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It would be a beautiful disaster. In the best way, I mean.
Suddenly Obi-Wan has a sister Padawan in Depa Billaba, who is cool, calm, collected, chill, and completely, utterly wicked about spoiling her new brother Padawan. Obi-Wan keeps bluescreening over this until he gets used to it. Then it’s a game to see who can make Mace drink the most to compensate for the evening. Echuu Shen-Jon, his new brother Padawan, notices that Obi-Wan likes to fly and makes it a life-goal to make certain Obi-Wan is a terrifying pilot because everyone should take some form of revenge against their former Master, and making Mace regret it every time he steps foot on a transport is the best thing Echuu can think of. (Depa already stole drinking rights, dammit.)
He’s just adjusting to the whole “someone wants me!” thing when Mace uses slaying logic to find out just what in the fuck was going on in the creche in the first place. Mace is then seriously pissed off that someone taught his Padawan that being utterly passive to the point of letting someone beat the hell out of you is the act of a “proper Jedi” and goes to tear several creche Masters and Healers as many new assholes as it takes for that attitude to stop.
At first he thought his new Padawan would need Vapaad. Now Mace realizes that his new Padawan would be devastating no matter what Obi-Wan learns and just decides to let him choose.
(Obi-Wan spends about six months panicking about making the Wrong Choice in regards to choosing a lightsaber fighting style because This Is Not How Things Are Supposed To Work.)
Obi-Wan now lives and breathes Council politics and Republic politics and is fourteen the first time he says aloud, “This is such a complete pile of bantha shit.” Mace says there isn’t nearly enough bantha shit involved in that statement, and thank you for waiting to make that comment until after we left the Senate.
Everyone thought that Mace teaching Obi-Wan would curb the boy’s “Defiance” from the creche. No. No it does not. Everyone keeps forgetting what Mace is really like when he isn’t being political, and that is a disenfranchised angry motherfucker who invented his own lightsaber style when nothing suited him and then spent his five-year at home after Knighting to know and understand where he came from. The only other Jedi he knows who did this is Plo Koon. If anything, Obi-Wan is becoming Polite Defiance Personified.
Eventually Obi-Wan gives up on choosing “a” lightsaber style and just learns everything he can physically perform from all of them because he has no idea what else to do. It’s terrifyingly effective.
A lot of people in the Temple think Obi-Wan will Fall because of his “early” behavior and because he’s the Vapaad Master’s Padawan. Obi-Wan looks at Depa and Echuu Shen-Jon and thinks that these people have to be seriously fucking blind not to have noticed Mace’s previous two successfully Knighted Padawans, who are just fine–and the newly titled Master of the pair was just elected to the Council at the youngest humanoid age ever.
Qui-Gon pisses Mace off yet again, so Mace pulls rank and it being his Padawan and assigns Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon to work a mission together. Qui-Gon tries to be himself, except bitter because he still hasn’t gotten over his issues. Obi-Wan gives him a flat look and tells him that he is being STUPID, and also Falling out of Bitterness sounds like a really dumbass idea, but if Qui-Gon wants to go that route, that’s his business. Qui-Gon is rather crankily reminded of the fact that Mace’s Padawan sounds like Mace and that Mace never once put up with any of his shit even when Mace was twelve. He spends the rest of the mission begrudingly listening to this sharp-tongued politician Jedi kid kick ass, fly like the most terrifying being in existence, drink Qui-Gon himself under the table (thank you, Depa) and just generally being the kind of Jedi Qui-Gon remembers he used to be thirty years ago.
This is not a pleasing recollection, mostly because then he has to stop and look at what a clusterfuck of a Jedi he’s allowed himself to become. Qui-Gon blames Mace. Obi-Wan would just like it if Qui-Gon would lower the angst level in the room to at least an 8 out of 10 instead of leaving it jammed at 11+.
Needless to say, the Mandalore mission isn’t any fun, but Obi-Wan is adopted by a clan and gets shiny armor out of it. So worth being shot at for six months straight.
Afterwards, Mace asks Obi-Wan what he did, because Qui-Gon went to the Healers.
“Okay?”
“On his own, Padawan.”
“Okay…?”
“He never, ever goes to the fucking Healers unless someone drugs him first.”
Obi-Wan stares at his Master.
“You drugged him.”
“Just a little bit.”
Mace smiles. “Good job, Padawan.”
“Thank you, Master.”
