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Recently read “nature has taught her creatures to hate” by thepolysyndetonaddictsupportgroup on Ao3 and let me tell you,, I will never be the same again. This fanart is inspired by chapters 18 & 19. If you know you know

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L, under his breath: “Kira say what?”

Light: “What?”

L: “wE GOT HIM 🚨🚔”

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Okay so I’m STILL on a Hero’s Shadow kick, sue me (don’t actually I’m in college and broke af). Here’s Izuku aka Rabbit at the beginning vs end of the Overhaul raid 😤🔥🔥🔥🔥 (ITS SO GOOD BTW PLS READ HEROS SHADOW IM BEGGING U YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT I WILL DIE BY THIS FANFIC) (it’s by @rabbitaizawa go check them out!!)

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#skywalker #theslavewhomakesfree #aaaahhhhhhh I love this so much #the POETIC THEMES #the HEART WRENCHING ANGST #the BEAUTIFUL CULTURE

On Tatooine, Skywalker isn't a name you inherit - it's a name you earn.

The Sky Walker. Ekkreth. The slave who makes free. Every one of Ar-Amu's children know that, if they find a skywalker, a skywalker will help them go free.

Because names on Tatooine have meanings. Slave names, depur call them. Slave names, the free men call them. But to Ar-Amu's children, they are promises.

A Skywalker will do all they can to release the children from their chains. A Darklighter will show them a path through the darkness, away from depur. A Whitesun will provide them with the papers needed to walk freely under the suns.

Depur do not care what names their slaves choose for themselves, so long as they are slave names. But Ar-Amu's children know the value of calling things by their names.

Ar-Amu's children know how to walk beneath the notice of depur. There is safety in secrets. And the best secrets are always the ones that do not appear to be secret.

Anakin, son of Shmi, earns his name when he is 3 years old.

Shmi is already a Sky Walker, has been so since before Anakin was born. Her skill with mechanics and electronics makes her a valuable slave and an even more esteemed Sky Walker.

So it is no surprise to Anakin to find a young female twi'lek ducking behind the small curtain that separated Shmi's alcove from the rest of the slave quarters (a level of privacy no slave would begrudge a Sky Walker).

There is a heavy, bulky collar fastened around the twi'lek's neck, and Anakin knows immediately why she is there. A new slave, not yet chipped, held only by the bomb collar around her neck - she seeks a Sky Walker to remove the collar and set her free.

But Shmi is not there. Gardulla had requested Shmi's presence as she entertained her guests. Almost all of Gardulla's slaves are up above, ensuring the hutt is able to impress.

The twi'lek's eyes are wide and scared. It will not be long before her depur discovers her missing. It is unlikely she will be able to sneak back to where she is meant to be.

So Anakin takes her hand. He sits her down on the barely-there pallet that serves as bed for both himself and his mother. He can feel his heartbeat racing in his fingertips, but he is also calm.

"The Sky Walker is not here," he tells her softly, "but if you are willing, I will try to free you."

The decision is hers. Any wrong move in disarming or removing the collar and it would blow them both to pieces. He is the son of a Sky Wakker but not yet a Sky Walker himself. She must decide what she is willing to risk for her freedom.

Anakin already knows what he is willing to risk. He already knows what name he wants to earn.

He is Anakin, son of Shmi Skywalker, and one day he will be able to call himself Anakin Skywalker.

The twi'lek nods.

Anakin's hands are steady as he reaches out, a thin piece of wire pulled from the hem of his ragged tunic. It takes five breathless minutes, but he is able to remove the collar.

It sits between them, heavy with threat, not yet disarmed, but open. Its circle of bondage broken.

"Sky Walker," the twi'lek breathes as she stares at him, and Anakin smiles back at her.

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When Anakin joins the Jedi, he asks the council whether he should change his name. They stare back at him in confusion.

"Change your name, why would you?" Yoda asks. But Anakin doesn't know how to (or even if he should) explain. "Skywalker, your name is," Yoda continues. "Skywalker, it shall be, hmm."

Anakin hopes it means the Council understands. He is a Sky Walker, it is his privilege and his duty to free slaves.

But the Jedi are not there to free slaves.

And Anakin begins to hate his name.

He does what he can. Turning a blind eye here. Leaving supplies there. Accidentally unlocking chains. But it never seems to be enough.

He is a Sky Walker, it is meant to be the purpose of his life, but instead - he runs around obeying the senate and the Jedi council.

Until he begins to fear the council knew what they were doing when they told him to keep his name.

Because a Sky Walker is a slave who makes free.

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When they make him a general, Anakin wants to throw his name as far away from himself as he possibly can.

How can he be a Sky Walker, a slave who makes free, when he is leading an army of slaves?

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When Vader hears the pilot who destroyed the Death Star goes by Skywalker, he is not surprised. The Death Star was a chain the Emperor wielded to bind the galaxy to himself, and Sky Walkers are good at breaking chains. He thinks nothing more of it.

Until he learns the Sky Walker is force sensitive.

