Ahem: a collection of stories for my little sister's birthday. I shall put my music library on shuffle and pair her top 10 ships with the first 10 songs. Each ship gets a story related to the song with decreasing times: ship #1 gets 10 min., ship #2 gets 9 min., ship #3 gets 8 min., etc. So ship #10 is a hot mess 1 min. panic attack.
You don't HAVE to listen to the song first...but you might want to. And author's notes are bolded.
1. PadméxAnakin (Star Wars) – "Hallelujah" sung by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - 10 min. timer
So I've decided there are three types of these stories. 1: This song is totally relatable, and this story writes itself, 2: This song is just a vague random one that I can make work, and 3: This song is so off in left field that I don't have any hope of this making any sense. This is the third type. Btw, Padmé has an accent on her last E, and I like that a lot :)
"Lord Vader" was what they called him. And maybe he should have been proud of that title. A Godlike complex seemed fitting for someone like him.
But God should be omnipotent and good, and he was...decidedly not.
The fires of hell were almost certainly his final destination, but he was too far down the path of darkness to care with the intensity that he should. Perhaps because he had already been exposed to, essentially, hellish fire and brimstone in this life.
No, his heart was too hard and his existence too corrupt to care about any of these lofty topics anymore.
And it would have stayed that way if it hadn't been for...her.
Him in particular, he supposed. His son. He had started it. Truth be told, he only thought of his wife in dreams, barely remembered in the morning. He intentionally shoved her down and buried her in his brain like she was buried in the earth during his waking hours. It was the only thing he could do to go on.
But this boy – their boy – lived, and it bought her memory crashing back like a tidal wave he couldn't control. Not a wave of lava but of water, pure and cleansing. And he had to think of what she would say, what she would have done, if she saw what he had become.
Could he be saved? Could he, for her sake, for the boy's, could he be forgiven for his horrible number of sins and be reunited with her when his demise ultimately came?
Would God possibly forgive a monster like him? God would love His Son...surely He could grant mercy and allow him to love Luke?
With the image of his wife in his mind and the boy's likeness on his still-intact eyes, he began to pray.
There, I guess I solved your question of if there is religion in Star Wars. Darth Vader finds Jesus...probably not what you expected for this one. Except since it's long, long AGO, I guess Jesus wasn't born yet. Redemption for Vadey Poo!