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“I’m to blame”? Pretty sure you’re the enabler between us two xD

BUT YES!

Jedi were not emotionless machines, but as schooled diplomats and currently Generals in a war that leaves millions dead, they have to keep neutral faces no matter what is said. Anakin, while always on the very expressive scale, could do it. It’s probably a skill he remembers from his childhood as well. He wouldn’t have snarled at Watto.

Vader though? This man hasn’t had to keep a straight face. Nobody would see it! Only around the Emperor would he have needed to show emotional control and that usually comes hand in hand with controlling your expressions

But otherwise??? Listen. He’s had to work with incompetent bastards for 20 years. The old Anakin would speak up when he thinks a plan is stupid but THIS Anakin? He doesn’t even try to sound diplomatic or ask leading questions. He is just standing there, arms crossed.

“Keep going,” he says whole everything in his face suggests you better shut up right now if you value your left hand. Given Anakin’s recent treatment of his own body limbs as expandable, you likely don’t want to test him

But also happy emotions!!! He lights up whenever a person he loves comes into the room!!! Like, 1000 Watt smile.

Can’t keep secrets at all anymore. Like, he used to be good at that. He hid an entire marriage and against common misconceptions, not many people actually knew about it! But now??? He’s a worse liar than 5 year old younglings.

Gestures in general! He did so much gesturing but the suit restricted like 90% of it. Now he’s all over the place!!!

But - to come to intonation - he has to relearn how to do that. His vocoder and his artitifical voice box used to maximize his voice. He used to speak in whispers, so all intonation he put into it was so small and then likely just got lost out loud.

This just in, Ink knows what she want and what she wants is a very particular brand of Angst. This, unfortunately, ended up in a slightly different place. 

The boy is warm in his arms and Obi-Wan weeps. He walks, steady and slow, over the sand and back towards the child’s guardian’s homestead.

He’d watched the boy tumble, fall, fling out his arms to catch himself. He’d watched the universe itself reach up to catch him instead, as natural as it had always been to his father. He’d watched the little boy’s eyes, pooling and blue and familiar, widen in shock and then joy; Obi-Wan could imagine the music that he could suddenly hear, the Force singing to him for the first time. 

He’d approached the boy from behind, and returned his elated smile, and then carefully pressed a hand to his forehead and — plucked the memory away. Hid it behind a carefully crafted shield. Caught him when his eyes rolled up and he crumpled. 

I have been waiting for DAYS for this to come in.

I am so excited.

be very afraid

Ahsoka Tano has a splitting headache. 

Between worrying over Anakin’s condition after his fight with the Chancellor (former Chancellor. He’s fled the planet), dealing with the Council’s turmoil in the wake of everything, Maul’s screaming from his little box, and finding out that Anakin not only been actively breaking the code by being in love with Padme (Ahsoka knew that already. She just didn’t expect it to now be out in the open)...

She is an aunt.

“I’m mad that you didn’t tell me,” she tells Anakin as she leans over the crib, gazing down at Luke and Leia adoringly. 

“I didn’t know until I got back from seeing you,” Anakin admits. He stands next to her, gripping the cane he’s using the keep himself upright. He’s pale, and battered. The doctors had informed Ahsoka, Obi-Wan and Yoda that he’d had a seizure from Palpetine- Sidious’ - attack, that had triggered a heart attack. She can tell he’s still getting used to the mechno parts implanted in his chest to keep him alive.

She’s never seen him move so slowly. 

“You wanna hold one?” Anakin asks, grinning. 

Ahsoka immediately swoops down for Luke, snuggling him gently. 

Anakin chuckles as he reaches down to scoop Leia up and against his chest. 

“I’ve never seen you this way,” Ahsoka comments. 

“What way?” he asks, titling his head. 

“Content,” Ahsoka grins. “Like this is all you’ll ever need.” 

Anakin thinks about that for a moment, rubbing Leia’s back with his thumb. 

Before he can answer, the doors to the nursery open, and Rex steps in. “General. Commander, I have news...to...” 

Anakin breaks out into a grin. “Hi, Rex.” 

“Are those...babies?” 

“Yes,” Anakin chuckles. “And they’re very excited to meet their uncle.” 

Rex stays planted by the door, just staring. 

Ahsoka huffs. “Rex, Anakin has been secretly married to Senator Amidala, and she gave birth less than a week ago.” 

“...Oh,” Rex says quietly, still in shock. 

“You’re right,” Ahsoka nods. “Anakin was a jerk for not telling us.” 

“Hey!” 

Rex shakes himself out of his shock, and frowns a little, obviously feeling awkward. “Er...so...congratulations, sir.” 

“Thank you,” Anakin grins, stepping over and shifting Leia down into his arms. “Here. Hold this.” 

Rex gives a very quiet yelp, as he gazes down at the infant, and can’t help smiling. “Hi there.” 

Anakin beams. “I’m glad you both made it back in one piece. Padme and I are going to need help. With the senate in chaos, and the Council still deciding whether or not expel me, it’s going to be a long year going forward.” 

“They can’t expel you!” Ahsoka cries. “After all you’ve done for them?” 

“I’ve broken the code.” 

“You also fought a war, lost your arm, been tortured, killed a Sith and helped root out another,” Ahsoka snaps, shifting Luke in her arms to get a better cuddling angle. “Aside from the fact that Sidious is still out there. They need you. Expelled. I should give them a piece of my mind.” 

As they bicker, Rex gazes down at Leia, letting her wrap tiny fingers around his thumb.

