lost souls in revelry

Jedi

He’s had it coming for a while now

♪ I’m catatonic in your arms

Crying, “How did I cause so much harm?”♪

Judging you

Feral trash padawan and the newly knighted jedi who’s responsible for him 

Jedi Cat Meme

Sometimes I think about how little Obi-Wan knew about what happened with Anakin and what this must have looked like from the few things he knew and why he tried so hard to give Anakin every possible chance.  (I THINK ABOUT IT A LOT.)  Not just because he loved Anakin–though, that was very much a part of this, too–but because he believed in Anakin. Their last interaction is one where Anakin admits that he was acting arrogant and unappreciative of everything people have done for him.  Yeah, he can be a brat sometimes, he gets way too caught up in his own shit instead of realizing how it comes across to others (the whole thing with being put on the Council is part of this, that Anakin was late for meetings because he was off doing other stuff, that he refuses to stop and see how it looks from the Council’s side of things that Palpatine is forcing them to accept Anakin, that it looks really bad, because everyone knows Anakin wanted to be a Master, etc.), and Obi-Wan sees the good in him still.  He believes in Anakin, because he always comes back around. This is why Obi-Wan tells Mace, “He will not let me down.  He never has.”  Not because he doesn’t recognize that Anakin makes mistakes, but instead because Anakin always comes back around, he has never truly disappointed Obi-Wan before, it’s only ever that (as Ewan McGregor has said) Obi-Wan was disappointed for him, not at him.  Whatever minor disappointments are between them, it hasn’t touched the bigger picture Obi-Wan believes in for him, that he still believes Anakin can overcome. The last time they see each other, Obi-Wan tells Anakin how proud he is, all the more so because he sees Anakin come back to himself again right there.  He believes that Anakin, no matter what temptations he faces, no matter what troubles he faces, will always overcome. Then he comes back from Utapau, Anakin is pledging himself to Sidious, he’s choking Padme, he’s declaring that he’s brought peace and justice and security to his new Empire, he’s killing younglings, he’s quoting Palpatine’s words rather than his own.  And this is too far, they can’t truly go back, not to the way things were, but Obi-Wan still has to believe there’s a chance for something of Anakin to come back, that’s why the entire fight (as Nick Gillard, the fight choreographer says) is designed to show Obi-Wan giving ground at every turn, to try to give Anakin the time to come back.  The last time Obi-Wan saw him, he came back.  He admitted his arrogance, he smiled at the praise, this is how Anakin has always been! But this time Anakin refuses to come back, he just keeps doubling down on it, unable to admit to what he’s done, even to himself.  Until even the last moment, Obi-Wan is still asking him not to try it, to give him one last chance, because maybe maybe maybe Anakin might find it in himself to admit his arrogance, admit his mistake, and at least try to fix something of this. And this is why their ending means so much.

Because Anakin finally did come back.  It took him a very long time to be able to do it, to finally let go of all the hate and rage and pain he’d held onto all his life, but he did it.  That’s the person who admitted his arrogance and mistakes, the one Obi-Wan was so proud of, the wise and strong Jedi he loved. This is why, as Pablo Hidalgo once said, “I’ve heard it said that George thinks he had help from the other side after self sacrificing.“  This is why Obi-Wan helped him over, because he’s always believed that Anakin could do it, could come back, if he chose to do so.  This is why Obi-Wan kept giving him chances, as many as he possibly could, even on the Death Star, he lets it be Vader’s choice about how this ends, he warns him about the path ahead of them. And, when it’s all said and done, when Anakin finally rises above again, Obi-Wan is there, smiling to see him, helping him over to the other side, probably with a, “Hello again, old friend.”

wretchedness

sleep

Anakin being so unhinged he's no longer connected to the doorframe + bonus:

Sketch: @shatouto Lineart: @weillschmidtdoodles Color: yours truly

Obikin art swap for the Discord server! My laptop hates me that it decided to crash Clip Studio twice that I ended having to restart it. This was super fun to work on and extremely honored to be paired with these two talented artists!

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