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thegingerwrites · 1 year

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I saw a post about the “you didn’t kill Anakin Skywalker. I did” line and how with it, Anakin is putting the final nail in his own coffin and I absolutely love that interpretation (which is why this is its own post and not a reply) but this post also talked about that line freeing obi-wan from guilt or responsibility for Anakin falling

And maybe it’s comforting to think of that line that way, that Obi-wan gets some kind of absolution or forgiveness for what happened on Mustafar. It also does a great job of giving Anakin some agency in choosing to fall to the dark side and to kill that version of himself.

But I don’t think that this line gives obi-wan comfort or freedom from guilt for a moment.

Whether true or not, honest or not, I think it’s very likely he still feels complicit in the ‘murder’ of his best friend and brother in arms. I don’t know if the guilt of not knowing that all of that anger and distrust was there built up and poisoning him can ever really go away.

Obi-wan is absolved of the physical murder, hacking off Anakin’s limbs and leaving him on Mustafar but he was also there when Anakin’s real death happened, like he was standing there while he bled out not knowing Anakin was even cut.

I don’t think there’s any freedom for Obi-wan in that.

#sw meta #kenobi series #obi wan kenobi #star wars meta #star wars kenobi #although this could just be me consistently looking for the most painful option when it comes to obiwan #but i think he's a very sad very guilt ridden man after the prequels #and i don't think knowing anakin is alive as darth vader and understanding that anakin is dead #(though to what extent we only find out by the end of rotj)#gives him any kind of escape from the grief that has been with him for the last 10 years #can you tell I have a fic about this in me?

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