Well yeah If we accept the new lore from this movie fully, then Palpatine also thinks of Vader and Anakin as separate identities, mainly because he could've possessed Vader if he had to but Anakin killing him left him actually dead
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You get the feeling that the whole thing with Luke was Palpatine feeling like the new body situation was getting urgent what with his old one getting along in years and his current apprentice being a fucked up cyborg with an iron lung
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chton
I mean that was the Dark Empire answer. I still can't believe Dark Empire is basically canon now
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I guess when Luke throws his lightsaber away and commits to being a Jedi he's thinking "Welp, guess it's being a girl or nothing"
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Well, Rey hasn't been conceived yet. No idea if he thought of possessing [unnamed son] Palpatine as Wookiepedia names him
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No the other option at that point would've been Leia
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His actual plan at that point seems to have been to have some fun electrocuting Luke, discard Vader as a broken toy, then tell the troops to pick up Leia from the moon of Endor before they blow it up
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The ending of RotJ is... not very good (again, Marcia Lucas gave up on it and then gave up on George entirely in the process) But the idea seems to be if he forces Vader and Luke to duel then whichever one wins, knowingly killing your own dad or your own son would break him
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And being fully broken after that would mean they were fully ready to "Strike me down in all of your anger" etc Possibly when Vader finds out about Leia Palpatine starts reshuffling his priorities like "Hey maybe being a girl is better than a broke-ass cyborg"
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After all Vader's body technically doesn't have a dick now either
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And, surprisingly, we now know that having a functional dick is actually a priority for Palpatine
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chton
"Somehow, Emperor Palpatine has fucked."
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"How is it possible?" "Dark shippers... Dating apps only the Sith knew..."
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