❜ like my father ? ❜ without realizing his hand has moved to where the strange foreign object is hooked around his belt, fingers fishing it out to feel its weight in his hand. Bright eyes search the durasteel, every crook and cranny of the design has been deliberately thought through, resulting in a flawless construction. Pride sparks in his chest knowing that such an impressive item has been wielded by his father, and that it has now been passed down to him. However, this does not stop the DOUBT. He’s still wary of this, still quite convinced Obi-Wan has mistaken him for someone else. Luke has always felt out of place on tatooine, never truly adapted to the life of a moisture farmer, but surely this is too far fetched, even for him. No, he’s convinced it will not be long until Obi-Wan realizes his intuition has misled him, but until that happens he has every intention of enjoying this while it lasts.
he shifts the lightsaber in his grip, twisting and turning, watching light bounce off the metallic surface. ❜ feeling the force ? through THIS THING ? ❜ he tries not to sound too disbelieving, but he’s uncertain how he’s supposed to feel something he cannot even see, through something he has no idea how to use. His brain-to-mouth filter catches any and all versions of ‘ what does it feel like ‘ and ‘ how do you even know when you’re feeling it ‘, categorizing them as dumb questions that’ll most likely answer themselves in time.
instead he bounces off where he has been seated, restless legs stretching as he rocks back onto his heels, curiously fidgeting with the lightsaber. Up until this point he hadn’t dared to investigate it in closer detail, always slightly fearing it wouldn’t still be operative. He had found it in Old Ben’s cottage some time ago, as it had become habit to chase off scavengers after the old man had gone missing. The ‘saber had been stuffed away, only to be knocked into the open by a trespasser in an awful hurry. He had seen it while putting the place back in order, ( although owen had told him the old sod was probably dead somewhere, luke still figured it did no one harm to keep the place okay looking, just in case ), and felt compelled to bring it with him. However he’d never gone as far as giving in to the itch of activating it, not even once.
❜ how do you use it ? ‘you think it still works ? ❜
❛ yes, like your father. i knew him, remember ? he was incredibly strong in the force, like nothing i had ever seen, nor had anyone else ever seen. ❜ the boy’s self-doubt sends waves through the energy around him, hitting obi-wan, and rippling past, like small waves in a pond moved by a sudden gust of wind. he does not say anything, not about that anyway, instead his words grow quiet, reminiscing, instead, to time long past ( not for him, necessarily, but for others. ), events that seem like yesterday to him, events that are ever burned into his memory - he can never let it go. his own self-doubt racks his body; it’s possible he will fail luke as he did his father, and plunge the galaxy into irreversible darkness. and it will be ( HIS FAULT ). the moment passes and his mind pushes the useless thoughts from his brain. thinking that he will fail will just make that eventuality more likely.
he focuses his attention, instead, on luke. his lack of knowledge of the force and the jedi are no one’s fault. his late start is also the fault of no one. it’s a victim of the dark circumstances the galaxy is in now, where the jedi have fallen into legend and are seen as the corruption on the losing side of a civil war. ❛ your lightsaber, once you’re more connected to the force, and you must not expect that to happen overnight, luke, can become an extension of your body. but it is not a weapon, not of death or a bringer of fear. it’s to bring HOPE, and defense is it’s primary use. ❜ he doesn’t want to think about the clone wars, where the jedi ran rampant with their lightsabers as harbingers of destruction. ❛ it takes practice. ❜
obi-wan hadn’t yet asked luke where he had found anakin’s lightsaber, but it will come up, eventually - yet now is still not the time. he touches the lightsaber with the force, just briefly, and it seems to be in working order - meaning it won’t explode in luke’s hands. it reminds him of battles fought and endless waves of battle droids and he takes away his senses from it. ❛ it seems to be working fine. point it away from yourself, and activate it. ❜ to see the blue beam of energy again will likely bring back dark memories ( he wishes they would just stay in his dreams ) but he must move past it; this is more important.
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