"If I could have your attention?" the force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi requested. "I have a presentation to give."

"Oh, no," Anakin protested. "This is going to take four hours and be about politics, isn't it?"

"No, actually," Obi-Wan replied. "It's going to be quite short and about you."

Anakin brightened.

"I'd advise against doing that," Obi-Wan told him. "In the first place, I mean you generically, as in Skywalkers."

Ben raised his hand.

"I'm a Solo," he said.

"I'm an Organa Solo," Leia contributed.

"You know very well what I mean," Obi-Wan said, firmly. "Now, I would like your attention. I have been dealing with you people for half my life and all of my death, and I am here to announce that I have a ranking."

"...a tier list?" Luke asked. "That sounds like grounds for a huge argument."

"It's my personal ranking, but it also happens to be correct, because it's based on a very specific criterion," Obi-Wan told them all. "As I'm sure you've noticed, all members of the Skywalker family have some kind of major crisis happen to them in their early-to-mid twenties."

A spectral board appeared next to Obi-Wan. "I will be rating you all according to how you reacted."

"...I don't like the sound of this," Anakin said.

"The Force is a place for self-reflection," Obi-Wan replied, pleasantly. "At the bottom, with the worst reaction, we have Anakin Skywalker. His crisis was that he thought his wife might die, and so he killed most of the Jedi Order."

"Okay, the clones helped, but I did kill an unreasonable number of them," Anakin conceded. "That's on me, I'll admit."

He looked at his children, parent, and grandchild. "You're supposed to be supportive."

"We are," Leia said. "We're supportive of what you just said."

"Personally I'm mostly surprised that you accepted becoming a slave again," Shmi noted. "If you were going to fall to the Dark Side you could at least have done something about that."

"He did eventually, grandmother," Luke noted. "...actually, come to think of it, are you also my stepgreataunt? Our family is strange."

"That's the most mundane thing about it," Ben said.

"Speaking of, second on the list," Obi-Wan declared. "Ben Solo. His crisis was that he found out that his grandfather was Darth Vader, and he also killed most of the Jedi order. I put him here because there were a lot less of them so it's not quite so bad, though proportionately it was worse."

"...in my defence, I was being corrupted by Palpatine speaking in my head," Ben argued.

"Snap!" Anakin said, flashing a grin.

"He's a prick," Leia nodded.

"Nevertheless," Obi-Wan went on. "Third on the list, moving into the more reasonable reactions, we have Luke. His crisis was that he found out that Darth Vader was his father, and yes, I'm putting that a different way around to Ben's one; that happens to be correct. He didn't attempt to kill a large number of Jedi, though he did attempt to kill fifty percent of the Jedi he knew about."

"You did?" Ben asked.

"He means I jumped off a tower," Luke clarified. "I only knew about myself and Yoda."

"...oh, yeah, that checks out," Ben admitted. "Fair enough."

"I'm starting to wonder if there's some kind of family curse involved," Shmi said, thoughtfully. "I don't remember offending any gods."

"So who's next?" Leia asked. "Shmi or myself?"

"As it happens, you are, Leia," Obi-Wan replied. "Though it was close. You two are both well up the reasonable end, because you had a good cry before moving on with what you were doing and Shmi also had a good cry before moving on with what she was doing. It's just that your crisis was discovering that Darth Vader was your birth father and Shmi's was realizing that she was mothering a virgin birth, and of the two I consider the second one somewhat more impactful."

The half-dozen Force Ghosts all looked at the clipboard.

"So does this tell us anything useful?" Luke asked.

Obi-Wan was silent for a moment.

"It tells me we should probably warn Rey," he said. "She's taken the Skywalker name and she's only just hit twenty."

"...sorry?" Ben asked. "I didn't realize she was ten years younger than me."

"Congratulations," Luke said, glancing at his father. "I think you've got the least awkward age gap relationship among this entire family."

Obi-Wan looked interested. "Maybe I should make a tier list for that as well," he said.


AN:


I think Obi-Wan got into ForceTube content.