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Ooh I just saw a cute little AU prompt I wanna see if it can be used! So itâs the soulmate au where the reader shares eye color in one eye with their soulmate. Iâd love it if you could do an angsty fluffy Anakin x reader would mate au with Anakin in his revenge of the sith era? Also, I was wondering if you write for Stargate or know any writer who does on here? Thereâs not enough Stargate love and it makes me sad đ. Thanks lovely!
The Look of Terror In Your Eyes
Pairing: Anakin Skywalker x fem!reader; Soulmate au!!!!
Summary: Reader is one of padmĂ©âs handmaidens, and while joining her on Mustafar, she finds a familiar pair of eyes. Eyes that shouldnât be as red as they areâŠ
Word Count: 2.6k
Warnings: fire, sobbing, sith, evil anakin, star wars stuff, related violence (not really) Idk, you let me knowâŠ
A/n: Thank you so much for waiting and requesting! Took a while to get out but I was feeling the angst after ep 7 of The Last Of Us. đđđ Also, sorry, I donât know any writers for stargate! i had to look it up đđ, but if anyone has any recommendations, comment them. Anyway, I hope you enjoy, sorry for the long break yâall!!! <33333333
P.s: I love the soulmate au trope!!!!! <3
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[Name] always loved the idea of a soulmate. The mere thought of a perfect person for her, a soul that perfect for hers sounded marvellous. Two hearts connected by the grace of the universe, or as the Jedi believe, the force. Many people debated the origin of this special connection between organisms; specifically humanoids. Some thought it was their planetâs deity that blessedâand in some cases, cursedâ the living beings with companionship, others thought it wasnât real, that it was all just some trick of a decease or parasite. But most have concluded and agreed that it was the work of the seemingly magic that holds the universe together; the force.
[Name] was a big fan of any theory or story she could hear about soulmates. Free time was spent asking the people around her about their second eye. She always wondered how otherâs knew which eye was whose, and she was always met with, âYou only know when you meet them, when you lock eyes.â [Name] often liked to imagine what her soulmate looked like. Which eye would be her soulmateâs and which would be her own? What would her soulmate look like with a body around her matching eyes? Would they be brunette? Blond? Would they be a man? Be a woman? What would it look like when they eventually locked eyes? Would their eyes fill with the amount of love [Name] knew that she would feel for them?
Thoughts of her special someone flooded her mind every moment she had time to think. And as much as she loved to think about it, she hardly had time too. [Name] was a busy girl as she was a handmaiden of Padmé and often was travelling, doing one of the other girls make up or switching places with Padmé in order to keep her safe. The senator was the girls main priority and honestly, she was their pride and joy.
This busy job didnât keep [Name]âs thoughts from wandering at night and like a magnet, her mind would gravitate to her soulmate. She only began to think more about it after a trip to Naboo, where [Name] learned of two of PadmĂ©âs previous handmaidens who were soulmates and had met each other through the former Queenâs protection program. While a wonderful story, [Name] couldnât help but think about if she would meet her soulmate on the job, if ever. It was a large universe and more often than not, soulmates die before they are ever able to meet the soul destined for them.
Days in the senate were quiet and beyond mundane. And while every once and a while Padmé and her causes would get a win, those times were few and far in-between. Majority of days were spent in the rooms that were provided for the senators, pouring over documents and finding information on how to fix the wrongs of the galaxy, diplomatically.
But these issues are never resolved overnight, and after years of tireless hours of dedicated work within the senate, [Name] found herself less and less hopeful of the wonderful life she pictured outside of the senate. She dreamed of a life with her soulmate, back on Naboo, where she could be with her family and friends. Somewhere nice, somewhere where she could live out the rest of her life out in peace surrounded by everything she has ever loved.
Those dreams always seemed silly once she was sat in the senate, watching over PadmĂ© time and time again, no hope that this life would cease. That the war would end and they could go back home once they finally had did all they could in repairing the senate. That [Name] could finally live out her happily ever after with the one she dreams of, but knows nothing of. Nothing but what one of their eyeâs looks like.
Although soulmates could come as romantic or platonic, [Name] never cared. [Name] would be happy to not be lonely. To have someone by her side for the rest of her life. That was all [Name] dreamed of. Not being alone.
That was why she took the job after all. Of course, when the former Queen calls, it is hard to decline the honour of protecting the one and only Padmé Amidala. But that deal becomes a whole lot sweeter when there is a promise of a group of girls accompanying you. A promise that you will not be alone. That was very incising for [Name].
