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Name: Anakin Skywalker (nickname is: Ani - never Annie)
Canon: Star Wars
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: Shortly after Ahoska, his apprentice is expelled from the Order (this is mid Clone Wars period)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Anakin’s personality can be summed up nicely in one word: passionate. He wears his emotions broadly for all to see, defiantly and proudly. This manifests both in positive ways, and in many negative ways.
On the positive end of this spectrum Anakin is hard working, determined, and driven, and he will always fight for what he thinks is right (what is 'right', however, is highly subjective, depending on one's point of view). Ever since he was nine (almost ten) years old and taken from his mother on the planet Tatooine and placed into the care of Qui-Gon Jinn he has wanted to become a Jedi Knight. They are the guardians of peace and justice (Anakin being more focused on the latter rather than the former) in the galaxy; and having experienced so much injustice prior to Master Jinn finding him Anakin was particularly keen on joining a society dedicated to such virtues. Anakin doesn’t give up easily, even in the face of a challenge with seemingly insurmountable odds. One of his personal mottos is ‘There is always hope’, and he will do what he thinks is right. It is here his courage shines brightly, and it is for this reason the people of the Republic dubbed him ‘The Hero with no Fear’.
Anakin has within him the capacity to be quite compassionate; when those he cares about and loves are suffering he can’t help but act in their defense. Who he ‘cares and loves’ can be defined broadly, even those as disconnected form him as innocent bystanders. He loathes not being able to prevent harm from happening to anyone. It is from this compassion that springs his ability to be so loyal, when he’s made up his mind of whom to be loyal to. It is also from this place within him that he feels that strong sense of betrayal when those he cares about let him down. Because he puts so much of himself into his relationships (against the Code of his Order, no less) when those he cares about let him down (real or simply perceived) he feels it as a tremendous loss.
He wants to love, and defiantly loves without compunction, often to his own detriment. He is attached to just about everyone in his life who shows him a modicum of kindness, and often doesn’t question their reasons behind those kind expressions. This want for affection and affirmation is not-so-subtly rooted in his upbringing. The Jedi, while wise and respectful of all living things, are, to put it frankly, terrible with emotions. Anakin was raised first by his mother who taught him love was a beautiful and good thing, and he learned early on it was something to be sought for and fostered. While the Order has done a great many good things in their time, they do not fulfill Anakin’s need for love. In this (and let’s face it, along with many other aspects of the Jedi) Anakin differs from his peers. However, he takes great pains to hide certain depths of his attachments, as he would surely be expelled from the Order should they learn the true extent of them.
Due to his passionate nature Anakin does like a healthy competition from time to time, often taking his skills to the extreme (such as pod racing or chasing bounty hunters through the heavy traffic of Coruscant). And he is not without a sense of humor, willing to accept a joke at his expense when justified, such as when his inability to maintain a working lightsaber for longer than a few months’ time is brought up. Though he does prefer to direct those jokes at others rather than field them about himself. It should be noted that his sense of humor is often at odds with others, and could be considered inappropriate at times, as he does find odd things funny.
Anakin has a complicated relationship with the concept of independence. The first half of his life has been marred by the experience of being a slave. The second half, though an argument could be made that it was better, was still subject to the Master/subordinate dichotomy. He does not know what life or independence means without rank. Though he fights tooth and nail for every inch of liberation that is given to him, he cannot help but always assess where he fits in the pecking order. He’ll show a certain kind of deference to that order, using proper titles and honorifics. Despite now being a Knight, and having a very personal relationship with Obi-Wan, out of respect (yes, he does respect Obi-Wan) and deference to Obi-Wan, Anakin has a difficult time not addressing him as ‘Master’.
However, whether this means he will obey those who out rank him is another thing altogether. Simply put, if he doesn’t feel like it he won’t. Some of the time ‘doesn’t feel like it’ means he feels obeying orders is simply wrong for the situation, that the right thing to do involves going against the Council or instructions from Obi-Wan. Some of the time ‘doesn’t feel like it’ means he’s being a petulant brat.
Despite how his passions can translate into good actions, his negative qualities often hinder his good intentions.
