#padawan braids

Yipeeee, I officially declare the Obikin Promptober 2024 open 🥳

I'm very very excited to see if artists and writers will participate and I'm ready to share everyone's beautiful work 🥰

i always thought it odd that padawan braids would only be for jedi that have hair, which stands out when looking at the removal of the braid when padawans are expelled; it's one thing for jewelry to be ripped off, an entire lock of hair is completely different, and what do you do for those with piercings, tattoos, or body mods to display their rank as padawan?

the same thing for undercover or stealth missions. wouldn't it be better to have something that can easily be removed and hid? with the amount of people in the galaxy that don't like jedi, it doesn't make sense to have something so obvious to draw attention to padawans

the solution? cords of beads similar to the songcords from avatar but short-term, used only throughout your time as a padawan, and maybe without the song aspect unless it is a lineage thing and can be kept either on their person like a bracelet or necklace or attached to their belts

for anyone that isn't familiar with the concept, the people in avatar have a cord that represents their life's major events or achievements, beginning in birth and is extended and added to as the person grows

they can use beads or other items to represent a certain event and the same thing can be done for padawans. here's some concept art of the cords:

when a jedi and initiate are officially recognized as master and padawan, the first thing they would gift the padawan is the plain cord with one bead to represent them becoming a padawan, whether that is an item representative of either of their species or home planets or maybe a bead with the symbol of the jedi order

they could use wooden beads, feathers, scales, rocks, crystals, pieces of metal, coral, shells, buttons, fabric, amber, glass beads, dried or pressed plants, and so many other things from different planets they visit for missions, added on as the padawan learns and grows, sometimes being gifted by the master or added together by the master and padawan

they could also have some other material shaped into beads in specific colors to represent courses of study and major skills learned at the temple, for example purple for pilots, red for healers, white for archivists or lore keepers, black for shadows, blue for guardians, green for consulars, orange for sentinels, yellow for temple guards, on and on in whatever color you can think of, and maybe different shapes of beads represent different things

some misc works in progress from my star war brain.

Not that that’s the point:

Obi-Wan is knighted by his closest lineage member- Yoda, presumably. He’s given his braid and he doesn’t know what to do.