fandomhigh | So You Just Met Your Relative From The Future, Friday

Obi-Wan strode into the classroom with confidence, alone, at least for this week.

"Welcome," he said, "To this class on a rather particular kind of strangeness that this island will bring to you. As you may know, it is a nexus between various worlds, and... various times. Oftentimes, this simply means you'll encounter people from places you have never heard of. Sometimes, it gets rather more... complicated. Personally."

He cleared his throat. "My co-teacher, who is not available today for personal reasons, is the great-grandson of a dear friend of mine called Anakin Skywalker. You may have heard of him. He is also both the son and the grandfather of Fandom students past."

He let that sink in for a moment.

"As you can tell by this, the island can cause more than its fair share of strangeness in the family department," Obi-Wan said, smiling wryly. "You may find yourself waking up with children who claim to be yours. Or perhaps you'll run into a... problematic relative, who did something to you once, but they are younger than you remember and have not done whatever it is that troubles you. In this class, we hope to prepare you for some of these challenges." He cleared his throat. "My name is Obi-Wan Kenobi," he established. "The best way to begin preparing yourself for these headaches is to think of the worst," he said. "So I would like you all to give your name, class, and one situation in which meeting a relative - past, present or future - would be very awkward for you, or worse."

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Name, class, and one situation in which meeting a relative - past, present or future - would be very awkward for you, or worse.

"Ahsoka Tano." And she'd told one of the rebuilders of the Jedi Order to do something anatomically impossible in Huttese yesterday. "I think we covered that question last time."

"We did," Obi-Wan said wryly. "And I suppose your experiences these past few months have not changed much about the answer."

"It's hard to top surprise grandchildren," Ahsoka replied dryly.

"And yet you haven't even met your own yet," Obi-Wan said wryly.

That was just mean, Obi-Wan.

"...what?"

"What?" Obi-Wan said serenely. "You believe this is unique to Anakin?"

"He'd have mentioned it before."

Right?

"Would he?"

There were no surprise grandchildren waiting for Ahsoka in the wings, no. But there could be!

You deserved OJ's next appearance, Obi-Wan, and whatever other traumatising offspring the island threw at you.

"I think so," Ahsoka said slowly.

"Hm," Obi-Wan said.

He looked to the next student.

"I'm Mabel," Mabel chirped, "I'm a sophomore, and I guess an awkward situation involving meeting a relative would be..."

She frowned thoughtfully.

"I think it would be weird to meet an older version of my brother, Dipper, or something like that," she settled on. "We're twins. We do everything together. Offsetting that would feel wrong."

"You would feel the need to catch up, I'm sure," Obi-Wan said, raising an eyebrow. "But what would be awkward about that?"

He had obviously never been a twin.

Mabel blinked at Obi-Wan. And then squinted a little. And then blinked again. And then crossed her arms in front of her chest.

"You don't have any siblings, do you, Mister Kenobi?"

Mister? Professor?

"I don't see what that has to do with it," Obi-Wan ventured. "I grew up with a great deal of other children at the Temple..."

"It has everything to do with it," Mabel explained, shaking her head. "Ever heard of 'sibling rivalry?' That gets cranked all the way up when you're talking about twins. We grew up together, we compare everything. I'm older than him by five minutes and he'd never let me live it down if that changed somehow!"

Seriously, Obi-Wan. You should have seen the way these two went at one another when Mabel turned out to be a millimeter taller than Dipper, back when they were twelve.

"I'm supposed to be the Alpha Twin!"

"But perhaps when one of you is older, they will also be more mature," Obi-Wan suggested, "And such notions of rivalry will pass."

Ahahah. Ha. Ha.

"Noooo way." So take that, Obi-Wan. "Sibling Rivalry is a lifelong commitment that takes nurturing and hard work. It's how we tell one another we care. I wouldn't get all excited about being slightly taller to just anybody. That would be weird."

She was the shorter twin, now that puberty had taken hold. It was tragically unfair.

"Right," said Obi-Wan, who was uncertain if this was entirely healthy ~~and unwilling to admit this was more or less his relationship with Anakin~~. "I suppose under those circumstances, it would be fairly awkward. How would you deal with it, you think?"

Mabel considered this carefully for a moment. You never knew when this would have to be a relevant strategy, after all.

"I suppose if I couldn't age myself up to match him, I'd have to get sneaky," she decided. "Maybe I'd hold it over him that I was born five minutes before he was and I still have my youthful good looks and charm. That could probably work. Unless he beat me to pointing out that he was older. Sibling rivalry is a careful kind of game, it requires strategy."

"And are there rules to this game...?"

Obi-Wan: not certain if he was amused or confused.

"Well, yeah," Mabel replied, blinking. "You don't want to hurt your sibling. We really do love each other. But they're all kind of unspoken rules. We're twins, we understand what they are anyway."

Because of awesome twin insight. Twinsight, if you will.

"We can be annoying, sure, but nothing that'll actually do any real harm. I'm not going to throw all of the times he totally failed to take a girl on a date back in his face or push him down the stairs or anything like that."

"And are you afraid this delicate twin balance will, perhaps, be thrown off if you run into a version of your brother older than you are?"

Okay, amused. Definitely amused.

"Well, yeah. I mean, I've had that five minutes on him our entire lives! Just imagine how much retribution Dipper would take for himself if he made up for that with entire years!"

He'd probably offer her baby food and little booties or something!

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