He is entirely too reckless and gives little forethought to his actions or their consequences for himself or his loved ones. His hotheaded temper often leads him right into the thick of trouble (usually what one could call ‘aggressive negotiations’). His judgment can be clouded by his emotions, making it difficult for him to realize what he is doing before the completion of his actions.
This impetuousness is often intensified by his impatience and arrogance. He knows he is the most powerful Jedi of his age. These kinds of things tend to go to ones pretty, little Jedi Knights head. Anakin suffers from the Running Before One Can Walk syndrome. Due to the knowledge that he is quite powerful, he believes he can do all things before he’s mastered how to do them. And he is disappointed in himself more than anyone else when he fails – though, with his emotional growth truncated at ten years old (due to joining an Order that borders on the definition of a Cult, one that prohibits the healthy development of emotions and how to cope with them), he does tend to take his frustrations out on the people and things around him.
His belief in bringing justice to those who do not have it is what initially drew him to the Jedi Order, and that ideal is certainly a commendable one; however, he is a terrible fit for such an ascetic life. He can practice self-denial for those he cares about, but the Order requires more than the renunciation of claim to physical possessions - the Code forbids the formation of attachments to even other living beings. Anakin has half internalized these teachings, but he cannot bring himself to fully embrace them. In refusing to do so, he walks a thin line. He believes he’s entitled to love, and to be loved, but if the Order found out he would be expelled (and Padmé’s career and the help she brings to millions of people would be in ruins). The fear of losing Padmé and her love and all that they’ve carved out for themselves has made him extremely selfish about his relationships, and he guards all this jealously.
Something must be stated about his rather famous temper. Like his capacity to love, his anger runs hot and is easily ignited. The most common triggers are injustices and stupidity, or what he perceives as injustices and stupidity. He does not like to be second guessed, if he’s made a decision, it was obviously done so based on the information available to him and should be readily apparent to everyone else. At least he thinks this should be obvious. He certainly thinks highly of his opinion and priorities. The other notable trigger is when people harm or threaten to harm those he cares about. He has lost his mother already, he’s lost Ahsoka (though she is not dead, just no longer a part of his life) he can’t stomach the thought of losing Padmé or Obi-Wan. To prevent their deaths he would do anything, even morally questionable things.
When he is angry he usually acts without thinking, lashing out at what he thinks is the root of the problem, whether he is correct or not.
Anakin issomewhat emotional stunted. The Jedi Code, while emphasizing a divorce from all emotions, doesn’t serve well the fears and worries of a child who has only known oppression and separation his whole life. Repression is not a viable coping mechanism for Anakin and, let’s be real, it really shows. Never having his separation anxiety properly addressed, and his true attachments to others continually disparaged, Anakin has been left rudderless as to how to deal with loss and other complex emotions. This often results in him being a broody, vengeful, childish boy grasping desperately at anything that promises to keep what he cares about most within reach. When he gets too worked up emotionally, being with Padmé is soothing, but not having access to that, working on machines is really the only thing that helps him set his emotions back in order. And he’ll naturally seek out something to work on if he’s this upset.
Background: Here's his Canon History. I will also use non-canon-contradicting EU bits as headcanon to fill in the gaps.
Abilities: Strengths
Physical:
» Greatest Force Potential anyone of his age has ever encountered. (Luke has the same potential he does.)
» The Force lends him skills beyond human abilities in strength, endurance, durability, reflexes, and agility.
» He’s skilled in the Jedi form of hand to hand combat along with numerous weapons (even ‘improvised’ weapons) and their forms (he heavily favors Form V for lightsaber combat.) These skills are enhanced by the Force, but if he were cut off from the Force, he would still have the knowledge to perform all of them – he’s been training continuously for thirteen years now.
» Via the Force, all senses are enhanced – sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
» He can telekinetically move things, and depending on his concentration and creativity, the size and power of the object matters not. Landing half the Invisible Hand at a Coruscant shipdock was part his skills as a pilot, but mostly his will acting through the Force to land it.
» He has an unending supply of energy and loves to stay active. (Obi-Wan didn't say he was always on the move for no reason.)
