I don’t know if you read or like sith!obi-wan au’s (i know i know, it’s unlikely but i’m a sucker for it) but i’ve seen you blog about it before so i assume you do. I’ve seen, not many but a few depictions of him in fics but i’ve never seen any go into much about what he wants. What do you think sith!obi-wan would want? In a situation where there isn’t clone wars and things just open for him to do whatever he wants? 1/2
I mean, he’s on the dark side and they tend to be pretty ambitious, but i can’t picture him in any form wanting to be ruler of the galaxy like palps. What do you think his goals would be bc no doubt sith!obi-wan is power hungry and calculating, but what would his goals you think be? 2/2
Ohhhhhhhh friend. Friiiiiend. *Muahahahahahah.*
I loooooove Sith!Obi-wan. Love. He would be a killer Sith. Terrifying. Lethal. Snobbier than Dooku, even, and that’s saying a lot.
And it’s a great question - what would a Sith!Obi-wan’s motivations be without the Clone Wars?
And I think to answer this, we need to consider Obi-wan’s younger days. What do we know about Padawan!Obi-wan?
He was assigned to Qui-gon, not chosen (both in canon and eu)
He has a large rebellious streak that somehow mutated into becoming a rule-abiding Jedi, probably just so he could clash with Qui-gon
He has a razor-sharp sense of humor
Qui-gon was constantly comparing Obi-wan to himself in his head, thinking Obi-wan hadn’t gotten as far as he should have. Although Qui-gon never says this outright, I find it hard to believe Obi-wan didn’t pick up on it.
Qui-gon wanted the best for Obi-wan (see how he kept him in the first lightsaber forms far longer than anyone else) but was terrible at explaining his motivations, assuming Obi-wan would figure it out.
Along those lines, Qui-gon seemed to assume a lot of things and was not the best communicator.
And then there was the whole getting nominated for the Council and not telling your Padawan about it.
Not to mention the prophecy thing.
Obi-wan never quite feels he is enough, always feels like he needs to do better, like he needs to prove himself somehow.
This last point is important. I think Obi-wan, on some level, would want to prove to everyone that he is dangerous, that he is intelligent, that he needs to be taken seriously. And to that end, I could see him making a gamut at wresting control of some part of the galaxy, kind of like Dooku and the Separatists, or even heading up a criminal organization. Obi-wan is smart enough to know that ruling the entire galaxy is just setting one’s self up to be taken down, that that type of power consolidation is just putting a gigantic target on one’s back.
So, he doesn’t take over. He just heads an opposition. With the intent of making money, smuggling drugs, perhaps helping the less fortunate parts of the galaxy - but also (and more importantly) - with the goal of making the Jedi miserable, of exposing their weaknesses for all the Republic to see. You doubted me before? he might say. Now you never will.
He wants to prove Qui-gon wrong, to show that he is powerful, accomplished, intelligent, everything Obi-wan thought Qui-gon never realized about him.
He wants to luxuriate in the finer things, everything he kept himself abstinent from as a Jedi (I truly believe at his core, Obi-wan is a hedonist - somewhat like Dooku - but does he repress the hell out of that inclination as a Jedi.)
He wants to control the future - makes it his aim to not only study the prophecies, but destroy them by setting them up just to be knocked down.
Obi-wan Kenobi wants to be seen.
But not as ruler. Let someone else deal with day-to-day politics, with the holojournalists hounding their every step, with the beggars and whiners and masses. Obi-wan would simply control the strings of his puppets, lay down an iron fist when needed, and cultivate his personal interests, forever searching for what makes him better, enhanced, superior (almost like Grievous and his transition to being a half-droid, in a way).
Of course, that type of quest, that motivation is a black hole of need and eventually would spiral out of control.
So yeah, Sith!Obi-wan Kenobi, criminal overlord, part-time politician, and scourge of the Jedi is what I’m seeing from this situation.