The first few years, Obi-Wan wonders why Anakin never appears to him as a force ghost, to rage, to hate (to be the loving, fierce young man he misses every day).
Obi-Wan knows he shouldn’t, but he tries calling to him, just a little, a barely there whisper into the still air of his sorry excuse for a home. But Anakin never comes.
Its five years in, when Obi-Wan watches a merchant try to put a droid back together in truly pathetic fashion, and he turns to hear his padawan’s amusing little remark, that Obi-Wan realizes Anakin never needed a force ghost to haunt him.
“This, then, is Obi-Wan and Anakin: They are closer than friends. Closer than brothers. Though Obi-Wan is sixteen standard years Anakin’s elder, they have become men together. Neither can imagine life without the other. The war has forged their two lives into one.”
