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I did a thing?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40325298

Obi-wan turned his eyes to Rex, who was sporting a black eye and a gash on his cheek. The good captain seemed to be holding back a smile, Obi-wan had not seen Rex so relaxed since the whole Ana- Vader fiasco.

“Everything’s good, General.” Rex said with a small nod.

“Good?” Came Wrecker’s booming voice from the ship, Obi-wan noted one of his arms was on a sling, the rest of the bad batch also looked injured, even if just mildly, but were also smiling softly. “We took the beating of the century.” He laughed regardless.

“That cannot possibly be accurate.” Tech interjected, readjusting his cracked goggles. “But it is rather impressive that one man could cause so much damage.” At his side Crosshair huffed but nodded once in reluctant respect, Hunter also grunted an agreement.

#codywan #my wiritng #Marshal Commander Cody #Obi-Wan Kenobi #reunions #alternate universe #the bad batch rex and fives and ashoka and waxer and boil are all there cause I can #possible searies #I wrote this instead of sleeping

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Protective Rage Obi Wan

Here is another story idea that is the culmination of several ideas that I need to get out of my brain soup. 

It starts on the bridge of the Negotiator, in orbit over Coruscant. It is a full bridge, including Rex and Cody, Anakin, Obi Wan, and Ahsoka. In comes a very injured, filthy Quinlan Vos limping in (among other injuries is a compound leg fracture that is visibly gangrenous). 

Vos presses a data chip into Obi Wan’s hand and tells him that it is coded just before he collapses. He is delirious and rambling about needing to protect ‘them’ so that ‘he’ doesn’t have to deal with Vos any longer, with some of the phrases he uses in regards to himself remind Cody of how Fox speaks (Everything was sparked by Fox having a shitty day, what with the abuse by the senate and the mind control by the Chancellor. He said some poorly phrased mean things to Vos, who took them a little bit too much to heart.  Something to the effect of “Take your abnormal powers and go do something useful with them”) and how Vos thought ‘he’ had seen him beyond being a Jedi and he was tired of having his heart broken (Here Jedi are called Abnormal, child stealing freaks of nature so often that hearing any one part brings the rest). 

Obi Wan is basically cradling his head and soothing him while Vos lay on the floor. He refused to let the medics anywhere near Vos, saying that Vos’s gifts (his psychometry) were such that he could only be treated by a Jedi healer (The medics are visibly and audibly unhappy about this but Obi Wan actually makes it an order).   Obi Wan has them call the Jedi Temple to send Bant up for Quinlan, also asking her to bring the her decoder (Reeft had built one for each of his crechemates) as that was the only thing that could decode the data chip that Vos had given him (Obi Wan’s was in his quarters in the temple).

Bant and a Padawan Healer arrive, wearing slightly strange looking robes and gloves. The Padawan takes Obi Wan’s place sitting at Vos’s head, while Bant starts pulling out crystals and other things to diagnose everything that is wrong before they move him. Obi Wan takes the decoder and steps away to read the data chip. Bant turns to the Padawan and goes: “Pop quiz, why do we have special gear for Master Vos?” The Padawan responds after a moment of thought “His Psychometry is so strong and his injuries have wiped his shields , so without the specially made clothing we are wearing or shields as strong as Master Kenobi, he would feel anything and everything that got within about two feet of him. That would likely drive him into insanity and death.” (The Medics, who had been looking mutinous that they were not allowed to treat someone on the ship, started to look a little sheepish).

 Though Obi Wan still appears to be entirely calm as he read the information that was on the data chip (The inhibitor chips and Order 66, maybe proof that Sidious was trying to turn Anakin, maybe something about how Sidious had fucked with Anakin’s mind, leading both sides of the war) but very abruptly both the Padawan and Ahsoka (Not Anakin, he is a bit oblivious empathically) faces turn to look at Obi Wan as he very politely and very calmly excuses himself. 

