. nobody knew she was married. nobody knew who anakin skywalker was at all–he was just some random jedi trainee, and by the time anybody would have started paying attention to him in the public eye, they would have known him as darth vader. to the public, anakin became a faceless villain who always was who he was, no fall from grace needed.
so, padme. i’m sure she had supporters across the republic. i’m sure her time as queen of naboo was EXTREMELY well-documented, and honestly, based on her rotation of outfits, she was probably a full-on celebrity. she was young and brilliant and a passionate defender of her people, and even though the empire seized power in the end, i wouldn’t be surprised if the rebellion decades later directly descended from the ideals of her followers.
but think about the circumstances of her death from the outside. people probably knew she was pregnant by some unknown father, of course, but this is a universe with robot doctors–saying “she died in childbirth” would probably be like saying “she died of the common cold” today. not something that happens, especially for a celebrity politician with unlimited resources. and there must have been a child, but what happened to it? did it die too? as a media narrative, it’s flimsy at best, ESPECIALLY considering the timing of her death.
padme amidala, the woman who ruled a planet at 14 and sat stony-faced while every other senator cheered on palpatine’s rise to power, died under mysterious circumstances just as the government she’d defended crumbled. from the outside, it seems pretty obvious that she was assassinated.
if this was a universe that at all made sense, padme amidala would have been a household name among republic loyalists. her tragically short life, her noble self-sacrifice for the ideals she believed in, would have been LEGENDARY. when the rebellion rose, she would have been the name on everybody’s mind–do it in her honor, people would have said. finish the fight she started.
i know we can’t go back in time and change the original trilogy, but the sequel movies? come on. don’t tell me darth vader is the only looming icon in this franchise.
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there’s all these aus about vader finding luke and smuggling him away to the empire in a clever moment of mental clarity, but please consider this crack au: after being faced with slavery, his mother’s death, tusken raiders, sand, obi-wan kenobi, seeing the larses, and tatooine in general, vader lays eyes on toddler luke skywalker - his son, which meant palpatine lied, holy fuck i’m a father, oh god padme i’m so sorry - and flips.
this is the straw that breaks the semi-rational sith lord’s back. in true anakin skywalker fashion, vader panics, scoops his son into his arms, charges into mos espa and turns it upside down, steals a shuttle from his own fleet, slams random hyperspace coordinates, and is thrown into space with no real idea where he’s going or when he’s going to get there. with a toddler.
to make things more interesting, obi-wan snuck aboard the ship, but dropped his lightsaber in the ruckus of sneaking into imperial ranks. and poor, poor firmus piett, a lowly officer who just so happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, runs smack into him.
and they’re all stuck on a ship, indefinitely. with a toddler.
sweet baby jesus i love this idea
just vader, picking up toddler luke under his arm like a football, and RUNNING LIKE FUCKING HELL
[darth vader voice] I HAVE YOU NOW
I want this so much my teeth hurt.
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Anonymous asked: Okay, so with this new Vision 'verse, how does Padme fit in later? Is Shmi all about this girl and when they first meet weirdly attached to this baby senator? Is Obi-Wan also weirdly attached, or is he conflicted because this woman caused his padawan to form Attachments? And lastly, we have Anakin. Fully-remembering-bad-timeline Anakin. How does he act around her, knowing that in another timeline he killed her and she had his children?
Shmi is definitely all about her and definitely weirdly attached. Obi-Wan is … weirdly CONCERNED, more than anything else, but also attached because yeah, it’s not Padmé’s fault Anakin went Dark Side, Sidious would’ve just found some other way to get into his head. She didn’t handle everything perfectly, but neither did HE, so it’s not like he’s got a damn leg to stand on.
Anakin, now. Anakin is gonna be the concerning thing. Because I know you all think this is gonna be awkward hilarity but honestly? Honestly? LOOK, WE’VE COME THIS FAR WITHOUT ANGST, GUYS, AND GODDAMN IF I’M GONNA LET DOWN THE SIDE AND MAKE A FLUFF-ONLY AU WHEN I’VE GOT THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO RUIN LITERALLY EVERYONE’S LIVES.
