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Inspired by this super cute drawing: time-travel AU in which Padawan!Anakin (age 15 or so) and Darth Vader (pre-ANH) both end up in the Clone Wars.
Padawan!Anakin is feeling scared (what in the world is happening? How did he end up here? Where is here? Or when? Why is the Republic in the midst of a war?) so he clings to his bond with his Master (thankfully intact, though weaker than it should be) and uses it to track down Obi-Wan. He steals a speeder from the Temple (is it really stealing when he’s a Jedi though and those speeders are meant for Jedi to use?) and goes to find Obi-Wan, who’s currently in the middle of a battle on some planet somewhere with Anakin, the 501st, and the 212th.
On the other side of the galaxy, Vader appears, has no idea what just happened or how but recognizes immediately that he’s back in the past. He continues on his quest to find Obi-Wan (as he has been obsessed with doing for years anyway), only this time it’s easier because Obi-Wan is actively using the Force and not shielding against him and not in hiding. He realizes that this Obi-Wan still cares about him and hasn’t betrayed him yet so he starts thinking that maybe he can sway this one to his side and into helping him topple Sidious (they can rule the Empire together, him and this Obi-Wan who’s still loyal to him!).
So basically, Anakin and Obi-Wan are in the middle of a battle when Padawan!Anakin and Darth Vader both show up. And suddenly, Obi-Wan’s faced with three versions of Anakin who are all clamoring for his attention and affection.
…..he has a splitting headache.
(Anakin is so not amused.)
Heh, I think Anakin would probably come to recognize Padawan!Anakin pretty quick and not feel too threatened by him at first, but Vader? I could see him being all, “Who the fuck is this guy, Grievous’ second cousin?!”
Of course, when Padawan!Anakin proceeds to cling to Obi-Wan and look everything with big, wary eyes and generally act like the little shit that Anakin was (still is), he’d probably be all, “Please ffs do not introduce this kid to Ahsoka! She does not need to see how uncool I was!”
Meanwhile, Vader’s finding that having to compete with two of his previous selves is not what he had in mind here. Kidnapping Obi-Wan and getting him to turn him to the Dark Side so they can put their monograms on anything and everything in the galaxy, yes, but his braided Padawan self and his broody Clone Wars self? Not so much. Though, watching Obi-Wan’s obvious care for those two selves really makes Vader nostalgic for those days when Obi-Wan clearly loved him and how the fuck was he so blind to that when he was that broody Clone Wars self? Clearly the Dark Side offers clarity on how people feel about you. Obviously.
Vader to Anakin: I’m you but stronger.
Anakin: Uh, I don’t think so, buddy. You can barely move in that thing and you sound like you have some kind of fatal respiratory illness. Who the fuck did this shoddy of a job with your suit? There’s like a million things wrong with it. What happens in the future that technology’s slid back a hundred years?
Obi-Wan: Anakin, be nice. He’s clearly been through a lot.
Anakin: I am being nice! I’ll even fix up his suit for him! Or, I mean, maybe we can get it replaced with better options.
Anakin to Padawan Anakin: And you. Let go of Obi-Wan. It’s not very Jedi-like to cling like that. *internally raging because this is his Obi-Wan, Force damnit*
Padawan Anakin: Pffftttt. *clings tighter*
Obi-Wan: Anakin, don’t yell. He’s clearly frightened. Don’t you remember being that age?
Anakin, muttering: All too well.
Padawan!Anakin gets the lay of the land pretty quickly. They’re in the middle of a fucking war, his slightly older self has somehow gotten a stick up his ass about Obi-Wan, and his even older self is clearly in a bad way (no doubt, in his mind, due to the fact of Slightly Older Self’s stick - he’s sure that has something to do with it). So he might offer to help Even Older Self with rebuilding the suit (though he does love the color - black is awesome and all that), but he’s not letting go of Obi-Wan, not no way not no how. Because Obi-Wan is safety, and it pisses Slightly Older Self off, which is an even better bonus than building a new life-support suit for Even Older Self.
Meanwhile, Cody and Rex are silently watching all of this take place.
Cody: JFC there’s three of them now, Rex. Three fucking Skywalkers.
Rex: How long ‘til the galaxy implodes do you think?
Clone Wars!Anakin: Hey!
