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Masks by 19BBY
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
20 Dec 2022
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Anakin is one person for someone, and a completely different one for someone else. Whoever they want him to be, he becomes in their presence, trying to balance them the best he can. Sometimes, he feels all there is to him is masks.
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Because the best authors can break your heart in so many ways. A tragic tale
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fuck. and the fact that this all could be pressed into canon with very little effort makes it even more... sinister? Tragic?
I always believed the headcanon that anakin has BPD, and the lack of self-awareness and sense of self was so profound here. Him trying to give everyone what they wanted from him, while having no true image of himself, and his choice to submit himself to palpatine and condemn himself to wearing that mask for the rest of his life, only to be freed by luke to the horrifying realization that nothing in his life was truly his own personality was perfect.
i like how he ends up manipulating people without wanting to, or even meaning to. I think it adds an uncomfortable feeling and adds to the toxicity that surrounds and feeds off anakin and every interpersonal connection he ever made. it makes you wonder. -
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On good days, Anakin would joke in his own mind that he would be an excellent Shadow.
This was not a job most people would associate with him, citing his typical lack of subtlety, but Anakin thinks he could do undercover work for one reason: he is good at becoming someone else. Good at becoming what others want from him. He can change personalities on a dime, showing people what they want to see.
Maybe a better joke would be that Anakin would make a good politician, if he actually understood a thing about politics.
After all, Anakin Skywalker was a man of masks.