“Are you alright?” Padmé asks softly, ducking under the table just enough to clearly see the little boy hiding underneath it. Rabé and Captain Panaka and the others are in the throne room with the Jedi, still, but when she saw the unfamiliar boy peering in from the doorway and then fleeing in alarm the moment he was noticed, she couldn’t just leave him alone. “You’re not from the palace. Are you lost?”
The boy lets out another cracked little sob, and huddles back against the wall.
Anakin crying is usually the signal for Shmi and Obi-Wan to descend on whatever the fuck made their (padawan son child brother Anakin) upset with the fury of a thousand impassioned demons. I can’t help but see them bursting into the room, screaming something along the lines of ‘ALL RIGHT JERKFACE PREPARE TO DIE - oh Miss Naberrie, we didn’t see you there, so sorry about the accidental threats is Anakin okay?!’
Padmé is SO CONFUSED and also kind of instinctively wants to stab the people who burst in and scared the boy even worse, except then the boy runs right to them and hides behind Master Skywalker’s robes while Knight Kenobi crouches down to wipe away his tears and fret over him, so–he came with them, then? She didn’t see him earlier, and she isn’t sure how else he could’ve gotten into the palace. But also, why on EARTH would the Jedi bring a boy this young on a MISSION? She thinks she’s insulted, if that’s how seriously the Order is taking the plight of her people.
And his robes do look a little Jedi-ish, she supposes, now that she can see them better. He has an unusual little braid tucked behind his right ear that Knight Kenobi is tugging on as he whispers to him, and she SWEARS that’s a Jedi thing, isn’t it, doesn’t it mean … something? It’s some kind of identifier or another–she’s sure of THAT, at least. She wishes she’d had more time to read up on Jedi before they’d come, but obviously the situation was not ideal for that.
She does wish it, though. Maybe she wouldn’t have frightened him so, if she’d been able to.
OKAY I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS TO COME UP.
Like, Anakin is still in love with Padme, I assume. His nine-year-old/ancient/forty-something brain is all tangled up with itself and with the Force (slightly more benignly tangled up than last time, so, like…there’s that), but it’s still tangled up around the fact that Padme is the sun and stars. No, say better, Padme is space and holds all other things within herself and Anakin is in love with her like he’s in love with lungs, okay.
But.
Once upon a time, in another galaxy, far from now, he kills her.
And he’s coped all right with that, he’s at least reasonably okay, not least because, um, Shmi and Obi-Wan are probably not here for the stoic Jedi act, certainly not in wee little Baby Space Jesus/Possible Space Antichrist (pretty sure this makes Palpatine the Devil, right, that seems accurate).
So they go to Naboo and Anakin is going to be fine, all right, even if it kills him, he’s going to be fine, and besides they need him to fly the mission on the droid ship, so it’s going to be fine, it’s going to be fine, it’s going to be–
Padme walks into the room, handmaidens in tow.
Anakin is not going to be fine.
PAIN EVERYWHERE i love pain i’ve been waiting with bated breath for this ever since this au started BECAUSE THERE’S ALL THESE FUCKING TIME TRAVEL AU’S AND NONE WHERE ANAKIN COMES BACK AND FLIES INTO THE WORST PANIC ATTACK IN HISTORY THE SECOND PADME IS WITHIN HIS LINE OF SIGHT LOOK THIS KID IS GOING TO HAVE _ISSUES_ OF THE FIRST DEGREE AND I GODDAMN WELL EXPECT ONE OF THEM TO BE ‘I LOVE THIS WOMAN MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD AND I KILLED HER I DID THAT’ ‘I CAN’T LIVE WITH THIS’ basically torture i like to torture myself and everyone else and especially anakin
Anakin is always in love with Padmé. If I am writing an Anakin that is not in love with Padmé, it’s because he hasn’t met her yet, and EVEN THAT IS NOT A GUARANTEE, AS THIS AU SHOULD PROVE. He’s also very definitely nine, though. He’s seen visions of being older–MUCH older–but he is very DEFINITELY nine, and he doesn’t always remember all of the visions at once. Part of him is vaguely aware that Padmé dies and that it’s his fault, but most of him is caught up in how much he LOVES her, he LOVES her, she is so much, she is so many things, she is EVERYTHING and he LOVES her.
