7 Star Wars Fan Theories We Wish Were True

2. Korkie Kryze Is Actually Obi-Wan And Satine's Son

Star Wars The Clone Wars Korkie Kryze
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Obi-Wan is my fave, and it is my sacred duty to inform the timeline (and you, dear reader), that he f*cks. I don't make the rules. That's just how it is.

While my own personal ship never truly set sale in the current canon - it is straight up SHOCKING that Kenobi and Ventress didn't hook up at some point, I tell you - that doesn't mean that Obi-Wan never had any romantic entanglements. In fact, The Clone Wars makes clear that the Jedi Master did have a love, and that was of course Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore.

The series reveals how the Duchess and Obi-Wan spent many months together on the run during a crisis on Mandalore before The Phantom Menace, following an assignment from the Jedi Council that ordered Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn to protect her. It was during this period that Obi-Wan and Satine fell in love, but they were caught between two destinies; Kenobi was meant to be a Jedi, and Satine had her own ambitions to help the Mandalorian people as a politician. While Obi-Wan would reveal when they met years later that he would have left the Order had she asked, they were never able to commit to a formal relationship.

Of course, that hasn't stopped fans from speculating that their time together may have led to the birth of a child, and one child in particular: Korkie Kryze, Satine's nephew who, as viewers have noted, bears more than a passing resemblance to the duchess and her beloved Jedi.

The timeline on Korkie and Satine and Obi-Wan's time on the run is a little murky, but it's not entirely outside the realms of possibility that their relationship could've led to a child. And while it is true that Star Wars gets a little boring when it just becomes a big ol' lineage-fest, it's not difficult to find the idea of a half-Mandalorian, half-Kenobi at least a little cool.

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