gffa:
Imagine you’re some pod racing enthusiast watching the Boonta Eve Classic and some literal child enters with the shittiest scrap pod you’ve ever seen. He built it himself. He then proceeds to absolutely demolish every other professional racer. The kid never enters a race again but his legacy lives on in the hearts of the pod racing community.
About 10 years later, you tune into a news stream to catch some news about the Clone War. The announcer is talking about a particularly pivotal battle, saying something about “Jedi General Anakin Skywalker”
YOU MEAN THAT KID FROM THE BOONTA EVE CLASSIC???
#then about 50 years later you listen to the holonet and hear#“senator leia organa has just been exposed as the daughter of darth vader who as it turns out was actually jedi knight anakin skywalker”#and you spit out your drink like the principal from amazing world of gumball in that one scene#anakin skywalker#star wars (via @stairset)
A bunch of pod-racing fanatics telling tales in cantinas across the empire, building up a mythology around That One Time A Literal Child Decimated The Boonta Eve Classic In The Shittiest Damn Pod-Racer You Ever Did See: I bet he’s still out there, just being a force for chaos
The Force: hold my beer