Good evening, all!

While I was growing up, I always thought of Vader as the cold, emotionless, quintessential bad guy. I WAS SCARED.

But now that I've seen him physically mature, develop serious anger-management issues, experience the death of his mother, slaughter a village full of Tuscans, fight for his life in an arena, battle a Sith Lord, lose a limb, fall in love, get married, grow stronger with the force, become a Jedi, defeat the aforementioned Sith Lord, become apprentice to another, devote himself to the Dark Side, massacre a temple full of younglings and a slew of Separatists, force-choke his wife, lose a duel with his ex-Master, suffer the loss of the rest of his limbs, and ultimately be flambéed on the banks of a pit of molten lava...*stops to recover breath *...I realize that emotionally, he was still a little boy crying for Padme and Shmi.

I guess I was more afraid of the mysterious aura surrounding Darth Vader, rather than Vader himself. Because if I were in the SW universe during the years of Episodes IV-VI, I'm sure he could have force-choked me, or cut me with his sithsaber, or threw me down a reactor shaft, if he were so inclined. Even so, knowing where Anakin came from, and what his vulnerabilities are, somehow negates my dread of him. I fear no longer.

G'night, all!
*hugs and kisses*
-Tee