Greetings Folks.
I was cleaning up some HD space on the desktop and came across the outlines I had worked up (many pages back) with ChainsawAsh and other folks here. Some of it I still liked and some of it raised some more questions, so I thought I would ask them here in my typical freeform ramble(if any of the older posters still drop by).
Where does the name "Ben" Kenobi come from?
He tells Luke that he hadn't gone by the name "Obiwan" since before Luke was born. Obviously, this never happened in the PT, but for the NPT why the name change? If it's because he is a Jedi in hiding, then he must go away BEFORE the twins are born. So would he have to leave the story early? (which didn't work for my story since he is the main charcter in my NPT).
Why else would he change his name? In honor of a character named Ben who dies during the NPT? I think that could work.
OR ...
Maybe Ben is his real name and Obiwan is the name he takes when he becomes a Jedi Knight. If the Jedi are almost a kind of religious order (remember how that Imperial Officer on the Death Star in IV refered to the Force as an ancient religion), there are many of those across our world where the person takes on a new name at ordination. In my outline, Kenobi leaves the Jedi either at the end of 2 or the beginning of 3, so at that time he would also go back to being BEN.
SO...
What does this mean for Anakin?
Was he born Anakin and his Jedi name is Vader? It works and can make Ben's "certain point of view" argument more symbolic in meaning. After all, Kenobi DID call him "a young jedi named Darth Vader." I'm not a fan, of course because this blows the Empire reveal.
So how about Anakin having a different name for all of EP1 (like... Kane. Lucas' original name for Anakin's father) until the end when he officially begins his "first step into a larger world" and in a ceremony becomes the first tier Jedi Knight Anankin. I kinda like the idea, it does mean when he falls to the darkside and is no longer a Jedi, he would "cease being Anakin Skywalker." BUT I'm not sure about calling him Kane for an entire Episode.
What do ya think?