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Character: Anakin Skywalker
Age: 22-23
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, after General Grievous escapes, but before returning to Coruscant.

Background: I am incredibly sorry for the length of this wiki article.

Personality:
A traditional Jedi Knight is supposed to have two things: detached compassion and good judgement. Anakin Skywalker is no traditional Jedi. In fact, you could argue that he’s a very bad one, for a whole host of reasons. Eventually, he will become a great example of a Jedi’s opposite, but that’s a future he hasn’t yet arrived at.

For most of his childhood, Anakin felt powerless, going from slave, to Jedi apprentice that everyone seemed to instinctively distrust, to fully realized knight that still, somehow, seemed to not be “good enough”, despite all he’d accomplished. This sense of injustice filled him with a vengefulness that couldn’t be calmed, even after becoming one of the strongest individuals in the galaxy. It’s a feeling he carries with him every day, and even decades after the fact, it still won’t fade.

When he is angered (which is easy to do, and happens more often than he’d admit), it consumes him, pushes out rational thought and justifies any evil he wants to commit. He’s gone as far as wiping out an entire village, down to the last child, for causing the death of his mother. It has lead him into more than one reckless battle, even costing him a hand, and he still can’t control it. Simply put, you are just not going to get Anakin Skywalker to calm down when he’s not ready to, short of knocking him unconscious.

He chafes under the restrictions placed on him by the Jedi Order, wanting to follow his heart wherever it will take him, but can’t bring himself to leave so easily. He’s considered it more than once in the past, but frankly, he just doesn’t know how to be anything but a Jedi. It’s all he’s ever wanted, ever since he was given the chance to escape slavery. Restrictions, as a general rule, are something he only abides by if he can’t find a way to get the same results otherwise. He’d rather be punished for doing the “wrong” thing that feels right than obey without questioning. He often dismisses the orders of his superiors, charging into fights and ignoring their battle plans or diplomatic messages, simply because he feels that his way is better. Besides, consequences are for people who can’t do the things he can. Why should he change, when he proves that his way works?

And that’s another one of Anakin’s major failings. Despite being taught that humility is a key trait to living well, he is arrogant. He speaks with utmost confidence, deny most of his failings outside of very rare moments when he bares his heart, and feels most comfortable with cocky banter. Crashing a ship multiple times? You must be thinking of someone else, because surely he would never!

This attitude seeps into how little he listens and obeys, as well. He knows some of the wisest people in the galaxy, and yet, he constantly argues against their words and advice in favor of his own instincts. Though he often has a decent reason for questioning them, he takes almost no one’s input into consideration, unless it’s someone telling him what he wants to hear.

He desires so many things, it wouldn’t be wrong to call him “greedy”. It isn’t enough that the woman he’d hang the stars for loves him back; he wants her to listen to him and obey beyond all reason. He’s not satisfied with being given more important responsibilities; he wants the proper titles and accolades to go with it. It isn’t enough to be powerful; he must be more powerful than anyone else, strong enough to turn back even death. He knows these things are outrageous to want and plan for, but even so, he can’t stop himself from wanting them. He doesn’t have the strength to deny himself what he wants, no matter how guilty it makes him feel or how much is at stake.

On the other hand, Anakin is compassionate. Sure, he has no problem cutting down people he feels deserve to die, for the danger they pose to others or the damage they have caused, but he doesn’t set out to kill people needlessly. He’s not very empathetic, and he won’t be seen comforting crying children anytime soon, but walking away from a village about to be destroyed, despite being hopelessly outnumbered? That’s something he just can’t bring himself to do. Anakin would rather die fighting for what he believes in than to relinquish his pride in helping those who need him.

You will never find a more loyal person, either. In battle, he’s constantly on the front lines with his men, and he’ll never leave someone behind if there’s a chance of saving them. He’ll even go out of his way to rescue a droid, which most people wouldn’t count as any more important than your average coffeemaker, because he believes it’s his friend. Even when full of doubt, he won’t leave his master, Obi-wan, to die to better his chances of escaping death himself.

Anakin has had very little he could truly call his own during his life, and that includes loved ones and family members. When he becomes attached to a person, they earn themselves an eternally devoted friend, as Anakin is the sort of person who would have no problem turning his back on everything he knows to protect his chosen people. So long as Anakin has no reason to believe he has been betrayed, he will always have your back, no matter the cost.

Unfortunately, along with Anakin’s loyalty comes a lot of obsessive tendencies. He’s desperate to hold onto the way his life is, so he often pushes people too hard. He can’t understand why his love for others isn’t matched on every level. Why does the Jedi Council not respect him in the same way he respects them? Why can’t his master have the same faith in his abilities that Anakin has in both of them? It baffles and frustrates him, and it only makes him feel even more alone. He admits more than once that he knows this thinking isn’t rational, but he can’t behave in any other way.

Anakin has been called “The Hero With No Fear”, due to his great accomplishments on the battlefield. He is reckless, diving into situations in ways that would practically guarantee suicide for anyone with even marginally less skill than he has. This might be mistaken for great confidence, and in some ways, it is. He’d tell you that his skills and powers are great, practically unmatched, but that isn’t why he does what he does. He is desperately insecure, in spite of his egotistical behavior. Frankly speaking, Anakin has lost too much, and had too little to begin with, so that he is terrified of losing what he’s gained. He worries that because he’s not acknowledged in the way he wants to be that he’ll lose his standing, his friends, and his ability to protect what matters to him, so he must keep pushing himself. He’s scared to his core that he’s too weak to keep them with him, that they’ll one day change their minds and see him as being unworthy of their care, so he has to prove he’s worth something and hide any hint of these fears, especially from himself.

Everything, in his view, falls to two sides: do I love and trust this thing/person, or do I distrust and dislike them? It’s a dramatic, stark viewpoint, but it’s something Anakin has never been able to fully grow out of. Putting himself in the shoes of others is something he has significant difficulty with, and so, his own point of view is his only guide. This guide is flawed, full of selfishness, and causes him more grief than he should have to suffer through, but he is too stubborn and set in his ways to change. He believes that many others are genuinely like him in this way, which is why he fears that they’ll someday put him in the second category and leave him behind.

In short, Anakin Skywalker is a complicated, messy ball of emotions he feels guilty for even having in the first place. There won’t be any shortage of emotion drops from him, in any case.

Abilities: Here is a list of Anakin’s abilities and powers. The empathy and prophetic visions/sensing “disturbances” in the Force might need to be nerfed, but if he’s allowed to use them at all, I’ll be using a permissions post.

Alignment: Elios. Anakin is a very volatile person who could fit with pretty much any of the given alignments, but Elios is the one he fits into the most. Every action he takes is driven by either his love (for another person, for himself, for power), or hatred, especially for things getting in between him and what he loves. He’d kill for someone he loves, but if he felt betrayed, he’d turn on them just as quickly.

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