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What if Anakin dreamed of the desert and Tatooine the whole time he was Vader because of his connection to Obi Wan but he assumed he was being haunted by his past

The funniest part of A New Hope is that Luke Skywalker is a 19 year old who has not locked in yet and plays with toys and sleeps in his childhood bedroom at his aunt and uncle’s house and Leia Organa is a 19 year old with a mission to save the galaxy from fascism. Luke has never left his hometown, Leia just watched her planet be blown up. He’s peeved his uncle is asking him to do his chores, she’s imprisoned for resisting the government. You relate to them both but they’re on complete opposite sides of the 19 year old life stage spectrum.

Also Luke is clearly very lonely after his crush and best friend, Biggs, went away to college

Yes! Some people have misinterpreted this as me insinuating Luke is a wimp but he’s just in a very transitional life phase that is focused on growing and maturing. His friends are growing up and moving on, he’s anxious to join them but isn’t quite ready. He has ambition and goals but he just isn’t in a place where he is able to pursue those goals, he is immature and that isn’t a bad thing. 19 year olds SHOULD be able to ponder their place in the world and which direction they want their life to take. Leia has been in the public eye her entire life, she is a princess, she has been primed for greatness and she has been shouldered with so much responsibility. Luke is just his aunt and uncle’s nephew, they love him and don’t want him to leave, he’s trying to decide what to do.

anyway sound off. at what stage do ppl think Han figured out the Force was real. the boring answer is after seeing Obi-wan vanish but i think he could rationalise that away as his eyes playing tricks on him. what do we think.

yeah Luke was like 'I heard Ben Kenobi's voice in my head telling me how to blow up the Death Star :)' and Han was like 'kind of an unusual coping mechanism but I'm not gonna argue with him'

thanks to carbonite han not only misses learning about luke's training montage on dagobah, he's also half-blind during their whole escape on tatooine. luke's out there force-kicking henchmen with his gucci boots and doing flips and shit and han can't see a goddamn thing. now on endor luke's yeeting threepio with the power of his mind and han's just like 'the last time we hung out i had to stuff him in a tauntaun sleeping bag'.

#in that same ass arc Ahsoka learns a very simple lesson about attachment to but hey guess who fucking missed that point too#she was worried about Anakin and she wanted to stay by his side and protect him.#but LEAVING anakin. and knowing that he may not make it. is HOW she saved him.#she put the needs of everyone first. if she had let her attachment to Anakin over-rule her logic—#she would have stayed by his side to make HERSELF feel better. which would have helped no one

sometimes people think I am on Mad At Them Island, when in fact I am far more often paddling around in the waters of Slightly Annoyed With Their Recent Behavior Bay, or perhaps on the beautiful Peninsula of Get Well Soon But I Will Not Be Engaging With All Of That

You Owe Either Myself Or A Loved One A Specific Apology Island is also a different location

Chalk is squids road.

I'm a big fan of seer Obi-Wan au's where Obi-Wan and Quinlan are awkward foils for Yan Dooku and Sifo-Dyas. LIke their inversions. Dooku is who is all buttoned up and proper and cares for his friend but his too emotionally distant to help him vs Quinlan who is just chaos incarnate and so emotionally invest in Obi-Wan but has to remain physically distant, and Sifo-Dyas who tries so hard to be proactive and prevent his visions that he causes them vs Obi-Wan who is desperate to ignore them and pretend they are just dreams that his inaction equally causes them.

You get me so well and I love this analysis is so so so much. I always love parallels between Sifo-Dyas and Obi in my AUs. They’re both so afraid of what they see but react so differently to that fear. It’s always interesting to compare them. They’re like the fight or flight instinct, with Sifo choosing to fight the future and Obi fleeing from his visions of it. And neither option works in preventing the tragedy.

the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.

the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.