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Anakin Solo (jediheir) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2008-09-01 19:40:00

Entry tags:

ahsoka tano, anakin solo

Who: Anakin Solo and Ahsoka Tano
What: Meeting
When: This afternoon
Warnings: Probably none.

Anakin walked down the street, mostly ignored by the various passersby. In the past, if he had been looking to be ignored, he would have reached out with his mind and pushed the focus of everyone around him somewhere else, but he lived in New York. Men flew, mutants walked around in relative safety, and a young man walking around with his eyes closed didn't even raise an eyebrow.

He relied on the Force to guide him safely. If he really stretched himself, he could sense Jacen and Jaina, even several thousand miles away. Master Obi-Wan stood out like a beacon as well. The handful of other Jedi and Force-sensitives were harder, since he didn't know them as well, but he was only looking for one. Fortunately, she was looking for him, too.

A few thoughts passed through his head, the most pressing of which was the idea of dealing with explaining his grandfather. He'd never known anyone who had only known Anakin Skywalker at his best. He did the best to push the thoughts out of his mind for the moment as he realized that he had almost reached the girl.

Anakin opened his eyes and realized that he could have just watched for her. Even in New York, Togruta coloring was unusual. He walked over to the girl and sat next to her. "You're younger than I would have thought. But I started swinging a lightsaber around at eleven, what do I know?"

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notayoungling
2008-09-01 08:22 pm UTC (link)

Ahsoka couldn't help thinking of him like her Master, and she listened closely to him accordingly. It was a lot to take in at once, and she just barely held back a snarky remark about how Jedi weren't supposed to do drugs. It just all sounded so insane. But then, the proof was right in front of her. And on her head. She pushed her new hair out of her face.

"So.." she started once she had at least partially digested all of the information. "What happened after the Clone Wars?"

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jediheir
2008-09-01 09:15 pm UTC (link)

"No one really knows for sure," said Anakin, though even he knew that wasn't going to fly. "After the Clone Wars ended, the Galactic Republic died with them. Or so they say. A lot of records were destroyed or modified. But mostly, I've talked to enough people to know what happened. It's not the kind of thing that's easy to hear."

Anakin closed his eyes and envisioned his grandfather--himself, really--marching through the Jedi Temple, which looked like the Academy on Yavin IV. It lasted only a moment, and Anakin sighed. "Chancellor Palpatine was a Sith. His apprentice, Darth Vader, killed all of the Jedi living in the Jedi Temple while the Chancellor ordered all the Clone Troopers to fire on the Jedi fighting alongside them. Then he declared himself the Emperor of the Galaxy." He sighed again, hoping that his almost untruth didn't deserve much scrutiny. "That doesn't mean that you'll never see any of them again. People pop into this universe all the time, from all different kinds of places. Hell, I was killed before I ended up here."

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notayoungling
2008-09-01 09:33 pm UTC (link)

Ahsoka was quiet and her expression grave as Anakin told the story. She frowned, her brows furrowing together. It felt a little like drowning, hearing these things that occurred later--or were about to occur, really, in her world. It was hard to catch her breath. Despite all of her focus being on Anakin, she felt like she could barely understand him.

"The chancellor?" she asked, surprised. But the Jedi worked with the senate! How many missions had she and her master gone on that were initiated by the chancellor? She knew they'd lost, from Anakin's words. She had been expecting to hear of great tragedy. But to hear of such betrayal.. It was hard for Ahsoka to imagine.

And killing all of the Jedi.. So many people.. She set her jaw, trying to hold back the tears that were welling up in her eyes. She wasn't a little kid! She wasn't going to cry thinking about all of her teachers and classmates.. all of her friends.. Ahsoka was promoted early to padawan, so everyone she'd grown up with would have still been at the temple. How many people that she'd known had been killed by.. She hadn't heard of a Darth Vader. Maybe his facts were wrong. He said some of the records had been destroyed. "Darth who? Darth Tyranus?"

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jediheir
2008-09-02 03:09 pm UTC (link)

"Vader. Tyrannus was..." He'd heard the name thrown around a time or two, but no one had thought to tell him about everything that went on during the Clone Wars. Anakin's staunch refusal to watch the films ostensibly based on his homeland stemmed from having seen part of Galactic Battles Episode Six: The Lightsaber Knights' Revival and seeing what looked very much like his mother wearing what looked very much like nothing. Still, apparently he was going to have to seek out this information.

