he was on TATOOINE you fucking loser

Obi-Wan can find an invisible planet hidden by a devious Sith Lord, Anakin can’t find his ex-best friend on his own home planet while the guy is still using his own damn name.

I know we give Obi-wan a lot of shit for leaving Luke with his real surname but Anakin really is that stupid

the perfect hiding place: the sandiest fucking planet that anakin would never set foot on again

I’d like to remind everyone again that it’s literally canon that Vader can’t step foot on Tatooine because the desert gets into his creaky old man robot joints and makes his suit break down

aka the sand is coarse, rough, irritating, and gets everywhere

i  d o n t  l i k e  s a n d

okay but what if everyone was like ‘vader, kenobi’s on tattooine. he’s obviously on tattooine. he’s been there for years. he’s just right fucking there, we all know it.’ and vader is just desperately shaking down jedi like they’re magic eight-balls and he wants a better fortune. like ‘no i don’t like that try again’. 

kenobi’s just sitting there in his pile of sand like a smug fucking bastard. he doesn’t need to hide jack shit. he went to the tattooine board of tourism and got them to print up flyers that say ‘COME TO TATTOOINE, WE HAVE SAND’ and luke is probably going to be safe until his midlife fucking crisis at this rate.

palpatine finds vader aimlessly checking behind pieces of furniture in some shitty space motel on kamino

‘he’s on tattooine,’ palpatine says. 

‘nuh uh,’ vader says, and peers under a couch.

Theory:

Obi-Wan keeping his last name and creating a perfectly crafted, balanced between obscurity and eccentricity reputation of wizard-hermit is kind of devious, actually.

I mean, Vader obviously is never going to willingly set his foot on Tatooine ever again, but on the off chance he will, the first thing he’s going to heard about while investigating Force stuff is a hermit of Judland Wastes, Old Ben Kenobi. And then he’s off chasing his ex-master-slash-best-friend-slash-nemesis. Certainly not looking too close at some random farmboys.

Obi-Wan sort of accidentally-on-purpose became a part of Tatooine’s folklore to protect Luke and I think it’s beautiful