#Obi Wan is a good father

[carolina-star]

Finally I have draw the moment where Anakin and Padmé meet.

Now some lore, information, I'm not sure of the term.

Warnings before anything; warning 1, I'm going to destroy the English language, and I'm so sorry for that. Really. Waring 2, I don't have any medical studies, so I could (and probably will) be wrong about this, and I'm going to apologize in advance. Please feel free to correct me. I don't want to offend anybody with my ignorance, never has been my intention. Waring 3, this contain heavy themes that may be hard for some people, please read with precautions.

And now, let's begin:

In this AU (and probably in the Canon too) Anakin has borderline personality disorder (BPD) which is linked to other things like anxiety and depression or PTSD. BPD is a mental illness that severely impacts a person’s ability to regulate their emotions, which mean that they may experience intense mood swings and also tend to view things in extremes. Like they can love some person to the moon and back in the morning and one hour later hate that person with all their bowels. They also may act impulsively or recklessly. Usually BPD is diagnosed in late adolescence or early adulthood and sometimes the professionals will struggle to find the diagnosis, they usually will go through discharge other mental illnesses.

So, coming back to the storyline, Shmi is engaged or about to married with Cliegg Lars, which trigger Anakin unknown BPD. This lead to a very dangerous and erratic behavior, which his love one and himself. He try to destroy his relationship at the same time that he clings desperately to them and start to do Impulsive and very dangerous behaviors. He's spinning out of control and Shmi and Obi-Wan are heartbroken because the don't know what's is happening or how help Anakin. All this stuff lead Anakin to a self harming behavior and a really stressful, delicate and agony time for everyone.

During this time is when Anakin is diagnosed with BPD. He has been struggling with this new knowledge but is starting to accept it. He's also trying to forgive himself for his last behaviors because he didn't want to hurt his mom or Obi-Wan, he really said bad words to them and he didn't want to said anything of that at all. So he's starting to accept the help for doctor Bant Eerin, Anakin is taking treatment and therapy. But everything is recent.

So where are in this delicate and fragile point where Anakin has been diagnosed and Shmi and Obi-Wan are sick of worry every time they don't know where Anakin is. That's the reason why Obi-Wan is at the edge of a nervous collapse, and the reason why they both looked so scruffy. So after pick up Anakin and Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan will explain everything to Qui-Gon, because he doesn't know anything yet about Anakin diagnosis.

In a brilliant note, because all this post is heavy, Anakin will do great in the future. And it's going to be really funny when Padmé discovered that she's in love with a 19 years old boy and have a panic attack. While Obi-Wan is relatively happy thinking that Anakin has falling in love with a girl a couple of years older that him, I mean, what are 3 or 4 years more? It's going to be funny when they discover it too. Anakin by the way don't care about the age difference, Padmé is the love of his life and point.

Modern AU Masterlist

#star wars #star wars modern au #modern au #the clone wars #anakin skywalker #padmé amidala #obi wan kenobi #qui gon jinn #anidala #Bpd #shmi skywalker #Anakin has bpd #sw tcw #Sorry for all the text #anakin and padme #Obi Wan is a good father

[jedi-starbird]

No one ever tells Obi-Wan that he is his Master's padawan.

Of course, for most people who had known Qui-Gon Jinn, telling someone else they resembled the the man would in fact be a thinly veiled insult. But still, Obi-Wan feels the absence of comparisons almost as strongly as he feels the absence of his Master.

There is no one for Obi-Wan to push against now, no strong presence at his side, ready to grab him by scruff and pull him back from another reckless stunt. It's an odd feeling. He has been set loose against his wishes. There is no one to his left and Anakin at his heels, but Anakin had needed, still needs, a strong, gentle figure for his prickly but sensitive heart. For even their worst bickering could not hold a candle to the scathing remarks he and Qui-Gon had shot at each other and Obi-Wan knows he cannot push and needle Anakin in the same way.

When Qui-Gon had been alive they had been an amusing, mirrored pair, the maverick and his rule-following padawan. Opposites clashing against each other, yet working together to complete the most difficult missions. Few saw that Qui-Gon's impertinence had indeed rubbed off on his padawan, cultivated from that small, angry initiate, because the only way to rebel against the rule-breaker had been to parrot the Council fastidiously. No one would ever get to see that again. Obi-Wan is one half of a mirrored pair trying to complete a routine on his own. What once was an impish, teasing compliance is now a betrayal of all his Master's values.