"I think that Tyrannus was killed by Anakin Skywalker. Vader was Palpatine's new apprentice. It was called the Great Jedi Purge. Master Obi-Wan barely survived, along with Master Yoda, Vima-Da-Boda, Master Ikrit--but he was lost over four hundred years ago--and a few others." Anakin was doing his best not to betray his feelings about the whole thing. He wondered how he would feel if he were told that Mara or Uncle Luke or Master Ikrit had killed thousands of people.

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	notayoungling 2008-09-02 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	'The Great Jedi Purge'... It made her skin crawl to think of it. Her friends.. Her way of life.. 'purged' from the universe, with just a few masters left. She pulled her feet up onto the bench, hugging her knees to her chest. She was quiet for a few minutes. "Is he here?" she asked softly, her eyes dark. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jediheir
2008-09-02 10:06 pm UTC (link)

"No. He died before I was born. Which isn't to say he won't be here. He was here once before, but just as people appear here sometimes, they disappear. Sometimes they're not like you remember them." Anakin paused, thinking about the look of hatred in Jaina's eyes. It haunted him. To say nothing of her hand on the ground, twitching.

"Come on, you're probably hungry." Anakin tried to make it sound like he wasn't very intentionally changing the subject. "It took me a while to get used to food around here, but there are a few things that are normal enough."

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notayoungling
2008-09-02 10:29 pm UTC (link)

Ahsoka was upset. She was hurt and she wanted this Vader to pay. He couldn't hurt anyone else. He was gone, though. She took a breath, telling herself that she should be relieved. She was still young, and she needed guidance. She was always taught that the Jedi needed to control their emotions, but it was a lot harder in practice than it was in the controlled, theoretical environment of the temple.

"Okay," she answered, her attention coming back to Anakin. She was going to follow him wherever he said she needed to go.

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jediheir
2008-09-03 04:23 am UTC (link)

Anakin could sense the emotion pouring off of his new friend as they walked together. While Uncle Luke encouraged emotion and attachment far more than the Jedi of old, Anakin was still uncomfortable with how she felt. "I know it's not easy. But you're not alone here. There are people you know, like Master Obi-Wan, and there are people to meet, like me. And people you know will probably show up."

Anakin had intended to buy Ahsoka a real meal, but right now probably wasn't the best time. "Did they have ice cream in the Jedi Temple? Holocrons were vague about desserts."

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notayoungling
2008-09-03 06:19 am UTC (link)

Anakin was right. It was really hard, but he was right. And she was supposed to be a padawan. She couldn't act like a little kid all the time. Jedi dealt with adversity all the time. She'd been in a war. She knew the costs. Or, at least, she was supposed to. Master Yoda wouldn't have sent her out there if she'd burst into tears every time someone she'd known was killed.

She was afraid to even ask what happened to her master. Maybe another time. She shook her head when Anakin asked her about ice cream.

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jediheir
2008-09-03 11:12 pm UTC (link)

"Then come on. We'll get some. It makes you feel better." It was hard to imagine going one's whole life without ice cream. Anakin hadn't had any at the Jedi Temple either, but he'd spent his training years on Yavin IV in an uninhabited forest surrounded by rocks. Ahsoka had had a formative childhood in the biggest city in the universe. He couldn't imagine not sneaking away. Maybe Jedi were better behaved when they weren't Solos.

They arrived at the ice cream parlor and Anakin ordered them both a vanilla sundae. He knew from experience that it wouldn't be long before she adjusted, but he wanted her to be comfortable as quickly as possible.

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notayoungling
2008-09-04 06:29 am UTC (link)

"Okay." She smiled a little. Ahsoka was big into following orders. It was probably part of why Yoda promoted her early. She sometimes had a bit of attitude to her, but when it came down to it, the mission was always the most important thing. Right now, the mission happened to include ice cream for the first time.

"Thanks." She sat down at the table with her sundae. "So.. What do you do if there aren't many Jedi left?" She would be lost without the Council and her master and everything. She took a bite of her ice cream. "Hey, this is good!"

