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Sergius Hruby, 1935//Padmé Amidala concept art for Attack of the Clones

Jedi: Fallen Order

Sergius Hruby, 1935//Padmé Amidala concept art for Attack of the Clones

Clair and Obscur🌗

It's about escapism. It's about surviving despite it all. It's about the wonder of the world even in darkness. It's about mimes beating the shit out of you.

Ahsoka was still a padawan when she left the Order, but she was more than able to fight two Inquisitors and win easily in Rebels.

Kanan’s skills were definitely rusty, but once he actually accepts his past, the Inquisitors were consistently no real match for him. 

Vader is the hunter, and the Inquisitors are his hunting dogs, they take care of the Jedi who are not worth Vader’s attention (aka the ones who won’t give him entertainment) and to find/flush out the real challenges, which usually means they die, because if a Jedi survivor can kill an Inquisitor, that means they aren’t some half-trained Padawan or inexperienced Knight, this is someone who knows what they’re doing, someone who can be a real threat

It’s important to remember that Obi-Wan and Yoda are exceptions to Order 66 survivors in that they’re Jedi Masters

See also: When Trilla realizes Cal was a Padawan and immediately asks “What Jedi died for you?”

Where Obi-Wan Kenobi is stewjoni, right, and Stewjoni believe that Force-Sensatives are like, possessed, like, demon-ate-their-baby's-soul-and-took-up-residence kind of possessed, right.

So Obi-Wan's mother, right, takes him down to the river when she sees signs that her strange little infant can grab things with his mind, and sometimes she swears she can feel his little infant urges press right up against her skull.

So.

Her baby is not her baby.

She takes him down to the river.

Now, on the other side of that river, topping off water for their ship and just done returning a missing person job, generally minding their own business, is a mandalorian.

Who does not take well to this woman drowning a baby. So, after a screaming argument and a whole lot of afressive posturing, mando ends up with the baby, who the mother insists is a demon-child. She does not speak basic well. He does not speak Stewjoni.

"Obi-Wan Kenobi, demon-born," she swears, over and over.

Mando shrugs and leaves, Obi-Wan Kenobi in tow.

Now, to mando this is just a fussy foundling, maybe an oddly perceptive little babe, but whatever. He'll find a home for the child at some point.

Mando'a becomes Obi-Wan’s first language. It takes until he is three for mando to finally figure out 'Oh, that kind of demon-child'.

Not equipped to deal with a toddler who can shove him across a room in a tantrum, mando naturally takes the 3 year old to his people - the jedi.

Now the Jedi, right? Don't really glean that when mando says "Here, take this foundling, his name is,Obi-Wan Kenobi and he's like you." That Obi-Wan is not a mandalorian child.

Now the jedi, right, like to help their younglings maintain a cultural connection to their native peoples, practicing traditional rites of passage, learning about their native food and language and holidays, etc. As much as the jedi can possibly manage, right? The archivists are both perplexed and ecstatic that apparently the creche now has the first mandalorian youngling in centuries.

Now, cue a decade later when the Mand'alor Jaster Mereel gets a request from the jedi temple if their mandalorian youngling could visit mandalore with his Jedi Master.

Now Mandalore, right, is like wtf? We haven't given any children to the jedi? Jedi don't come to Mandalorian space.

But Jaster's curious, so he says 'yeah, sure' and up shows the brightest eyed little wannabe mandalorian jedi that could ever possibly exist, speaking fluent mando'a and wearing a little plastoid cuirass with the orders symbol painted on it, vibrating with excitement and talking a mile a minute about Tarre Viszla's legacy and how he was never sure he made ujalayi cake quite right and how there was a little Keldabe on Coruscant and he was so excited to see the real Keldabe and Jaster - right? Jaster does not want to break this little kids heart but he’s really got to tell the jedi that they've got it wrong.

So he sends his son, Jango, and Duke Kryze's daughter Satine off to show the kid around, they're all vaguely similar in age and while Satine and Jango absolutely do not get along they have to get along anyway because their fathers rule Mandalore.

And then he and this Jedi Master get to the bottom of where this kid came from and Jaster ends up calling one of his old bounty hunters and they're like oh yeah I had a kid for a while and dropped him off at the temple, what about it?

Where did he come from?

I don't remember.

So now Jaster and the Jedi are hashing out well really now can't we just make Obi-Wan a mandalorian we raised him as one as best we could his entire sense of identity is at stake here and did you see those eyes? I cannot handle those eyes when they are sad.