Anghraine

Thank you! These are sort of how he makes sense to me?

LOLOLOL, at first I was just Hufflepuffs and Slytherins, but then thought that Obi-Wan was a consummate Slytherin (one of the things I always liked about ANH was that you had a clear Gryffindor type in Vader and a clear Slytherin type in Obi-Wan and it's honestly pretty rare to have the villain and mentor go that way) but had some Hufflepuff traits. And then that Palpatine is basically faking it, so they're both Hufflepuff-coated Slytherins in different ways. Obi-Wan would hate it, lol - and of course, Obi-Wan presenting that way out of genuine institutional loyalty and dedication and being the good soldier boy that he is is different from Palpatine just pretending, but there's a parallel there. And I have no doubt that Palpatine found him very useful.