I don't understand the need from Anakin fans need to be anti-ObiWan and to dig and find every possible wrong thing Obi Wan has ever done
WHATT? guys i am not even anti-obi. đ i literally saw someone else's post mentioning the fact that obi disrespects jar jar. i just finished tpm novel last week so i wanted to share the fact that he didn't only disrespect him, but couldn't stand jar jar, and saw him as a lesser being, not worth saving, so much that he'd rather leave him to die than drag him along. this isn't me sharing this from a personal opinion stand point, but what is literally written in the book. the novel makes clear how obi feels, and thinks of jar jar, and why. i am just sharing about the books i'm reading. i recently learned it myself. if you still don't believe me, i seriously urge you to read tpm novelization. it makes clear how obi felt towards jar jar even more blatantly clear than i did. extensively too. there's no point of perspective. it's likeâ what the book tells you. i wasn't trying to make some generalized personal dunk on obi. but honestly even if i was, it's right there, in the original media. has nothing to do with anakin either.
I just started reading TPM and I was like oh! I finally appreciate Jar Jar and his entire role in the story! Thatâs the point of Jar Jar is to show the difference between Qui-Gon (thinks all beings have intrinsic value even if we donât their purpose in life) and Obi-Wan (doesnât think itâs worth it to save Jar Jarâs life because itâs not mandated by the council or worth the effort because thereâs no reward for the Jedi). Like thatâs literally the point! Jar Jar is useless on PURPOSE! To showcase that itâs worth saving every one. And then later little Ani also sticks his neck out to save Jar Jar, even though it could cause problems for Anakin and thereâs no hope for any reward. This shows that Anakin is like Qui-Gon and believes in helping others simply because itâs the right thing to do.
Iâm not bashing Obi-Wan but the whole point is that Obi-Wan believes in the Jedi Code above all else. And the Jedi are so far removed from actually helping people that they donât pay attention to the average person who doesnât do anything important in the galaxy. Itâs why Qui-Gon would rather be in the field helping than sit in his ivory tower meditating on things that donât do anyone in the real world any good.
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Do you think Anakin had Master-padawan moments with Ahsoka where he thinks of "wow, this is kind of easier/not so big of a deal to than what 0bi w@n complained about" and then ponder if he was right with his opinions toward 0bi-w@n, since him and she both had similar personalities?
He makes me think he would but also maybe it might be a stretch, I'm curious bcs of his attitude in Aotc and Rots lol
(let's not think of his characterization in TCW since is ooc)
Oh, sometimes for sure, but IMHO it's also complicated by a few other factors and different contexts:
First of all, war. When you're effectively forced to raise a kid in the middle of a war and make sure she doesn't die on the battlefield, sometimes things just take a backseat to literal survival.
Second of all, Ahsoka actually had a pretty normal past for a Jedi and was recruited in a (relatively) standard way, and already knows how to navigate life as a Core Worlder. Anakin decidedly did NOT have that same experience: that is a rather crucial part of the plot of the PT. On the contrary, I think one of the very few things I actually liked about the Zygerria arc (my otherwise beloathed) in TCW '08 is essentially Anakin teaching Ahsoka to check her internalized biases and privilege: the inverse of what you're saying, and I honestly think it's an important part of Ahsoka's arc for her to grow up to be both a more rounded person and part of Anakin's positive legacy.
Related to the above, I think Anakin is/was placed under an extraordinary amount of pressure, whether by internal or external factors. Ahsoka doesn't have as much pressure on her (at least not "Chosen One"-level), so I don't think he'd necessarily hold her to as high standards, though I think Ahsoka might still hold herself to higher-than-average standards as well because 1) war means people die and 2) she's "the Chosen One"'s padawan. (For the record, I don't actually think Anakin cares about being "the Chosen One", per se, it's just that Obi-Wan might have subconsciously held Anakin to a higher standard because of it on top of his own Core World elitism, and Anakin was already adultified enough to hold himself responsible for everyone else's safety in the TPM novelization and has very high standards for himself even without the "Chosen One" business compounding it, so everything just kind of mixes together.)