Bant, still working on stabilizing Vos, says absently “Huh. Haven’t felt Obi get that angry in years.” Everyone in the room just looks at where Obi Wan had exited, because he does not seem angry. Bant continues with “Last time was when Anakin was about 11, his writing teacher didn’t like him and was deliberately sabotaging his work.  Obi found out, left Anakin with Quinn and Aayla, then proceeded to track the teacher down and beat the shit out of him. He threw him through two windows, methodically breaking every bone in both his body, all the while calmly explaining why the teacher’s behavior was unacceptable. As soon as the teacher healed, he decided that teaching was no longer his calling. Last I heard he was somewhere in wild space, trying to stay as far away from Obi or Anakin as possible.”

Cody receives a message from one of the hanger crew saying that General Kenobi had left the ship, stating that he had some business to attend to. In the background is Anakin, looking shocked and going “That’s what happened to that teacher.”

Meanwhile, the Senate is in session. It is one of the rare sessions it is being broadcast live to the entire galaxy, so there are new crews recording when High General Obi Wan Kenobi enters and uses the Force to launch himself into The Supreme Chancellor’s pod.  Obi Wan breaks the Chancellor’s jaw (thus preventing him from speaking and activating Order 66), and proceeds to very methodically beat the shit out of him.  All the while ranting very calmly about why the Supreme Chancellor's actions were unacceptable. He spends quite a bit of time on “How dare you enslave the troopers” and “You are not laying a hand on Anakin again” and “Killing off my family is bad”. 

Though he can’t speak, it becomes clear that he is the Sith they have been looking for. There is force lightning, which just seems to be absorbed by Obi Wan’s rage. A red lightsaber is pulled. Obi Wan catches that arm, breaks it and throws the lightsaber away.  Eventually he kills Palpatine, either just beating him to death, or pulling his own lightsaber and decapitating him.  Then he uses the force to pull Amedda to him. 

He’s just holding Amedda above the rotunda and says to him, “Now that that is taken care of. I’m sure you are just as concerned with the Clones' lack of rights as I am, right?”

Amedda has never been more sure in his life that he is very concerned about Clone rights.

Obi Wan beams at the entire Senate and says, clear as a bell, “Oh good, I had hoped I would only have to kill one politician today.”

With Obi just standing there, holding a dangling Amedda, the Clone Rights bill is passed unanimously, full citizenship is granted along with guaranteed representation in the Senate. The senate is sure that they all get back pay, all the way back to their decatning date, since they have trained all of their lives. The Clones are given a small planet with its own terraformed moon in the mid rim.  The Kaminoans decide that they will be handing all of their research off to the Clones without argument. 

Obi Wan lands the pod, puts Amedda down, and waits patiently to be arrested. He is very aware that he just beat a man to death on galactic wide and live.  He is more than willing to face the consequences (he has no idea what the consequences are).  No one can quite figure out if what he had done was illegal or not, technically the Supreme Chancellor was a Sith and the leader of the Separtist so as both a high general and a Jedi, Obi Wan was allowed to kill him. However he did just beat a politician to death on live TV.  The Coruscant Guard looks at each other going, “uhhh, he just beat a man to death…for us. We’re not arresting him.” 

The GAR look at each other and go ‘soooo…clearly General Kenobi is the leader of the Vode.’ Commander Cody is really glad he is in his armor because he is having a highly inappropriate reaction (he is not the only one having a highly inappropriate reaction. Most of the galaxy may be having a bit of a crisis.)

The Separatists declare they are surrendering to High General Kenobi.

Deathwatch sees this fight and collectively goes “Kenobi is our Mandalore, right?” They capture Maul, who is also a bit conflicted (he hates Kenobi, but he might hate his former Master more and the violence was beautiful), which lets them capture him and deliver him to the Coruscant temple (They are the sixth crime syndicate to deliver their leaders to the temple, having decided to go straight.) They are very clear that the Darksaber is for Obi Wan Kenobi. Death watch decides that they need to prove themselves to their new Mandalore, for having not realized he was their leader earlier. They rewatch the fight, realize that their Mandalore has FEELINGS about slavery, also loves the clone army. So they set off into the galaxy to prove their loyalty by eliminating slavery, and possibly by offering assistance to any clone that they come across. 

The New Mandalorians talk amongst themselves and are like “Look, I know we’re pacifists but…” and even Satine is going, “No, no that’s fair.”  There is some more furtive discussion and they start going “Maybe we can have a little violence?” and Satine’s advisers start talking about how Satine and Obi Wan had a Thing once upon a time and wouldn’t it be nice if he was their Duke, maybe as a way to offer the Clones citizenship (I am feral over CodyWan but this could also be a lead in to Obitine  or Cody/Satine/Obi Wan.)

