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milliways_bar2020-05-04 01:54 pm
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May the Fourth Be With The All Skate
The bar shifts, or it changed when no one was looking, and now resembles a certain cantina popular with the villainy and scum, as well as more upstanding folks. The air is dryer than usual, and a taste of grit and sand just hangs in the air. It just makes you want some blue milk doesn't it?
Has your character changed? Perhaps...who can tell? The Landlord I suppose but they aren't talking.
[ooc: HI and Welcome to a Star Wars themed All Skate, the best way to celebrate May the Fourth! Party style post. You do not have to interact with any of my characters to play.
The Rules are simple:
- This post, and any post with the subject heading ALL SKATE are open to everyone.
That means old characters, new characters, retired characters, doubles of characters, original characters, non-canon compliant characters.
- We will all play nice and adhere to Wheaton's Law: Don't be a dick.
- Gratuitous behavior, either of a violent or sexual nature, will not be tolerated in the Comm. Take that to an OOM, and then Content Warning the hell out of it before you link it.
- Communication is paramount. Everyone's keyed up, let's just have some fun.]
Has your character changed? Perhaps...who can tell? The Landlord I suppose but they aren't talking.
[ooc: HI and Welcome to a Star Wars themed All Skate, the best way to celebrate May the Fourth! Party style post. You do not have to interact with any of my characters to play.
The Rules are simple:
- This post, and any post with the subject heading ALL SKATE are open to everyone.
That means old characters, new characters, retired characters, doubles of characters, original characters, non-canon compliant characters.
- We will all play nice and adhere to Wheaton's Law: Don't be a dick.
- Gratuitous behavior, either of a violent or sexual nature, will not be tolerated in the Comm. Take that to an OOM, and then Content Warning the hell out of it before you link it.
- Communication is paramount. Everyone's keyed up, let's just have some fun.]
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No. That's a bad train of thought.
Also, she said what now about crudeness? Of course it's not crude, Luke clearly intuitively understands what actual elegance is, and it's a much better first attempt than most of the younglings in--
the temple burned
"Of course it's," he snaps again, exactly as reflexively before, and then his breathing actually, legitimately stumbles. "... untutored."
He is Darth Vader, fist of the Emperor. He is absolutely not stumped looking for a point she can't tear apart in an instant and he knows she will. Skywalker may have been weak but he taught his apprentice to always look for weaknesses in others.
I am not weak. I killed him.
"Which is hardly surprising," there he's got it now, "considering Kenobi's abominable neglect in developing the boy's natural talents." Which come from him so clearly they're the best.
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"Anakin may have died within you, but he lives on in me and he will continue to do so. His kindness and good deeds will not be forgotten."
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Which he needs, badly, because she is ticking him off quite thoroughly. "If that is true, the longer you cling to his weaknesses," he hisses, "the easier it will be to destroy what is left of him."
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"I see you've repaired your mask."
Then a beat later. "You know of Anakin's son then." Oh, she knows she should say 'your' son' but if he doesn't want to be Anakin, he doesn't get that distinction. "A pitty Obi-Wan didn't get to train him properly, but I gather his uncle didn't approve."
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But. Well. She had outlived her Master. She was always talented.
The vocoder rumbles briefly with a suppressed snarl. "I see you learned to navigate the Sith temple."
(Anakin Skywalker would have added "took you long enough" as a friendly jibe, if it were Obi-wan. Ahsoka would have always gotten concern first. Anakin was responsible for her.)
(Vader does not say it. Any unspoken implications in it are not friendly.)
Perhaps surprisingly, he does not react to her use of Skywalker's name. Again there's a short variance in his breathing, though--one which is absolutely, definitely a huff that in Anakin Skywalker would accompany a noticeable rolling his eyes. There's certainly no way to prove it, with his eyes hidden. The crossed arms are less deniable.
"Kenobi was as weak-willed as he was foolish to think he could keep the boy from me," Vader opines portentiously, "if he let an ignorant and incapable moisture farmer dictate the terms of the boy's education."
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Smugly, she says, "Oh I wouldn't worry about that too much. He'll come to you I am sure."