And while most of the senate meetings were snore inducing and late nights reading and rereading documents was beyond tedious, it was made incredibly better by the girls who had also agreed to lay their lives of the line for Padmé. They had become a sisterhood of sorts, a unbreakable friendship formed between them and there was an unspoken understanding that while they worked with Padmé, they were in for anything. That meant life or death, they stood together in order for Padmé to prosper.
That security meant everything to [Name]. In fact, that was everything to [Name]. Since she joined Padmé on her trip to Coruscant all of those years ago, [Name] has practically forgotten who she used to be, and was convinced that a part of her lied in this job. And that part would be ripped from her if she ever left the job, and she would be left alone.
Her dreams of meeting her soulmate never died though. In fact, that is what got her through every day. Every day that she spent with the people she loved so much, every day she dreaded them being taken from her. Thoughts and dreams of a perfect world, with her perfect person. No war, no slavery, no crime, just two souls meeting and living out the rest of their lives, just one day at a time.
But as she stood in front of the mirror of the fresher, all of those thoughts flew out the window. Traveling with PadmĂ© as her escort, [Name] ended up on a J-type Naboo star skiff headed towards Mustafar. [Name] didnât know why they were going to Mustafar or what would be waiting for them on the old mining planet, but she did know that she wasnât ready.
It didnât matter what met them on Mustafar, because all that really mattered to [Name] in the moment, was her reflection. Or more specifically, her right eye that had turned a gnarly, fresh blood red, with irises the colour of acid.
It only took a matter of moments before [Name] found tears running down her face. She pulled at the skin of her cheeks, moving in closer to look if what she had seen was right before closing her eyes. It was a vicious loop; pull, look, cover. She wasnât sure how long this went on for, finding herself heaving on the floor what felt like a century later. What was she going to do?
She had heard of Sith eyes. Many had, especially if one had spent any time on Coruscant. The tales of Jedi going to the dark side were relatively popular in the upper-levels of Coruscant. The nasty evil that had become a cataclysmic emergency in galaxy had ruthlessly killed millions with no regard for life. That was of course until the Jedi Order vanquished them. The nasty plague that was the Sith had been thought to have been defeated, extinct, as of many, many years ago. But yet, her [Name] was, with her right eye as bright as the sun, glowing so bright, it was as if it was haunting her.
What does this mean?
Am I going to die?
Am I Sith?
Will I hurt innocent people?
Am I evil?
Thoughts infiltrated her mind without mercy and terror tore through her brain like a violent hurricane. Her mind was spinning.
Millions of lives have been lost at the hands of the Sith. Millions of innocent caught in the reign of terror the Sith brought where ever they went. How could [Name] be like them?
Then it hit her like a freighter.
Her soulmate.
Her soulmate, the one she had dreamed and fantasized about her whole life, a Sith. Pure evil, working for causes that only bring harm to the universe. Lying on the floor, [Name]âs sobs wracked through her body, the only rest she got is when she started to violently leave heave before more tears and loud sobs found their way from her lungs.
It made sense though, she was never a Jedi, never force sensitive. So why would her pair of eyes be the distinct aggressive colour of the force sensitive Sith?
The Sith wasnât her, so that only left her soulmate. Her wonderful, beautiful soulmate of which she has never met. And as she curls deeper into herself, [Name] questions whether she would actually meet them.
And whether or not she wants too.
Just as [Name]âs sobs and shook started to subside, [Name] felt the familiar jolt of the ship landing. A cool chill shot up her back as she made her way to her feet. Looking into the mirror once more, she found that both the eyes were back to how she remembered them to be. What they had always been her entire life. Wiping her eyes, [Name] tried to clear all evidence of her tears and break down.
[Name] closed her eyes, taking in a deep breath. The sound of the ships engine shutting off reminded her of where she was. Right, Mustafar; the place where Padmé was rushing to in order to help a friend. Letting out a breath, she made a promise to herself to help Padmé out with whatever.
[Name] stood next right next to PadmĂ© as the hatch lowered and the red hazed glow of the lava coated planet overwhelmed her vision. As she was momentary blinded, PadmĂ© ran down the ramp towards a cloaked figure. From the distance, [Name] couldnât hear much but she could make out a faint conversation as she slowly approached.
âI saw your ship, what are you doing out here?â The brunette man spoke as he leaned into the hug PadmĂ© was giving him, before pulling away and holding on to the sides of her arms.
âI was worried about you, Obi-wan told me terrible things,â PadmĂ© looked up at him, and from her tone of voice, something [Name] knew very well, it was evident that PadmĂ© was very upset.
