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Character Information

Full Name: Master/General Obi-Wan Wan Kenobi
Nicknames: Old Man? LOL
Game Age: 30
Canon: Star Wars
PB: Ewan McGregor
Journal: neverjedi
4th Walling: Yes, sure.
Canon Point: Up to his death in episode IV.

Canon Information

History Canon History
The short answer is that Obi-Wan Kenobi is Qui-Gon Jinn's Padwan and Anakin Skywalker's Jedi Master. He trained Anakin after Qui-Gon's last request was for him to do so, fought as a general in the clone wars for three years. He survived Order 66 in which Jedi became enemies of the republic, attempted to kill (and did maim) Anakin, now Darth Vader, and took Luke to Anakin's family on Tatooine. He stayed on Tatooine in exile, looking over Luke until Luke was ready to be trained, trained him and ultimately sacrificed himself to Darth Vader to save Luke (and his friends).

Personality Obi-Wan was raised in the Jedi Temple from infancy. As such, while very warm and compassionate, he tends toward being distant and aloof and outwardly shows very little emotion. The combination of these traits means that he thaws toward people only slowly, and the people he does attach to may not realize the depths of his attachment - but he does attach deeply when he does, and in those cases he can be very... blind to that person's faults as a result, as well as easily swept along in their nonsense.

He is known as the Negotiator for large portions of his time in canon and he is very, very good at easing feelings and conflicts. He is, fitting to this, someone who prefers to fight defensively - both in literal fights and less physical or literal ones. He rarely goes on the attack in any capacity, but rather defends and it's extremely rare that he won't leave someone an avenue of escape. He is a rules follower by nature, but isn't above throwing the rules (or himself) out the window in pursuit of the greater good or because he is following someone he has attached to's nonsense. He is not particularly powerful, but is highly skilled. Most of those skills he learned and mastered not through talent but through an extreme amount of very stubborn hard work. Once he digs in, he does not quit.

Finally, his sense of humor and wit can be positively biting and is usually deeply sarcastic. This is typically gentled down and affectionate, but there are times his tongue is legitimately sharp and, while never intentionally cruel or mean, can draw metaphorical blood.

CR-AU: N/A

Physical description: Average height (for a human, apparently short for a Jedi) and build, with red hair that eventually turns white, and bearded. Tends toward being extremely, possibly even excessively, neatly groomed. He typically dresses in whites, creams, and brown - later adding blue to the mix.

Meta Powers Obi-Wan is a Jedi Master, and as such comes with the standard abilities of a Jedi - a 'Light-Side' force user with training.

He is able to sense other force users as force users, but he also has a sense of the environment around him, and the people within it and their emotions. It is, if a translation is needed, effectively a deep, but diffuse empathy toward all living things, particularly those near by - and a sense of connection to them. This also enables him to determine their physical condition.

He is able to use the force to perform what amounts to acts of telekinesis (picking up and moving objects, from bringing his lightsaber back to his hand to picking up, pulling down, or throwing, objects at opponents in battle). This is related to, but not exactly the same as Force Push, which is used almost exclusively against another person and is far more raw power than fine control.

He is able to use The Force to enhance his endurance, speed, and agility. This is how Jedi accomplish their feats of acrobatics (enormously high back flips over opponent, impossible leaps both in height and distance, blindingly fast lightsaber combat, taking beatings, fighting longer and with more athleticism than a human would be able to manage, even flight missions that would be suicide for unenhanced, human reflexes, or deflecting blaster bolts). It is what makes things, 'merely difficult, not impossible' - as Obi-Wan thinks of countering *18 lightsaber strikes a second* when fighting Grievous.

This ability also extends to being able to use the force for some limited amounts of healing (in his case mostly himself, though he could manage a crude sort of 'energy transfer' to someone else.

Obi-Wan in particular has studied and can use with good success the Jedi Mind Trick, which is the ability to plant a suggestion into the mind of a weaker minded person. The other thing that he has a bit of talent and quite a bit of practice at, is an extension of the Mind Trick and that is the ability to sooth and calm animals. He is only able to do this for short periods of time with more aggressive animals, but can manage fairly well with the more docile ones.

This can also be used, with rather more force (pun intended) to put someone to sleep, even if they aren't 'weak minded'.

All force abilities require energy and concentration. Exhaustion can be forestalled, but there are limitations.

Notable/Unique Needs: Nope

Earth AU

Name: Ben Kenobi

History: Ben's father was a minor political figure (city councilman) in Los Angeles. His mother was his father's much younger second wife, who had (and has) a successful career running a business as an interior designer. He also has a fifteen year older half-brother named Alex, thanks to his father's first wife. His parents still live in California, father now retired and mother's business having been drastically scaled back. Both are active in volunteer work. Ben calls them weekly, and visits once every two years or so, but is not close to either. He knows nothing at all about his brother, beyond his name and that he lives in Wyoming - there is no relationship there at all.

