panharmonium:

one, two, three

So, Wookiepedia says Qui-Gon took on his first apprentice, Feemor, when Feemor’s training was already almost complete.  I know there’s really no source for that other than people playing with the timeline and realizing things wouldn’t really make sense unless that were the case, but dubious sources or not, it’s totally my headcanon anyway, because that is just so appropriate, you know?  Qui-Gon would totally take on some 20-odd year old padawan who’d lost their master to whatever circumstance, immediately, without question.

…aaand then go on to train a dark Jedi, forswear teaching forever and fight about it with the Council constantly, spend nine years re-articulating his absolute refusal to take another student.

But we all know how that turned out.  Congratulations, Obi-Wan, you are just that compelling.