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That's not how "Tumbling" Works

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This is Obi-Wan Kenobi and I have decided to give this "Tumbling" thing a go. - semi selective RP blog for Obi-Wan Kenobi estab. June 2016. Please read rules before interacting. Almost exclusively prequels and TCW based. Rebooted Feb. 2020.  Used to be bencannolikenobi.  Main blog for forceechoedtouch
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kyberllcore

A very good friend of mine told me to go out and find my place in the galaxy. And you listened? Well, no, but…Life has this funny way of forcing you on the path forward anyway.

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kyberllcore

A very good friend of mine told me to go out and find my place in the galaxy. And you listened? Well, no, but…Life has this funny way of forcing you on the path forward anyway.

Adoringly abused loved by Cannoli

credit: @onehell-of-apilot

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regress (from maul >:0)

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The small ginger-haired child looked up and up and up at the Zabrak, chilled to be near him but entirely too curious to try running away from someone who should’ve been imposing and terrifying.

A tiny hand gently tugged on the other’s tunic to get his attention. “Excuse me sir, but where am I? This doesn’t look like Master Yoda’s quarters...”

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startrailed

Beginning of the End

The glare Obi-Wan sent Qui-Gon’s way was venomous indeed, but he pulled out the teapot itself instead of just a small mug with a tea steeper.  Despite his own grievances, he also refused to give Qui-Gon any ammunition against him either.
As the water boiled, Obi-Wan felt around in his mind to see if Qui-Gon attempted to repair their training bond and felt something very tenuous but still ever-present; it seemed that he wasn’t willing to overstep his bounds with Obi-Wan, but there was an expectation of continuing Obi-Wan’s training.
Did…did Obi-Wan even want to continue his training?  He wasn’t sure what he would do if he didn’t, and all he ever wanted was to become a Jedi one day.  But Qui-Gon’s total abandonment of him had shaken his very core and the constant looks of mistrust and sympathetic glances were starting to mess with his head a bit.  Others’ sympathy was humiliating enough, but the few (but still numerous) people around who cast their doubts at him all because of his own Master’s temporary desertion cut him deeply.  
This was a conversation he occasionally had with Master Yoda.  It usually ended with Obi-Wan agreeing that his place was with the Order, and when it didn’t it ended with him agreeing to sleep on it and then agreeing with Master Yoda in the end anyway.  But it didn’t stop him from wondering.
Ultimately, Obi-Wan knew he’d never leave the Order unless he had an even stronger reason to leave beyond his own abandonment issues.  Besides, what would he do instead?  There wasn’t a whole lot of honorable work for a former Jedi out there, and Obi-Wan wasn’t really even sure where he would begin in trying to forge a new life for himself let alone anything else.

Ardor observed Obi-Wan as the boy went through the motions of making tea - but his Padawan’s mind didn’t seem to be in it. Judging from the faraway look in his aquamarine eyes, Obi-Wan was thinking heavy thoughts.

The Sith didn’t need mind tricks to know that Obi-Wan was thinking about them. About their relationship, both old and future, how to deal with his renegade Master - and how to deal with his feelings.

There was a lot of rage in Obi-Wan. Ardor could feel it like one would feel heat if they kept their hand an inch from a boiling kettle.

As for Ardor, he was pretty relaxed. He knew that his student was hurt from his actions, but he also knew that Obi-Wan loved him too much to be able to sever himself from his Master. It would take time and patience, but Ardor had no doubt that eventually Obi-Wan would see the light and join him.

Then they could finally be happy. No one would dare to hurt his precious Obi-Wan once he stood by his side. Oh, his student would make such a fine Sith! Together they’d start a new lineage, one that would annihilate those worms of the Bane line. 

Both Life and the Force had been cruel to Ardor, but finally things were starting to look up.

Obi-Wan laid a mug of tea on the coffee table in front of the Sith. Ardor breathed in deeply, loving the smell of sapir tea. Dooku hated that kind of tea and Ardor hadn’t had any for his whole stay.

