Just here for the clones.

So, what’s his deal here.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is a nurse at Coruscant General, the largest hospital in Wonderland. He’s relatively easy-going. He’s distantly related to the precognitive Cheshire Cats. But that’s a hole in his memory and best forgotten if it weren’t for Cody.

Sweet, strong Commander Cody of the Guard who Obi-Wan met while on break. They had shared a muffin, a cigarette, and their phone numbers.

“Tea cups in your dreams,” was what Obi-Wan had, apparently, told Cody while they were decidedly occupied with other things, “hide their silent screens.”

It had been enough to alarm Cody, unfathombly broken him out of the Queen of Hearts’ mind control, and thus had disrupted Obi-Wan’s quiet life since its last disruption. A bucket of a can of worms had been exploded open by Obi-Wan saying weird shit and the, uh, the glowing blue eyes had also played a big part in Cody starting to question the very foundations of Wonderland.

One day Obi-Wan woke up with no memories, a job only his muscles and intuition could remember, and a broken watch that somehow always hurt his wrist and was a constant reminder that he was late for something.

So. We got lost.

Can I demote Thorn already?? Thire always knows where we need to go...

Fox : me

you're owen lars. the woman you call mom had another child once. it doesn't make her love you less, but she talks about him in a way that makes it clear that she loved him, too. he's off to be a jedi now and she's very proud.

you're owen lars. your mother's been kidnapped and you have to assume the worst. a man and a woman step into your home and the man announces himself to be that kid who went off to become a jedi. he knows you less than you know him and before anything else can happen, he takes off to bring back his mother, a feat you think is impossible.

you're owen lars. anakin skywalker brings your mom's corpse to your doorstep. her funeral is interrupted by a message of utmost galactic importance.

you're owen lars. your brother is dead. you never saw him again after that first time. there is another jedi on your doorstep, with a baby in his arm and you know what it means and you can't bring yourself to face him as he hands your nephew off to your wife.

you're owen lars. obi-wan ben kenobi is a pain in the ass. he was more your brother's brother than you ever were and he doesn't understand your particular kind of grief, is drowning in his own. you don't even know the full story and kenobi will never tell you all of it. but you have a child to care for so you tell him off and get back to work.

you're owen lars. you didn't know your brother, but you know your nephew and your nephew wants out of this place as soon as possible. you know he won't be safe out there but in the end you're helpless to stop him. and you know the stories, you remember the one time you met him, the days your mother died. and you do this for her and you do this for your father and you do this for your brother and you do this for your nephew.

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Colored doodle commission for Beepu! They asked for Owen and Beru, and i wasnt sure if i wanted to draw them older or younger, so i did both. Thanks for commisisoning me! :)

That one post about morally aligned but culturally different heroes. Thought is fit Cody and Fox well enough to give me an excuse to draw them.

“Palpatine did nothing illegal. Being a Sith isn’t illegal! The Jedi technically committed treason.” (Often paired with “the Jedi deserved to be wiped out.”)

Okay. Let’s pretend for a moment that being a Sith — a philosophy built on domination, cruelty, and the pursuit of power through suffering — somehow isn’t illegal because “freedom of religion.”

Fine. Sure. Let’s play that game.

Because being a Sith Lord in the Revenge of the Sith timeline does not mean Palpatine was quietly practicing some edgy Force spirituality in his spare time.

It means he was the secret architect of the Clone Wars.

It means he was the hidden master of Count Dooku.

It means he was the one orchestrating both sides of a galactic war.

And that is treason (and therefore, y'know, illegal).

The Jedi didn’t discover that Palpatine was a Sith. They discovered he was the Sith.

The script is explicit:

ANAKIN: He won't give up his power. I've just learned a terrible truth. I think Chancellor Palpatine is a Sith Lord. MACE WINDU: A Sith Lord? ANAKIN: Yes. The one we have been looking for. — Revenge of the Sith

THE ONE WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR.

The Sith Lord who was Count Dooku’s master. Count Dooku — the public leader of the Separatists. The Separatists — the faction the Republic is at war with.

Communicating with enemy leadership during wartime is treason. Secretly leading the enemy while serving as Supreme Chancellor of the Republic? That’s not protected religious expression. That’s high treason on a galactic scale.

This was not “the Jedi arrested him for having different beliefs.”

They moved against the head of state after discovering he was secretly controlling the opposing military force in a galatic-scale war.

And if someone wants to argue that Palpatine’s emergency powers somehow made him untouchable even after admitting to being the hidden mastermind behind the war he was supposed to be fighting (— as if emergency powers include “immunity for secretly running the enemy.”)?

Congratulations. You’ve created a world where treason is the only moral option left — so don’t blame the Jedi for choosing it.

Authoritarian regimes are often perfectly “legal.” That doesn’t make them just. It doesn’t make them right. And it doesn’t mean opposing them is automatically wrong.

The Jedi were not overthrowing a lawful leader because of religion.

They were attempting to stop the secret war criminal who engineered the conflict, manipulated the Senate, and refused to relinquish emergency powers.

And since we’re talking about legality:

You know who else legally seized power? Hitler in Nazi Germany.

If your argument is “technically it was treason,” then you are also arguing that any German who attempted to overthrow Hitler during WWII was “technically committing treason.”

Legality under an authoritarian regime does not define justice.

And if we really want to stretch the comparison — at least Hitler wasn’t secretly running the Allied powers while posing as Germany’s leader. Palpatine was actively directing both sides of the war he was supposed to be fighting.

hmmm. Perhaps excited isn’t quite the right word…