I absolutely fucking love how Anakin Skywalker, despite it brining all sorts of problems and pains over and over again, undoubtedly trusts people, believes in them and shows them just how much he cares. Unlike other Jedi who are compassionate but distant, Anakin is compassionate and open. He trusts and respects his droids because he treats them like friends (and not like servants, maybe because he knows what it’s like to be treated like one), and that has brought him inconveniences and dangers many times but think about how many times it saved him and others!
He trusts, believes and shows affection to his padawan, even when the entire world turns against her. And guess what? He turns out to be right. He truly cares about her, and Ahsoka knows that, and when Luminara asks, whether he’s ready to let her go one day, he cannot answer because it’s too hard. Letting go of those you love, accepting their passing from your life, the more you love them, the harder it is. And Anakin’s problem is that he can’t let go; he loves too strongly. But how many times has that saved his friends? How many times has he refused to give up on them, and turned out to be right? How many times have they saved themselves and others because of what he taught them, told them, because of the love and care and faith they received from him?
He trusts and cares about Padme most of all. He even says that in one of the clone wars episodes, that there is nothing more important to him that his feelings for her. He saves her many times, and she saves him, but even more times he shows her how much he believes in her, how he’s impressed, how he is scared for her, and yet gets over his fears and trusts her. That’s why I get livid when somebody says that Anakin is a bad husband. He is literally so many good things: loyal, passionate, faithful, caring, kind, supportive. He isn’t perfect, and that’s what pisses people off. And the way his love twists at the end of the story, the way his fears and love turn into terrible actions caused by blind rage, terror and confusion, that’s real tragedy.
To me, that’s what has always been so tragic about Star Wars and Anakin. It’s a story about how good traits in a person, their immense love can cross a line and blur into all the wrong things. It’s about how good people become monsters not because of the lack of love but because of its excess. That is truly horrifying, the fact that you can love to the point of utter and complete destruction.