Vader: *wonders what he has become infected with because he has a sudden urge to stick his tongue out at the two*
Obi-Wan now hilariously walks around with Padawan!Anakin literally clinging to him, Vader (who’s being very tight-lipped and even more tightly shielded about what happened to him) trailing behind him because he’ll be damned if he lets Obi-Wan out of his sight now that he’s finally found him, and CW!Anakin stomping along with them because there’s absolutely no way in hell he’s going to leave his other two selves alone with his Obi-Wan.
Cody and Rex don’t know whether to avoid the three Skywalkers because when the universe does implode, they’ll be at the center of it or to follow Obi-Wan too because he’s probably the only one who can keep all the Skywalkers in line. Maybe.
Imagine the Council’s reaction, though, if they found out about all the Anakins! Mace would probably resign immediately and Yoda would decide “good time to die, now is.”
Obi-Wan at this point doesn’t know whether to laugh of cry. One Anakin has the power to drive him to insanity. Now there are three of them? Though, Padawan!Anakin does serve to remind him of how cute his padawan was back in the day… As for Vader, he is very curious (and concerned) as to how Anakin ended up in that shoddy suit (even he can tell it’s a piece of crap, and he’s no technowiz like Anakin). His current money is on Dooku, and if the old man comes near his Anakin, he will not be held responsible for the consequences. Seriously.
Speaking of his Anakin… Obi-Wan has to exert all of his Jedi control to not fall over laughing because he is so concerned about suddenly being replaced. That will never happen. He’ll look after their two visitors and help them as best he can, but he’s not going to leave his Anakin. That will never happen.
(Since Obi-Wan isn’t particularly shielding, Vader picks up on that last bit, and is glad that the loud breathing of the suit covers up the small, hiccuping sob that slips past his lips.)
Meanwhile, just imagine when Palpatine finds out. Three Chosen Ones! I’m pretty sure there will be a party, if only in his own mind.
Though, Vader will make a point of staying the fuck away from him (he is planning on murdering the shit out of him with Obi-Wan’s help in the near future, after all), and he is smart enough to cause a few incidents that will keep his Padawan self and the Broody Brat away from him too.
(Oh, and he might cause something to happen that will keep Palpatine away from Padmé for the time being too. He’s had his suspicions about her death for a while now, and his number one suspect is the wrinkly old prune.)
First of all, lmao @ Broody Brat! (Vader, griping to himself: That Broody Brat doesn’t understand Obi-Wan! He doesn’t appreciate him. He takes him for granted. He shouldn’t get to be with him. It’s not fair. I would appreciate Obi-Wan. I’d set up all the best research stations money and intimidation can buy. I’d give him the most comfortable meditation chamber ever. I’d build a replica of the Room of a Thousand Fountains for him!)
Secondly, when I had written this, I was apparently thinking of Padawan Anakin being around 16….I have no idea if there was any particular reason why I did that (maybe because he was going to end up in the middle of a war? Maybe so that he and Ahsoka would be around the same age? Hm….well, I was going to say that it’d probably be cuter he if was just a bit younger, like 14 or something. But now I kinda like the idea of him and Ahsoka being about the same age.
And Palpatine may be happy about all the possibilities but while there’s three Chosen Ones, two of them are still in the Light and the one in the Dark is plotting his death. Also, they all seem to have imprinted on Obi-Wan even more than they already were.
I’m also gonna add these tags by @themikeymonster here (from this reblog):
#cries for seven million years #obi-wan eventually need some time alone #he’s adjusted to the pure neediness of ONE anakin #(given that he was pretty needy himself - well no wonder he and anakin are weirdly co-dependent) #but having three around - two of which are sending the third in fits of jealousy #is just way too much #please don’t consider what would happen if Padme came into the picture #Obi-Wan tries foisting knight!anakin off on his wife (as if he didn’t KNOW) #only to accidentally sic vader on her bc wiiiiifeeeeeeee ;A; #Knight!Ana immediately launches into hysterics #meanwhile P!Anakin is more or less okay with this #He’s ticked off about Padme being MARRIED #but she IS married to him or will in the future so he G U E S S E S this is fine #He can have Obi-Wan to himself for now #and Knight!Ana is just lwefjiowjefoi!!!!!!!! the entire time #bc NO NO NO EVERYONE IS HIS #BOTH OF THEM NEED TO STEP OFF RIGHT NOW IMMEDIATELY #also someone please do something for Vader’s poor health and constant pain D: #my quadriplegic mecha son ;w; #vader constantly thieving obi wan and padme tho
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*snickers* Vader definitely starts keeping a tally of all the ways the Broody Brat is annoying and makes a list of all the things he’ll do for Obi-Wan. He’ll capture Maul for Obi-Wan to experiment on, thereby avenging Qui-Gon’s death and preventing Satine from being offed in an extremely unnecessary way! He’ll see if he can find more of the Geonosian Queen’s brain worms for Obi-Wan to play with (in proper safety, of course - no worm is going to infect his Obi-Wan!), etc.
