RatCreature's Journal

killabeez prompted: Talk to me about Anakin Skywalker and his relationship with another character of your choice.

I'm not that into Anakin (or Darth Vader later), though I don't dislike him either. My favorite SW character is Obi-Wan (though I still haven't watched the recent series, alas), so I quite enjoy some stories of the two as Jedi knights (though I haven't watched that animated Clone Wars series either, I just can't deal with that animation style). However I don't particularly ship Anakin/Obi-Wan, because Anakin really seems too obsessive about Padme.

I've read a few stories with more of a thruple setup, but I think overall I appreciate Anakin more as a nexus, on which the epic hinges than as a character to glom onto. I have a huge preference for likable and sympathetic hero characters, and while every villain is the hero of their own story, and Anakin can be likable, it's always tricky to pull that kind of fictional empathy off with a character who is also a mass murderer and slaughtered Jedi children.

I have enjoyed some fanfic explorations of Anakin's background and upbringing that build a more solid foundation to then also explain him turning on the Jedi and such, like Fialleril's Tatooine stories, and am also quite fond of shorter pieces about him that just ignore the big picture, whether humor pieces about the absurdity of imperial bureaucracy, or stories about Anakin and droids or Clone War era Anakin/Obi-Wan PWPs, but he's not my favorite, and I don't have any particular theories about him.

(If you want to prompt me there are still many open days.)

I watched the new Star Wars this afternoon, and overall I really enjoyed it. One non-spoilery thing I'm curious about, do you think the "Jedi" in the title is meant as singular or plural (or did you take it as ambiguous)? Because I noticed today that for German they translated it as plural. (I watched it in English, but eventually noticed German posters...) Seeing the English title earlier and more often, I myself had always assumed it to refer to just one.

Anyway, on to the spoilery parts of my post...

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