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PadawanKitara Registered: Dec '01	Date Posted: 3/12/06 9:09pm Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 3 updated - 11/03/2006
	Poor Obi-Wan got nothing but cryptic comments from Master Yoda. Why Tatooine now? -----signature----- Courtier of the Royal Order of Shambling Dufi We are Dufi...Resistance is Futile! UCLA BRUINS
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stormqueen874 Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 3/23/06 5:45pm Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 3 updated - 11/03/2006
	Awww, poor Obi! cries I loved the interaction between him and Master Yoda, and the bit about losing a planet made me giggle. Kudos for AotC reference! I can't wait to see how he gets to Tatooine (yes, I know I'm assuming that he'll eventually go) and I really wonder if when he'll see Master Jinn again. I'm glad that you're continuing this, and I hope you update again soon! Stormqueen -----signature----- Master to kenobiwanobi Shadows of the Future: TPM timetravel AU, Obi/Ani/Qui bonding http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/24413082/p1/?0
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kateydidnt Registered: Nov '04	Date Posted: 6/26/06 3:00am Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 3 updated - 11/03/2006
	More please please please please princess. This is a brilliant idea and story and you can do it justice better than anyone, please continue! -----signature----- R2D2: The Swiss-Army Knife of Droids The Outer Rim: Minor Character Index http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=21597215
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Princess_Arulmozhi Registered: Nov '04	Date Posted: 6/26/06 8:25am Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 3 updated - 11/03/2006
	grin Why, so I will. I was trying to decide which of the ones I've got floating around I should update. The Learner it is. -----signature----- Perceptions (Xanatos/Obi/Qui/Anakin) AU:http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/25276178/p1/?7 - vignette Stones (Li'l Obi/Qui) - http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/23371821/p1/ Best Author, WFFA (BtS) 05/06 Lore-Master to 7
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obi-gonjinn Registered: Jun '06	Date Posted: 6/26/06 8:39am Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 3 updated - 11/03/2006
	Qui-gon commited suicide!!!!?????? and now he has joined the relm of the spooky blue ghosties woooooooowwwwwwww you are evil doing that to poor Obi I bet he dosn't know whether he a comin or a goin I LOVE IT AND CAN'T WAIT FOR MORE!!!!! bravo p.s i do hope it is a happy ending me thinks Obi will break soon -----signature----- Time is best spent when fast asleep zzzzzzzz
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Ara-gon Registered: Dec '05	Date Posted: 6/26/06 10:29am Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 3 updated - 11/03/2006
	Poor Obi--to leave the only home he remembers, to be stripped of friends and familiarity! Qui, get that ghostie thing figured out so you can talk to Obi more. PA--Lovely, as always. More, soon? Please? -----signature----- Jinngerbread's Padawan The Trouble with Qui-Gon (humor) http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/26735859/p1/?7
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dimyavie Registered: May '06	Date Posted: 6/26/06 2:26pm Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 3 updated - 11/03/2006
	Aw, I love the fic! You captured the character's emotions so well. I'm sad now, poor Obi, he doesn't know what's going on and Qui being vague isn't helping! Thanks for writing!!! waits for update
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Valairy_Scot Title: PT Rewrite Winner Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 6/27/06 1:25pm Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 3 updated - 11/03/2006
	I just discovered this wonderful story, and I think it surpasses your other stories (and that is saying a LOT!). Wonderful and I can't what to see what develops. -----signature----- http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/25405090/p3/?52 Prolific Author thread: list & links there. Muse fueled by coffee. Often AWOL despite frequent sipping. Writes on inspiration, not a schedule. I'm a writer, not a storyteller.
