From vikkir. :)
Aug. 26th, 2011 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofleithianPost the first line paragraph from your 25 most recent fanfics and try to find a pattern.
1. They'd tried to suppress his memories. Force knows they'd tried. But even the most "flawless" of memory-wipes didn't last forever -- if anything, the issue with Darth Revan should have taught them that well enough. Luke was no Revan
after all, the Jedi didn't treat him as...poorly as they may have treated Revan. How did they treat Revan? Were they cruel? Were they kind? Were they a little of both? Somehow, Luke didn't want to know
but it didn't change the fact that every one of them
Brakiss especially
seemed to be looking at him like he was some sort of freak of nature.
2. This can't be happening. You couldn't have done this. But even looking down at the prone form of Padme Amidala on the landing platform
your own wife
you know, more than anything else, that this was your fault. No, worse than your fault. You committed a crime -- no, worse than a crime. You did the same thing to her that you were trying to protect her from. You killed her.
3. It was late at night when Anakin came to see him again. Luke never thought he could ever, truly, see him again -- yet here he was. It was only feeling the warm touch of his father's hand against his cheek, against his hair, that he turned to look at the ghostly figure hovering above his bed. "Father?"
4. Going through an asteroid field was the last thing Obi-Wan Kenobi ever wanted. If anything, considering his already pre-existing fear of flying, this was just another layer on top of what was adding up to be an already terrible day.
5.
The cockpit was quiet save for the occasional, reassuring hum of the hyperdrive. The only occupants -- Arawn Sinn, the Jedi Exile, and Atton Rand, the pilot -- were sound asleep now. At the very least, Arawn was sound asleep -- Atton, as usual, couldn't sleep. He hadn't slept very well, not since the Mandalorian Wars. He kept having nightmares, about the Mandalorian Wars, about so many things he'd prefer to forget. The Jedi he'd killed
he'd never known her name, but she'd stumbled to him in a fit of delirium, trying to save him. "I feel the conflict within you; let go of your hate!" and though he'd tried to deny it, something in him...responded to it
the revelation that Revan had been using him all along
he didn't want to believe it. even as he'd hurt her and tortured her and hurled verbal abuse at her, everything in him screamed, "no, not revan, never revan". revan would never forsake them like this. never.
Nar Shaddaa
he'd wandered every planet in the galaxy, dead inside, but unwilling, for some reason or other, to lie down and die
so many other things he would have preferred to forget.
6. Even long after the First War Against The Yuuzhan Vong ends, you can't help but feel a sense of alienation. You check everyone's eyes for some trace of Jacen Solo, but you find nothing. If anything, they've been just as damaged as you are. Jaina, Zekk, Qui-Gon -- even though they refuse to admit that it's happened, they've been damaged. Ben's death has taken something out of each of them -- and Yoda, especially, seems to be taking the brunt of the blame, considering that he was the one who sent you to this guaranteed suicide mission to Myrkr.
7. It was only after Mimban that the nightmares came back full force. Not that they hadn't been there before, but never in such a skull-ripping intensity. So many people, quietly pleading for Tarkin, for anyone to save them. So many people, sacrificed all for the sake of the destruction of Naboo. So many people, sacrificed for nothing. So many people, sacrificed in a situation that would have meant other people's deaths otherwise. So many people...
8. Anakin had always expected somehow that he'd have to meet Vader once again. Han had said much on Dagobah, after Yoda's death -- it didn't help that Vader
the destroyer of both his families, the destroyer of lives
and he seemed to have an uncanny talent of meeting up wherever he went. Wherever he seemed to go, Vader was waiting. Vader was always waiting. It never seemed to end. Mimban, Hoth, Bespin...and now Kashyyyk. It seemed, somehow, that he'd have no choice but to face Vader alone.
9. It's after two weeks that Anakin finally wakes up from the fever. Even now, seeing his face, you can't help but wish that it was different -- you shouldn't have had to meet up with him. Not like this.