Sky Walker is a name that must be earnt, a title and a promise and a badge of honour. It is a slave name. The name of a slave who makes free.

Or, the name of one who could have been a slave, who comes from a family of slaves, and risks it all to make others free.

It is telling that this Luke Skywalker uses his name freely in the Rebellion - a declaration that he sees the empire, the emperor, as depur.

On its own it is not much, something someone not from Tatooine would not understand.

But Skywalker is force sensitive.

So Vader goes digging.

Luke Skywalker, raised by Beru Whitesun and Owen Lars. Best friends with Biggs Darklighter.

First known as Luke Lars, before his name was changed to Skywalker.

For someone else, anyone else, it would seem innocuous. It is easy enough to find out that Skywalker is a slave name on Tatooine. For the boy to have initially gone by Lars would have been a way for him to be protected from his parent's past. For him to claim the name would be a child deciding to claim their history despite the slavery in it.

But Vader knows better. He knows how names work on Tatooine.

The boy becomes a Sky Walker the first time he frees a slave.

The disjointed recording of the Princess's cell they recover has him boldly proclaiming, "My name is Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you."

For one of Ar-Amu's children, such a declaration would have been a comfort. A promise. Vader sees how the Princess does not understand what she has been told.

The Imperials see the boy's behaviour as naivety, but Vader knows better.

It does not surprise him that the boy moves quickly up the ranks of the rebellion. It does not surprise him that the boy is fearless in the face of the empire's might, that he laughs each time he escapes the traps laid for him.

He is a true Sky Walker.

The boy might not have been a slave on Tatooine (and Vader checked, because if there was one thing he would not allow it would be that), but he was the son of a slave. Grandson of Shmi Skywalker.

And he earnt his name again and again and again.

There is another name the boy could lay claim to. Another name he has earnt, Vader finds.

A name the Princess earns, also, as she chokes Jabba with the very chain he sought to hold her with. Starkiller.

One who has killed depur.

It is a name the boy earnt long before he joined the rebellion. That he chooses to go by Skywalker instead is telling.

He would rather be known for making free than for killing.

Vader admires him, even as he despairs. For he knows the end result of being a Skywalker beneath the weight of the Emperor. He knows the power of the Dark Side. All he can hope is to keep the boy, his son, from being enslaved.

But the Sky Walker refuses to join him.

Refuses to acknowledge the power of the Dark Side.

Refuses to admit defeat.

And perhaps, Vader thinks, it is better that way. Dukra ba dukra. His son will not relinquish the name of Skywalker, he will not turn, so he will die free.

But Luke is a Sky Walker, and Sky Walkers are those who make free. Not content to just free themselves, they are those who will walk directly into the grasp of depur if it means freeing others.

On Tatooine, names can be earnt.

And so Darth Vader earns again a name he'd thought lost to him.

He is the son of Shmi the Sky Walker. Father of Luke the Sky Walker - who calls Vader by his earnt name. Who walks calmly into the grasp of the emperor in the hope it will save his father (it does).

Dukra ba dukra.

He is Anakin Skywalker, he is a person, and he dies free.

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(Again, highly inspired by @fialleril's work, which if you haven't read, you absolutely must)

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"They didn't recognise me at first... but then... they thought I was you..."

Presenting Michael Afton!

If you've been on tumblr, you can recognise the influence from @chloesimaginationthings. Her work is sooooo good. Would highly recommend.

I'm really happy with how this turned out. Probably should have changed his clothes depending on his state but, oh well!

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Apparently Miles is a JJK fan (in the comics)

If you put these two in a room together I think the result would be adorable 🥺

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TimKon first kiss!

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So, when the Batkids get hurt, like, seriously hurt, they logically know that they best place they could go is the batcave. Fully stocked infirmary, the most updated medical technology possible, and Alfred to give them tea and sew up all of the wounds that they can't quite reach.

However, if any of them are even mildly beefing with Bruce, which they almost always are, they'll be damned if they're gonna face The Disappointed Bat Glare (tm) while also bleeding out, much less the speech that will inevitably follow.

This leads to either

A. The batkids sneaking into each others apartments and safehouses to get help, aka

Tim: -humming to himself as he flicks on the lights of the common room at Titans Tower-

Dick: -slumped on the couch dripping blood from two stab wounds- Hey, Timmy. Could you get your med kit?

Tim: -brief high pitched scream- FUCK!!! -long silence- Yeah, sure.

Dick: Great. Also, Bart heard me calling for you in the dark, and he thought I was a ghost of some sort. I think he ran to Mexico to get away, so you might want to track him down.

B. The batkids attempting to sneak into the batcave and patch themselves up without Bruce realizing they were ever there, aka

Jason: -sneaking through the medical bay in the dark, trying to silently open drawers when the lights suddenly come on-

Alfred: -standing by the light switch- Master Jason, may I inquire as to what you're doing here?

Jason: -actively gushing blood from his side- ....Nothing.

Alfred: Do you require stitches?

Jason: ....No.