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jediheir
2008-09-04 01:44 pm UTC (link)

"When I..." Anakin hesitated at using the word "died," for obvious reasons. "When I came here, it was at a time in my life that more than forty years had passed since the end of the Clone Wars. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda taught my Uncle Luke to be a Jedi. He found other people--adults, children, whoever--who could use the Force and taught them. Some of them were descendants of Jedi, others were just people that happened to be sensitive. He founded the New Jedi Order and passed on everything he knew."

Anakin paused, trying to wrap his mind around what it must be like to be informed of such a change. From what he'd heard, Jedi over about the age of two or three were fairly unusual back in the day. "We learned to use the Force and, sometimes, how not to use the Force. And then we went out into the world and did good. My sister was a fighter pilot and my mother became Chief of State, that kind of thing."

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notayoungling
2008-09-04 08:25 pm UTC (link)

She listened attentively, not opening her mouth to interrupt him, even though.. well, that hadn't been exactly what she meant. It was still eye-opening, and she was glad he was telling her. Adults being trained to be Jedi? She'd heard that Anakin was older than most when he was accepted to the temple, but that was the exception. It had caused problems with the council. Her promotion might have, too. The council could sometimes get stuck on rules.

"Really?" The idea of having professions outside of being a Jedi was strange to her. Sure, the Jedi worked with politicians and with the military.. But they were Jedi first. "Forty years makes a lot of difference," she marveled. Her mood seemed to be lighter now, as she loaded her spoon up with chocolate syrup. "But.. What do you do here?" She hadn't seen much, but the tech seemed really low compared to what she was used to. The vehicles were all on the ground. Maybe it was a really primitive world, and Anakin would show her the more advanced ones later.

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jediheir
2008-09-05 11:25 pm UTC (link)

"What do I do? I have a job at a detective agency. Sometimes it's something as simple as getting a kitty out of a tree, sometimes it's private investigating. Sometimes we're forced to be... bounty hunters." The word was sour in his mouth, as it was with most Solos. The fact that Jedi were technically meant to uphold the law didn't necessarily mean he approved of people who hunted down those who broke it.

"I build things and perform maintenance as well. Mostly on their 'computers.'" Anakin made air quotes, leaving his spoon floating in the air without a thought. "People do what they like to do around here."

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notayoungling
2008-09-06 12:17 am UTC (link)

"Hm," Ahsoka mused aloud, pondering a universe where she could do whatever she wanted. She'd been too young to make a choice when she arrived at the temple, but she'd never felt forced onto the path. The Force was a part of all things, and it granted her a little more understanding and peace with the circumstances than other youth that weren't sensitive to the Force might have. "I still want to be a Jedi," she said after a pause. She didn't want to stop her training. She knew it would be different here, but she didn't think she could just stop.

She looked up at him. "Are you a clone?" It was kind of rude to ask, especially since she hadn't even known him an hour. "You look just like him."

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jediheir
2008-09-06 03:45 am UTC (link)

"I'm not a clone. I'm his grandson. My mother was his daughter. And everyone keeps saying I look like him, but I really don't see it." Of course, it may have been diluted by the fact that his first expectation of his grandfather was a man in a black cybernetic suit, and any difference from that image was enough of a shock that he didn't focus on the details.

"You can still be a Jedi. Master Obi-Wan may be willing to teach... no, I doubt it, he's a new mother." Which was an odd phrase. "Trust in the Force. It's meant to guide us when we don't know what to do. And if being a Jedi is your destiny, you'll find your way to someone to teach you."

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notayoungling
2008-09-06 07:58 am UTC (link)

But it was so obvious, Anakin! Right there in front of her. Who else's padawan should she be? She hadn't wanted Obi-Wan, and Yoda hadn't wanted that either. Obviously the ghost of Yoda would've wanted her with the guy who looks exactly like her old master. The way of the Force, or something. "Yeah," she replied. The Force would guide her, all right. Right in front of his face.

