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Part 3 of these million imperfections
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2025-09-23
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2025-09-25
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shattered illusion

Summary:

The Jedi Order is far from perfect: Luke Skywalker learns that the hard way.

Or: a collection of drabbles where Luke is disillusioned with the Jedi Order.

Chapter 1

Summary:

Luke time travels to the past and is far from impressed by the Jedi's treatment of his father

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Chapter Text

Luke is starting to understand why his father turned to the dark side.

He is, for all intents and purposes, a time-travelling stranger. Yet Obi-Wan has seen fit to chastise Anakin in front of him four - no, five - times.

Luke has never seen someone so starved for affection before.

The whole ‘don’t go after your friends’ platitude from Yoda, writ large, is starting to feel more unsettling every day.

“Good job,” Luke tries, once, when he and Anakin are together in the salles, sans Obi-Wan, and Anakin had almost melted.

Yeah. The Jedi are a little too 'detached’, Luke thinks. There is growing corruption and flourishing slavery, but all they really seem to care about is meditating and systemically forcing emotional repression onto children.

And that, Luke thinks, wrily, after learning that they have let Palpatine have one on one meetings with his father since he was 12, is how you end up with Darth Vader.

Chapter 2

Summary:

luke skywalker swore his fealty to a religion who set out rules that, if followed, would have undone his whole existence

somehow I think luke skywalker, created in defiance of the jedi code, may think that the PT jedi order are a little fucked up and, indeed, acts explicitly contrary to their edicts in ESB and ROTJ

Chapter Text

Jedi are not supposed to marry, are not supposed to love, are not supposed to have children.

Luke Skywalker - famously child of a Jedi - learns this at 23, father freshly dead.

Ahsoka Tano looks at him, unblinking.

“Sorry, the Jedi banned what?”

“Attachments.” Ahsoka sighs. “Interpersonal loving relationships, whatever you call it.”

“That’s fucked up.”

“Yes, well.” Ahsoka smiles, wrily. “If Anakin had abided by the Jedi Code, you wouldn’t exist.”

“Comforting,” Luke mutters.

“It would be a long, long time before I pretend that the Jedi were anything resembling perfect. The Republic was flawed. The Empire wasn’t some rogue coup. It was an unmasking.”

Slavery has been entrenched in Tatooine for centuries. The Empire has scarcely existed for two decades.

“I see,” Luke says, slowly. “So, do you know who my mother was?”

Luke never has.

But he has wondered. Particularly after learning about what happened to Anakin Skywalker. With dread, with hope.

“I suspect that if there was a woman who Anakin would ever have children with, it would be Padmé Amidala. Have you ever been to Naboo, Luke?”

Padmé Amidala. Luke runs the name through his head. It slots into place almost seamlessly.

“I’ve heard it’s lovely at this time of year,” Luke replies, slowly.

“It’s lovely all times of year. I’ll take you.”

And so Luke goes, goes and visits the grave of a woman who loved his father, too, even when it was forbidden.

Chapter 3

Summary:

Time-travelling Luke learns that his father does not have a girlfriend (he has a WIFE).

Chapter Text

“Do you have a girlfriend?”

“Do I.” Anakin Skywalker, freshly twenty, runs his metal hand through his hair and sighs. “Luke, Jedi cannot have girlfriends, it is against the Code, so no, I do not have a girlfriend.”

“Right,” Luke Skywalker, time-travelling heretic, says, disappointed. He really wanted to know who his mother was: wanted desperately to learn that, despite Anakin later becoming Darth Vader, that his parents had, once, truly loved each other.

But no, the Jedi said otherwise, and Anakin was a good Jedi, so Luke’s mother, it seems, would remain a mystery.

.

Several months and much adventure later: “Luke, I would like you to meet my wife, Padmé Amidala.”

Ah. Well.

Maybe Luke’s father wasn’t quite so loyal to the Jedi Code as he initially thought.

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