Mental:
» He receives both premonitions through the Force for immediate situations and visions of future events. He started recognizing those premonitions at a young age, it's what helped him survive pod-racing. And he was receiving visions of him becoming a Jedi Knight before he even met Qui-Gon.
» He is empathic, but mainly to other’s emotions and their ‘signature in the Force’; actual clear, succinct thoughts are hard to read, and usually require the other individual involved to be Force-sensitive or telepathic of some nature and concentration on his part.
» He is highly skilled at the Jedi Mind Trick.
» And Force choking people… Something he learned how to do at the end of the Battle of Jabiim.
» He has amazing piloting skills. Though his crash record would suggest he is a terrible pilot - it's not his fault people shot at him (he thinks he's a likeable guy, after all) and it is his piloting skills that keep him and any passangers alive through impact.
» He has a talent with all things mechanical/electronic. This is actually how he meditates. This talent is Force-granted, through the Force he can just ‘know’ what is wrong with an engine or machine, but he’s augmented his abilities with an extensive mathematical and mechanical/electrical engineering education from the Temple. If he’s emotionally distressed, he gravitates towards working on machines, during the Clone Wars he spent a lot of his free time in the hangerbay fixing starfighers. He gets quite excited about engines and machines and droids. He even deigned and built his cybernetic arm.
» He can create Force-Bonds - however, at the moment this is done subconsciously and inadvertently. He has no idea he did this to Padmé.
» He's a brilliantly reckless battle strategist. His first command was the Battle of Bothawui, his plan involved defeating General Grievous' forces with a handful AT-TE walkers, deployed in space. He mostly succeeded, he saved Bothuwai and destroyed Grevious' ship, though Grevious himself got away.
» He can read, write, and speak Basic, Huttese, and Dug fluently.
Emotional:
» He loves openly and freely (example - everyone he's met that he considers a good person: Padmé, Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Palpatine)
» He's quite loyal to people, he finds it's easy to put their needs above his own. He doesn't give up on them easily - when Obi-Wan was captured during the Battle of Jabiim and was presumed dead by the Council, Anakin could not accept that as true and eventually convinced his then newly assigned Master (Master Ki-adi Mundi) that he knew where Obi-Wan was and to go help him.
» He’s overly compassionate towards everyone in need
» And far, far too generous with his time, talents, and possessions. Even when he was a boy on Tatooine, he sought out ways to help the other slaves around him.
» He wants to help everyone in need, and he certainly tries
» He cares far too much about people. When bounty hunter Cad Bane threatened Ahsoka's life in exchange for accessing a Jedi Holocron, Anakin gave up the Holocron to save Ahsoka, even though his mission objective was to bring the Holocron back.
» He strives to do what he perceives as the right thing to do.
» He rarely gets attached to objects (people on the other hand… see below). He is not at all materialistic. For him, objects don’t compare in value to life. Because of this he's constantly losing his lightsabers.
Weaknesses
Physical:
» Electricity – his mechanical arm can be shorted out if too much electricity is applied to it or its hit with an EMP. Not to mention that even with his Force enhancements, there is a thing as too much electricity for his body to take.
» He is still human, a lightsaber to the chest will be just as fatal to him as it would be to the next guy. He did lose his arm in a lightsaber duel, after all.
» Relying on the Force to supplement bodily needs – sleep, rest, eating, healing – will exact a high price from him later (longer healing Force-trances, for example).
» He has terrible penmanship - he's from a world where most everything is done via data-pads. He hardly thinks it's worth his while to learn beautiful handwriting.
Mental:
» He leaps first, and thinks later (like, during the fall on the way down).
» The proscribed forms of Meditation of the Jedi Order of his time do NOT work for him – they leave him feeling cold and empty and alone (not calm, warm, and comforted like all the Jedi instructors tell him it should feel like).
» He’s terrible at expressing himself. (Can you blame him, the Jedi of his time weren’t big on emotional health and well-being.) This makes him quite bad at poetry. Such as when he's trying to flirt with Padmé (luckily for him she found it charming).
» He gives no fucks about anything artistic (unless it’s the design of a spaceship) – but performance arts, fine arts, even fashion, he just doesn’t care about those.
