#nes.vent

also, please stop portraying him as someone vain about his titles. being the chosen one or the hero with no fear are not something he derives validation from. he is confident (and sometimes arrogant) about his skills and power because he directly experiences them—he knows he is that good. he does not step out of himself to applaud his titles. he ain't shallow.

...did you watch the movies? Where is this frequent violence that isn't an extreme grief and rage driven anomaly, as a warrior during war (like every other jedi), or post darkside turn? what is this mischaracterisation of both padmé and anakin?

padmé fell for the passionate, compassionate, honest jedi. and anakin was sobbing with guilt after the tusken massacre, and found war as an extremely conflicting period which was used by palpatine to desensitize anakin to killing because he feels everyone's death deeply as he is half-force; even then he is hesitant to kill dooku until manipulated by palpatine.

...where? the entire PT is literally about this character, this mircale force being—anakin skywalker—having so much love to give but not being allowed to! if anidala had raised the twins, luke and leia would've grown up showered with such vast and deep love because their father is anakin and their mother is padmé.

He was still actively Anakin before being told about Padmé’s death, and was truly sealed into Vader after it. His love for her is what blurs boundaries between Anakin and Vader—the love that is the bit of goodness still remaining in Anakin through the years and the thing Sidious couldn’t destroy.

Anakin left behind everything deliberately when he turned to the darkside to save Padmé. Preserving her was his motivation because she was everything to him. When she was lost, all was lost. Clubbing her with things and people that didn’t work out for Vader as Anakin when she was the one he chose over everything—she wasn’t something that didn’t work out. The reason he hates himself is because he thinks he destroyed the person he ‘loves beyond love’. She was his everything that was lost! It’s the reason why Vader is an apathetic figure. Because connections are what drove Anakin. It’s the reason why he develops a connection with his abuser himself and stays subservient. Because there is no one to move him in any way. He doesn’t reach for power, for killing Sidious, for ruling the galaxy because none of it matters.

Until Luke comes into the picture. Pretending like Vader wouldn’t abandon empire and Sidious if Padmé comes alive somehow when as Vaderkin, he was already offering Padmé his head—and when he has already seen and mourned the consequences of not following padmé’s request—is certainly.. a choice (and not something that goes with ‘objective’ analysis as some Vader fans claim). Padmé and Luke parallels flew over their heads.

Vader is a pathetic figure who made the wrong choice to save the one thing that mattered to him the most, and then lost that very thing because of his choice. That’s the irony of the PT—it is the movies, it is the director’s commentary, it is in the creative commentary. Suited Vader is not Mustafar Anakin who believed he was reaching peaks of victory and about to gain everything. Suited Vader is the fallen Anakin.

“The thought of not being with you, I can’t breathe”, “Just help me save Padmé’s life, I can’t live without her”—the dialogues literally foreshadow the fate he ends up with without Padmé. Vader is defined by his grief for Padmé.

and the one you called 'emotionally stunted that padmé barely knew for 2 months' is actually obi-wan, not anakin. might want to recheck what you know about the characters and the actual story if your diss accidentally describes your fave.

also, oh my force, padmé fell for someone who is honest and passionate, cares about what she wants, saved her planet a decade ago, seeks to know and sees the real her, and is intensely devoted.

not, you know, whatever obi-wan is: emotionally stunted, uninteresting (to padmé), dismissive.

edit 1: anakin’s corruption happened after he turned to the darkside and became a sith—it is very much to do with the influence of a metaphysical malevolent force. his intention was always to save padmé, his love. and the gist of the story is that he lost her because the path he took to save her became the very thing that took her from him.

he didn’t become a dictator, he became a slave to the dictator, forever hating himself, full of self-loathing for what he did—he burns forever in his core, in the furnace of his heart.

pretty sure snow ain’t all that. anakin skywalker is not snow from any angle.