What If Anakin Skywalker Was Jabba's Slave Instead Of Watto's?

Darth Theorist Podcast: https://pod.link/1896934294 Three Eyed Theorist:    / @threeeyedtheorist   Half Blood Theorist:    / @halfbloodtheorist   Discord:   / discord   YT Memberships:    / @darththeorist   Voice Acting & Narration: Steven Waters ⁨@bobablackfly602⁩ Writing: Myself, @quadeong7453 , @khuz377, @pathogdragonsradio, and @risingofthethorn1197 What if Anakin Skywalker was Jabba the Hutt's slave instead of Watto's? Let's explore the depths of it in the video. If you enjoy deep dives into Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, check out our sister channels Half Blood Theorist and Three Eyed Theorist. Links are in the description. At the center of the blood-stained arena floor of Jabba's palace stands nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker, grasping a sharpened metal rod in his hands. Across from him, a Gamorrean twice his size circles with a crude axe while a crowd of smugglers and bounty hunters packed into the viewing gallery above pound on the railing and scream for the kill. Anakin has survived many fights in this pit. He doesn't understand how. Something warns him before each strike, something that buzzes at the base of his skull and moves his body before his mind catches up. As the Gamorrean swings, Anakin drops beneath the axe and drives the rod into a gap between the creature's armor plates. The crowd roars. Jabba laughs from his throne above as more blood spills across the arena. Later that night, Anakin presses his face against the bars of his holding cell beneath the kitchens. Shmi Skywalker kneels on the other side and reaches through the gap to touch his cheek with her fingers. Shmi (whispering): "My lovely son…You survived." Anakin (quiet): "I always survive…When will we get out of this place, mom?" Shmi (pressing her forehead to the bars): "One day someone will come for us, Ani. I believe that." Anakin (fierce, small): One day I will get us out of here. I will have a big house and a ship and you will never work another day. We will have everything we ever wanted, mom." Shmi (chuckles): "Yes, my child. We will." Anakin closes his eyes and lets her warmth hold him together for the few minutes the guards allow before they drag him back to the pit cells. The arena is the only world this boy knows, and violence is the only language it speaks. Qui-Gon Jinn arrives on Tatooine with a damaged hyperdrive and a Queen's escort in tow. Within an hour of entering Mos Espa a local trader mentions the fights at Jabba's palace. He mentions a human child who keeps winning bouts against opponents three times his size, and Qui-Gon feels something shift in the Force so powerfully that he stops walking mid-stride. He infiltrates the palace as a spectator during one of the major tournaments, and the moment the boy steps into the arena Qui-Gon feels the Force surge through the chamber so violently that he grips the railing to steady himself. Every strike the child lands, every blow he dodges by a fraction of a second, carries the unmistakable current of Force-assisted reflex. Qui-Gon has trained beside Masters for decades, and none of them have ever displaced the air around them the way this nine-year-old does without even knowing he is doing it. He spends the next three days gathering information while studying the palace layout. He talks to pit handlers, kitchen workers, and the petty traders who service the palace supply runs. He learns the boy's name is Anakin Skywalker. He learns the boy's mother Shmi works in the kitchens and that Jabba keeps them separated to control them both. He cannot get close enough to Anakin to draw a blood sample. All he has is what the Force is telling him, and the Force has never spoken to him this loudly. He maps guard rotations, identifies weak points in the perimeter, and plants mind tricks in the heads of six different sentries. When the next major tournament draws every enforcer to the arena galleries, Qui-Gon slips through the lower corridors and reaches the kitchen quarters first. Shmi backs against the wall when he enters because a robed stranger in Jabba's palace means danger. Qui-Gon raises both hands and tells her quickly and quietly that he is a Jedi, that her son carries a gift in the Force stronger than anything he has ever encountered, and that he can get the boy to safety if she helps him reach the pit cells. #starwars #starwarswhatif #whatif