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Lol, Palpatine wouldn’t even be able to meet with Anakin anymore; he’s absolutely refusing to leave Obi-Wan with his other selves, even to meet with his friend the Chancellor. (He can always find the Chancellor later, after all. Who knows what will happen to Obi-Wan or where his other selves might drag him to if Anakin isn’t around to watch them like a hawk?)
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*giggles* Anakin is totally terrified that one of his other selves might kidnap Obi-Wan and try and take him back to wherever they came from (even if, technically, Padawan!Anakin likely has an Obi-Wan waiting for him). Vader in particular seems to be watching Obi-Wan closely, even if he hasn’t yet tried to cuddle Obi-Wan to his chest like a kitten. (It’s just a matter of time, CW!Anakin frets.)
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Omg, I want to see Vader cuddling Obi-Wan to him like a kitten. It would totally be a mutual cuddlefest. (CW!Anakin really does not want to think about what might have happened to Vader’s Obi-Wan but going by his reactions to Obi-Wan and Padme, they’ve been thinking that everyone’s probably dead in Vader’s future and Vader was the lone survivor and probably Fell from grief and anger.)
And yessss to those memories that Vader’s compiling for Obi-Wan. He just has to be really careful not to let Obi-Wan see even a hint of their fight on Mustafar.
The only thing that could improve upon a galaxy that has THREE Anakin Skywalkers - not to mention the only thing that could potentially keep it from spontaneously exploding from an overdose of Skywalker - is simply this: an equivalent number of Obi-Wan Kenobis.
The same Time Fuckery that led to three versions of Anakin existing simultaneously deposits an equivalent number of Obi-Wans in the Clone Wars era. Knight Kenobi, Jedi Master Kenobi, and Old Ben Kenobi (who may or may not be Darth Venge, a la @deadcatwithaflamethrower) are now face-to-face with both themselves and their respective Anakin(s).
…CW!Anakin is actually pretty damn relieved. At least at first. His younger self - Padawan Skywalker, to avoid confusion - launches himself from his Obi-Wan’s side like a jet-propelled rocket, happily burrowing into his Master’s arms. Good, CW!Anakin thinks to himself. Maybe his brat of a younger self will leave his Obi-Wan alone now. He happily anticipates the same thing occurring with his jackass of an older self and an older Obi-Wan, except…
Except.
Um.
Well.
This was unexpected?
Except Vader’s Obi-Wan looks old and heartbroken and if he’s holding himself together through sheer will and bits of tattered string. He looks awful - he looks as if someone sucked everything out of him - life, vitality, laughter - and filled him up with PAIN and a bottomless sorrow. He looks, in short, as if something really really really FUCKING BAD happened to him.
Vader is probably actually really surprised, and a little taken aback. In his memories, his Obi-Wan stands, remote and serene, coldly passing down judgement as he left him to burn. He’s - he’s not this wreck of a man, who stinks of agony and a three-day bender, whose eyes are empty of hope or even the wish to see tomorrow.
…he actually looks so damn bad that even Vader has the urge to get him a cup of tea and a soft chair and a medpack, sweet Force, because he looks as if whatever happened to Vader happened to him, too. Only - only on the inside, on his soul, not on his body.
(If this Obi-Wan happens to also be Darth Venge, everyone - including Vader - is probably going to be completely taken aback. Because what in the world could have made Obi-Wan Kenobi Fall? Venge simply laughs, soft and bitter and broken. ‘You, Anakin. I Fell for you.’)
