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The Point of no Return
Because I will never shut up about the Hardeen arc- I really need to emphasize the importance of this moment right here. When we think of the Hardeen arc, we only ever think about the aftermath, after the lie and after the pain. But I have never thought about the before. The moments right before.
Obi-Wan takes a deep breath, he brings his lightsaber to his chest and he gathers himself. He has to take a moment to think about what he's about to do.
This is a complete turn of feelings from when we see him wittingly ask how his funeral was, it's that simple and easy commentary that makes them all think this was easy for him to do. He shoves down what he's feeling right here and instead he jokes and laughs. He's fun and easy, he's funny, he's great, but he's not, he's not, he's in a lot of pain and he hurt everyone close to him in the worst way. Obi-Wan would never hurt them, but he has, and he'll never be forgiven.
He made this choice for the greater good, but the greater good is seldom so. It's in this moment we understand his full awareness of the deception he is about to undergo, how there is no forgiveness for the action he is about to commit, how after all this is over, Obi-Wan cannot expect forgiveness and understanding because this is for the greater good, this is for the Jedi and all they protect.
This isn't a choice for Obi-Wan. It is an assignment to a Jedi Master. Attachment is forbidden, become a part of the cosmic force, and the galaxy will benefit from your sacrifice. But the undercurrent of remorse is there, and all the people he left behind will never forgive Obi-Wan for dying.
So, Obi-Wan holds his lightsaber to his chest because it is his life, it's a silent goodbye to who he is because of what he is. He chooses the Jedi and that choice kills him. It's in that moment that he says goodbye to Anakin and Ahsoka, to Cody and himself. His identity, his lightsaber, are about to no longer exist. Obi-Wan would willingly sacrifice who he is for the sake of the Jedi but that doesn't mean it is easy for him to do. So he holds his lightsaber close because he's not becoming a part of the cosmic force, he's becoming something much worse.
#we see him do this so willingly#but this moment makes it clear that it's not something HE'S doing#it's his oath that binds him to do this#there is no choice for Obi-Wan#he is a Jedi so his life is never his to decide#he never had a choice#I could go ON AND ON#I WILL NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT THIS#this arc perfectly explains the title of Jedi and the individual#and shows you the cracks in Anakin and his faith in the Jedi#because Obi-Wan did this but Anakin would never be able to#star wars#clone wars#obi wan kenobi#commander cody#anakin skywalker#ahsoka tano#rako hardeen#Hardeen arc
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RIP Ani 💀 [links: obi - ani - dala]
#my boy’s getting cooked worse here than on mustafar#my vote is he’s fine … with some guidance#he’s too eager to please to be bad#we need a third choice#anakin skywalker#obi wan kenobi#padme amidala#polls#silly
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if Filoni kills Cody and Obi-Wan lives 20 years in a desert thinking Cody betrayed him I will actually throw myself off a cliff
#'i still think of my second in command whom i called commander Cody *fondly*'#'we make our own decisions our own choices and we have to live with them too'#obi wan kenobi#codywan#commander cody#im just really miserable rn
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Commander Cody is really going to spend the rest of his life in sickening guilt and grief over someone he will never know has already forgiven him. Man
#he's never going to stop hating himself for something he doesnt know wasnt his choice and will never know that Obi-Wan lived and misses him#just as much as he misses him. OK#codywan#commander cody#obi wan kenobi#cody tag#sw#tcw
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Thinking about how, at the end of the day, at the fatal moment, the sunset of the Republic, it wasn’t Yoda, or Obi-Wan, or even the Chosen One himself standing in the way of Palpatine. It was Mace Windu.
Mace Windu, the inventor of Vaapad and Master of Form VII, the Jedi's strongest duelist, the only person to ever defeat Palpatine in combat. Mace Windu, Master of the Jedi Council and the youngest Master ever appointed to it, the revered leader of the Order. Mace Windu, who forgave even those who tried to kill him, who risked his life over and over again for his troops, who, after 3 years of desperate war, tried to negotiate with battle droids. Mace Windu, who knew the clones were created by the Sith and chose to trust them, who saw every Shatterpoint in the Republic, and loved it still, and fought for it until his last breath, until he was betrayed by Anakin, who he believed in and trusted despite everything.
Mace Windu, High General and hero of the Republic, the embodiment of the Light, the last and greatest champion of the Order, the best Jedi to ever live.
