Anakin and Palpatine look like they partied too hard.
Palpatine: That is the *last* time we invite Kenobi to a party.
Anakin: mmmmrrrgh
Meanwhile, on the lower levels:
Kenobi: “Amateurs.”
#OBI-WAN’S A FUCKIN SAVAGE#he can drink anyone under the table#he uses the Force to metabolize the alcohol more efficiently (via @punk–kenobi)
Obi-Wan: [text] Good morning Anakin! 😊 Obi-Wan: Did you forget about our morning meeting? It started 30 minutes ago. Obi-Wan: Anakin? Everything OK? Anakin: jfc stop making my phone vibrate the SOUND nooooo ur a monster Anakin: i cant come in today Anakin: tell the council that u tried to kill me Obi-Wan: What are you talking about? Anakin: r u fuckin serious Anakin: even the chancellr was puking by the time our taxi dropped him off Anakin: how are u alive today u drank so much more than i did Obi-Wan: Actually I feel quite well, now that you mention it. Do you need me to bring you something? Anakin: YES fries and make me pancakes and also bring me a new BODY because i think this one is broken now and its all ur fault Anakin: wtf was in those shots
Obi-Wan could probably drink everclear mixed with a Four Loko and still be up on his feet just fine. Meanwhile, Anakin’s only just getting the hang of multiple rounds of tequila shots.
And okay, my first though was “and the galaxy was saved because even Anakin Skywalker would struggle to keep trusting Palpatine with that music playing in the background”
Anakin think he’s gone COMPLETELY insane (maybe he’s finally been electrocuted too many times and its fried his brain). He doesn’t tell anyone though because he can still fight just fine just… everything is a lot more musical. He doesn’t want to be thought crazy and taken off the front lines.
Once he figures out what the various musical cues mean he actually finds them useful in figuring out how dangerous a situation is. Also battles are so much cooler now and boring landscapes are slightly less boring because at least now they have mood music. Yep, he can live with this.
(Although he is always confused why the ominousness that is The Imperial March starts playing at some of his decisions)
*cracks up*
Anakin: I’m so worried about something. I should probably keep my feelings to myself and attempt to solve my problems by working with Palpatine. He seems like he has my best interests at heart.
Music: DUN DUN DUN, DUN DA-DUN, DUN DA-DUN!
Anakin: [pauses] [looks around] Uh…OK. I mean, I’ll…go talk to Obi-Wan?
Music: [hopeful woodwind instruments]
Anakin: …and be open and honest about my life and what is bothering me, and try to work out a non-violent resolution to my problems?
The Force: Son, please… Guess I’m gonna enable the hints menu.
THE HINTS MENU. *dies*
Maybe Obi-Wan hears the music, too, and then the day is saved.
Obi-Wan: [walking away] Welp, guess it’s off to kill Grievous I’m sure Anakin will be fi –
Music: [Duel of the Fates]
Obi-Wan: OMG not this shit again [runs back down the hall towards Anakin]
Anakin: [running back towards Obi-Wan] Obi-Wan I just heard that Ominous Music again and also I secretly married Padme and she’s pregnant and I haven’t slept in 6 days and I keep thinking she’s going to die and I AM FREAKING THE FUCK OUT and if you leave I will 100% end up killing everyone and –
Obi-Wan: – oh my God! OK…it’s OK, I heard my own ominous music a second ago when I was getting ready to leave and so I won’t and we’ll fix th –
Anakin: – I heard mine when I thought about maybe talking to the Chancellor instead of y–
Palpatine: [sidling up behind them smugly] Everything all right, gentlemen?
Music: [scary ass music from the opera scene]
Anakin and Obi-Wan: AHHHH
I randomly thought of this post again today and it made me laugh
For the record in that last line I always pictured them clinging to each other in fear like Shaggy and Scooby:
This must have happened sometime during the Clone Wars, at some official party with the Galaxy jet set. And I’m all about embarassed Obi Wan and Satine snickering behind.
“Anakin, just relax, have some fun, you don’t need to go chasing adventure every single second, you can take a br–exCUSE ME I GOTTA GO CHASE A SMUGGLER BYE. *ZOOM*”
I HAVE BEEN LAUGHING OUT LOUD FOR TEN MINUTES STRAIGHT NOW.
