OMFG! Anakin might do ~something~ *pearl clutch* (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} darkforcerising) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} makebelievelog, |
Anakin sighed. There were a lot of issues to deconstruct here, not all of them centered on Jedi and their restrictive code. Some of it had to do with his younger self’s lingering adherence to a system, master-slave, that left him feeling like he had little power over his own life.
“You gave him an ultimatum – take training and being a Jedi seriously, or you won’t teach him. And he took you at your word. I can’t put this any other way – but slaves do that. Especially when what they need is at stake.” The implication being, Ani felt he needed Obi-Wan and was willing to do what he felt he had to to maintain access to that need. “And the Code, as he he’s been taught, doesn’t allow for exceptions regarding attachments. According to the Code he’s supposed to be detached and distant.”
Anakin couldn’t help the smile this time, it sprung from a deep affection for his former Master, and the befuddling mess he'd landed in. “You can’t spring your feelings on him while at the same time expecting him to take seriously an ideology that demands he not have those kinds of feelings. You changed the rules on him without explaining all the changes. He’s probably just as confused and frustrated as you are. Have you tried talking to him about attachments and your new opinions about them?”