Finally, I wholeheartedly believe that Anakin having connections to life outside the Jedi gives him far more insight into what matters and what doesn't in the grand scheme of things: he was raised by a mother who loved him and I think he'd talk to PadmĂŠ (or even potentially the rest of the Naberries, if under a professional capacity and only on rare occasions, i.e. at most once or twice) for advice if he needs any. Anakin does suffer from a lack of robust support system and that is a major factor in his downfall, but the fact he was shaped by these life experiences is part of what make him such a great and unique Jedi in the first place.
That said, going back to your ask, I do agree that Anakin and Ahsoka having similar personalities does help them get along well and allows him to understand her perspective and teach better than someone like OWK (who clearly snuffed out a lot of Anakin's spark between TPM and AOTC), but at the same time it could also be an obstacle because they have had different upbringings (in which case Ahsoka might have more in common with OWK, which the PT-canon doesn't present as a good thing and which is why I think Anakin addressing it in TCW '08 to some extent is a good thing) and their similarities could also cause them to clash at times (I recommend Practicum by @asparagus-writes for an example of how that might work in action, ft. generational trauma, thanks for making my cry BTW). One of the things that TCW '08 doesn't really get right is that Anakin isn't quite as rebellious as fanon perceives him to be and he still does try to adhere to the Jedi Code in the PT (sans the anti-attachment part that he recognizes to be unsustainable from personal experience), so that would have also complicated how he might have mentored Ahsoka (for this, I recommend this back-and-forth double agent AU fic by @/fialleril and @/grand-duc; the Disney-era Brotherhood novel has a scene that I enjoy where Anakin is a better mentor when not following a script and follows his heart, but the PT does revolve around how he stops doing that, so yeah).
TL;DR: It's hard to compare Anakin and Ahsoka's padawanhoods when they're so different despite having similar personalities: wartime vs. peacetime, different worldviews shaped by different upbringings, etc. Just having a mentor with a different attitude isn't enough to explain the nuances, though I do believe Anakin took the advice of "be the kind of teacher/parent/mentor you wanted to have" to heart. It's not as cut-and-dry as some may present it to be: that's just how reality works.
Thereâs so much to unpack here. Like. Iâm sure other people will unpack it differently - thatâs great, thatâs half the reason I follow yâall! - but let me tell you what Iâm seeing here.
First, Ahsokaâs coming from a Republic POV, and Anakinâs coming from a more or less Outer Rim POV here. Thatâs important. Anakin having an Outer Rim POV on some things while deep in the Republic actually matters to a lot more than this but thatâs a whole different post.
So. âHow can a civilization so advanced still practice slavery?â asks Ahsoka, who grew up very much in Core World culture. There is no malice behind it - in fact, I would argue she is speaking from a place of empathy and compassion - but there are some alarming implications here. Namely, slavery happens when a civilization is primitive. Sheâs not altogether wrong; if we take real life as an example, slavery happens a lot less in many modern cultures than in many ancient cultures (thereâs exceptions, of course, but as a general trend, I think itâs about accurate). However. Some possible implications are that that advanced civilizations would never practice or condone slavery, and its corollary, that civilizations with slavery are more primitive.
Which for a teenager is understandable, but if sheâs echoing the wisdom of the Republic, this becomes downright frightening. The Core Worlds are clearly advanced civilizations, so slavery and people being lesser is a thing of the past, and not worthy of serious concern. The reason slavery is rampant on the Outer Rim? Itâs because the civilizations are primitive. Itâs not that the Outer Rim peoples are the victims here, itâs that the primitive civilizations need to get their act together and stop practicing slavery. All of which denies the Coreâs role of abuse and/or neglect which is feeding this problem.
Enter Anakin, who seems to pretty clearly know this game of âprimitive peoples of the Rim,â because he basically answers Ahsoka by saying it keeps the wealthy in power - a statement that can very much point to the Core Worlds without actually saying as much, a statement that never identifies who the rich benefactories are, a statement which can draw subtle parallels between Hutts and slavers and the Republic without any listener really realizing what he just said. Frankly, Iâm not sure Anakin really realizes what he just said. But he did say it, and thatâs important.
