One of the deep tragedies of the Star Wars universe is that Leia and Obi-Wan never met or interacted. I lament this partially because Obi-Wan was one of the only people who could have an modicum of sense for how it felt like to be Leia post-Alderaan’s destruction – who else would know what it felt like to know almost everyone you ever knew or loved was dead and lie awake at night wondering if you could have done anything different…and knowing you couldn’t have???
But also because they are the lords of snakiness and the banter would have been gold.
you ever walk past a girl whose perfume smells so good you feel like you finally understand all those old cartoons where boys would fall to their knees when a girl so much as walked by them
I have so many and…I honestly kinda trickle them into my writings all over the place. In little things and details that aren’t for anyone else but me to grin at.
But they all have these things in common, so I’ll yammer on about those:
He can see and hear in more places of existence than he should be able to
He can see time concurrently if he concentrates – it’s why he’s such a good strategist – but it also means he can see the past and the future in equal measures. This makes meditation a fucking nightmare.
In every version of Anakin Skywalker, he experiences some form of body dysphoria because there’s a sizable part of him that isn’t used to having a single form, unchanging.
If his mother had been anyone else, he might have had a less human shell and wouldn’t have been able to become Darth Vader at all – how do you put someone into a iron lung, after all, if they don’t have a single form?
His love is the thing that keeps his form stable – even as Darth Vader, he was still heart-endingly in love with
Padmé
and he still loved Obi-Wan as much as he hated the man and he loved Ahsoka still even if he never wanted her anywhere near him ever again. He loved Sheev Palpatine still and hated himself for the dependence.
The Dark and the Light whisper and coo at him at all times and both of them are more than capable of doing him serious harm if he isn’t paying attention
The first time he saw
Padmé
Amidala he saw everything she was, could ever be, ever would be, and everything she could not be. It was so bright and so much and he could remember, in the deep places of himself that cry out in agony at all times, that they were connected somehow. He asked her if she was an angel because what else could she be?
He can feel planets pretty much at all times, like white noise. Sometimes they sing or hum, but mostly it’s just the sense of the gravity, of the environmental stress, of the draining of resources, of the life happening on it. If he reaches too much with the Force, he can loose himself in them.
His emotions make his control better, make him stronger – regardless of what those emotions are.
He can reach across star systems and feel Padmé with only a little bit of strain as long as they’re both in the same core of the republic – like, if they’re both in the core, or the mid-rim, or the outer rim. This is terrifying because each core has quite a LOT of star systems and even Yoda can only feel things happening in the star system he is currently in.
He should be sterile from the amount of radiation that flows through his blood naturally, but isn’t. He should be toxic to be around, his blood acid, but neither of those things is true in practice
If you look at him in the Force, somehow manage to make your eyes see a plane that isn’t supposed to be seen just felt, Anakin has wings and scales and fins and eyes everywhere. He shines and vibrates and drips blood and stardust. He has claws and fingers and teeth and fangs and a gaping mouth with multiple tongues. He is terrible and beautiful.
Being half force did not save him from anyone, if anything it made things worse
ENTP~ Hermes, the messenger of the gods ENTJ~ Zeus, the god of the sky ENFP~ Aphrodite, goddess of love ENFJ~ Hestia, goddess of the hearth ESTP~ Ares, god of war ESTJ~ Prometheus, god of creation, ESFP~ Dionysus, god of the party ESFJ~ Demeter, goddess of the harvest INTP~ Hades, god of the underworld INTJ~ Athena, goddess of wisdom INFP~ Persephone, goddess of spring INFJ~ Artemis, goddess of the night ISTP~ Poseiden, god of the sea ISTJ~ Apollo, god of the day ISFP~ Iris, goddess of the rainbow ISFJ~ Hephaestus, god of the forge
I mean last week I browsed google scholar trying to find details about the composition of ancient Byzantine shampoo and ended up google translating an article written in Hungarian, so. You’re probably fine, nonnie. We’re all quirky here.
Friends, please reblog and tell me what is the most obsessive detail you’ve researched at length for fic writing purposes!
It’s a tossup between research on transatlantic travel in the latter part of the 19th century, and research on orcas in Sea World.
Probably sluice gate construction and installation methods, for field drainage in Tudor England… and/or the life stages of various bloodborne parasites and their attendant bacteria plus the comparative structures of avian and mamalian lungs, so I could design a superficially plausible xenobiological plague vector.
I once spent 3+ hours researching bird species of the Himalayas to come up with the phrase “the little brown bird.”
I know so god damned much about sailing.
I spent more then a decent amount of time looking up how jets, tanks, and cars coolant systems work.
*cough* The interior working of different engine types and how they would function in a robotic frame. Different liquids necessary for optimal functionality vs what they could barely need to survive. What rust does to different types of metal. Melting points of metal. How fluctuations of electrical current effect electronic components and systems in conjunction with how electricity is used in a human body to.ellicate pleasure and horrendous pain, like where the cut off point would be. Psycological traumas and how much varying individuals can take before they kinda have a breakdown. There’s actually more, but I think I may just have freaked out a few people so yeah. Needless to say I don’t keep my browsing history around too long. XD
Genital mutilation. Not fun, let me tell you.
Tolkien languages. All the Elven languages specifically. And linguistics in general. Trying to account for the linguistic drift of the Avari who kinda just stayed put in the East when they refused Oromë’s call… All based on six friggin’ cognates the Quenya term “quendi”.
I studied the floor plan to the Titanic so I could place the characters in the correct room and researched the type of vegetables they served in the second class restaurant on board.
I did a batch of reasurch on some specific archeological digs around churches/burial sites in Transylvania. Everything from why they were there to the names of the volunteers, where they stayed, and what they ate.
I had my husband recreate an entire rank and position chart based on the Royal Canadian Air Force to figure out the rank and position for Poe Dameron’s x-wing squadron for a >5K Star Wars humour fic, but in all fairness, Star Wars should have already done that research
Definitely spent too much time researching how cryptocurrencies work and the characteristics of mercury (especially how it reacts to other substances). Learned more science in one afternoon than I did my entire time in high school.
Blacksmithing. Specifically nails. Do you know how many ways there were to make nails throughout time? I didn’t.
I have been awake for 25.5 straight hours and I forced my brain to do the word thing enough to leave a comment on a wonderful fic and then i hit post and my internet went down and it ATE THE ENTIRE THING AND I REWROTE IT and i think that might have been all my spoons for the next month help
can’t actually remember if i took sleep aids already or not so i’m being good and not taking any (more?) but the suffering is real
I have been awake for 25.5 straight hours and I forced my brain to do the word thing enough to leave a comment on a wonderful fic and then i hit post and my internet went down and it ATE THE ENTIRE THING AND I REWROTE IT and i think that might have been all my spoons for the next month help
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