âWhat things?â He questioned, not harshly, but certainly not in a tone of voice one should use with a senator.
âHe said that youâve turned to the dark side. That youâŠâ PadmĂ© began, before pausing, struggling to find the strength within her to whisper the words.
âKilled younglings,â She muttered in horror. Terror was set in her eyes, but there was not quiver of disbelief in her tone, no indicator to [Name] that this man wouldnât do such a thing.
âObi-wan is trying to turn you against me,â The man spoke after a moment, his voice deep with the familiar feel of unnerve that PadmĂ© and her handmaidens have become so used to in the senate.
âHe cares about you, Anakin,â PadmĂ© argued, although it didnât sound like an argument, more like a plea. âHe wants to help you.â
Anakinâs eyebrows furrowed, âNothing can save me, only my new powers can do that.â
Padmé took a step back and [Name] took two steps forward.
âAt what cost?â PadmĂ© looked into his eyes once again, and as [Name] could see, she was begging. âYouâre a good person. Donât do this.â
âI am becoming more powerful than any Jedi has ever dreamed of,â Anakin's gaze was intense, his eyes narrowed on PadmĂ© as if at any point she would stab him and run away.
âI am more powerful than the chancellor. I-I can over throw him,â Anakin began taking steps forward and quickly PadmĂ© started taking steps back.
âAnd together you and I can rule the galaxy, make things the way we want them to be,â Anakin stops moving, watching PadmĂ© eagerly in hopes that she will agree.
Taking another step back, PadmĂ© shakes her head, âI donât believe what I am hearing. Obi-wan was right. Youâve changed.â
Anakin scuffs, shaking his head before raising his finger, âI donât wanna hear any more about Obi-wan. The Jedi turned against me, donât you turn against me,â That sounded like a command.
âI donât know you anymore. Anakin, youâre my best friend, you are like my brother,â PadmĂ© plead, her voice broken and littered with heartbreak. It might not have sounded like it, but those few words meant everything to PadmĂ©. Those words were like a code that only one of her handmaidens could crack. That [Name] could crack.
The words whispered of betrayal, of heart break and of a familiar love that she cannot part with. She truly loved Anakin, the sister in her seemed to shine through as she spoke with the man.
âYouâre going down a path I canât follow.â
âBecause of Obi-wan?â
âBecause of what youâve done,â PadmĂ© sobbed, her voice raising as she neared her breaking point. [Name] finally made her way behind PadmĂ© as she spoke again, âBecause of what you plan to do.â
And as [Name] laid her hand on PadmĂ©âs shoulders, bring her back slightly, Anakinâs eyes were back on the ship. [Name] rubbed PadmĂ©âs arms gently in attempts to comfort the distressed girl and as she did so, it was almost as if she could feel the rage from the man behind her. [Name] tried to pay no mind, busying herself with the sobbing girl before her. PadmĂ©âs head raised, looking up from the spot she marked on the ground, and gasped as she made eye contact with you.
âLiar!â Anakin yelled, bring the attention back to him. And when [Name] eyes drifted over to the simmering man, she found herself looking into a very familiar set of eyes.
Her eyes.
The same pair of eyes that stare back at her in her reflection every day, mirrored.
A gasp left [Name]âs throat, bringing his attention to her. As his gaze connected with hers, his eyes faded from one red, and one of [Name]âs to just infectious red. A wave of comfort went through [Name]âs body as she stared into the eyes that she has been dying to meet.
But instead of relief, or joy, [Name] only felt gutted. The harsh heat from the surrounding lava did nothing to sooth the soaring stinging in her eyes as she watches the man before her look behind her again. She hardly even notices when another man, a Jedi, passes her. As angry words were exchanged and she found herself losing focus, standing by the side as she watches the Jedi and the Sith duel to the death.
Her world just flipped its axis, leaving her body to adjust. Emotionally, physically. The biological reaction to meeting oneâs soulmate was to release serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin, all chemicals in oneâs brain responsible for happiness. But in this moment, those hormones were only adding to the increasing feeling of emptiness growing in her heart.
She had just watched her supposed soulmate turn to the dark side before her eyes. Choosing to assist the death of others rather than assist the quality of living for others. Everything [Name] and Naboo has ever help to fix in the senate could be destroyed in a snap of her own soulmateâs fingers.
How was she going to live her life know what she was tied to? Would he come back to the light? Would he die? Would she?
Or would she give up everything she has ever known for the chance of a life partner? Someone who will never leave her.
[Name] drops to her knees, a suppressed sob managed its way to the surface, bringing sharp tears from her eyes.
