This is a Star Wars story dedicated to Darth Vader, one of my favorite characters of the Saga. I hope you enjoy this oneshot.

LD: Star Wars and Darth Vader don't Belong to me.

Monster

Those who didn't know the true story behind Darth Vader saw him just as a monster. He was the boogyman mothers used to frighten their children when they refused to sleep. He was the supreme Commander of the feared Imperial Forces and the infamous 501st legion. He was the Iron Fist of the emperor that controlled all sentient beings of the empire and squashed any attempts of rebellion. No one cared to search for more, to look for the man behind the mask, the Jedi that before betraying all in what he believed in he was. The caring husband. The good teacher. A good friend and brother. No. No one wanted to see more. Most deshumanized him, they thought him a robot.

And that was fine with Vader. Yes because out of all those people the one who insisted the most there was nothing behind the mask and that Vader was just what every person in the Galaxy thought him to be, was Darth Vader himself. And he did it for many reasons.

The first one and more important was that he hated himself. Hated what he had become. A being more machine than man that had been stolen from death when it had come to claim him. Just so his Master, could use him for his dark purposes. He often thought of how many lives could have been saved if he'd been left to die by his Master after ending the life of the love of his life and many of his former Jedi comrades. But Palpatine would have none of it.

Ironically with the years the only way Vader had found some relief from his eternal suffering was through inflicting pain in others. Yes he discovered the art of killing and torture and became a Master in it.

The second reason was that he hated the Jedi. He hated the Jedi with passion and wanted to suppress all the memories of the temple, his friends, Obi Wan, Ahsoka and Qui Gon. He hated them for separating him from his mother, for showing him their ways for always putting a lot of pressure on him despite not trusting him enough. And especially for showing him the Light side of the Force, the Light he could never return to no matter how hard he tried. And he especially hated them because of hypocrisy, because they clamed to be the defenders of the Light and yet denied one of the brightest feelings he'd ever felt making him unable to love Padme without the constant threat of being discovered and expelled from the Order.

The third reason was that he hated his Master. He hated him so much for everything he'd done to him in the past, pretending to be his caring friend and slowly but surely separating him from the light and turned him into what he was. And together with his hate towards was his hate towards that younger weaker self that always acted high and mighty and ended up costing everything because he was a fool that thought he could change destiny that had made all the wrong choices with all good intention, oh Force one of the things he he could be happy about was that Anakin was dead.

For all this reasons Vader preferred that people thought him a monster. Because that was what he really was, because thinking back Anakin, as glad as he was that part of him was gone was the part that had taken his humanity with him with Padme taking his ability to love again with her death. All that remained in Vader was a monster. A Dark Terrible Monster without the possibility of Redemption. Or so he always thought...

The End

Hope you enjoyed. Review if you did and read my current Star Wars series. Star Wars AU Episode I: Rebellion in Serenno. This story is based on the movie official universe though and has nothing to do with my other Star Wars story