She takes a sip of her tea. A nice long pull.
"And there are more types of strength than you will ever know."
"The temple was a challenge, I'll admit. The Dark side there plays tricks with perceptions, but the Light proved stronger and truer."
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Vader stares at her.
She's supposed to be concerned about this. And she's smiling. And drinking tea. And being serene. And frankly talking so much like a Jedi that he briefly wonders if he's talking to Kenobi. He then considers strangling Ahsoka outright for it.
"Yes," he emphasizes. "He will."
There. He's won that argument. Surprisingly easily? He does not like that Ahsoka knows something he doesn't. He is itching to pick up his lightsaber and make her tell him--but if she's being so friendly, maybe there are other ways to obtain the information. Interrogation is a delicate process.
Usually involving screaming, but he'd like to avoid Security.
"A typically naive perspective. For one who claims not to be a Jedi, you certainly--"
Beat.
Then he catches up. Finally. "He took the boy to Tatooine?"
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The smile slips a little but she turns it into a smirk long enough for her to withdraw her mind. This trick has worked before with Inquisitors, allowing her to walk right by them without notice, but Vader is a different beast altogether.
She needs a distraction and quick. To throw him off balance.
She tilts her head. "How did Padmé die? I've pieced together a lot of the events but that part has elluded me."
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He also nearly--although it was easier to catch himself, because it would sound too much like reassurance--told her that the boy already showed an aptitude for killing, given his performance at Yavin.
(It's fine, Luke is long gone.)
He knew she was Fulcrum. He should have known she had learned much about evasion and pointed strikes. (Skywalker had taught her a lot of it himself.)
The mask snaps sharply towards His control slip, and grief, guilt, helpless rage, and betrayal spiral out. Anyone--Force user or not--would feel that pain. Someone Anakin Skywalker had loved and trusted?
the air tastes of ash, she brought him, they lie
"I love you!"
the jedi were all afraid, breathing burns
"LIAR!"
lava roars, the children are still screaming, she turned against him
the force obeys, flows through his hand, no, not his-- he wouldn't hurt
"Let her go, Anakin!"
her neck so delicate beneath his hand
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Maybe she should have asked about the clone chips instead.
She takes a step back to allow more room between them and pulls her staff close. With teh Force, she pushes against the minds of anyone near them. The patrons suddenly don't want to be around them any longer.
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betrayed him, deserved it
(breathing burns)
scream of metal
(the world burns)
don't go master kill me please kill me
breathing burns
His mask shows no expression, but--much to Vader's chagrin--to someone who knows him his body language can say a great deal indeed. Now he stares blankly at the counter, fighting his way out of Mustafar (Anakin Skywalker never left Mustafar).
His hand shoots out, unseeing in Ahsoka's direction, his palm tilting up and closing as he yanks downwards and towards him.
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A cry escapes as she bends forward, face heading for the bartop. She manages to get a hand up to try and catch herself from hitting but the Force pushes her forward more so she reaches with the Force to push back.
It slows her but his push is much greater than anything she can manage and slowly she is forced down.
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She'll find her cup and pot in shards with the tea pooling around them.
Vader still isn't looking at her.
"Never say that name."
His fists closes further for a long moment--Understood, Jedi?--before he releases her altogether.
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(She is no jedi, but she understands.)
"Fair enough I suppose." She moves her head from side to side to allow her neck to flex and crack. She can give him that much.
Not that she was able to stop him.
"May I ask if you knew about the chips in the clones or is that a forbidden topic as well?"
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Both it and Vader quiet down after.
(What would the galaxy have looked like if Rex and Skywalker had listened to Fives?
No. The Emperor would have killed them, and Skywalker would have been too weak to stop it. She would have been defenseless, and Sidious would have taken--)
He doesn't even bother giving her an irritated glance for her continued attempts to... well, do what she just did. She has always been impudent. "My Master revealed his plan to me when I became his apprentice," he says at last.
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She has always been free with her opinions, he knows this. It's how she got her nickname after all.
Reaching for her tea cup, which somehow has survived this encounter, she takes a sip before setting it back down. "Anything is permissable as long as it is part of the plan."