[A few moments of contemplative and conflicted silence later and Obi-Wan replies.]
Maybe, and yet, I'm not so sure.
[This was something he's wrestled with since that battle on Mustafar.]
The signs were all there. The Force swirls around him like no one else I've known. I've seen him do incredible things. I don't believe that my Master was mistaken or the prophecy so much as we were. It may be that we simply... misinterpreted it.
[He paused again but continued before Leia could comment.]
Anakin was never completely happy in the Jedi Order. Much was expected of him as the Chosen One, and there were those who were critical of him. He picked up on this, and he became dangerously bitter. Add on top of that the influence of an unknown Sith Lord, and a fear of loss, well. It was a disaster waiting to happen I suppose.
[This is the first time he's really talked out his thoughts on the matter before to someone else. And yet there's something he's not yet mentioning that is still seeping through. A heavy guilt that he didn't do enough to stop it.]
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Maybe, and yet, I'm not so sure.
[This was something he's wrestled with since that battle on Mustafar.]
The signs were all there. The Force swirls around him like no one else I've known. I've seen him do incredible things. I don't believe that my Master was mistaken or the prophecy so much as we were. It may be that we simply... misinterpreted it.
[He paused again but continued before Leia could comment.]
Anakin was never completely happy in the Jedi Order. Much was expected of him as the Chosen One, and there were those who were critical of him. He picked up on this, and he became dangerously bitter. Add on top of that the influence of an unknown Sith Lord, and a fear of loss, well. It was a disaster waiting to happen I suppose.
[This is the first time he's really talked out his thoughts on the matter before to someone else. And yet there's something he's not yet mentioning that is still seeping through. A heavy guilt that he didn't do enough to stop it.]