ANAKIN / VADER - AHSOKA 1x05 THE SHADOW WARRIOR

Yeah, so, where is Ahsoka? Is she coming? — Ahsoka: Dreams and Madness (2023)

AHSOKA - PART SEVEN: DREAMS AND MADNESS (2023) STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2005)

#reunited and it feels so good

Kylo Ren sketchdump 2/?

Runaway Reylo secret wedding! I did this for a Twitter prompt a while ago. Rey is wearing *that* Padme dress!

Obi-Wan Kenobi -  Part VI

OBI-WAN KENOBI - PART VI (2022) STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)

OBI-WAN KENOBI — 1.06 “Part VI” STAR WARS REBELS — 3.20 “Twin Suns”

The fight of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader in Part VI of the series is the mountain top of emotionally driven narrative storytelling of a fight scene, and here is why.

Obi-Wan, during most of the fight, isn't in the defensive. This is the Master of Soresu, the most defensive lightsaber form you can specialize in. But in the fight with Darth Vader, unlike during his duel with Anakin Skywalker on Mustafar, Obi-Wan is advancing. Even in the beginning, even before he was buried beneath the stones. Obi-Wan is having the upper hand, even if it's not that obvious. He is determined, strong-willed, he knows what he has to do. "I will do what I must" - defeat Darth Vader (not Anakin, to parallel Mustafar). He has to end this. But while he is 100% in tune with his skills, his purpose as a Jedi, ("Your strength has returned"), there is still a component left that he hasn't adressed fully, completely: Anakin Skywalker. The grief, the pain, the regrets.

And thus, when they battle through the Force, Darth Vader bests him. Because the Force relies on being absolutely in-tune with one's emotions, also. And Obi-Wan, at that moment, is still not - and this "weakness" is his love for Anakin Skywalker.

"Your strength has returned. But the weakness still remains."

When they clash lightsabers again after that, it is Obi-Wan who is now on the defensive, for the first time really, during their fight. Suddenly, he is losing. Because he still has not let go of Anakin Skywalker.

Darth Vader says: Love is the weakness. Compassion is the weakness. "And that is why you will always lose."

And in that pivotal moment, when he is buried beneath the stone, when he is barely managing to not be crushed completely, when he is tormented with memories of Anakin, with all this unspeakable agony, the regrets of failure, and torment of what has happened, what has been lost... it is love that saves him. The love for Anakin Skywalker's children. The bond to them, and the hope they give him. In particular, the one to Leia. And this, in turn, is also his love for Anakin Skywalker himself.

The weight of those stones, a metaphor for the crushing torment of what Anakin and him have done to each other. And he literally frees himself from it. He begins to unburden himself. He flings hundreds of tonnes of stone away. He catches up to Vader. He uses some of Anakin's own moves to attack him. He overpowers and force-pushes Darth Vader, the Chosen One, the most powerful force-user known in history, away after 15 seconds of fighting.

And then... the stone-lifting scene. Throwing the weight of all those stones, the metaphor for all this grief and torment, back at Darth Vader. And then Obi-Wan goes on to absolutely obliterate Darth Vader. He cuts his mask. And then, it isn't Darth Vader. It's Anakin Skywalker that looks back at him.

And then, Obi-Wan... says sorry. He apologizes. Not to Vader. He apologizes to Anakin. He cries. His heart is breaking. It may even be one last attempt to call upon Anakin Skywalker, his best friend, to save him. And then, once he realises, that it is not possible - that Darth Vader has destroyed him - he says goodbye. He leaves.

And he let's go. And it is the love for Anakin, Padmé and their children that remains.

Obi-Wan Kenobi | Part VI

obi-wan kenobi | part vi + tumblr text posts

OBI-WAN KENOBI - PART VI // STAR WARS: REBELS - TWILIGHT OF THE APPRENTICE

anakin's real voice mixed with the modulator

obi-wan saying 'anakin' and begging for forgiveness

anakin telling obi-wan he was not his failure but his own and that he killed himself

vader calling obi-wan his master

obi-wan finally letting anakin go and acknowledging he was 'dead' and killed by darth vader

obi-wan unable to deliver the killing blow when he cracked his mask and saw anakin's face, his true self under the mask, and was reduced to tears

anakin screaming obi-wan's name as he walked away from him again

OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022) / PART VI + tumblr text posts