Anakin as a demi-god is just that perfect thing I didn't know I needed, holy fuck
Isn't it weirdly satisfying? I think the moment I realized that my infatuation with the Star Wars prequels & the Clone Wars was not just another normal hyperfixation but instead was going to be something More was a combination of
The discovery that Lucas named Anakin as a masculinized form of the Greek divinity Necessity (AnankΔ)
The acknowledgement of the mortal mother / divine (absent) father trope of his birth put him squarely in a camp with other halfies like Achilles, Heracles, Theseus, etc.
The idea that as as demigod his anger is more properly read as Wrath (MΔnis) which Muellner argues in the book the Anger of Achilles is "a cosmic sanction against behavior that violates the most basic rules of human society... a social force whose activation brings drastic consequences on the whole community" and is βincurred by the breaking of basic social tabusβ and leads to indiscriminate punishment of the whole community or social group
The idea of falling to the dark side as a kind of madness and blindness, AtΔ, like that suffered by Ajax the Great when, furious with perceived dishonor, he became crazed and slaughtered the Achaians' herds of captured livestock *cough* younglings *cough* while under the delusion that they were his enemies
My headcanon about Vaderβs heart being his only vulnerable place, the place that makes him a mortal (capable of love + death)
His mentor figure in Obi-Wan arguably slots perfectly into the Patroclus role, and together they give off good Zeus/Ganymede aesthetic Vibes, and fight in battle and sneak around together (like my secret fav crack Iliad ship: Odysseus/Diomedes)
The almost Aristotelian theory of vices arising out of immoderate virtue and its tragic fallout etc.
There are just so many neat things!!