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Princess_Arulmozhi Registered: Nov '04	Date Posted: 7/1/06 6:39am Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 3 updated - 11/03/2006 - Date Edited: 7/1/06 8:25am (1 edits total) Edited By: Princess_Arulmozhi
	Thanks for the replies and ups. Part IV Inside the Map Room, another figure stepped out of a dark corner. Master Yoda did not appear to have noticed it, immersed as he seemed to be in the location of various planets. He was now putting a claw on some system that was in the exact opposite direction of Tatooine. An indeterminate noise arose from the figure that had just stepped out. Master Yoda paused. One ear waggled, as though in acknowledgement. A grunt, followed by a shuffling movement. There was a sound that was somewhere between a question and a bark. “Speak the truth you do, Master Tyvokka.” A keening sound that stopped with a high-pitched, questioning blast. “Know his destiny I do not.” He is too young for any kind of destiny, came the answer. Wookiee Jedi Master Tyvokka had a perfectly functional Voice Transmitter with him that came programmed with dozens of languages floating round in the galaxy, not to mention Wookiee – but it still gave him the greatest pleasure to speak in his own language, especially with one who understood it. With all the nuances intact. “Surprise me, your answer does,” came master Yoda’s voice. “Your gift for prescience – tell you nothing about Kenobi, does it not?” I believe he has been sent away prematurely. He has not reached his thirteenth naming day yet, has he? “No.” He desperately wants to be a Jedi Knight. “Want, a true Jedi must not. Accept his destiny, he or she must. Make a true Jedi this will.” I doubt if Kenobi possesses enough strength of will or maturity to understand this. “Doubt you do, the will of the Force, Master?” A bark that might be interpreted as laughter. Sometimes the will of the Force and your own will are indistinguishable, old one. The flippancy in the tone was unmistakable. “That is as it should be,” was master Yoda’s calm statement. “Of my will, there is none. The will of the Force, supreme, it is.” And then he cackled. Master Tyvokka joined in. Your sense of humour in such a situation strikes me as unfitting. They looked at each other for a long moment, facing each other for the first time in the conversation. “Think you do, that I find this humorous?” There was a deep note of sadness in Master Yoda’s voice that echoed within the chamber. “Think you do, that a promising student ought to be banished?” Master Tyvokka knelt on the floor, his massive frame a graceful form amidst the Jedi robes. I have not interested myself much in the hopes and dreams of initiates, thus far. That has been your province, Master Yoda. Most members of the Council believe you an able guide and teacher. His voice was carefully noncommittal. “Hmm,” Yoda leant on his stick and looked away. “Question my methods, you do?” Tyvokka, that Master of diplomacy, chose his words with care. I am aware of the supremacy of the Force in every walk of life. Know that I place the greatest value on your judgement. As I always have. Yoda inclined his head. On an impulse, I reviewed the records of Kenobi. He … seems to have been an exemplary student. “Well versed in the lightsabre arts, he was.” I find it difficult to believe that he was not chosen, before this. “To bind him with a suitable Master, I hoped.” The voice was even raspier than before. And this Master? There was a long moment of silence. “Took his own life.” Master Tyvokka drew a sharp, deep breath, the nasal sound echoing in the Map Room. Qui-Gon … Jinn? Silence, again. His death was a great loss. His voice was low, and filled with tenderness. “Dwell on what has happened, we must not.” Master Yoda’s voice was precise and clipped. Master Tyvokka noticed the swirl of sadness that seeped away from the room’s walls. It was gone in a second. He closed his eyes and opened them after a moment. Plo regrets his death very deeply, still. As you know, they were friends. “Had not many friends, Qui-Gon.” Tyvokka’s thick brows drew together. Are you implying that Plo must have brought Qui-Gon out of this, somehow? That he was not as much a friend as he should have been? “Rise to your former apprentice’s defence quickly, you do. Proof of your regard for him, this is. But imply such things, I do not. In the end …” Yoda’s voice trailed away. “Many years may have I seen – yet difficult it is, to meditate on such things, sometimes.” He lowered his head. “Old, I am. Beset by doubts, where there should be none.” Master Tyvokka was startled. His countenance betrayed no such thing, but within, he allowed himself to feel some emotion. Of course. Qui-Gon had been raised by Yoda himself, before being given to Master Dooku. That he should have met his end thus … The Jedi Order may boast no attachments, and Master Yoda may be the oldest and wisest of them all – but the Force sometimes made them undergo the crest and trough of emotions, nevertheless. He wondered, detachedly, what master Dooku’s own feelings had been. News had been sent to him, of course. But they had received no messages from the Master. It was … unsettling. I am surprised by your choice of Master for Kenobi. He brought the conversation to what it had been, deliberately steering them both from the Council session that had immediately followed news of Qui-Gon’s and his padawan’s death. Master Jinn had vowed that he would take no padawans. “Hoped to change this, I did. Believed this was the will of the Force. Strong in the Living Force was Qui-Gon. Strong in the Unifying Force, is Kenobi. An excellent combination this would have been. Beneficial to both. And to the Order. Great things would we have seen, from them.” Ah. Master Yoda had been known to make certain decisions that had had a remarkable tendency to work well, in the end. Chances were that this would have been so. Then again, one knew not. The