Obi-Wan’s Snobbery
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rakashavia http://ift.tt/2yJvNyl:
wingletblackbird:
Obi-Wan is one of those characters who genuinely believes he isn’t in anyway a bigot. This is in spite of the fact that he struggles when dealing with people who are “uncultured,” and “uncivilised,” as if those words weren’t subjective. Apparently the only culture that matters is Core World culture. If you don’t know about that you’re uncultured, clearly ignorant, and a rather pathetic life-form in need of rescue, and a “proper” education. To be refined is to appreciate opera, and the fine arts. It doesn’t involve being multilingual, and deeply immersed in the art, etiquette, and society that developed separately on an Outer Rim world. They’re archaic, naturally: Clearly inferior. Obi-Wan is a snob who is barely aware that he is one, and he is all the more a better character for it.
This is one reason I absolutely love imagining Clone Wars!Obi-Wan interacting with timetraveler!Bennu.
Bennu Kenobi is Unfathered of Tatooine. She grew up with her mother in the middle of the desert; she never finished school. (Leia helped her gain the Star Wars equivalent of a GED via correspondence course, not that Bennu tells her past-mother that.) Bennu speaks with an Outer Rim accent; she likes tinkering with random mechanical odds and ends, she has nothing approximating a classical lightsaber style and fights absolutely dirty, throwing everything but the kitchen sink at her enemy.
And Bennu Kenobi can speak at least two languages fluently. Is well on her way to becoming an acknowledged Wise Woman. Can tell the Stories. Can flow through the Dances.
Bennu is unquestionably, entirely, unashamedly, herself. Bennu Kenobi. Unfathered. Daughter of the Desert. Jedi Knight. She will fight you if you insult her religion. She hates slavers (she still remembers the promise she made to her mother, so long ago - run. hide. Kill them if you have to. Never let them take you.). She plain-up doesn’t care what other people think of her, what other people see, and she does not accept the authority of those she does not respect.
Bennu Kenobi would give clone wars!Obi-Wan culture shock.
wingletblackbird:
Obi-Wan is one of those characters who genuinely believes he isn’t in anyway a bigot. This is in spite of the fact that he struggles when dealing with people who are “uncultured,” and “uncivilised,” as if those words weren’t subjective. Apparently the only culture that matters is Core World culture. If you don’t know about that you’re uncultured, clearly ignorant, and a rather pathetic life-form in need of rescue, and a “proper” education. To be refined is to appreciate opera, and the fine arts. It doesn’t involve being multilingual, and deeply immersed in the art, etiquette, and society that developed separately on an Outer Rim world. They’re archaic, naturally: Clearly inferior. Obi-Wan is a snob who is barely aware that he is one, and he is all the more a better character for it.
This is one reason I absolutely love imagining Clone Wars!Obi-Wan interacting with timetraveler!Bennu.
Bennu Kenobi is Unfathered of Tatooine. She grew up with her mother in the middle of the desert; she never finished school. (Leia helped her gain the Star Wars equivalent of a GED via correspondence course, not that Bennu tells her past-mother that.) Bennu speaks with an Outer Rim accent; she likes tinkering with random mechanical odds and ends, she has nothing approximating a classical lightsaber style and fights absolutely dirty, throwing everything but the kitchen sink at her enemy.
And Bennu Kenobi can speak at least two languages fluently. Is well on her way to becoming an acknowledged Wise Woman. Can tell the Stories. Can flow through the Dances.
Bennu is unquestionably, entirely, unashamedly, herself. Bennu Kenobi. Unfathered. Daughter of the Desert. Jedi Knight. She will fight you if you insult her religion. She hates slavers (she still remembers the promise she made to her mother, so long ago - run. hide. Kill them if you have to. Never let them take you.). She plain-up doesn’t care what other people think of her, what other people see, and she does not accept the authority of those she does not respect.
Bennu Kenobi would give clone wars!Obi-Wan culture shock.
