LUKE...I am your kitten. Maybe.

[flickerflash]

Who: Katie and you!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: The horrible no good moon.  Probably close to the Vanquish
When: Today!

[By and large, Katie hates this moon.   It made her sick when she first got here and she's largely shunned it ever since.  Today marks the first day she's voluntarily gone out in it.  Why? 

Because she has a lightsaber.  And she wants to practice with it and swing it around and generally have fun with it and maybe cut down a few sickly dead branches.  And while she could do this in the cargo bay of the Vanquish easy enough, out here she has to wear a mask.

A mask and a lightsaber is just too much to pass up, oh my god.  She's found a black one, which in fact looks nothing like anything you might find in Star Wars, which is probably for the best all round, really.  But it's black, and it's the best she can do, and if you head into the gloom of the smog this fine day you might find a small child waving a pale white lightsaber around that makes all the appropriate lightsaber sounds and doing her best to make breathing sounds like Darth Vader because black mask, and to be honest if she's not quoting some part of some lightsaber battle when you wander past it'll be kind of surprising.

...unless you are of course recognisable as a Jedi and thus she'll choke on her breath pretty quickly and turn the saber off and look as innocent as she possibly can.

On the bright side, it's clear to anyone with any powers of observation she actually knows how to use a sword and is taking care not to cause any accidental damage with it.  So... bonus?  It's just a small child having fun.  Vmm vmm.]

Comments

[beardstrokes]

We rarely start early without a good reason.

[flickerflash]

[Katie mulls that over. Most childlings can take on a squire's duties when they're ten, so she did start young. But not by much, and mostly because Tully personally knew her and she wouldn't stop pestering him.

...come to think of it, she kind of pestered Mihawk, too. But he wouldn't have taught her if she hadn't shown she already had experience.]

Perhaps my teachers had good reasons, too. Or I'm just very persuasive. You don't have to fight before you're twelve?

[beardstrokes]

Perhaps. At any rate, Jedi don't start saber training too early. It's not the most important part of our education.

[flickerflash]

It's not?

[But-- but lightsaber duels :c]

[beardstrokes]

No. There's more to being a Jedi than fighting.

[ Though lightsabers will always be the most popular reason. ]

[flickerflash]

...well, I suppose you'd get bored if you had to fight all the time. [Even if it looks so amazing.]

What are the most important things?

[beardstrokes]

Jedi are meant to help. To bring peace and balance to the Force. Sometimes, people need a little extra help to get there.

[flickerflash]

But how do you teach people to do that?

[beardstrokes]

We have training in many fields. Languages, diplomacy, the Force itself . . . all those things help us know how to solve a problem between people or planets.

[flickerflash]

Do you ever find things that all that teaching doesn't help you with?

[It might sound bratty, but she's genuinely curious. That sounds like a lot of pressure.]

[beardstrokes]

Of course.

[ He folds his arms. ] There will always be moments, experiences when what you know might fail you. But the important thing is to be true to yourself.

[flickerflash]

Oh. [She smiles at that. Be true to yourself is something she very much believes in.]

How long does it take to learn all the other things?

[beardstrokes]

Quite some time. I would say I've never really stopped learning at all.

[flickerflash]

So what sort of thing do you teach a new student first?

[beardstrokes]

I'm not entirely sure. I've never taken on completely new students before.

[ And really, his only student had been Anakin. Yes, he had helped Ahsoka out as well, but Obi-Wan wasn't comfortable in calling himself Ahsoka's teacher. ]

[flickerflash]

[She remembers that from the movie actually, so--]

Didn't you teach Anakin?

[My Star Wars-fu is only up to 1989.]

[beardstrokes]

[ Obi-Wan blinks, marginally surprised. But then he remembers that she possesses some knowledge of his galaxy. ]

I did. Though I believe Anakin is the exception.

[flickerflash]

He's very loyal.

[Up until the point he won't be, anyway.]

[beardstrokes]

[ Er. ]

Yes? I've never had doubts about Anakin's loyalty.

[flickerflash]

Oh, I didn't expect you to. I just thought it was nice. Did you know we'd met?

[That might clarify some confusion, anyway.]

[beardstrokes]

[ Bemused. ]

No, I did not. What was it like?

[flickerflash]

He was much grumpier than I expected. [She grins a little.] For a Jedi, anyway.

[beardstrokes]

Well. He's a rather special Jedi.

[flickerflash]

What makes him special?

[beardstrokes]

You didn't know? He's considered to be the Chosen One. Meant to bring balance to the Force.