What to do with Obi-Wan

Did a revision of part one, and it’s actually pretty good! I just have three plot points to adress: the romantic interest, the telepathy, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Obi-Wan is throwing me. He doesn’t appear much in this first part, which made me wonder if he was necessary. Can my MC learn the force on his own? Thought about it, and turns out not. Obi-Wan is important later, and the MC would be kind of lost without him. So how do I give him more screen time? I feel as though right now the readers will ask, “Who’s that creepy guy in the cloak who follows the MC around?”

Sigh. The struggles of writing.