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It would be a beautiful disaster. In the best way, I mean.
Suddenly Obi-Wan has a sister Padawan in Depa Billaba, who is cool, calm, collected, chill, and completely, utterly wicked about spoiling her new brother Padawan. Obi-Wan keeps bluescreening over this until he gets used to it. Then it’s a game to see who can make Mace drink the most to compensate for the evening. Echuu Shen-Jon, his new brother Padawan, notices that Obi-Wan likes to fly and makes it a life-goal to make certain Obi-Wan is a terrifying pilot because everyone should take some form of revenge against their former Master, and making Mace regret it every time he steps foot on a transport is the best thing Echuu can think of. (Depa already stole drinking rights, dammit.)
He’s just adjusting to the whole “someone wants me!” thing when Mace uses slaying logic to find out just what in the fuck was going on in the creche in the first place. Mace is then seriously pissed off that someone taught his Padawan that being utterly passive to the point of letting someone beat the hell out of you is the act of a “proper Jedi” and goes to tear several creche Masters and Healers as many new assholes as it takes for that attitude to stop.
At first he thought his new Padawan would need Vapaad. Now Mace realizes that his new Padawan would be devastating no matter what Obi-Wan learns and just decides to let him choose.
(Obi-Wan spends about six months panicking about making the Wrong Choice in regards to choosing a lightsaber fighting style because This Is Not How Things Are Supposed To Work.)
Obi-Wan now lives and breathes Council politics and Republic politics and is fourteen the first time he says aloud, “This is such a complete pile of bantha shit.” Mace says there isn’t nearly enough bantha shit involved in that statement, and thank you for waiting to make that comment until after we left the Senate.
Everyone thought that Mace teaching Obi-Wan would curb the boy’s “Defiance” from the creche. No. No it does not. Everyone keeps forgetting what Mace is really like when he isn’t being political, and that is a disenfranchised angry motherfucker who invented his own lightsaber style when nothing suited him and then spent his five-year at home after Knighting to know and understand where he came from. The only other Jedi he knows who did this is Plo Koon. If anything, Obi-Wan is becoming Polite Defiance Personified.
Eventually Obi-Wan gives up on choosing “a” lightsaber style and just learns everything he can physically perform from all of them because he has no idea what else to do. It’s terrifyingly effective.
A lot of people in the Temple think Obi-Wan will Fall because of his “early” behavior and because he’s the Vapaad Master’s Padawan. Obi-Wan looks at Depa and Echuu Shen-Jon and thinks that these people have to be seriously fucking blind not to have noticed Mace’s previous two successfully Knighted Padawans, who are just fine–and the newly titled Master of the pair was just elected to the Council at the youngest humanoid age ever.
Qui-Gon pisses Mace off yet again, so Mace pulls rank and it being his Padawan and assigns Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon to work a mission together. Qui-Gon tries to be himself, except bitter because he still hasn’t gotten over his issues. Obi-Wan gives him a flat look and tells him that he is being STUPID, and also Falling out of Bitterness sounds like a really dumbass idea, but if Qui-Gon wants to go that route, that’s his business. Qui-Gon is rather crankily reminded of the fact that Mace’s Padawan sounds like Mace and that Mace never once put up with any of his shit even when Mace was twelve. He spends the rest of the mission begrudingly listening to this sharp-tongued politician Jedi kid kick ass, fly like the most terrifying being in existence, drink Qui-Gon himself under the table (thank you, Depa) and just generally being the kind of Jedi Qui-Gon remembers he used to be thirty years ago.
This is not a pleasing recollection, mostly because then he has to stop and look at what a clusterfuck of a Jedi he’s allowed himself to become. Qui-Gon blames Mace. Obi-Wan would just like it if Qui-Gon would lower the angst level in the room to at least an 8 out of 10 instead of leaving it jammed at 11+.
Needless to say, the Mandalore mission isn’t any fun, but Obi-Wan is adopted by a clan and gets shiny armor out of it. So worth being shot at for six months straight.
Afterwards, Mace asks Obi-Wan what he did, because Qui-Gon went to the Healers.
“Okay?”
“On his own, Padawan.”
“Okay…?”
“He never, ever goes to the fucking Healers unless someone drugs him first.”
Obi-Wan stares at his Master.
“You drugged him.”
“Just a little bit.”
Mace smiles. “Good job, Padawan.”
“Thank you, Master.”
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