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If Darth Vader didn't force roofie his childhood crush, at the bare minimum he was a manipulative asshole and was just saying/doing whatever shed like, just so she's like him.
Considering how often Jedis use mind tricks, and how Anakin gets corrupted by the dark side, it really doesn't seem like he'd hold back from doing that.
From what I know of the force, it might not even be controllable?
Like, if you had the highest magic bacteria count as an angry teenager who wasn't conditioned to suppress every emotional or idea of a romantic life, it might take literal effort not to have the Force influence it.
If everyone else has been suppressing emotions since infants, no one else would know to tell him to watch out for it happening. Maybe Yoda would remember cuz he's old? I don't know how long "no boning" was a rule.
Why am I only now realizing he was mind tricking her into liking him?
waves hand
To be clear tho, this is one of those head cannon post fact rationalition things. I'm not saying George wrote it intentionally like this. But we have what we have to go on.
With that and logic, Anakin was likely doing it to everyone. He was an emotionally stunted 8 year old in a teenagers body deep in puberty with an incomparable amount of power he didnt know how to use. He was always doing what an 8 year old would think is cool, and mind tricking people into thinking it's awesome. That's why kids loved those movies. Anakin did what kids would want to do and his magic bacteria just made every other character play along like it wasn't insane.
Like the theory Jar-Jar was actually really powerful, but for him instead of flashy showboating, he just stumbles thru insane situations, looking like a complete idiot but still getting the same result.
Same thing, just manifesting differently due to their own perception of themselves. And Palps used both as tools, like a lion taking the antelope that strays from the herd.
Which is why the Jedi mindwashing was so important for a unified organization. If force manifests based on how the user sees themselves, then you'd want your army of force users to all have the same self opinion.
If George had written Anakin like that, and if he had followed through with Darth Jar Jar, it would've been absolutely brilliant.
Death Darth Binks. https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar_jar_binks_was_a_trained_force_user/
To be honest, waving a hand is a pretty natural thing to do while talking...
Like, I'm all about Jar Jar as a powerful force user, I just think like Anakin, he had comparatively little training, if any. And likely didn't know he was using the force, just lucky.
That also explains how he grew up and lived on a single planet with just his own people. If he was an actual Sith, how did he get trained? Also, it can explain how his people eventually figured it out.
When Jar Jar was around he always came out on top, and even tho he didn't make any sense, if you talked to him you ended up agreeing with him, then after he left it'd wear off and they'd realize it was a stupid sounding idea, but the stupid idea always seemed to work out.
If they were afraid of him, they'd have treated him better, instead he was treated as a freak that above all else, his own people that knew him best just wanted to avoid him, even if he was incredibly useful.
Like an old timey witch. They didn't like him because he was so strange, but they still saw his value and understood they may need him. When all else failed, they could always fall back on a Jar Jar plan, so stupid that it just worked.
I feel like that type of begrudginged acceptance explains the interactions more than everyone being scared of him.
But it's been a long time since I watched the prequels.
That horrible "romance" makes more sense now.
wait until you realize that, in AoTC, when Obi and Ani are going up to Padme's pad, Padme remembers (and is excited to see) Obi and totally didn't know who Anakin was until Darth Jar jar called out 'Annie!"
they were totally knocking boots.
Edit: also you can see anakin-the-dumbfuck finally putting it together in RotS.
Edit2, also notice how she was far less excited when Obi was there on business.