"How could Qui-Gon raise such a model Jedi?" He hears them say, "It's admirable that Master Kenobi was appointed to the Council despite his Master's maverick ways."

Padawan Kenobi would have yelled and kicked and screamed. Master Kenobi is serene. It should feel like an achievement. It feels like a disappointment.

Sometimes, Obi-Wan looks at the shape of the man he has moulded himself into, and aches to be his Master's padawan.

#I am so totally normal about them. (screaming crying throwing up) #anyway yeah obi wan has daddy issues but in a very specific way that's less i want a father figure and more i require an animal handler #hence why obi wan likes both alpha 17 and cody finally someone to tell him he's being an idiot and be bitchy with him he's missed this #giving the guilt boy MORE guilt complexes over honoring his masters legacy #but god really imagine you spend a decade making yourself the opposite of your master in a funny back and forth you both indulge in but the #BUT THEN!! he fucking dies and you're left alone occupying a dynamic carved for 2 people and everyone tells you they can't see any of your #dead master within you as if it's a joke. as if that's funny. as if that's a good thing. and people say he would be proud but would he? #would he be proud when everyone always tells you that you are the opposite of him? that you are everything he was not? #obi wan kenobi #qui gon jinn #qui gon and obi wan #disaster lineage #star wars

[intermundia]

the most amusing and heartbreaking aspect of obi-wan and anakin's relationship throughout the movies, shows, books, and comics is the perpetual vacillation between harmony and discord, praise and blame. they're always coming together with strong eye contact and affection and then breaking apart and arguing, this perpetual dance of pulling together and pushing away, never completely connecting when close but also always returning back together when ruptured apart. their relationship is such a strong bond (an attachment on both sides) but also so fraught with tension and friction, like there are enormous lies that anakin keeps from obi-wan (and obi-wan can sense the dishonesty), and so much masking from obi-wan about the true depth of his feelings (and anakin can't read him). these kind of misunderstandings they have will prove lethal, but they are also capable of such deep understanding. they are so similar, on such a wavelength, as partners capable of incredible things together, two halves of a whole. all of this in canon is entirely platonic, but it's still a messy relationship that breaks categories, like they're brothers but obi-wan is also a father, they're best friends but obi-wan is also a superior officer, they became men together, but obi-wan is also a teacher and guide. it's unstable but also long-enduring as love and hate for the entirety of both of their lives, with their identities formed in relation to each other and dependent on each other (anakin and obi-wan died together on mustafar, vader and ben were born). when vader kills ben, yoda can feel his pain and loneliness across the galaxy, when yet when obi-wan catches anakin in the afterlife and makes him a force ghost by his side it is perfectly understandable. they maim each other, kill each other, complete and compel each other. it's got to be one of the relationships of all time.

#luke's father but broken in the good and the bad halves #the rampant homoeroticism is just like an extra layer of an already insane relationship #greatest love story ever written by accident #obi-wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #obikin #sw #having a real one this morning lmao don't mind me

[padawansuggest]

Obi-Wan: when you tryina have a romantic moment in the rain but the kids followed you both out to ask what’s for dinner :/

Cody: It’s okay, if we ignore them Waxer and Boil will realize the kitchen is quiet and they forgot to lock the baby gate.

Wooley: *looking up at the sky with eyes squinted shut right behind them* I think I’m going blind it hurts to smell!

Cody: *panicking and turning to shove Wooley’s head down* Don’t breathe in the water, that’s how you die!

Obi-Wan: *deep sigh as he lets a set of cadets and Padawan Reva climb into his robes shivering like little idiots* It’s not an act of maliciousness, they just consider the rain comforting; it’s not an act of maliciousness, they just consider the rain comforting-

Cadet: Da, are you talking to yourself?

Obi-Wan: Yeah, baby, it’s time for my hourly prayers. Let’s go back inside.