#I’ve said my piece goodnight#don’t play with me Mace Antis I have receipts for every last one of these#pretty much everyone agrees that he was the best duelist there was and he obviously won the fight#Anakin's choice wouldn't make thematic sense otherwise#also vader did not defeat palpatine in combat sorry he just grabbed him while he was distracted#it literally had to be a fair fight and Anakin had to be the one to choose to create the empire that's what the prequels are about#Star Wars databank calls him ‘revered’ shatterpoint tells us he was the youngest (real) member of the council#Boba Fett (tcw) and Prosset Dibs (comics) tried to kill him and he asked for amnesty and forgave them#literally just watch the Ryloth arc he spends most of his screentime saving his men#in tcw season seven he pleads with the battle droids to surrender hoping that no one else has to die#there's the part near the end of tcw where the council realizes that the clones were created by Dooku but Mace and the rest of the council#trust the clones so much they're willing to ignore it#the scene from Mace's POV in the rots novelization talks about how much he loves the republic and how he was blindsided by Anakin's betraya#because he trusted him!! we see in aotc that he has more faith in Anakin's abilities than Obi-wan#and he defeated the most powerful sith of all time single-handedly#BEST JEDI EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!#sw prequels#star wars prequels#prequel trilogy#sw prequel trilogy#star wars prequel trilogy#sw rots#star wars rots#revenge of the sith#star wars revenge of the sith#galactic republic#pro mace windu#mace windu#pro jedi order#pro jedi
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Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2/?)
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#middle padme one is not a statement of judgement or whatever on her character#moreso like the dialogue and characterization choices made for her in this scene and this movie generally#obi wan kenobi#mace windu#palpatine#sheev#yoda#bail organa#padme amidala#revenge of the sith#sw revenge of the sith#ROTS#star wars revenge of the sith#star wars memes#prequels memes#ROTS text post#star wars text post#mine
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@disney when will my Cody show starring Tem that begins where the Obi Wan show left off with Cody seeing the alerts and wanted pictures and realising he's alive and tracking him down while dealing with his own personal pathos and trauma which ends with the buddies on tatooine concept that was dropped from the obi wan show be announced i'm waiting
#reva should be in it too. rex and ahsoka can cameo. more 212th clones would be fabulous#to be 100% clear i think dropping the tatooine buddies was the right choice for the kenobi show.#i just think it should be picked up again now!#with the focus on Cody's journey.#honestly though at this point i'll take any clone trooper with Tem...........#commander cody#obi wan kenobi#codywan
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Closer than brothers, more intimate than lovers
#i hope you guys will remember me for my low quality memes and my wrong colour choices#obi wan kenobi#anakin skywalker#obiwan kenobi#star wars#star wars fanart#my art#obikin#obikin fanart
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early hours of the AM and i am lying awake thinking about how, when anakin left tatooine, there was no-one left who didn’t love him based on either what he represented to them or what he might become - be it symbol of hope, chosen one, superweapon - apart from obi-wan, the only guy in a hundred mile radius who had heard it all before from his weird master’s weird prophetic ramblings and didn’t give a shit about any of that…….. and just loved anakin for the snot-nosed little brat he was
#anakin got so lucky with that 1#thinking about how obi-wan always figured he was just choice 2 after the guy who was Supposed to train anakin died#but actually they were sooooooo fated because HE was the one person who was innately so pissed off with all the prophecy shit#that he just saw the kid. he just saw anakin and grew to love him for what he was#if it had been palpatine vs anyone else on coruscant anakin would have fallen 2weeks into his jedi training#anakin#obiwan
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Was anyone else relieved after finding out that Codywan was a thing? Finally there is a ship with a decently sized following that isn’t even remotely toxic.
Tropes like enemies to lovers and miscommunication and so on can be fun but it’s nice to have a ship that doesn’t fall into those categories. The competency Cody and Obi Wan both demonstrate as General and Commander extends to their interactions with each other too, both professionally and personally. Essentially, they are really good at at dating.
Everything about their relationship proceeds at precisely the rate it should. If they argue, and they do, they settle it in a healthy and mature way. They’re so good as listening to each other and articulating their issues. They understand each other to such a degree that that understanding becomes non-verbal after a while.
Toxic ships can be super fun don’t get me wrong, but genuinely healthy ones are sort of rare and it’s great to have the option. Everything toxic about Codywan comes from an outside source. Things happen to them, but they don’t do anything to each other because they just aren’t the type of people to do that. They really cared about each other, for whatever little time they were given together
#order 66 doesn’t count bc cody wasn’t given a choice#codywan#commander cody#obi wan kenobi#clone wars#star wars#star wars prequels#sw
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Master~
#mayhem art#obikin#anakin#anakin skywalker#obiwan#obi wan kenobi#star wars#star wars fanart#sw fanart#anakin skywalker fanart#obi wan kenobi fanart#head full of flirty overgrown padawan and his old master. I'm not exactly sure why I covered both of Anakin's hands in gloves...#are both of his hands mechno? are the gloves an edgy fashion choice? who knows
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wow what a lovely bit of cinematic foreshadowing to the part where Reva ultimately decides to protect Leia by keeping her force sensitivity a secret :D no I'm not wearing clown makeup why do you ask
#leia organa#reva sevander#star wars#obi wan kenobi spoilers#my art#yes this is partially a joke but also#'you are strong'..... come on reva knows........ reva knows leia is force sensitive we established that she knew haja wasn't......#there's something here....... she resents leia specifically because obi wan shows up for leia and reva feels abandoned........#she'll overcome her spiteful agony and make a singular right choice and we leave on the open ended question of where she goes from here#search your feelings you know it to be true#🤡#anyway I love reva. the actor is doing a phenomenal job
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I figured out the debate to if Cody or Obi Wan is taller...
