#Melida Daan

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WIP Lineup 5/27/24

So You Wanna Start a War?

Harry Potter / Marauders Era

Sirius Black & Arcturus Black

Sirius Black/Dorcas Meadowes

Noble and Most Ancient House of Black Centric

Anti-Walburga Black, Anti-Orion Black, Anti-Peter Pettigrew, Anti-Dumbledore

We're messing with the canon and fixing a lot of shit.

This is entirely finished. All that's left is proofreading and editing then it'll get posted.

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If All We Know Is What We're Told Then They've Made Up Our Minds

DC Comics

Dick Grayson/Jason Todd

The Red Hood comes back to Gotham but has to pause his revenge tour when he finds out that Nightwing hasn't been seen in years since the Joker died.

Dick Grayson has given up Nightwing.

Heavy on the ramifications of Blockbuster/Catalina.

This will be bad parent Bruce Wayne.

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Doomed By the Narrative

DC Comics

Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & John Constantine

John Constantine/Zatanna

John needs help to do a ritual to save Zatanna, but he can only use the help of people who have died and been brought back. The amount of people who have done that and that he trusts are extremely low.

Post-Spyral

Bad parent Bruce Wayne

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Gold and Green Through a Different Lens

DC Comics / Marvel Comics

Dick Grayson & Jason Todd

Nightwing and the Red Hood get thrown into the Marvel universe where they clash with the Avengers, get mistaken for mutants, and get rescued by Magneto. Not necessarily in that order.

Former Talon Dick Grayson

Lazarus Pit Jason Todd

Avengers aren't in the best light, but they're not evil.

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Heathen

Star Wars

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Cin Drallig

Rule 63 for Obi-Wan Kenobi

Melida-Daan canon divergence and thereafter.

Bashing for Qui-Gon Jinn and Yoda.

I've been sitting on the first chapter of this for over a year but I swear it's always in the back of my mind.

[c-m-li]

Last Line Challenge

Tagged by @jedi-enthusiast

This is from Heathen, the first multichapter story in my So Uncivilized series. It's rule 63, Obi-Wan centric.

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Feemor sat in the pilot's seat of the ship, watching the blue-white star streak past as they sped through hyperspace towards Melida-Daan. Her eyes were half-lidded as she breathed deeply and evenly in a light meditation.

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It's funny bc mine also being about Melida-Daan is a total coincidence.

Tagging @batshieroglyphics @bitter-chocolate-stars @dharmaavocado @wrennette @smilebackwards

[renif]

"I'm not the person that I thought I was, I couldn't tell you where the ache came from"

aka obi-wan cuts off his braid during Melida/Daan war and makes the decision of not returning to the order

haven't actually read any book from the apprentice series so i don't really know the details, if something like this happened but well, got inspired by the new crane wives song "scars" and wanted to draw something like this as a start of an au where obi-wan leaves the order for good, hope i'll stay motivated to draw more of it

[adhd-coyote]

The Melidaan ambassador was… interesting. Fox hadn’t expected him to be much different from the Senators he and his Corries had to guard. And yet Ambassador Ben Kenobi had subverted those expectations as soon as Fox had first laid eyes on him.

For starters, he didn’t dress like a politician. Instead of the bright colors and heavy layers favored by Senators, Kenobi himself seemed to prefer lighter, muted clothing that drew less attention and allowed for better maneuverability. If Fox hadn’t known any better, he would have guessed that Kenobi was a military officer, not a politician. Strange for a planet that was so determined to stay neutral that they refused to join even the Neutral Systems Alliance.

Second- he hadn’t requested an escort to Coruscant, nor did he request any guards once he arrived, despite the Chancellor himself asking him. He seemed completely unconcerned about any possibility of an attack or assassination attempt. Was it because of his neutrality? Did he believe that having a member of the GAR as a bodyguard would make it seem like he’d joined their side? Or was he simply too arrogant to think he’d need one?

But his demeanor wasn’t arrogant. Nor did it match the way he dressed. And the way he spoke- his voice was elegant, with an accent that fit right in with the Coruscanti upper class, and yet he didn’t smile like them. His smile - when aimed at the Corries - was soft and gentle. Kind.

Not many natborns were kind. Not to the Corries.

[chyarui]

Surprise!!! It’s more angst!!!

You know you love a character when you put them through the absolute worst hell 😊

The boys cuddled after this don’t worry, they deserve it. THEY DESERVE ALL THE HUGS, which I may or may not draw later

The haunted look in Quin’s eyes would not leave me until I drew them, I hope you find looking at this as crushing as I have while drawing it 💔

[headcanonthings]

Qui-Gon, after returning from Melida/Dann without Obi-Wan: Padawan Vos, I sense hostility from you. Quinlan: Good, because I hate you.