He’ll be fine, though. He loves her but this time she’s not gonna love HIM, he’s already decided he’ll stay away from her so she can be safe. His mom told him okay, if he had to, and Obi-Wan looked relieved, but he doesn’t think either of them really believed him. But he IS gonna stay away. He’ll be small and uninteresting and he won’t say anything weird to her or do anything to make her remember him, and then she’ll have ten years to forget him and he just won’t go on the bodyguard mission, his mom and Obi-Wan can do that, they’ll be strong enough. And it’ll be safe. So he loiters back in the doorway and hides, and makes himself small and unimportant in the Force so no one pays him any mind.
But it’s been so long, he forgot that Padmé was the kind of person who never missed anyone, no matter how small or unimportant.
Anonymous asked: Empress Amidala for the meme, please?
- Luke and Leia have exactly zero percent fear response to sensing the Dark Side. This will definitely never backfire on anyone ever.
- The handmaidens regularly take turns going on missions with Vader. Usually there’s two of them; there’s almost always at least one. Padmé slightly hates herself for sending them, but has no intention of stopping sending them. She hates herself a lot more for a lot of other things she’s still doing. The handmaidens don’t answer to Vader and Vader doesn’t answer to the handmaidens, but they DO occasionally remind him what Padmé said in the briefing.
- Padmé has nightmares every time that Vader is too far away to sense her having nightmares. She has no idea if this is because that’s when she has the room to or if it’s just because he’s out of her reach, and she doesn’t want to know either way.
- I may have mentioned this before but OH MAN, does Vader feel SO CONTENT in the Dark. Like, it is warm and soft and cozy as FUCK to him. He loves it. It’s GREAT. Which, well, he’s probably accessing it through mostly positive emotions, barring some murder-rages and the like, so that should probably make sense, buuuut that also means he’s fueled more than a few horrible slaughters on the power of love, lol. Not even in the VENGEFUL AND PROTECTIVE sense, either, just literally the soft happy feeling of Padmé’s lips pressing to the corner of his mouth or the twin’s little hands in his.
- Eventually, Padmé is accidentally going to genuinely injure Vader in bed. It is not going to go well. The WAY in which it is not going to go well remains up for debate.
ohhhhhh my gooooddddddddd yessssssss padme padme PADME oh god how does she eventually injure him i’m dying to know DYING I SAY the twins who are so calm about the dark side HELL YES AND SOMEDAY THAT GOES HORRIBLY HORRIBLY AWRY and on that day some people probably learn that yes darth vader and his handler his empress are terrifying and their children sunshine-sweet luke and wild laughing leia are worse because some people lay a hand on luke and leia flies into a rage that would make her father shudder someone touches leia and luke goes cold and hard and bright and lethal as plasma and the whole time where is there to fall when you have grown up standing beside the darkest creature in the universe his lips on child-soft cheeks and his hands holding you up where is there to fall after that luke and leia are nothing the jedi could have foreseen because they’re raised by the darkest beings in the universe (one by choice one by force and Force) and they’re…not light side but they’re not quite fallen either i love this au so much SO MUCH
I genuinely don’t even know what I wanna do with Padmé accidentally injuring Vader, Padmé accidentally injuring Vader is just SO MUCH POTENTIAL DOOM and SO MUCH POTENTIAL AMAZING.
