#<-my fave Obi-Wan

[skeletons-eat]

Unfinished WIP I won't finish;P

[chiliger]

Cody-Wan in the “The Mummy”

Part 2

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[jadespiral]

Quinlan Vos 🤝 Cal Kestis, Psychometric Jedi with issues surrounding the dark side of the force who are in love with nightsisters and also survived order 66, later helping the hidden path.

[cunty-rex]

In Defense Of Anakin Skywalker

I came across some "anti anakin" blogs today and the main thing I noticed was how they all failed to mention Palpatine's role in everything. While yes Anakin did some pretty horrible things (like killing an entire tribe of tusken raiders) all his actions as Vader are a result of him being groomed. Does that abstain him from all guilt? No, of course not, but it's quite telling that their argument centers around how Anakin is just "such an awful person" and doesn't deserve his redemption arc when in reality his redemption arc is the only one that works for him. Anakin killed Sidious, the man who'd groomed him and turned him into his puppet and coerced him into doing terrible things. It feels quite intentional how these blogs neglect Sidious while simultaneously putting all the blame onto Anakin when in reality he's merely another pawn in Sidious's grand plan.

There's also the fact that Darth Vader isn't the same man as Anakin Skywalker, a distinction made both by Sidious and Vader himself. Anakin was - and is - the young boy from Tatooine that dreamed of being a Jedi knight someday. Vader is person that Sidious groomed him to be for over ten years. The only time we truly see Anakin during the OT is when he kills Sidious and saves his son, breaking free of the control that Sidious had over him for so many years. Vader dies when Sidious dies, and Anakin goes on to live as a force ghost. There's no better ending than this for Anakin, nothing more fitting.

[ninjigma]

West Summit Summer Camp Obi-Wan Kenobi

Distracting myself from how horrible I feel by sending my faves to summer camp, because I’ve been watching a lot of old summer slasher movies and having a grand time. Also using the chance to test out a new style/technique and adjust as I go :3

[obi-wkenobi]

Throwback to that time three years ago where I wrote a paragraph of Thrawn observing obikin for the first time:

The younger one leans in. He is flustered, his expression holds both anger and frustration, yet his eyes are wide and his cheeks are flushed. Intriguing. Thrawn continues to observe. The elder man strokes his beard and an exasperated look settles on his face. He pauses and looks at the younger Jedi. Despite Thrawn’s lack of understanding regarding human interaction he is still able to identify the emotion on his face: affection. He will have to remember that.

[vaguely-concerned]

if we get a scene with varric in the fade somehow (listen if just bleeding a bit in the general proximity of the ritual was enough to soul-hook rook into the fade, population: solas district for the foreseeable future, what the hell is going to happen to varric after having the whole dagger buried in his chest?? I'm scared) where he lifts his head as if he heard a voice no one else can perceive and just goes "...hawke?", it'll be over for me

[padawansuggest]

You know what would be funnier than Obi-Wan tricking the count by showing up to Dooku’s palace like ‘hi, I’m here for the training. Yeah the Sith training.’ And using that to get close to Dooku? It would be even FUNNIER if he used that as a vacation. He shows up with Cody behind him like ‘yeah I’m here for the Sith training’ and spends a week sleeping (and eating whatever Cody shoves at him lmao) and cuddling his boyfriend before showing back up to the temple like ‘I’m back, the Count’s mansion is weird, he kept trying to give me gifts’ and then they realize he was using it as a vacation where no one could bother him finally, only for Dooku to show up a week later saying he can’t stop crying and his force ghost son yelled at him that Obi-Wan legit trusted him with his life in that moment and Dooku just wants to feel like he has a family again can he plz come home?????? Yes they let him back but also put him on house arrest and like 50 mind healers and Obi-Wan drags Cody off to tea with him every week or two and he’s yelled at and loved many but they let that idiot back in as long as he helps them.