future is always in motion. Does this mean that there is no Master in the Order who will train Kenobi? “Interested in him, you are?” One of Master Yoda’s eyebrows lifted. He did not seem very pleased with this idea. Master Tyvokka’s smile was concealed amidst the vast quantities of hair on his face. As you are so fond of saying, the will of the Force, it was not. I shall take no more padawans – my teaching days are at an end. Kenobi was not to be mine. This I know. He paused. But there are several others whom I knew to be interested in taking padawans. Such a one could have done very well for him. Not that this explained why he was pursuing the subject of a padawan who had been cast out, in such earnest. Master Yoda said so. I merely happened to be in the room, when he came in. Something about his aura intrigued me. I could have sworn there was another … Master Yoda looked at him suddenly, his large eyes piercing. “Feel this, you did?” I could not be sure. I could sense nothing beyond this. It was though my senses were barred beyond a certain limit. He fell silent, now even more intrigued by what he remembered. Few could resist his probes when he chose – it was one of the skills that had made him the Jedi he was. Master Yoda appeared deep in thought. “Remember the session do you, the Council session before Master Jinn departed for Telos?” Certainly Tyvokka did. It had happened fairly recently, not to mention the conversation and substance of the session, which had been of a highly unforgettable nature. And Master Jinn’s bright, sparkling personality itself. He felt a sharp pang of regret, of a vivid life-force lost forever. Something niggled at the back of his mind … “Believe did you, the prophecy of the Chosen One?” He was certainly vehement that we believe him. “A foundation to exist has it, do you think?” Master Tinn did not think so. “Your opinion on this, I seek.” I believe I gave it, there and then. These are prophecies, after all. One never does know what to think. They could have been the words of a madman, or the sayings of a saint. There is no way of knowing the mental stability of the Jedi Master who first pronounced the prophecy. “Find it strange I do, that you, a believer in prescience, must speak thus.” Tyvokka gently shook his head. There is always a difference between probing the currents of the Force, and trying to predict the future. In any case, I do not seek to disparage the prophet. Only that we lack the knowledge to determine more. “The truth, you speak. What thought you, of Master Qui-Gon’s belief in it?” Tyvokka paused. This was a slightly complicated question. Deeply immersed in the Force as he usually was, he had an inclination to sink into the Force signatures of those around him – and few Force signatures glowed with the depth and brilliance that Qui-Gon’s had done. He had wondered at the emerald sheen of it, of the sheer strength and power and … something else that made it sparklingly different. The Master had been vibrating with suppressed excitement. Tyvokka had seen it. His first instinct had not been of disapproval – he had been intrigued. Qui-Gon Jinn had seen something. Felt something. He had chosen to interpret it as a “vergence in the Force.” Strange are the ways of the Force. I know not what to believe. Master Qui-Gon was very … persuasive. Tyvokka still remembered the flare of scepticism he had detected in Masters Saesae Tinn, and Rancisis. Master Jinn, the maverick, had found yet another fantastic cause to espouse. And that was how it had been. Remarkably fantastic – and yet, when one heard it in the voice of Master Jinn, with his brilliant blue eyes and his Force presence, strong and unbreakable, one could not help but wonder if there was some truth in it, in his wonderful tales of vergence and a poor slave woman in a small dusty planet called … He raised his head sharply. What had that planet been called, again? Master Yoda, who had been staring away into the same corner of the Map room as he had been, suddenly changed tack. “What tell you about Kenobi, your senses?” Tyvokka appeared genuinely curious, now. Master Yoda seemed to be seeking something, just as he himself was. Very well, then. Perhaps the Force would show him more, than it had when the boy was actually present. There was no one in the room other than himself and Master Yoda, now. No other presence. Gently, he cast out his senses. He probed the Force signature of the sorrowful boy he had seen leave the room, remembering what he had felt like, in the Force. Deep sadness. Loneliness. Questions upon questions about his future. Bandomeer. Hesitation. Curiosity. Now that was a strange emotion in a boy soon to leave his only home. Excitement. Just a little. It lay submerged under layers and layers of grief, but it was there. And there was a sense of outrage. Again, just a little. That was only to be expected. There was also pride. Pride that he was a Jedi, and that he would stay true to his training. That was unexpected, this show of strength, in one so young. He had known a few initiatives who had not been quite so willing to accept their fate. He closed his eyes and probed still, his especially attuned senses searching through the Force. Kenobi. Obi-Wan Kenobi … what are you? What did you possess? What will be your fate? That strange sense of something gnawing away in some unseen corner of his mind. The boy appeared bright. Bright, glowing, a most promising student of the Force. His Force signature echoed another signature he had seen. One that he had admired, even. Untarnished. Kind. Compassionate. Thrumming with suppressed energy. The Force clung to him lovingly, caressing the boy like a mother’s spirit. Even now, as he was slumped in misery, it seemed to be touching him, trying to tell him something … Destiny. He watched, marvelling, as his Force-sight singled out the boy’s signature from others around him. The Force touched on certain focus points, certain events that might turn