Anakin goes on to make it very real for Ahsoka - this isnât something that happens to abstract, primitive people. This is something that happened to my mother. This (with a bit of extrapolation) is what happened to me.
I think itâs important to remember that for all he made some really bad choices in ROTS, Anakin seems to have been quietly frustrated with the way the Republic was run and wanted to see change, even while he was determined to be the best Jedi he could be and serve the Republic loyally. And this desire for change isnât coming from a bad place! Itâs coming from a broken place that wants change for the better, and unfortunately Palpatine knows how to twist that perspective just so. His main motivation by the end of ROTS was absolutely Padme, but I think the political side of it, the tiny voice of the Outer Rim child that tried so hard to believe in the Republic and after years of war and corruption said that maybe even a Sith Lord would be better than this, is an important piece to consider, too.
(This is ever so slightly dipping into my personal headcanon that Anakin would have been quite different as a Separatist, and quite possibly better off.)
Anyways! However you take this scene, I think itâs notable that for Ahsoka, slavery is a foreign horror that should be unreal but isnât, while for Anakin, slavery is immediate and tangible.
do u ever think about how luke was probably the first adult in his life to actually take care of jess and support him and be there for him and truly care about him, as opposed to his mom who was neglectful and who didnât want him around and his dad who left as soon as he was born, and then jess finds out heâs not graduating and canât take rory to prom and thatâs already a punch in the gut bc he feels like a failure and a disappointment, which is what every adult around him has reinforced to him, his mom and his teachers and lorelai and everyone in stars hollow and his dad who just showed up out of nowhere to remind him of all this, and then luke tells him that if heâs not graduating then he has to go, the one adult who was there for him kicks him out, and it doesnât matter that luke didnât mean it bc jess has no reason to think otherwise, and he canât say goodbye to rory because he knows heâs failing the only other person to believe in him too, and anyways iâm always sad about jess mariano and he deserved better
It infuriates me that in the next episode they are all like oh my god Jess left?! And Luke goes to see how Rory is. Like Luke Jess didnât run away you. told. him. to. go!
Lukeâs reaction says clear as day that he meant it as a bluff. He thought theyâd talk and reach an agreement, a compromise, or Jess would back down completely. He literally didnât expect him to go. Breaks my heart. I wish Luke had shown up in California and tried to heal the breach. Even if it didnât work. Sheesh, I wish he would have driven, tracking him down at one of the bus stops along the way. Let him know that he wasnât giving up on him.
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I like the idea that the person you thought was the villain ⌠is really the victim. And that the story about the villain, trying to regain his humanity becomes really the story of Darth Vaderâs redemption.
i generally agree that what happened on mustafar was a narrative consequence for anakin after the evil he committed. however, narrative consequences are simply the logical 'cause and effect' relationship between a character's actions and the resulting events in a story. they are not, like, 'karma' or 'punishment' really; they are a tool the author uses to evoke feelings in the viewer, and punitive justice also sucks
i often see people say that what obi-wan did on mustafar was the morally right choice and that he 'punished' anakin according to his crimes. but torture in any form, under any circumstances, is never a justifiable 'punishment', regardless of the crime committed. the morally correct choice for obi-wan would have been to simply kill anakin: his hand was a centimeter from his head, so obi-wan clearly would have had no problem with simply cutting off anakin's head. instead, he made a special effort to cut off all of anakin's limbs without cutting any vital organs, so that obi-wan could yell at anakin one last time about what a disappointment he was and then leave him to burn alive. anakin is the chosen one and will eventually restore balance to the force by killing sidious, yes, but obi-wan doesn't know that, so there's no way that could be the reason obi-wan left anakin alive and i don't know why so many people point that out. also, i disagree with those weird takes that claim obi-wan's actions in that scene were an 'act of love'; i believe obi-wan didn't have it in him to deliver the finishing blow, but that doesn't mean he spared anakin or 'hoped that somehow anakin would survive and reform' â that's nonsense and i know that you know this
The dynamic fandom gives Anakin and Obi-Wan (Big and caring and infinitely patient older figure helping and mother-henning an insufferable impossible to deal with brat) is actually Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan's dynamic, whereas the dynamic fandom gives Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan (cold hearted lowkey emotionally abusive uncaring master who didn't want to be in charge of a kid and a prodigy kid trying endlessly hard to be good and helpful) is actually Obi-Wan and Anakin's dynamic.
