No Offense To Codywan Shippers (ya'll Are Cool And Create Great Fan Stuff) Seriously, Codywan Art And

no offense to codywan shippers (ya'll are cool and create great fan stuff) seriously, codywan art and fanworks are some of the most detailed, and well thought out pieces i've seen.

but why do you guys ship codywan? they've exchanged like maybe, two sentences per episode they make an appearance in and its mostly about military affairs. they have a relationship you'd expect between like, somewhat affable coworkers. there's more evidence for rex and hunter than there is for cody and obi wan.

you know, i saw a bunch of codywan shippers and codywan fanart and fics when i first entered sw fandom and you know, i read some and thought "this is sweet. this is a cool dynamic. i could get behind this ship."

i'd like you all to keep in mind that i've never seen TCW at that point.

and then i watch TCW and i'm like, you don't even talk to each other. obi wan is in love with hillary clinton for some reason? cody is one of those rare characters where he has zero lines, but you can tell that he has a separate life outside of whatever bullshit he's put on screen for.

i see it as a "what could have been" ship; a ship that should have been explored a bit, even if the power dynamics are really fucked up, rather than yet another woman being fridged for a man. but like, what made you guys codywan stans?

i'm curious, so hit me with your reasons. i'm not dragging codywan-some of my favorite ships are characters that have exchanged a LOOK, not even dialogue. you guys have more basis than me.

i know that this was probably meant to be funny, but this just made me really sad. vader really was fucked over by the emperor. it's fucking scary and tragic that he genuinely loves the emperor because he's all he has.

how do you think luke would factor into this plan with leia? personally, i think it'd be funny if he declared luke emperor, and leia just flashbacks to that time he told her that taxation was stupid.

How do you think Darth Vader would react to Palpatine dying before he turned back to the light? Whether randomly (probably the most funny option, old man falls, breaks his hip, dies of complication) or an alternate ending to ROTJ where Luke doesn't go to Vader and they remain on Endor as Death Star Jr. blows up, I think he would lose it tbh

i've actually always wanted to write something about this because it's fascinating to me the levels of Ungood vader's brain achieves when he has nothing left; in my horribly self-indulgent visions, vader senses palpatine's death and essentially shuts down entirely for a period of time because his brain genuinely cannot process it. the executor shuttles back to coruscant and vader hasn't said a word. he's shuttled through the motions of actually having to fulfill that formerly mostly ceremonial role of heir to the empire, mostly at the behest of tarkin, who i wanted to toy with as someone who might see this as an opportunity to have someone he finds easy to manipulate on the throne. this is about when that inability to comprehend what's happening snaps and vader goes essentially ballistic, and falling to his default move when he's gone ballistic, he murders everyone in the jedi-temple-turned-imperial-palace, barricades himself inside with palpatine's corpse, and tries to entreat the Dark Powers into reanimating palpatine. essentially the imperial powers that are still alive spend weeks trying to figure out how to get in the palace and subdue vader, because, you know, he's the emperor technically and empires are stupid.

in my Grand Vision TM, vader's terror at the idea of a life without even his master - and all of the reality warping he's attempting to do with his evil wizard magic - begins to have a profound and disturbing effect on the palace and the area surrounding it, coruscant's weather, even the citizens surrounding it. it is genuinely like Magic Nuclear Meltdown, except vader is totally unaware that he's bending reality around his stupid broken brain, and kind of begins to completely fucking lose it as the architecture of the palace warps impossibly under magic onslaught. the hallways become winding and press in closer and mold grows in the walls, the wood rots, the stone erodes, the lights break and fizzle, rooms shift and bend impossibly until the world narrows to the one room palpatine's corpse is in. insert disturbing Wrongness Imagery like portraits beginning to lose their subjects, decorative trees leaking blood instead of sap, any animals in the nearby area spontaneously mutating, deforming, etc. people having waking nightmares about burning alive or being locked in what feels like a coffin, etc. everything goes very wrong essentially. i haven't figured out how i'd plan on ending such an idea, but probably i'd want to find a way to introduce obi-wan into the narrative and either have him finally deliver on killing vader or trying to rehabilitate him or..... something. i just think obi-wan would be fun.

I like the Jedi, but I don't know why "A powerful military organization that actively supports the government while not being a part of the government should have criticized the corrupt policies of their state and raised objections to enslaving and buying human beings" is such a negative take that it warrants being put in the jedi critical tag.

Ahsoka needed to break open Vader’s mask to understand that he was Anakin.

Obi-Wan needed to break open Anakin’s mask to understand that he was Vader.

Neither of them could reconcile with the truth.

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