Given the secret of their marriage, her pregnancy, his nightmares, the sheer weight of everything had played a significant part of his Fall... In many ways - some of them literal - Anakin had died when Padmé had, and left behind a broken shell of a man, trapped in his choices. That his children had survived had been the lifeline he didn't know he had.
But it still wasn't a side of himself he often allowed others to see. Not even Obi-Wan, save once. Once, just try to bandage the raw, bleeding wound between them. But he's always felt most at ease with his men, always allowed something to show, to slip, that he couldn't with others. It was just...more natural with Tech.
"If we were home, everyone is gone. Padmé, Obi-Wan, they've all left. Leia will forever hate me, and the only chance I have is Luke. There is never once I thought the three of us would be so separated. It is not like the bond you have with your squad, but something parallel. So I can imagine how you feel here. The loneliness of it."
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In many ways - some of them literal - Anakin had died when Padmé had, and left behind a broken shell of a man, trapped in his choices. That his children had survived had been the lifeline he didn't know he had.
But it still wasn't a side of himself he often allowed others to see. Not even Obi-Wan, save once. Once, just try to bandage the raw, bleeding wound between them. But he's always felt most at ease with his men, always allowed something to show, to slip, that he couldn't with others. It was just...more natural with Tech.
"If we were home, everyone is gone. Padmé, Obi-Wan, they've all left. Leia will forever hate me, and the only chance I have is Luke. There is never once I thought the three of us would be so separated. It is not like the bond you have with your squad, but something parallel. So I can imagine how you feel here. The loneliness of it."