I recognize that this mostly happens because Obi-Wan is and always has been a direct foil for Anakin, but I am SO tired of all of Obi-Wan's more canon love interests ending up being more about making commentary on Anakin and Anidala than they are on exploring OBI-WAN. It's just sad and I'm so tired of it and I think that until people are willing to write a romance for Obi-Wan that isn't actually about Anakin at all, Obi-Wan should just be made off-limits for romance plot lines entirely. Leave the man alone, please, I am begging you.
love the idea of aroace mace windu who just- doesn’t get? why everyone is having such a hard time with the attachment rule?? Like just don’t??? Fall in love???? This shit is easy guys why are you so bad at this
I'm always a little weirded out by just how much both the movies and the fandom gloss over how utterly uncomfortable Padme was with being around Anakin in the beginning of AotC. Like, this is a woman who grew up under a microscope from the time she was 14, but she still goes so far as to cover all the cameras in her room, knowing that a bounty hunter is after her and just murdered one of her handmaidens, because Anakin watching her creeps her out so much.
And yeah, most of that is because the movies forget about it too in favor of reducing her character to "girl in forbidden love", but still. It's so deeply clear in the first half of the movie just how much Anakin makes Padme uncomfortable. Like. to wild degrees.
funny how Hera Syndulla probably thought that she was the first radical political leader to fall in love with a disillusioned Jedi padawan whom she met when they were both young during a period of wartime and political upheaval only to end up alone and pregnant but she wasn’t even the second
[ID: Screenshot of a chat that says "just leave my queen alone, she's already suffered enough. She wanted a life with her malewife murder monk pilot mechanic racer and you should respect her for that!]
It's Padmé defending's hours for me
I have been seeing more negative (with very weird connotations, tbh) posts about Padmé on my dash lately, and while I'm a firm believer of the "scroll past it" rule, it really irks me a lot because MOST of these takes sound a bit mysoginistic to me and also (to me) shows a lack of trying to understand her as a character, not in a "you don't get her" way, but in a "you don't even try to understand the character and her context in the damn story just because you wanna sound holy than thou" way.
I'm all for accepting takes about Padmé's flaws or having a slightly more privileged/closed view (and that makes sense, she's aristocracy) but these people are SO WEIRD whenever they wanna talk about her 🤨
I'll forever mad that George eliminated SO MANY scenes with Padmé in the movies, but I feel like even if we had those scenes, people's complaints would be exactly the same.
But also i think half of the time people fail at understanding Padmé is because they're also failing to understand Anakin's as a character, idk
Obi-Wan: *gently massaging Anakin’s wittle palms while talking about the importance of proper hand care and why little padawans shouldn’t bathe in motor oil before beddy-byes* -and that’s the seventeenth reason you are the bane of my existence, yes yes, you cause Master soooo much stress! Naughty!
Anakin: *happy purrs and cuddles*
Entire Jedi Council: …
Mace: I swear to god Kenobi, if you don’t stop babytalking that twenty-five year old man-
Yoda: Familiar, this situation is…
Plo: *amused* Yes, I seem to remember Qui-Gon acting much the same way when Obi-Wan was this age.
Mace: *throwing a balled up flimsi at Obi-Wan’s head* force, stop that! It’s giving me force-hives! Padme won’t stop messaging me asking where her husband is, send him home already!
Obi-Wan: Hmmm… kick me off the council and I’ll stop bothering you with it.
Mace: Done.
Yoda: Not your decision alone, that is.
Mace: *hissing* you old troll either they go or I do but I’m not dealing with their codependent bullshit today, I’ve already encountered four shatterpoints while his antichrist children were in my presence today, I’m done here, I’m just so done.
Anakin: *falling asleep half in Obi-Wan’s lap* Just tell Leia to stop it. She doesn’t give me visions if I don’t bother her.
Mace: …did you just imply she can /stop/ force visions with her abilities???
Yaddle: what the fuck…
Yoda: Delightfully terrifying, she is!
Mace: That’s it, I quit, I’m retiring, I’m not dealing with this-
Anakin: Awwww, you can’t retire, Luke likes you.
Mace: He gives me anxiety! He always has a bunch of shatterpoint bubbles floating around him!
Anakin: Alright, how did you get over Obi-Wan’s weird force bubbles when he was tiny and constantly looking for you because babies love their finders?
Mace: I spontaneously learned teleportation one year. And forgot how to do it when the panic died down.
#THAT IS EXACTLY HOW PALPATINE’S KIDNAPPING WENT IN CANON
#YOU CAN’T CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
#HONESTLY WHY PALPATINE WANTED ANAKIN FOR AN APPRENTICE IS BEYOND ME
#HE DOESN’T APPRECIATE ANYTHING PALPATINE DOES
#YEAH SURE HE’S AN EVIL SCUMBAG
#BUT IT WOULD BE NICE IF SOMEONE NOTICED ALL THE EFFORT HE WENT TO