The Gang's All Here!!

I really do like looking at Anakin and Obi Wan because they’re so similar but also so vastly different from each other and I know I’m not the first person to point this out, but I do think the fandom has a habit of exploring a dynamic that’s really just divorced from canon. and I do think canon should go out the window more often than not, but also, I think with their particular dynamic, it’s so embedded into the storyline that you lose narrative value when you ignore that. 

I think one of the things that really ties them together is just how selfish they are but they way they are selfish is different from each other and that selfishness is also born out of different circumstances. 

In Anakin’s case, he’s selfish because he finally gets something/someone in a world where nothing belonged to him and nothing about his life was ever certain. He doesn’t know how to let go, nor does he want to let go, so when he has someone or something that he cherishes and loves, he holds them close to his chest and refuses to give them up. It’s why his love turns into possessive attachment and why he’s willing to throw other lives away (even if he doesn’t really register it) if that means the people he cares about live. The whole driving point of RoTS is that Anakin is selfish! He does selfish things, and I think, to an extent, he’s self aware enough to know he’s being selfish but that also doesn’t stop him which is why his fall makes so much sense. It’s in the text.

But on the other hand, Obi Wan’s selfishness is shown but not really explored. Obi Wan is selfish in the way that he’s willfully ignorant. He doesn’t want more but he doesn’t want things to change either. It’s why it’s easy for him to turn a blind eye to Anakin’s spiral, the corruption in the Republic, etc. etc. And he’s also selfish in the way that he views himself, because he is arrogant in a lot of ways, it’s the same way that the Jedi continue to call themselves peacekeepers when the clones are not afforded that title. He does mental gymnastics when looking at his actions in order to avoid confronting the fact that he’s actually breaking the moral framework he holds himself to, and it allows him to skirt around acknowledging the actual issue at hand (the clones’ enslavement, the fact that he benefits from his position in the Republic, etc.). 

And then when you boil it down to the basics, really, Anakin wants to change the galaxy whereas Obi Wan wants things to remain the same. And Anakin isn’t willing to let people go but Obi Wan is (unless said person is Anakin). So then you get this clash between them that Obi Wan refuses to acknowledge while Anakin doesn’t know how to bridge the gap. And I think they both know it’s there but they can’t communicate with each other about it, so it festers until it reaches the breaking point because even if they’re family and even if they love each other as brothers do, they can’t ever address the main issue of their relationship. 

listen i am aware that it isn’t canon, but i know deep in my soul ahsoka would call little leia snips

They’re talking about Palpatine

Ref

Padme Design

HERE COMES REX WITH THE METAL CHAIR OHHHH

when your comfort movie is a star wars film where everyone dies (allegedly)

au where padme lives and raises her two children thinking that anakin died on mustafar and works behind the scenes in the rebellion

and anakin/vader thinks that he killed padme

and they both think the other is dead and vader hates the shadowy leader of the rebellion and padme hates the emperor’s black-suited attack dog

i just have a lot of ideas about this idk

It turns out that the lich the adventurers had been hired to slay had never actually killed anyone before until the impulsive paladin of the group swung first. Now, as the healer tries to revive them, the rest have to calm the ancient undead mage down from what is undeniably a panic attack.

female Anakin