#star wars #obi wan kenobi #incorrect star wars quotes #clone wars #incorrect clone wars quotes #commander cody #clone trooper wooley #post clone wars #they’re all happy and live on a wet planet lmao #Cody is a doting father to all these idiots #Reva is spoiled and has many vod’e #codywan #the real reason waxer and boil are distracted is that Numa is stuck under the couch 🙃 #they don’t make very good coparents when Obi and Cody just wanna have a lil romance

[yellowocaballero]

I said a little bit about this in a comment a few hours ago (hey kenny) and I actually really felt like saying more.

For all that gay people/Tumblr people/AO3 peope/waves hand are really, really into found family they are actually pretty allergic to conceptualizing familial relationships outside of nuclear family roles.

I see a billion posts on Tumblr about how friendships can be just as important as romantic relationships, if not more, but nobody ever actually writes the friendship as important as a romantic relationship. Or friendships are interpreted as romantic, or friendships are sidelined for the romantic relationship. It's always a weird disparity between what people say are important and people actually find important for me.

So when we do step out of romantic relationship and into gen relationships, we typically enter the trope world of #foundfamily. But the same kind of flattening of characters for the sake of shoving them into yaoi ghost archetypes honestly also really happens with family relationships.

There is always a dad. There's always a mom. There's always siblings (frequently the canon female love interest). Maybe an uncle? Ex-wife if we are feeling sexy that day.

I really rarely see people interested in #foundfamily relationships outside of those boxes. It is overwhelmingly, entirely American-centric. There's no recognition of the unbelievable diversity and breadth of human relationships, or the very many ways there are to love somebody. In fanfic, if there's a much older male character emotional close to younger characters, he's dad mode. And the relationship then follows the character and story beats of the father-child relationship intended to draw out those fuzzy family feelings. Damn, I read found family stuff to get away from the intense claustrophobia of the fandom's favorite ship, I'm not here to get family yaoi ghosted here too.

I think you can create a very unique and engaging relationship if you're wiling to engage with the unknown and uncomfortable. Make a path without the paint by numbers story beats and character arcs. Please stop letting tropes rule your writing instead of construct it.

Write stories about love. Write relationships about loving each other. Just start from there, and don't worry about anything else. Create a relationship that is its own. Let it breathe. It can stand on its own two feet. It'll be a richer relationship and a richer story.

#nothing in particular is sparking this it's just on my mind. #my writing #i can give a shitton of examples but I don't want to specify this too hard #didn't know i could get aro spectrum on main about gen fic but im capable of many beautiful things #the way that absolutely everybody does this makes a lot of star wars and batman fic extremely boring #oh and like im not even going into how turning relationships romantic can often really flatten a character and a relationship #that's obvious and we know. #also sw fandom got VERY WEIRD and very western centric to the point of being iffy #about how acknowledging a master&padawan as father&son is 'good end' and desirable #and that a master who will not/can not do that is abusive and obi-wan should be removed to a more traditional family enviornment w/mandos #weird. i read a lot of babywan. ppl are still freaks about quigon. anyway

[merrysithmas]

*thinking about how they confirmed Anakin and Obi-wan were a force dyad in Obi Wan Kenobi*

#and they never brought it up again #deborah chow is a goddess #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #good father and bad father are married #basically #just casually one Being #split into two #two HALVES OF A SINGLE WARRIOR #obikin #star wars #im fine #ahsoka #ahsoka considers them her parents read the book where it says exactly that tho

[veloursdor]

May I ask for widow wan crumbs please? 🥺👉👈

Hi nonie! Of course you can, I love Widow-Wan AU 💕

I bring you 1.2k words of Obi-Wan truly trying to be a father to the twins but failing miserably at it. 

And it hurts him.

‘Anakin should be here’, Obi-Wan thought morosely as he watched Leia play with little Ezra Bridger while Master Windu read Luke one of his favourite plays. The children were happy to be in the Room of a Thousand Fountains, surrounded by people who could spend more than a few minutes in their presence without breaking down in tears. 

Laughter was a good sound on Luke and Leia, 9 years old and so much like Anakin when they had first met that it hurt too much for him to see them for longer than a few minutes. More than that and he would only see Anakin, which wasn’t fair on his children at all.

He couldn’t stop himself from wishfully thinking that Anakin should’ve been around to witness their children’s happiness, to shower them with love and be the father he had always dreamt of being, let alone from hating the fact that he had been robbed of having a chance.