But okay, I see you about the twins being fucking terrors when the other one is hurt, and I raise you the twins when one of their PARENTS is hurt. Because Vader is the Dark, to them, he is the vicious protector that is the monster under all the other children’s beds, and Amidala is untouchable, immovable, a universal constant that cannot be broken. Vader is the rock and she is the hard, hard place that he is about to smash the galaxy against, always. One of THEM gets hurt–seriously, really, DANGEROUSLY hurt? Somebody puts a lightsaber to Vader’s neck to make him pay for his crimes or a blaster to Amidala’s head in a play for her crown?
HA. HA. HA. FUCKING GOOD LUCK, BUDDY.
Anonymous asked: what kind of relationship do you think finn and leia would have
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Let’s say you are a General. You were a great number of things before, but you are a General now and it suits you better than all the rest put together, it fits you like a second skin and fills the hollows where people/planet/father/mother/husband/son/brother/republic should be. And let’s add that you are a good General; decisive, even-handed, capable of managing the day-to-day operational work as much as engineering strokes of tactical genius. Some of your advisers wish you would cry more public, show a softer, more maternal side, but you are fresh out of softness. It’s scar tissue now.
More importantly, your soldiers love you. (Well, not you, very few of them know you, you have lost most of the people who knew you—but they love the princess or the senator or the general, and that’s close enough.) They love you even though you use them, use them like starfighter parts, like numbers on a datapad, and smash them against the bulwark of the Darkness. They love you for it. This is called loyalty. You wish you did not elicit so very much of it.
But still, you are a General, and you recognize your like when he walks onto a Resistance base.
He is young, and his world is narrow, still—a jedi, a flyboy, a ship, a whole mess of intangible loss and an inviolable sense of what is Right. But Generals have come from less. (You would know.) The first week he is out of the medbay, you stick him in Intelligence, just to see what he can do without a blaster in his hand. Generals generally only carry one at their hip. (You do not carry a blaster at all.)
It only takes him fourteen months to work his way up to a seat at the leadership briefing. The only other person to climb the chain of command that quickly was Luke Skywalker, and that was largely honorary; between the Death Star and the lightsaber, Luke had been the recipient of a lot of honor.
You make a mental note to have your moofmilker brother check Finn for Force sensitivity if—when—he returns.
“Lieutenant Finn,” you greet the other general on his first day in the command center. He salutes like a wet dream, all grace and pinpoint precision. You wonder if he had to readjust his automatic responses with the biotech spine; you can’t tell. “Tell me, what on earth took you so long?”
“Sorry, ma’am,” he says, falling back into ‘at ease’ with that same terrible grace. His smile is like a blaster-shot. “Had to prove myself first.”
(Source: lucassfilm, via primarybufferpanel)
in-a-trans-like-state asked: (sorry for spamming you with asks) Is anakin known by everyone as ani in this au?
AT LAST THE NEXT PART IS DONE. \o/ And holy crap it’s like 3500 words?? When did THAT happen.
I will confess I’m a little nervous about posting this one, because I made up some bits of Naboo handmaiden/Tatooine slave culture to fill the story out better and I’m not sure how well it all came together/works with canon. I hope it at least works for you guys?
skymurdock asked: hello I am here to tell you about Worst Time Traveller Han Solo, possibly post-TFA, grumpily rolling through the Clone Wars and accidentally earning a Reputation for knowing, strangely, exactly where to invest his money and what to do when confronted with Completely Unexpected Events. also, for some reason, he keeps running into baby-Vader a lot. STOP SHOOTING AT ME, yells Anakin, possibly just before they find themselves in another hot mess. sorry, force of habit, says Han.
also, at least once, somebody’s like “ok dude you’re a bit TOO accurate with your blaster shots as Anakin keeps complaining, lemme take your midichlorian count” “midi WHAT NOW” “I mean, you’re clearly Force-sensitive” “NO I’M NOT IT’S LUCK.”
