[video; locked to: Anakin/Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Leia, Rey, Ava, Cassandra, and Wanda]

[ex_forcechoke292]

[The video post actually starts off with a kitten walking over the top of it, soft muffled talking with the heavy padding of paws over-foot for a moment, and then a "hey, hey, not right now." It's finally adjusted so Anakin can talk into the MID properly. He's still tired; those circles under his eyes aren't likely to go away any time soon, but it's countered with a small almost-smile. Not sad, not perfect, but present.]

Look, I know with everything the ship's been through in the last week, time is short and expensive. I'll try to keep this brief. With the recent mishandling of hostile situations on-board and with "relations" with our...host planets?

Obi-Wan, what would you even call them?

[As he's here and has ears and common sense, Kenobi is quick to take hold of Anakin's MID and address the network himself, although he's merely... correcting Anakin's word choices, anyway.]

Well, first, I wouldn't say it was mishandled. Nor would I call what came of that as relations. Otherwise, host planet seems just fine.

[Leave it to Kenobi to be pedantic. He smiles thinly into the camera and then disappears back off-screen for for the time being, leaving Skywalker to his pitch.

Anakin rolls his eyes as he takes the camera back.]

Anyway, we've both been thinking. All of you have, at some point or another, expressed pointed interest in what it is we do, and we think it's high time to take advantage of that.

[A pause as he carefully defers back to Obi-Wan. This is skirting new territory that he's not even sure how to press forward with, only that he can't do it alone.]

I think what Anakin is suggesting is that we make good use of our time here. There's no end in sight, so this is the perfect time to take stock in what we know and give credence to what we don't. In this case, the more the merrier.

[It's enough to cover the breadth of what they talked about, and therefore Kenobi feels satisfied in leaving the rest of this in Anakin's hand. Kitten now in tow, he disappears off-screen once more.]

I want to be clear that this isn't an obligation. [Not yet.] I'm--We are not asking you to give anything up, regardless of how the old Order did it. All I'm asking is that you want to help.


[ooc note: being on this filter is no obligation to reply; if you want on the ~Jedi Training~ filter and you're not, let's get that CR rolling otherwise.]

Comments

[ventifact]

what would this entail?

[ex_forcechoke292]

[He smirks into the camera, because...well. Yes, he's absolutely sure about this. To the point of self assurance, even if he has to constantly reinforce that where no one can see it.]

If you're going to carry my lightsaber, you're going to have to know how to use it.

[He hasn't followed up near enough. Hasn't pressed into the why, though he knows enough now to guess. He's been too distracted, but not with his attachments: with the concept of devastating them.

It's high time to fix that too.]

[ventifact]

[wow okay that response is good enough to get her to turn on the video. incredulity is all over her face, but also a little amusement]

I can use my lightsaber just fine, thanks.

[n o p e]

[ex_forcechoke292]

Then you shouldn't have any problem proving it?

[It's the kind of nonsense claim he'd made as a Padawan. He knows what this sounds like.]

[seeingscarlet]

You think you can help me?

[It's an odd concept - she's never had a teacher with such a similar powerset to hers, just whatever advice Billy and Loki have been able to give her and a bunch of scientists who had no idea what they were playing with.]

[ex_forcechoke292]

[Anakin shrugs. Truthfully...he doesn't know. But they're similar enough, and--]

It can't hurt to try.

[seeingscarlet]

As long as nothing explodes. [She's only half-kidding - those days are mostly behind her but she can still be overwhelmed.]

So what would this group do?

[ex_forcechoke292]

I've been through worse. [He gives a laugh, mostly intended to give them both a moment of levity, rare as they are. He doesn't know he has for sure. That doesn't matter. It can't, for either of them, if they want to live with any modicum of sanity regarding potential blow ups, literal or not.]

Back home, we're called in to resolve...incidents before they fall apart into--well, I think you know what. Peacekeeping. Helping people. Everything we've been trying to, just...

[He looks away for a moment and swallows hard. They've already tried this, or he knows he has. But he's been distracted. Wallowing in hurt, never around long enough to get to know a situation before he knows how to fix it. He knows what his problem has been, even if he's not quite sure how to fix it either.