10. C-3PO never expected to meet up with R2-D2 the way he did. If anything, they couldn't have been from more different backgrounds -- he was a protocol droid built by a lonely farmboy to help his family around the farm, and R2 was the Princess' personal droid -- but in a bizarre way, Threepio mused, they managed to hit it off quite beautifully.
11. Even standing over the body of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padme Amidala Skywalker could feel the tendrils of cold terror spread through her gut. "Anakin...what have you
we
done?"
12.
It was after she saw the holograms -- long after she saw the holograms -- that she accepted the truth.
Anakin...
Somehow, Annie, her Annie, had become a murderer. She hadn't expected something like this to happen -- even back after he'd murdered the Tusken Raiders who'd killed his mother in cold blood, she hadn't expected something like this to happen.
13. Obi-Wan loves to tell stories. He's been doing it ever since he was a boy -- far before he set on his lonely travels as a man for the Rebel Alliance, working underground, running blockades with his faithful
if slightly bumbling
Gungan friend by his side. It's been a talent of his -- trying to distract his family from the horrible news on the Holonet
especially Vader, Lumiya's pet. the man was evil in purest form, and yet still the galaxy clung to him and Lumiya both, as if they were the only ones who gave the galaxy life. even now, Obi-Wan could remember seeing the Temple aflame, and Palpatine, and the others --
and trying to keep Jar-Jar company, eliminate the boredom of traveling, trying to distract himself from his own nightmares about that horrible night...
even now, he wished he could wipe that memory from his head
14. Somehow, he didn't know how he was still breathing after everything that happened.
15. Vader was close. Far too close. Anakin could practically smell him -- could hear his harsh breathing in the shadows. And for a moment, he hesitated. Even now, he knew what Vader was trying to do -- goading him on, tempting him, trying to have him give into the power of the Dark Side.
16. He doubted he could ever really figure out Arren Nichos.
17. Anakin Skywalker loves to write. Always has.
18. Even flying into Coruscant, Luke couldn't help but be amazed by how truly huge the city was. It was nothing -- absolutely nothing -- like anything he'd seen before. Not even in his boyhood dreams of leaving Tatooine and going soaring. I must be dreaming. Wake up, Luke; it isn't fair...
19. Qui-Gon was dead.
20. It was roaming what was left of the Tusken camp that Caedus found her: curled in a ball and shivering, her wild blonde hair filthy and thick, covering her body almost like a protective coat. And it had taken a while before he'd managed to persuade her that he meant no harm, that he was trying to help her. Even looking around the camp, at the remains of the men and women who had been slaughtered in his son's rampage, Caedus couldn't help but feel sick.
21.
The skies of Coruscant blazed with war. It looked normal enough from the city below, looking up into the sky above -- but in the thick of war, it was far different. Perhaps it looked great in the holos, but there was nothing glorious about this war. If anything, it solidified Luke's belief that everything in the galaxy
every Vong, every Corellian Separatist, every...everything
was out to get you.
22. Mustafar was the picture of hell.
23. "Vestara? What do you remember about your mother?" Anakin's voice was gentle -- too gentle. Some of his sarcasm and endearing candor would be more than welcome in this situation, but if anything, he seemed quieter -- quieter than Kashyyyk itself.
24. She wasn't going to let him go off and face Vader on his own. Anakin knew that. But after everything, somehow, Anakin wondered if there was something, anything, he could do to reverse the tide. To save Vader. And perhaps he could save his friends as well -- Vader was after them because of him. And though he doubted they'd give him up so easily
they were frustratingly protective that way
Anakin knew this was something he had to do. Something he needed to do.
25. They seemed to be fighting a losing battle. No, worse than a losing battle. They were being utterly skewered by the Empire. The best they could do was bank a hasty retreat. If they found a place to hide for a while, Padme thought, perhaps they could regroup.
