#anakin is not an outlier at 9 for padawans

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I'd also like some clarification about what Padawanship actually is, since the movies established that one can be a Padawan learner well into being an adult (Obi-Wan), and while Anakin did get a Master at 9 years old, in TCW the man himself insinuates that Ahsoka at 14 is too young to be entering a Master-Padawanship.

So are both cases in this lineage really extreme outliers, in that both the master AND apprentice are too young/inexperienced to be having the roles they're given? What was Ahsoka's designation prior to being Anakin's Padawan? If Anakin was raised "normally", then that means he wouldn't have needed Obi-Wan as his Master at that age, and was 'integrated' into the Jedi system presumably like Ahsoka was.

[sunknight1142]

“average Jedi youngling joins the Order at 1.95 years old (or species equivalent)" factoid actualy just statistical error. average Jedi joins at 1.91 years old. Anakin Skywalke, who joined at 9 years old, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[archer973]

Because I was curious, I looked into the ages of various different Jedi Masters and their Padawans

(please note this list is Disaster Lineage heavy because, well, they’re the main lineage in most of the franchise. Also, I excluded Yoda, cuz he’s an ancient old swamp troll and would skew the data)

Born in: Dooku: 102 BBY Qui-Gon Jinn: 80 BBY Obi-Wan Kenobi: 57 BBY Anakin Skywalker: 41 BBY Ahsoka Tano: 36 BBY

Quinlan Vos: 57 BBY Aayla Secura: 48 BBY

Mace Windu: 72 BBY Depa Billaba: unknown, assumed around 55 BBY Kanan Jarrus: 33 BBY Ezra Bridger: 19 BBY

Unfortunately there is no birth year listed for Depa Billaba in either Canon or Legends, so I estimated her to be roughly around Obi-Wan’s age.

But what really interests me is looking at the age difference between Master and Padawan:

Dooku and Qui-Gon: 22 years Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: 23 years Obi-Wan and Anakin: 16 years Anakin and Ahsoka: 5 years Quinlan and Aayla: 9 years

Mace and Depa: 17 years* Depa and Kanan: 22 years* Kanan and Ezra: 14 years *estimated

The average age difference seems to be roughly twenty years, which makes a pretty decent amount of sense for a student/teacher dynamic. So it’s really interesting to me to look at the outliers, namely Quinlan and Aayla, and Anakin and Ahsoka.

We know that Quinlan rescued Aayla from ‘the disreputable side of her homeworld’ and ‘saw to her training personally’, so it makes sense for their situation to be outside of the norm. But Yoda himself assigned Ahsoka to Anakin, despite the fact that Anakin was only five years her senior, and only nineteen years old himself. While I have my own headcanon regarding the unusual assignment, I think it would be really interesting to see how others in-universe reacted to the duo.

There isn’t really a point to this post, I just like looking at the finer details of things like this and theorizing on how it influenced the relationships between characters.

Feel free to add other Master and Padawan duos! These are just the ones I thought of off the top of my head.