Part three of a set of Obi-Wan in Tatooine for commonplacecaz to go with her awesome fic on the topic. The fic is about different shades of isolation, I think, and I hope that the illustrations are corresponding to that.
if you don’t acknowledge that platonic relationships might be the most important ones in somebody’s life, just remember that the trap that vader & palpatine tried to set for luke at cloud city pretty completely relied on that fact and sith lords are officially better at this than you are
do
do you think they somehow figured out that was the only way this was gonna work for them
like i don’t know how you’d even figure out but
do you think palps was just like “aw yeah. gonna corrupt another skywalker. easy-peasy. same as last time. we just gotta wait for him to fall in love and – OH COME ON”
it’s even better because luke is a pretty friendly dude, so presumably palpatine had to go through all the spy reports and figure out who his BFFs were out of basically the entire rebel alliance. his gunner dak? fellow pilot wedge antilles?? who?????
meanwhile vader’s lurking in a corner going “wow my son has so many friends, he must be a great guy. do you… do you think he’d like me?”
“HE IS A TRAITOR ON THE RUN FROM THE EMPIRE, HOW DOES HE EVEN MEET ALL THESE PEOPLE,” shouts palpatine as he scrolls through tagged photo after tagged photo on rebel facebook.
this is the best caption anyone else has added to this post since i made it thank you for your contribution
Vader is not quite okay with the whole Imperial slavery thing, and Sidious gives him a nice rationalization to tell himself when he gets hit by those pesky doubts.
I’d like something like this to be replicated in the new extended canon.
I never once thought about how anti-slavery Darth Vader would be. It makes a lot of sense.
…….are they standing in the exact same place where Anakin had his last civil conversation with Obi-Wan?
