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CANON CONFIRMATION: JEDI YOUNGLINGS ARE HELLIONS WHO TRY STUFF LIKE “WILL THIS LIGHTSABER TOAST THIS BLOCK OF CHEESE?”
so I'm reading the Padawan novel and I realised:
The Jedi who was killed by Cad Bane in season 2 of the Clone Wars was one of Obi-Wan’s childhood friends.
... adding this to the ever-expanding list of "people Obi-Wan cared about who died horribly"
“What’s this important information then?” Obi-Wan snapped.
“Master Qui-Gon Jinn didn’t choose you.”
“What?”
“He didn’t choose you. After your trial.”
Obi-Wan felt the planet tilt on its axis. “What are you talking about? Of course he did.”
Bolla shook his jewel-green head. “Yoda assigned you to him.”
“But...that’s not how it works. Masters choose their apprentices. When they decide to take on a Padawan, they’re guided to the right one. The Force puts us together so we can learn from each other. You know this, same as I do.” But even as Obi-Wan tried to deny what Bolla was telling him, something inside him was already seeing its truth.
“That’s how it usually happens, yes. But not in your case. Qui-Gon didn’t choose you. Yoda made him...I mean, asked him to take you on.”
Obi-Wan didn’t know what to do with this information. He and Bolla clashed more often than not, but the Rodian wasn’t a liar. It felt like the hallway was spinning around him. The Force hadn’t guided Qui-Gon Jinn to take on Obi-Wan as a Padawan. Had he even wanted to, or had Yoda somehow pulled rank as a Council member and made him? No wonder Qui-Gon was always troubled. He hadn’t wanted to train Obi-Wan in the first place, and Obi-Wan was struggling so much. A rush of humiliation flooded Obi-Wan as he imagined how frustrating he must be for the Jedi Knight. A problem he had neither asked for nor planned on.
~ Star Wars: Padawan by Kiersten White
SITS HERE CRYING ABOUT THIS SCENE ON OBI-WAN’S BEHALF 😭😭😭
And then Obi-Wan ends up in the SAME situation with Anakin...!!! 🥺🥺🥺
Happy Order 66 Day!
Not entirely sure if that's a thing, but it's June 6 so it seemed appropriate
the clone wars chronological watch: #27 ➡ Cargo of Doom
Stolen secrets! Villainous mercenary Cad Bane was hired by Darth Sidious to steal a holocron from the vaults of the Jedi Temple. After fleeing the scene of the crime, Bane hunted down and captured Master Bolla Ropal, who has a crystal which holds the secrets of the Jedi Order. As a Separatist fleet arrives to help the bounty hunter, Anakin Skywalker races in to cut off their escape and stop Bane from delivering the stolen holocron.
Bolla Ropal was a Rodian Jedi Master during the Clone Wars. He was not skilled in combat but had precognitive powers and was an expert on Jedi history. Ropal protected a memory device that contained the names of known Force-sensitive children.
Source: The Clone Wars - Act on Instinct (2009)
First Appearance: Star Wars - The Clone Wars (2008)
YES THANK YOU THIS IS WHAT I WANTED FROM AN OBI-WAN BOOK: SOME NICE TIDBITS OF JEDI WORLDBUILDING AND HARD CONFIRMATION THAT OBI-WAN KENOBI AND HIS FRIENDS WERE LITTLE GREMLINS. CONFIRMATION (IN MORE THAN ONE PLACE) THAT JEDI YOUNGLINGS ARE PLAYFUL AND ADORABLE AND HAPPY, THAT THEY FROLIC AROUND WITH THE FORCE AND THAT THEY PLAY GAMES THAT HELP THEM DEVELOP THEIR PSYCHIC SPACE WIZARD SKILLS, LIKE HIDE-AND-SENSE. CONFIRMATION THAT JEDI YOUNGLINGS PLAY JOKES ON EACH OTHER ALL THE TIME, DOUBLE CONFIRMATION THAT OBI-WAN KENOBI WAS JUST AS BAD AS THE OTHERS, THAT HE WAS COMPETITIVE, BUT THAT IT HAD BEEN A JOYFUL WAY. EVEN BOLLA EARLIER IN THE BOOK REMARKS ON HOW OBI-WAN SEEMS SO MISERABLE LATELY, HOW DIFFERENT HE IS FROM HOW THEY WERE AS KIDS. AND OBI-WAN IS REALIZING THAT, YEAH, IT WAS FUN WHEN HE LET IT BE FUN, BECAUSE JEDI HAVE FUN JUST THE SAME AS ANYONE. EVEN SOME DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE GAME WOULD WORK, LIKE OH MY GOD CAN YOU IMAGINE TINY BABY OBI-WAN GOING THROUGH THE YOUNGLINGS’ ROOMS, SENSING THE OTHERS LIKE WARM SPOTS IN A COLD ROOM?
HE’S SO CUTE!!!! HE WAS SUCH A CUTE BABY!!! AND OBI-WAN KEKNOBI WAS PROBABLY A CHAOS GREMLIN EVEN WHEN HE WAS BEING ADORABLE!!! THIS IS THE FACE OF A MENACE WHO WILL PUT GLITTERPASTE IN YOUR WASH CREAM BECAUSE HE THINKS IT’S FUNNY. AND HE STILL THINKS ITS FUNNY YEARS LATER. I HOPE HE TELLS THE STORY AT BOLLA’S FUNERAL AND FINDS A WAY TO LAUGH ABOUT IT STILL, IT’S WHAT BOLLA WOULD HAVE WANTED.