i wrote my vaguely loustat-inspired take on the padmé brings a knife to mustafar concept! basically 2k words of anakin dying and padmé spiraling which some would argue is the truest form of romance
ao3: https://t.co/2mpTdjX1ye
@self_resid29444 killing mace and choking padmé so he doesn’t really need to learn his lesson there. he knew that what he was doing was wrong from the very beginning
y’all talk about anakin skywalker like he’s a real guy who killed your family and not a fictional character who was in fact redeemed within the narrative of the movies you like
@self_resid29444 redemption doesn’t mean he atoned for every individual wrong thing he did but he turned from evil at the cost of his own life and the movies frame that as him letting the good in him win out over evil and that is redemption in a narrative sense. also he immediately regretted+
@rider2221390689 vader killing sidious at the cost of his own life was him putting an end to the horror he helped start and that’s a pretty straightforward eleventh hour redemption if you ask me. either way he’s redeemed within the narrative whether you think it works or not is a separate convo
“he can’t be redeemed” he can be because the guy who made him up said he could be and then made his redemption the climax of the saga. he’s not on trial. he is fake
@damnitdani i love maul and i honestly love a lot of his post resurrection storylines (and it might just be the swc fumes but i am looking forward to the show!) but it is an incredibly stupid retcon like fundamentally lol
The “Ahsoka should’ve died in Rebels” take is so funny because Maul, despite being dead, is getting his own show yet I for one haven’t seen anyone saying recently to leave his character be