Mace Windu and Yoda arrive at some point and Obi Wan asks about Vos. Fox is hovering right there, trying to pretend that he is not concerned (Vos had not come to bother them in weeks after Fox had screamed at him after a really shitty day. Fox does not want to admit that he missed the Kiffar). Obi Wan, with an eavesdropping Fox, is told that Vos’s leg had been broken and ignored for at least five days, that he was likely to lose it (He had to have dropped at least 100 levels to get a break like that). They also say that he is not healing (Fox’s words did some deep damage, triggered other issues, and left Vos feeling like he had nothing to wake up for.) like he should and he is comatose in the Halls of Healing. Fox manages to get permission to follow them to check on Vos, for “official” reasons (he says it’s because his men would be concerned and to keep them from cluttering up the Halls of Healing. It absolutely has nothing to do with the way his stomach dropped when he heard that Vos had been hurt). 

On the ride back over to the Temple, Mace and Obi Wan talk about  Vos’s ramblings at the beginning. From the way they talk it really isn’t clear if they are aware that Fox is the one that spoke so harshly to Vos or not but Fox recognizes his own words.  Once they get to the Halls of Healing it becomes really obvious, really quickly that Fox being there is helping Vos heal.

At some point Obi Wan finds out that he is considered the unofficial, and if he wanted official, leader of the Mandalore sector.  By this point he has already left the Order to lead the Vode (and get together with Cody for the CodyWan version).  Anakin and Padme have also joined them on their shiny new planet and are happily pregnant.

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212th Attack Battalion Incorrect Canon Quotes

(Purge Trooper Cody finds Obi-Wan on Tatooine but continues fighting his chip.)

Obi-Wan: What do you want to eat, my dear?

Chip: The souls of the Jedi.

Purge Trooper Cody: A bagel.

Chip: No!

Purge Trooper Cody: …Two bagels.

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Yes I re-read my own fics because I wrote them for ME

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I can't help but feel kinda dad for Vader/Anakin at the end of ep 5. The man just spent 10 years mastering the Dark side and he became so insanely powerful that no one compares to him anymore. But yet, Obi Wan, who's been out of touch with the force for years, who he defeated so easily a few days ago, wins without even having to fight him, because even after all this time, his old master still outsmarts him. That must sting...

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Just... Obi-Wan during Part V of the Kenobi Series:

"We'll do whatever we can to help."

Rallying the people on Jabiim to fight, giving them hope and guidance and light. It's General Obi-Wan Kenobi, while being Ben all the same.

Standing in front of all the people on Jabiim fighting off stormtroopers, protecting them up front with his lightsaber (and later on also without his lightsaber, without his weapon, "there are other ways to fight"). "A Jedi's goal is to defend life, not to take it."

Not giving up even when experiencing horrifying new grief (not giving up even when Vader thinks, says that after feeling Obi-Wans pain after Tala's death that "Kenobi is already ours"; but Obi-Wan will not let himself be fully broken by this, because the love and utter bravery of Tala's sacrifice next to the desperation of it all; "May the Force be with you"- "The light will fade but is never forgotten"); the absolute determination and courage in giving himself up to Reva; the empathy and understanding he shows when talking to her; trusting himself and his actions; being able to again trust others doing their part and accepting their help; acceptance of what has been and what he has to do now, paralleled with the flashbacks.

Not letting himself fall into the trap of playing to Anakin's / Darth Vaders game. He is the Master; Darth Vader it the learner. Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Negotiator. Despite all the pressure, he is somehow keeping his cool inbetween all this new trauma.

Protecting all those families and children with his life, during another act of utter selflessness, while falling back into full Soresu mastership fending off hundreds of blaster bolts, while entirely embracing who he is: A Jedi.

In the words of Tala: Some things you can't forget; but you can fight to make them better. And he fights. And he survives. And he loves even more despite it all.

All this versus the Obi-Wan we have seen in Part I.

"Jedi cannot help what they are. Their compassion leaves a trail. The Jedi Code is like an itch; he cannot help it."

We are nearly full circle.

