Obi-wan Kenobi

You would never have guessed that the eccentric old man living in Tatooine that came to guide Luke Skywalker was a great Jedi Master. Luke never did. You would never have guessed that he is an important character in the tale; but he is.
For he was Anakin Skywalker's Master. Friend. Brother. And more.

Yet, in the end, for all his skills and power, he chose not to fight.
Darth Vader killed him, but he was never not defeated.

This is Obi-wan Kenobi:

A phenomenal pilot who doesn’t like to fly. A devastating warrior who’d rather not fight. A negotiator without peer who frankly prefers to sit alone in a quiet cave and meditate.

Jedi master. General in the Grand army of the republic. Member of the Jedi council. And yet, inside, he feels like he’s none of these things.

Inside, he still feels like a Padawan.

It is a truism of the Jedi order that a Jedi knight’s education truly begins only when he becomes a master: that everything important about being a master is learned from one’s student. Obi-wan feels the truth of this every day.

He sometimes dreams of when he was a Padawan in fact as well as feeling; he dreams that his own master, Qui-gon Jinn, did not die in Theed. He dreams that his master’s wise guiding hand is still with him. But Qui-gon’s death is an old pain, one with which he long ago came to terms.

A Jedi does not cling to the past,

And Obi-wan Kenobi knows, too, that to have lived his life without being master to Anakin Skywalker would have left him a different man. A lesser man.

Anakin has taught him so much.

Obi-wan sees so much of Qui-gon in Anakin that sometimes it hurts his heart; at the very least, Anakin mirrors Qui-gon’s flair for the dramatic, and his casual disregard for the rules. Training Anakin- and fighting beside him all these years-has unlocked something inside obi-wan. It’s as though Anakin has rubbed off on him a bit, and have loosened that clenched-jaw insistence on absolute correctness that Qui-gon always said was his greatest flaw.

Obi-wan has learned to relax. He smiles now, and sometimes even jokes, and has been come to known for the wisdom gentle humor can provide.

Though he does not know it, his relationship with Anakin has molded him into the great Jedi Qui-gon Jinn has always said he might someday be.

He is respected throughout the Jedi order for his insight as well as warrior skill. He is the role model masters hold up to their Padawans. And it is characteristic of obi-wan that he is entirely unaware of these.

He is the ultimate Jedi.

But above all, he is proud to be Anakin Skywalker’s best friend.