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so_out_of_ideas) wrote2008-01-18 01:14 pm
so_out_of_ideas) wrote2008-01-18 01:14 pm
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Force Visions for Dummies.
Polgarawolf, do not read this post until you are done reading "Brightening Night"
Okay, I just wrote this up for someone and I thought it would be helpful to add it to my notes. I don't really want to put it on the main notes pages because it kind of ruins the suspense.
Okay. I was too tired to write a long explanation in my notes last night. The snow location IS Vader's mind. That's where Ani is, but in order for him to get in there, he had to get past Vader so that he could GET to Anakin. The point of the crash was to temporarily knock Vader out, so he hasn't been hurt that badly. He is extremely well used to using the Force to compensate for pain and inability to move, and in fact pain is what allows him to focus his anger, so his injuries are actually giving him what he needs in order to ignore them for the moment. He doesn't sleep, so the only way to bypass his conscious mind is to make him literally unconscious, if even just for the space of a short time, say twenty minutes, in which the kids had to figure out how to drag him out of the TIE and wake him up. I'm sorry for the confusion on that point, but the scene just would not have worked properly from Shmi's perspective, so I had to have Vader wake up from his own POV and he doesn't know how much time has passed. Some readers seem to be getting that point, while others aren't, so I'm not sure whether a re-write is necessary. Aruna didn't know where I was going with this before she read it and her reaction was positive, so I had assumed that I was okay to post the chapters.
To elaborate on the vision.
Anakin/Vader's psyche is essentially divided. Consciously, Vader thinks that Anakin is dead. In reality, Anakin exists, but is buried so far within Vader's subconscious mind that he can only exert any influence when Vader isn't looking. The two halves of thet vision are linked; Obi-Wan, who also exists as a part of Vader's subconscious, is on a kind of guard duty while Vader's mind is telling him the one thing that he really most wants to hear. "Mustafar never happened. You have your life back." This way Ani can symbolically free Anakin, wrap him up in the security of the life he has lost, and Anakin can show Ani what he needs to find out, since that particular memory is one that Vader would be particularly careful NOT to let anyone near.
Yes, they're going to Mustafar.
When I said "finishing the story arc" I meant finishing the current arc that is being posted, as in "what happens with Padme being hurt, captured by Vader, and Obi-Wan having to cart the entire clan off to Mustafar for a confrontation with Vader" rather than "finishing One Path". Apparently I need to learn to communicate.
Okay, I just wrote this up for someone and I thought it would be helpful to add it to my notes. I don't really want to put it on the main notes pages because it kind of ruins the suspense.
Okay. I was too tired to write a long explanation in my notes last night. The snow location IS Vader's mind. That's where Ani is, but in order for him to get in there, he had to get past Vader so that he could GET to Anakin. The point of the crash was to temporarily knock Vader out, so he hasn't been hurt that badly. He is extremely well used to using the Force to compensate for pain and inability to move, and in fact pain is what allows him to focus his anger, so his injuries are actually giving him what he needs in order to ignore them for the moment. He doesn't sleep, so the only way to bypass his conscious mind is to make him literally unconscious, if even just for the space of a short time, say twenty minutes, in which the kids had to figure out how to drag him out of the TIE and wake him up. I'm sorry for the confusion on that point, but the scene just would not have worked properly from Shmi's perspective, so I had to have Vader wake up from his own POV and he doesn't know how much time has passed. Some readers seem to be getting that point, while others aren't, so I'm not sure whether a re-write is necessary. Aruna didn't know where I was going with this before she read it and her reaction was positive, so I had assumed that I was okay to post the chapters.
To elaborate on the vision.
Anakin/Vader's psyche is essentially divided. Consciously, Vader thinks that Anakin is dead. In reality, Anakin exists, but is buried so far within Vader's subconscious mind that he can only exert any influence when Vader isn't looking. The two halves of thet vision are linked; Obi-Wan, who also exists as a part of Vader's subconscious, is on a kind of guard duty while Vader's mind is telling him the one thing that he really most wants to hear. "Mustafar never happened. You have your life back." This way Ani can symbolically free Anakin, wrap him up in the security of the life he has lost, and Anakin can show Ani what he needs to find out, since that particular memory is one that Vader would be particularly careful NOT to let anyone near.
Yes, they're going to Mustafar.
When I said "finishing the story arc" I meant finishing the current arc that is being posted, as in "what happens with Padme being hurt, captured by Vader, and Obi-Wan having to cart the entire clan off to Mustafar for a confrontation with Vader" rather than "finishing One Path". Apparently I need to learn to communicate.