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when your comfort movie is a star wars film where everyone dies (allegedly)

the trope where arthur makes a move on merlin, and merlin being the oblivious idiot he is, thinks arthur is under a love spell and literally SLAPS him and runs away to gaius is pure gold. whoever thought of this deserves a gold medal

arthur: *kisses his cheek*

merlin: 🧍🏻

merlin:

arthur watching him run away:

my unshakeable headcanon is that anakin was one hell of a firesetter, because kids with histories of abuse and humiliation seek any kind of control and firesetting is a common fixation, and also it's extremely funny considering he will be burned grotesquely by lava later, really there's no downsides to babykin setting the curtains on fire. but i'm sure the heartbreaking psychological implications of this behavior are entirely lost on obi-wan, who received a clipboard of documents, a nine year old, and a, "good luck," so obi-wan is just convinced anakin has some sort of adrenaline complex. as such, he spends all his time spgoogling (space googling) "how to relax boy" and this is why i think obi-wan and anakin's early years are a situational comedy; because i have a tendency towards gallows humor, and i think every possible behavior anakin could have enacted that might communicate, "i have psychological disturbances," can, should, and must have been wildly misunderstood by literally everyone. anakin (aged speleven, space eleven) quietly asks, "do you ever think about dying?" and obi-wan spits out his tea and goes THAT'S NOT A VERY FUNNY - JEST - JESTER SAYING - COMEDIC LINE OF THOUGHT - YOU DON'T GET TO PILOT THE SPEEDER ANYMORE! it's not that obi-wan doesn't dearly love his small arsonist, it's that pretty much everyone sucks at speaking the language of traumatized children.

That screenshot where it looks like they are holding hands

They’re talking about Palpatine

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Padme Design

I really do like looking at Anakin and Obi Wan because they’re so similar but also so vastly different from each other and I know I’m not the first person to point this out, but I do think the fandom has a habit of exploring a dynamic that’s really just divorced from canon. and I do think canon should go out the window more often than not, but also, I think with their particular dynamic, it’s so embedded into the storyline that you lose narrative value when you ignore that. 

I think one of the things that really ties them together is just how selfish they are but they way they are selfish is different from each other and that selfishness is also born out of different circumstances. 

In Anakin’s case, he’s selfish because he finally gets something/someone in a world where nothing belonged to him and nothing about his life was ever certain. He doesn’t know how to let go, nor does he want to let go, so when he has someone or something that he cherishes and loves, he holds them close to his chest and refuses to give them up. It’s why his love turns into possessive attachment and why he’s willing to throw other lives away (even if he doesn’t really register it) if that means the people he cares about live. The whole driving point of RoTS is that Anakin is selfish! He does selfish things, and I think, to an extent, he’s self aware enough to know he’s being selfish but that also doesn’t stop him which is why his fall makes so much sense. It’s in the text.

But on the other hand, Obi Wan’s selfishness is shown but not really explored. Obi Wan is selfish in the way that he’s willfully ignorant. He doesn’t want more but he doesn’t want things to change either. It’s why it’s easy for him to turn a blind eye to Anakin’s spiral, the corruption in the Republic, etc. etc. And he’s also selfish in the way that he views himself, because he is arrogant in a lot of ways, it’s the same way that the Jedi continue to call themselves peacekeepers when the clones are not afforded that title. He does mental gymnastics when looking at his actions in order to avoid confronting the fact that he’s actually breaking the moral framework he holds himself to, and it allows him to skirt around acknowledging the actual issue at hand (the clones’ enslavement, the fact that he benefits from his position in the Republic, etc.). 

And then when you boil it down to the basics, really, Anakin wants to change the galaxy whereas Obi Wan wants things to remain the same. And Anakin isn’t willing to let people go but Obi Wan is (unless said person is Anakin). So then you get this clash between them that Obi Wan refuses to acknowledge while Anakin doesn’t know how to bridge the gap. And I think they both know it’s there but they can’t communicate with each other about it, so it festers until it reaches the breaking point because even if they’re family and even if they love each other as brothers do, they can’t ever address the main issue of their relationship.