How much older is Obi-Wan than Anakin

Anonymous

hey yknow there's like a 15 year age difference between obi wan and anakin right... whydya ship them

@forcearama replied:

gffa:

At the risk of being overly earnest in response to this, it’s because age differences aren’t inherently bad in relationships.  This isn’t to say that you have to like them or not find them squicky (we all find different things squicky) but that they’re not inherently bad, especially in fictional characters.

Age gaps are a problem when they create a gulf between two people in what they want out of a relationship (but this can apply to so many different things, like one person wanting to focus on their career while the other wants to live day to day, that difference between the people can be just as/even more destructive to the relationship) or when it keeps one person from being able to handle holding up to the other person because of lack of experience.

With Obi-Wan and Anakin, we see them being peers, we see Anakin firing back and being stubborn about his views on the galaxy and his opinions, we see Obi-Wan is careful not to run him over.  Even during Attack of the Clones, when Anakin is massively overstepping the Jedi’s ability to handle this situation (it’s not just that they’re supposed to ~follow the rules~, but that Anakin is promising things that they may not be legally able to deliver, all because he wants to impress this woman in front of him), Obi-Wan’s response is basically, “WE WILL TALK ABOUT THIS IN THE CAR” and Anakin still clearly doesn’t seem terribly cowed by any of this.  He still fires back in their conversation about security for Padme, he flings himself out of the car despite Obi-Wan crabbing at him, this isn’t someone who can’t hold up to the force of Obi-Wan’s personality.

This is someone who matches him and they complement each other.

By the time most people ship them, the age difference doesn’t really matter that much at all anymore because they’ve grown into a relationship dynamic where they both can hold their own against the other, where their experiences are matched to each other.

There’s a reason why the Revenge of the Sith novelization has that great quote, “They are closer than friends. Closer than brothers. Though Obi-Wan is sixteen standard years Anakin’s elder, they have become men together. Neither can imagine life without the other. The war has forged their two lives into one.”

There can be loads of interesting complications to play with, especially given that Anakin has a praise kink a mile wide I will die on this hill or that Anakin tries so desperately to make himself be the strong one in his relationships and fails so terribly at it because it’s not who he really is, it’s not what he really wants, which is to go running for help, to be praised and taken care of, that that applies to anyone he falls in love with, regardless of their age or whatever else his relationship with them contains, but ultimately, at the heart of things, a relationship works and is healthy when two people want the same things and when they can make each other content and when they can hold up to the force of the other’s personality.

Obi-Wan and Anakin very much do hold up against each other, that’s kind of the whole point of their fight being the climax of Revenge of the Sith, because neither one of them can make the other back down when they’re dead set on the path they’re on.

The *real* problem with Obikin is that Obi-Wan could do so much better. ;)

HOW DARE YOU SAY SOMETHING SO ACCURATE YET COMPLETELY CORRECT.  Obikin is problematic because OBI-WAN DESERVES SO MUCH BETTER AND ANYONE WHO DOESN’T AGREE IS ALSO PROBLEMATIC.

All those other issues they do or don’t have aren’t important, the REAL question is:  Is Anakin a good enough person for Obi-Wan?  OBVIOUSLY NOT.

I mean, why would ANYONE like Skywalker?  He’s terrible on the eyes, he never makes anyone laugh, he never does anything cool with the Force, he certainly doesn’t light up a room, he’s not absolutely adorable when he points out that he learned that trick from watching YOU, Master, he’s not the sweetest babey you want to take care of when he’s sad, I mean, WHY WOULD ANYONE FALL IN LOVE WITH ANAKIN SKYWALKER?  He’s gross.  Bleh.

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