I know I sound like a broken record, but I just love this show so much. It instills so much hope and light and the strength to stand up even against the most hopeless of situations, even in spite of the most horrible of odds and no matter how often your soul was broken.

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Something something NO IT IS NOT BAD WRITING;;; it makes PERFECT sense that Obi-Wan has this big show of force usage and then, later, we once more see him resort to blaster, to not using the force, and/or not using it parallel to his lightsaber fighting (the only moment we see him use the lightsaber and the force simultaneously was during said uber-moment of holding back the water). And next to all the circumstances of the moment (selflessness, saving Leia, pushing aside his trauma, all of it has already been said so wonderfully by so many people), this is also because IT STILL TAKES TIME to remember that he has the force at his disposal. It is as much a psychological point as one of INSTINCT. While he might be able to resort to using the Force again, even without being in any pain, Obi-Wan has trained himself for 10 years to not use it also to simply not get caught. He has posed himself the question, again and again, "how can I solve this situation without ever using the force?"

In 10 years, he has probably had continued reason to brawl and fight and use a blaster from time to time - it is a skillset that doesn't immediately give him away as a Jedi, and thus, these reflexes come back to him fast. He hasn't used his lightsaber at all, but that's it - he is still very rusty, but once he pushes aside the meaning of the lightsaber in these very moments, the memories connected to it, we see his reflexes and skills, the steps drilled into him such a long time ago, come back gradually - pretty fast even.

But the force?

Next to the trauma, it is only natural that his non-usage of the force has also become a mindset of his. He tried to cut every string within his being tied to instinctive muscle memory use of the force. Right now, it is still a reflex of his to not use the force. And it takes a long time or at least very intense training to recalibrate a reflex. He will have to get used to it again. And that doesn't happen in 0.1 seconds and/or just after one major incident of fully reopening oneself to deploying said skill.

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What's also so so brilliant (next to the whole entire choreography of Obi-Wan's defensive lightsaber skills, first basic drills and blocks and the main stances coming back to him and these hints of proper Soresu emerging within his blaster deflections) is the attack techniques and how he kills the stormtroopers. Remember, these are not just insentient droids which Obi-Wan and others smashed/bisected/decapitated on a daily basis during the Clone Wars. These are actual humans now. I have read complaints about Obi-Wan going "light" on harming, hitting, killing etc stormtroopers with his lightsaber, but he is just sticking to Jedi categorization (going by established legends lore). In Legends, the Jedi deployed a ladder of "escalating" lightsaber attack techniques, from "humane and civilised" techniques towards more brutal and upright vicious depending on how much of a threat their enemy (a living, sentient being) was. It was a sort of hierarchy of "acceptable" forms of violence.

Disarming an opponent of their weapon without killing or even harming them is called "Sun Djem" and was the lowest technique on the ladder. This is followed by a cut with the edge of a blade, to harm and/or kill, and was called "Shiim", and it is what we see Obi-Wan doing to the Stormtroopers in Part IV most of the time. Then there is "Cho Mai" (cutting off the weapon hand of the enemy, see Vader vs Luke), then "Cho Sun" (whole weapon arm is cut off, see cantina Ben Kenobi in ANH), then "Cho Mok" (cutting off a limb (not necessarily 'just' the weapon arm)), then "Shiak" (stabbing an opponent through the body, Maul vs Qui-Gon), then "Sai Cha" (decapitation, Mace Windu vs Jango Fett), then "Sai Tok" - cutting the opponent in half, which is what Padawan Obi-Wan did to Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace.

Guess what the last step of escalation was? "Mou Kei". Complete dismemberment. What Obi-Wan did to Anakin, to Darth Vader, on Mustafar. It was taught by the Jedi as a technique reserved for only the most dangerous of enemies; it was an extreme form of last resort.

A true light-side user of the force, like Obi-Wan, would never slaughter living beings with Sai Tok or Mou Kei unless it was a last resort, or against a dark-side user of the force. Or if they were out of options or even outclassed and your immediate survival and/or far higher stakes were on the line.

Obi-Wan using basic strikes of the Shiim attack technique against the stormtroopers in the Kenobi show Part IV is the perfect encapsulation of the restraint he was taught as a Jedi combined with the fact that his skills are just re-emerging.