this way, or that. This boy. This boy … was quite… different. Quiet, unassuming, but different. This boy must have a Master, he said, suddenly. “Think so, you do?” There was a strange expression on Master Yoda’s face. Yes. Do you not think so too? This time, the silence stretched away into longer moments. “Know nothing of such things, I do.” I see. “Speak to him, the Force will. Spoke to me it did, to send him away.” Indeed. They stood there for long moments. Master Tyvokka looked at the ceiling. Finally, he spoke. Did the Force speak to you about where it was sending him? "Secrets, Master Tyvokka, are not easily known.” Master Yoda’s large eyes swivelled and rested on him a moment. “Your own insight shall serve you well.” A strange smile played on Master Tyvokka’s lips. Permit me to indulge in meditation, then. They shared a look. When Master Tyvokka left in a leisurely manner, he chanced a look at the corridor where he had felt Kenobi. The boy was gone. (tbc...) -----signature----- Perceptions (Xanatos/Obi/Qui/Anakin) AU:http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/25276178/p1/?7 - vignette Stones (Li'l Obi/Qui) - http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/23371821/p1/ Best Author, WFFA (BtS) 05/06 Lore-Master to 7
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dianethx Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 7/1/06 7:35am Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 4 updated - 01/07/2006
	Layers upon layers. I loved that the two masters both realized that Obi-Wan needed a master and that fate surrounded him. I loved, too, the memories of Qui-Gon and his brilliance in the Force. That Yoda wasn't willing to help Obi-Wan find a master is odd, though. Is he really going to let Obi-Wan go? Or is he going to help Obi to go? Looking forward to more. Soon! -----signature----- Betrayal - http://boards.theforce.net/s/b1/10935143 updated 6/28/08 Fragments of Illusion- http://boards.theforce.net/bts/b10475/28456473 updated 8/16/08 Freeze frame - http://boards.theforce.net/s/b10476/27820434 Master to jedidas3 Impeach Bush!
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kateydidnt Registered: Nov '04	Date Posted: 7/1/06 10:45am Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 4 updated - 01/07/2006
	Great update! I love how concerned they are for him, but at the same time Yoda feels that Obi-Wan must go. Hm, one question though. Qui-Gon's vision or impression of Anakin...was he seeing the future there? Because Anakin was born when Obi-Wan was sixteen years old... I'm a little confused. Thank you thank you thank you thank you for updating! -----signature----- R2D2: The Swiss-Army Knife of Droids The Outer Rim: Minor Character Index http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=21597215
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___Sithspawn___ Registered: Aug '04	Date Posted: 7/1/06 11:20am Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 4 updated - 01/07/2006
	So glad that you updated. Great conversation between Yoda and Tyvokka. You don't depict them as two-dimensionally devoid of feelings/apathetic. Your writing is always so intelligent. I certainly hope that the Tatooine thing doesn't have anything to do with Anakin. Fat chance Hope the bunny keeps biting you. -----signature----- I am severely DRL-afflicted. See profile for (old) fics. "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." -- Leo Tolstoy
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Dragonlady Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 7/1/06 7:28pm Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 4 updated - 01/07/2006
	Oh, brilliant. Intriguing, with little touches of humor (like the mention of the Wookiee language ) that keep the narrative moving nicely. And your Yoda is wonderfully in character. I can't wait for more.
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ctt Registered: Mar '06	Date Posted: 7/3/06 6:57am Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 4 updated - 01/07/2006
	This is the best chapter so far. The other chapters were also brilliant, esp on how you portrayed Obi-wan's emotions - his intense disappointment, pain, etc. But what I really love with this chapter was the idea that Yoda's dice playing with people's fate is in a sense still dice-playing. There is much uncertainty against all the certainty he projects. I esp liked the line when Master Ty... (eh, I'm not sure what his name was...) noted that sometimes Master's Yoda's will and the fill of the force are undistinguisable. I think it capped the idea properly, that Yoda's not all-knowing and all-seeing. It also produced some wonderful tension between the two, and between the reader and Obi-wan. You're wanting to know what happens next, and now very worried as to what's going to happen to obi-wan.
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Valairy_Scot Title: PT Rewrite Winner Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 7/3/06 10:13am Subject: RE: The Learner - (JA, Q/O, AU) - Part 4 updated - 01/07/2006
	Tyvokka still remembered the flare of scepticism he had detected in Masters Saesae Tinn, and Rancisis. Master Jinn, the maverick, had found yet another fantastic cause to espouse. And that was how it had been. Remarkably fantastic – and yet, when one heard it in the voice of Master Jinn, with his brilliant blue eyes and his Force presence, strong and unbreakable, one could not help but wonder if there was some truth in it, in his wonderful tales of vergence and a poor slave woman in a small dusty planet called … I love this paragraph. This is so intriguing. I can't wait to read more. -----signature----- http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/25405090/p3/?52 Prolific Author thread: list & links there. Muse fueled by coffee. Often AWOL despite frequent sipping. Writes on inspiration, not a schedule. I'm a writer, not a storyteller.
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