Passport To Madness

So he goes back, he saves Qui-Gon, and he thinks: this is the fix. Qui-Gon trains Anakin, Anakin gets the Master he actually deserved, and everything is different.

Except Qui-Gon is not the Master Obi-Wan has been mythologising in his grief. Qui-Gon cares for Anakin, yes, but he keeps him on a very short leash. He's fascinated by the prophecy, by what Anakin might become. There is always this sense that Anakin is being managed rather than raised, pointed at a destination rather than actually known.

And newly Knighted Obi-Wan, watching all of this from one step removed, is furious in a way he can't entirely explain. So he inserts himself. He becomes the person who actually talks to Anakin, who notices when something is wrong, who knows him in the way Qui-Gon never bothers to. He knows what Anakin needs before Anakin does. He knows how to push him and when to pull back and how to make him feel like the most important thing in any room, because he is. He just is. The Order starts calling them brothers and Obi-Wan lets them, because it's easier than explaining the alternative.

And then the war starts and they start sleeping together, somewhere on a miserable planet on their fourth near-death experience of the week.

And when Anakin calls him Master and Obi-Wan calls him Padawan in bed it is, genuinely, the first time in this whole second life that Obi-Wan feels like something has finally gone right. Because of course. Of course it was always going to be like this. Of course Anakin was always his and he was always Anakin's, and no amount of time travel or good intentions or Qui-Gon Jinn was ever going to change that.

idk I'll always hold a special place in my heart for Hannibal pulling Will's hair

(Note: The particular meaning might be part of Legends now, but since nothing in current canon contradicts it...just try and take this canon from me.)

It's also found throughout Revenge of the Sith, as well as the games, Battlefront II and Jedi: Fallen Order.

“But— but- Satine!!” Yeah, bi people like women too, kinda how that works.

“But Jedi can’t have relationships!!” Then by that logic there are no straight Jedi either…

Also, they were acting like it was some sort of shock, or like it came completely out of nowhere. Obi-Wan is probably the fruitiest bitch in the galaxy. His ass was sat leg up in his council chair in his custom knee-high Prada boots while Windu was telling Anakin he couldn’t become a Master LMAO. There was so much chemistry in the combined five minutes that he was on screen with Cody that they became one of the most popular ships in this fandom. Disney confirming him as bisexual was just confirming what was already glaringly obvious. That man likes men. Y’all are just blind asf.

Edit because y’all still think I’m lying; The Padawan novel isn’t the only instance where Obi-Wan is implied to be Queer, in the ROTS novelization by Matthew Stover, when Palpatine hints towards Obi-Wan having an affair with a Senator, Anakin assumes it’s a “he” until Palpatine corrects him with “she”. This novel came out in 2005, he’s BEEN QUEER.

What? [insp]