#mustafar

"You didn't kill Anakin Skywalker. I did."

in the middle of art block but i really wanted to do this idea justice lmao didnt have the strenght to make it more renaissance but you get the idea!!

I’ll follow you down

‘til the sound of my voice 

Will haunt you 

You’ll never get away from the sound

Of the man that loves you

“help me, master” and that’s all Obi-Wan wants to do but he’s tried and failed so many times that he doesn’t know how anymore.

“help me, master” and that’s not what Anakin means. help me do this. stop fighting me. let me fall further and do it willingly.

“help me, master” and it’s not Obi-Wan he’s calling to.

@jedijune

week 1: a choice not taken

At first I was gonna say Anakin applies distance bc he knows they're Jedi and they don't have parents or experience with the traditional framework of family whereas Obi-Wan calls it as it was for him rather than softening it with simile/metaphor bc, by the time they get to Mustafar, the Jedi Order has collapsed so what's the point of pretending the attachment isn't there

And while I think that's true, there's also something to be said abt how Obi-Wan's use of the past tense does still apply distance but as opposed to Anakin, for whom that distance is emotional (in the sense that he doesn't claim Obi-Wan's importance to him directly), Obi-Wan's distance is temporal. Was/were instead of Are/is. By the end of ROTS, neither of them truly admits what they've been to each other and bc the landscape of their relationship is as On Fire and Mutilated™ as Anakin is on the lava bank, neither of them is interested in bridging the gap