Oh hey, her ice cream was melting. She ate a semi-soupy spoonful.. Not as good, but still delicious. "I know.. Some people just use terms like 'father' for that stuff and maybe 'grandfather', I didn't know." The clone troopers had been trying to gain more individuality by her time, and she knew a few that she and Sky Guy had developed distinct friendships with. She didn't really mean to imply the whole 'test tube baby' idea, even though that was precisely what cloning involved. "And your grandmother was Amidala?" She knew it. She blushed deeply when searching her feelings revealed a twinge of regret that Anakin didn't have any Togruta physical traits in him. She wasn't even sure that was scientifically possible. At least her coloring camouflaged her blush.

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jediheir
2008-09-07 01:02 am UTC (link)

"Yeah. She was here for a short while. She didn't like me calling her 'Grandmother,' either." Anakin, with his typical understanding of the female sex, completely missed Ahsoka's tone.

"I've known a couple of clones in my lifetime. None too well, though. There are a few clone Jedi where I come from. Some anomaly in the cloning process, I suppose. I don't really know how it works." Jacen had trusted more in the Force to guide him, so he might explain what had happened to Dorsk 81, 82, and 83 as destiny. Anakin, despite being a Jedi, believed that one made one's own destiny. "But I'm definitely not one of them."

Anakin scooped the last of his ice cream onto his spoon. "Tell me about you. How did you get to be V--excuse me," he said, trying to disguise his slip of the tongue as a hiccup. "How did you get to be Anakin Skywalker's padawan?"

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notayoungling
2008-09-07 11:31 am UTC (link)

Clone Jedi? That was interesting. She wondered what their Force signatures were like. That would be really interesting. Maybe she'd get a chance to see someday if they showed up here.

"Me?" She heard the slip, but didn't make the connection. "Well..Master Yoda came and told me I was going to be Anakin Skywalker's padawan." She didn't exactly know why she was chosen. She wasn't going to brag about being at the top of her class. There were some things she excelled at, but all of her classmates were gifted. "He explained that I would be on battlefields, and he told me about the mission Master Anakin and I were being sent on. I think it might have been Master Obi-Wan's idea. Or, Sky Guy did, anyway." She was sure there had been a lot of debate about it in the Jedi Council chambers, but nobody told her about any of it.

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jediheir
2008-09-08 03:07 am UTC (link)

Anakin swept their empty ice cream containers into the trash with an idle gesture. "Master Obi-Wan seems like that kind of person." He--she, they, whatever--had a strange habit of long-term planning, from what Anakin remembered of Uncle Luke's lectures. He would tell lies and call them the truth, "from a certain point of view." Presumably this was because his uncle wouldn't have fought Vader if he'd known who he really was, but Anakin had never thought to ask.

"How long have you been learning from--wait, Sky Guy? Can I look forward to you calling me Solo Fellow?" Anakin cocked his eyebrow. Then he cocked it again, because up til then he had never been the type of person who could raise one eyebrow at a time.

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notayoungling
2008-09-08 06:25 am UTC (link)

Hopefully not, she thought. Not like she would ever make a move on changing his status to not-Solo, if it even was. She was just the padawan. "That's a terrible nickname," she answered instead, sticking her tongue out at him. "Who says 'fellow' anymore?" She'd probably just keep calling him Sky Guy. He reminded her too much of her old master.

"A while. Not too long," Ahsoka said. Long enough that she wasn't going to just be promoted back down to youngling. She shrugged. "We've been on a few missions. Fought a lot of stuff."

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jediheir
2008-09-09 03:36 am UTC (link)

"You'll have to tell me about it. We can trade saving the world stories sometime."

Anakin smirked. "I'm almost disappointed you haven't been learning that long. I was kind of curious about the master/padawan thing. I was only just promoted to full-fledged Knight not long before I came here. If you could call it a promotion. We didn't have much time for a ceremony; my master was going into labor and trying not to die, my uncle was sitting by her side and holding her hand, and the galaxy was in turmoil. You know." He winked. "Standard Jedi stuff."

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notayoungling
2008-09-09 07:07 pm UTC (link)

That almost broke her brain. "What?" Labor? So apparently Jedi had more than jobs here. Just forty years. Ahsoka blinked, looking beyond confused. "Wow."

