Redeeming the future by restoring the past could also be about Anakin Skywalker and his status as the prophesied Chosen One. Having brought balance back to the Force following his redemption in Return of the Jedi, perhaps the only way for that redemption to happen was if he didn't kill Ahsoka on Malachor.
While the Star Wars canon doesn't explicitly confirm his regret, the intricacies of his relationship with Ahsoka and the remnants of his former identity could have stirred some degree of internal turmoil.
As much as Anakin Skywalker cared about Ahsoka, he was too far gone, and Return of the Jedi later proved that a different kind of love was needed to remind him of who he used to be. Vader and Ahsoka dueled, and while she held her ground, she barely survived.
Why isn't Ashoka mentioned in Revenge of the Sith?
Ahsoka doesn't make an appearance in any of the live-action Star Wars prequels – she's absent from The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones because they're set too early on the Star Wars timeline, and, while Revenge of the Sith is happening, she's busy elsewhere.
Anakin Would Still Have Fallen To The Dark Side If Ahsoka Was With Him. Palpatine was very smart in his slow manipulation of Anakin Skywalker, it would've happened whether or not Ahsoka Tano had been there.
When they try to learn more about the pilot by tapping into the Force, Ezra realizes the pilot is the Sith Lord he and Kanan fought earlier. Meanwhile, Ahsoka learns something that terrifies her. She senses Anakin when she reaches out to the pilot — and Vader realizes that Ahsoka, his former Padawan, lives on.
Anakin Skywalker's Padawan during the Clone Wars, Ahsoka survived Order 66 and became a key agent in the nascent Rebel Alliance. Ahsoka began to suspect the truth about Darth Vader in Star Wars Rebels season 2, and her worst fears were confirmed when she confronted the Sith Lord in the dramatic finale.
No. She quite openly loves him as her master, friend, mentor and older brother figure. Maybe. However both Anakin and Ahsoka [to my knowledge] always kept their relationship [as Master and Padawan] strictly professional.
The color of a lightsaber in Star Wars lore reflects the nature and relationship of the wielder with the Force. The white hue of Ahsoka's lightsabers indicates her neutrality within the Force and her commitment to using her powers for saving lives and protecting peace.
Anakin's final lesson helps Ahsoka redefine herself beyond just being a weapon and a soldier, embracing her desire to protect and fight for what she believes in, completing her Jedi journey.
Skywalker presents Tano with her lightsabers, which now shine blue. While the lightsabers were in the custody of the Jedi, Skywalker took care of them, taking the opportunity to, as he saw it, "improve" them. The blades changed color to blue as a result.
Ahsoka choosing to remember Anakin as he was before he fell to the dark side reaffirms that Darth Vader is dead in Ahsoka. Ahsoka releases new episodes Tuesdays at 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET on Disney+.
Anakin does not have even the slightest bit of remorse. By the end, he feels nothing but anger. Although he feels regret for killing Padme, he still helps the evil Emperor. The film ends with Anakins standing side by side with the man on whose behalf he has committed all his crimes.
The canonical comic Star Wars: Darth Vader #7 confirms the younglings' deaths caused Anakin grief, self-loathing, hatred and pain, fueling his descent even further into the dark side.
It's not like a metal detector -- she couldn't just go right to where he was, but she would get a feeling that her friend is still safe and alive. When she reaches out after Order 66, she doesn't get that. It's gone, and so she believes him to be dead."
Ahsoka had a boyfriend and his name was Nyx Okami." In The Clone Wars, Trace and Rafa Martez became friends with Ahsoka after she left the Jedi Order. One of their adventures with the former Jedi Padawan was escaping a spice traffickers called the Pyke Syndicate.
A Jedi Padawan, Ahsoka was Anakin's apprentice and Padmé's friend. Despite this, the couple never told Ahsoka about their secret marriage. However, Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, a series of animated shorts, revealed that Ahsoka knew about Anakin and Padmé's feelings for each other.
What he did not see, at the time at least, was that Padmé used her last breaths to tell Obi-Wan that she was certain that in regards to her husband, "there's still good in him." Now, those words are set to be revealed to someone other than Darth Vader himself.
Before he could enter, however, Vader was stopped by Sabé, Eirtaé, Rabé, Saché, and Dormé, former handmaidens of Amidala, who refused to let him enter into the grave so he would not desecrate it. However, Vader would not be denied. As he entered the tomb, he became flooded with memories of Amidala.
At some point after his transformation into the armored Darth Vader, Amidala's husband, the fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker came to visit the mausoleum, stricken by grief and remorse for his part in her death.
To answer the original question, I'm pretty sure that R2 never knew that Anakin became Vader. He wasn't there when Anakin was named Vader, he didn't know what happened on Mustafar. All he knew is that Anakin told R2 to stay with the ship, and that was the last time R2 saw Anakin.
Returning to Dagobah to complete his training, an ailing Yoda told Luke the terrible truth that Vader was his father, Anakin Skywalker. Rather than destroy his father, Luke sought to bring him back into the light. At 900 years old, Yoda passed away, telling Luke that there was another Skywalker.
Summary. Thrawn and Anakin Skywalker crossed paths during the Clone Wars, both of them being kindred spirits with unconventional tactics as commanders. Thrawn learned that Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader were the same person during a mission with Vader, but kept the secret to himself.
