#but his fake death literally tore anakin's mind in 2

[tennessoui]

Goddddd I want Anakin to never quite forgive Obi-Wan for that stunt. Yeah his mind is broken, yeah Obi-Wan will give him a nice cocktail of genuine remorse and expert manipulation, yeah he’s endlessly devoted to him and wants them to live happily ever after, but ohhhh he’ll never get over it… and Obi-Wan becoming aware of it years later… delicious

i have to be honest it took me at least a few hours of quiet contemplation to figure out which au this was for i was completely torn between either 'lost to a sea of troubles' or 'vowbreaker' and obviously it's vowbreaker because we were JUST talking about vowbreaker but i was like 'mind breaking could definitely vibe with knocking on the wrong door au for sure for sure'

anyway

i feel like there eventually has to be some sort of unhealthy forgiveness or moving past it, but who knows how long it takes. i feel like months after obi-wan comes back, he wakes up one night to anakin straddling him with a knife to his throat, crying, and anakin is like 'i should kill you for what you did to me'

and obi-wan is like 'i know.' and hes like 'would you at least do me the honor of killing me with your hands, darling, so i can feel your skin against mine one last time?'

and obviously anakin can't do it but it keeps happening, every few months, a wound so deep and wide obi-wan wonders if it can ever be fully patched up and what the scar would look like if it were