to understand the dynamic between anakin and obi-wan, you need to understand that obi-wan did not want this kid, and did not even like him
obi-wan called anakin a pathetic life form and throughout tpm tried to convince qui-gon that taking the boy with them was a mistake, that he would not be accepted into the order because of his age, and therefore qui-gon should just abandon the idea of training him. obi-wan was jealous of anakin, and he found him annoying and burdensome, and was petty enough to rejoice him being rejected
obi-wan spent the entire movie clearly disliking anakin and wishing he wasn't there, even expressing the opinion that anakin was dangerous out loud to qui-gon, while anakin himself walked alongside and listened
anakin caused a small quarrel between the master and the padawan: this unresolved dispute continued to be so while they were on coruscant, while they were flying to naboo, while they were preparing for the battle for the theed palace â there was no time for talk, so the issue of anakin and the possibility of his joining the order and what that meant for qui-gon and obi-wan's relationship was postponed until the end of the naboo blockade, and then the blockade was over, but qui-gon was already dead
obi-wan was left without a master, and more importantly, qui-gon's last wish was that anakin would be trained as a jedi, because he was the chosen one and must bring balance to the force. obi-wan's decision to train anakin himself was not a sign of him maturing and it didn't even take anakin's best interests in mind â obi-wan was simply too attached to qui-gon and qui-gon told him to train anakin, anakin's training could have given some closure to their relationship, that's all
in rotj, obi-wan admits he was overconfident and thought he could train anakin as well as yoda, but was wrong. this is interesting because the wording of qui-gon's dying wish suggests he wants obi-wan specifically to train anakin, but this isn't necessarily the case. qui-gon comes from an assumption that the council doesn't want to train the boy under any circumstances, meaning the only way to make him a jedi is to go against the council, maybe even leave the order to do this. however, in the end, the council respects qui-gon's dying wish and gives anakin permission to join their ranks. nothing prevented obi-wan from helping anakin get into the order, get acclimated to it, and then let another master choose him. i mean, baby ani was 9, so at least 4 more years before he would no longer be able to become a padawan since no master chose him or whatever that system was; or obi-wan could have simply asked someone from the council to take anakin, because the case was extremely special, it was qui-gon's last wish and obi-wan was clearly not ready
and i'm not trying to demonize obi-wan or say that he made some terrible choice in a simple situation, on the contrary, the situation was difficult and he just lost someone dear to him. but let's be real: his decision didn't take into account anakin's wants and needs, frankly, i would even call it selfish, because this choice serves as an opportunity for obi-wan to not feel like a failure for not being able to save qui-gon; judging by what obi-wan screams at anakin before leaving him to burn, he clearly learned to believe that anakin is the chosen one and that meant a lot to him â if anakin succeeds, it means that obi-wan fulfilled qui-gon's wish and succeeded as well, succeeded as qui-gon's apprentice first and foremost; if anakin fails, that means obi-wan fails, and fails as qui-gon's apprentice. and i know for a fact that obi-wan's belief that anakin is the chosen one revolves around qui-gon, because before the latter's death obi-wan didn't care about the prophecy at all
of course, obi-wan eventually became attached to anakin, it was the kid he raised, but that doesn't erase the fact that his love for anakin was conditional from the start. it was conditional because all those years ago obi-wan didn't want or even like anakin and wasn't ready for that responsibility, but took him anyway because it gave him closure regarding the lose of qui-gon. the truth is, obi-wan never stopped being qui-gon's padawan; even when he had a padawan of his own, even when he was part of the jedi council, even when he was an old hermit on tatooine, even when he trains luke and fights darth vader on ds-1
