Tag: star wars

icsek:

julia666:

Another happy landing

All I can imagine is Anakin being very demonstrative in his Council reports.

“And then I told the Chancellor: ‘His fate will be the same as ours.’ and I scooped him up and hauled him over my shoulder like this.” Picks a very startled Obi-Wan up and throws him over his shoulder.

“Anakin! Put me down!”

“Hush, Master, I’m demonstrating my heroic rescue of the Chancellor and you!”

quicksiluers:

This was not Sith against Jedi. This was not light against dark or good against evil; it had nothing to do with duty or philosophy, religion or morals.

It was Anakin against Obi-Wan. Personally.

Just the two of them, and the damage they had done to each other….

thishereanakinguy:

prettypastelrobot:

thishereanakinguy:

pinkiuspiekus:

anakinsbutt:

how many times has anakin skywalker been electrocuted

does someone have a count

is this boy’s brain okay

thishereanakinguy, your life’s purpose has arrived!

Omg my time to shine!

1. Gungan General
2. Hostage Crisis
3. The Citadel
4. Gungan Attack
5. Prisoners
6. Shadow Warrior (at least twice, implied it was much more)
7. Slaves of the Republic
8. Escape from Kadavo (twice)
9. Crisis on Naboo (twice)
10. Sacrifice (though this was in Yoda’s vision and not real life)

So in conclusion, by the time Revenge of the Sith rolls around, Anakin has been electrocuted a minimum of 12 times. This can cause a host of physical and neurological problems, including lack of emotional control, increased aggression, etc. Strictly speaking, Anakin’s propensity towards having huge amounts of electricity (which should by all rights have killed him ages ago – there’s an entire book where Luke is dealing with the pain associated with Force lightning, whereas Anakin’s just like “whatever, just another Tuesday”) played as big of a role in his turn to the Dark Side as anything else, since it sapped his brain of the ability of cognitive reasoning.

…so are you saying that Anakin might have never joined the dark side if he wasn’t a human lightning rod?

I’m saying Anakin’s cognitive functioning and ability to control his emotions and aggression were deeply impacted by being a human lightning rod, which is the long way of saying yes.

neitherclosenorfar:

I recently learned that Shaak Ti/General Grievous was once a Thing which is confounding on multiple levels, but I also sort of love it? Not as a ship, but as the sort of batshit insane rumour that would get started during the war and get way out of hand. 

Like, between the clones and the jedi, you’ve got prime potential for gossip city and “General Grievous absolutely has a crush on Actual Living Goddess Shaak Ti, he gave her flowers and severed head once.” is totally the sort of stupid story clones would make up. 

(The joke being that he is practically a droid and mostly metal. That’s the sort of thing a sixteen year old in combat is going to find hilarious.)

(And of course in addition to sixteen year old clones you also have sixteen year old padawans who also find the mental image of perennially chill ‘everyone sort of has a crush on her, but like, in a hands off way’ Master Shaak Ti seducing General Grievous with her limb slicing abilities to be hilarious.)

It’s a lot easier to laugh off the feared Jedi Killer when you’re pretending he is head over heels for everyone’s spiritual elementary school teacher. Eventually it goes from drunk story, to inside joke, to actual legitimate rumour and now all the younglings are sleeping better at night because Shaak Ti will beat General Grievous up, she’s done it before, like, ten times, that’s why he’s obsessed with her. 

(Shaak Ti is gently bemused because she’s only met Grievous two or three times and there was a lot of attempted murder, but if it makes the kids happy, she’ll play along and smile mysteriously when asked about the subject.)

Eventually it hits the standard galactic gossip mill along with such gems as “Anakin Skywalker and Senator Amidala are secretly married and have three love children.”, “Mace Windu is really four younglings in a cloak.”, and “Obi Wan Kenobi was invented by the Chancellor to serve as the face of the war effort, he’s actually an actor from Alderaan.” and in time reaches the ears of the Separatists who are confused as hell. 

Except Count Dooku, who recognizes this as Jedi business as usual and goes to  slam his head into a wall. This is why he left the Order.