oh god oh fu-

glove sharks 🦈

“i’m gonna raise, raise hell,

there’s a story no one tells,

you gotta raise, oh raise hell”

That was a man that was essentially groomed by his friend, someone he trusted, who used his vulnerabilities against him and turned him into something he never wanted. Anakin was afraid and alone and probably going fucking insane and Palpatine used that against him to kill him in all meaningful sense of the word.

He is, for all intents and purposes, a time-travelling stranger. Yet Obi-Wan has seen fit to chastise Anakin in front of him four - no, five - times.

Luke has never seen someone so starved for affection before.

The whole 'don't go after your friends' platitude from Yoda, writ large, is starting to feel more unsettling every day.

"Good job," Luke tries, once, when he and Anakin are together in the salles, sans Obi-Wan, and Anakin had almost melted.

Yeah. The Jedi are a little too 'detached', Luke thinks. There is growing corruption and flourishing slavery, but all they really seem to care about is meditating and systemically forcing emotional repression onto children.

all things die, anakin skywalker. even stars burn out...