#give obi wan a break

[131-vr]

I was practicing expressions and colors, what better way than to practice with these, I have another 3 wips, two from tbb and one from the Domino twins, the last one is long.

[casieyfran]

"The kinda shit obi wan have to tolerate in the prequels"

[lead-acetate]

Quin: *learns that Obi-Wan slept with Jango*

Quin:

Obi-Wan:

Quin: now? really?

Quin: what is it about Mandalorians?

Obi-Wan: fuck off, Quin

[fast forward to the point Quin realises re's in love with Fox]

Quin:

Obi-Wan:

Obi-Wan: so

Quin: *glares*

Obi-Wan: *crosses hir arms with self-satisfaction*

Obi-Wan: what is it about those Mandalorians, I wonder?

Quin: *flips hir off*

(this is actually a pretty accurate re-telling of young man came from hunting, come to think of it)

[david-talks-sw]

Obi-Wan: Do you really think-- Vader: -- No! I don't. I never think! Head empty, no thoughts! You know me Obi-Wan why are you even asking?!

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

so I'm reading the Padawan novel and I realised:

The Jedi who was killed by Cad Bane in season 2 of the Clone Wars was one of Obi-Wan’s childhood friends.

... adding this to the ever-expanding list of "people Obi-Wan cared about who died horribly"

[tennessoui]

Wait. In canon vos falls (or comes close to falling idr) doesn’t he?

What if in the playmaker au vos (under extreme torture etc etc) confesses that he knows obi-wan from before and then manages not to get killed (at least right away) bc he gives Anakin all the info he’s got on obi-wan.

Hey. If obi-wan didn’t want to be betrayed, he shouldn’t have backstabbed first.

And then. He gets forced to do things for anakin and the mob if he wants to continue not being dead - like probably giving info that gets cops killed or even having to do the killing himself (maybe his minder could be ventress? Is she already in the story?) and eventually the cops figure he’s gone to the mob side ( 😉 😉) and so he starts helping anakin / ventress in earnest because he pretty much has nothing to do and he very much likes being alive thank you very much. And he becomes useful enough that he just becomes a member of the mob. But kept far faaaar away from obi-wan.

And maybe later on it doesn’t matter how far because its obvious he only had eyes for ventress 🤷‍♀️

see so im torn because i really like the idea of quinlan being obi-wan's kill -- it's an important part of his devolution/corruption/obsession with anakin, that he thinks about being taken away from anakin and then ensures that that cannot happen because he can't bear it. he signs a man's death warrant by kissing him because in the moment the only thing he's thinking of is staying with anakin and quinlan knows too much, quinlan's seen too much and obi-wan's feeling exposed and vulnerable because of it. He can't lose anakin so he kills quinlan, a guy that really is his friend.

this is before he physically kills the other policeman via shooting him in the face to save anakin's life because he's slowly being corrupted over time and quinlan's death as this piece of his fall is really important. it's him choosing anakin over his father for the first time, and it just ends with quinlan dead </3

but i mean i guess it's unlikely that anakin would kill quinlan in front of obi-wan and even if he did shoot him, i guess he could survive the shot if it wasn't point blank in the head?

my poor boy vos, though, i sort of prefer him dead for the playmaker au ( <- said in anakin's voice)

[ms-musers]

“Because all he’ll see is me” Obi-Wan says with full confidence because he’s already dealt with Darth Maul’s shit for years and can recognize when hate turns into an obsession.

[wynandcore]

S15/16 Kai headcanons!! He’s trying his best to keep up the ‘spunky and cool’ attitude he used to have, but it’s getting hard.

[crianpy]

This is 100% canon conversation leave me alone

[131-vr]

In number one.

[tranakin-skywalker]

I'm pretty sure I've admitted it on here before, but I actually do really love The Last Jedi. I think it's a really good movie! Well made, well acted, beautifully shot, the characters and their development is compelling. I enjoy it!

I do not, however, think it's a very good Star Wars movie.

[gch1995]

I’ve contemplated a lot about why Luke was the sort of person that Anakin felt inspired enough to turn his back on Sidious and the dark side for, while Padme, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka weren’t.

While Anakin does become a hypocrite who no one was obligated to forgive after he turned dark, regardless of his tragic circumstances and compromised agency, I think Luke was the one who finally inspired him to turn back because, in spite of as “above it all” as Obi-Wan, Padme, and even Ahsoka wanted to believe they were, they still had many of the same issues Anakin developed of feeling pressured to be people pleasers to corrupt authority figures, expectations, and rules that they knew were wrong out of fear of the unknown under compromised agency, moral hypocrisy, pride, manipulative tactics, selfishness, and/or an exceedingly vengeful side in their anger that they were not willing to pull back on when they dueled him or other enemies that piss him off.

Padme, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka loved Anakin, but they were also prideful, self-centered, and terrified people who were too afraid to admit that their methods flawed, too afraid to take a stand against the standards of these broken systems they were born into, too afraid to admit they were wrong, too afraid to take risks to do better, and too afraid to admit that they weren’t as “above it all” as they pretended to be.

