Sipping Coffee at 3am.

do people not understand that anakin is not in his right mind???? like, he turned to the dark side, that should be a sign not everything is okay.

everything and everyone can be a trigger for him and all anger he consumed, being absolutely full of not himself, but anger and hatred, has ripped through him and that’s why he force chokes padmé and wants to kill obi-wan — because the only thought of “she’s betrayed me, he’s betrayed me, they are against me” is triggering him, and then he thinks that he should show them his anger and his revenge for that.

someone conpletely missing the point in the comments: hey how about I make a shitty joke about how wonderful padmé is if you ignore her red flag husband -

I’LL KISS YOU TWICE FOR DEATH

Vaderdala Week 2026 Prompt: Haunted & Classical Literature.

anakin is the one person who knows and loves BOTH padmé naberrie and senator amidala. he knows that she can be stubborn - they have arguments throughout AOTC.

he is WELL aware of who his wife actually is, thank you very much.

his decision to fall was very much 'she will hate me but at least she will be alive' and by mustafar he's completely out of his mind

So I'm a very big fan of the Prequels as well as the political theming of the first three movies, but I really love Anakin and Padme so bad. They're in my top five ships every tbh. They just hit everything I love in a ship, tension, passion, angst, fluff, they're just so beautiful. I hate how doomed they are.

This is my first time actually drawing them [I did a gruvia sketch with their promo art as a reference so slight lie there😬😭]. I think the most important part of sketching or drawing new characters is to nail expressions and identifiable features, details will come later.

Even though the dialogue between these two weren't always perfect [blame George Lucas and just read the novels instead], I always loved the crazy eye contact and chemistry between Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman. They just look so in love y'know?

[Such intense and romantic eye contact, I love them so bad!]

So what actually gets him to jump off the deep end? The fear of Padmé dying and his desperation to prevent it, which palps correctly pivots to exploiting.

they didn’t “cling” to each other, nor was this—that they didn’t trust love to exist without clinging to it—the case about them (how did you even get to here?). they chose each other freely, again and again. their love existed despite everything—war, secrecy, jedi—and it flourished. they are absolutely happy, stable, and willing to get away in the beginning of rots. their love or their faith in their love was never the issue—they had complete and utter faith in their love.

their love did not “twist” into anything. it stayed true and deep until the end, and was corrupted by the darkside.

anakin's fall is built on his fear of loss—his archetypal flaw as is the norm in a greek tragedy, and his fear of loss predates their relationship, originating in his childhood and forming into a wound with his mother’s death. the tragedy being true love being corrupted because of the faustian bargain anakin made with the devil. the tragedy hinges on their love being true and pure.

their love and padmé’s belief in anakin is also ultimately vindicated in the story—at the end of OT.

their love was not the flaw! anakin’s fear of loss was!

also, it’s a mythic, larger than life love. stop judging it with modern, contemporary standards—not that they don't meet them pre-mustafar. they are built beyond realism.

The Naboo handmaidens were intimately familiar with the Amidala persona. They had to perfectly mimic it after all.