But a little dogged determination never hurt anything...right?]

Just with better focus.

[deal]

Do you really think I can learn?

[She's a little skeptical, but she wants to try. Even if she's still secretly preparing to run away because this ship is cursed and she's freaked out after the recent incident.]

[jedimindtrick]

Yes. Anyone can learn, Cassandra. It merely requires the right instructor.

[ He means that generally. If you don't have the Force, there's no way to teach that. But he imagines she already knows as much thanks to Luke. ]

[deal]

It won't hurt to find out if you're the right instructor.

[Which is as much of an excited yes as anyone's going to get out of her. ]

[jedimindtrick]

[ After their brief time fighting together, Obi-Wan knows enough to see she's being genuine. He smiles and doesn't at all feel awkward that he has to hijack the video stream to show it. ]

I look forward to it. Already I'm positive you'll heed my advice more readily than Anakin ever has.

[ trollololol ]

[ex_forcechoke292]

Look, all I care is that you care. We've worked with plenty of people who haven't been able to...use the Force, necessarily. I don't see why that should change now. Do you?

[deal]

I just don't want to get in the way of the people who are able to use it. But if it doesn't matter to you, then I'll be there.

[ex_forcechoke292]

Praise is a regrettably hard thing to come by with Jedi. I would be honored, Cassandra.

[But as difficult as praise is, many find it harder still to impress him. It's not a light thing given, this concession to civilian allies, but that's always been the real point, hasn't it?]

Helping people doesn't require a title. I mean, it doesn't hurt. [Sometimes. When faith is thin, and xenophobia doesn't factor into it at least.] But I think...I think we can all help each other. I have to believe that. It can't hurt to try, can it?

[locked to anakin]

[imahologram]

You have no idea what "don't contact me again" means, do you? I don't care what it's for or who you're doing it with. Don't send me messages of any kind.

[locked]

[ex_forcechoke292]

No, what I'm responding to now is a message. This was an open call, which we should both note you could have easily ignored.

[But would he have? No. Which was part of the point.]

[imahologram]

If this was an open call, it would have been open to everyone on the Moira. You included me here despite the fact that you know I'm never going to take you up on this.

[ex_forcechoke292]

You don't have to take ME up on anything. I'm not the only one offering, am I?

But if you think whatever this is matters more than everything and everyone else here, maybe there is nothing left to talk about.

[Hypocrite alert.]

video; omg SORRY i thought i had already responded to this

[divagated]

You know you don't have to ask me twice. [She is ALL FOR THIS. Not that she hasn't had plenty of opportunities to keep her skills sharp, but there's nothing like an organized Jedi training secession.]

hush it's fine <3

[ex_forcechoke292]

I'd better not. I'll need some help, and you know how the elderly need their naps.

[ZING.]

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[jedimindtrick]

[ From somewhere behind, Obi-Wan's gesturing pointedly where only Ahsoka can see him. Anakin's clearly the elderly one here!! ]

Actually, Ahsoka, you'll be doing a great deal of the training, I think. I hope you've been keeping up your practice.

private.

[bloodbinds]

[ Yeah, this is going to be...limited to Anakin and Obi-Wan for the moment. For all the chatter going on, Ava still isn't entirely comfortable coming clean about all of the things she can do to potential strangers. ]

I'm not entirely sure if something that's dead can do...anything the two of you do.

[ There, she's said it. ]

But I do want to help. Whatever I can do, whatever you think I can do-- I want to be able to do something.

[jedimindtrick]

I've seen you do plenty of the very same things Anakin and I can do. There's no need to worry about that.

[ A warm smile at that. He so often feels fortunate that someone saw fit to room them together. ]

There are a few exercises we can give you to get you started. Things you can practice when we're not around to guide you.

[bloodbinds]

[ The smile is returned after a moment, small but still warm. ]

I don't know. You guys are pretty impressive.

[ And there's a lot she can't do, but she's not a jedi, and that's really her only excuse. ]

Sure. What sorts of exercises are we talking about? You're not going to send me on a walk up a mountain or sit and meditate beneath a waterfall, right?