» He’s terrible with diplomacy – he has little to no patience and even less for people in authority who are abusing the rights of the people they are meant to serve.
» He is easily distracted by trying to do all the things – he tends to think he’s the only one that can get the job done right, so he tries to do all the jobs, all at once.
» He doesn’t care about history, politics, or literature – he secretly feels having to study any of those subjects is torture. Palpatine chided him a few times for his lack of interest or aptitude with politics
» Anakin struggles with accepting abstract ideals, and he has a hard time with abstract concepts in general. At one point Obi-Wan described it as thus: Abstractions like peace don’t mean much to him. He’s loyal to people, not principles. He believes that helping others achieves peace and justice, whereas the Jedi Order of his time believed creating Peace and Balance helped others. In the end, he will choose helping people over promoting peace every time.
» He struggles with losing his lightsabers or keeping it in one piece. He's made at least 3, however, he doesn't keep count.
Emotional:
» His emotional control is relatively non-existent. He tries, and tries, and tries – but he’s always been blessed with an overabundance of emotions. He always feels everything intensely, and can’t seem to excise his emotions like the Jedi of his time are taught to do. The most glaring example is what he did to the Tusken Raiders who kidnapped and then tortured his mother for a month - he killed them all.
» He hates just as much as he loves.
» He can be fiercely jealous – especially of Padmé’s past love interests. (He did beat the living shit out of Clovis when he caught the man forcing a kiss on Padmé.)
» He is very impatient – he wants to do things now, not later or at a more moderate pace.
» He has a difficult time accepting the death (or prospective death) of those he cares about. The fear of them dying is rather crippling for him. When his mother died, he lost control and used the Dark Side to kill the tribe of Tusken Raiders who had tortured her to death.
» He tends to trust too freely - especially those who are overtly kind to him even when he shouldn't (Like Palpatine).
» When he feels betrayed, he does not forgive easily (if at all). When the Council expelled Ahsoka he didn't forgive them, it only drove him further from trusting them. (And in a way, this included Obi-Wan as well, because he was on the Council. Anakin trusts Obi-Wan to have his back on the battlefield, but doesn't trust Obi-Wan to side with him against the Council, even when the Council is abjectly wrong.)
» He knows using the Dark Side is wrong, and he's constantly fighting against the urge to use it. But it's a never ceasing temptation.
» Ever since the Council first rejected him, telling him his emotions made him dangerous, he has worried this was true. It has bred a certain kind of self-doubt in him that he works hard to compensate for.
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CHARACTER
Name: Anakin Skywalker (nickname is: Ani - never Annie)
Canon: Star Wars
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: Shortly after Ahoska, his apprentice is expelled from the Order (this is mid Clone Wars period)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Anakin’s personality can be summed up nicely in one word: passionate. He wears his emotions broadly for all to see, defiantly and proudly. This manifests both in positive ways, and in many negative ways.
On the positive end of this spectrum Anakin is hard working, determined, and driven, and he will always fight for what he thinks is right (what is 'right', however, is highly subjective, depending on one's point of view). Ever since he was nine (almost ten) years old and taken from his mother on the planet Tatooine and placed into the care of Qui-Gon Jinn he has wanted to become a Jedi Knight. They are the guardians of peace and justice (Anakin being more focused on the latter rather than the former) in the galaxy; and having experienced so much injustice prior to Master Jinn finding him Anakin was particularly keen on joining a society dedicated to such virtues. Anakin doesn’t give up easily, even in the face of a challenge with seemingly insurmountable odds. One of his personal mottos is ‘There is always hope’, and he will do what he thinks is right. It is here his courage shines brightly, and it is for this reason the people of the Republic dubbed him ‘The Hero with no Fear’.
Anakin has within him the capacity to be quite compassionate; when those he cares about and loves are suffering he can’t help but act in their defense. Who he ‘cares and loves’ can be defined broadly, even those as disconnected form him as innocent bystanders. He loathes not being able to prevent harm from happening to anyone. It is from this compassion that springs his ability to be so loyal, when he’s made up his mind of whom to be loyal to. It is also from this place within him that he feels that strong sense of betrayal when those he cares about let him down. Because he puts so much of himself into his relationships (against the Code of his Order, no less) when those he cares about let him down (real or simply perceived) he feels it as a tremendous loss.