Luke Skywalker being Anakin’s son is definitely one of the influencing factors that inspires him to turn back to the light. However, it’s also because Luke is self-accepting of his bad decisions, flaws, and mistakes. He’s aware that the old Jedi Order was deeply flawed, hypocritical, and misguided, in spite of their good intentions. He’s unwilling to stoop to the same level as his enemies. He won’t let himself get carried away with baiting his father into a fight when he gets angry, and start making justifications of how he’s “right” just because he has good intentions, just because he was fucked with first, just because he’s not a Sith, or just because it’s “too dangerous” to take a risk to be honest, kind, and offer one of his enemies (his father) a better opportunity when he sees that he really is also a victim of Sidious who is still struggling against his darker instincts and searching for freedom and love from family. He refuses to enable Anakin’s slave mentality and ultimately refuses to let his father believe that “Anakin Skywalker is dead.”

This isn’t saying that Anakin is an innocent, that Luke was obligated to forgive him, or that his victims didn’t have valid reasons to fear him and resent him. Of course, they did. The point is that in those little moments where he tries to reach out to Ahsoka, Padme, and Obi-Wan about being unhappy with the Jedi and keeping secrets of his marriage before going dark, backs off, says “Don’t make me destroy you,” or lets them go, they all had an opportunity to refuse to further perpetuate the cycle of abuse by acting in anger and vengeance. They could have refused to encourage his sense of compromised agency. They could have broken the cycle of system sting abuse, crime, and oppression with Anakin in those instances by being the bigger person.

Instead Padme and Obi-Wan encouraged him to continue to stay with the Jedi and/or keep his marriage secret when they knew their systems were corrupt, and knew he was becoming increasingly emotionally/mentally unstable and unhappy in ways that made him a danger to himself and those around him out of fear of the unknown by pretending that he would just get better if they told him he would when he tried to say otherwise.

Instead, Ahsoka ended up declaring that she’d “avenge her master” when he refused to join her right away and told her “Anakin Skywalker is dead because he destroyed him.”

Instead, Obi-Wan egged him on into a duel on Mustafar by using Padme as bait, and refused to back off after getting him to let go of Padme from his reckless blind rage/paranoia force choke before killing her when he thought she brought Obi-Wan to kill him and even got him to a point where he could tell Obi-Wan “Don’t make me kill you.” When Anakin cornered him again 10 years later for revenge that he clearly didn’t want as much as he had convinced himself he did because he still cared about Obi-Wan deep down, tells Obi-Wan “I destroyed Anakin Skywalker, not you,” and even gives Obi-Wan a chance to run away, Obi-Wan allows Anakin to continue to believe that Anakin is dead, convinces himself that he is, and he runs away to compartmentalize his own guilt over how he mistreated Anakin.

Instead, another ten years later, Obi-Wan more or less encourages Anakin/Vader to kill him by just standing there after confronting him in A New Hope, and saying “I’ll become more powerful than you can ever imagine.”

So the reason as to why Anakin can’t be inspired to atone or do better by Ahsoka, Padme, or Obi-Wan isn’t just because he’s a deeply flawed person. It’s because they are too, they live in denial of it, and let him live in denial of it, too.

[lizard-zombie]

I like Obi-Wan Kenobi. I think he’s cool.

[tennessoui]

“Honestly, just stop it.”

pref for from lost to a sea of troubles but, y'know, whatever sparks

hi!!! ok so yes absolutely this is set after lost to a sea of troubles (knocking on the wrong door au), where anakin is basically kidnapped by Sith!Obi-Wan, who posed as an innocent civilian in order to lull him into a false sense of safety (they have sex)

(1.1 k) (warnings: dark, dubious everything, sorta dead dove but not like. REALLY. stockholm syndrome but make it space, sorta conditioning? these tags are so much darker than the actual fic, but that's definitely what's implied but not stated)

Kenobi sighs when he sees Anakin. Anakin doesn’t like the sound, but he also definitely doesn’t like the way hearing it makes his chest feel tight, like his skin has suddenly shrunk down to squeeze around all his muscles. The Sith is disappointed in him.

It shouldn’t feel like the worst sort of reality, to know that the Sith is disappointed in him. 

But it is.

Kenobi sets aside the tray of food and steps into Anakin’s room. No. Not his room. His cell. It’s important to remember that. It’s incredibly easy to forget.

“Darling, you’re bleeding,” he states the obvious, stepping forward as if expecting Anakin to simply offer up his injury for inspection.

“No, I’m not.”

He is. He’d tried to gnaw off the cuffs around his wrists. His teeth and his wrists hurt now, but he doesn’t want Kenobi to know that.

“There’s blood on the ground.”

“Water,” Anakin says dismissively, even though he knows the lie is as transparent as the blood on the floor isn’t.

“Hm,” Obi-Wan says. He touches the force suppression cuffed wrists and the thing has the audacity to expand at his touch, widen until it slides down to sit halfway down his forearm instead. “Honestly,” the man sounds exhausted. “Just stop it.”