(”Just look for the man who looks unhappy to be here.” when telling the Rodian to give Anakin the bill, I am never feeling sorry for Obi-Wan having to deal with that little shit ever again, not when he clearly goddamned started it. FOREVER LOL.)
Okay, just…wait a second.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?
Anakin, Obi-wan and Ahsoka on vacation at the beach? Obi-wan getting someone else to pay the bill (um, he’s done this a ton of times, guys. Getting to Alderaan and the Deception arc being the most notable times…) Of course, somehow Obi-wan finding trouble and running off, just as he told Anakin he wouldn’t and shouldn’t do.
WOW.
This is truly a piece of art.
(Wait, why is Anakin at the beach? I thought he hated sand.)
I am so in love with everything in this scene.
– ANAKIN. AT THE BEACH. WITHOUT A SHIRT EVEN. Why is he not wearing a shirt if he’s the one who’s like UUUGHH I DON’T EVEN WANT TO BE HERE??
– Obi-Wan has actually taken off his shoes and socks! That’s how you know he’s in vacation mode! He still has two layers of his tunics on, but!! NO SOCKS AND SHOES!!!
– Ahsoka still in her full outfit. Shoes and everything!
THESE PEOPLE ARE TERRIBLE AT BEACH VACATIONS, I LOVE IT. And I’m forever angry that we were denied The Team in tacky Hawaiian print shirts at the beach. WE WERE ROBBED.
Holy fuck. I– I think this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen, from Anakin’s hair to them *being at a beach* to Ahsoka still in her usual outfit to Obi-Wan pulling on his boots and sprinting into trouble. I’m–
Beach sand is clearly different than desert sand (no really, beach sand is typically much finer, thus softer than sand in deserts, at least in my experience). Plus there are no fruity drinks and lounge chairs on tatooine.
Anakin: What am I doing wrong?
Obi-Wan: Do you want me to answer as a friend or a therapist?
Anakin: As a friend.
Obi-Wan: See a therapist.
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT WHY I WILL DEFEND OBI-WAN AS BEING A GOOD MASTER FOR ANAKIN SKYWALKER:
Can you IMAGINE if someone had done this to Anakin? Just tossed him aside with a quick “oh, he’s ready for the trials” because they’d found someone shinier and newer to train?
I don’t think it was that bad of Qui-Gon, I get why he felt this was the best way forward, and I think Obi-Wan got over it because he had bigger things to worry about and he does understand what Qui-Gon was thinking. It stung, but Obi-Wan’s used to that by now.
But Anakin? No, Anakin would never have understood. For all that they have terrible communication and misunderstand the depth of what the other feels, Obi-Wan and Anakin share something vitally important: They’re both prone to attachment.
Obi-Wan allows Anakin’s attachment (probably tacitly, but still an allowance) in a way that I don’t think another Jedi Master would have. And certainly Obi-Wan would never do this to Anakin, would never shove him into the trials because he had someone new that he was going to focus on, would never cut that relationship off so abruptly. And if he had, Anakin would have been devastatedby it.
Instead, Obi-Wan’s thoughts on a new apprentice, even once Anakin is a Knight and has his own apprentice now:
Obi-Wan doesn’t take on another Padawan because he’s still there for Anakin, who needs that support. Any time I start wandering down the path of, “Hmm, would Qui-Gon have been able to prevent Anakin’s fall?” I come back to this moment and think that Qui-Gon’s refusal to allow room for attachment would have driven Anakin away faster than Obi-Wan’s more allowing nature.
I have no doubt that Qui-Gon would have cared very much, but I think the mutual “flaw” of attachment in both Obi-Wan and Anakin allowed for a stronger match than they maybe always get credit for. Anakin needed that, needed even more than Obi-Wan thought he needed, and every time I wonder about Qui-Gon, I come back to that he would have been even less of that, not more.
Ahsoka: “…. and then I told him to be careful not to choke on his stupidity”
Anakin: “Nice.”
Anakin [in his mind]: Fucking sick. You know what would be even more sick, if you were force choking him while doing that. Fucking rad!! That’s a good one. I’m going to use that someday.
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