The reason for all that distance from his family is not any sort of drama or failing on his parents part. Ben discovered ice-skating when he was four, and fell in love. His parents were supportive and by the time he was in his early teens he had moved to pursue better coaching, and ultimately was traveling extensively to compete. He was successful enough at competition to continue to compete, and even went to a couple of Olympics (once in Men's, once in Pairs), and did fairly well, and made the podium exactly once, at the last one. All of this meaning, ultimately, that he had effectively moved out when he was fourteen, and never moved back. The emotional distance was fueled, basically, by physical distance.

Most of his education during this time was via tutors or distance learning. His friends and relationships were primarily other skaters, particularly in high school. College he actually managed to work around his training and competing schedule more often, spending time in a physical classroom, though it slowed him down considerably and he only completed his degree in kinesiology. six months after retiring from competitive skating at 25.

College is where he interacted with a wider variety of people, made other friends, and most importantly earned the nickname "Obi-Wan", when he lost his ID, had to identify it for reclamation with the first few digits of his ID - OB-1. It became a thing he was teased about and with, and then, to his chagrin, it stuck.

His retirement was something he saw coming; ice skaters simply don't usually make it much past their early twenties He was not an exception. His body took quite a beating, particularly his back and knees. He had a plan and he chose his time to retire - namely before he'd utterly destroyed his body and while he could still skate- and completed his degree. He intended to go on to occupational therapy. That didn't happen, because the job he picked up to teaching small children how to skate, in return for enough money to have rental time on the ice turned into a better paying, more demanding job, and it turned out that he absolutely LOVES IT. Instead, once he graduated he picked up a couple of more classes at various levels, teaching at a bigger sports arena, and found a few private clients who were already competing seriously and that were either not quite going to make it to Olympic level, or who weren't there yet (as a kind of in between levels coach).

That's been his job for the past 5 years. It pays the bills and keeps him skating. The odd performance type event for a bit of extra cash and he's fairly comfortable, even in New York. He's happy. The occupational therapy thing may be back on the table at some point since even coaching/teaching won't be possible forever (and the degree is there after all), but for now he is where he wants to be.

Personality: Ben's personality has some striking similarities to that of his canon counter-part. Like Obi-Wan we know from the movies, he enjoys his own company, and that of a few select people over that of a crowd. He can be guarded with new people and somewhat slow to become committed and truly attached/let them in deeply. He likes order far more than chaos, and this extends to his personal grooming, his apartment, and what's going on around him. Also like his canon-self, he is warm, compassionate, is wonderful with animals and most small children, and has an overwhelming desire to help people who are struggling. He works his ass off to make up with skill what he lacks in talent, and always has - from skating to academics; if he decides he will master something he is going to keep after it until he has succeeded.

Another point of pretty strong commonality is that he very, very, rarely goes on the offense in any regard. For him this is philosophical/metaphorical (he is not someone who has had a physical brawl in his entire life), but he will always try diffuse or de-escalate situations first. He offers lots and lots of outs in conflict. If push comes to shove, though and he runs out of options, he is very much willing to end it. Fortunately when conflicts aren't life and death it takes a lot for push to come to shove.

Obi-Wan's biting sarcasm and wit are definitely alive and well in Ben. He loves banter and sarcasm. 95% of the time he is engaged in this it is playful, even affectionate. The other 5%, he's actually angry and tempering himself down and using sarcasm and cutting remarks as a sort of pressure release valve, so he doesn't say or do something worse.

There are also some striking differences between Obi-Wan and Ben. The most striking of those is likely that there is no serious insecurity present in Ben. He is not arrogant, can in fact be self-depreciating and self-effacing, but he is very, very comfortable in his skin and confident in his life. He is not, for all his introverted-ness and inclination toward being guarded on a personal level, at all conflicted about those personal attachments that he does form; he is not remote or unreachable.

The biggest difference is , perhaps, that between all the time competing on ice and the ridiculousness inherent in some of that, and simply a lack of Jedi principals in his formative years, that he isn't... repressed. He isn't afraid of emotion or expressing emotion. He has a sense of dignity that is pretty solid, but he doesn't take himself so seriously that he is unwilling to play or make a fool of himself once he's comfortable with someone or in a setting. He isn't afraid of failure - or literally falling on his ass in front of a large crowd; he knows he can get up again.

He is just all around more willing to have fun.

He is, overall, a really well balanced, solid, mentally and emotionally healthy person.

Physical description: 5'8", short reddish brown hair, blue eyes, a fairly slight build but athletic and strong. Tends to dress fairly formally - black slacks with button down shirts, usually in white or bright colors. Precise, neat, grooming is still very much a factor, down to manicured. When he does dress down, he dresses way down (think ratty jeans and a sloppy hoodie with beat up sneakers and unbrushed hair).

Your Characters 'Event Memory'? Qui-Gon introducing him to Anakin Skywalker.

Anything else? Nope.