the reason obi-wan doesn't understand anakin? he doesn't want to understand the child he never wanted. he's focused on making anakin the perfect jedi and the chosen one, because that's what qui-gon would want, â that's the first and foremost reason obi-wan wants anakin as his padawan, â and if any of anakin's traits or habits interfere with this goal, they must be suppressed. understanding anakin's traumatic experiences or his past as a slave or his personal desires regarding saving slaves and his mother or having a family will not advance him in any way towards becoming the jedi messiah, and therefore they have no value (that and the fact that obi-wan was raised in the safety of a rich temple on coruscant and is a total snob). other reasons to have anakin will follow, but they'll never become the main one, and then obi-wan is too suppressed himself to admit he loves anakin in the first place until it's far too little, far too late
to be honest, this will happen again in his situation luke in ot. obi-wan argued and resent qui-gon and his way of being a jedi, and then he lost qui-gon and became hyper-fixated on making anakin into what his master wanted him to be. obi-wan suppressed his attachment of anakin, and then he lost anakin and became hyper-fixated on making luke the new chosen one, now correcting his mistake in relation to both qui-gon and anakin. luke is anakin's replacement as the chosen one, but he is also anakin's replacement as obi-wan's brotherson, the man who will correct obi-wan's mistake towards anakin by killing vader and with whom he can behave differently than with anakin, whom obi-wan failed
obi-wan's attitude toward luke is the same attitude he had toward anakin in the first years of their acquaintance â it's not love, there's no attachment, he barely perceived them both as people who can be understood, who have desires and feelings; they are both there because their success will bring fulfillment to obi-wan himself â in times, he can be a very, very self-centered person, even if unconsciously
the canon obi-wan is far from the ideal jedi, infinitely selfless and with too much love that he has no one to give, just saying
#star wars#obi wan kenobi#qui gon jinn#anakin skywaker#obi wan critical#my meta#to love means to let go and obi-wan never let qui-gon (and later anakin) go#it's just his not letting go is different from anakin's or padme's or luke's#this post shouldn't have been so mean to obi kenobi i mean i really feel sorry for him and his loss and his flaws#but obi-wan's choice to train anakin for obi-wan's own sense of fulfillment and completion is just as selfish as anakin's choice-#to sacrifice the lives of the people sidious ordered him to kill over his fear of losing padme and inability to live without her#and this is the reason why he sometimes hurts anakin/luke even if he knows that what he does will hurt#his constant criticism of anakin; the 'dreams will pass in time' advice; the deception arc in tcw; lying to luke about his old man#obi-wan just naturally doesn't think about these things because the basis of those relationship is their ability to-#to make obi-wan feel better about himself and fix the problems he thinks he caused (qui-gon's death & anakin's fall)#and everything else (his own love for anakin & his interest in luke) is simply pushed into the background#obi-wan isn't particularly interested in leia because he's not interested in twins as people in general; or rather it's not his priority#and he already has someone who will fix everything and that's luke so what's the point for him to get to know leia better??#maybe if obi-wan went to therapy he could pull his head out of his ass and try to not be a dick and become truly happy (OPs tags)
there is definitely something at least morally grey about obi-wan not having it in him to kill vader and deciding that he will make luke yearning-about-his-father-since-birth skywalker kill vader instead knowing damn well that if luke did it and then learn about whom vader actually was, poor boy would be so so devastated
obi-wan's attitude toward luke is too complex to say that 'obi-wan loved luke because that's anakin's son so he wanted the best for him' is the correct way to describe their relationship when that's just not the case
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you know, i often see the argument that the senate/jedi had no obligation to intervene in hutt affairs and stop the enslavement of innocent people because hutt space is not part of the republic and therefore not under their jurisdiction. i've never found this argument valid, because i think those in power have a certain responsibility to help those in need; it's the standard 'with great power comes great responsibility' argument. but i also want to speculate on a question that not many people ask about gffa: how do humans/aliens end up enslaved by the hutts?
