AL: Of Vice and Men... (July-06)
Title: Of Vice and Men...
Prompt:
"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice."
-- Marquis de Sade.
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Fandom: Star Wars
Word Count: 324
Rating: PG
Warnings Spoilers for JA-#5 through JA-#8
Disclaimer George Lucas owns Star Wars. Lucas is King. If he doesn't like me pilfering his characters, he can have his merchandise back.
Summary: Every great Jedi started somewhere. This is Obi-Wan's story.
Author's Notes: Yeah, I'm not sure I made any deep and meaningful point with this, as was my intention. Either way, it's something and that's good enough for us.
x-posted to licenseartistic
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His vice: the pragmatic sense of justice instilled by his young mind's interpretation of governing laws and tenets of the Code and the well-meaning, highly volatile self-righteousness of headstrong youth.
His vice: the stubbornness of knowing without a shadow of a doubt that there is only one path, one future.
His vice: the hormonal tendencies of a teenager who has every right to believe that he or she is misunderstood and that all those over the age of thirty know nothing of the world around them.
His vice: the illusion of control that has been shattered at the first sign of peer-pressure.
His vice: the ability to go against everything in his moral fiber to render his services to an ill-thought just-cause.
His vice: the flippancy with which he is able to lie and defy the one man he should respect above all others.
His virtue...
His virtue is the lesson of time and maturity. It is the ability to rise above one's self to admit the workings of a deceitful heart.
His virtue is the admission of defeat long before defeat turns into true despair. It is the knowledge that one must allow pride to be swallowed and to ask for help, if not forgiveness, with a broken and contrite spirit.
His virtue is accepting the punishment that is attached to his crimes. It knows that all he has done deserves a reprimand that carries no mercy.
His virtue is accepting mercy as the undeserved favour and pardon it really is.
But, ultimately, his virtue is the realization that the higher callings of life speak softly and move subtly; that only a quiet spirit and a true and blameless heart can heed the inner-workings of fate. It is in the realization that being self-righteous is easy and that being righteous comes at a cost too high to pay for most mortals.
His virtue is his life, which he gives freely to the galaxy.
Prompt:
"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice."
-- Marquis de Sade.
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Fandom: Star Wars
Word Count: 324
Rating: PG
Warnings Spoilers for JA-#5 through JA-#8
Disclaimer George Lucas owns Star Wars. Lucas is King. If he doesn't like me pilfering his characters, he can have his merchandise back.
Summary: Every great Jedi started somewhere. This is Obi-Wan's story.
Author's Notes: Yeah, I'm not sure I made any deep and meaningful point with this, as was my intention. Either way, it's something and that's good enough for us.
x-posted to licenseartistic
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His vice: the pragmatic sense of justice instilled by his young mind's interpretation of governing laws and tenets of the Code and the well-meaning, highly volatile self-righteousness of headstrong youth.
His vice: the stubbornness of knowing without a shadow of a doubt that there is only one path, one future.
His vice: the hormonal tendencies of a teenager who has every right to believe that he or she is misunderstood and that all those over the age of thirty know nothing of the world around them.
His vice: the illusion of control that has been shattered at the first sign of peer-pressure.
His vice: the ability to go against everything in his moral fiber to render his services to an ill-thought just-cause.
His vice: the flippancy with which he is able to lie and defy the one man he should respect above all others.
His virtue...
His virtue is the lesson of time and maturity. It is the ability to rise above one's self to admit the workings of a deceitful heart.
His virtue is the admission of defeat long before defeat turns into true despair. It is the knowledge that one must allow pride to be swallowed and to ask for help, if not forgiveness, with a broken and contrite spirit.
His virtue is accepting the punishment that is attached to his crimes. It knows that all he has done deserves a reprimand that carries no mercy.
His virtue is accepting mercy as the undeserved favour and pardon it really is.
But, ultimately, his virtue is the realization that the higher callings of life speak softly and move subtly; that only a quiet spirit and a true and blameless heart can heed the inner-workings of fate. It is in the realization that being self-righteous is easy and that being righteous comes at a cost too high to pay for most mortals.
His virtue is his life, which he gives freely to the galaxy.