Vader HATES Obi wan because Obi wan took away Vader’s full force capabilities by cleaving off his limbs.
In doing so, Obi-wan limited Vader’s access to the Force (flesh is a conduit for the Force). Obi-wan essentially castrated Vader’s full abilities, which in turn forever blocked him from overtaking Palpatine. “I am more powerful than the Emperor. I can overthrow him” Vader, shaky with thrill, says to Padme on Mustafar, brimming with newly birthed dark power. Welp.This turns out to be a short-lived aspiration - as per Obi wan.
Obi-wan severed Vader’s limbs because, despite feeling gutted, anguished, guilty, and “unmerciful” himself— it was the only way he could everhope to save Anakin.
If Vader was allowed to come to full power, the ghost of the good & tormented man Anakin Skywalker would have been smothered to dust, scraping helplessly at the ceiling of Vader’s power and drowned eternally within the dark. By weakening Vader’s ability to harness the darkness (although his power still outmatched anyone in the galaxy) Obi-wan preserved the possibility of Anakin resurfacing.
Despite his own anger and devastation, Obi wan could not kill Anakin. And he couldn’t allow Vader to either.
The man he faced was everything Obi-Wan had devoted his life to destroying. Murderer. Traitor. Fallen Jedi. Lord of the Sith. And here, now, despite it all… Obi-Wan still lovedhim.-Matthew Stover, Revenge of Sith novelization (canon)
In fact, he kept his word to Master Yoda. “I can’t kill Anakin” he says, beside himself in Ep III. And he doesn’t. He doesn’t execute Anakin when he could have on the hellish shores of Mustafar, and furthermore he neuters Vader and in doing so prevents Anakin’s extermination at Vader’s hands, limiting Vader’s power.
But, tragically, in a way, by trying to cut down Vader, Obi-wan played right into Palpatine’s hands. Palpatine wanted an eternal slave, and with Obi-wan’s help that’s exactly what he got. But from Palp’s POV it was even better - because Obi-wan, Anakin’s tether to the light, swung the blade. Obi wan ensured the eternal suffering and physical agony of the man he loved more than anything in the galaxy. He, Obi-wan, massacred Anakin’s body, guaranteeing his eternal suffering and physical damnation - which is in a way symbolic of how the Jedi Order had failed the Chosen One Anakin Skywalker (aka, the Galaxy). And Obi-wan knew it. The guilt destroyed him.
Like, The FREAKING GREEK TRAGEDY OF THESE TWO.
This is a hugereason Vader hates Ben/Obi wan. Obi-wan ensured his enternal enslavement to Palpatine and is the reason why a husk of Anakin Skywalker may still live inside of him. Obi-wan is the reason why Vader, however powerful, may yet fail - and Vader knows it.
And this drives Vader mad with obsession.
Because not only does he want to destroy Obi-wan, more than anything he wants to destroy Anakin Skywalker.
He looks to the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Romans…all civilizations with ties and—more importantly—documentation on resurrecting the dead.
When his father disappeared, he left behind a library teeming with tomes on the very subject. His grief at Hope’s death made him desperate and drove him to madness (a family trait, it would seem). Remus told Sirius he wouldn’t, but… Sirius wasn’t there; he’d been hiding as Padfoot in their own home for weeks, avoiding the painful emotions of their new reality.
Sirius isn’t here, and Remus’s grief is, and it’s poignant and white-hot, a gaping, raw hole in his chest, letting all the air escape and leaving him cold and hollow and lost, because his first friend…his sweet, kind, loving Lily is dead. James is dead. Their child cries for them every single night and it wasn’t supposed to be like this!
It wasn’t, it wasn’t, so he reads. He consumes book after book, translating dead language into dead language into Latin into English, cross-referencing and steeling himself for what he is to do. What he needs to do. For Harry. For Sirius. For himself…
Sirius rescues him from his madness on the new moon, finally a man again. He tears Remus away from his father’s desk, pulling and shouting and begging: “Do not do this, Remus! This heart is where you truly live! This heart! Here! With the living! With me!”
And Remus crumples, his intricate casting broken, the gates closed, and collapses in his arms. He can’t do this. His father failed for a reason. His father hadn’t wanted to lose his humanity. Remus has no humanity to lose (that died in the ragged festering void his mother and Lily’s deaths caused), but he can’t leave Sirius and Harry alone… He needs to let James and Lily go.
Angst is my jam so here some DSOD sad with Joey and Kaiba in a relationship already but the need to beat the Atem consumes Kaiba and he leaves without even telling Joey, coming back 4years later to a pissed off / hardened heart blonde…..then Kaiba works his ass off to get Joey back to the smiling idiot he left. Will draw more of this and than a happy ending if y’all are interested.
