This tale stunned me. I'm not one much for seeing things from Vader's POV, but this rings true. Allowing the story to tell itself like this really worked.
I have read other stories that have depicted this scene from Vader's point of view, but few (none that I remember now, anyway) I've read have done such a good job at making a monster so vividly human. And no, despite the description, I don't hate Anakin/Vader; Anakin's character wouldn't be so interesting to me if he didn't have his monstrous and human moments. It's the contradictions that fascinate me, I suppose.
Anyway, that Anakin would rationalize away the destruction of a planet to convince himself that the choices that had led him up to that moment (wherein he just stood by and supported a planet's destruction by not doing anything to stop it) were justified if not right, definitely fit. I could also see Vader reacting that way to it privately--the momentary horrified panic, the composed coldness he regained with almost frightening speed afterwards.
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I have read other stories that have depicted this scene from Vader's point of view, but few (none that I remember now, anyway) I've read have done such a good job at making a monster so vividly human. And no, despite the description, I don't hate Anakin/Vader; Anakin's character wouldn't be so interesting to me if he didn't have his monstrous and human moments. It's the contradictions that fascinate me, I suppose.
Anyway, that Anakin would rationalize away the destruction of a planet to convince himself that the choices that had led him up to that moment (wherein he just stood by and supported a planet's destruction by not doing anything to stop it) were justified if not right, definitely fit. I could also see Vader reacting that way to it privately--the momentary horrified panic, the composed coldness he regained with almost frightening speed afterwards.
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