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Vader, literally lying in a crater and not even bothering to get up:

Piett, regrettably chose not to call in sick today and is running over: Lord Vader! Are you okay?!

Vader, vocoder fizzling: peachy

Piett, internally: ???

WHERE

the way it takes Jin 1-3 business days to process that this is Taka in this scene always makes me giggle a little bit, like “should I say hello? should i introduce myself? should i even be involved in this beautiful reunion like..?”

Mid-December 2025.

Odesa, Ukraine.

Mid-December

The attack came at night

and lasted until morning,

longer than usual.

I slept through it. I usually do,

despite the warnings.

apparently, I’m a heavy sleeper.

for almost a week, the city went dark.

attacks hit the infrastructure.

no electricity anywhere.

no water.

just darkness stretching across the streets.

annoying buzz of generators running the shops.

later, I wanted to play Sky.

In the middle of the chaos,

I still had a little battery left.

but the connection was weak,

barely enough to send a single message.

and yet

we don't survive.

we live.

we ate by candlelight with my roommate and friends.

my apartment had frozen solid,

and I was sick with a cough,

so they took me in.

walking to get groceries, we paused.

the lights were gone.

the city was silent.

and stars - stars shone brighter than I had ever noticed.

for a ling moment, the stars felt closer than ever.

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I’m not posting this to be pitied.

I don't want awkward silence,

when someone doesn’t know what to say next.

I’m not an alien telling a horror story.

This is just a glimpse through my eyes,

of the good,

the bad,

the truth.

Even in the dark,

Basically it’s a “Vader goes back in time but as himself” concept but what if the clones picked him up and went “?? Clone of Anakin?? I think??” And then adopted him as apart of their clone brotherhood. Mans getting rehabilitated in the Worse place (war) for a guy who was acting as a living weapon most of his life.

That and I think it’d be funny to have them go “wait that’s Really concerning, get back here, what did you Mean” and it eventually culminates in them killing Palpatine rube goldberg style as they can’t get close enough to him without him noticing “hey those clones have a weird amount of murderous intent towards me. Weird” and Especially not when Vaders following them lost puppy style as he is practically Screaming “I want anyone and everything that isn’t people I am insane over Dead”