So You Just Met Your Relative From The Future, Friday

[saddeserthermit]

"Okay," Ben began. "My cousins were twins--a boy and a girl about sixteen years older than me, and I left them back in my home galaxy...and met my cousin Jaina here, only now she was just about my age."

"Sometimes, you will meet relatives from other timelines. We have already covered this," Obi-Wan said. He spread his arms. "What we have not, is the peculiar awkwardness of public functions where two or more of the same relative may be present."

Ben nodded. "My graduation party had two different versions of my dad in attendance."

Ben's life was very, very weird.

"How do you juggle such a situation?" Obi-Wan said. "Where do you seat these people. Do you let them speak? Or will that be strange? What if they are from fundamentally different parts of their lives?"

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Re: Discuss!

[saddeserthermit]

"And risk him blowing a hole in the wall?" Obi-Wan said, stroking his beard as he lifted the cup on his desk to function as something of a shield. "You may wish to think bigger, Ahsoka. He certainly does."

Re: Discuss!

[snipsnspecks]

"Oh, believe me, I know." He should have seen some of the battle plans he came up with when Obi-Wan wasn't around to help.

Ahsoka's pens probed his defences, feinting low.

Re: Discuss!

[saddeserthermit]

It was oddly relaxing to be sparring with his and Anakin's lovechild Anakin's former Padawan in this fashion. Obi-Wan's defenses were certainly on point, however; he had a way of being wherever she was probing at.

"Then you should know better than to assault several hims with paint at once and hope for the best."

The rest of the class probably had no idea what they were on about, at this point.

Re: Discuss!

[snipsnspecks]

That's because he was Master Sticks-to-Soresu, which was fine if you wanted to be boring fight defensively, but Ahsoka had gravitated towards more the offensive forms even before she'd been Anakin's Padawan. Which was why her pens now made a bold overhead attack.

"Rex said it worked on shinies who couldn't decide on a design." Though he'd never specified whether he'd meant as a threat or if he'd actually done it to some poor hapless trooper.

Re: Discuss!

[saddeserthermit]

There was nothing wrong with boring. Especially when you were the leading master of the form, as Obi-Wan once again proved when the mug went swinging upwards, catching Ahsoka's pens and knocking them out of their attack pattern.

"And in what galaxy does that sound like Anakin Skywalker?" he asked.

Re: Discuss!

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka recovered quickly, pens resuming a holding pattern as she looked for an opening.

"One where I can enlist help?" she tried.

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[saddeserthermit]

The cup tilted almost thoughtfully.

"As hilarious as splattering Anakin in paint would be," Obi-Wan said, his fingers wriggling so the cup moved in, attempting to scoop up her pens, "I believe that would be asking for trouble."

Re: Discuss!

[snipsnspecks]

The pens backflipped away from the cup, finally returning to Ahsoka's hand.

"It was too late to avoid that the moment you invited Anakin," she said, ever the respectful Padawan.