He was thankful for his friends’ and family’s continuous efforts in helping him with the children, but the knowledge that it should have been him and Anakin against the rest of the galaxy burned inside of him, rendering him useless when it came to the children more often than not. It should have been Anakin the one who taught Leia how to tinker with droids instead of Ahsoka; Anakin should have been around to teach Luke how to be the second best pilot the galaxy had ever seen.

Instead, the children had to conform with second best attempts. Obi-Wan was grateful for everything people did for them, but they weren’t Anakin, no one was, and he just couldn’t pretend as if everything was alright when it wasn’t. 

He wasn’t meant to be a single father; the plan had always been for Anakin to deliver the babies – safely inside the Halls of Healing – and for them to leave the Jedi in order to focus on their little family, away from everyone else.

But Anakin had died for Leia to live, and it had changed every plan Obi-Wan had ever made.

Obi-Wan tried his best not to let the bitterness win, but when every morning he woke up to Anakin’s side of the bed cold and empty, when every time one of the twins did something marvellous and he turned around to share it with Anakin only to remember that Anakin was gone… it was harder to pretend that sometimes he wished Anakin hadn’t done what he did.

He loved Leia, tried his hardest to show her that he loved her with the part of his heart that didn’t belong to Anakin. But it was especially hard the older she grew and her attitude started to resemble the father that she would never know. Her temper, her fire… it was so much like Anakin, Obi-Wan could barely stand to be in her presence for more than a few minutes, sometimes even hours, before he was reminded of the young boy his beloved had been when they had first met.

She looked nothing like Anakin – Luke was the one who had been blessed with his beauty – but the fire that had lived inside of Anakin resided now in Leia, making it hard for Obi-Wan not to blurt out Anakin’s name when he managed to talk with her for more than a few minutes.

The twins were all the good that Anakin had in him, his beauty and his strength, his love of mischief and his desire to help. Everything that made the twins them had belonged to Anakin first… and Obi-Wan struggled more often than not to see his kids for who they were instead of who they reminded him of.

Leia had Anakin’s temper, but where Anakin had struggled to rein his fury, Leia had started to master the art of diplomacy. He was filled with sadness every time Leia managed to breathe through her anger and address the issues with a cool head, as it reminded him of the times when Anakin would throw a tantrum if negotiations ran longer than expected. 

Luke was Anakin to the dot, with his blonde hair and piercing blue eyes; but where his beloved Anakin’s eyes had burned with the inner conflict of his loyalties torn apart, Luke was serene and calm, perfectly content with following the Jedi tenants. He never questioned or raged against them, making it so that Obi-Wan couldn’t be in the room if Luke was to be praised by the Council.

The Council had never been kind to Anakin in the first place.

“Dad!” Luke’s voice broke through his sad thoughts as a small figure crashed into his side, earning a huff from him. “Master Mace was telling me about this new play he heard about! It’s about a donkey who…”

“Luke, you should be…��� he cut himself off at the hopeful look in the child’s eyes, so similar to Anakin’s when he had first arrived at the temple that his heart squeezed at the sight of them. Luke was part of Anakin, and for that alone Obi-Wan loved him completely.

It was just hard to prove it when Anakin wasn’t there to share parenthood with him.

“Tell me all about this play, Luke,” Obi-Wan placed Luke on his lap, hugging the boy close to him. Luke lit up in his embrace, twisting his heart once more at the reminder of his failure at being a proper parent to the children.

Yet his grief was too strong to actually make him change his ways.

“It’s the story of a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a chicken who decide to leave their masters and become musicians in the big city! Master Mace was showing me the songs and they…” Luke was interrupted by Leia’s stomping. A frown was on her face, and her arms were crossed above her chest.

It looked so similar to Anakin’s pouts as a child that Obi-Wan had to look away from her if he didn’t want to cry in the middle of the room with every Jedi present staring at him in pity.

“Why don’t you join us, my dear?” Obi-Wan asked with a knot on his throat as Leia climbed on his lap and pushed Luke slightly to the side, so the both of them could be in his arms.

His heart was breaking itself into pieces as Luke continued his story, Leia agreeing softly with him while pressing herself closer to his chest. Obi-Wan could barely hear what the children were saying, the pressure in his heart was enough to make his ears ring painfully.

