#Very good but unfortunately A17's Fortune 500 company does make think of slow-boiled coerced fem Ani AU. which is not the vibe here.

[phoenixyfriend]

@desmothene:

Cody is a west point grad who got out & was immediately head-hunted by Alpha-17 for his fortune 50 company staff

I have a mental vision of a specific modern AU fic.

So POV is Obi-Wan, and his focus is of course on his little brother, Anakin. Anakin's a college student who is as thrifty as he can be while sticking to the health-and-hippie guidelines Obi-Wan raised him with. He eats organic and fresh and usually shops farmer's markets, because Obi-Wan's given so many 'we're on a road-trip, let's share our interests' lectures about how the solution to most major environmental and animal welfare concerns is to buy locally from small businesses, especially for food concerns. Anakin usually buys expensive things only if it's also really long, long-lasting stuff. e.g. he goes expensive-for-quality on shoes and jeans, buuuuuuut for t-shirts he just goes with something reasonably-priced that's still natural materials because, again, Obi-Wan has doled out a lot of hippie-style wisdom. I definitely see Anakin going for Patagonia cotton shirts (bought on clearance), while Obi-Wan is over in luxury organic linen and small-farm wool sweater vests.

Except suddenly Anakin's walking around with a new leather jacket ('It's veg-tan, Obi-Wan, not chromium, I swear!'), and a diamond necklace ('they're just zircon, Obi-Wan, stop bugging me'), and a new part for his motorbike that Obi-Wan could have sworn Anakin was still months away from earning ('I just got a good deal on it from the guy that sold it to me, he needed some software dealt with and I was better at it than he was'), and overall it's just... Anakin's coming into a lot of expensive stuff recently.

Obi-Wan's worried.

Is Anakin into something illegal? Did he join a gang? Is he stealing from banks overseas? Are there drugs involved? Obi-Wan works himself into a tizzy about Anakin and his definitely illegal dealings and finally confronts him about it after a few attempts at getting the answer more subtly.

Anyway, turns out Anakin's a sugar baby now and these expensive items were all the aforementioned sugar. He started dating someone who comes from a lot of money and just, you know, he's not going ot turn down gifts from someone who likes giving them to him.

I just really want sugar baby Anakin, and Obi-Wan is very convinced that Anakin's doing something incredibly illegal to get the money because, well, Anakin's got a bit of a history and Obi-Wan worries.

(Obi-Wan starts pearl-clutching about Anakin's innocence, and Anakin just shoots back that Obi-Wan was definitely sugar-babying for the Organas back when Anakin was in high school.)

Probably the rich new lover is Padme, but it could feasibly be just about any ship. I kind of want to see what rich boy Rex or Cody would be like. We could just say they won the lottery after getting out of the military, or maybe we parallel Jango's role as former Mand'alor to some big rich title. IDK.