spectral-musette:@mostthingskenobi sent me an ask a little while ago about Obi-Wan and a tattoo, and
spectral-musette:@mostthingskenobi sent me an ask a little while ago about Obi-Wan and a tattoo, and I couldn’t help thinking there would be some kind of story behind it? So, here’s how I can imagine this going down:It’s the end of a major battle (sometime around the end ofS2), Obi-Wan has been pretty seriously injured, and his armor is just wrecked withblaster fire. Once Kix has everyone stabilized and they’re waiting for themedical frigate, the troops do as they do to keep entertained: new tattoos! For the Shinies, forthe vets, and then… for the Jedi? Don’t you want one General? How about you,Commander? Ahsoka declines on the grounds that her skin coloration is stillchanging, and she doesn’t want to be stuck with something that’ll look weirdonce she’s grown up. Anakin makes himself scarce – Kix’s tattoo needle remindshim uneasily of the tool used to implant the microtransmitters into slaves onTatooine, though he’d never admit it. Obi-Wan runs out of objections somewherebetween when his painkillers kick in and about halfway through someone’s hipflask of Corellian whiskey. Anakin returns to find Obi-Wan, passed out, with ahalf-finished Jedi Order emblem on his shoulder. He tries to explain to the troopsthat you can’t just tattoo someonewhen they’re unconscious, but they argue that this is clearly the best time,cause then you can’t feel it! And the General picked the design, they wouldn’t just do it without his permission. (Also, “Snips, how could youlet this happen?” “Master, I can’t forbidMaster Kenobi from getting a tattoo if he says he wants one!” “You can if he’sflying with no stabilizers!” “…Master?” “Drunk, Snips.”)Obi-Wan comes to on the medical frigate and concludes thatthe tattoo seemed like a much better idea when he was drugged (something abouthis armor being ruined, so if he just put the emblem right on his shoulder hewouldn’t need it anymore…well, it made sense at the time…). But, by this timethe clones are so tickled about General Kenobi taking part in their post-battletradition that he doesn’t have the heart to have it lasered off right away. -- source link