Anakin has found his next Padawan! (Bonus if timetraveler!Han is the biological age he would have been during the actual Clone Wars - which would have been between five and ten, I think. )
okay, so you’ve got two very interesting ways that could pan out:
ONE. Han Solo either remains the same age he was when he died or the same age he was post-ROTJ when he’s dragged back in time to the Clone Wars. he wakes up somewhere on the planet that Starkiller Base used to be way back in the Clone Wars with lots of vibrant green forests and even a small thriving spaceport, finds some poor sonuvabitch with a ship, and talks his way onto it. conveniently, shit goes down and they crash-land on a planet being battled over by the Separatists and the Republic, and Han somehow finds himself face-to-face with Anakin goddamn motherfucking Skywalker.
he spends like a day in the brig of a Republic cruiser with a nasty bruise bc he shot at baby-Vader out of instinct. (that’s what he will forever use to refer to Anakin Skywalker in his head. Anakin is pissed bc of the baby part, mostly. Han is goggling at him.)
also, he prob uses a false alias, bc Han Solo currently is a tiny eight-year-old happily rolling around on Corellia.
TWO. Han Solo wakes up eight years old, on Corellia, and spends about ten minutes screaming into his pillow because NOT AGAIN. and then he v quietly runs away from home - it’s fine bc home is kind of terrible, anyway - and stows away onto a ship.
the ship gets shot down over a Separatist-controlled planet, Han finds a blaster, and then runs right into Anakin goddamn motherfucking Skywalker. Anakin, seeing a small eight-year-old stowaway, immediately decides to try and get this kid out of this absolute warzone. Han shoots at him and misses bc eight-year-old body does not have the muscle memory and rock-solid aim of seventy-plus-year-old body.
and then Anakin has to save this tiny little runaway child who is also beating angrily on his chest like LEMME GO and screaming obscenities that children should not know but smugglers-turned-war heroes-turned-smugglers again do. Han does not know what the hell kind of shit he’s landed himself in this time, but he does know he has a Very Bad Feeling about all this.
A tiny, foul-mouthed little orphan brat who knows things he shouldn’t, is far more skilled then he should be for his age, had a bad attitude, constantly surprises people, is insubordinate to the extreme, probably makes Obi-Wan and Anakin look at him very sharply indeed when he states he has a Bad Feeling about something, is obviously Strong with the Force…
It’s Anakin Skywalker mark 2.0. (Anakin is not certain why everyone is looking at him.)
(Of course Han is slated to be Anakin’s next padawan. He fights tooth and nail against it - be probably insults the High Council to their faces, and keeps trying to run away.)
Han does not WANT to be anyone’s padawan, especially not - UGH - baby-Vader’s, UGH. he just wants to find his ship and his first mate and also probably keep the galaxy from careening into a trash fire like it did before. he develops a habit of running off on missions - bc for some weird reason he does not ever actually stay at the Jedi Temple for more than a few days despite everyone’s best attempts to keep him there and actually teach him how to use the Force for things that aren’t CHEATING AT CARDS - and on one of these occasions comes back with a ship that he claims to know how to fly.
Anakin spends all of a day silently doubting him until they have to get OFF the planet and he is somehow injured and can’t pilot, so Han takes over for him and does something completely goddamn insane like - dive into an asteroid field, like he’s done it before.
(meanwhile Han is trying v desperately to pilot this brand-new non-modified version of his beloved Falcon without thinking of all the times he and Leia were in this same cockpit together. oh god he misses Leia. oh god baby-Vader is next to him yelling watch out for the asteroid like HE DOESN’T FUCKING KNOW SHUT UP.)
Anakin, you have no room to talk considering the whole ‘won a space battle at age ten’ thing. And the podracing thing. AND the illegal swoop bike racing in Coruscant thing. And your ENTIRE ADULT LIFE thing.
Han’s habit of running away - well, trying to run away - dies the second he is introduced to Senator Padme Amidala. Han probably takes one look at her and knows - and then promptly starts trying to desperately set up baby-Vader and the Senator. (He doesn’t know that they’re married, he just wants Leia and Luke born ASAP, is that too much to ask?!)
