I’M CRYING RIGHT NOW. We all know that Pablo Hidalgo tweet about how George said Anakin had “help from the other side” to become a Force Ghost without training, which was obviously referring to Obi-Wan. Because Obi-Wan loved Anakin always, no matter what he did, Obi-Wan loved him. Even after the death of the Jedi and the children, even after all the monstrous things Vader did, OBI-WAN KENOBI LOVED ANAKIN SKYWALKER. LOVED HIM ENOUGH TO BRING HIM HOME.
AND THEN HERE’S THE END OF ROTJ, WHERE ANAKIN SHOWS UP.
Yoda’s reaction to seeing Anakin Skywalker again:
He actually smiles wider, he’s happy to see Anakin returned from the dark!
Then Obi-Wan puts a hand on Yoda’s shoulder and he turns to look at Obi-Wan and gives him THIS LOOK:
“I KNOW WHAT YOU DID, YOU SMITTEN LITTLE SHIT, YOU ARE STILL SPOILING THAT KID ROTTEN.”
How many times do you think, while in Tatooine, Obi-Wan replayed that moment he and Anakin parted on that ramp before he left for Utapau? Where everything had seemed, just for a single moment, perfect between them? How many times do you think he tried to remember if there had been any sign at all in Anakin’s face that would’ve told him he was going to lose that boy, whom he loved and had so much hopes for? And wondered if that moment had been the point where he should’ve decided not to go without Anakin or just walked back to Anakin and stayed with him? Because all he can remember is seeing a shy smile on that beautiful face while wishing him ‘May the Force be with you’… was that real or was Anakin deceiving him already? If that was not real then what was ever real between them? How many times do you think he has gone over that moment over and over and over again..? And each time coming up with nothing to soothe his pain because he knows in the depths of his heart that the smile had been true….then what went wrong? What did he do wrong? What did he miss?
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