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Fallen - Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker (RotE)

Nov 08, 2009 15:19

Title: Fallen
Prompt: Over
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker
Era: RotE
Rating: G
Word Count:
Warnings: None.
Author's Note: I've always wondered about Obi-Wan's "certain point of view" statement about Anakin's death when he talks to Luke in Return of the Jedi. I can't quite see Obi-Wan telling that bald-faced of a lie unless he really ( Read more... )

prompt: over, era: rise of the empire, character: obi-wan kenobi, character: anakin skywalker, author: compass_ink

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compass_ink November 9 2009, 21:34:33 UTC

Glad you liked it! =)

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compass_ink November 9 2009, 21:36:29 UTC

Thanks! =)

ansketil_rose November 9 2009, 06:27:36 UTC

Excellent work. "From a certain point of view"; Obi-Wan never recognised that Anakin was capable of such things so Anakin isn't - Vader is. *nods* Brilliant.

compass_ink November 9 2009, 21:41:26 UTC

Yeah. I mean, this is the guy who's saved his life on multiple occasions, risks his life for the clone troopers routinely (going by RotS at least), and he first met him as a cute nine-year-old kid. He was his mentor for about ten years, teaching him to be a Jedi. Now he's seeing him committing acts of unspeakable horror and pure evil. I imagine that it would be like seeing a completely different person with the same face, and that's why Obi-Wan made such a clear distinction between Vader and Anakin in his later years. He just couldn't make himself think that Anakin Skywalker was capable of it.

pronker November 9 2009, 20:20:09 UTC

Very well done --- liked the security cams being left operative, as if to flaunt his evil, or his 'good,' from his point of view.

compass_ink November 9 2009, 21:42:50 UTC

Thanks! Yeah, I thought it was kind of an interesting detail. Anakin certainly could have taken out the security cameras easily with a few orders to the troopers, but they were just not important because he wasn't going to let himself be stopped.

drakeguard November 10 2009, 03:40:09 UTC

Very nice, and it fits nicely with Obi-Wan in his later years. I like his point of view on certain events, Padme, the temple, and of course his normal attitude during the war. From the war to the rise of the Empire, Obi saw it all happen with Anakin, so I can easily imagine it would be difficult for him to accept Anakin and evil Anakin/Vader thanks to this. *nod* Very nicely done, especially with the prompt.

compass_ink November 12 2009, 01:44:23 UTC

Yeah, and with the years he spent on Tatooine watching Luke grow up to be not entirely unlike Anakin while thinking about what Anakin/Vader had done in all those thirty years, I think that made his... I don't know if "belief" is the right word, but his idea of Vader having "killed" Anakin even stronger.