#'byte do you have a thing abt cody shooting anakin' nooooooooo or if so it's unintentional lol

[bytebun]

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sorry coats you are getting less of a brain baby and more of a feral multi-headed hydra worm. i love outsider perspective, i eat that shit up, and when my brain is too tired to do the knitting of multi-threaded plots it goes right to "media personnel in the clone wars watches local space warrior monks do some extremely whacko shit, bewildered, more news at 10".

(kitty cat au is 90% about obi-wan & a bunch of locals in a mission fic looking at this guy like What Is Wrong With Him. why is he talking to that cat like a human. when that's honestly the least weird thing about him).

right now, my favourite one to rotate is an epistolary history podcast episode made by some guys in the "new republic" about the clone wars, titled "the man behind the myth". i'll never write this one because I think it works much better as an actual buddy-buddy podcast lol.

A: Now everyone knows about Bail Organa. But we can't speak about Organa without speaking about Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi.

with the sort of vibe of, a lot of stuff here is being omitted because they assume everybody listening knows about the current state of things, haha.

B: Now Kenobi is much less known, despite his prominent role in the war. A: Mm, much less known. Unlike his contemporaries, he didn't leave any writing behind. B: We've got sources saying he was a real impressive orator, but of course most records, if there were any, would be lost during the burning of the Jedi temple. A: Biggest library in the Galaxy, and all that knowledge goes up in flames. I know C thinks it set civilization back by a thousand years. B: Well, C wrote their dissertation on the Ruusan Reformation. I'm sure that doesn't bias their decision at all. A: Ha. B: I'm personally more pissed about the Sith reseting the Republic Archives. Seriously, talk about a taxation disaster.

interspersed with some snippets of speeches or news segments or whatever. basically on and on painting obi-wan as this larger than life war hero accomplishing the impossible, and then vanishing into obscurity - most of what we know about him being from correspondence with close friends like bail organa.

which all seems pretty canon-compliant except a few things that seem off. and you slowly get the sense that this is a fix-it, of sorts, actually, and there's name drops about ezra and kanan and trilla, etc. and a new jedi order that is quite a bit larger than luke skywalker. and some talk about the Republilc jedi's role in the war, and how it differs from the current jedi order, which is much more scattered and smaller in scale and. well. much more like a bunch of isolated temples than a real player in any galactic politics.

B: It took them 10 years to catch the Sith lord, but he actually wasn't the only one. The few preserved Jedi records we have talk about the rule of two. A: You'd think one tall dark and evil psychic knight going around shooting lightning would be easy enough to spot, let alone two, but I guess not. B: That second Sith died on Coruscant, though none of our sources specify how. As far as we can tell... it was Kenobi who killed him. A: And no wonder. Anakin Skywalker, the Hero with no Fear, was one of the Jedi killed by Darth Vader. [dramatic pause] And he was Kenobi's student. Had been, since he was nine. B: I've heard Jedi aren't really supposed to do the revenge thing, but I'm pretty sure Kenobi deserves a free pass on this one.

the podcast ends, and we break from the epistolary style.

the scene switches to Obi-Wan, standing in the temple, ash and dried blood all over his face, lightsaber out. Anakin's body is still smoking from a blaster shot, straight through the temple.

He turns his 'saber off, drops to his knees. The 212th troopers have already started on clearing out the rubble, under a grim-faced Commander Cody.

"It's --" Obi-Wan Kenobi is tucked away, and Master Kenobi comes out. "It's alright, now. It's safe, you can come out." the first youngling clambers out, hesitant. tripping over their own feet, all the awkward stiffness and shock of a baby deer, born to a new and cruel world. but soon the whole gaggle is running to him, clinging, sobbing - and bent nearly in two over their little heads, he cries with them.