“Never,” the answer comes quickly and easily to Anakin’s tongue.

He hopes it rings truer than it feels.

“I hate to see you hurt like this,” Obi-Wan—no, Kenobi—admits. “Please cease trying to escape these bindings. They’re for your own good, darling.” “Don’t call me that,” Anakin snarls. 

“Ah, I am sorry,” Kenobi says, though he doesn’t sound very sorry at all. “Would you prefer I call you Anakin?”

His name in Kenobi’s voice makes him feel weak. It reminds him of all his past transgressions. Every time during that one night when he heard the man in front of him say his name like that and shivered from how good it sounded.

He wished it didn’t still sound so good. So right. 

Maybe if he had access to the Force, he’d be able to ignore his own inclinations to arch into the Sith’s gentle touch to his bleeding skin. Maybe it’s shouting a warning, loud and clear, but Anakin can’t hear it.

He couldn’t hear it that night either, though Ahsoka could.

“Of course you couldn’t,” Obi-Wan murmurs, pulling bacta and bandages from the pocket of his robes and studying the wound. Without Anakin’s connection to the Force, his shields are practically non-existent. “I never had any intention of hurting you.”

“You’re hurting me now,” Anakin points out because it’s true. He’s being hurt every moment he spends suspended in this weird form of captivity, where he’s allowed to leave his room—no, cell, and access every part of the house he wants, but he has no chance of finding any comm or any sort of weapon.

Obi-Wan shakes his head and hums. “You did this to yourself,” he tells him. “Look at you, you still have blood at the corner of your mouth.” 

With a wet thumb, he reaches up to wipe it off. Anakin should flinch away, but for some reason he does not. “I hate you,” he says dully, aas his body shivers and tries to arch into Obi-Wan’s delicate and gentle touch. He makes the pain go away, Anakin’s body whines. He makes us feel good again.

If he could forget how good Obi-Wan made his body feel, he thinks he could live a much better life in captivity. But he can’t. The Sith before him has starved him from all other forms of contact, after giving him the best fuck of his life the night before.

That last part should not be related, but Anakin has found that his mind keeps trailing back to it without his permission. 

The way Obi-Wan had touched him so…surely. As if he were already positive about his claim over him. The way he’d been so…so good. He’d made Anakin feel whole, even though Anakin hadn’t felt missing before he’d felt his touch.

No. No. It’s ruinous to think such things. Ruinous to indulge in those memories. It had all been a lie. Obi-Wan had been lying to him, hiding his Sith eyes.

“Yes and no,” Obi-Wan says, moving to the other wrist. He glances up at him before ducking his head back down. Anakin looks at the few pieces of hair that fall over his forehead, and then he looks away. No. No.

But Obi-Wan keeps talking as if he hasn’t heard Anakin’s thoughts, though Anakin knows he has.

“It was never truly a lie,” the man says. “More an omission of truth. You must understand, I didn’t want to. I simply knew it was necessary. And, Anakn. Love. You cannot pretend that you have not benefited from being in my care. You sleep regularly, you eat regularly. And not to mention, the war is over. I gave the galaxy their criminal. They gave me you.”

Anakin turns away to look at the wall. He knows the Sith’s words are true. He’s been shown the footage.

If anyone is looking for him, they aren’t doing it publicly. They’re too busy celebrating.

“I made your favorite,” Obi-Wan tells him. “I had to look all over for the spices, but I finally found them in an antiquities shop. I had a bite and I started crying, so I feel confident in this being up to your standard of heat.”

Anakin detests the way the Sith speaks, as if they’re friends. As if they’re more. He’s casual with him, but a sort of casualness that speaks of familiarity. One that does not exist between them.

He also detests the way he waits—craves—for the finishing touch of this ritual. After Obi-Wan has bandaged his second wrist, he raises both to his lips and presses kisses into the skin above, below, and beneath the bandages.

Anakin shivers at the touch of his lips. He tries to pretend he doesn’t press up, press forward, but he does.

“Please, darling,” Obi-Wan murmurs, standing from Anakin’s bed and reaching for the tray of food. He sets it where he’d been sitting. There are flecks of what Anakin knows must be tigoalarun, in the rice. A seasoning native to Tatooine and known for its heat.

“Stop this foolish attempt for attention. I will give it you, whenever you want. I just cannot stand it when you hurt yourself,” the Sith says, and he reaches out to stroke over Anakin’s curls. He forgets to flinch away.

He’s too distracted by the seasoning. Tigoalarun. Even his master had not been able to find it for his sixteenth birthday.

He looks up at Obi-Wan’s kind and tired and handsome face, and his mouth begins to salivate. He tries to convince himself it’s because of the smell of the food, but Obi-Wan smiles like he knows differently.

[bayonettassecondgf]

Yes I find Vader hot and attractive, no I will not elaborate

[h4lftruths4ndhyperb0le]

Sometimes I remember that Obi-Wan Kenobi literally never got to just be a person who existed happily and-