Cross-genre geekitude.

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teinedreugan put in SWII earlier today while I was moomphing about.

And, in observing, I have come to a conclusion.

Anakin is a Cherub, from In Nomine.


"For a Cherub, betrayal of devotion is the most serious sin, and generated dissonance. As long as he is attuned to something, his is its caretaker -- its guardian angel -- and won't do anything that would bring it harm." --In Nomine, pp 95

"But even aside from applied resonance, a Cherub must never betray his Superior, his friends, his ideals or himself. Doing so would be to sink below his capacity for nobility, the first step down a short road to selfish malevolence." --Ibid, pp. 95-6.

"A Cherub generates dissonance when he allows an object of his attunement to be destroyed. [...] If he can successfully restore the destroyed item to a whole state -- unlikely in the case of living things -- then the dissonance its destruction generated will disappear." --Ibid. pp 96.

If an angel generates enough dissonance and discord, he Falls, becoming a demon. Fallen Cherubs are Djinn. Djinn don't worry about the things they fixate on being harmed, though they really can't do so themselves unless the target of the obsession asks them to.

Vader's redemption and overthrowing of the Emperor would, therefore, be him flipping orientations back to behaving like a Cherub -- rather than observing the object of his fixation suffer and appreciating the damage, he returned to protector status.

In the two movies of the prequel trilogy seen so far, Anakin has demonstrated guardian fixations on his mother, on Padme, and on Obi-Wan. He fixes things (restoring them to whole state). There is a visible manifestation of Discord when his mother dies after he has been prevented from protecting her; the demonic aspects of the rage show through. Possibly a point of dissonance when Padme falls out of the ship onto the sand dune and he can't go back to collect her, but possibly not; the devotion to her shown in doing what she would have done might override. In the original trilogy, Vader is fixed on Obi-Wan, and later on Luke, possibly also the Emperor -- which fixation might be a holdover from his interactions with Palpatine in the original trilogy. The Luke-fixation could connect to the Padme-fixation; one wonders how they separated.


This amused me. So I put it here where it might amuse others. :}

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