#Cody is a great dad but that happens at the end and tbh prior to that there's discussion of Jango's bad parenting and then

[notthestarwar]

Cody knows the cost well, because Cody, had been raised by a man who never quite took an eye away from his rear view mirror and in spite of his many efforts, that's the kind of raising you can't ever quite leave behind.

No matter how far he walked, it dragged behind him all the same. A curling suspicion born not from Cody himself and so never quite his to touch or, to drop in pursuit of something better fitting.

Placed there by some other hand, it had never quite sat at home within Cody and yet, remained there all the same. Clinging to his very shadow but always just out of his grasp. He could reach for it and it would almost brush the pads of his reaching fingers. Yet, despite the alieness of the thing, its unclaimed nature, he could never quite walk away from it. Never left behind in the locked cabinet of his past, it followed him, always.

Jango feared loss and it made him cruel. It made him avoid the one thing he might have had to give. Cody was raised by an absence. A shape where a man might once have been. It made Cody's life hard, it made his life difficult. He inherited that fear and it haunts him to this day.

#star wars fic #technically Obi wan/Cody but they don't have a particularly great relationship #the love is there it just isn't enough #everyone's got issues. Cody is working through his. everyone else. less so #Cody raises luke #Cody is a great dad but that happens at the end and tbh prior to that there's discussion of Jango's bad parenting and then #Obi Wan tries but comes up short and obviously Anakin is not a great parent #my writing ntwyw