My thoughts about Sabe', Obi-Wan, and the elusive but ever popular, at least with me, Sabe'/Obi-Wan 'ship.
I am a die-hard Sabe' fan, she is my favorite handmaiden. I see her as a creature of duty, responsible and focused, especially when others are counting on her. I would expect the stress of being the decoy really gets to her some times. Also, I bet that she has quite a sense of humor when she gets to let it out (or maybe I am reading myself into that there, hmm). I guess I really like her, because I can be lot like that in my own way. I can be a bit too much of the driven responsible leader-chica, and it knocks me over sometimes and I have to take time to regroup. I don't see Sabe' as being as unbalanced with her stress as I am... but I still identify. Also, she is willing to lay down her life for her friend and leader. I respect that, a great deal. I have never had to be in that position but I truly admire and appreciate that kind of loyalty and devotion for one's friends, etc. I guess the tendency for some of us, at least for me, is to favor the one we identify with and reminds us somehow of something within us.
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About Obi-Wan Kenobi, I see him as being very devoted to the order and code, especially since he had his career sandwiched between life with Qui-Gon and Anakin, slightly roguish and unruly men in their own way (although I firmly believe that Anakin takes that a lot farther than Qui-Gon ever did). I do see him, though, as he ages, and especially by the time of AOTC, as being quite the risk-taker in his own right (you know, jumping headfirst out of windows that are hundreds upon hundreds of stories above the ground...) and developing his own bit of maverick-like tendencies (the mind trick in the bar for example). I admire the human side we see in him, his sense of humor in particular (and the fact that he hates flying!!!).
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Sabe' the great decoy, Rabe', Sache', Padme', and Yane' (I think I have the identification for those behind the Queen and her decoy correct, but if anyone from RHS wants to correct me on that, feel free.)
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With all that in mind, this is what I think about the Obi-Wan/Sabe' stuff... I read fan-fiction for a few different reasons: distraction, immersing myself in Star Wars-land, and fun. So sometimes I really don't care if some fiction is completely improbable and wacky and out of character. Sometimes I love that stuff, it's creative (and yes, sometimes annoying, but it is fun to mold characters into slightly different versions of themselves, you know?). Sometimes I don't. I don't think Obi-Wan/Sabe' is even remotely in character (especially given my analysis of the two above) for the two in TPM (even though I may read some of this fiction anyway). I like it when they have a friendship by the end of the ordeal, because I think they are similar in a lot of ways (creatures of duty and whatnot). I like when they develop into good friends with possibilities over the years, largely because I would hate to think of the poor guy never having any da-n companionship during his struggles over the years. I love his character, and his path is a lonely one so I like to, in fiction, lighten that load, you know? (Not that I really write that much, and never post, fiction. Hey, I'm a painter, not a writer, and I know it.) I don't see a good friendship leading to something more as a terrible mark against him as a Jedi, because I don't think loving a person has to be an attachment. Love can be given without needing possession of a person, and with balance, I think love (in my head at least) would fall into a more gray area of the 'no attachment' clause in the Jedi Code. Besides Knight Ki-Adi Mundi has wives if I do recall. I'm not saying I think Obi-Wan really runs around being some kind of Casanova swooning over the hot chicas of Naboo, but I don't think it's sooo-oh out of character to imagine him (or other Jedi) having a person to love in a careful and healthy manner. Maybe I am just off base in thinking that Jedi should be able to have life-mates in certain situations and cases. Maybe I am just a softie and romantic at heart. Maybe I just like to have my fan-fiction a little less realistic and less canon from time to time.
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He catches my attention even when he's squinting into the sun.
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I may have more to say about this at some point. Until then, go read some fan fiction or something!
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I just added my first ever fan art attempt on the L's Fan Art page. Check it out, it features, yep you guessed it, Sabe' and Obi-Wan. ::smiles::
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