Before the Clone Wars kicked off and the Jedi Knights of the Republic were forced to become
Generals in the new Grand Army, Obi-Wan kenobi fell in Love with Duchess Satine Kryze while
he was tasked with protecting her along with his Master, Qui-Gon Jinn.
What Obi-Wan didn’t really talk about however was that he fell in love with another Jedi
Girl and became very close to her until her unfortunate demise during the war.
So, I’m going to breakdown the full story of Siri Tachi, the Other Girl that Obi-Wan
Kenobi fell in love with.
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Siri Tachi was discovered as force sensitive and taken away by the Jedi Order at a very
young age, just like almost all of the others.
Although she was about two years younger than Obi-Wan, by the time they both became became
old enough to spar together, Siri Tachi was just as powerful as him in her skills with
a training lightsaber, and even in her connection to the force.
The two Jedi trained incredibly hard in hopes of progressing their skills, until eventually
a massive civil war broke out on the planet Melida/Daan, where the two factions, called
the Melida and the Daan were locked in a ferocious battle for control.
Very soon after the conflict broke out, Obi-Wan was dispatched to the planet alongside his
master, Qui-Gon Jinn to rescue fellow Jedi Master, Tahl who was originally sent there
to oversee peace negotiations, but had not been heard from in some time.
She also happened to be the woman Qui-Gonn fell in love with, so if you want to know
more about that, just let me know.
While Obi-Wan and his master were stationed on the planet however, something incredibly
strange happened.
Obi-Wan very soon became obsessed with a new Rebel group who popped up on the planet, called
“The Young”, who simply wanted peace and to unify the other two warring powers.
Not to mention, he also fell in love with the leader of this faction, Cerasi, but that’s
a story for another time...
Eventually, Qui-Gon found his lover who was missing, Master Tahl, but unfortunately she
was only moments away from death, meaning Qui-Gon had to rush her back to the Jedi temple
for medical treatment.
To Qui-Gon’s absolute shock and anger, Obi-Wan chose to stay on the planet, and leave the
Jedi Order permanently to fight in the civil war...
As you can guess, things soon went down hill in the war, and Kenobi was even elected leader
of the “The Young” faction, but after his lover Cerasi was killed, he begged Qui-Gon
to come and rescue him, before returning to coruscant and Begging the Jedi council with
all of his hear for forgiveness.
Luckily they did give him forgiveness, and he was reinstated as the padawan of Qui-Gon
Jinn.
After Obi-Wan returned to Coruscant he was greeted by Siri Tachi, who was absolutely
disgusted at his shocking betrayal of the Jedi Order in order to fight in a civil war,
and was absolutely furious at him.
Siri Tachi completely hammered Kenobi, calling him an embarrassment to the rank of Padawan
and a disgrace to the order.
And at this point, she also had some slight bitterness inside of her because no Jedi Master
had chosen her as Padawan yet, so she held some jealousy that Kenobi was chosen by Qui-Gon
and then left the Jedi Order.
Eventually, Siri and Obi-Wan got into a rivalry with another young Jedi named Bruck Chun.
Bruck Chun and his friends often taunted Obi-Wan, calling him names and teasing him for not
being the most agile young Padawan in the order.
This mostly stemmed because both Chun and Kenobi wanted Qui-Gon to choose them as his
padawan, and of course Qui-gon Choose obi-Wan.
Because he was refused countless times by Qui-Gon, he eventually became easy prey for
the fallen Jedi known as Xanatos, who made him steal incredibly sacred items and ancient
artifacts from inside the Jedi temple, including the previous Healing crystals of fire, which
were regarded as the greatest treasure that the Jedi Order owned.
After Kenobi found out about Bruck Chun’s betrayal, he chased him into a Room called
the The Room of a Thousand Fountains, deep inside of the Jedi temple, where they climbed
up the slippery rocks of the chamber’s central waterfall, before engaging in a ferocious
lightsaber battle.
As Obi-Wan tried to break off the fight, unfortunately Bruck Chun slipped from the wet rocks in the
centre of the room, leaving him hanging on for dear life.
As this happened, Obi-Wan turned off his lightsaber and apologized for everything, attempting
to save the boy’s life, but it was too late.
Chun couldn’t hold on any longer and plummeted to the rocks below, breaking his neck on impact.
With this situation shocking the entire Jedi Order, Obi-Wan and Siri Tachi worked together
to trace Bruck Chun’s connection to his Dark Jedi Master’s infiltration of the temple.
Eventually, because of Siri Tachi’s hard work around the temple and her continued growth
as a learner, without a master, she was chosen as padawan by Master Adi Gallia, and constructed
her first lightsaber, a purple one.
Master Gallia and Qui-Gon continued to be assigned many missions together around the
galaxy, meaning that Obi-Wan and Siri Tachi began to spend a lot of time together.
