I know we all joke about order 66 and anakin killing the younglings but...there's a weight to it we should acknowledge sometimes
The echoes of a battalion marching up the steps into their home. The confusion and panic of younglings as they're gathered into the council chambers, where they should be safe. When an adult finally comes, there's an ember of hope. It's Anakin Skywalker- of course he's going to save them. And so one of the children steps forward and asks the question. "What are we going to do?" He should have the answers. He should be their saviour. And yet Anakin ignited his lightsaber and slaughters each one of them. Taking down child after child, thinking only of saving his own as he goes. He does not let the clones have this task. He kills them himself.
If it wasn't a youngling it was a padawan, desperately fighting to let the one Senator who would fight for them escape. It's falling to the blasters that surround them on all sides. It's the futile fight against a force so powerful. A force that was meant to be their ally. Their friends.
If it wasn't a padawan, it was a knight, ushering the younglings they could find away from the chaos. Trying to save their future. Still so young. The unbearable weight of the galaxy now pressing down on their shoulders.
If it wasn't a knight, it was a master, who was shot down by his own men. Who he had fought and protected for years. Who he had defended against the prejudice set on them by their own creators.
It was a girl, cast out by her own people. Who watched as her best friend fought against the chip in his head. Who was forced to shoot anyways.
It was a boy, who watched his master be shot down in front of him, and then spared by the defective clone. It was another boy, who held his master as he died in his arms.
It was a master, whose own padawan caused all this. Who fell from a cliff as his own Commander ordered him dead. A man who had essentially ended the war, left for dead in the waters below the surface of the planet.
And it was a man, who was so desperate to save the people he loved, to make the right decision, that he ruined everything. That had left him utterly lost without direction. Who had been found and guided by the most terrible evil in the galaxy.
And these are only the stories we know.
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