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Anakin learns earlier and has a different reaction to the truth of Palpatine
In most fics where Anakin learns during the Clone Wars that Palpatine is the Sith Master, his immediate reaction is "that can't be true" and/or "but he's so nice", but I once read a fic where after the initial reaction he realizes "oh, Palpatine was like the dangerous slavemasters my mother warned me about where they treat their slaves well so they don't think of themselves as slaves and so don't even try to leave their masters despite their chains," and so now I'm wondering if there's any more fics like that? Where Anakin either realizes on his own that Palpatine is grooming him, or upon being told by someone else he realizes what Palpatine's strategy of 'nice' slavemaster was?
u/Upbeat-Highway-5953 — 9 days ago