(thanks for the birthday wishes!)

It had been six months since he became Anakin’s master. And he still felt like there was so much he doesn’t know. About the Force, about how to train a padawan, about how to support Anakin in all the ways he needs. 

Even as Anakin’s strength in the Force was growing by leaps and bounds, Obi-Wan knew the boy is hurting. He was isolated from children his age, struggling to adapt to being free. 

So when he was going through Anakin’s records, and he realized what was happening in a few days . . . it’s against the Jedi Code, against how initiates and padawans are brought up, but--but Obi-Wan knew that Anakin needed this. 

It took going to a few friends, offering them favors or calling in ones he was owed, but by Anakin’s born day, he has arranged for a long-range holo unit to be set up in the quarters he shares with Anakin. And with Queen Padme’s assistance, everything was all set. 

Obi-Wan took Anakin to Dex’s for dinner, indulging the boy in one of those disgusting blue milkshakes he has always asked for. Seeing Anakin delightedly slurp up the beverage made Obi-Wan smile. 

Especially when he knew what was waiting for them in their quarters. 

As they walked into the Jedi Temple, Obi-Wan took a breath. “Anakin, do you know what today is?” 

He scrunched up his face, bringing out the new planes that are starting to appear as his baby fat begins to melt away. “Umm . . . is it some important date in Jedi history that I really should know by now and you’re very disappointed that I don’t remember?” 

By the end of the sentence, Anakin was making his best attempt at Obi-Wan’s accent, and he had to laugh. “No, you little monkey lizard,” Obi-Wan said, ruffling Anakin’s hair. “It’s your born day.” 

Anakin’s face fell, but then he quickly smoothed out his expression. But his Force sense was still in turmoil as they entered their quarters. 

Of course, Anakin spotted the holo equipment immediately. “Master? What’s all this?” 

Obi-Wan smiled and stepped over, pressing a few buttons. “Sit down and see.” 

Anakin shot him a confused look, but then took a seat. As Obi-Wan connected the holo call, he turned to watch Anakin’s face. 

The moment Shmi Skywalker appeared on the screen, Anakin’s face--no, his whole Force presence--lit up. “Mom!” he said, standing up quickly and leaning closer to the comm. As if he wanted to be closer to his mother. 

“Ani,” Shmi said, tears in her eyes but a huge smile on her face. “Oh, you’ve grown!” 

“Mom,” Anakin repeated, sniffling. 

Obi-Wan patted Anakin on the shoulder. “I’ll give you some privacy. Happy born day, Anakin.” 

Before he could even begin to turn away, Anakin’s hand grabbed his. “No, Master! Please, stay.”

Now it was his turn to be confused. Anakin hesitated, then said quickly, “After all, Mom’s probably gonna have lots of questions and she’ll want to get the answers from you.” 

Obi-Wan wasn’t so sure about this. He didn’t want to intrude on Anakin’s call, especially since it was almost definitely the only time it would happen. But Anakin really seemed to want him to stay. He glanced at Shmi’s image, who gave him a warm smile. 

“Ani’s right,” she said. “Please, Master Kenobi, I need to know all the mischief Ani is getting into.” 

“Moooooom,” Anakin said, his cheeks going red. 

“Well, that might take up the whole holo call,” Obi-Wan said, before gently brushing back some of Anakin’s hair. “But truly, he has been a good student and a good boy.” 

That made Anakin begin chattering to his mother, the words flowing out of him. Obi-Wan fetched a chair and took a seat, watching his padawan look more relaxed than he had since they had met. 

And he found himself hoping this wouldn’t be the last time Anakin would get to talk to his mother.

Oh you don’t need to spare us. 50 drafts of angsty rants on this topic are perfect acceptable afternoon reading☕️��

LOOK IT JUST PLAIN MAKES NO SENSE IF ANAKIN’S NOT IN THIS MOVIE.

Having Anakin play no part in this -- when PART OF THE STORY already is that his dumbass grandson is obsessed with him -- would be genuinely baffling to me. And every time this comes up on the General Star Wars Internet, there is always some old asshole griping about how “we all agreed Hayden was terrible and so obviously no one wants to see that”, which A) is not true, and B) HE DOESN’T HAVE TO GET 45 MINUTES OF SCREEN TIME OR ANYTHING FFS. Give him 2 lines! Even if you hated him in the PT, 3 minutes of “hey Kylo, it’s me, your grandpa: stop being such a fucking idiot, no one likes you” SO THAT THIS STORY MAKES AT LEAST PARTIAL SENSE is not going to ruin the entire film. 

Like...would they REALLY do this? They’d bring back FUCKING SIDIOUS, the primary person who ruined Anakin’s life (other than, you know, Anakin himself), and Anakin, AN INCREDIBLY POWERFUL FORCE USER WHO WE ALREADY KNOW IS STILL AROUND IN SOME CAPACITY BECAUSE WE HAVE LITERALLY SEEN HIS GHOST BEFORE, is just gonna stay hidden forever while this creep tries to take over again AND most likely tries to further corrupt and/or harm his own grandson in the process? AFTER EVERYTHING WE’VE ALL BEEN THROUGH HERE??? WHY. WHY WOULD IT WORK LIKE THIS. I’m not big on nitpicking the rules of the Star Wars universe usually, but this one I’m not sure I could ever get past. He’s so powerful, THIS IS HIS FAMILY, SIDIOUS IS PERSONAL FOR HIM, Anakin would have to be the laziest asshole EVER to sit this one out entirely.