just like a priest. *hums*

[quigonejinn]

1.

Some Jedi take an oath promising never to tell a lie. When Obi-Wan considered it as a young Padawan, Qui-Gon left him to it, as he did whenever Obi-Wan started something that he did not particularly care about one way or the other. He did, however, offer up one piece of commentary:

"My master took it some years ago."

Obi-Wan spent years examining that particular memory for inflections of tone, for hints that Qui-Gon had been trying to warn him.


2.

Anakin was, in certain respects, socially crippled. He was incapable of understanding implication, of grasping fine, unsaid points. Obi-Wan initially attributed it to the crudeness of Anakin's upbringing, and when that was no longer possible, to the degree to which Anakin interacted with machines. There was, he thought, a translation difficulty. Anakin produced surprisingly nuanced source code for his droids. It was graceful; it alluded to the unprocessed, and when he was an old man in the desert, Obi-Wan had a great deal of time to reflect upon his Padawan's early affinity for the mechanical.

Comments

[hlglne.livejournal.com]

These are so-- SO. Ringing true-so. Also, they both cast long shadows into the past and future of the characters involved. Resonant with ironies.

Glad to see SW still involves a percentage of your grey matter, now and then.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. You know, sometimes, when I don't respond to your comments, it's because I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say to me -- but I think I get the gist of this one. Thanks for reading. :D

(And it does. Every once in a while. There're a few more stories left in me, I think.)

[hlglne.livejournal.com]

LOL! why is it that whenever I try to comment on your fic, I start to think I'm Gertrude Stein??

Inferiority complex, maybe.

[izzardwizzard.livejournal.com]

You are amazing. You do more in a few lines than most can do in entire novels.

*is not worthy*

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

If they had readers as kind and supportive as you, really. <333

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

"My master took it some years ago."

Hee... cause he never really lied, did he? Poor Obi-Wan has a lot of think about in his long exile on Tatooine.

Also, Anakin really is not subtle. It must have bother Obi-Wan a lot, because it was so un-Jedi.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Anakin is the unsubtlest of the subtle. It's like Palpatine genetically engineered that, too, or something.

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh, these are lovely, and so intrinsically true and right to me. Thank you for the little drabbles. ♥ Always nice to see you back in the lonesome sandbox I play in. :D

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Ahah. :> I think that I'm going to do cupiscent's high school SW AU RPG. :>

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

I say nothing only because I love you. XD

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

I'll also add, before I get flamed or something, that I'M JOKING. Mostly. ;)

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

You lying BITCH. YOU KNOW YOU WERE NOT JOKING :| :| :| TAKE IT BACK.

(In all truth, anybody interested in me enough to read this deeply into the comments of a random story knows, I'm sure, the way that I talk with friends. And shut up, it's going ot be a fucking great RPG. :D I bet it'll still be better characterized than 85% of SW fanfiction. ^_^)

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

I ADMIT IT. I HATE ALL OF YOU. *OPPRESSES*

The RPG is pure crack, but what makes it cool is that I think all of you know that and are cool with that. And the fact that it will be better characterized than 85% of SW fanfiction is why I think people want to play in it. XD

[manonmaru.livejournal.com]

beautiful. both of them. especially the first one, and the last sentence of the second one.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked them, yo, particularly the first one. I re-read the first one this morning, and it was like HURRAY IT STILL SOUNDS GOOD. ^___^

[manonmaru.livejournal.com]

when I went to that page with all the hornblower texts, when I clicked on the links to take me to the stories, I just got a blank screen. Am I doing something wrong?

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

They're PDFs. You're probably better off saving them to your hard drive, them opening them up? If you're using an older computer, it might take a while or just stall.

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Whenever you write SW I always marvel at the intricacies you manage to get at. And how they carry so much weight. Love the first one especially.

[polgarawolf.livejournal.com]

*Laughs helplessly over the fact that Dooku took a vow of utter truthfulness because - well, because. He didn't exactly lie, did he? But it was the truth as the Sith see it, and truth, like reality, is mutable and changes somewhat from person to person, which is how he could get away with being a Sith and still only bend the vow without breaking it*

You know, the dichotomy between the mechanical and the living has always seemed a bit . . . too much of us, for the GFFA, if that makes any sense. You capture it perfectly, but I've never been completely convinced that the separation belongs in the GFFA. If the Force binds and permeates all things, it should be in the mechanical, too. I've never understood why Lucas et al don't see the problem with having the one statement while insisting that the mechanical is generally bad/evil/dead to the Force.