SW Drabble: Fairytales 1/1
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dangermousieTitle: Fairytales
Fandom: SW PT (xposted to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't profit, don't sue. Also, no spoilers for ROTS.
Summary: His life is a fairytale they tell children.
His life is a fairytale they tell children.
His story is that of contrasts, of hopes met, expectations fulfilled. The proof that the world is just.
He was a child who had destroyed an armada. A slave who married a queen. The oldest pupil the Jedi have ever taken, but who became the greatest hero of them all.
“You too can be like Anakin Skywalker,” parents repeat to their children. Or “do you think Anakin would be afraid of the dark?” The children drink it in, wide-eyed. Some of them dream of meeting him, someday. They want to fight by his side and save the world. They don't realize there is no world to save. Not for him.
The fairytale is simple, and clean, and sane. It is pure like a child drawing is pure: all straight lines and colors a bit too bright. There is no pain, no anger, no fear. No loss so complete it cleaves the Universe in two: the before, when life had meaning, and the after when there was nothing, not even the void.
In the fairytale, Shmi’s blood does not seep through his fingers. The Tusken village lives on undisturbed. Qui-Gon travels through space with his gentle smile, and Obi-Wan is proud of his padawan. There is no friendship betrayed, no freedom collapsing, no trust unkept. Padme is dressed in spring and he’s protected her from everyone, even himself.
In the fairytale, the child hero who has always finished his meals and always, always listened to his parents, rides off into the sunsets of a thousand suns, his Queen and his Jedi sword at his side.
Slave hero, Jedi Knight, Husband of Padme Amidala, Lord of the Sith. Darth Vader steps forward, imprisoned in his armor. The fairytales are done.
End.
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In other news, you know when you had too much SW on the brain when: I dreamt that I saw ROTS. There were some scenes that will definitely not be in the movie (Jeremy Irons' Crusader as a Sith? That's fandoms run amock). And I was very dissapointed in a P/A storyline I find really important not being there. I was also watching it in a large unknown movie-theater with my father (even thhough I haven't lived at home for almost 9 years and my folks are NOT SW fans) and a bunch of girls I don't know but who were huge SW fans. My flist, perhaps? :) I woke up and it took me a minute or two to realize I haven't seen ROTS yet as it wasn't the 16th. I was very glad of the fact as I would have hated the storyline gone. :D I am officially in need of therapy.
Fandom: SW PT (xposted to
padmeanakin)Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't profit, don't sue. Also, no spoilers for ROTS.
Summary: His life is a fairytale they tell children.
His life is a fairytale they tell children.
His story is that of contrasts, of hopes met, expectations fulfilled. The proof that the world is just.
He was a child who had destroyed an armada. A slave who married a queen. The oldest pupil the Jedi have ever taken, but who became the greatest hero of them all.
“You too can be like Anakin Skywalker,” parents repeat to their children. Or “do you think Anakin would be afraid of the dark?” The children drink it in, wide-eyed. Some of them dream of meeting him, someday. They want to fight by his side and save the world. They don't realize there is no world to save. Not for him.
The fairytale is simple, and clean, and sane. It is pure like a child drawing is pure: all straight lines and colors a bit too bright. There is no pain, no anger, no fear. No loss so complete it cleaves the Universe in two: the before, when life had meaning, and the after when there was nothing, not even the void.
In the fairytale, Shmi’s blood does not seep through his fingers. The Tusken village lives on undisturbed. Qui-Gon travels through space with his gentle smile, and Obi-Wan is proud of his padawan. There is no friendship betrayed, no freedom collapsing, no trust unkept. Padme is dressed in spring and he’s protected her from everyone, even himself.
In the fairytale, the child hero who has always finished his meals and always, always listened to his parents, rides off into the sunsets of a thousand suns, his Queen and his Jedi sword at his side.
Slave hero, Jedi Knight, Husband of Padme Amidala, Lord of the Sith. Darth Vader steps forward, imprisoned in his armor. The fairytales are done.
End.
____________
In other news, you know when you had too much SW on the brain when: I dreamt that I saw ROTS. There were some scenes that will definitely not be in the movie (Jeremy Irons' Crusader as a Sith? That's fandoms run amock). And I was very dissapointed in a P/A storyline I find really important not being there. I was also watching it in a large unknown movie-theater with my father (even thhough I haven't lived at home for almost 9 years and my folks are NOT SW fans) and a bunch of girls I don't know but who were huge SW fans. My flist, perhaps? :) I woke up and it took me a minute or two to realize I haven't seen ROTS yet as it wasn't the 16th. I was very glad of the fact as I would have hated the storyline gone. :D I am officially in need of therapy.
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Date: 2005-04-22 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-22 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-22 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-22 09:32 pm (UTC)Alternatively, like many a fairytale, it would be something told many years in the future, and garbled. To be vague in case people who read this are spoiler-free, by the end of ROTS people might very well know about the relationship (wanna know more, ask me tomorrow). Certainly, after the end of ROTJ, I'd imagine the truth whatever it is would dribble out. But of course, like any fairytale, it would stop at the HEA and ignore everything else. After all, fairytales don't have to be true, which is the whole point of the drabble.
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Date: 2005-04-22 09:43 pm (UTC)I also assumed you probably meant it as metaphor.
But personally, I really like the idea of it--as you said--gaining an identity of its own without the ending, being passed on from mother to child as this wonderful story, long after Anakin is Vader, long after Luke even, and no-one knowing how his story really ends.
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Date: 2005-04-22 09:47 pm (UTC)The same way that when I was very little I dreamt of meeting Peter Pan. It's not anything you expect to happen. But boy do you like to play at it.
personally, I really like the idea of it--as you said--gaining an identity of its own
I like that too. A story stripped to the bare outlines, all nuances gone. And the ending made "better"
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Date: 2005-04-22 10:14 pm (UTC)You too?!!!
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Date: 2005-04-22 10:16 pm (UTC)You think it's genetic?
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Date: 2005-04-22 09:36 pm (UTC)Hee. I love fandom dreams. I once had this dream where I was Claire, the pregnant woman from "Lost", and I was married to Draco Malfoy. I gave birth to a thumb-sized baby, which is a joke from
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Date: 2005-04-22 09:37 pm (UTC)Mrs Draco? ROFL.
Yeah, I have fandom dreams sometimes, but not very often. I get lucid dreaming quite often too, and when you combine that with fandom dreams, amusing things happen.
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Date: 2005-04-23 04:57 am (UTC)I have yet to have any ROTS dreams ;). It appears you have also seen many ads for Kingdom of Heaven.
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Date: 2005-04-23 05:05 am (UTC)seen many ads for Kingdom of Heaven
Too many, it would seem :)
The funny thing is, in my groggy just-wake-up state I kept having to reassure myself I haven't seen the movie because it wasn't the 19th, because I was so upset about the cut out P/A bits :)
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Date: 2005-04-23 10:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-23 02:30 pm (UTC)