It's Cody. Obi Wan wears boots with heels so he's taller.
When Luke is bunkered down in Obi Wan's old house on Tatooine, he doesn't notice a presence approach him until a chest is being dropped on the floor behind him.
Cody gives him all of Obi Wan's old shoes, and the best of his clothes (he's obviously biased), then just leaves without saying anything. Cody goes to find Ahsoka and Rex so he can have a good cry and mourn the loss of his husband.
So years later, when Luke meets Din, and history repeats itself. He's the same height as Din. But really he's just wearing a pair of Obi Wan's boots.
#codywan#dinluke#Luke gets his fashion sense from what Cody wanted Obi Wan to wear#Someone has to have sensible fashion choices
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This started as the seed of a different idea, but it fit so well into this beginning that it was like they were made to go together.
Just before the intel starts arriving that would lead to the Rako Hardeen mess, the Force gets a warning to the Jedi. This warning, once translated, is very clear. Obi Wan Kenobi needs to be out of communication for a while (can’t be sent on a mission whose real purpose is to fracture the relationship between Obi Wan and Anakin, if Obi Wan is not there…).
So Obi Wan and Cody get sent undercover to infiltrate some criminal enterprise whose main base is on Endor (while they are undercover the 212th will be on leave-part of an initiative to prove that the clones are not actually being abused). Their cover is married mandalorian bounty hunters, thus their faces can be covered. The mission is that they will arrive on Endor, find a place to live, and start taking bounties that would make them highly visible to the criminal enterprise. It is anticipated that this mission will be at least 4 weeks, and there cannot be any contact (Because this is not faking Obi Wan’s death, Anakin is warned the Obi Wan will be out of communication for a while, though he is still given no details) throughout this time.
It all goes well at first, then three days in (due to Force shenanigans, and a Force artifact that was disguised as an antique) both Obi Wan and Cody wake up with no memories. They were just far enough into their mission to have found a place to live and all of their idents and paperwork is in the names of Ben and Kote Beroya, married bounty hunters. Ben (Obi Wan) is just aware enough of the Force to know that they both need to keep their armor on while they are not alone. Not knowing about their other mission, they find a decent bounty, complete it, and leave the planet.
Meanwhile on Coruscant Palpatine tries to go forward with the Rako Hardeen plan, in spite of his main goal (which requires Obi Wan Kenobi) being impossible. Without the additional emotional damage to Anakin Skyalker to distract everyone, Palpatine is found out. The high council, barring Obi Wan but with Anakin, goes to confront Palpatine.
It is the middle of an emergency senate session.
Palpatine activates Order 66(galaxy wide it should be noted) … for about 45 seconds before a Force fueled panic attack from Anakin disables all of the chips at once (also galaxy wide-incidentally giving Kote Beroya a headache from half a galaxy away). Palpatine was planning on relying on the controlled clones and might have considered going quietly (with an idea to salvage the 1000 year plan) with the realization that the clones were now free. It was all a moot point, since moments after the clones (now very confused and more than a little horrified themselves with their new knowledge) were freed, Palpatine is fatally shot by Bail Organa (Bail has been up for five days working on a draft of the clone rights bills. He is tired, cranky, and pissed that this meeting cut into his scheduled Comm call with Breha).
In the aftermath it is found that Palpatine used Dark Side Magic to partially (at varying degrees) control a number of people in the Senate. This includes Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala. In this one Palpatine’s control is what caused Anakin to slaughter the Tuskens. Anakin is not the only one who needed specialized Jedi therapy (meant to deal with the topic of ‘so the Darkside fucked with your head/possessed you’). It very quickly became the most common type of therapy in the Senate
Palpatine also forced the relationship between Padme and Anakin. There was attraction there, and it was possible that the attraction would have grown into something more but their entire relationship was hijacked by Palpatine (Padme alone had been mostly controlled since she was 14 and needed to go through 4 Jedi exorcisms). More horrifyingly Palpatine used more Sith Magic to put Padme’s womb into stasis, which was currently occupied by fraternal twins, held at the three week marker (so that he could make her ‘become pregnant’ when he was ready to start his end game) that were biologically Anakin’s and Padme’s, though after the Sith magic controlling them was removed, neither remember having sex.