[thestarwarslesbian]

Obi-wan, walking through the mess hall with bolognaise and garlic bread, dropping the garlic bread in the floor: This is sadder than when I was left in an active war zone, on my own at 13. Coby, spitting out his coffee: Excuse me? The rest of the 212th: whAt?!

[legitimatesatanspawn]

While a lot of situations in the Jedi Apprentice series are straight up people being assholes or political backstabbery or god help you corporate bullshit...

... the fact that Melida/Daan is a multigenerational war lasting for centuries without end is Highly Fucked Up and VERY suspicious given that both sides are endlessly spurred on by the Halls of Memory (the hologram recordings of dead soldiers egging the living on to fight in their/their peoples' name).

Who profits from the planet endlessly at war with itself? Unable or unwilling to reach out to neighbors yet somehow still considered part of the Republic?

Weapon manufacturers using it as a test bed? From what I remember it was just standard if dated gear.

... but as much as I hate redirecting everything wrong back to them, there's the Sith and their vague 1000 year plan to destroy the Jedi and take over the Republic. A planet constantly at war with itself, a good chunk of the population bitterly hating each other, and the pain and suffering of a never ending war? Sounds like a Dark Side fission reactor to me. A few check-ins for "maintenance" when things start to settle aside it'd be perfect for them.

[indistinctchatt3r]

Sol and Jecki have the dynamic of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan if Qui-Gon mildly cared about the code and/or the wellbeing of children

[flyndragon]

I really want to write an AU where Ezra travels back in time - specifically de-aged and sent back to Obi-wan's time on Melida/Daan.

Because even though this is a super shitty situation Ezra's kinda... thriving? Like all of this is so firmly in his wheelhouse its funny.

Ezra's been living on his own starving and stealing since he was 7. He's being doing guerilla warfare for most of his adolescence. As soon as this boy joins the cause it's hell. Every adult is getting mind-tricked. The young are now stealing everything that is not nailed down. Ezra's connecting with any local megafauna to cause distractions. He's teaching 'child soldier 101 classes'.

And emotional support too! Comforting kids mourning their dead parents? That was just his own character arc! Comforting kids whose parents are warmongering assholes? That's just Sabine's thing! A jedi that doesn't believe he's worthy of being a jedi? Kanan.

idk if obi-wan would be a little scared of this war kid or think he's the fucking coolest padawan obi-wan's ever met in his life. Lets say the latter because its funny to me if they're both kinda obsessed with each other. Ezra definitely hears the whole story of how Obi got to the planet and is 2000% on His Side immediately. Ezra is complimenting Obi-wan constantly cause he canonically can't shut up and obi-wan is blushing so hard All of the Time.

Anyway, when the war ends Obi-wan and Qui-gon bring him back to coruscant with them to present him to the council, ect. ect.

Ezra is conflicted about whether he even wants to join the order officially as a padawan. On one hand, it would be really nice to have actual traditional jedi training. On the other hand he really is going to have to do several high profile murders sometime in the next decade? two decades?, and doesn't know if the jedi should be connected to him lol.

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There's Darkness in the Distance

(AO3 LINK)

Chapters: 1/3

Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice Series - Jude Watson & Dave Wolverton

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death

Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Quinlan Vos, Cerasi & Obi-Wan Kenobi & Nield, Tholme & Quinlan Vos, Dooku & Obi-Wan Kenobi

Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Quinlan Vos, Dooku (Star Wars), Nield (Star Wars), Cerasi (Star Wars), Tholme (Star Wars), Original Female Character(s), Feemor (Star Wars), Vokara Che, Yaddle (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Character Death, Force Ghost Obi-Wan Kenobi, those two tags really just explain the whole fic, Planet Melida | Daan (Star Wars), Post-Melida | Daan Civil War (Star Wars), Member of the Young of Melida | Daan Obi-Wan Kenobi, Melida | Daan Civil War Happens Differently (Star Wars), Cerasi Lives (Star Wars), Jedi Culture & Customs (Star Wars), Jedi as Found Family (Star Wars), Grief/Mourning, Child Soldiers, Qui-Gon Jinn Bashing, Fix-It

Series: Part 1 of The Light of Day

Summary:

When Obi-Wan Kenobi dies on Melida-Daan, he is satisfied with the peace won for the Young.

But the Force was far from satisfied.

And Obi-Wan may not have been a Jedi any longer, but he was always a child of the Force.

