YES. THAT. that’s exactly what I was thinking of! also dealing with the idea of a young, brilliant, talented anakin skywalker but with JEJ’s childhood stammer? also he had a totally shaved head at one point for a role (I can’t remember which) and it’s the most Vader-unmasked thing I’ve ever seen???
Yes excellent.
And Padme remembers Anakin as this adorable genius little kid with the stutter, and then ten years later he shows up looking Like That and with That Voice and it’s pretty much over for her.
Also consider: post-ROTJ AU where Anakin survives:
(with a few more scars, of course, but you’re right that this is peak unmasked Vader)
What she says: I’m fine
What she means: So in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ when Vader just offs Ozzel and promotes Piett like five ranks with barely a glance like how exactly did that work out like did he have to argue with other officers that yes, in fact, Darth Vader /totally/ just made him admiral and compile witnesses and a supporting sound file or is this an event that happens frequently enough that the people who document this shit just roll their eyes and go “He fucking did it again, guys” and curse under their breaths because they just got another load of fucking paperwork to deal with another dead fucking admiral and another pile of ranks to give some random asshole and it wasn’t even clarified whether he was a rear admiral or an admiral admiral so they’ll just have to fucking figure that out, too, then or-
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