Just a casual day for Coruscant Guards
HERE COMES REX WITH THE METAL CHAIR OHHHH
Family
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.
Just a reminder to people damian doesn't like killing he has a breakdown after killing Goliath family and gets physically sick at the sight of dead children
It's something he was forced do in the league of assassins
Tired of people mischaraziting him in fanfics as a selfish and spoiled brat especially on the spoilt part damian was abused for most his life how is he spoilt and who spoiled him
Damian himself admits to being abused
That screenshot where it looks like they are holding hands
since nautolans start out as tadpoles imagine baby Kit Fisto being taken to the jedi temple in one of these bad boys
anakins a gamerrrr
female Anakin