Clone Wars plot bunny and fic search

[beatrice_otter]

So, the first episode with Mortis and the Father, Son, and Daughter who personify the Force, and Anakin who is supposed to stay and take the Father's place and keep the Force in balance.  Two questions I have that I think would result in really interesting fics, which I would like to read if anything like them exists:

1) What would have happened if Anakin had chosen to do what the Father asked, and stay?  What would have happened to Anakin, how would he have changed as he worked to keep the Daughter and Son in balance?  And what would have happened to the rest of the Galaxy?  If Mortis is the Force, how would changes there have affected things?  How would it have affected the course of the war, and the Jedi Order, and the Sith?  (Would Padme, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka have been allowed to visit?)

2) What would have happened if Anakin hadn't died on the Death Star, and went to Mortis instead of to the Rebellion with Luke?  (For example, if he knew he was dying and bacta couldn't save him and maybe the Force, strengthened and personified at Mortis, could?)  How would that have affected things, both with Anakin and the Force, the Jedi, the New Republic, and the rise of the First Order and the Resistance?  Especially if Luke and Leia somehow became the new Son and Daughter.

I hope these fics already exist, because I would LOVE to read a long, plotty exploration of this idea.  But I'm already working on a Star Wars WIP, so.

Comments

[endeni]

Oh, wow. Anakin going back to take the Father's place after ROTJ and Luke and Leia as the new Son and Daughter! That'd be such a fascinating concept to explore! *_______*

[laurajv]

I'm 90% sure this doesn't exist yet because I'm a huge junkie for Vader-survives-ROTJ stories....but if I've missed it, I DESPERATELY want it.

[endeni]

Plus, think about Luke and Leia as the Son and Daughter! I mean, does Luke get to be the light side? Which would leave the dark one to Leia. Or maybe it's the reverse?

[beatrice_otter]

Or does balancing the Force mean that things would not be divided into such a hard-and-fast binary? Learning to be at balance with themselves, and more fluid in their categorization?

[endeni]

Oh, I love this concept. *_* But then you have to wonder, wouldn't balancing the Force be Luke's job then? What with him being the new generation fo Jedi and all...

[beatrice_otter]

Well, but that wouldn't be possible without the Sith and the Jedi as they existed being wiped out. Anakin didn't balance the Force through reforming it, so (if he did) it was by ... wiping out both Jedi and Sith. So that something new and (hopefully) more balanced could take their place.

[endeni]

/So that something new and (hopefully) more balanced could take their place./ - Yes, exactly. And that someone is Luke, right? *makes thinking face*

[beatrice_otter]

I know! I figured, if such a thing existed in mainstream fandom homes, I couldn't have missed it, right? But OMG COULD IT BE AN AWESOME STORY IN THE RIGHT HANDS.

[schneefink]

Ok now I really have to watch the Mortis episodes.

[beatrice_otter]

They're good, I enjoyed them, but more in the "ooh, this gives me thinky thoughts and plot bunnies" sense than "this is fun just to watch."

[grimorie]

Hi! I was just going around DW when I saw this post, I hope you don't mind-- but there's kind of an addition to the Mortis mythos because of Recent Events in Star Wars Rebels, if you don't mind being spoiled?

It has something to do with Ahsoka and the Daughter, and the way she was brought back, and how since that moment there's a subtle recurring theme when certain things happen to Ahsoka.