Um, other than overuse of the italics and the Stover (plus a lot of it being in the RR-verse), I can't really say.
1. They'd tried to suppress his memories. Force knows they'd tried. But even the most "flawless" of memory-wipes didn't last forever -- if anything, the issue with Darth Revan should have taught them that well enough. Luke was no Revan
after all, the Jedi didn't treat him as...poorly as they may have treated Revan. How did they treat Revan? Were they cruel? Were they kind? Were they a little of both? Somehow, Luke didn't want to know
but it didn't change the fact that every one of them
Brakiss especially
seemed to be looking at him like he was some sort of freak of nature.
2. This can't be happening. You couldn't have done this. But even looking down at the prone form of Padme Amidala on the landing platform
your own wife
you know, more than anything else, that this was your fault. No, worse than your fault. You committed a crime -- no, worse than a crime. You did the same thing to her that you were trying to protect her from. You killed her.
3. It was late at night when Anakin came to see him again. Luke never thought he could ever, truly, see him again -- yet here he was. It was only feeling the warm touch of his father's hand against his cheek, against his hair, that he turned to look at the ghostly figure hovering above his bed. "Father?"
4. Going through an asteroid field was the last thing Obi-Wan Kenobi ever wanted. If anything, considering his already pre-existing fear of flying, this was just another layer on top of what was adding up to be an already terrible day.
5.
The cockpit was quiet save for the occasional, reassuring hum of the hyperdrive. The only occupants -- Arawn Sinn, the Jedi Exile, and Atton Rand, the pilot -- were sound asleep now. At the very least, Arawn was sound asleep -- Atton, as usual, couldn't sleep. He hadn't slept very well, not since the Mandalorian Wars. He kept having nightmares, about the Mandalorian Wars, about so many things he'd prefer to forget. The Jedi he'd killed
he'd never known her name, but she'd stumbled to him in a fit of delirium, trying to save him. "I feel the conflict within you; let go of your hate!" and though he'd tried to deny it, something in him...responded to it
the revelation that Revan had been using him all along
he didn't want to believe it. even as he'd hurt her and tortured her and hurled verbal abuse at her, everything in him screamed, "no, not revan, never revan". revan would never forsake them like this. never.
Nar Shaddaa
he'd wandered every planet in the galaxy, dead inside, but unwilling, for some reason or other, to lie down and die
so many other things he would have preferred to forget.
6. Even long after the First War Against The Yuuzhan Vong ends, you can't help but feel a sense of alienation. You check everyone's eyes for some trace of Jacen Solo, but you find nothing. If anything, they've been just as damaged as you are. Jaina, Zekk, Qui-Gon -- even though they refuse to admit that it's happened, they've been damaged. Ben's death has taken something out of each of them -- and Yoda, especially, seems to be taking the brunt of the blame, considering that he was the one who sent you to this guaranteed suicide mission to Myrkr.
7. It was only after Mimban that the nightmares came back full force. Not that they hadn't been there before, but never in such a skull-ripping intensity. So many people, quietly pleading for Tarkin, for anyone to save them. So many people, sacrificed all for the sake of the destruction of Naboo. So many people, sacrificed for nothing. So many people, sacrificed in a situation that would have meant other people's deaths otherwise. So many people...
8. Anakin had always expected somehow that he'd have to meet Vader once again. Han had said much on Dagobah, after Yoda's death -- it didn't help that Vader
the destroyer of both his families, the destroyer of lives
and he seemed to have an uncanny talent of meeting up wherever he went. Wherever he seemed to go, Vader was waiting. Vader was always waiting. It never seemed to end. Mimban, Hoth, Bespin...and now Kashyyyk. It seemed, somehow, that he'd have no choice but to face Vader alone.
9. It's after two weeks that Anakin finally wakes up from the fever. Even now, seeing his face, you can't help but wish that it was different -- you shouldn't have had to meet up with him. Not like this.