He wants to love, and defiantly loves without compunction, often to his own detriment. He is attached to just about everyone in his life who shows him a modicum of kindness, and often doesn’t question their reasons behind those kind expressions. This want for affection and affirmation is not-so-subtly rooted in his upbringing. The Jedi, while wise and respectful of all living things, are, to put it frankly, terrible with emotions. Anakin was raised first by his mother who taught him love was a beautiful and good thing, and he learned early on it was something to be sought for and fostered. While the Order has done a great many good things in their time, they do not fulfill Anakin’s need for love. In this (and let’s face it, along with many other aspects of the Jedi) Anakin differs from his peers. However, he takes great pains to hide certain depths of his attachments, as he would surely be expelled from the Order should they learn the true extent of them.
Due to his passionate nature Anakin does like a healthy competition from time to time, often taking his skills to the extreme (such as pod racing or chasing bounty hunters through the heavy traffic of Coruscant). And he is not without a sense of humor, willing to accept a joke at his expense when justified, such as when his inability to maintain a working lightsaber for longer than a few months’ time is brought up. Though he does prefer to direct those jokes at others rather than field them about himself. It should be noted that his sense of humor is often at odds with others, and could be considered inappropriate at times, as he does find odd things funny.
Anakin has a complicated relationship with the concept of independence. The first half of his life has been marred by the experience of being a slave. The second half, though an argument could be made that it was better, was still subject to the Master/subordinate dichotomy. He does not know what life or independence means without rank. Though he fights tooth and nail for every inch of liberation that is given to him, he cannot help but always assess where he fits in the pecking order. He’ll show a certain kind of deference to that order, using proper titles and honorifics. Despite now being a Knight, and having a very personal relationship with Obi-Wan, out of respect (yes, he does respect Obi-Wan) and deference to Obi-Wan, Anakin has a difficult time not addressing him as ‘Master’.
However, whether this means he will obey those who out rank him is another thing altogether. Simply put, if he doesn’t feel like it he won’t. Some of the time ‘doesn’t feel like it’ means he feels obeying orders is simply wrong for the situation, that the right thing to do involves going against the Council or instructions from Obi-Wan. Some of the time ‘doesn’t feel like it’ means he’s being a petulant brat.
Despite how his passions can translate into good actions, his negative qualities often hinder his good intentions.
He is entirely too reckless and gives little forethought to his actions or their consequences for himself or his loved ones. His hotheaded temper often leads him right into the thick of trouble (usually what one could call ‘aggressive negotiations’). His judgment can be clouded by his emotions, making it difficult for him to realize what he is doing before the completion of his actions.
This impetuousness is often intensified by his impatience and arrogance. He knows he is the most powerful Jedi of his age. These kinds of things tend to go to ones pretty, little Jedi Knights head. Anakin suffers from the Running Before One Can Walk syndrome. Due to the knowledge that he is quite powerful, he believes he can do all things before he’s mastered how to do them. And he is disappointed in himself more than anyone else when he fails – though, with his emotional growth truncated at ten years old (due to joining an Order that borders on the definition of a Cult, one that prohibits the healthy development of emotions and how to cope with them), he does tend to take his frustrations out on the people and things around him.
His belief in bringing justice to those who do not have it is what initially drew him to the Jedi Order, and that ideal is certainly a commendable one; however, he is a terrible fit for such an ascetic life. He can practice self-denial for those he cares about, but the Order requires more than the renunciation of claim to physical possessions - the Code forbids the formation of attachments to even other living beings. Anakin has half internalized these teachings, but he cannot bring himself to fully embrace them. In refusing to do so, he walks a thin line. He believes he’s entitled to love, and to be loved, but if the Order found out he would be expelled (and Padmé’s career and the help she brings to millions of people would be in ruins). The fear of losing Padmé and her love and all that they’ve carved out for themselves has made him extremely selfish about his relationships, and he guards all this jealously.
