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gigachad qui gon would never leave shmi in slavery. source: i said so
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Sure Grandpa Watto
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Anakin's nightmare
“Do you know where [Shmi] is?”
“Why, I should expect she’s at Watto’s junkshop. I’m afraid he’s had her doing quite a lot of work there, ever since you ran away.”
Anakin winced. “But I didn’t run away,” he said. “I left. To become a Jedi.”
“Oh, of course you did, sir,” said C-3PO, his voice filled with good cheer. “I never meant to suggest that you abandoned any responsibilities you might have had here, when you were just a child. After all, we’re so very proud of you and your achievements. Not that we actually know about what you’ve accomplished in the past nine years, since we’ve never received any messages from you, but I do get the distinct impression that your mother still cares very much about you. And she does have a vivid imagination, so she very easily assumed that you must be…”
The droid was still talking as Anakin ran out of the hovel and into the broiling radiance of Tatooine’s twin suns. Although it appeared to be afternoon, when the city of Mos Espa should have been teeming with street vendors and pedestrians, there was no sign of life.
Anakin felt a sense of panic. He ran as fast as he could through the empty streets until he arrived outside the tall, bell-shaped structure that was Watto’s junkshop.
Like his own hovel, the junkshop appeared to be exactly as Anakin remembered it. Yet when he ducked through the shop’s entrance portal and entered the cluttered interior, he found that Watto had added something new: In front of a workbench, there was a low cage with thick metal bars.
A filthy figure, clothed in dirty rags, was huddled within the cage.
It was Shmi Skywalker. Anakin’s mother.
She looked up at him with fear in her eyes. “Who are you?” she asked. Her voice sounded old and tired.
“It’s me, Mom,” Anakin said, dropping to his knees before the cage. “Anakin. Annie. I’m grown up now. I’ve come to rescue you.”
“Anakin?” Shmi said in disbelief. She slowly shook her head. “But you can’t be. You can’t be here. You’re gone.”
“I’ll get you out, Mom,” Anakin said as he gripped the bars. He looked around. There was no sign of Watto.
“It is you,” Shmi said. “It really is you.”
Anakin tugged at the bars with all his might, but they would not yield. Then he remembered he was a Jedi. He could do anything!
He reached to his belt, expecting to find his lightsaber, but his fingers slapped against his side. His lightsaber was gone. He tried to recall if he had clipped it to his belt before leaving his hovel, or if he had even brought it with him to Tatooine.
He tried to remember when and where he had seen it last. He felt confused. How had he arrived back on Tatooine? He could not remember.
Desperate, he glanced at Watto’s tool shelf and saw a fusion-cutter and power pry-bar. He grabbed for them, but he could not pick them up. He tried again, tearing at them, but the tools would not budge. It seemed they had been welded to the shelf.
Anakin collapsed beside the cage, his head smacking against the bars. “I swear, I’ll get you out!” he sobbed.
Shmi reached between the bars and pushed her oil-stained fingers through her son’s blond hair. “Oh, Annie,” she said. “Don’t cry. Please, don’t cry. I’m fine. Really, I’m fine.”
“Mom, look at you! Watto left you in a cage!” Anakin said, outraged.
“No, he didn’t, Annie,” Shmi said sadly. “Watto didn’t leave me. You did.”
Suddenly, Shmi, the junkshop, and all of Tatooine were swept away from Anakin’s vision, and he was engulfed in darkness. It wrapped around him like a cold, black shroud that cut him off from the entire galaxy.
Unable to see, his only awareness was of the steady rise and fall of his own breathing.
Something was wrong.
The breathing sounded mechanical and labored, as if it were being done through some kind of respirator. Anakin wondered if the breathing were his own, or if he had been mistaken about the sound’s origin. Perhaps, he thought, I’m not alone in this dark place. He held his breath and listened to the void. The sound of mechanized breathing stopped. And then Anakin felt his throat constricting.
The darkness coiled even tighter around him, working its way through his skin, seizing his lungs and veins and muscles and bones until he knew it was about to consume him.
Then the dream ended as it always did, with Anakin trying to shout but fearing that no one, not even he, would ever hear his cry. And then he awoke.
