darththalia (darththalia) wrote in tpm_flashback, @ 2004-08-07 00:06:00 |
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Original poster: kyuuketsukirui
This is a recent story (earlier this year or late last year, I think) but it's so good it needs to be recced as much as possible. And if you are a hardcore OTPer do not pass this up just because Anakin's in it; it's very much Q/O.
Title: A Crown of Hollow Stars
Author: Mirabella
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Qui/Obi, Obi/Anakin
Warnings: None
Author's e-mail, web site and/or LJ id: alt_mailbox @ yahoo.com; http://theguestroom.houseofhobbits.c
Link to story: http://theguestroom.houseofhobbits.c
Reasons for recommending: Where do I start? This is seriously the best Star Wars fic I've ever read. It's a glimpse at Anakin becoming Vader and it's just so real. I read it and I think yes, this is how someone could set their foot on that path. You can see the progression; it's perfect.
Quote from story: There are so many. If I could quote the whole fic, I would, but I think this says it best.
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He is a Jedi now, powerful as he dreamed of being, no longer a small child who too often felt helpless; and the distance between want and take and mine seems a distance that should be closed as easily as the few feet between him and Obi-Wan.
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More: How many times can I say how brilliant this is? More quotes!
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He wants, so much that it drowns out even the voice of the living Force, so much that there is nothing left of him but the wanting, and it terrifies him.
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Anakin is still young, and is in many ways unclear on how exactly the universe can be made right. But he knows that serenity is an impossible ideal, that the Jedi Code is obsolete, and as the bird suffocates he begins to understand that the Force is the most powerful tool in the galaxy but still only a tool, and a tool does not care what hand uses it or for what purpose. All his life Anakin has searched for purpose. He believes that it exists, that there is something that is worth paying for with something more than his life. But it is not here, in this garden, in this Temple, in the Force.