Revenge of the Jedi (7/17)

[elizabeth_hoot]

In the interests of practicing conciseness (...not my strength), and not beginning every post with random updates about my life, I finally caved and made a twitter account instead. Anghraine, of course.

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Title: Revenge of the Jedi (7/17)

Fanverse: Revenge of the Jedi

Blurb: Leia is guilty and restless in the Rebellion; Luke is sent

Comments

[elizabeth_hoot]

Chewie and Threepio were fun to write! Difficult, of course -- a lot of people try to represent Chewie's actual dialogue in some form, but it always jars a bit with me. Really hard to get across without dialogue, though.

Re: Anakin's obedience -- I imagine him as always inclined to creatively interpret orders and try and talk his way in/out of things. Well, that's what Luke does too. But when push comes to shove, he will obey even if he think it's wrong/stupid/whatever, which I tried to foreshadow a bit here. (We see that even with the Death Star, Revengeverse-wise. Maybe even in canon.)

And of course, that's like Luke too -- he'll try and talk his way out, but when he fails he's staring longingly at the awesome adventure landing in his lap and saying "no, I have work to do." He gets jarred out of it, though, and ends up much more consistently independent, in an odd way.

Re: Shmi's death -- you know, one of the things I found a bit startling in the prequels was how abrupt Anakin's surrenders to the Dark Side were, even with the final one foreshadowed to hell and back. Like, 'la la la he's kind of annoying but MASS MURDER la la la...' Yet Obi-Wan said back in ANH that he was seduced by the Dark Side, which gave me the impression of something slower and creepier and more gradual and insidious.

So Revenge!Anakin's fall was more like that, and there were a lot of things that pushed him down that path. Shmi's death was one of them, but as you noticed, it's not quite the leap into the deep end of the alignment pool that it is in canon. He's not using the Dark Side itself yet, just moving emotionally towards a place where he'll be capable of it (someday). I think we get the final straw in Ch 8, though.

Re: past!Anakin -- ahaha, thank you. His were absolutely my favourite scenes to write; I didn't have to worry about syntax or matching characterization/voices, didn't have to watch scenes dozens of times, but could just go and have a hell of a time smashing it into pieces and putting them together again.

And ... while I didn't think of Revenge as a whole as a fix-fic, just a reimagining, Revenge!Anakin was probably one of the places where it did cross over to that. I don't mean having baby!Luke and such -- but the basic idea with him is that I wanted him to really be that shining paragon we heard about, flawed but not especially dark or edgy. Just this legitimately heroic space paladin who took one slightly wayward step and another slightly more significant one, and on and on until he ... sauntered vaguely downwards, as it were. So anyway, I'm really glad when people like him!