[Ryder Windham. Star Wars Adventures - The Hostage Princess]
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Shmi, Anakin and the Sun - Dragon
Often, however, Watto was unkind, understanding that nothing could stop him from doing what he wanted because Shmi had nothing valuable to trade, besides her son whom she would never trade. Thus, Watto took advantage of this frequently , requiring the boy to podrace, much to Shmi's anger. During one race, she watched in horror as Anakin crashed once again, but was surprised when he had not been thrown from his podracer for once. Watto approached her, yet again dismissing her concerns that Anakin could be seriously hurt before flying off. She made her way down to the racing pit where she reunited with Anakin and saw that his legs had become twisted from the crash. While she knew that Watto would pay to ensure his slave's legs recovered, Shmi held onto her son's hand to comfort herself. Before the rustic, yet effective, medical droids made Anakin unconscious to work on his legs, Anakin promised he would always be with her, yet Shmi privately wish he would one day leave her for a better life.
Despite the horrors in which Anakin grew up, Shmi still tried to give him a normal childhood. She taught him how to fix things and fend for himself, since the Republic was never there for her. She taught him that he deserved more than a slave's life. Most of all, she taught him compassion.
On hard nights, Shmi would tell Anakin the Tatooine myth of the sun-dragon. The sun-dragon was a beast who lived inside the core of a star, guarding everything it treasured. It could survive through the hardest circumstances because it had the biggest heart in the galaxy, able to protect anything and everything it loved. Shmi told this story to her son to remind him that he was the sun-dragon. She never wanted Anakin to doubt in himself and the power of his love for others. Anakin recalled this story many times as an adult when he needed to remember what should guide him. It was something he kept close and told very few other people.
Sources:https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Shmi_Skywalker_Lars
#Anakin seeing himself as the sun dragon is probably the one thing that keep him a little sane as Vader and later inspired him to save Luke.#anakin skywalker#shmi skywalker#star wars#skywalker family#watto#Shmi teached Anakin compasion#Anakin compasion is unlimited love#wookipedia
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Discuss!
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Genuine prediction for who Obi-Wan encounters in the show
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#YukiPri art#Obi-Wan Kenobi#Watto#Obi-Wan Kenobi show#Star Wars#Tatooine#Prequel Trilogy#Toydarian#Artist/OP comment: the funny thing is that these two have actually never met before#so Obi-Wan genuinely would have no idea that Watto is saying almost the same thing to him as he said to Qui-Gon over 20 years ago#Also let's be honest: Obi-Wan's dressed like a knock-off Jedi#like I love the look and the costume department did a good job combining non-Jedi clothing into a clearly Obi-Wan look#but in-universe it looks either 1) like a Jedi who is disguising himself poorly (the truth)#or 2) some rando who just wants to rock Jedi-inspired fashion#and I think someone should call him out on it#and that someone should be Watto for kicks and giggles
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hello from the no more jockeys boys
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Quick question, is Watto still alive on Tattooine?? I checked the wiki but I'm looking for gut feeling here. My gut says no (or Luke never made it to that particular village)
But also I see a scenario where desperate Mado/BobF writers bring back Watto to annoy Semi-Crime Lord Boba Fett
#Skywalker eH?? *strokes 5 gray chin hairs* I knew a child slave of that same name. Oh he's your father? very good#let me tell you about generation debt#Star Wars#Watto#polls#tumblr polls
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Is there a Star Wars book when anakin watches Shmi get beaten up in front of him and if there is what book is it
We don’t get much in terms of Shmi’s pov. Most of what we know of their time with Watto comes from unreliable narrators, mostly Anakin. So, no, I can’t think of any scene right now where we witness Watto physically abusing her in front of Anakin.
That being said, we do have proof that Watto was physically abusive to Anakin:
“He wasn’t sure how he would feel about seeing the slaver, even if Watto had nothing to do with bringing any harm to Shmi. Watto had treated him better than most in Mos Espa treated their slaves, and hadn’t beaten him too often, but still, it hung in Anakin’s thoughts that Watto had not let Shmi go with him when Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon had bought out his slave debt. Anakin understood that he was probably just deflecting some of his own guilt about leaving his mother with Watto, who was a businessman, after all.” AOTC Novelization
When Count Dooku flies at him, blade flashing, Watto’s fist cracks out from Anakin’s childhood to knock the Sith Lord tumbling back. [Matthew Stover. Revenge of the Sith]
Physical pain he could have handled even without his Jedi mental skills; he’d always been tough. At four years old he’d been able to take the worst beating Watto would deliver without so much as making a sound. [Matthew Stover. Revenge of the Sith]
“Anakin wasn’t entirely wrong about him. He’d never been a slave. He’d never been beaten for making a mistake. Never crawled beneath threadbare blankets, starving, and fallen asleep with his mother’s tears on his cheeks. He didn’t remember his mother. He’d been raised in the Temple, safe and loved. I have compassion. I have empathy. What I don’t have are scars.” Karen Miller’s Star Wars: Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
One could assume that a being who has no problem slaving people and beating up a little boy wouldn’t have any problem beating up his mom.