in legends, shmi was enslaved when she was a little girl: with her parents she was traveling through space when they were attacked, kidnapped, divided, and sold into slavery by space pirates. this raises a lot of questions about how safe space travel in sw is in general (not from a safe or not safe technology standpoint), including space travel within republic territory, because space is vast, mostly empty, and frankly there's nothing stopping a group of space pirates from setting traps for space ships and kidnapping people, even in wealthy and safe inner rim. yes, it would be technically illegal there, but it's unlikely that in such cases a rescue party would be sent after a missing ship or anything would be done to find and rescue the people who were captured and enslaved. i mean, space IS vast. how do you expect to find these people among a million systems and a billion planets? it would be impossible, sometimes people on our planet can't find a missing person in the territory of one small state, but here there is a huge galaxy
twi'leks are often enslaved in the sw universe, even though their home planet of ryloth is part of the republic; the same can be said about wookiees and kashyyyk â being born in a republic does not exactly protect you from human/alien trafficking, even if it is prohibited on its territory. if we delve into the political part of gffa, we can also recall the clone wars and the separatists; most of the systems wishing to secede were in the outer rim, less often in the mid rim, and they wanted to do so because the senate focused on the rich core worlds, while 'less important' territories did not receive the necessary support from the republic, suffering from pirates, criminal syndicates and a lack of resources. and also, is it true that there is no slavery within the republic? here's a thing: in legends, again, trade federation's droid army herded people into enslavement camps during the naboo blockade, and this happened on republic territory; the trade federation ultimately didn't even have its license revoked, and they have representatives in the senate and enormous power in the galaxy. the galactic senate has refused to aid naboo, and the jedi council chooses to remain in close to the senate, sometimes even subordinate to it, and therefore cannot send enough people and aid to help â is it any helpful to have laws against slavery if those laws are going to be ignored anyway? the lower levels of coruscant are the epicenter of poverty and crime, a true dystopia where people haven't seen the sun for centuries â how unrealistic is it to imagine someone running their own human trafficking business down there? yet this is the capital of the galactic republic
my point is that in the sw universe, ignoring problems outside the republic (like slavery) will not lead to the republic becoming a safer place. it's not 'we sacrifice the minority outside our jurisdiction to preserve the majority because we can't save that minority,' but rather 'we sacrifice the majority so as not to burden the minority' â the problem will bite the republic in the ass sooner or later, and it's a problem that it wasn't dealt with earlier; just like what happened with ignoring the problems of the outer rim systems, which eventually decided to secede and resorted to the help of the sith, starting a civil war. and that's without even raising the issue of how unrealistic the claim is that slavery was actually eradicated in the republic
but to be honest, the senate and the jedi council in general only intervene in advanced conflicts, when the situation had already gotten out of control, but missing the root of the problems of the republic and the gffa as a whole, focusing on the particularly catastrophic consequences of their past inaction (the clone wars, a sith lord being the chancellor)
part of the reason i can't take master yoda seriously in tpm is because he says "fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering" so confidently, but in anakin's case, the suffering preceded fear
anakin is a little boy, but in his life he has already faced slavery, abuse of various kinds, violent deaths of other slaves through explosion, severe pod accidents, and so on
yoda is so out of touch with reality it's insane, i don't understand how people can deny that the jedi order lives in an ivory tower when their leader says shit like this
If Anakin truly was such a danger as Yoda talked about him in this, then he would have fallen to the darkside after the first time Watto beated him, or made him participate on pod racing where he almost lost his legs the first time or left him and his Mom without food or some slavers kidnapped his friends and killed them for sport.
Anakin here has already many of the qualities the Jedi seek in thier knights, he is compasionate, he is brave, he cares for the less fortunate, he doesn´t have greed, he is deeply hurt by his experiences as a slave but those helped him built himself as a good person with the guide of his mother, his only problem is that he is too powerful and the Council fears in what he could become, they are at the height of their influence and power, a chosen one isn´t neccesary in good times, so what´s Anakin doing here?
