Anghraine

Thinking about Woobieness, because I hadn't really:

Canon!Anakin is totally a woobie, but there's - I mean, while Anakin's life does suck on a lot of levels, a lot of it is a sort of Fridge Logic woobieness that hits you as you start to think that, say, he was born into slavery and sold to Watto and Qui-Gon won him and handed him over to Obi-Wan and he gave himself over to Palpatine, but he was never really free for one moment in his entire life. But at the same time that feels like a slightly...free take on the text that I'm not sure was really intended (not that that stops me, given that I'm pretty sure even Carrie Fisher didn't envision Mata Hari!Leia :P).

Revenge!Anakin's woobieness is a bit more explicit and pushed a lot harder, I think -- he doesn't commit most of Anakin's worst acts, too, because I was trying for a more, mm, straightforward escalation into villainy. And I didn't intend it, but now that I think of it, his circumstances are, if possible, even worse than canon!Anakin's (with a more explicitly culpable Obi-Wan and even Yoda). So I think where Anakin reads as a bit of a Jerkass Woobie, Revenge's pre-Vader Anakin is just a classic Woobie. And I took about as sympathetic a line with Vader as I could, too. Well, maybe it could have been more (I enjoyed him a bit too much sometimes :P) but still. I actually worried about that a lot -- that he was too sympathetic to begin with to make such a slow redemption really rewarding. Especially since he's only half there at this point.