….and of course, heh, Yondu and Anakin have almost the same story (kept as slaves for their entire childhoods, finding a new ‘family’ only to betray them by making a deal with a shady godlike figure, having a moral event horizon that involves the killing of children, and finding some sort of redemption by dying for their sons.)
….Yondu’s crimes were on a much smaller scale, but still.
so vader has a mental happy au where he saves mace, kills palpatine, padme becomes supreme chancellor, and they have a kid named after qui-gon, and this is what he dreams about whenever he’s resting rip