Something must be stated about his rather famous temper. Like his capacity to love, his anger runs hot and is easily ignited. The most common triggers are injustices and stupidity, or what he perceives as injustices and stupidity. He does not like to be second guessed, if he’s made a decision, it was obviously done so based on the information available to him and should be readily apparent to everyone else. At least he thinks this should be obvious. He certainly thinks highly of his opinion and priorities. The other notable trigger is when people harm or threaten to harm those he cares about. He has lost his mother already, he’s lost Ahsoka (though she is not dead, just no longer a part of his life) he can’t stomach the thought of losing Padmé or Obi-Wan. To prevent their deaths he would do anything, even morally questionable things.
When he is angry he usually acts without thinking, lashing out at what he thinks is the root of the problem, whether he is correct or not.
Anakin is
Background: Here's his Canon History. I will also use non-canon-contradicting EU bits as headcanon to fill in the gaps.
Abilities: Strengths
» Greatest Force Potential anyone of his age has ever encountered. (Luke has the same potential he does.)
» The Force lends him skills beyond human abilities in strength, endurance, durability, reflexes, and agility.
» He’s skilled in the Jedi form of hand to hand combat along with numerous weapons (even ‘improvised’ weapons) and their forms (he heavily favors Form V for lightsaber combat.) These skills are enhanced by the Force, but if he were cut off from the Force, he would still have the knowledge to perform all of them – he’s been training continuously for thirteen years now.
» Via the Force, all senses are enhanced – sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
» He can telekinetically move things, and depending on his concentration and creativity, the size and power of the object matters not. Landing half the Invisible Hand at a Coruscant shipdock was part his skills as a pilot, but mostly his will acting through the Force to land it.
» He has an unending supply of energy and loves to stay active. (Obi-Wan didn't say he was always on the move for no reason.)
Mental:
» He receives both premonitions through the Force for immediate situations and visions of future events. He started recognizing those premonitions at a young age, it's what helped him survive pod-racing. And he was receiving visions of him becoming a Jedi Knight before he even met Qui-Gon.
» He is empathic, but mainly to other’s emotions and their ‘signature in the Force’; actual clear, succinct thoughts are hard to read, and usually require the other individual involved to be Force-sensitive or telepathic of some nature and concentration on his part.
» He is highly skilled at the Jedi Mind Trick.
» And Force choking people… Something he learned how to do at the end of the Battle of Jabiim.
» He has amazing piloting skills. Though his crash record would suggest he is a terrible pilot - it's not his fault people shot at him (he thinks he's a likeable guy, after all) and it is his piloting skills that keep him and any passangers alive through impact.
» He has a talent with all things mechanical/electronic. This is actually how he meditates. This talent is Force-granted, through the Force he can just ‘know’ what is wrong with an engine or machine, but he’s augmented his abilities with an extensive mathematical and mechanical/electrical engineering education from the Temple. If he’s emotionally distressed, he gravitates towards working on machines, during the Clone Wars he spent a lot of his free time in the hangerbay fixing starfighers. He gets quite excited about engines and machines and droids. He even deigned and built his cybernetic arm.
» He can create Force-Bonds - however, at the moment this is done subconsciously and inadvertently. He has no idea he did this to Padmé.
» He's a brilliantly reckless battle strategist. His first command was the Battle of Bothawui, his plan involved defeating General Grievous' forces with a handful AT-TE walkers, deployed in space. He mostly succeeded, he saved Bothuwai and destroyed Grevious' ship, though Grevious himself got away.
» He can read, write, and speak Basic, Huttese, and Dug fluently.
Emotional:
» He loves openly and freely (example - everyone he's met that he considers a good person: Padmé, Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Palpatine)
» He's quite loyal to people, he finds it's easy to put their needs above his own. He doesn't give up on them easily - when Obi-Wan was captured during the Battle of Jabiim and was presumed dead by the Council, Anakin could not accept that as true and eventually convinced his then newly assigned Master (Master Ki-adi Mundi) that he knew where Obi-Wan was and to go help him.
» He’s overly compassionate towards everyone in need
» And far, far too generous with his time, talents, and possessions. Even when he was a boy on Tatooine, he sought out ways to help the other slaves around him.
