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[elizabeth_hoot]

Keeping up my end of the bargain!

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble or make a graphic of any pairing/character of their choosing plus a prompt. Unless I don't know the pairing / fandom, then all bets are off. Drabbles will be kept between 100-200 words. Anyway, in return (and should they be

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I hope this suffices!

[elizabeth_hoot]

Obi-Wan understands giving up.

Anakin never could, and in this as in so many other things, Luke is very much his son. They understand withdrawing until a more advantageous occasion, and they understand pretending to compromise for a short while. But giving up, giving in? No. When they stop to think about the future, it's only to look for potential victory. He suspects Leia is the same way. Even Anakin, Obi-Wan knows, would have to be broken even far further than he has been to lose that supreme confidence.

Obi-Wan has never shared it. Oh, he can be confident enough, but not supremely so, not to the point that he can't conceive of his own absolute defeat. He conceives of it quite easily, and almost daily. He lives under a cloud of failure. He moves slowly through each day. He watches himself age before his time, and sometimes he wants nothing more than to simply abandon all hope. It would be very easy, to just lie down and stop his own heart. He does not have the Skywalkers' unquenchable fire driving him on; he is just one Jedi, and he is very tired.

He could give up. He simply chooses not to.

Re: I hope this suffices!

[elizabeth_hoot]

Awww, thanks! I really do admire how he keeps going even though he's not really a Determinator per se, so it was the obvious quality to highlight. There are others though! :)