The whole choreography is littered with astounding attention to detail. Change my mind.

#obi wan kenobi #hmmmmm #might use this later

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There is just something so very personal about Tala just continuing to call him Ben after Obi-Wan asks her to.

"I can't imagine Obi-Wan Kenobi doing anything wrong."

In that moment, she sees, as so many, the legend. The myth. More than just a person. And while that is also something that, of course, contributes to Obi-Wan instilling hope and light wherever he goes (next to the person who he just is, the Guiding Light), it also makes him less than a person to them. Because he cannot be who he is, someone with mistakes, with anguish and pain and fear and failings, someone who has all of these cracks which barely hold together a soul haunted by shadows and crevices steeped in unspeakable trauma; he cannot appear like this to someone who only sees him as this unfailing legend without shattering that preconceived image and inevitably letting them down.

Obi-Wan asks Tala to see him as "just" Ben, as the man as whom he appears before her. Not more, not less. Not the glorified General. But a person.

And she does. She accepts Ben, and believes in him anyway. And she sees, at the latest in Part IV, that Ben doesn't do it to shy away from responsibility, from the legacy he carries (he might have been in the beginning, but not anymore). In Fortress Inquisitorius, Ben Kenobi is the Guiding Light anyway, even while he is in pain and haunted by mistakes and while there is still so much healing to be done. A person, and yet so much more. But still a person.

#obi wan kenobi #love this

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I feel safe.

- Leia Organa

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Obi-wan…. held out… a karking ocean with his mind???? He redirected said ocean to fck with incoming enemies???? With his mind??????

#kenobi show #this man #i love him your honor #idk I just haven’t seen enough people talking about this lol #this is the man that was struggling to pick up a small object with the force like 5 minutes ago #AND NOW HE IS COMMANDING THE OCEAN LIKE SOME MOSES SHIT RIGHT THERE #okay maybe that’s an exaggeration but you know what I mean #I’m anxious about Lola being a spy now tho :( #anyway might point is he is doing so for Leía and Tala #he is tired and hurt and trying to access the Force for himself is difficult #but for Leía #for others #this man is selfless and deserves comofort #preferably in the form of one clone marshal commander but I know that’s delulu #seriously tho like #he really is ‘guiding light’ #anyway #obi wan kenobi #part iv #spoilers #midnight ramblings

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Leia is just like her mama I- 🤧🥺

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Home Front

Happy Monday, folks, I've got "Home Front" up on ao3. Newest part of the sanguine series, featuring Ahsoka, Anakin, Rex, and events involving Savage and Palpatine.

No major warnings (aside from non-main character death) for this one. Lots of plot progress, however.

....we're really in it now, everyone.

#awesome #awesomeness #this series has consumed me

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just here comforting myself with hugs

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yes seeing Obi-Wan and other pt characters on screen again is cool, but I'm also loving the way the show is talking about the Force and the Jedi philosophy.

It's young Jedi feeling the need to use their powers to help people even when it means their death, it's Obi-Wan explaining that the Force is like turning on the light, it's Leia being so perceptive for a child that it makes others uncomfortable, it's Obi-Wan remembering the Order as his family, it's Quinlan smuggling Force-sensitive children, it's unknown padawans carving their Order's symbol on a wall despite the danger, it's a reminder that "only when the eyes are closed can you truly see."

The Force is a mystical concept and the Jedi are a religious Order, but you can't miss the warm feeling of being part of something bigger and finding help and support when they most need it, even in the darkest of times.

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There was no reason for Vader to choke, snap neck, drag, and kill people while he was looking for Obi-Wan. He knew Obi-Wan was near when he stopped in the street, then immediately started hurting onlookers without any reason. He wasn't interrogating them, he wasn't even looking at them. He did it because he knew Obi-Wan was watching, he did it because he knew Obi-Wan couldn't and wouldn't stand watching all these innocent people harmed at his expense. He knew Obi-Wan's compassion and moral compass wouldn't allow him to turn away and run for his own safety. He knew Obi-Wan would see and know that he will kill every single person in that place whether Obi-Wan came out of hiding or not. He kept mindlessly killing till Obi-Wan made his presence known. He used Obi-Wan's compassion against him. Vader was pure evil in his actions.