gffa:
I know I bring this up what feels like almost as often as I bring up Anakin being ridiculous or Obi-Wan’s hair, but sometimes the idea that Star Wars might never choose to tell the canon story about Obi-Wan and Baby Luke going to Tatooine in some format – any format – fills me with dismay, because I can’t fathom how they can possibly pass on a Dramatic Sobfest of this caliber.
YOU GUYS: Baby Luke. And Obi-Wan. SAD OBI-WAN WITH A TINY BABY LUKE. Obi-Wan could stare out windows feeling ways about things on the journey there! Luke’s eyes could remind him of Anakin! Everything could be the saddest and the best and I would hate it and watch or read it seventeen thousand times.
I need Obi-Wan going to his new house for that first night, without that tiny baby in his arms for the first time in days, full of second thoughts and doubts because maybe they shouldn’t have come here and yes, Owen and Beru seem lovely and he’s sure they’ll take good care of him but what if they don’t or what if Obi-Wan can’t keep them safe what if he fails again. How long before he started checking up on Luke? How long before he could get anything resembling sleep? When did he start making those wooden toy ships for Luke? (GOD HELP ME I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS IS A THING.)
I have many questions, and I require several specific scenes.
lurkingcrow replied:
… why must you remind me of this??? I have enough ideas as it is…
YES GOOD SUFFER WITH ME. (And no, I will never stop reminding you about all of this.)
Luke and Obi-Wan do seem to have some amount of familiarity with one another when Luke first finds him in A New Hope, which would suggest that they’ve had at least a few brief exchanges once Luke was old enough to actually remember meeting him. So now I’m just going to be over here, thinking about Obi-Wan having an awkward run-in or two with Beru and a tweenage Luke, who looks so like Anakin and is sweet and goofy. And he’s radiating Force Waves and it’s been so long since Obi-Wan has even really had a chance to speak to another Force-sensitive, and Obi-Wan just wants to hug him so much and tell him everything but he can’t so he doesn’t and instead he just nods politely and smiles and tells them to have a nice day and goes back to being Weird Old Hermit Ben Who Is Definitely Not Willing Himself Not To Cry.
raye-minamino replied:
AND LUKE ADORING HIS JEDI GRANDPA
What if the reason Luke describes him as a “weird old hermit” has less to do with Old Ben being distant from everyone on Tatooine, and more to do with the fact that Obi-Wan purposely keeps his distance from Luke/the Larses specifically?
So like, Luke runs into him occasionally over the years and, being Sweet Little Luke, is all GOLLY HI THERE BEN, HOW ARE YOU I’M A PILOT YOU KNOW, and Obi-Wan just has to keep finding ways to more or less politely run away from him while stifling a sob. Luke doesn’t get it: there’s just something about Old Ben that seems so familiar! He gives off this vibe that seems so comforting! Why won’t he just make small talk with him?! Why does he always look like he’s going to cry when Luke brags about how long he can do a handstand for or how he’s going to learn how to fly a podracer someday?
I HATE ALL OF THIS.
It makes it a thousand times worse, thinking about how Obi-Wan knows the day is coming soon that he’ll publicly be a Jedi again, that he’ll get to actually interact with Luke. That finally he can actually TALK to Luke, can actually start to tell him some things, that he gives Luke as much detail as he can handle, as much as it’s safe to tell him right now, he finally gets to talk to Anakin’s son about Anakin, he hasn’t talked about Anakin to anyone living in years. And he finally has someone to guide towards the Force, the one thing that will never leave him, the Force is always there, and now he gets to see Luke’s first steps into this wider world.
He gets to see a young person first learning about it, that sense of wonder and awe as they’re taught to truly connect to it. Finally his life will have a more active purpose, rather than this distance watching and waiting.
AND THEN HE DIES AT GODDAMNED ANAKIN’S HANDS LIKE FOUR DAYS LATER.
HE GOT LIKE FOUR DAYS WITH LUKE.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF WAITING.
Thank god for Force Ghosts, he better have gotten at least ten years of telling Luke all the embarrassing Anakin stories he had. There were A LOT.
konekorambles 