Do You Think Darth Vader Sees C-3PO And Remembers Back To The Hours Spent In His Childhood Working On

Do you think Darth Vader sees C-3PO and remembers back to the hours spent in his childhood working on assembling him?

I like to think so

A while back an anon requested I draw Kylo in a Star Wars shirt so…I’m just gonna…leave this here.

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Headcanon that Victor wants to make katsudon for Yuuri but doesn’t know how so he decides to ask Yurio for help because he made those katsudon pirozhki for Yakov and Lilia and katsudon pirozhki has katsudon in it, right? Yurio tries to help but turns out he’s also a terrible cook and they resort to calling Yurio’s grandpa who only says “I make pirozhki, not katsudon”. Victor then realizes he should have called Hiroko all along and wakes her up in the middle of the night. Hiroko gamely tries to guide him through the entire process while Toshiya is like what is going on are you teaching Victor how to make katsudon at 1am. Meanwhile Victor has one hand on the phone and is useless in the kitchen so he just directs Yurio to do all the chopping because he likes knives right. Yurio puts up with it because if he doesn’t Victor will pester him to help him again till the end of time. At the end of it, they make a passable attempt at a katsudon, and Hiroko ends the call by telling Victor to call more frequently because Yuuri gets caught up in training and keeps forgetting to call home. 

Let’s Start at the Very Beginning: On Prologues

There’s a certain type of prologue that always makes me deeply suspicious of the book I’ve just started reading. I don’t know if this prologue type has a name, but I’m sure you’ll recognize it from a few examples:

Average Joe is doing something mildly dangerous that he often does in his line of work, like patrolling a castle rampart or taking a shortcut home through a haunted alleyway. He’s accompanied by his dear, disposable friends, Average Sue, Average Bob, and Average Jill. But this night, something is different. Something is coming for Average Joe. It picks off his friends one by one, always managing to stay hidden. And when Average Joe finally sees it, he screams “By the gods!”—or just screams—and we, the reader, are told that he sees it, and how he reacts, but not what the thing actually is. End Prologue.

Scholar Joseph is researching an ancient and mysterious force, being a scholar. He suddenly hits upon a shocking discovery. We are not told what this discovery, exactly, is. But the kingdom is in danger! He must warn the king—nope, too late, someone stabbed him in the back. End Prologue.

Evil Overlord Jxoxex is busy torturing children and kicking puppies when his Evil Advisors approach him. The Evil Ritual is complete! At last, after a hundred or a thousand years, he can rise again to complete his Evil Plan! What’s the Evil Plan, you ask? Who knows! Certainly not the reader. End Prologue.

Chapter one begins in a small farming town in the middle of nowhere (or a castle scullery) in which a teenager of mysterious parentage is looking forward to the Harvest Festival. The events of the prologue are not mentioned again until 400 pages in.

I think I will call this type of prologue the Ominous Prologue of Vagueness.

I have a cynical suspicion that authors use the Ominous Prologue of Vagueness because they know that starting their story in a pleasant, sleepy farming town is dull. The Ominous Prologue of Vagueness is supposed to make us forgive 50 pages of mundanity in the hopes that soon, we’ll get back to something interesting. But at this point in my life, I am utterly desensitized to a prologue in which bad things happen to characters I don’t know. Your world is in danger from an ancient evil? Get in line. Without any kind of distinguishing detail, the malevolent evil force itself is only an eyelash more interesting than the preparations for the Harvest Festival.