So, I can’t think of any factual evidence that it did happen. However, considering their circumstances, I do believe at some point in his childhood Anakin witnessed his mother being, if not physically, at least verbally abused. Sadly, we are talking about slavery here and there’s nothing good or positive about it.
#ask#anon#anakin skywalker#shmi skywalker#watto#gffa slavery#sw meta#meta: anakin#anakin & shmi#meta: shmi#txt
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THE PHANTOM MENACE COMIC
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#anakin skywalker#star wars#darth vader#slavery#watto#Shmi Skywalker#Padme Amidala#Youtube#Shmi & Anakin#Padme & Anakin
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#poll#polls#star wars#yoda#jar jar binks#jabba the hutt#sheev palpatine#yaddle#sebulba#ubbla mollbro#boss nass#watto#bib fortuna#for legal reasons this poll is a JOKE
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Finally Broken Down and Watched the Prequels
I honestly don't remember if I've seen them all before or just clips. But after a few years of being a Star Wars fan on a steady diet of fandom, I broke down and pulled out the Phantom Menace to cap off my birthday. I’m spoiled to hell and back and a couple decades older than the intended audience but what the hell. So here’s my two cents (or more) arrogant opinion on The Phantom Menace:
Heads up, long post.
Shmi surprised me the most of any character. After reading fanfics about Jedi or Qui Gon pressuring/coercing her…she’s the one who asks them to take Anakin? For education she can’t give him? Okay, fair. And I’m 100% onboard with Shmi as Force Sensitive and/or taught Jedi beliefs cause her lines are peak Jedi. Anakin not only betrayed Jedi teachings but ALSO HIS MOM’S when he went Darth Vader. Congrats, you become not only Galaxy’s Worst Father but also Galaxy’s Worst Son.
Shmi is also clearly enslaved by the plot. Not even Anakin selling the winning pod racer was enough money to free her…but somehow Cleigg Lars has the cash? Is he supposed to be running a plantation here?
Jar Jar was annoying but given how low my expectations of him were set? Eh, the worst thing about him was the blatant racist portrayal (and he’s not alone) in a film whose MAIN THEME is equality. Bad enough to have a bigoted cliche show up but George Lucas are you deliberately shooting your movie’s message in the foot?
This is especially bad when another blatant racist portrayal is Watto and the Jedi are Space Jewish Buddhists! Enough idiots buy the Sith propaganda that Jedi steal children or whatever that attitude does NOT NEED REINFORCEMENT!
Especially not IRL.
Qui Gon harping on Anakin needing to be trained but NOT being the one to train Anakin was also a bit unexpected, given his fanon portrayals. I mean on the one hand I’m glad you’re not screwing your Padawan over completely but on the other hand you found and freed Anakin and now you want to pawn him off? Which he did, in the end.
Poor Obi Wan though, like I get this isn’t an easy solution and Qui Gon is backed in a corner but man you'd think a diplomat would be a little better! But kudos for Kenobi he looked past his hurt and rallied to support his Master for a nine year old’s sake.
Tales of the Jedi seems to imply the Council sent Qui Gon to Darth Maul like a lamb to the slaughter but that was not what I got. No one, not even Qui Gon or Obi Wan, seemed to think they couldn’t handle him. Not entirely certain they didn’t write off his appearance as a 100 on the random encounters table but anyway…
I’ve seen the clip of Anakin standing before the Council and unlike a lot of scenes it feels more open to interpretation – is Anakin cold cause of the Dark Side growing from his fear or cause he’s used to Tattooine? Does he fear for his enslaved mom or for his own pain from losing her? Is Anakin behaving himself better because he’s intimidated or because he has his serious pants on like everyone else? Does he think the Jedi will kick him out on the street or does he know he’ll still be taken care of?
Also the movie ends with Mace and Yoda - The Two Top Ranking Jedi - discussing the Sith Master, so the Jedi are clearly jumping onto that investigation.
#star wars#the phantom menace#Shmi Skywalker#Qui Gon Jinn#Obi Wan Kenobi#anakin skywalker#Jedi Council#jar jar binks#watto#my two cents#Reconstructwriter rants#star wars prequels
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You Are Free
STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:12:09
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