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Cody and Obi-Wan are such parents—
they mean so much to me ;-;
I think my roommate is a little jealous...
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Seeing all this Kenobi hype spurred me to make this meme
pirate au
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Oh, Padme...
my friend: Hello there!
me: General Kenobi
my friend: why does EVERYONE KEEP SAYING THAT?
How romantic.😍
I just realised the comparisons between Obi Wan dropping his lightsaber and old-fashioned handkerchief etiquette and I am going absolutely insane.
For anyone who doesn’t know, a woman would throw her handkerchief out the window for the man she loves to pick up. If he picked it up, he would fold it and put it in his pocket to intoxicate he accepts and reciprocates her affection.
Or she would walk around in a public park or someplace like that and drop it for eligible men to pick up. The intention was to try and have a moment where their hands would brush together when the man hands it back to her, and so they could have a moment of eye contact and could smile at each other.
This idea works so well with the fact that Obi Wan and Cody wouldn’t be able to express their feelings publicly, so the idea of them having a secret language with each other that could just be laughed off as a joke or Obi Wan being clumsy isn’t too hard to believe. It also ties into the “your lightsaber is your life” concept that people have spoken about on here before and emphasises that the beauty of this relationship is the subtlety of it.
It would be drastically irresponsible for Obi Wan to intentionally drop his lightsaber mid-battle, but it does paint the scene where it falls out of the sky and lands directly in front of Cody in a slightly different light. It also makes Cody having a clip on his belt much more symbolic becwuse this would be the equivalent of him taking the handkerchief and putting it in his pocket.
It also recontextualises Cody’s last action as a free man before Order 66 (taking his time to hand back the lightsaber to Obi Wan) as essentially a declaration of love. So his last real choice he got to make was to tell Obi Wan that he loves him one last time.
Valid💓
no offense to codywan shippers (ya'll are cool and create great fan stuff) seriously, codywan art and fanworks are some of the most detailed, and well thought out pieces i've seen.
but why do you guys ship codywan? they've exchanged like maybe, two sentences per episode they make an appearance in and its mostly about military affairs. they have a relationship you'd expect between like, somewhat affable coworkers. there's more evidence for rex and hunter than there is for cody and obi wan.
you know, i saw a bunch of codywan shippers and codywan fanart and fics when i first entered sw fandom and you know, i read some and thought "this is sweet. this is a cool dynamic. i could get behind this ship."
i'd like you all to keep in mind that i've never seen TCW at that point.
and then i watch TCW and i'm like, you don't even talk to each other. obi wan is in love with hillary clinton for some reason? cody is one of those rare characters where he has zero lines, but you can tell that he has a separate life outside of whatever bullshit he's put on screen for.
i see it as a "what could have been" ship; a ship that should have been explored a bit, even if the power dynamics are really fucked up, rather than yet another woman being fridged for a man. but like, what made you guys codywan stans?
i'm curious, so hit me with your reasons. i'm not dragging codywan-some of my favorite ships are characters that have exchanged a LOOK, not even dialogue. you guys have more basis than me.