Mace, sensing his distress, came to his rescue when Obi-Wan needed him the most.

“Children, it’s time to practise our katas.”

“But… Dad…”

“Come on now, children, listen to Master Mace,” Obi-Wan said with a knot on his throat, “I’ll join you shortly. I have to… discuss something with Master Yoda.”

“But… Dad, we were…”

Obi-Wan ignored their plights as he set them on the grass in front of him and stood in a hurry, the tears in his eyes threatening to spill and make a spectacle of himself. After nodding to Mace, Obi-Wan made a swift exit out of the room, the tears and sobs inside of him finally leaving him as soon as he crossed the doors.

Had he been less busy burying himself in his grief, he would’ve noticed the broken hearted expressions in his children’s faces, begging for their dad to come back to them.

#obikin #widow-wan au #when your grief is too strong and you neglect everything else #he tries to be a good parent #but obi-wan is not good with children #also that beauty comment was inspired by edward telling renesmee she's not as pretty as bella... father of the year everyone #nonie asks

[hannagoldworthy]

Arrogant Kenobists like you drove Karen Travis out of Lucasfilm because you couldn’t stand hearing the truth about your precious Mary Suetopia, the Jedi Order. You don’t deserve to call yourself people, much less Star Wars fans!

….

I should block her. I really should block her.

….fuck it.

One: It’s Karen Traviss, with two S’s at the end. If you’re going to put a writer up on a (imho completely undeserved) pedestal, you might as well spell her damn name right.

Two: Karen Traviss was not driven out of Lucasfilm. She quit, because George Lucas decided to take Mandalorian culture and clone culture in a different direction that what she’d written in her novels and she was throwing a tantrum to try and change his mind.

Three: Mary Suetopia is such an antiquated term that TvTropes merged its page under plain Utopia years ago.

Four: AllTheTropes still has a Mary Suetopia page, and notably, the Jedi Order is not on it, but Traviss’s Mandalorian society is. This is because the Jedi Order does have a few flaws that make it feel like a natural, interesting society in Lucas’s films, while Traviss makes her Mandalorian culture so perfect, upstanding, and idealistic that it becomes uninteresting. And aren’t you the one who’s always blathering about perfect, heroic characters being uninteresting, Domina?

Five: And on that note, aren’t you the one calling yourself a Lucas purist on your Ao3 account? That would be as utterly nonsensical as if I were to say, “oh, I’m a Tolkien purist and I think Rings of Power is the most faithful adaptation I’ve ever seen of the Silmarillion, which I have totally read and understood.” Karen Traviss is not George Lucas; saying that her stories supersede George’s canonical vision necessarily makes you not a Star Wars purist.

And lastly: I meant it when I said to find something else to do with your time, Domina. If you can’t find work or a boyfriend, try a physical hobby! I like knitting and cross stitch, myself; maybe you could try crochet? Or macrame?

#“anon” asks #tragicfantasy-girl #good. fucking. grief. #Karen Traviss #PLEASE do no get into discourse about her books on this post #I didn’t care for them when I read them #They were fairly boring #Kal Skirata named one of his sons “soulless” and Domina likely thinks he was a perfect father #while she lambasts Obi-Wan Kenobi as abusive for trying to verbally discipline Anakin for sexually harassing a Senator #“Mary Suetopia” #y’know for someone who hates “Mary Sues” as much as tragicfantasy-girl claims #most of her approved characters seem to fit that description #You keep using that term Domina! #I do not think it means what you think it means! #Also no insult meant to Rings of Power fans #unlike some people I understand the transformative nature of adaptation

[localcryptid420]

You know, if I had a nickel for every time ewan mcgregor played a character with unique powers who went into hiding and was haunted by the demons of his past, only to decide later in life to step up and risk exposing himself to powerful enemies in order to help a little girl with similar abilities who was in mortal peril

I'd have two nickels

#glad to see mcgregor getting cast as the best kind of character: Reluctant Father Figure #doctor sleep #danny torrance #kenobi show #obi wan kenobi #good for him

[apricusapollo]

it's past 6 am and I just finished reading setting suns by snapdragonpop007 on website for mentally ill people (ao3) and I am literally crawling on walls I am SO NORMAL about this fic (no I am not normal about it at all)