Oh my god everything about this.
Han Solo: Angriest Padawan in the Order. Space baby. Refusing to use a lightsaber and instead being /insane/ with a Blaster.
The Clones adore his face.I’m not a big fan of Force Strong Han. I tend to headcanon him as being important to balancing the Force, but not Strong in the Force. The Force is with him, but he can’t use it. If that makes sense. But I would make an exception for this story.
Padme thinks he’s adorable. She also thinks he has a crush on her, and because he’s late to the Jedi, he thinks the best way to deal with it is to get his Master and the Lady together.
She and Anakin talk about it, and she gets Anakin to humor Han. And the way Han beams when Anakin is around her is obvious. Eight year old matchmaker, even if he is a foulmouthed one.
And can you imagine Han reacting to Yoda? Or Dooku? Or Palpatine. Palpatine might get a lot of bad language. A ton of bad language. (Anakin had a premonition, he took Han’s blaster away before they met with the Chancellor, or there would be blaster fire.)
This is fantastic.
On Han and his questionable force sensitivity…. I had a thought.
Pre-time travel Han was not jedi levels strong in the force. Like, sure he had SOME, nobody’s that lucky and borderline prescient without at least a little bit of the force, but he was nowhere near strong enough to become a jedi.
And then he got shanked by his crazypants son and woke up as an eight year old.
At first he didn’t notice anything different really, too busy freaking out about the sudden reset to realize that that niggling sense of STUFF in the back of his head is now much louder. The little whisper that used to warn him when some sleemo was about to draw on him is now more of a shout, and the two second reflexive draw he had is now a five second one. Big deal, right?
He’s wandering through the corellian spaceport a couple days after he’s been so rudely dumped into the past, checking out his options and seeing if he can maybe boost a ride to Kashyyyk, carrying a sack of clothes and all the credits he could swipe off his deadbeat dad, and trying his best to be as unobtrusive as possible (and totally NOT realizing that he’s using the force to make the spacer’s eyes slide right over him with his internal chant of ‘don’t notice me don’t notice me nothing to see here’), and he gets the first inkling that something may be different this time around when he just knows which transports to avoid.
And when a whole damn chorus alights in his head when he sees a little no name vessel heading who he kriff knows where, he REALLY knows something is up.
His finely honned smugglers instincts tell him that it’s going to be Trouble with a capital ‘T’ for him if he gets on that ship. That he’s going to get dragged into so much poodoo if he listens to the singing voice that says, ‘YES THAT ONE’.
He growls a million nasty curses in shyriiwook, huttese, and bocce, and sneaks on the damn ship.
A few days later he’s bruised all over from a decidedly rough landing, stolen blaster in hand when Anakin freaking Skywalker literally runs into him, a troup pf heavily armed clone troopers behind him.
Han is pretty sure he can be forgiven for shooting first and asking questions later. He did miss him after all. And he apologized to the clone trooper he winged with the off shot afterwards!
And he can totally not be blamed for biting the man after he force yanked the blaster out of his hands and scooped him up like a stray puppy.
I mean, c’mon!
Anakin does not know how this tiny, bitey foul-mouthed eight-year-old somehow got into Separatist space and stole a damn blaster, but he is Impressed, to say the least. he wants v badly to keep him. depending on the timeline, Ahsoka may also be there, and she likes this kid already.
Han is screaming internally. Han does not even want to be here at ALL, especially not anywhere near baby-Vader. Han is - apparently not going to be able to go anywhere in this state bc he is a kid, and tho mentally he’s like seventy and change, physically he is So Fucked.
(“ow! yeesh, kid, calm down, it’s fine, I’m gonna get you home to your parents -”
in retrospect, kicking baby-Vader in the stomach? not one of Han’s finest moments, but he was thinking in terms of “OH SHIT BABY VADER OH SHIT GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE OH SHIT”.)
