Alas, Youre No Vader. Youre Just A Child In A Mask.

Alas, you’re no Vader. You’re just a child in a mask.

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“what if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the republic has become the very evil we have been fighting to destroy?“

It’s so weird right now cause I feel like I’m reading Darth Vader comics to cheer myself up because his grandson’s ending was much more pessimistic than his. Like “oh yeah Darth Vader the villain in the Skywalker family who had a hopeful ending” instead of the all-our tragedy with Ben

Same, lmfao. Because at least Anakin had a life before Vader, kids and a padawan and a mentor who was like a father to him, and he’s vindicated at the end of his life with a Jedi funeral and a ghostly reunion with his loved ones. At least there’s actual catharsis. And Anakin, during his dark side years, leans into it much more than Ben does. Anakin is a tortured soul too, but he’s much better at burying this than Ben, and he expresses a lot more agency than Ben does. His fall comes across as a hero failing because of a crucial fatal flaw, whereas Ben’s comes across as him straight-up being born under the wrong star and suffering for an original sin that was never his.

And Anakin at a certain point (esp. in the current 2020 issue and the 2015 issue) reaches critical mass and starts scheming against Palpatine and expressing a sort of fucked up type of agency, whereas Ben himself, being a person who his whole life has really only wanted acceptance and safety, convinces himself almost until it kills him that Snoke “is wise” and a good father to him. Anakin wises up quite quickly that Palpatine is a snake after he falls to the DS. Ben’s fall not only feels much more out of his control, but much more innocent. Anakin wanted to save his wife, which is an adult fear. Ben was betrayed by his caretaker and is trying to find a safe place, which is a child fear.

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              Anakin, you’re breaking my heart, You’re going down a path I can’t follow.