» He wants to help everyone in need, and he certainly tries
» He cares far too much about people. When bounty hunter Cad Bane threatened Ahsoka's life in exchange for accessing a Jedi Holocron, Anakin gave up the Holocron to save Ahsoka, even though his mission objective was to bring the Holocron back.
» He strives to do what he perceives as the right thing to do.
» He rarely gets attached to objects (people on the other hand… see below). He is not at all materialistic. For him, objects don’t compare in value to life. Because of this he's constantly losing his lightsabers.
Weaknesses
» Electricity – his mechanical arm can be shorted out if too much electricity is applied to it or its hit with an EMP. Not to mention that even with his Force enhancements, there is a thing as too much electricity for his body to take.
» He is still human, a lightsaber to the chest will be just as fatal to him as it would be to the next guy. He did lose his arm in a lightsaber duel, after all.
» Relying on the Force to supplement bodily needs – sleep, rest, eating, healing – will exact a high price from him later (longer healing Force-trances, for example).
» He has terrible penmanship - he's from a world where most everything is done via data-pads. He hardly thinks it's worth his while to learn beautiful handwriting.
Mental:
» He leaps first, and thinks later (like, during the fall on the way down).
» The proscribed forms of Meditation of the Jedi Order of his time do NOT work for him – they leave him feeling cold and empty and alone (not calm, warm, and comforted like all the Jedi instructors tell him it should feel like).
» He’s terrible at expressing himself. (Can you blame him, the Jedi of his time weren’t big on emotional health and well-being.) This makes him quite bad at poetry. Such as when he's trying to flirt with Padmé (luckily for him she found it charming).
» He gives no fucks about anything artistic (unless it’s the design of a spaceship) – but performance arts, fine arts, even fashion, he just doesn’t care about those.
» He’s terrible with diplomacy – he has little to no patience and even less for people in authority who are abusing the rights of the people they are meant to serve.
» He is easily distracted by trying to do all the things – he tends to think he’s the only one that can get the job done right, so he tries to do all the jobs, all at once.
» He doesn’t care about history, politics, or literature – he secretly feels having to study any of those subjects is torture. Palpatine chided him a few times for his lack of interest or aptitude with politics
» Anakin struggles with accepting abstract ideals, and he has a hard time with abstract concepts in general. At one point Obi-Wan described it as thus: Abstractions like peace don’t mean much to him. He’s loyal to people, not principles. He believes that helping others achieves peace and justice, whereas the Jedi Order of his time believed creating Peace and Balance helped others. In the end, he will choose helping people over promoting peace every time.
» He struggles with losing his lightsabers or keeping it in one piece. He's made at least 3, however, he doesn't keep count.
Emotional:
» His emotional control is relatively non-existent. He tries, and tries, and tries – but he’s always been blessed with an overabundance of emotions. He always feels everything intensely, and can’t seem to excise his emotions like the Jedi of his time are taught to do. The most glaring example is what he did to the Tusken Raiders who kidnapped and then tortured his mother for a month - he killed them all.
» He hates just as much as he loves.
» He can be fiercely jealous – especially of Padmé’s past love interests. (He did beat the living shit out of Clovis when he caught the man forcing a kiss on Padmé.)
» He is very impatient – he wants to do things now, not later or at a more moderate pace.
» He has a difficult time accepting the death (or prospective death) of those he cares about. The fear of them dying is rather crippling for him. When his mother died, he lost control and used the Dark Side to kill the tribe of Tusken Raiders who had tortured her to death.
» He tends to trust too freely - especially those who are overtly kind to him even when he shouldn't (Like Palpatine).
» When he feels betrayed, he does not forgive easily (if at all). When the Council expelled Ahsoka he didn't forgive them, it only drove him further from trusting them. (And in a way, this included Obi-Wan as well, because he was on the Council. Anakin trusts Obi-Wan to have his back on the battlefield, but doesn't trust Obi-Wan to side with him against the Council, even when the Council is abjectly wrong.)
» He knows using the Dark Side is wrong, and he's constantly fighting against the urge to use it. But it's a never ceasing temptation.
» Ever since the Council first rejected him, telling him his emotions made him dangerous, he has worried this was true. It has bred a certain kind of self-doubt in him that he works hard to compensate for.
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