See below for my casting choices:

[jediaprentis]

Wim going "are you an army of kids fighting adults to take over the planet??" had me yelling

JEDI APPRENTICE REFERENCE JEDI APPRENTICE REFERENCE

DO YOU MEAN MELIDA/DAAN?

IS THIS A REFERENCE TO 1999 MIDDLE GRADE NOVEL STAR WARS JEDI APPRENTICE DEFENDERS OF THE DEAD WRITTEN BY JUDE WATSON?

[mudpuddless]

Knight Feemor and Padawan Kenobi in the shadow court

AU where qui-gon gives up on/is banned from training Obi-wan after melida-daan and Feemor becomes Obi-wans master.

[picture ID: it's a digital drawing of jedi knight feemor stahl, aged 37, a long haired blonde near-human with tan skin and forest green robes, sitting on the floor with his legs tucked in under him. He is levitating a bright yellow kyber crystal between his hands as a disassembled white-gold lightsaber is floating to his right. padawan obi-wan kenobi, aged 13, a ginger child with grown out hair and a padawan braid wearing white tunics is napping next to him on the floor using a sage green cloak as a blanket and knight stahl's knees as a pillow with his hands tucked under his cheeks. the wall behind them is tiled with diamond shaped star patterned tiles and to their right a large white blue and gold porcelain planter is holding a small gnarly tree with droopy green leaves. above them three identical complex lancet windows which let white gold sunlight into the room. the drawing is done largely in turquoise and yellow tones and the atmosphere is peaceful and serene. end ID]

[ladysarai]

10 Star Wars Fic Recs for Fanworks Day!

So, today is International Fanworks Day! I saw this post for Feedback Fest 2025, asking for comments "recommending 10 fanworks. Tell everyone why you love these works and why they should check them out." And because I am ~EXTRA~, I decided to make a Tumblr post for this.

But then I realized I could not keep it to 10 recs total and decided to do two posts--one for Inception, and one for Star Wars. There is NO rhyme or reason to the fics recommended here, other than "this is a story I linked to @nutterzoi and told her to go read RIGHT NOW and then when I saw the link I thought 'oh I should read that again'."

Here be my Star Wars fic recs! They are all prequel era, because I have a problem and that problem is named Obi-Wan Kenobi. Recs under the cut!

Trail Markers by @ooboowoonkoonooboo: A modern AU, which I was super hesitant at first, because to be honest? I have been taking my fandom faves and shoving them into Star Wars AUs for the last, oh, almost 30 years. But this was about high altitude climbing! And Codywan! And a special interest of mine is absolutely high altitude climbing and Everest, and here they are climbing Annapurna. (What's even more impressive is that the author ACTUALLY DID THEIR TREK, which. Is probably why it's just so amazingly excellent.) But the writing is fantastic and emotional and the backstory of Cody and his brothers kept me reading when I should have been doing other things. I have not been able to stop thinking about this story since I read it.

New Growth by @outpastthemoat: I was a Jedi Apprentice fan back in The Day, and have a new fixation with Melida/Daan (because look. As an adult, thinking about Qui-Gon abandoning a 13 year old Obi-Wan on a wartorn planet where adults are fighting and killing their own children is really fucked up, and I like the exploration of that). ANYWAY, I have read a BUNCH of post-Melida/Daan fics, but this is my favorite, and from Qui-Gon's POV. He is such a complicated character with a lot of flaws and I love that about him, but he's also a Good Man. Having a Padawan is like having a plant, and the fic includes this line: “No child is ever low-maintenance,” Tahl returns. “You just weren’t paying attention.” I absolutely adore Qui-Gon needing to think of Obi-Wan as a plant in order to realize what he needs to do to help him.

The More I Live the More I See this Life is Not About Me by K_R_Closson: A fic in which Clone Wars General Obi-Wan Kenobi touches a Sith artifact and turns into his 13 year old post Melida/Daan self. (I mentioned the fixation, right?) It's so good, with excellent clone POV (hi Cody ilu), and the tension that comes with knowing they need Obi-Wan to be his adult self again but seeing the boy who doesn't want to be General Kenobi. The conflict that Cody and the clones have regarding forcing someone to do a thing they don't want to and the parallel with their own lives is just. Chef's kiss.

After the War by antheiasilva: It is Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, so if that's not your jam, be warned. But it's not generally mine either and I love this story to pieces. It's set after the war, in a world where Qui-Gon lived, and it has a really amazing concept for how they defeated Palpatine. It also really does not shy away from showing the PTSD Obi-Wan would and should have after the war. But like: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Padme, Ahsoka and the baby twins all living together in Naboo's Lake District. Come on now. Bonus points for the complicated relationship they all have with the Jedi Order, too. It's just full of found family feels.

