Fanfiction: The Art of Letting Go (Star Wars)

[selenak]

The Art of Letting Go (2957 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano, Dooku & Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker, Dooku & Qui-Gon Jinn, Qui-Gon Jinn & Obi-Wan Kenobi
Characters: Yoda, Dooku | Darth Tyranus, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader, Ahsoka Tano
Additional Tags: Master & Padawan Relationship(s)
Summary:

From Yoda to Dooku to Qui-Gon to Obi-Wan to Anakin to Ahsoka: betweeen Master and Apprentice, letting go is the hardest of lessons.

Because I'm not nearly done yet with Master-Padawan relationships and their messed up intensity. Irreverent alternative title of this one: How Screwed Up Are The Jedi?

Comments

[krpalmer]

Another interesting piece! I was intrigued by the first part of the story and its own take on what Dooku was like through his Jedi career: I suppose I can connect the "there's room for multiple interpretations" aspect about him with thoughts there must surely be people who look back fondly to the days when they could imagine "what made Darth Vader" themselves. (While I can understand that, though, for my own part having an official story does help give motivation to how his story ends in Return of the Jedi, removing any risk of it seeming "sudden and arbitrary.")

I haven't quite yet got around to watching the new "Rebels" series that followed Clone Wars, so I don't know if the broad strokes of the final encounter in your story's last section are taken from what I do know has been happening in it; it was also a nicely developed idea in any case.

[selenak]

I haven't watched the Rebels series either, since I'm reliably told the Ahsoka scenes in it amount, all in all, for no more than 20 minutes, but thankfully someone put said twenty minutes on Youtube, including the final encounter.

re: Dooku, yes, one of the big ongoing mysteries. In the never completed sixth season of The Clone Wars, the final three episodes are a mini arc for Yoda, and in one sequence he's faced with a tempting illusionary reality where all the Jedi who have died in the course of the Clone Wars series, or, like Ahsoka, left, are alive and present in the Temple - and so is Dooku, but not as in "he returned" but as in "he never left, never fell". (Fitting with the continuity because pre-Luke, none the Jedi or the Sith seeem to have believed that you can ever change again after going Dark Side.) It's our one and only on screen glimpse at Dooku as a Jedi, as imagined/recalled by Yoda, and also the only on screen hint that Yoda is in fact deeply bothered by the fact that his old Padawan left. (I.e. that in order for an ideal world scenario to be truly tempting to Yoda, it has to include a Light Side Dooku.)