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Unfortunately the stark fact is that Anakin objectively did treat the clones worse than other jedi did. That he was pretty good with them for three years might make him better than Krell but I doubt other jedi would have been prepared to override their free will entirely to force them to kill little kids. You can’t just… ignore that when looking at his relationship with the clones.

Anakin does sort of… have a hierarchy of importance he places on people? I don’t want to frame it as who he loves more because I feel that’s not exactly a useful way of looking at it. It’s more like there are certain attachments he has that he relies on as a bedrock of his identity and emotional stability. And a quality of those attachments is that he needs them to be absolute. That is what he “can’t live without.” And guess that Rex, despite being his friend, isn’t quite there. He can be more objective about him (but also… more indifferent.)

#everybody matters less than padme#because padme’s the only one who would actually just turn a blind eye to fucking child murder#and he fucking knows it#up to and including rex#the saddest part is that rex is actually probably MORE loyal to anakin#than anakin ever was to rex#the way rex discusses anakin in rebels#is so fucking unsettling#because we as the audience know that anakin left rex to die#anakin USED rex for his own selfish agenda#anakin threw rex aside like he was nothing#he treated rex like the tool that rex always fought so hard against being seen as#we the audience know that rex’s perception of anakin is too kind#too forgiving of his flaws#because rex doesn’t yet know the truth#that anakin never actually cared about rex all that much#and was never actually worth rex’s loyalty and friendship

I’ll need to disagree with you on that last part. droids are sentient beings and functionally people. There are multiple arcs both in legends and canon about droids fighting for their rights. Droids and clones have almost identical rights and are equally disposable. R2-D2 is a childhood friend of anakin, and has long since been by his side. he has shared with him many secrets and never erased his memory. R2 has also been deeply loyal. it makes perfect sense to me that R2 takes priority over rex. he’d probably take priority over ahsoka. i dont think Anakin discriminates based on species (clone, droid, etc), he discriminates based on attachment. Rex doesnt serve Anakin, he serves the republic. He happens to do so alongside Anakin and they’ve had time to form a bond, but they are fundamentally members of seperate organisations. meanwhile R2 is Anakin’s droid. He belongs to him and thus the loyalty is comfortably secure in Anakin’s mind.

So sorry for the late response. For some reason tumblr didn’t notify me of this reblog. Found it when someone liked my post from a while back. 😅

will need to disagree with you again. droids can permanently die, as organic characters do. just because their brains are easier to repair doesnt mean their minds are. when R2-D2 "died", only his body was damaged. his memory and mind remained intact. it was more like a coma. in contrast, if you fix a droid who's memory is destroyed and no backups are made, that original droid is dead. even if the new mind runs on the same systems and behaves the same, the sentient being that was originally in that body is gone. its alive, its sentient, it might even identify as the same person, but its a new person in a dead person's shell. its why anakin refused to memorywipe R2, because it would functionally kill his oldest friend and put a new blank slate in his body. and then there's the body horror when you do make backups. that backup isnt the original droid, its a copy. even if it has all the memories, the original still died. (its even worse if there is a copy but the original is still alive). i recommend the game SOMA for a more detailed exploration of this topic. it handles these topics quite well. it highlights the existential dread and body horror of existing as a backup, or as the original that was left behind.