SO I just saw this post going around with Notable Jedi abilities and they just casually threw in flashburn?? Which is apparently a force ability I’ve never heard of where one can ‘shutdown areas of their minds in reaction to emotional trauma. With sections of their memory seemingly ceasing to exist, those who used the technique were unable to remember details about the event at the center of the trauma.’
Are you telling me that OBI-WAN KENOBI had straight up LITERAL FORCE POWERED REPRESSION ABILITIES
This...kriff I need to lay down. Was Obi-Wan repressing his way past Anakin’s various childhood red flags? Maybe, probably not. But during the WAR? FORCE. Did he agree to Rako Hardeen because he just **repressed** Zygerria so hard that he was like ‘yeah it’ll be rough but my mental health and all my personal relationships are in goodgreat shape right now so why not?’??
And then ORDER 66. HOW MUCH OF THAT DID HE ERASE. I have hard headcanoned before that Old Ben told Luke that Darth Vader killed Anakin because that’s what he honestly believed- he disassociated his way into thinking of his best friend and the mass-murder he mutilated as two separate people. How true might that be? DID HE MAKE HIMSELF FORGET THAT DARTH VADER==ANAKIN SKYWALKER
Now I desperately need a time-travel fic where Obi-Wan goes back and is trying to fix things but he CAN’T FUCKING REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED. Like he knows the Jedi were all wiped out but doesn’t remember how?!? And everyone’s like Obi-Wan...we believe you...but...what the actual fuck. It is NOT going to help Anakin’s anxiety when future Obi-Wan’s goes ‘ha yeah you and your wife both died so horrifically that I repressed it and moved to tatooine. i vaguely remember screaming? maybe lava? idk.’ He remembers Darth Vader was a trusted Jedi and he slaughtered all the crechelings but CANNOT figure out who it was. It definitely felt like a personal betrayal but...no that’s all he’s got.