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Still thinking about Galidraan, about the Legends vs Canon treatment of Dooku’s character, namely his exit from the Jedi.
It’s funny how much it matters to me and improves Dooku’s story that he didn’t leave the Jedi out of growing disillusionment with the Order itself. In the current canon, it’s all framed around a very Padme-esque disenchantment with current political makeup of the Republic, the Jedi being used by the Senate and political machines inappropriately, and how planets with little wealth or influence are left out. In the penultimate moment of crisis, he leaves for Serenno, not because he can’t be a Jedi any longer. Because of a conviction that he could truly make something better.
And I don’t mean to suggest that he never expresses any criticism of the Jedi or particularly, the Council. He seems to have founded that characteristic trait within the Disaster Lineage. (Ironically, the person in Dooku’s story who should have the most legitimate reason to have a personal problem with the Jedi Order is fucking Sifo-Dyas, who never seems to have considered leaving and literally dies telling the camera he did it all to save the Jedi, but that’s a different post.) But that isn't what compels Dooku to leave. In fact, he remains close with the Order for years afterward.
Why it matters to me is because that detail makes Dooku ultimately betraying the Order SO MUCH MORE FUCKED.
Because they weren’t an old score he was settling. It wasn't seething resentment that boiled out into revenge years later. They were innocent collateral damage of his decisions. His family. His lineage. His legacy. It makes his treachery so much more personal. He had a wager, power for a horrible cost, and he took the power and paid the horrible cost. Sidious really gets him with:
If Dooku hated them and had always thought they deserved to be destroyed, it wouldn’t have been a true Sith bargain, the trade off wouldn’t have tallied. In the same way that Vader could not have existed if Anakin hadn’t loved Padme and yet still killed her.
If Dooku was just a horrible, conceited, power-hungry ass who expectedly traded the kinda shitty people in his life for a shot at more power, it wouldn’t be a very good story. If he really didn’t give a shit, why would Sidious make that his initiation? But if he does - does care deeply about Sifo-Dyas, does love Qui-Gon like a son, is touched by Yaddle’s kindness and sympathy, begins to see Asajj as a true apprentice, consistently tries to save Obi-Wan out of affection, still considers the Jedi his true family - and yet still dooms them all, how much more tragic and horrible and sickening and real and interesting is his story?
Touch averse Obi-Wan thoughts, offered for your contemplation
It's why Qui-Gon isn't very touchy with Obi-Wan, despite being really quite touchy with Shmi, Anakin etc.
Even though Obi-Wan understands that is why Qui-Gon doesn't touch him casually the way he does other people, even though he knows in practice he wouldn't like it, part of him does feel some kind of way seeing his master interact with relative strangers like that but not him
He has to explain it to Anakin soon after taking him as a padawan, because Anakin doesn't understand why Obi-Wan reacts negatively when he hugs or touches him, which he can sense in the force even when Obi-Wan tries to hide it
Overtime Anakin becomes one of a small handful of people Obi-Wan can accept a bit more touch from (the othersare mostly his oldest crechemate friends), but it can still easily get too much
In a happy ending AU, he gets touched out while visiting Anakin because the twins are using him like a climbing frame. Anakin chases them away, and Obi-Wan is relieved until Anakin drapes himself over Obi-Wan in their place
In non-happy ending canon, Obi-Wan wasn't sure he understood what being touch starved meant for most of his life. Then he went into exile on Tatooine :)

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I’ve been reading a lot of Star Wars Novels lately but one of Rael Aveross’ lines in Master and Apprentice really stood out to me
‘We don’t choose the light because we want to win… We choose it because it is the light’
To me it very well puts together the fight of the Jedi in the Clone Wars and later, the remaining Jedi’s battle against the Empire. They could of very well of given up but they chose to keep fighting on the side of good not because they knew it was the winning side, but because it was good because it was filled with light.
It’s Rael restating Qui-Gon Jinn’s line from earlier in the novel but I prefer the more simple way Rael phrases it.