Alfred: -actively pulling out the supplies to stitch up his wound- If you say so, Master Jason.

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No art this time, just a meme

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Fan art for my all-time favorite fanfiction Hero’s Shadow by feelingstabby on Ao3. I love how Izuku is written in this AU and the vivid imagery that makes you feel like you are in it with Izuku. So I felt the need to make some fanart

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Kept thinking about how weak and disorientated Jon gets when cut off from the Eye, which got me thinking about Martin having to help him as his state got worse.

Surprisingly, instead of getting angsty, I ended up with Jon being carried around like a ragdoll.

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Bruce Wayne panicking because he walks into a WE board meeting to see a fully suited Red Hood sat at the table spinning around in a wheelie chair and CEO Tim Drake can only shrug and be like 'well he wanted to invest money'

Bruce, frantically pulling Tim aside: he is a CRIMINAL

Tim: so is like 90% of Gotham's elite. nobody else cares.

*both of them peer through the window to see literally nobody else in the meeting acting like a helmeted crime lord amongst them is any way odd. Stacy from accounting offers him a coffee and Red Hood denies politely*

Bruce: i understand him donating money, but why is he at our board meetings!??!

Tim: oh he bought like, over half our stocks. he owns 58% of the company now

Bruce:

Bruce: but thats...

Tim: yeah. more than you. Jason's the majority shareholder now.

Bruce:

Bruce: why did you let him do this

Tim: well you WANTED him to be part of the FAMILY again-

Bruce: SO YOU APPROVED HIM BUYING MY COMPANY?!

Tim:

Tim: shouldnta' benched me from fucking patrol.

Bruce:

Red Hood, knocking on the glass: can y'all wrap it the fuck up? i have other meetings to attend to after this

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This kind of AU is my Achilles heel 💯

#someonewritethisplease #oriwill #hjdjdkckdhsjahfb

On a star wars prequels kick. AU where Sidious buys Shmi and tiny Anakin from Gardulla, like yes this the best back up apprentice plan ever.

Maul is obviously Not Happy, tries to pull some shit and Shmi is like. No.

Anyway Shmi secretly adopts a raging teenager and they plan to kill their slaver. Maul's not really in a place to accept a parental figure and Shmi only has the resources and energy for one son, so they end up with a somewhat sibling like relationship.

At some point, Shmi gets shunted out of the picture, and a furious Maul is left to cobble together a new plan on his own and he manages to escape with Anakin but not kill Sidious. Fuck, Shmi's not here and Maul has to take care of her kid on his own. Fuck. Oh well, he can't be worse than Sidious... Fuck it, he's going to be a best caretaker ever out of sheer spite. Anakin can be his apprentice now and it will be epic.

Anakin doesn't really want to be a Sith in particular but he's free! He can always say no later so he figures he might as well be Maul's apprentice until he finds his mom again. He likes Maul and maybe he can teach him how to fly because wow those were some crazy moves.

At some later point, an ex-padawan Obi-Wan stumbles upon two traumatised former Sith apprentices. One is a small child and terribly endearing, and the other is a passionate but still incredibly dubious caretaker okay? What's he going to do? Walk away and forget?

Maul hates him. Anakin adores him, maybe a little too much. Cue dysfunctional found family shenanigans.

Maul is determined to be a Sith without his master, Obi-Wan is there to say which Sith things are bloody fucking insane and not allowed in this house (ugly fucking smuggler ship that Anakin keeps tinkering with to have, are those flamethrowers in the walls?! Anakin.). Maul is there to stab at Obi-Wan's great wall of Disaster Lineage Repression™️ until it starts to crumble. They argue a lot and somehow both end up with healthier mental states and force connections. While arguing about how best to take care of a child they decide they need an third adult opinion and accidentally rope everyone into therapy.

They reunite with Shmi and wow, Anakin now has three parents! Wizard. Shmi, in her manic attempts to return to her son and ensure they are all free and remain so, has accidentally become a pirate queen... They can work with this.

So: a pirate queen freedom fighter, a rogue Sith, a rogue Jedi, and an Anakin. The galaxy isn't ready. Sidious is seething and frantically trying train a new apprentice.

(He gets Dooku, except Qui-Gon is alive and very much Dooku's achilles heel, and will later foil Sidious' plans for his master. Jango Fett is in way over his head, good thing this Tyrannus seems to have suddenly had a chance of heart.)

The Whills are intrigued. The Jedi are totally lost, what is happening? Quinlan Vos in particular is laughing. The Shadow Council is somewhere between amused and bemused that the surprise!Sith apprentice actually turned out pretty decent, and he's helping them with their shared goal of getting rid of his master. What an unexpected win. They'll take it, the rest of the Jedi cannot know of him until then.

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Was reading “The Accidental Sith, the Confused Jedi Masters, the Eager Padawan, and the Rebel Senator” by ClawedandCute (Adi_Fire) on Ao3

Suffice it to say that I had to make a love letter to that masterpiece through fanart.

Freedom fighter & huttslayer Anakin!!!

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