this should be a tweet but I don’t want to deal with people on Twitter. everyone stop having every character in your fiction talk like their goal is to get an A in therapy.
I love cathartic conversations too and that is why I am begging you: stop hunting them to extinction by making them constant, characterless, and corny as hell
1. Find the thing the character wants to say, their deepest and most fundamental truth.
2. Congratulations! That’s the one thing they cannot, under any circumstances, say. Imagine they’re under a fairy curse if you have to.
3. But they want to. They want to so bad. So it’s going to bleed into everything they do say, everything they do. What would you do for someone if you couldn’t say you loved them? That you hated them? That you love them but the things they do remind you of their father?
Sorry about your boyfriend. The walls began to tear. Not the walls of the train but those of his false and hollow reality. Yeah, he’s twisting in his thrall to yog-sothoth. All the doors are open now. Sorry.
Hey! I was wondering what would have happened if Anakin did tell Obi-Wan about his marriage and Padmé’s pregnancy? Would Anakin be kicked out of the Order?
That is the simplest, shortest answer and the one that is most true to Lucas canon.
Fandom has come up this this idea that Jedi could happily get married as long as they weren't "possessive" of thier partners and didn't "let it get in the way of thier duties" but that is pure fanon, that is fan head canon.
How do we know this?
Lucas himself said so.
Lucas did make that comment about Jedi not being celibate, but he also stated outright that Jedi were not allowed to marry.
The prequel movies say so
The prequel movies, as Lucas own work which he produced and directed are the highest form of canon.
They also make it clear Jedi were not allowed to marry.
Honestly, if you just watch the movies, nothing else makes narrative sense. The tagline for Attack of the Clone had the line "A Jedi shall not know love" and this was used in all promotional material.
In the novelization, and the movie Obi Wan expressly tells Anakin that his romantic notions about Padme are not consistent with his commitment to the Jedi Order. (This was before Satine was created of course).
Why would Anakin and Padme have had a secret marriage if Jedi could openly get married?
Padme said so.
Why did Padme say in Revenge of the Sith that if the council found out Anakin was the father of her baby he'd be expelled from the Order?
Padme wasn't stupid. She'd lived on Coruscant for years. She had worked closely with the Jedi Order for years as well. She knew thier rules. Anakin knew thier rules.
This idea that there was some loophole allowing Jedi to marry which neither of Anakin nor Padme knew about and nobody bothered to mention in 14 years is, frankly, ludicrous.
Even the Clone Wars series makes it clear
There is a scene in Season 6 of the Clone Wars which Jedi Apologists, gffa, and others like to hold up as "absolute proof" that Jedi COULD have relationships.
Its that one where Obi Wan goes to see Anakin when he's upset abotu Clovis and says "we have have these feelings, then talks about his love for Satine.
Yet they always miss out the second part of that scene:
Hm, why do they miss this part out.
Oh yeah, because Obi Wan recounts how Yoda expressly told him to break up with Satine because he could not be with her and remain in the Order.
He had to choose one or the other, and he expected Anakin to do the same.
Oh yes and
Ki Adi Mundi's marriage is Legends. It always has been. Its not in any canon source.
If as is commonly posited the Jedi were based on Buddhist monks, or indeed knights Templar, it makes even more sense that marriage was prohibited. Both groups are monastic in character and don't allow members to marry, and sex is discouraged. In some cases, even sexual thoughts.
Marriage was forbidden, and Jedi were most definately not meant to knock up Senators. Lucas created the whole idea because he wanted a "forbidden love" story for Anikin and Padme.
Fandom have issues with that, and like to imagine everything would have been fine if Anakin just told the truth about his marriage, but I don't buy it for an instant.
The Jedi were mind readers, Yoda could easily have found out who Anakin was talking about by simply reading his mind in the Counselling scene in ROTS by simply reading his mind.
They would not have made an exception for him. He wanted to leave the Order (both the novel of ROTS and Labyrinth of Evil show that) but not until he was ready. preferably when the Clone Wars ended, but he didn't want to be expelled. It could destoy Padme's career.
Lucas was quite clear Jedi could not get married, the movies are quite clear Jedi could not get married, the Clone Wars series makes it quite clear Jedi cold not get married.
Fandom don't accept that, and Disney seem to be looking towards retconning that, which is why we are seeing more ambiguity in more recent series.
However as a Lucas canon purist, I stick with his original story, vision and characterization and I will not budge.
hey uhhh i had to delete some of your boyfriend's frames. yeah. he was over 10MB so i couldn't upload him. messed up his dimensions so he appeared blurry and stretched too. accidentally lowered his opacity to 0% so he became invisible and i lost him. i'm sorry, i'll gif you a new one
Hi my name is Count Doctor Hannibal Lecter VIII M.D. im a cannibal (that’s how I got my name) and I have shiny brown hair with gold streaks and silver tips that reaches my mid-neck and maroon eyes that reflect red pinpoints like limpid blood and a lot of people tell me I look like Sandro Botticelli (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Lady Murasaki but I wish I was because she’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a cannibal but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale golden skin. I’m also a doctor, and I own a psychiatric practice in Baltimore where I help my patients (I’m forty-seven). I’m an aristocrat (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly brown. I love Garrison Bespoke and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a brown plaid suit with a matching silk pocket square and a blue paisley tie, blue socks and brown oxfords. I was wearing pink lipstick, beige foundation, gold highlighter and concealer on my eyebrows. I was walking outside the BSHCI. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of fbi agents stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
you ask me why i have a doggy door installed in a window 6 feet off the ground and i put my fingers in my mouth and whistle. “here boy!” the FLAMING SKULL flies through the flap and starts gnawing on your forearm
