#I do think Jude's Master and Apprentice series Obi Wan could have easily gone Dark in the beginning there

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That was such a hard question, it stumped me. They both come off as such beacons of Light its hard to imagine either of them Falling.

But we see Obi Wan staying true to his morals through Anakin’s betrayal genociding his family and two decades of Empire crap didn’t manage it. With Padme she chooses not to follow Anakin down his dark path and plants the seeds of rebellion while everything she believed in and everything she worked for dying to thunderous applause. But she dies before we're shown her long-term reaction to the Empire – which leaves her more open to interpretation in an alternate universe where she lived.

But mainly it's my interpretation of Anakin genociding an entire tribe of people that colors my pov – mostly of him but also to an extent of Padme. To me Anakin’s choice is very much a moral event horizon. He has crossed the line into Darth Vader. The difference between this and the genocide of The Jedi is the level of betrayal involved.

But George Lucas’ interpretation is different and also plot demands are HARSH so Padme doesn’t tell anyone. Not even after Anakin is removed as a bodyguard (and potential threat). Hell she MARRIES him. Which, to me, shows that for someone she really cares about she is willing to silently condone some pretty dark stuff. At least to a point.

Now Obi Wan never learns about this so we don't ever see on-screen his reaction or further actions but its implied Obi Wan wouldn’t have given Anakin this same leeway if he’d found out. And obviously Padme backs off on Anakin at the end of revenge of the Sith. Still that reaction to that first genocide makes me think she's like 0.0005 percent more likely to become a Dark Empress than Obi Wan to become a Dark Force User.

Having some thoughts on Obi-Wan and his fandom perception rn. Specifically about some of the more involved discussion here on Tumblr. And I'm not gonna lie! "He wouldn't fucking say that" and "he wouldn't fucking do that" are starting to feel the same as the dreaded "oh, the curtains are just blue" post to me.

Obi-Wan is such a static character in the Prequels and the potential impact of that on his reception here is REALLY interesting. His decisive character development happens (mostly) offscreen between Qui-Gon's death and Anakin's knighting. And after that... well. Obviously the war didn't leave him unscathed, but imo if Maul's rise and Satine's death had happened in S1 of TCW, he would have acted and reacted pretty much the same way he did in S5. He just doesn't change very much between AotC and RotS.

And I think this is part of why some people get really damn rude about his "darker" depictions in fanwork. No matter what canon throws at him, he stays in the Light. He barely even falters. So if a fan writes his fall to the Dark, that's just inherently seen as ooc, no matter what the fanfic's context might be. Most Sith/Dark/Separatist Obi-Wan fanworks are set in the Clone Wars era, and because TCW Obi-Wan is a stranger to significant development, any work trying to move his allegiance has to automatically be a stranger to his "canon character", too. Discussions on how to "correctly" write him get oddly aggressive and condescending and often miss the point of fanfiction, or even the point of telling a story at all. It's something I see over and over again and it's probably something I've contributed to as well. Maybe I'm even doing it now. Idk.

Moral if the story is: let this man be changed. "He wouldn't do this in canon" doesn't have to equal ooc. Try to look at the next drawing you see of Sith!Obi-Wan with some Whimsy in your heart. That's all!