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OMFG! Anakin might do ~something~ *pearl clutch* (darkforcerising) wrote in makebelievelog,
@ 2013-10-10 22:48:00

Entry tags:

anakin skywalker, mara jade

Who: Anakin and Mara
What: Talking, because they have a lot to talk about
When: Wednesday Evening
Where: Castle Gardens
Rating/Warnings: Maybe some discussions of mature things like abuse and torture? Don’t know yet. Will update if necessary
Status: In progress/Closed

Anakin reached the spot they’d agreed upon and crossed him arms. He looked towards the fading sunset – he was fourteen years removed from Tatooine, and yet he still felt one sun was off putting.

He tried to calm his nerves. He’d trained for so long as a Jedi, this should come naturally. But his emotions were still sparks on edge, ready to crackle to life. He had nothing against Mara, in fact, what little he knew of her he liked. She was a strong personality, he could see how some might not like it, but he was not counted among them.

But she knew him, a version of him. Vader was still him, just his hatred and anger more amplified. Darker, more dangerous, damned. She knew him as someone complicit, if not actively apart of, the abuse of her early life. He couldn’t expect her to look past that, even though he’d yet to do those things.

He saw this meeting as more an opportunity to say they’d talked, and then they would leave it at that.

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lifeyoulive
2013-10-25 06:20 am UTC (link)

"That is true I didn't have that opportunity, but even when I was on the Dark Side I still had compassion. I did not always kill the marks I was given." Mara explained. "I had the capacity to still make the choice. Sometimes I would spare their lives, others I chose to kill. Perhaps that is Palpatine's doing and my upbringing, but the fact of the matter is, I was fully capable of making the choice." Despite being an assassin for Palpatine, not even being raised on the Dark Side of the Force could completely squelch her capacity for compassion for others.

That thought gave Mara pause momentarily as something Obi-Wan had told her clicked. "Master Kenobi has a point, perhaps my tendency always was to the Light Side." It certainly seemed that way as she reflected back on that. Of course, hindsight was always 20/20, but things also sometimes made a lot more sense that way.

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darkforcerising
2013-10-27 12:33 am UTC (link)

Anakin was silent for some time. He heard Mara’s resolution to not be persuaded from her own guilt, Anakin had that same resolve and didn’t give in when Obi-Wan pushed him to let it go. Somehow he just knew Mara would be the same. There was no use arguing that with her.

“Ahh,” Anakin noted. “I see you’ve already spoken to Master Obi-Wan. And you both seem to have survived, that’s commendable.”

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lifeyoulive
2013-10-27 03:19 am UTC (link)

Mara couldn't help but let out a laugh at Anakin's comment. "We have indeed spoken. He didn't denounce me and the New Jedi Order either." She smirked a bit up at Anakin. "Though I admit there have may been a moment when I wanted to strangle him, but I refrained from such action. Keeping the peace and all of that."

The smirk turned into a bit of a smile. "We actually had quite the conversation, I have to say. I wasn't actually expecting our first conversation to be that in-depth. But I think he and I can very much co-exist peacefully. For the most part."

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darkforcerising
2013-10-31 08:36 am UTC (link)

“That reaction to Master Obi-Wan is not unusual. He means well, but he’s very stubborn and set in his way of thinking – he is right and it is everyone else who is wrong.”

Oh, how many times had Anakin butted heads with his former Master and that frustrated.

“But I am glad you did not strangle him, and that you have found a way to live peacefully together under the same roof. He is my mentor and without him I’m not as good a person as I ought to be.”

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lifeyoulive
2013-11-01 12:57 am UTC (link)

"At least I didn't have a reaction to him that was out of the ordinary," Mara quipped. She had picked up quickly on the fact that Obi-Wan was rather set in his beliefs. Yet despite that, she'd had a pleasant conversation with the man. Though perhaps that had something to do with the fact she held the rank of Jedi Master and wasn't a Knight.

"Fear not, I will not do any harm to him. Though if he decides that both myself and the New Jedi Order are just completely heretical to what the Code means, then things might be different."

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darkforcerising
2013-11-01 10:32 am UTC (link)

“I haven’t figured out what he thinks for sure yet. We had off-shoot schools of thought in our time. Heretics, Master Yoda labeled them. They were quiet, usually passed detection because they didn’t bring a lot of attention to themselves. Master Obi-Wan was raised to believe their way of thinking was as good as courting your imminent fall. I don’t think he appreciated it when I pointed out all the Jedi Palpatine courted and turned from the Order, and then compared that to the list of none from the Heretics.”

Anakin walked a few steps in silence.

“It’s hard to let go of what you think you must do to be a good person, especially when you don’t want to harm someone.”

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lifeyoulive
2013-11-03 04:18 am UTC (link)

"I doubt he would appreciate such a thing, but when it comes down to it, causing a Jedi from the Order to Fall has far more merits to it than making one from the so-called Heretical Jedi Fall." Mara did agree with that statement. "Making a Jedi Fall to the Dark Side only solidified how powerful Palpatine was as a Sith Lord, and power is everything to the Sith. Well, power among other things, but power is certainly very high on the list."

Mara nodded a bit. "It is not easy, nor is it easy to let go of how you were raised and take on another set of beliefs. That is only something you can do when you are ready to undertake such a thing. No one else can force you into it, it is a choice only you yourself can make." Which was why she wasn't going to continually bombard Obi-Wan with the fact it was perfectly fine to have attachments to people. That's not how embracing a new way of thinking went.

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