“Thank you, Obi-Wan,” the Master said, wrapping his hands around the mug. “Do you feel up to talking or would you like more time to think before?”

A spike of anger surged through him even more violently than ever before, but Obi-Wan kept his cheek in check.  It wouldn’t do to lash out at him when technically he hadn’t said anything to warrant any sort of blistering remark.

But it was still there as an undercurrent.  It was there in everything that had been left unsaid all those weeks and months ago when Qui-Gon abandoned him.  The Jedi Master, if he even deserved the title anymore, had shirked his responsibilities and his own bond to his padawan and then waltzed in expecting them to magically be able to talk.

A Jedi would be up for this, be able to set aside their anger and age-old feelings of rejection.  Peace, serenity, harmony, knowledge, compassion...all of these were what a Jedi’s core was meant to be based and molded around.  A Jedi would talk in this situation and approach the conversation with an open mind and calm heart.

Obi-Wan wasn’t a Jedi yet.

“There isn’t enough time in the galaxy that would make me feel up to talking,” Obi-Wan uttered near-silently.  The sentence wasn’t meant to be heard, but he also didn’t seem to find it within him to care if it was.

If Obi-Wan were privy to the Sith’s thoughts and beliefs as to what his were, he’d have been even more infuriated.  Since he was not, this was as angry as Obi-Wan thought he could be.

“If it’s all the same to you, Master Jinn, I think I need to meditate on this further.  I believe that any attempt at the present to have the conversation you wish for would result in nothing but continued ill feelings between us,” he firmly and formally replied, gulping down his hot tea (too hot to comfortably gulp) without flinching at the scorching heat.  

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“Are you all right? You’re trembling. What’s going on?” (from Qui-Gon).

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Obi-Wan refused to look in his Master’s direction for a long moment, only now aware of the tremors running through him.

Unconsciously, he fiddled and fidgeted with a bead in his padawan braid and the moment ran longer.

“Why did you take me on as your padawan?” he blurted out. “I just...there were so many others, and you didn’t even want a padawan. You rejected me at least twice, three times if you count the one on the transport to Bandomeer and four times if you count our disagreement on Melida/Daan where I gave you my lightsaber and you left me there. I...why?”

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“You’ve been thinking about this for some time, haven’t you?” Qui-Gon spoke before sitting down in front of his padawan. “I didn’t reject just you. I rejected others. I wasn’t certain I would even make a proper Master or be able to teach a young Jedi like yourself properly. Not every one of us is cut out to be a teacher, Obi-Wan. I didn’t want to fail my padawan.”
He looked at the young man. “Though to be fair you were rebellious and difficult when we met. I suppose I was testing you in my own way to expose you to the fact that if your heart was set on learning from me, I wasn’t going to be like any other Master you knew. You have strength, persistance, and stubbornness. I knew it was the Will of the Force that you become my padawan and here you are, at my side, as I do my best to teach you. I may not have chosen you from the beginning as your fellow padawans were by their Masters, but you are the only one who deserves to be a padawan because you worked hard to get here.”
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So many other words and rebukes (as well as self-depreciative remarks) at the tip of his tongue, but ultimately Obi-Wan set aside all of them and looked away again.  Qui-Gon’s answer left him with more questions and rebuttals than reassurances.

“Forgive me, Master, but surely I’m not the only one who deserves to be a padawan,” he finally settled on.  “We are all tested by the Force, so therefore I shouldn’t be any more worthy than the others just because you tested me on the Force’s behalf.  I think Master Yoda would view that as vanity.”

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dmbakura

do u ever see someone elses headcannon for ur fave character and its like….. i completely respect that u have the right to that headcannon, i will not confront u at all and start needless bullshit over that headcannon…. but i will silently sit here and give you the sideways glance of the century

me, out loud: hey that’s cool we all have our own interpretations and i support you as part of fandom regardless 

me, in my head: ….but you’re wrong 

I would just like to remind everyone that this is the mature, reasonable, and sensible response.

