Imagine a verse where instead of getting petulant about the perceived lack of respect, Anakin goes the other way, plays it up, being dumb and embracing awkwardness and ridiculousness and embarrassing Obi Wan and being a troll and finding this weird inner zen that saves the galaxy
Palpatine: [darkly] You know, my dear boy, it’s almost as though the Jedi Council don’t…trust you. Anakin: [sprawled on a sofa in Palpatine’s office, eating an ice cream sandwich, flowers braided into his hair] Hmm? [mouth full] Oh. It’s probably just because I’m ridiculous. [wipes his hand on the furniture]Palpatine: [disgusted, trying to clean the chocolate off his expensive custom Naboo-built sofa] B-but, surely, Anakin, you must be confused as to why they won’t make you a Jedi Master! Anakin: [bored] Nah, not really. That sounds like more work. And responsibility. Not sure why I’d want more of those things. I don’t know how to handle that stuff. [taking a series of selfies with his phone and trying to look pouty] Obi-Wan has to go to like 800 meetings a day. It sounds super boring. Palpatine: [flummoxed] The Council are…they’re probably jealous of your power, though, Anakin, I’m quite sure of it. Doesn’t…doesn’t that just…make you feel anger?Anakin: [shrugging] I dunno. [standing up, patting Palpatine on the shoulder] Anyways, thanks for inviting me over, Chancellor. Obi-Wan’s taking me for ice cream now, so…y’know. Gotta go. Palpatine: [yelling behind him as the door shuts] …but you just ate an ice cream sandwich! [sits down on his sofa, dazed, before realizing he sat on the ice cream stain]
So what you’re saying is that Anakin being more of a disaster than he is in canon would have foiled Palpatine’s plans and saved the galaxy
The Chosen One indeed 😂
You see, his options are: A) don’t be dumb and instead be competent and make responsible choices, or B) lean into the fact that he doesn’t know how to do that shit and just go Full Helpless Doofus and let the universe get saved mostly by other people. Oh sure, he’ll pitch in when he needs to because eventually the Jedi are going to need him to help them take down the Sith and all, but until then he’ll just be over here posting on the SpaceSoapOperas.com forums (because that bitch Diane is SO WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING and Anakin needs to spend an entire day dismantling her incorrect take on the latest episode of Love Under the Alderaanian Sky.)
Palpatine is going to be so, so pissed. He’s sunk all this time into brainwashing Anakin and now the guy keeps blowing him off because he decided to go get a manicure or sleep in or because he claims he forgot how the calendar app on his phone works.
Mace doesn’t know WTF has gotten into Skywalker these days, but he’s causing a lot less trouble for everybody lately so he’s not complaining. Also the Chancellor seems really peeved, and for some reason Mace finds this very satisfying. It’s almost like the Dark Side is losing strength the more irritated Palpatine gets? Huh. Weird.
Anakin is having the time of his life. He doesn’t know why he didn’t start doing this years ago.
#star wars #ideas#I’d love to read a time-travel fix it with a post-ROTJ!Anakin going this route and gleefully making Palpatine sit through increasingly ridic#ulous soap operas as he exaggeratedly weeps over the drama and–at some point full of vindictive spite–turn to Palpatine with a grin that i#is more of a snarl and go “So have you heard of the tragedy of Darth Platypus the Stupid?”#It’s a FANTASTIC show #the sequel is pretty bad though#his successor is about as cheesy as you could get#I hope his new Apprentice offs him soon#I’d rather watch a series about HIM honestly (via @rhaegina)
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