[hickeygender]

i legit don't get the appeal of viewing a character you like as a "100% unproblematic fave". y'all realize that a character can both be staunchly good with many positive traits AND have some flaws as well, right? to me, viewing a moral yet multifaceted character as faultless is like baking a cake with no salt. yeah, it's sweet, but it's too sweet because there's no salt to elevate the flavor! where's the depth in a character that is entirely perfect? where's the compelling motivations and character work? where's the humanity in that?

thankfully, i don't see much of this complete denial of flaws in the popular fanon of characters i enjoy, but what i DO see frequently is a shift in focus from characters' overall negative behaviors - behaviors directed both at themself and towards others - to depicting their self-destructive behaviors as their sole flaws. self-destruction is viewed as an "acceptable" flaw, unlike causing harm to others, and is often exaggerated if not invented out of whole cloth!

for an example of this distortion: there's a heroic yet flawed character i like with a high stress position that he wholly dedicates himself to, who probably loses a bit of sleep and is seen asking for and drinking tea ONCE to buy some time. what's the fanon version of him seen in many fics? well, his missteps and occasional emotional insensitivity have gone entirely out the window, and he's been transformed into a workaholic, sleep-deprived, caffeine addict who is incapable of caring for himself. he WILL collapse at some point in order to justify his love interest swooping in and insisting that this character, a fully grown adult man in charge of 1/10th of the entire army, learns ✨the importance of self care✨

i'm not arguing for every character to be deeply flawed - i love a good hero - but by making a canonically flawed character either 1) entirely beyond reproach or 2) a self-neglectful and/or self-flagellating martyr who has never hurt anyone but themself, you're sucking the life RIGHT out of them, and boring me to tears in the process.

[teamhangaround]

And then he blew up some planets

Bonus:

[go-see-a-starwar]

[liatorii]

I’m fairly new to this whole, Star Wars thing (I say as I’ve watched episode 1 to 6 + half of clones wars in the past 2 weeks like a totally sane person) but with enough brain rot and enabling I’ve started giving the blorbos dragon forms bc that’s a natural step of mine after obsessing over something.

So yeah, have this pathetic man as a “laser” breathing lizard.

More to come obviously

[thedunesea]

I need to write a fic in which Anakin has to dress up as a Sith for some silly Jedi play and Obi-Wan is horrified to find out that unhinged pretty boy with murder stroll and golden eyes gets him all hot and bothered

[weepylucifer]

new hot sith girl summer!!! the vault arc begins (i say arc, but it's 2 and a half chapters really)

i'm still hesitant on how to promote this fic, seeing as i'm truly unsure, even 12 chapters in, what it even is in y'know, fanfic trope terms. idk that the maul fans OR the cody fans are going to get anything they desire out of it, even though it is about the two of them. i think i'll just present it as well as i can and let folks judge for themselves:

it is an essay-with-plot on the dark side, clones, and the fanon version of cody who only exists to be a babysitter for obi-wan. it posits the out-of-pocket scenario of what if cody had the force, as he frankly deserves, and discovered this about himself in the worst possible moment: during order 66, and only made the worst possible life choices from here on out. what if maul was there. what if they started a situationship in which they refuse to examine the obi-wan-shaped hole in both of their lives. what if they made it weird

here's what information i do have:

[kcrabb88]

QuinObi Week 2024 (Day 3: Angst & Anxiety / "Shut up" Kiss)

Because the Night

Summary: As the war drags on, Quinlan is sent undercover to figure out Sidious' identity. When he stops answering comms, Tholme sends Obi-Wan to retrieve him. Quin, desperate to figure out who the Sith is even as he loses his grip on the light, refuses to go. Obi-Wan and Quin clash, but they are, as always, drawn together.

Despite the harsh words, grief beats in Obi-Wan's Force presence. Quin put that grief there, but there’s nothing, nothing he can do about it now.

He has to do what he’s doing. To find Sidious, he must. Obi-Wan will understand after it's over. He always does.

“I’m sorry, okay? But you need to go. Leave. Before you get hurt and/or blow my cover. I mean it.”

“No," Obi-Wan says with a gentle anger that makes Quin want to burst into tears. "I will not go without you. And if you think I—”

Quinlan closes the small gap between them. He fists his hand into Obi-Wan's shirt and kisses him full on the mouth. Obi-Wan returns the kiss with that sharp-sweet tang that is as familiar to Quin as his own reflection in the mirror. Obi-Wan pulls away. His eyes gleam in the low light of the ship’s entryway, and he exhales a tender breath.

And he kisses Quin again.

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

A meme for those of you whose favorite characters have been Ron the Death Eater'd/gotten their flaws and mistakes blown out of proportion by people.