#it was so fucking insanely GOOD #dinluke in that fic??? DELICIOUS!!! #good father anakin??? had me SOBBING #alive and very badass padme??? I NEED HER SO BADLY #obi wan being definition of Doing It All For Love??? I AM ON MY KNEES!!! #han and leia being n1 dinluke shippers and saving the day as they SHOULD!!! I AM INSANE OVER THEM!!! #dinluke #star wars #crys' star wars hours

[voidartisan]

Leia and Luke carry Obi-Wan’s legacy as much as they carry Padme’s or Anakin’s and it’s making me emotional

#going back to the narrative of the good father and the bad father y’know? #and of course they carry the legacies of their adoptive parents even more than they carry obi’s #they are all that is left of so many people and they would all be proud #even anakin #eventually #I guess #star wars #sw #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #leia organa #luke skywalker

[platonic-prompts]

Writing Prompt

After the death of The Chosen One™ (a fifteen year old), their mentor must find a new one, and they swear not to let the same mistakes happen again

#after writing this it sounds kinda like obi-wan being like hm #anakin fell but we'll just raise the son to kill the father perfect! #writing prompt #prompts #writing prompts #prompt #whump prompt #look me in the eye and tell me that a grieving parental mentor doesn't sound like good emotional whump

[gch1995]

Hi! Been thinking about Luke and Vader. How do you think Luke went from wanting to die to believing there was good in Vader? What caused that change/acceptance?

I have a lot of sympathy for Anakin/Darth Vader, and I don’t think it’s fair to place blame on just him for becoming such a deeply dysfunctional and horrifying human disaster as an adult, considering how deeply compromised his agency was his entire life under a series of abusive, hypocritical, and oppressive authority figures within a dystopian galaxy’s fucked up institutions. However, that doesn’t mean Luke wouldn’t have still had absolutely every right to hate his father for hurting him, his friends, and the many other people throughout the galaxy either.

Yet, ultimately Luke didn’t hate his father, even after Darth Vader reached out to him through the force by torturing his son’s friends, stalking him, abducting him, terrorizing him, threatening him, and cutting off his hand to try to coerce him to join the dark side in Empire Strikes Back.

Why?

I think the most obvious reason is that, with a little space and time to recover from the trauma that his father put him through in his efforts to find him and recruit him to the dark side, Luke ultimately sensed the good within Anakin beneath the darkness after he revealed that he was doing all this because Luke was his son, his family, who wanted freedom from Sidious and someone better to bond with than that sadistic asshole his current master was.

Also, in spite of how awful and dangerous it was for Anakin to terrorize Luke, cut off his hand, and threaten him like that on Bespin to try to recruit him to the dark side, he intentionally goes out of his way to avoid outright killing his son by going easy on him battle, giving him chances to escape, and trying to recruit him to the dark side to bond with his son and gain freedom, rather than bringing him to the Emperor.

Yes, he’s being awful, cowardly, and selfish in his methods, but Anakin is also trying to more easily avoid the possibility of one of them getting killed by Palpatine or one another by going after his son to try to recruit him to the dark side to overthrow the Emperor because he knows his master will do worse to Luke and/or himself if he finds out the truth about his son still being alive and a Jedi.

In Empire Strikes Back, Anakin also tells Luke “Don’t make me destroy you” when his son skitters away from him in terror. Though he went about looking for Luke pretty obsessively to try to recruit him for the dark side, once his son actually refuses to be swayed to the dark side by his father on Bespin after being abducted, terrorized, and amputated by him, Anakin notably doesn’t keep hunting down Luke to try to recruit him to the dark side or personally kill him for refusing after he runs away in terror in the movie. He’s upset about it, sure, but he really never wanted for Luke to be killed or hurt long term either.

Then, you also have to examine the fact that Luke didn’t really ever view Owen and Beru Lars as his parents. Though they loved Luke, and he loved them, Owen and Beru still never encouraged Luke to view them as his parents either. They were Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen to Luke, but never mom and dad to him. Luke really wanted someone to be able to identify as his parents. Anakin, flawed as he was, was the first person in Luke’s life to identify themselves as one his parents he had been missing his whole life, which is also why he was particularly desperate to bond with his father and inspire him to turn back to the light side.

