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quigonejinn) wrote2006-06-14 09:32 pm
quigonejinn) wrote2006-06-14 09:32 pm
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Had Become.
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Qui-Gon was not as much of a maverick as he liked to think he was. He had his diagreements with the Council, but in most matters, he was the soul of orthodoxy. He wore traditional Jedi clothes; he used the traditional Jedi form in fighting. By virtue of having been raised by Dooku, he used a slightly old fashioned Corsucant accent, and he believed in the correctness of taking Force-talented children to be raised by the Temple down to the marrow of his bones. Even before they came to Naboo, it occurred to Obi-Wan that his master had, in fact, settled into being an old man.
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Obi-Wan was not as much of a stickler for tradition as he liked to think he was. He was wildly inventive on the sparring mats, for one thing, and he was more eager for reconnaisance among the various bars and nightclubs and criminal hangouts of Corsucant than most of his peers would have been. Obi-Wan was a diligent, honest servant of the Force, but he had a much greater taste for adventure than his pride as a Padawan would let him admit. Even before they arrived at Tatooine, it occurred to Qui-Gon that his student had, in fact, grown into a young man.
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When Anakin was young, he asked for stories -- this surprised Obi-Wan, who had no experience of children and had never developed a taste for stories. In the nurseries, they were a teaching devices. Pleasure rarely entered into a properly told moral tale, and consequently, Obi-Wan's recital of Master Jhak'ann and the Seventh Meditation or The Founding of the Second Scroll at Nerman never suited Anakin. By illustration and example, Anakin eventually taught Obi-Wan how to tell stories. He taught Obi-Wan other things, too, in something resembling the way that Padawan always teaches his master even though the actual material conveyed was substantially different, and on the day that Anakin became a knight, Obi-Wan found himself thinking, almost giddily, that it was strange.
Despite the passage of years, despite the onset of war, he actually felt younger now than when first taking Anakin as a Padawan.
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By the time he came to Naboo, Qui-Gon had become an old man. By the time that he came to Tattooine, Obi-Wan had become a young man.
By the time that he left Mustafar, Anakin was Darth Vader and would never become either old or young. He would do terrible things; he would perform galaxy-shaking deeds, but until his son came for him, he had, in all honesty, no more story to tell.
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Wonderful stuff.
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Well written!:)
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