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If the majority of the Jedi don't reproduce, how do force sensitives continue to crop up in numbers? The Skywalker saga wants us to believe it's genetically related though is that because the force is literally a part of their heritage? We know there are species who are more sensitive to it. But is it genetic or is it just random "the force blesses this child"? Genetic would be hard since it goes across so many species that are unable to crossbreed. But also the force just randomly bestowing midichlorians just doesn't feel scientific. It flows through all living things but more through others at random?

I shouldn't try to think things through this hard in fictional universes.

Yeah, it’s pretty much “the Force blesses this child at random” as far as I can tell! Canon can’t really seem to make up its mind whether the Force is genetic or not--it certainly is in the Skywalker family, but they’re literally descended from the Force itself, I’m pretty sure they’re an exception to a whole lot of the usual SW rules.  😂 There have been instances where, for example, Adi and Stass were cousins, or a Jedi in Dooku: Jedi Lost had a child who was also a Jedi, or Karr Nuq Sin’s grandfather was a Jedi Padawan who left and his grandson was Force-sensitive (but implied to not be strong enough to have been a Jedi). On the other hand, why aren’t there like a dozen Kenobis running around the Jedi Temple?  Or a dozen Windus?  If their family line was strong enough to produce a Jedi like Mace Windu, why didn’t it produce more?  Why is he the only one?  If Obi-Wan’s genetic family was strong enough to produce him, why wouldn’t his siblings also be in the Jedi Order? You could argue that, in theory, maybe they are, but there’s nothing in canon to support that idea. But I like the idea, honestly.  The Force is often unknowable, it has a will in the sense that it has momentum and naturally bends one way or the other, it’s a mystic energy field.  And I love the idea that the Jedi have always come from nowhere, they’ve never been about elite bloodlines, but instead about what you do with your potential.

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Thanks, guys. Normally an anon like that could be brushed off easily but they had perfect timing to really get to me tonight.

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Ok, but I had a happy and sappy idea for once in my life. Listening to The Greatest Showman soundtrack and thinking about Mustafar not really happening and him developing a brain and killing Palpatine before Order 66. Instead, Anakin gathers Obi-Wan and Padme and sings 'From Now On' to them in the most heartfelt dramatic way. Like, in front of the Council AND Senate. He totally has the Chancellor's pod with the spotlight and all.

Hahaha! You know he totally hires some people to plant in the crowd to throw roses at him when he’s done, too. ;) 

[forcearama]

You know when you open your mouth and your parent comes out? I feel that happens more and more as I get older. Anyways, you think that ever happened to Vader? Like he's in his big dark castle of tasteless doom and insulting every Imperial officer that visits then boom, all of a sudden a Kenobi-ism pops out (probably with a hint of a Coruscanti accent to boot). Obi-Wan did have an awful lot of one liners, after all.

Oh gosh, I love this. Yes. I hope it happens after Obi-Wan is dead, too, so his ghost can observe this and drag Anakin for it later. “Why do I get the feeling this project is going to be the death of me?” he murmurs to himself during a Death Star Team Meeting, pinching the bridge of the nose on his helmet. The first time he haughtily chides some officer that he “needs to learn his place”, he cringes. 

I also hope it comes out when he has an Evil Ruler of some random planet that’s colluding with the Empire over (he hates when Sheev makes him host these guys GOD WHY CAN’T HE JUST BE LEFT ALONE IN HIS MISERY WITH HIS PICTURES OF CLONE WARS OBI-WAN DAMN IT.) 

He’s sitting there at his edgelord dining table trying to make small talk and be charming because Sheev INSISTED that they make nice with this guy, but like…the only material Anakin has to refer back to is from Obi-Wan negotiating with people, so he sort of ends up hitting on the guy by accident? And since it’s coming from A) Anakin B) as Vader, it’s just incredibly awkward and also terrifying. By the time he sends him off (with one of those dopey salutes that Obi-Wan always did,) he hates himself even more than he did before. 

[forcearama]

@icsek replied to your post:Good god Forcearama, pls help me out of the pit of...

Dammit that was not cheery! Now I’M depressed. Poor Ben all out on his lonesome….

Look, there’s only so much I can reasonably do with Hermit Kenobi to make him less sad, OK? So short of having Shirtless Anakin burst in the door with a bouquet of roses and an explanation about how All of It Was a Bad Dream and then carrying him off to the bedroom, a nice, if brief, visit from Baby Luke and some bonus candy will have to suffice. 😄 

Little Luke’s his buddy! Obi-Wan’s got something to hang in there for! And his little buddy is good and sweet and cares about other people just like Anakin did back in the day. 

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So while re-reading through your #the force ghosts tag, I had a random thought. Anakin is practically a genius engineer, right? And we're all convinced that Hux designed and engineered Starkiller. So on one of those nights where Anakin can't sleep and Obi-Wan just tells him to bother someone else, he wanders into Hux's office. Hux being anal probably has one of those 5" binders of flimsy with the Starkiller 2 plans. Anakin starts to go through them and by morning when Obi-Wan is searching (1/2)

OK, so first off, Obi-Wan is going to have a heart attack (or whatever the Ghost Equivalent is) when he wakes up and Anakin’s gone, because he’s used to waking up with Anakin full-body clinging to him every morning. Since this has never happened in all the time Anakin’s been dead, Obi-Wan’s first thought is going to be to that the writers made something insane happen, like a Sheev clone performed some kind of Dark Side seance and summoned Anakin away from him or something. 

Obi-Wan ends up at Bad Evil Guys Mk II Headquarters, and finds Hux outside his own office, bitching loudly about how “that...apparition or whatever it is in there and it won’t -- oh thank GOD, perhaps this one can talk some sense into him,” he sniffs. Obi-Wan goes in there, and Anakin’s surrounded by papers, hair disheveled, he somehow has a five o’clock shadow. 

“Anakin, what in the hell are you doing?” “I’m fixing this,” he says, with a pencil in his teeth. “We...are not...doing another trench run sequence, so help me,” Anakin mutters half to himself as he punches some numbers into a calculator. “Are you helping them design another Death Star?!” “He was going to put the reactor here, Master!” Anakin says, wild-eyed, pointing at some inscrutable part of a blueprint. “I-I mean, what could this idiot possibly have been thinking?! He might as well just blow the thing up himself and hand the universe over to the Jedi now and save us all some time!” Obi-Wan, facepalming and feeling a Ghost Migraine coming on, wonders how he could possibly have thought his afterlife was going to be any less ridiculous than his actual life was. 

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Is that supposed to be the darksaber?

It’s a kybersaber!  A lightsaber made ENTIRELY OUT OF KYBER CRYSTALS (shhh I’m sure it totally makes sense with SW canon) and everyone wants it REAL BAD, but most especially the Emperor and he is HILARIOUS ABOUT IT.