Her surprise made it hard for her to continue. It almost overshadowed the wink. "Um. It sounds like things were a lot different.." She shifted a little, trying to get her brain to start working again. Ahsoka, you idiot, you knew his grandfather had to have been.. unorthodox for little Anakin to even exist.

"So... What did you want to know, exactly?"

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jediheir
2008-09-09 10:42 pm UTC (link)

"A lot of things. I'm kind of a nerd. But for example, what the relationship was like. How long you had to be apprenticed before you became a Jedi Knight. How you teach someone when you're barely any more experienced than they are. What you do when your master is gone."

An idea had begun bouncing around his head that he was prepared to admit he'd actually been considering since he'd learned of her existence. There were other Jedi around, after all. More experienced ones, more talented ones. There had to be a reason that the Force had guided... that was an excuse. Anakin liked the girl.

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notayoungling
2008-09-10 06:36 am UTC (link)

"Oh, um." She was far from an expert on the subject, but she at least knew the theory side of most of it. It wasn't perfect, but it was probably better than he'd get from a holocron. "There isn't really a fixed time... It's usually years." She'd heard someone joke about the Padawan system being a way for Masters to keep a closer eye on their students while they were teenagers. "And I think a lot of it.. Well. In the temple we learned a lot of the academic side, but there wasn't a lot of practical application.. We learn about being Jedi, but we don't really learn how. We weren't making the hard decisions or finding alternate solutions when the obvious ones were impossible. Part of what a Master does is teach the Padawan new techniques and ways to use the Force, but part of it is.. just part of being the role. I never felt cheated because my Master was young. I think I was kind of lucky, in a way."

"What do you mean 'gone'? 'Gone' like 'out of the room', or 'gone' like...now?" She didn't know what she was going to do. She knew how she wanted things to work, but there wasn't a Jedi Council to reassign her now.

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jediheir
2008-09-10 08:40 pm UTC (link)

"I don't imagine this happens very often to Padawans, but for the sake of argument, yes. In a situation like this, what do you do? Never mind that. What do you want to do?" There was a time for respect for law and order, and there was a time for law and order to go take a running leap off of something tall.

"I might not be what the Jedi Council would think of when they think of a Jedi Knight," admitted Anakin. "With my family history... with my history, I probably wouldn't be allowed on the same planet as the Jedi Temple." He didn't know for a fact that the Jedi would frown upon being touched by the spirit of a Sith Lord while still in the womb, but he suspected that was the case. "But if you want to learn from me, I can teach you what I know."

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notayoungling
2008-09-11 06:34 am UTC (link)

She didn't think they'd get around to talking about this for a while. The fact that Anakin was so concerned about her future was really sweet. Maybe he was so tuned in with her already that he picked up on what she was thinking without even trying. Or maybe he was just really smart. And kind. And strong in the Force. And handsome.

Ahsoka's eyes widened when he suggested being her teacher. "Really?!" she squealed, her face breaking into a big grin. "That would be perfect!" She flung herself across the table and gave him a big hug. Not exactly part of the normal ceremony, but she felt like she knew him already.

This is exactly what she wanted. It wouldn't even be a hard transition. She grinned as she settled back in her seat. Any thoughts about his questionable history were washed away by her excitement.

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jediheir
2008-09-11 08:01 pm UTC (link)

"Yes. Well." Anakin waved away any embarrassment he might have felt. Or tried to. He was expecting something more in the vein of, "All right, since you're here," or maybe, "Until Sky Guy shows up," or, "Thanks, but no thanks." Hugs hadn't really factored into his planning, such that it was. As with most of his plans, it consisted of doing what seemed right at the time, on that grounds that it had only really failed once, and it had failed so catastrophically that it wasn't likely to happen again.

It occurred to him that, had he lived back home, he might have followed this path with Corran's kids or another of the younger Jedi. As it was, Anakin hoped that he could live up to the example that Luke and Mara had set for him. "Come on," he said, finally, standing up. "I'll show you home to X-Factor. You'll fit right in."

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	notayoungling 2008-09-11 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	Ahsoka grinned, too distracted with the awesomeness to pay much attention to Anakin's discomfort. It was enough to make up for the bad news she'd received. At least she knew she wouldn't be alone. She bounced to her feet, following along beside her new Master. Hee. Yeah, things were going to be okay. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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