Infinite Sadness

[lumy12]

Fandom: Star Wars
Title: Infinite Sadness
Prompt: late Challenge #3 for swficchallenge - “Colours.” Inspired by Challenge #2’s footnote about Smashing Pumpkins’ album Melon Collie & the Infinite Sadness, and also the line in James Luceno’s novel Labyrinth of Evil.
Oh! And it also fits with prompt #32 Sunset.
Characters: Just one, a mystery narrator. Hopefully it’s not too great a mystery :)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 161
Warnings: None

The setting suns first dressed the sky in bright shades of orange tinged with pink. The pink soon consumed the orange, bathing the rocks in a rosy glow. Then came the purple hues: lavender giving way to deeper shades, culminating in a rich violet that rendered the land more dark than light. The rocks became cold and black in this light, though still contrasting enough with the white sand to allow for easy navigation around them.

Not that he needed light to make his way back inside. He’d made the journey every day for the standard month or so that he’d been here. Witnessing such natural beauty should be soothing to his spirit, but so far it had had no tangible effect on him. The loneliness and despair gripped him mercilessly. He waited for the violet to melt into indigo, then slid off his favored rock into the sand. He headed inside before the black took over, blanketing everything with darkness.

Comments

[emavalexis.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Gorgeous imagery. And I know you're not the biggest Obi-Wan fan (or at least Ani/Obi fan), but you do his character such justice. His loneliness and grief is captured with a fitting subtlety in this drabble.

[luminations.livejournal.com]

Now this one I believe you truly ARE the first to comment on. And this was back when I was using the fanfic100 prompts unofficially (I later tried to claim Anakin over there, as the Anakin person hasn't updated in FOREVER, but she wouldn't give him up... and STILL hasn't updated! That's so annoying)

And I used to like Obi-Wan more than I do now. I'm hoping the next time I watch the whole saga again (March 28! Yaaaaay!) I'll reconnect with him a little more. I'm a sucker for Obi-being-alone-on-Tatooine fic.

[emavalexis.livejournal.com]

The thing with Obi-Wan is that it's kind of an easy route to take to resent his character if you focus too much on his faults, particularly with respect to Anakin. But his character's probably the one with the most depth in the Star Wars universe, if you think about it, and aside from Padme, he gets screwed over more than anyone else in the entire saga. I love his character tremendously. And since you write him well, I hope your re-watching of the saga will bring you around again wrt Obi-Wan. :)

[luminations.livejournal.com]

Faults don't bother me (Force knows Ani has enough of them!). I agree he gets completely screwed over... but at least he gets to be a happy blue Force ghosty in the end! Heheh