#old ben

Would a Jedi... make a good Cultivator?

Like?

Let us assume? It's not your average, middling, Jedi. It's a pretty GOOD at Jedi-ing Jedi. One USED to being humanoid, so there isn't any body dismorphia. Let's go with Obi-Wan, cause honestly? He's perfect for this. And life DOES like to kick him in the nuts like that.

It would FUCKIN TRACK. Might as WELL happen, he would think, reincarnated.

Probably not even mad, honestly. Just mildly upset with the Force, as a nebulous concept. Cause he fuckin DID his time. He was enjoying not being organic anymore. Rude™

Cause like? Let's look at what a Jedi is?

Spiritual

Knows how to use a (lazer) sword

VERY non-judgmental of Sentient Beings that do not look like them

Practiced in being kind and emotionally balanced (Anikin. Remember those classes? WE REMEMBER THOSE CLASSES)

Great at meditation and feeling "The Force"

Etc etc! It's damn near a one to one! Except? For the DETAILS. Both? Would fundamentally view the OTHER as "doing it wrong". Jedi? Use violence as a LAST resort. Cultivators? Often the FIRST. Jedi do not KEEP the Force inside them selves. They are PART of it. Cultivators? Build Qi, taken in and built "from themselves", to form a golden core. The base of their IMMORTALITY.

You know... the very thing SITH have been attempting for eons.

And what is this Becoming Gods business? Ascension???! EXCUSE ME?

Talking down to the "mortal world"? Removing yourself from it? It is... it is UNNATURAL. Un-jedi. Yes, they KNOW their are other Force Sects out there. And they are not necessarily DARK... but... this feels? Wrong?

And to Cultivators? What is the Jedi? If not some bizarrely powerful Hippie? All humble robes and sitting in the dirt, laughing with villager children. Getting shown their straw dolls. Passed a baby to hold, by grateful parents they helped.

What is Dignity to a Jedi? What is Face? Reputation and Honor?

They are servants of a higher calling. A humble calling.

One with the Force, which is One With Them.

I loved the idea of this fanfic, it inspired me to make this art, I hope you enjoy it.