Everyone involved is utterly horrified. It seemed impossible to conceptualize the level of violation on all parties. The Jedi Order eventually bought an incubation tube from the Kaminoans and, with Padme’s grateful permission (who had been a bit conflicted, she truly did not want to be pregnant- especially in these circumstances- but did not personally feel comfortable with getting an abortion), moved the twins there for the duration. The Twins would then become part of the Order and both Padme and Anakin would be allowed to decide how much the children would be told.
At this point Anakin requested that his Master be brought back from his mission. Anakin really needed Obi Wan, and a couple of dozen hugs. The clones are doing their part cuddling their general and Ahsoka is trying too, but sometimes you just need your dad/older brother figure to tell you everything is alright. Especially when everything is fucked up.
The Jedi Council agree and reach out to the secret Comm to contact Obi Wan and recall them (theoretically the whole operation became moot after the Chancellor's death). There’s no answer (as it was a hidden, secret comm neither Ben nor Kote knew to bring it along). The council looks at each other. They try again. Still no answer. They manage to get in contact with the landlord of the place that was rented to Ben and Kote, who goes ‘Oh those guys. Good tenets, quiet. They left six weeks ago (two weeks into their mission). Think they said they were heading toward Corellia.’
Now the Jedi council are wondering just what happened that sent Obi Wan and his commander to Corellia and why they didn’t get in contact about the change. It is decided that this was a good mission for Anakin to go on, as it would help distract him, leading both the 501st and the 212th.
So now Anakin is on the galaxy’s biggest scavenger hunt, being evaded by two bounty hunters that do not know they are being hunted.
Back with Ben and Kote, they have been taking bounties and slowly learning about themselves and each other throughout (and what married means to them). They realized quickly that they had some specific standards (they DO NOT kill kids or innocents, but Kote has found that he takes a particular glee in bringing betrayers in and Ben has a hatred for anyone who would hurt kids). They have also found that Ben had a tendency to draw the attention of slavers, without fail. They had shut down an even dozen slavery rings in the middle rim. Because they are always wearing a helmet, except for around each other, they have not realized that their faces are really famous. They have also realized in that time that Kote is a hand to hand fighter and Ben can do some really weird things (lifting things with his mind) when he concentrates.
It takes another few months before they start to hear that Galactic General Anakin Skywalker is apparently asking for them by name. Rather desperately, at times almost violently. Ben’s instincts (supplemented by the Force) says that General Skywalker does not mean any harm. Both of them, in a fit of whimsy, decide to lead the General on a merry chase across the galaxy (incidentally giving Anakin more time to not focus on the body horror of…well everything to do with Palpatine or Padme).
During this time the Galactic War ends.
The chase eventually ends because Ben and Kote encounter another member of the Beroya clan (Obi Wan had been legitimately inducted into the clan when he protected Satine as a teen), who they are around long enough to take their helmets off around them.
This being blinks twice and basically says holy fuck you are a famous republic general and his commander, you have been missing for months. Ben and Kote blink at each other, shrug and go ‘that explains Skywalker stalking us’ and admit their amnesia to the being.
Anakin is greatly surprised that the next time his fleet comes out of hyperspace he is greeted by his former master, in armor, asking what took him so long.
For a moment Anakin considered Falling right then and there.
Then he considered it again when he met up with Ben and Kote and realized they had no memories.
How the fuck was he going to explain this to anyone…
#star wars#star wars the clone wars#obi wan kenobi#star wars au#fanfiction prompt#anakin skywalker#codywan#sheev palpatine#bamf obi wan#padme amidala#anakin needs a hug#Anakin did not fall#Some Anidala but not by either choice#mind control#amnesia#Different Order 66
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there is quite genuinely not one single day where i don’t think about this and feel like i’m going to be fucking sick.
they purposely isolated Cody from not only grieving over Obi-Wan but also from other people close to Obi-Wan because they didn’t want any risk of the mission failing. i’m gonna be fucking SICK do NOT talk to me!!!!!
#codywan#commander cody#obi-wan kenobi#and before you start with all that shit i am not anti jedi so please keep that out of here yeah??#thanks#sw#tcw#cody tag#CLENCHES FIST. fucking worst decision ever made#like yes i understand it was to protect Obi-Wan because he could’ve died had he been found out#i do not think that means they should treat everyone else like shit (esp someone who has no choice in their position like Cody)#like dogshit in the meantime
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"Your life isn't just for fighting."
#Obi-Wan knows he has no right to say that#because the Jedi are forcing the clones to fight#and die#😢#Obi-Wan has no choice but to fight as well#and Cody knows that#😭#poor children#...#Codywan#obi wan kenobi#commander cody#star wars#the clone wars#I forgot to post this
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