Picked up
Picked up adjective - Being clean and in good order.
Taken up
Taken up adjective - Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something.
Both terms in one sentence
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Taken Up to Eleven in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, where he is shown in one sequence as only being a cloak, which was apparently a new ability he picked up.
Source: All-Encompassing Mantle - Considering that he had picked up what was probably a Sith artifact, promptly passed out in the middle of a war zone, and apparently woken up twenty years in the future with Obi-Wan having taken up residence in his head, Anakin thought he was entitled to have a few questions.
Source: Fan Fic / Ouroboros - Synopsis: Considering that he had picked up what was probably a Sith artifact, promptly passed out in the middle of a war zone, and apparently woken up twenty years in the future with Obi-Wan having taken up residence in his head, Anakin thought he was entitled to have a few questions.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Star Wars
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