Seeing how in danger force sensitive are in the galaxy, I feel like the jedi padawans might end up in a lot of dangerous situations. So do masters have to deal with pedophiles?
How they had gotten into the subject, Rex wasn’t sure.
Something about some of the trainers that had showed too much interest in younger cadets beyond training, which had caused Shaak Ti to take interest in said trainers if he tried to analyze the conversation Fives and Echo had as they worked on a few speeders in the middle of the camp.
But the concept of age and consent was messy with clones, technically speaking, none of them were older than fifteen anyhow if you counted in terms of actual years and since Jango Fett had been mostly baseline human, that mean that technically none of them were really legal.
But they, the troopers, had adult bodies and cadets did not, which meant that Shaak had with prejudice gotten rid of said interested trainers of cadets in front of longnecks and other trainers.
And then Anakin Skywalker had opened his big mouth as he had been sitting on a crate with Ahsoka by his feet, both of them occupied with their own things.
“Hah!” Anakin snerked to himself, messing with the wires of his arm. “Good on Master Ti for acting quickly. The last time someone tried to touch me while I was underage, Obi-Wan murdered them in cold blood too.” He sniggered, wincing as a spark went of with the wires and his fingers twitched in his lap.
Echo and Fives froze, both blinking owlishly at their General as Ahsoka slowly chewing on her meat stick, even as the general hubbub around them grew dimmer around them as the words were whispered through the troopers.
Rex opened his mouth then closed it again, pausing his own repairs on a speeder motor. “…I’m sorry, what?” He questioned, half laughing even though nothing about that sentence sounded humorous.
Frowning faintly at his arm, Anakin grabbed a soldering tool he had beside him to fix the wires, clearly using the Force for another tool to keep the wires together. “I mean, Jedi padawan’s go everywhere, most are twelve or closer to thirteen when they start? But I was ten and we follow our masters everywhere, for the most part,” Anakin mumbled absently as he worked. “I had to take a bit of time, having to learn so I stayed at the temple with Obi-Wan’s friends when he was out but I got out with him when I was twelve and well, fucked up situations happen.” He stated casually.
Rex stared, the silence feeling stifling, the General didn’t just imply that it was regular for Jedi padawans to get assaulted in the past, did he?
But that was what it sounded like and while uneasy looking, Ahsoka didn’t look too shocked, as if this was something she had heard before.
The silence was uncomfortable until the other half of the subject of the conversation interrupted them. “What are you all talking about that has captain Rex looking so shocked?” Obi-Wan inquired, quizzically looking between them.
Unsure what to say, Rex was grateful when Anakin chirped up. “That time you murdered someone for trying to touch me.” He stated, practically cheerful.
Jango Fett had a lot of faults, but one of them was not child touching and any trainer that showed too much interest in cadets were taken care of… slowly and in full view of the Kaminoans to make a point.
General Kenobi blinked at that, cocking his head and for one moment, one blissful moment, Rex hoped he was about to say that was all in Anakin’s head, that his General didn’t go through that.
And then Obi-Wan shattered the illusion. “Which time? Because I remember a few instances, though I went with castration in most cases, I only went with murder if I knew I could get away with it and the council wouldn’t know,” He stated thoughtfully. “Well, officially know that is. Nothing that went down on records you know, plausible deniability in case the Senate caught wind.” Obi-Wan shrugged at the looks that garnered.
“So the… Senate wouldn’t…” Rex stammered weakly.
Peering up through his bangs curiously, Anakin nodded. “Well yeah, the council wasn’t about to punish someone for keeping their padawan safe. The Senate however takes authority over that again, so if they figured it out…” He trailed off before looking to Obi-Wan. “You would have been in jail quite a long time if they knew.” Anakin noted with some amusement.
Snorting deeply, coming over to peer at Anakin’s arm with some worry since the other hadn’t fixed it yet, Obi-Wan slid his hands into his sleeves. “Most of the order would be. Especially the ones that are masters of twi’lek ones. Qui-Gon would have been in one even before he became my master, I wasn’t his padawan the first time he killed someone to keep them away from me. I think he spaced the body but I wasn’t quite in a condition to pay attention to that.” He chuckled.
As if it was common.
As if their safety wasn’t in danger.
This all honestly painted a disturbing picture of the Jedi Order role in the galaxy quite frankly.
Rex exchanged a long look with a horrified looking Kix and then promptly put his tools away to go find Cody.
Because what the kark.