The Jedi are still following their traditions that worked for them during 1000 years after the defeat of the Sith and isolated themselves from the galaxy, except to keep the Senate status quo, they got cut off from many of the realities outside the galaxy until they came right into their door in the form of a Sith Chancellor and a child that could save them if only they stop isolating themselves and address the umbalance on the Senate and the outer rim abandonement. They didn´t and so they became prisoners of their old acenstral enemies, without even realizing it, they served the Sith order before Palpatine destroyed them, because the sith keep in contact with the galaxy and used it in their favor agaisn´t the Jedi and the jedi keep themselves appart and didnt look back.
i hate this stupid ass narrative about anakin being some kind of problem child that poor obi-wan had to constantly blush for and fix his problems and whatnot. have you even seen that kid in tpm?? little boy just got brought to tears by a group of grown ass men, and now he's apologizing to qui-gon for causing trouble. little bro did like, nothing wrong, he didn't even ask to be in this situation. but he tries to be quiet and apologizes, he wants to help and doesn't want to be a burdenđ
like in general every time i see this idiotic "obi-wan was too soft on anakin and let him get away with everything, and that led to him becoming greedy and selfish and falling to the dark side" i go crazy, because have you even watched those dumb movies? obi-wan scolding anakin for promising padme to find whoever is trying to kill her, even though that's literally what she wants; obi-wan jumping out of a window and then scolding anakin for doing the same; in aotc obi-wan can't go a single scene without expressing his disapproval to anakin over every little thing, and even when anakin does everything right, he's still like, "yeah, i'm not sure my young padawan learner can be given missions, he'll definitely fail or do something stupid"
Anakin as a literal slave with a bomb in his body and forced to participate in death races is cheerful, whole hearted and kind.
He willing to take total strangers in and argue with his slave master outright because his mom is there.
Shmi Skywalker is the most virtuous and moral character to ever grace the Star Wars screen.
She taught her son the problem of the galaxy was people need to help each other. No qualifiers. No questions.
Anakin as a slave child is so confident and in control conpared to as an adult spending a decade as a Jedi.
Why?
He had unconditional love and support from his mom and community back then instead of endless criticism and ever changing standards.
Anakin tells Obi Wan he is like a father to him. Obi Wan turns it to a criticism and takes a bloody shot!
If Anakin heard Ahsoka called him her older brother, there would be tears and hugs.
Anakin never made Ahsoka think she was worthless or his attention or affection were conditional. She left and he asked her to stay, but he acknowledged her choice and left the door open.
Anakin wanted what was best for Ahsoka whatever she decided what that might be.
R2-D2's favoritism towards Anakin is so funny like, he's canonically the most foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, grump old cat-coded droid. The cute appearance is only an illusion to lure you in just so he can tase you, and maybe also kick you from behind just because he wants to. Even the disney princess Obi-Wan loved by all animals on first sight doesn't get along with R2. But he just. likes. Anakin. He's the wingman, he's emotional support, he's a good helper in battle. He carries snacks and checks if Anakin is hungry. He looks at this also ill-tempered angsty goth kid and said, yep that's my bff. Meanwhile Anakin goes around saying things R2 is a sweetheart đhe's a little angel he's literally the best buddy anyone could ask for and I will risk my life to save him. Everyone else just looks like the demon droid and be like what the fuck are you talking about.
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one key reason why anidala are ideologically similar: they are both, at their cores, deeply compassionate people who simply want to help make the galaxy better.
alas, they were born when the republic was dying, but in another life.
their compassion would not have been quenched prematurely.
#the decision that only the braid (when possible) is mandatory is forever hilarious to me #bc that means that Obi-Wan what? #picked this hair out if a catalogue of appropriate traditional styles? #and stuck to it faithfully for 12 years #and then. only knowing how to do 1 haircut and having to get Anakin ready for the ceremony at the end of tPM. just made a mimi me version. #and then Anakin loyally stuck with appropriate haircut no.3 from the jedi dressing catalogue until knighting #he may have expressed individuality through robe colour. but he kept the hair for 10 years #just like how his blade matched Obi-Wanâs #and i think they are the only master/padawan pair with matching coloured blades in ep 1-6 #(might be wrong) #and idk i just love the enmeshment. the ways Anakin wants independence while also enforcing these similarities with Obi-Wan #(that Obi-Wan also enforces on him) (via @wibbly-wan)