10. C-3PO never expected to meet up with R2-D2 the way he did. If anything, they couldn't have been from more different backgrounds -- he was a protocol droid built by a lonely farmboy to help his family around the farm, and R2 was the Princess' personal droid -- but in a bizarre way, Threepio mused, they managed to hit it off quite beautifully.
11. Even standing over the body of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padme Amidala Skywalker could feel the tendrils of cold terror spread through her gut. "Anakin...what have you
we
done?"
12.
It was after she saw the holograms -- long after she saw the holograms -- that she accepted the truth.
Anakin...
Somehow, Annie, her Annie, had become a murderer. She hadn't expected something like this to happen -- even back after he'd murdered the Tusken Raiders who'd killed his mother in cold blood, she hadn't expected something like this to happen.
13. Obi-Wan loves to tell stories. He's been doing it ever since he was a boy -- far before he set on his lonely travels as a man for the Rebel Alliance, working underground, running blockades with his faithful
if slightly bumbling
Gungan friend by his side. It's been a talent of his -- trying to distract his family from the horrible news on the Holonet
especially Vader, Lumiya's pet. the man was evil in purest form, and yet still the galaxy clung to him and Lumiya both, as if they were the only ones who gave the galaxy life. even now, Obi-Wan could remember seeing the Temple aflame, and Palpatine, and the others --
and trying to keep Jar-Jar company, eliminate the boredom of traveling, trying to distract himself from his own nightmares about that horrible night...
even now, he wished he could wipe that memory from his head
14. Somehow, he didn't know how he was still breathing after everything that happened.
15. Vader was close. Far too close. Anakin could practically smell him -- could hear his harsh breathing in the shadows. And for a moment, he hesitated. Even now, he knew what Vader was trying to do -- goading him on, tempting him, trying to have him give into the power of the Dark Side.
16. He doubted he could ever really figure out Arren Nichos.
17. Anakin Skywalker loves to write. Always has.
18. Even flying into Coruscant, Luke couldn't help but be amazed by how truly huge the city was. It was nothing -- absolutely nothing -- like anything he'd seen before. Not even in his boyhood dreams of leaving Tatooine and going soaring. I must be dreaming. Wake up, Luke; it isn't fair...
19. Qui-Gon was dead.
20. It was roaming what was left of the Tusken camp that Caedus found her: curled in a ball and shivering, her wild blonde hair filthy and thick, covering her body almost like a protective coat. And it had taken a while before he'd managed to persuade her that he meant no harm, that he was trying to help her. Even looking around the camp, at the remains of the men and women who had been slaughtered in his son's rampage, Caedus couldn't help but feel sick.
21.
The skies of Coruscant blazed with war. It looked normal enough from the city below, looking up into the sky above -- but in the thick of war, it was far different. Perhaps it looked great in the holos, but there was nothing glorious about this war. If anything, it solidified Luke's belief that everything in the galaxy
every Vong, every Corellian Separatist, every...everything
was out to get you.
22. Mustafar was the picture of hell.
23. "Vestara? What do you remember about your mother?" Anakin's voice was gentle -- too gentle. Some of his sarcasm and endearing candor would be more than welcome in this situation, but if anything, he seemed quieter -- quieter than Kashyyyk itself.
24. She wasn't going to let him go off and face Vader on his own. Anakin knew that. But after everything, somehow, Anakin wondered if there was something, anything, he could do to reverse the tide. To save Vader. And perhaps he could save his friends as well -- Vader was after them because of him. And though he doubted they'd give him up so easily
they were frustratingly protective that way
Anakin knew this was something he had to do. Something he needed to do.
25. They seemed to be fighting a losing battle. No, worse than a losing battle. They were being utterly skewered by the Empire. The best they could do was bank a hasty retreat. If they found a place to hide for a while, Padme thought, perhaps they could regroup.
Um, other than overuse of the italics and the Stover (plus a lot of it being in the RR-verse), I can't really say.
