didn’t someone on this hell site mention an orpheus/eurydice obikin au??? it must have been said right??? i need to like talk out this conundrum with someone re: the tunnel scene where they have to lead their beloved’s soul back through the tunnel to the land of living but they can’t look back or they lose the soul immediately back to hell
i don’t think anakin could make it to the end of the tunnel without looking back, but would obi-wan also?? i feel like that last-second of sudden insecurity would be all it takes for him to lose faith, but maybe not clone wars era obikin? i feel like right before the reveal of anakin’s fall, obi-wan’s faith in anakin is so nigh unshakeable, he’d walk confidently back…
it would be kenobi-era obikin….. that might be where all the faith is gone…. the hope was there, but the faith? what good did faith do him in the end?
EDIT: adding previous comments for my own brainrot and reference
yes yes yes the voices of the shades of the fallen comrades, all those trusted… the voice of his younger self calling him to account for all the failures he’s heaped upon his shoulders…the recriminations he wishes his beloved would snarl and spit at his back just to know he had even followed. would padme’s last words hold close enough as the whisper bare cloak to shield him until those final steps? clone wars anakin would break at the very end - it would be his fall, his own doubts that obi-wan would ever choose him over anything, unable to take that last step into the light. but vader? gods would vader even try? or have the embers of vader’s krayt heart turned to ash at last, would he make it to the light not out of hope but out of spite, chased by the vitriol of ghosts and a hell of his own making, would he take what he believes is another trick of the jedi, a false deal just to prove there is no goodness in this world, no love, no one waiting nor willing to forgive or follow - not for him. Not even the best of men, the best of jedi in his eyes, his most hated and beloved.
-> Sidebar: Is the task of saving Vader from the Underworld one which only Luke so pure in faith could undertake?

















