I hope he found old timey holonet footage of Obi-Wan during the Clone Wars and modeled his own un-hooding after it.
Yeah I mean imagine poor Luke sifting through Ben’s little hermit hut, finding the package Ben left him alongside all these brown hooded robes. And Luke sort of ignores them because they’re just cloaks? Standard desert wear. And he’s never coming back here if he can help it so why does he feel like he HAS to take them?
And they sit in his belongings for so long, unused, until there’s this really sandy planet (not the same sand as Tatooine and Luke is strangely relieved by that) and he figures why not?
The cloak is warm.
And as he goes about his mission he notices people responding strangely, whispers following him, hushed movements whenever he enters a room.
“Jedi” they say.
He asks around afterwards, and it is Leia who smiles somewhat sadly. “I’m not surprised. My father sometimes mentioned it, the Jedi and their cloaks. You wouldn’t think a piece of cloth would be enough to hide their identity and yet then, when you least expected it, the hood would come down and suddenly they are Jedi.” She laughs. “I suppose this means you’re doing it right!”
Leia’s words encourage him to look through what little archive data they have on the Jedi, scattered news reports, public appearances and the like. He learns. He is a wanted man, and the cloak is sometimes more hindrance than help. But it makes him feel a little closer to Ben, to his father…
And then there is Bespin.
He cannot look at the cloak.
(the cloth is wool but feels like lies)
It sits unwanted in his footlocker until they get word from Lando about Han’s location. He’s going back to Tatooine.
Luke tells himself it’s just a cloak. He doesn’t really need it.
But their plans need him to be a Jedi.
So despite his doubts, despite his uncertainty, a Jedi he must be.
The cloak is warm.
And as he faces Jabba in his stronghold Luke swears he can almost feel it’s folds lending him strength.
Later as they pile back into the Falcon, Han demanding Chewie explain EVERYTHING they did to his ship, Luke realises the cloak is gone.
He puts it aside. There are far more important things to think about now.
It’s only as he basks in the warmth of the fire beneath towering trees, the glowing forms of his forebears watching over them that he turns to his teacher with an apologetic look.
“Oh, I just realised. I’m sorry Ben, I think I lost your cloak in the Rancor pit…”
He doesn’t know why that causes both his father and Master Yoda to break out in ghostly laughter, but it is good.
It’s all good.
🙂
😂
😭
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…Obi-Wan knows pride is unbecoming of a Jedi and all, but also he’s dead now and Sidious is dead and Anakin’s back and it’s a good day and so really, even though Yoda and Anakin are laughing their asses off at this, Obi-Wan can’t help but be a little bit flattered that his nephew has taken after him in this regard.
So that post about Obi-Wan’s cloaks… Luke’s dramatic hood removal in ROTJ looks remarkably similar to a certain ginger Jedi’s over two decades earlier – maybe he DID find a stash of old Ben’s cloaks in the old hermit hut! ;)
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