Dislcaimer: I own nothing, isn't that pathetic?

Author's Note: This is short, and I'm not entirely sure I like it, but if other people do, I think I will continue to write drabbles like this. If not, we'll forget I ever had this foray into the human psyche.

Color

Dooku and Qui-Gon: Color. When it came down to it, a Jedi's life lacked it. Their robes were drab, and their rooms were sparsely decorated in plain hues. In their own fashions, both Dooku and Qui-Gon rebelled against the colorlessness. Qui-Gon's methods were more overt, involving an excessive amount of time in the Temple gardens and becoming friends with a host of unsavory characters for whom the adjective colorful was the kindest word that could be employed. On the other hand, Dooku's methods were more subtle, for he often volunteered for undercover and diplomatic missions that allowed him to don the vivid aristocratic attire that would have been his to wear all the time if the Jedi hadn't taken him when he was a mere infant. Many times over the years, Dooku would mock Qui-Gon for his bizarre, sentimental behavior, but when Qui-Gon was killed on Naboo, he couldn't help but mourn for the disappearance of so much color from the Jedi and the galaxy.

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Color. Over the course of Obi-Wan's apprenticeship to him, Qui-Gon often reflected that it was the stumbling block in their relationship. After all, their relationship would have been immeasurably less complicated if Obi-Wan didn't have piercing blue eyes like Xanatos'. Their relationship could only truly grow when Qui-Gon was able to gaze into Obi-Wan's eyes without seeing Xanatos' ghost. Once he could do that, he could understand that Obi-Wan's eyes really weren't like Xanatos', after all. While Xanatos' eyes had always blazed like the hottest, deadliest part of a flame, Obi-Wan's eyes were like water. Xanatos' eyes had always brimmed with a passion that could inflame others, but had also ultimately consumed him, whereas Obi-Wan's eyes were typically tranquil, although they gleamed when he was provoked to strong emotion, and contained hidden depths that few people could penetrate or understand. By the end of their relationship, Qui-Gon was pleased and proud to count himself as one of the handful of beings who could say that they had charted the depths of Obi-Wan's surprisingly colorful soul.

Obi-Wan and Anakin: Obi-Wan knew he wasn't what anyone would call a colorful personality. There was nothing about him that made him stand out in a room full of people, and that was how he liked it, because if he went unnoticed, then he couldn't embarrass himself. He was too bland to excite passions in others, for nobody was stirred to violent antipathies or instant devotion upon meeting him. As such, most of the color in his relationship came from Anakin, who was nothing if not a vibrant personality. Unlike Obi-Wan, Anakin thrived on attention and had a flair for the dramatic. Anakin was the one who pushed the rules nearly to the breaking point on a regular basis, the one who spontaneously built and repaired droids, the one who flew in the most dangerous manner possible whenever the occasion arose, and the one who had no problem eliciting strong, immediate reactions from others, since he enjoyed reaching quick judgments about others. That was why when Obi-Wan pictured himself as a color, he saw himself as a common, inoffensive, and ultimately solid plaster white, while, when he envisioned Anakin as a color, he thought of Anakin as a blazing, dynamic azure like his lightsaber blade.

Anakin and Ahoska: When Anakin first met Ahoska, his overwhelming impression was of color. During the course of the Clone Wars, he had become accustomed to looking at the human faces of the clones and his Master, or the white armor of the clones, so seeing a Togruta on Christophsis seemed like a full sensory assault. This impression was only enhanced when she opened her mouth and revealed that she a snippy tongue. At first, he wasn't at all pleased to have such a colorful Padawan, but once he saw how her unique visuospatial abilities had saved him during battle on Christophsis, he understood that their bright colors did not have to clash, but could offset each other well.