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Who: Ezra + Obi-wan. Ezra+Michael, Ezra+Ariadne
What: closed prompt in comments.
When: Evening of 2/25, and also general end of the month
Where: Obi-wan's house in Cassandra, Michael's shop, Rooftops of Trench

Content Warnings: Blood, offscreen deaths, aftermath of mass battle, grief, some corruption, others in tags

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[ obi-wan purses his lips tightly. yoda had said once how no one wins a war but it is still a blow. ]

That is the idea.

[His gaze spans back to Obi-wan.]

If one of the troopers ever shows up, we may have an issue. Maybe not, given the physical changes we all go through. I'm not sure.

Not their fault but...

[He doesn't know enough about the chips to really guess. But if one were activated, might any Sleeper be targeted? They nearly all have abilities that could read as Jedi.]

. . . I'm afraid I don't follow.

[The padawan swallows hard.]

They have...chips in their brains. I don't know exactly how they work. I never saw them, um, active.

But I know once they were, they took away the clones' free will. Made them turn on the Jedi.

All of the clones I met at home had them taken out years ago. And when we at the Temple on Coruscant - one of our group was a trooper from the 501st named Echo. I think the older version of you had worked it out and told him? Echo went to the healers, and they removed it safely.

Edited 2022-03-07 12:24 (UTC)

Echo is one of the 501st.

[ anakin's legion. chips. ]

Did they. Did all of them have it?

[ cody. waxer. kix. ]

As far as I know. It wouldn't be as effective a trap, if they didn't.

[His shoulders slump.]

...I'm sorry.

[ . . . he shakes his head. ]

No. It's fine.

[...of all the phrasing. Ezra lifts his gaze, and stares in frank disbelief, thinking to himself I love you, but that's dumb. This is not fine. You aren't fine.

But he's pretty sure he shouldn't say that, so-]

...Uh. Reassurance that I didn't screw up by telling you that...appreciated.

You didn't . . . screw up.

I simply need some time to process it, that's all.

[He swallow hard.]

Ok.

...Should I go or stay?

[ he blinks. ]

Why would you go?

Oh. Um. Maybe this is a difference?

Ben - let's just call the other you Ben, I guess. Sometimes he really wanted to be alone to, uh, process things. Or would go away.[When he was really upset. When he was upset with himself for feeling overwhelmed. When he felt exposed.] Although, he didn't usually try to hide in the Force, so it wasn't like he was unfindable.

...Sometimes Kanan would hide in the Force, too. Not sure if it was intentional.

[Ezra's smart enough to get this behavior was probably trauma driven response, from both of the older Jedi. Still didn't make it feel great.]

[ obi-wan frowns at that. he can't speak for other people or . . . selves as it were. nor would he want to, but it felt like a strange thing. even stranger for ezra to process it as indictment. ]

While people can get overwhelmed, I am an adult. I'm able to process things later on if necessary. Everything has its time and place.

Alright.

But if you wanted time and space - I just wanted to check.

...would it be ok if I crashed on your couch tonight, then?

Edited 2022-03-10 12:55 (UTC)

Of course it is.

And I'll let you know if I need some.

[A lot of tension goes out of him, all at once.]

Thank you. For everything.

Especially for saying the thing about family out loud. I kinda needed to hear that.

I only told the truth.

But you're welcome.

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