Anakin Skywalker (herowithnofear) wrote in crownplazaic, @ 2021-05-22 11:08:00 |
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Entry tags: | !log/thread, anakin skywalker, diana prince, rey |
Who: Anakin and OPEN to multiple encounters
What: Anakin is practicing lightsaber forms in the woods
When: Today
Where: The woods
Rating/Warnings: Probably low
It wasn’t his very first lightsaber, and it wasn’t his latest from back home, but it was still his lightsaber that Anakin was wielding. He’d gone through many in his time as a Jedi. But that was neither here nor there.
He’d found an unoccupied clearing in the woods and had taken the space and opportunity to take out his lightsaber and immerse himself in practicing forms.
These weren’t the basics taught to initiates or Padawans. Not the ones Obi-Wan had somehow tricked him into holocrecording for young learners, Anakin still didn’t know how his old friend and former master had managed to get that out of him. Obi-Wan had his ways.
No, these were advanced forms, the ones he’d specialized in, had altered and perfected through years of battle on hundreds of different terrain.
He closed his eyes, he didn’t need to force blind himself with the helmets children used for practice, it just came naturally now. And he stepped easily from the first form into the next. His lightsaber’s distinctive hum slashing through the empty air around him. By now, this exercise was like an intricate dance for him, one form moving into the next, the blade leading each move, and he followed.
For Anakin, this was like meditation. At the Jedi Temple, there was one method of mediation – sitting or standing still. No movements. No motion. According to the Jedi in charge at the Temple, communing with the Force could only be achieved one way. But for Anakin, that method had always left him feeling empty and cold and dark, not full of warmth and light the other Jedi described. So he’d secretly, on accident, found a method that worked for him – mediation through movement. Or purpose. He could achieve the same effect by mediating while fixing a droid or starfighter. But he had neither here, just a lightsaber.
And a lightsaber would do just fine today.