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Yeah, I tend to agree -- we end up addressing it in vaguely resistant ways only because it isn't addressed, at all.

Hey, thanks about Revenge!Anakin -- he definitely is more together. I wouldn't say less damaged, exactly, but he deals a bit better with it. In fact, I think there's an element of Luke-and-Leia-esque 'angst? what angst?' with a lot of his early trauma until he finally just cracks. And even Vader has a ludicrous level of denial about EVERYTHING.

possibly because he is being written by someone who pays attention to the importance of the words coming out of characters' mouths

Aw, thanks. (And I might have laughed aloud, because, well. <3)

I did want Revenge!Anakin to have that kind of agency you talk about -- a kind of active choice about how he conducts his life, even if under extraordinary pressures and in horrible circumstances. And I definitely wanted to play up the cunning warrior thing, because it's one of my favourite ideas -- especially as it's reflected in the twins, and I think we do see it in Vader himself. So I tried to maintain Vader's cunning but link it with his Anakin self, as well.

I like my Brilliant Badass Woobies, please and thank you.

Heh, me too! And Revenge was total self-indulgent wish-fulfilment, so there's that.