Patron Saint by @andthepeople: SO FREAKING GOOD. It's an always-female Obi-Wan AU, and I am obsessed with how being female does and does not change who Obi-Wan is and how she manages her role as a Jedi Master and council member and General. The relationship between Obi-Wan and her troops is the heart of the story and the love they all have for each other is just. GUH. Please read this story. The ending is fabulous and has Obi-Wan pulling a Jean Grey Phoenix X2 move that just. I can see it. Everything about this is perfect. (Also it's Codywan.)

And I Fear Nothing by @fox-trot: Unfinished, and that is heartbreaking, because this story is so good. I literally read it all in one six hour sitting, and it's another fic that won't leave my brain alone now. Obi-Wan is on Tatooine with Luke, Leia, Cody and Rex (and later, perhaps a few others). It's all Found Family and PTSD and how they all heal and hurt each other. I love it unconditionally.

The Legend of Liob by killbothtwins: Honestly one of the most entertaining and hilarious stories I have read in a LONG time. A photojournalist is posted to the 212th to help with PR for the war. Someone (Boil) impulsively creates an imaginary trooper, and things spiral out of control from there. But this imaginary trooper does save the day! In just about every single way. It's got great humor, amazing clone and Obi-Wan characterization, and a fabulous plot. Do yourself a favor and read it.

Silent (and So Near) by @tessiete: Another story I have not been able to stop thinking about since reading it. It does say Chapter 1/6, but idk if more will be written or not. I personally do hope so! It's SO well written, and full of emotions. Qui-Gon lived through Naboo, and now the Clone Wars have come and he is NOT interested in being a General. Just. Qui-Gon's feelings and thoughts are so fascinating to me, and his relationship with Obi-Wan and Anakin, guh. The lengths that Obi-Wan goes to to keep Qui-Gon safe from himself. The river stone. Anakin's attitude. I am obsessed with this version of Qui-Gon, tbh.

[to speak of precious evenings] by @cillyscribbles: OH I love this story. First of all, the way with words is just. Beautiful. But taking the "Cody and Obi-Wan get drunk together and talk" plot and turning it into this is a talent. It's beautiful.

Every Shadow by @kenobster: SO. VERY. GOOD. Unfinished, and I hope that it won't stay that way, but just as an FYI. I swear, this is the post Zygerria fic I need. Everyone's trauma after that arc is here and they are all hot messes having terrible times. But it's done well, and the writing is amazing. Do heed the warnings, but nothing explicit is in the fic. This is another story I can't stop thinking about.

[yellowocaballero]

one thing I've seen you play with in your writing both in moon knight and in the star wars roleswap canon crossover is characters being brutally honest to/about different parts of themselves as a way of externalizing the kind of self-critical double standard that usually only exists inside a person's head. it's a really fun and juicy concept to chew on :) the coffee machine bit in twilight on owl creek bridge also scratches this itch, it's delicious to see characters forced to be vulnerable about their most deeply held beliefs when pushed to the breaking point and you write that kind of climax in a very satisfying way <3

I love this ask. No joke, the roleswap/canon crossover exists because I kept on reading fanfics where Obi-Wan meets his younger self and he's, like, nice to him. No. Obi-Wan has a devoted fan club of haters but nobody in the galaxy is a greater Obi-Wan hater than Obi-Wan. And I swear that the only person Obi-Wan would hate more than Obi-Wan is Obi-Wan aged 13. Who do YOU hate more? Yourself? Or yourself, from when you were thirteen?????

I agree that it's really satisfying when characters are completely peeled open, but it does have to be carefully done. You have to wait for as long as possible before you get there. Every time you think that it's time for the character to come clean and say what they mean, it is not. You have to escalate and push up the tension and continuously have this denial cause more and more problems. I love the identity porn trope, but you HAVE to keep the charade going for as long as you physically could. If something is fixed, it has to break something else. If a question is answered, it has to raise five more questions. This is what makes the final reveal satisfying.

The coffee pot moment is unsettling and eerie because it doesn't do that - the worst truths are being openly said with no prompting in the break room, the buried and unsaid is being said, and Fox is being forced to hear it. Fox has reached his cracking point, and everything that's gone unsaid is rushing out. Because Leia is there, and she's not the type to let anything go unsaid - except, of course, for the biggest thing at that moment that she couldn't admit. It was Leia who pushed Fox to his breaking point, and it was Fox who brought Leia towards acceptance. Thanks for reading!

[knightofthenewrepublic]

So Skeleton Crew did Kegan with At Attin, and now with At Achrann they did Melida/Daan.

What's next, Telos? Cirrus? Yinchorr?