The two travelled together on peacekeeping missions, rescue operations and investigations
around the galaxy, and were even forced to recue Qui-Gon Jinn together after he was kidnapped
by the crazy, force-obsessed scientist, Jenna Zan Abor.
Siri Tachi was very headstrong while conducting her missions, but she took notice of Kenobi’s
style and began to follow in his example, becoming more patient.
After their friendship flourished for the next few years, Kenobi eventually realized
that he had feelings for Tachi, but wasn’t ready to tell her just yet.
Soon after this realization, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, along with Siri and Adi Gallia were again
paired up, this time on a mission to save a young boy named Talesan Fry from bounty
hunters on the planet Cirrus.
After horribly crash landing on the planet, their masters sent to the two young Padawans
to hide in a cave while they searched for Fry.
During their time in the caves of Cirrus, Siri and Obi-Wan bickered quite a lot, but
eventually they both realized that they loved each other…
They however chose to focus on the mission at hand before taking it any further.
As the mission progressed, the two Padawans became stuck on board a ship together, which
was rigged and ready to blow up if it were to exit hyperspace.
It was this near death experience for the two of them that allowed them both to finally
recognize their feelings, and admit to each other that they were truly in love.
After Obi-wan spoke to Qui-Gon about his connection with Siri, Qui-Gon warned him about the dangers
of attachment and about the horrible pain that he had felt when he himself lost Master
Tahl all that time ago, during the Civil war.
Because of this, Siri and Obi-Wan vowed to never speak of their love again… unfortunately
leading their friendship to drift away into almost nothingness…
Following this, the Jedi council sent Siri Tachi on a highly secretive, undercover mission
where she took the name Zora, and faked being expelled from the Jedi order after a massive
disagreement with her master.
During this time, Obi-Wan unfortunately thought that she was a triator to the order, until
they eventually crossed paths again, this time with Anakin by Obi-Wan’s side instead
of Qui-Gon, and cleared things up.
After much time had passed and both Obi-Wan and Siri had been promoted to the rank of
Jedi Knight, she soon took on a padawan of her own, named Ferus Olin.
Just like back when they were young, Siri and Ferris Olin were often paired up with
Obi-Wan and Anakin on many missions around the galaxy.
One of these missions even had Obi-Wan siri fake being the King and Queen of the planet
Cortella, with Anakin and Ferus Olin pretending to be their children…
Yeah things got weird.
After many missions together, Obi-Wan, Siri, Anakin and Olin were all urgently dispatched
to the Republic senate building, after the Jedi discovered a plot to assassinate hundreds
of senators, including Chancellor Palpatine himself, using assassin droids.
Tachi, Kenobi and Skywalker went off to find the trio of criminals while Olin valiantly
protected the Chancellor and Senators from the droids, although there sadly were many
casualties that day.
After failing to capture those responsible, and the death of other Jedi, Ferrus Ollin
blamed himself and left the Jedi Order soon after, leaving Siri Tachi devastated.
Following that, Siri Tachi actually served at the battle of Geonosis, flying alongside
her Master Adi Gallia along with many of the other top ranking pilots of the Jedi order.
She served as protection for incoming transports which supported the battle effort.
Finally, after the Battle of Geonosis, Siri Tachi reunited with Talesan Fry from earlier,
Obi-Wan, Anakin and Padme to the planet Azure where they teamed up to fight a group of separatists,
and a bounty hunter named Magus.
When they arrived on the planet, Siri Tachi leaped from her ship into the crazed Bounty
hunter’s, but as she did this, it horribly crash landed into the surface, leading Magus
to shot her, tragically leaving Siri Tachi fatally injured.
Obi-Wan fell into a deep sadness and panic, attempting to save his former love, but he
knew there was nothing he could do and she stopped from helping her any further.
Obi-Wan held Siri Tachi in his arms in her final moments, where they finally expressed
their love for each other again after all this time.
In her final breath, Siri handed Obi-Wan a blue warming crystal which the two had found
on their first mission together, telling Obi-Wan that she will always be with him.
Just like his master Qui-Gon before him almost did, Obi-Wan came only moments away from falling
to the darkside after losing the woman he loved, even holding his lightsaber blade to
the bounty hunter’s throat, ready to slaughter him on the spot.
Just like Qui-Gonn however, Obi-Wan regained control and stopped himself just in time,
preventing his fall to the dark in honor of Siri Tachi.
Heartbreakingly, during his time in solitude, watching over Luke Skywalker on Tatooine,
Obi-Wan would constantly think of Siri Tachi and how they used to touch hands under the
table at afternoon tea in the Jedi temple…
Such a tragic story.
So that was Obi-Wan Kenobi’s other love interest, apart from Satine Kryze.
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