Ten is not too old?! [That seems ridiculous, Obi. She's ten!]
Are you saying the other Jedi masters wouldn't train me if they were here? Because I feel like the other Jedi that are here all want to help me. And you do.
[She does understand the training from a young age thing, but it's not like ten is that old. She would like to think she is half of the time, but that just is dumb. She shakes her head at him before listening to more of the story.]
So he is really strong. [Another hum.] But more things happened, didn't they?
[To Padme. To other things. She can feel the gravity of the situation, the question no one seems to really answer, something that's always been on the tip of her tongue that she hasn't voiced herself, because knowing the answer seems so big.]
Things were different then, Leia. We had rules for a reason. You would have been identified and trained much earlier were the Jedi still around.
[He understands her confusion on the whole matter. Many people didn’t understand their ways. But as he said the rules were there for a reason.]
Yes. He grew and became very strong in the Force. But there was someone influencing him right under my nose. Someone who was manipulating him, convincing him that the Jedi were evil. You see, we had other rules too. Jedi could not marry as it was a conflict with our duties. But he fell in love with your mother and they kept their relationship, their marriage, a secret.
Well I suppose if my mother is a Senator and my father is some really strong Jedi... [But does she think that rule is dumb? Yes. She might be siding with Anakin on how they treated him there. And the press of her lips says as much before he's continuing.
And she's falling quietly, eyes wide when she hears that someone clearly tricked her father and Obi-Wan. And that Jedi can't marry either?! Not that she has plans for doing that. She has way too many big, important things she wants to accomplish to think about settling for some man.
But she thinks about Padme.]
They must have really loved each other to break that rule.
[She wouldn’t be the first to think that such rules were dumb, among the many they had. But Obi-Wan himself has witnessed what can happen when older children were brought into the Order. Anakin wasn’t the first such case after all.
Her deduction about her parents loving each other does bring a little smile to his face.]
Oh, yes, I do believe that is so. People often behave rashly when they’re in love and not always make the best decisions.
[He can safely say that from his own experience as well.]
And I believe those feelings were used against him. Which caused him to do very terrible things.
You may change your mind one day. Though I admit falling in love does cause a lot of trouble.
[Her next question draws a thoughtful hum.]
It wasn’t something that was so obvious or all at once. This man I believe manipulated him for years in a very subtle way. As he did all of us really. Then when it came time he used Anakin to carry out his plan. He is the reason there are so few Jedi left.
Are you in love? [As if you just casually ask that of someone. He does know he went away with Satine though. And maybe she's a little curious. Even if that's not the point of this discussion. She's a precocious ten year old. Of course she's going to ask.]
Oh.
[Well that's not good. And Obi isn't specifically telling her what.]
So he... went bad? [She is only vaguely aware of what the Dark Side is, the feeling and interacting with some of the siths that happen to be around. It's definitely different, but that's about all of her knowledge that's been explicitly dealt with.]
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Are you saying the other Jedi masters wouldn't train me if they were here? Because I feel like the other Jedi that are here all want to help me. And you do.
[She does understand the training from a young age thing, but it's not like ten is that old. She would like to think she is half of the time, but that just is dumb. She shakes her head at him before listening to more of the story.]
So he is really strong. [Another hum.] But more things happened, didn't they?
[To Padme. To other things. She can feel the gravity of the situation, the question no one seems to really answer, something that's always been on the tip of her tongue that she hasn't voiced herself, because knowing the answer seems so big.]
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[He understands her confusion on the whole matter. Many people didn’t understand their ways. But as he said the rules were there for a reason.]
Yes. He grew and became very strong in the Force. But there was someone influencing him right under my nose. Someone who was manipulating him, convincing him that the Jedi were evil. You see, we had other rules too. Jedi could not marry as it was a conflict with our duties. But he fell in love with your mother and they kept their relationship, their marriage, a secret.
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And she's falling quietly, eyes wide when she hears that someone clearly tricked her father and Obi-Wan. And that Jedi can't marry either?! Not that she has plans for doing that. She has way too many big, important things she wants to accomplish to think about settling for some man.
But she thinks about Padme.]
They must have really loved each other to break that rule.
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Her deduction about her parents loving each other does bring a little smile to his face.]
Oh, yes, I do believe that is so. People often behave rashly when they’re in love and not always make the best decisions.
[He can safely say that from his own experience as well.]
And I believe those feelings were used against him. Which caused him to do very terrible things.
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Is that when everything changed? Because someone else was trying to make him do things?
[It kind of makes sense in very basic terms to her. She frowns though, not liking where this is going already.]
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You may change your mind one day. Though I admit falling in love does cause a lot of trouble.
[Her next question draws a thoughtful hum.]
It wasn’t something that was so obvious or all at once. This man I believe manipulated him for years in a very subtle way. As he did all of us really. Then when it came time he used Anakin to carry out his plan. He is the reason there are so few Jedi left.
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Oh.
[Well that's not good. And Obi isn't specifically telling her what.]
So he... went bad? [She is only vaguely aware of what the Dark Side is, the feeling and interacting with some of the siths that happen to be around. It's definitely different, but that's about all of her knowledge that's been explicitly dealt with.]
Is he still?