These men rigged up an empty storage closet in their lab with the faraday cage and Tesla coil and ran their little experiment. My professor ran into the room the instant the coil was turned off, grabbed the grounded screwdriver-ice pick, and stabbed the plexiglass millimeters away from the edge where he could’ve missed.

And it worked.

This man captured a god damn lightning strike in physical media. That shape is from the electricity breaking through the structure of the plexiglass. That’s literally the conduction path.

Tbh 'fascinating' is probably vastly overstating things - he's never going to be my favorite, but I like the canon version of him a lot more than the fanon version that's so common. I also definitely think people...mh. Flanderize isn't quite the right word, since it's not just his canon traits that get exaggerated, but. woobified, basically. Fandom very clearly tries to fit him into a certain mold, and I just personally don't think it really fits.

To me, Obi-Wan is sharp and fairly aggressive once he's encountered something/someone in his way. He's stubborn and a bastard and competitive, and he fits in just as well with Bane and the rest of the bounty hunters in that arc as he does with the other members of the Jedi Council. He's also self-assured and humble but not in any way shy or retiring. He can be very grumpy when things don't go his way, and he's snarky, almost cutting, even with allies. He's ruthless when it's necessary, and overprotective of the people around him, and he has a tendency to be morose and pessimistic when things go wrong, though he always keeps going anyway. He thinks he knows how people are going to act and can be too set in his beliefs about others, and he's kind but he's not exactly gentle.

Just - I think he's so much more interesting than a lot of fandom gives him credit for. And I am aware that fandom tends to make complex characters more one-dimensional, but god, Obi-Wan gets it so bad.

People don't understand the word ruthless. They think it means "mean." It's not about being mean. It's about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It's about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it.

I think in a lot of ways, Obi-Wan is this kind of ruthless. Especially, but not limited to, TCW. He commits a war crime on Christophosis because it’s the most efficient way to achieve his goal*. He bisects Maul as a padawan after calming down and cuts Anakin into four pieces before walking away while he burned**. Everything about the whole Rako Hardeen arc - on assignment he didn’t let anything get in his way, including witnessing the murder of people just doing their jobs***. Just, so many examples.

He cares - about his fellow Jedi, the men he serves with and leads as General, civilians. He’s Light with a capital L. But he lets very little get in the way of achieving his goals.

Whether this ability to be ruthless is a matter of singular focus or having mastered Jedi non-attachment, I’m not sure. But I’ve seen compilations of gifs from both the movies and show where he’s almost causally dispatching unimportant enemies with most of his focus ahead to where he’s going, on getting to whomever he’s hunting, on whatever his goal is. There’s no hate in the action. It’s almost - but not quite - apathetic; these [droids or whatever] are in his way, he needs them to be out of his way to reach his objective, so he removes them (lethally).

Like, we’ve all talked about that scene with Vader, but there’s been times where Obi-Wan moves through an area like the Terminator. Unmovable focus. Unstoppable force.

Tangentially related; I laugh whenever fic describes his fighting style as graceful or full of artful katas or whathaveyou. This man is efficient and he’s well trained but given half a chance he’ll fight like a damned brawler. It’s always weird to compare the (exhaustingly long) choreographed fight scene with Anakin at the end of RotS with those times he decides to just kick his opponent in the gut. Out-of-universe, it’s a difference in directors and vision and choreography. In universe though? When he’s not fighting other lightsaber wielders, he seems to err on a far more utilitarian, whatever works philosophy of battle.

(And yeah, the man is not a twink. Let’s just toss that idea into the sun, mmkay?)

* I’m aware SW doesn’t have Geneva Conventions but false surrender makes all future surrenders impossible, so I can’t see perfidy not being outlawed with the number of planetary, interplanetary, and galactic wars in SW history

** Admittedly, he felt bad about that last one

We’ve seen him show compassion to his enemies plenty of times and even with the most ‘ruthless’ decision he ever made (leaving Anakin to die) it’s obvious that hated himself for it and the trauma haunted him for a decade. Plus, taking Applegate’s quote on being ruthless into account, that wasn’t even a case of completing a goal, but abandoning it. Otherwise Obi-Wan would have stayed to make absolutely sure Anakin died or he would have outright killed him, but instead his love for Anakin meant he just couldn’t go through with it even if that meant there was the tiniest chance Anakin would live and continue on as a Sith.

FUCK YOU!!!

You are villifying all autistic people by doing this.

Elon isnt a shitty person because he is autistic. He is just autistic AND a shitty person

And when I say shitty person I mean he is a misogynistic transphobic homophobic racist, NAZI

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