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truly wonderful to see people call anakin "disability coded" when he is very very explicitely disabled. like i get what you mean. but he is actually disabled. he doesn't have an arm. why do people forget he doesn't have an arm. honestly it's a shame how his physical disability isn't really considered in fandom conversations around him. that's also why I really fw brotherhood and the wild space novel. they finally give some insight as to how he felt about losing a limb, and also what that meant for him considering possible negative jedi views about having a mechanical arm and a bit on how he recovered. I can't speak for people with that kind of disability but I wish that anakin's mechanical arm wasn't just treated in a "oh! too bad he lost an arm! well he can just get an exactly identical one except now he wears a cool glove and nothing else changed!" way cause it definitely did impact his character a lot. same for luke in many ways. I get where people are coming from and I don't mean this maliciously at all but also they ARE disabled people forget that a lot.

there are people out there who are naturally good at talking and making friends and standing normally and i think they should be systematically oppressed, even tortured

no! explanation of the gaps will kill Reader! she needs narrative lacunae to enjoy the story!

anakins questionable flying is an ongoing gag and all but honestly just imagine it. he, aged 9, won his freedom that way. everything good that happened in his life proceeding was because he happened to be a good enough flyer that he beat out actual grown professionals with biological advantage. hes reasonably confident, in fact, its probably just about the only skillset hes still confident in after going to monk school and skipping every grade due to one very persuasive guy dubbing him "universe's very special little boy". like im not pointing fingers here but maybe hed be normal if they sent him to making macaroni art class at some point before taking up the "heres how to stab people and throw things with your mind" class. but anyway, back to flying, coruscant presumably has some rules regarding that, even for jedi. i dont give a shit if its not canon, you cant take space flyer's licence from me. i need the mental image of anakin and obi-wan experiencing the emotional whiplash of being in a car with your anxious dad bc yes anakin reasonably thinks hes hot shit behind the wheel but hes also notoriously a death race survivor & his driving style is best summarised as "get from point a to point b as fast as possible. disregard what happens to you. disregard what happens to others. there is only you and point b and the possibility of exploding. make your mother proud" which now that i think about it is also his whole life philosophy. so i think he sits behind the wheel with full confidence & his many neuroses loaded and ready and obi-wan also sits in the passenger seat with full confidence because while hes not exactly the leading expert in anakin lore due to his passion for shoving his head in the sand and pretending he Does Not See, he probably remembers that there was a podrace victory involved and expects this to be very simple. it is, clearly, canonically, not simple. but heroically obi-wan still lets him be the pilot every time for the rest of their time together because 1) hes chronically a passenger princess 2) his love language is putting anakin into situations he can then nag him about and 3) his own self preservation is clearly slowly whittling away. on the other hand, anakin's love language is initially going "im so sorry are you okay" the first time obi-wan starts screaming and then as he gets more attached to him progressing to hitting the sgas (space gas) pedal even harder out of pure malice the moment he as much as hears a whimper

considering that canonically we know anakin is a robotics nerd with 1 friend (who he calls Dad by mistake at least once a week) and 0 rizz, i’m very enamoured by the fact that in any NO66 Good End AU, all of the jedi would be so confused that HE was the one with the secret wife. i have a scene in my head where a couple council members, let’s say depa and mace, are chilling gossiping and depa says “omg GUESS who’s secretly married” and mace names every single member of the order living and dead before guessing anakin