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Obi-Wan identifies as pansexual in every meaning of the word. The galaxy is too big to be distinguishing between such arbitrary things as gender and race, in his opinion.

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“Are you all right? You’re trembling. What’s going on?” (from Qui-Gon).

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Obi-Wan refused to look in his Master’s direction for a long moment, only now aware of the tremors running through him.

Unconsciously, he fiddled and fidgeted with a bead in his padawan braid and the moment ran longer.

“Why did you take me on as your padawan?” he blurted out. “I just...there were so many others, and you didn’t even want a padawan. You rejected me at least twice, three times if you count the one on the transport to Bandomeer and four times if you count our disagreement on Melida/Daan where I gave you my lightsaber and you left me there. I...why?”

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Star Wars: Episode III  {Sentence Starters}

  • “Don’t make me kill you.”
  • “’Good’ is a point of view.”
  • “You were the chosen one!”
  • “Are you going to kill me?”
  • “I don’t believe you. I can’t…”
  • “You underestimate my power!”
  • “Crush them! Make them suffer!”
  • “Is it possible to learn this power?”
  • “I know what’s been troubling you.”
  • “You’re going to kill him, aren’t you?”
  • “Thing’s will be different, I promise.”
  • “You have allowed this to twist your mind…”
  • “If you’re not with me, then you’re my enemy.”
  • “I’m going to put an end to this, once and for all!”
  • “You’ve become the very thing you swore to destroy.”
  • “But at what cost? You’re a good person, don’t do this!”
  • “Are you all right? You’re trembling. What’s going on?”
  • “So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.”
  • “Your anger and lust for power have already done that…”
  • “There are too many of them. What are we going to do?”
  • “Now, let’s get a move on. We’ve got a battle to win here.”
  • “No. Don’t you see? We don’t have to run away anymore!”
  • “Do what must be done. Do not hesitate. Show no mercy.”
  • “It was said that you would destroy the _____, not join them!”
  • “I can’t live without her. If she dies, I don’t know what I will do.”
  • “I can feel your anger. It give you focus… makes you stronger.”
  • “You’re breaking my heart! You’re going down a path I cannot follow!”
  • “I am becoming more powerful and I’m doing it for you. To protect you.”
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I have a very spicy and galaxy-brained take that none of you are prepared for but I’m gonna say it anyway.

To clarify: In Star Wars: the Clone Wars season 1 episodes 11 and 12 “Dooku Captured” and “The Gungan General” (2009), Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi meet Hondo Ohnaka for the first time when they, along with Count Dooku, are captured and held for ransom by him. This establishes the dynamic between Anakin, Obi-Wan and Hondo. Later, in season 5 episode 5 “Tipping Points” (2012), the conclusion to the Onderon story arc, since the Jedi and the Republic cannot directly interfere with the Onderon Rebellion, Anakin pays Hondo to deliver heavy weapons to the Onderon rebels so that the rebels will get the reinforcements they need but Republic will have plausible deniability, so overall Hondo has a small but very impactful role in the Onderon arc. The Onderon arc is crucial to the backstory and overall character arc of Saw Gerrera, who eventually becomes a huge pain in the Empire’s ass, but most notably raises and trains Jyn Erso, who then goes on to lead the mission to steal the plans for the first Death Star. In addition, Dooku later sends Grievous to destroy Hondo’s stronghold to get payback which is the beginning of how Hondo eventually loses his crew, which results in him eventually meeting Ezra Bridger, thus getting involved with the Rebellion, and in Star Wars: Rebels season 3 episodes 1 and 2 “Steps Into Shadow Parts 1 and 2″ (2017), Hondo informs the growing Rebellion of some old Republic Y-Wings in the possession of the Empire and helps them steal the Y-Wings before the Empire dismantles them. Those Y-Wings later become a key part of the Rebel Alliance fleet, and are the SAME Y-Wings used during the battle against the first Death Star. In conclusion, if Hondo Ohnaka had not decided to hold two Jedi and a Sith Lord hostage to make a quick million that one time, then the Death Star would never have been destroyed.

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