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Sep. 26th, 2005 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quigonejinn*tramples over certain passages in the JA books in her continuing rage about lameass Jedi characterizations, stomps over other bits of canon, FUCK CERTAIN TIMELINES*
One of the things that surprised Obi-Wan the most about raising young Anakin was Anakin's habit of constantly stating strong preferences: he preferred chakka bread over darmel rolls. He liked certain kinds of jam, but not others. He expressed a strong preference for a certain set of pajama pants for no discernable reason besides the fact that they were blue and the other pair was brown. Each night, he would ask Obi-Wan to leave the lights on when Obi-Wan put him to bed.
Obi-Wan had articulated similar things when he was younger, but he assumed that it was a childish habit that one grew out of naturally. He had also thought that slaves wouldn't have and enough luxury in their lives to develop preferences, but it seemed that Anakin's mother had done her best. Anakin liked to have his sheets turned a certain way. He wanted a certain syrup on his breakfast food. He liked this type of hand tool over the other, equivalently functioning one.
"You are too attached to physical things, Anakin," Obi-Wan told him one night while they were having an evening study session before bed. "Attachment leads to possessiveness, and no Jedi has personal possessions."
Anakin looked around at their quarters -- he was trying to find some item in the common room of their quarters that he could use to argue back about, and Obi-Wan made a note to give Anakin extra reading tomorrow on obedience as a cardinal Jedi virtue, but the Temple-provided quarters were bare enough so that Anakin couldn't find anything to use. Sand-colored furniture. Sand-colored walls. The rug underneath the dining table was the same color as the carpet.
"Well, what about that?" Anakin pointed down.
Obi-Wan looked down and lifted his eyebrows. "That is my lightsaber."
"That's your personal possession, isn't it? And before it was yours, it was Qui-Gon's."
Obi-Wan looked at Anakin for a very long time, then, before he dismissed him for the night.
One of the things that surprised Obi-Wan the most about raising young Anakin was Anakin's habit of constantly stating strong preferences: he preferred chakka bread over darmel rolls. He liked certain kinds of jam, but not others. He expressed a strong preference for a certain set of pajama pants for no discernable reason besides the fact that they were blue and the other pair was brown. Each night, he would ask Obi-Wan to leave the lights on when Obi-Wan put him to bed.
Obi-Wan had articulated similar things when he was younger, but he assumed that it was a childish habit that one grew out of naturally. He had also thought that slaves wouldn't have and enough luxury in their lives to develop preferences, but it seemed that Anakin's mother had done her best. Anakin liked to have his sheets turned a certain way. He wanted a certain syrup on his breakfast food. He liked this type of hand tool over the other, equivalently functioning one.
"You are too attached to physical things, Anakin," Obi-Wan told him one night while they were having an evening study session before bed. "Attachment leads to possessiveness, and no Jedi has personal possessions."
Anakin looked around at their quarters -- he was trying to find some item in the common room of their quarters that he could use to argue back about, and Obi-Wan made a note to give Anakin extra reading tomorrow on obedience as a cardinal Jedi virtue, but the Temple-provided quarters were bare enough so that Anakin couldn't find anything to use. Sand-colored furniture. Sand-colored walls. The rug underneath the dining table was the same color as the carpet.
"Well, what about that?" Anakin pointed down.
Obi-Wan looked down and lifted his eyebrows. "That is my lightsaber."
"That's your personal possession, isn't it? And before it was yours, it was Qui-Gon's."
Obi-Wan looked at Anakin for a very long time, then, before he dismissed him for the night.