If you guys want to chime in, you can!

@abla-soso

@fanfic-lover-girl

@fanfictasia

@komikbookgeek

@yoghurtconsumer

#fanfic-lover-girl #star wars asks #when and why did Luke go from fearing his father to believing in his goodness deep down? #I think it was a couple months to a year after Vader encountered him in empire strikes back. #because Luke realized that for as horrifying as Vader had been he still went out of his way to avoid killing him because he was his son #also for as much as luke loved beru and owen lars for raising him well he never identified with them as mom and dad #and for as much as Owen and beru loved Luke they never raised him as their son. they raised him as their nephew. #i love the horrifying and beautifully tragic father/son relationship between Luke and Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader #even if they sadly did only get like a few days together to really know each other and most of that time they were enemies #Anakin may have been far more dangerous and terrifying to luke than aunt beru and uncle Owen but he still identified himself as Luke’s DAD #I like to imagine Anakin and obi wan spent a lot of time apologizing and talking to Luke and Leia to try to bond and tell them their story #I really think that Luke would feel a lot of conflicting emotions after hearing his dad’s story #on the one hand I think he would feel a lot of sympathy for his biological parents #and feel some resentment towards the way the old Jedi order forbid attachments and operated like an extremist military cult #it’s why I loved it when Luke dragged the old Jedi Order for being hypocritical and self-righteous dicks who helped create Darth Vader #even if unintentionally #but Luke is also a good person at heart too so I know he would be horrified to learn that his father committed mass murder and hurt his mom #even though I hate the sequels and don’t like to consider them canon I loved the scene where Luke dragged the old Jedi Order to Rey #I do think it would take him some time to process how terrible his predecessors from the Jedi Order had become and forgive his father though #do I think he would be able to forgive Anakin even after learning his whole story? absolutely because he has a forgiving heart #and he’d also learn that his father was also a lifelong victim with compromised agency who ultimately regretted doing those horrible things #but it would take him a bit of time and space #return of the jedi #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #darth vader #ot star wars #pt star wars #empire strikes back

[oibkenobi]

PSA

obi-wan raised anakin from the age of nine. while there are many ways to interpret their relationship, none of which are more right than another, there is a wrong way, and that is romantic.

aka if you ship ob*kin you need to take a breather and think about what you're saying, because that's really fucked up.

#anti obikin #like father/son elder/younger brother #all good #people who really care about one another #anakin: obi-wan is the closest thing i've had to a father #y'all: that sounds like romance to me #star wars #bea states facts

[noweakergirl]

The poetry of Obi-Wan looking after Leia and Luke

or,

It all comes down to preserving the only light left of Anakin in this world

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Song: Brighton - Forest Fire

Photo credit: the second photo is a screenshot from @chrrispine‘s post

#I suggest listening to this song! #if you are prequels stan it will hit you hard but that's the point #we love emotions don't we #something about 'i'm gonna carry your bones' and 'i'm gonna carry you home' that makes me chill to the core #he can't save his friend and bring him back to the light but what he can do is carry his bones and carry him home through his children #the same children who will years later save their father and prove there is still good in him #and then 'i'm gonna bury these bones' as in obi wan finally letting go of the past #he accepts that his friend is gone but what remains are the memories of a good person anakin was #the way he told leia about qualities she got from her parents <3 #star wars #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #darth vader #leia organa #luke skywalker #sw #star wars prequels #ewan mcgregor #hayden christensen #deborah chow

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Idk what to even do with this revelation so here, have it: as a kid I used to absolutely love the Inheritance cycle, and now, leafing through the books again as an adult who has watched Star Wars... entire plotlines, characters and scenes of this are lifted whole-cloth from Star Wars

#say two years ago i would not have known this #posts by me #i don't mean ''several common tropes are similar'' i mean this is beat for beat the same as star wars #(the OT that is) #SCREAM #i wanted to indulge in some nostalgia here bc my pro-orc sentiment stems from having read eragon as a kid #and that part's still good #but jesus christ #the fucking dragon says ''look into your heart you know it to be true'' as he reveals to eragon whO HIS FATHER IS #lmao i guess shoutout to paolini for saying ''luke DESERVES for obi-wan to be his real father''