skyywalkerfen:

skyywalkerfen:

forcearama:

generallkenobi:

spookyrumba:

I   a m   v e r y   p r o u d   o f   y o u

#jesus h christ #heck me right up because you know that force ghost anakin would DREAD seeing obi wan again #he’s so filled with shame and guilt that he hides away in the darkest parts of the universe #maybe for decades #because he doesn’t think he deserves peace #until a very familiar voice finds him #and says aaaaaahnakin #what are you doing all the way out here we’ve been waiting for you #and anakin simply cannot believe obi wan doesn’t hate him #especially after everything he’s done #but obi wan sweeps him into a hug #and whispers #you did what you always do anakin #you overcame

@piraterey HOW DARE YOU

Why

This is both the saddest and the most hopeful thing I have ever seen

so then this happened:

Obi-Wan.”
It came out in something perilously close to a sob, and all he could
do was take hold of his old Master’s elbows and stare at the man in
front of him, looking as he had when Anakin had been knighted, and
revel, wallow, in the feel of those strong hands gripping his
shoulders.  “How …”  Anakin swallowed, painfully.

“How …?”
Copper eyebrows lifted in that softly questioning fashion, and
Obi-Wan’s eyes were the blue-gray he remembered so well, mouth
quirking in the tiny smile it had taken Anakin far too many years to
understand.  “How are you here?  Lessons I learned over the last
twenty years, and I had help, as well, to catch you.”

Anakin swallowed
again.  “Catch?”

Obi-Wan nodded.  “I
– selfishly wanted to see you again, if only for a few moments.
You needn’t be here, if you don’t wish to be.  The peace of the
Force is just a thought away.  It’s your choice, Anakin.”

His name, his true
name, spoken in that voice, the softly proper Corescanti lilt Anakin
had never thought to hear again.

“It has always
been your choice,” Obi-Wan said, squeezing his shoulders.

“Why – am I
here?  When did you –  How can you not hate me now?” Anakin got
out, his voice shaking.

“Oh, Anakin.”
Obi-Wan’s eyes closed briefly, and when they opened again they were
shining.  “I never hated you; I never could.  Even the times when,
I confess, that I wanted to,” he said, shaking his head.  “I
never knew how.  I mourned you.”

It broke him.
Anakin wrapped both arms around Obi-Wan and buried his face in the
white-clad shoulder, fisting one hand in the back of his Master’s
tunics as the fabric against his face grew damp.  ~Sorry sorry
gods so sorry
so sorry please
Obi-Wan – ~

Wordless love
flowing across their old training bond, deep-warm
bright-Force-comfort
feeling surrounding him, as familiar as the
strong arms banded securely around his back.  After a while, the
words in his ear began to make sense.  “It’s all right, Padawan.
It’s all right now.  It’s over,” Obi-Wan murmured, and his
voice wasn’t entirely steady either.  “Over; our parts are over
now, and I am so very proud of you.  You’ve come home, back to the
Light, to us.  To me.”

rocket-sith:

anakinskywkler:

I’m very proud of you, Anakin.

It’s always jumped out at me how lost and alone Anakin looks in this scene after Obi-Wan turns to leave, but also…look at the way Obi-Wan’s shoulder’s are hunched here. Like he KNOWS he’s saying goodbye for the last time, and he wants more than anything to bring Anakin with him. Nothing will ever convince me the Force wasn’t absolutely shrieking at both of them here, yelling at Obi-Wan to take Anakin with him to fight Grievous, and shouting at Anakin to not let his master go alone. And that they both just blew it off, feeling like it was their duty to do so – Obi-Wan not wanting to prioritize his attachment to Anakin above a mission, and Anakin not wanting to seem childish or like a disappointment bad Jedi after Obi-Wan had just praised him. 

It seems like both of them are silently hoping for the other to give in or for the Force to intervene (it was TRYING but you idiots wouldn’t listen to it!), and I don’t believe for one second that if, in this moment, Anakin had tried to follow Obi-Wan, or Obi-Wan had even mentioned in passing that he’d prefer Anakin come with him, they wouldn’t have gone on that mission together, leaving Palpatine’s plans falling down around his ankles, showing his naked Sith emperor ass to the galaxy sooner rather than later. Anakin knows he should have gone with Obi-Wan. He even says it later. He should be with his Jedi bro kicking some armored bug butt, not hanging out on Coruscant waiting for shit to unfold. And Obi-Wan’s posture in this second gif says it loud and clear too.