The image Palpatine receives upon asking Vader “What’s your ETA”.

Caf break

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Piett in my fic be like

Hasbro - 2023 Imperial Officers by Darth Ray Via Flickr: Hasbro - Star Wars 2023 Imperial Officers Front row contains new 2023 Imperial Officers * VC 270 - Return of the Jedi: Admiral Piett * VC 284 - Return of the Jedi: Moff Jerjerrod * VC 296 - Rebels: Grand Admiral Thrawn Vintage Collection Imperial Officer 4-Pack * Admiral Piett (with his admiral rank badge) * General Motti * 2x New Unnamed Officers Back Row includes previous figure versions * Admiral Piett (POTF2 1998) * Moff Jerjerrod (Saga Collection 2006) * Admiral Thrawn (Rogue One Collection 2016) * General Motti (POTF2 2000)

Chapter 2 is up!

Summary: A new arrival approaches the scene!

I had this really involved dream that would have made a great Star Wars fanfic if I could remember the details, and now I'm wide awake Peter Pringle's Lament for Gilgamesh (loudly) stuck in my head.

Tonight's entertainment sponsored by sleep deprivation and stress, I guess.

Art: Aaron Riley

I really love Vader´s short scenes with Daine Jir, General Veers and Admiral Piett, they were bassically his right hands there, he listens to them even when it´s advice he doesn´t agree to and they are in fact working together as group. As long as they were competent and did their job Vader worked with them and listened to their advice.

I like the prequels but in a way I believe some creators post PT have forgotten this about Vader, especially in the comics, they are trying to write Vader as a kind of extension of Anakin circa 23 years in the middle of his breakdown in ROTS instead of writing him as the 40 year old man Darth Vader is, the guy who wanted to bring order to the galaxy, who actually believed the Empire was the best way to achieve that, who believed the Senate still had a part to play in this whole thing and who believed the Death Star was a tecnological terror, who actually had forgotten about Obi-Wan and Yoda and whose only disloyalty towards the Empire and the Emperor was over Palpatine´s intention of killing Luke.

As Lucas said Vader at 40 is a man with a job with a twisted perception of reality and deep in the darkside but whose main motivation, peace in the galaxy, was something that still appealed to him. He didn´t go on a killing spree every tuesday for shit and giggles.

This also can be seen in his interactions with Lando and Boba Fett.

I personally love the part from ROTJ novelization in which Vader thinks to himself why is Luke saying he has to let go of his hate if he doesn´t hate anyone(except for himself, deep denial there but this is Vader´s honest pov)

Did I remember @husborth 's togruta Vader, and then spent 2 days frantically sketching this man as various alien species ? Mayhaps- (I also remembered Vader is the worst to draw omfg)

Here is a lineup of all of them !

I will draw this man doing a little pose or as a cool alien, but I will also draw him as the most awkward creature (looking at you kaminoans)

The taller he gets, the more fabric he has, as a treat

[COMMISSIONS]

I submit Darth Vader is the most relatable SW villain for any adult:

Infuriated by teenaged daughter thwarting him (several times, then she gaslights him about it)

Obsessed with former manager who publicly owned him (twice)

Starts a fight in a staff meeting by trying to kill a coworker (who mocked his religion)

Kills someone over zoom with the force of his anger while having a totally normal conversation with someone else (who among us)

Makes perfectly reasonable offer to go in on the family business to son, sighs when son dramatically rejects it by falling off a building (not mad just disappointed)

Finally gets tired of boss, chucks him into a huge hole (so tired)

Dies from literal exhaustion (see: tired)

Annoys former direct report in the afterlife (while getting to look young again)

You are forcefully removed from the Executor.

If liked pls reblog, they help loads, thank you!

When you're but you're also and then you and but then you die

shoutout to Piett, gotta be one of my favorite Star Wars characters. That man is built of headcanon, dedication to his job, novelizations, and Gucci eyebags. He wants nothing more than for his job to be normal, but his existence is itself predicated on the fact that his job is not and never will be normal. The whole point of his character is the normal straight man to the rest of the Empire and Vader Specifically. He will literally never get a break, that’s Why We Love Him. 10/10, the perfect man.

What the fandom did with piett is so fun because yes, this is star wars, every character has a wookieepedia page and a detailed backstory, but the way piett was transformed into a tired middle manager who's loyal to darth vader but just a bit exasperated with him, an imperial who believes in the empire yet still has a heart, is peak fandom. Like he's the perfect spice to a vader and luke story, an outsider who doesn't understand the complicated dance going on between vader and luke, but an insider who knows enough to know that they're being idiots. And he can't help but growing fond of luke, though he needs a hard drink after all his antics.

Hasbro - Admiral Piett by Darth Ray Via Flickr: Hasbro - Star Wars Admiral Piett * The Power Of The Force (1998) * The Black Series (2018) * The Vintage Collection #270 (2023)