The famous Anakin Skywalker, former Jedi knight, [Name]âs soulmate, leaving tears in her eyes. And as she watches the blurry two duel, she finds that not only is there tears in her eyes, but also terror.
A/n: I got a little carried away with this, and it might have gotten a little off topic, but I hoped you liked it. I havenât edited it yet, but I will get to it! Thank you so much for reading and waiting!!! <333333 Let me know what you think! Love yâall to the stars!
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Acolyte Eps. 1 & 2
Cutting for spoilers and a fair amount of negativity. Also discussion about antisemitism in the show. (I'm tagging this solely for organizational and avoidance purposes; I'd rather not have it in the tags at all but oh well.)
Episode 1:
In the first episode, there is very little that engaged me in a positive way. I really donât like how the Order is characterized; it feels like some of the worst of fanon. It continues to boggle me that peopleâ including the writer(s) of this episode!â think that leaving the Order leaves someone with no marketable skills. (Need I remind you that Anakin was trusted as a nineteen-year-old Padawan to be the sole bodyguard for a senator at active risk of assassination? Sounds like a pretty transferable skillset to me.) Nor do I think the writers know what attachment actually means.
Nor do I like the good-twin bad-twin angle in the plot; I donât care that it seems likely sheâs killing Jedi who took her sister from her. As a twin, I am very tired of that trope.
Am also shocked that Indara died in the first five minutes; I thought sheâd be a much more important character.
Also: who the heck decided Osha was a good name? Every time my suspension of disbelief breaks because all I can think about is OSHA the federal government agency.
The antisemitism is, of course, the horrible icing on the cake. A dybbuk is an evil spirit from Jewish folklore. I really, well and truly do not like the mining of Jewish mythology to name a monsterâ to be specific: a parasitic speciesâ used to subdue violent criminals that âdoes weird things to your brainâ (to quote a character). What were the writers thinking?
That said, there are a few things I like: Osha, Sol, and the little glimpses of non-hideboundness in the Order.
Episode 2:
Despite what I said about being tired of the trope, I am in fact interested in the overall plot.
I donât think I saw any non-human species on that planet apart from the speeder driver. I know itâs easier from a budget standpoint but⊠it feels lacking.
Acolytes? Are there more than one? How does that mesh with the Rule of Two? Or is it more like Palpating keeping Dooku in reserve when Maul was his apprentice and then Anakin for Dooku?
Okay, maybe the writers do understand a bit more about Jedi philosophy than I gave them credit for in the first episode, based on that conversation about grief and revenge. Aaaaand then back to hidebound Jedi. Iâve read the High Republic books and am not convinced at Vernâs character here.
How did Mae not know Osha was alive given the connection-thing from the earlier?
Jecki has grown on me 100% from the first episode.
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RotS deleted scenes: trust and paranoia
Rewatching PadmĂ© and the Delegation of Two Thousandâs deleted scenes from Revenge of the Sith has illuminated a couple of parallels between PadmĂ© and Anakinâs relationships with Palpatine, and the Jedi Order and Republic Senateâs mutual mistrust.
âI canât believe it has come to this. Chancellor Palpatine is one of my oldest advisors. He served as my ambassador when I was queen.â PadmĂ© Amidala âSenator, I fear you underestimate the amount of corruption that has taken hold in the Senate.â Giddean Dani
PadmĂ© is far more friendly towards Palpatine than I had remembered her as being. Even this late in the game, she really doesnât want to believe the worst of him. She doesnât want to believe Palpatine will need to be forced to do the right thing â that he is a bad actor, rather than a well-intended person making mistakes.
PadmĂ© was probably introduced to Palpatine during her time in the Youth Legislature â before she was elected Princess of Theed at nine â so she first met Palpatine at a similarly young age to Anakin. They have both known Palpatine more than half their lives. He was one of the few people PadmĂ© and Anakin already knew on Coruscant when they moved there. PadmĂ© left her family behind on Naboo when she became Senator and, as he had served in her position for many years before her, Palpatine would have been a natural person for her to look to for guidance. To become, if not a political father-figure, then at least a surrogate uncle.
So, the way PadmĂ© relates to Palpatine probably has similarities to the way Anakin relates to him. A reliable fixture of their lives. Not someone they meet every day or every week â more like every month or three â but someone who will reach out if they havenât met up in a while to invite them out with him. Someone who always stops to greet them and have a little chat if they run into each other unexpectedly. Someone who openly expresses how fond of them he is; someone who doesnât hide that he worries about their wellbeing. Itâs Palpatine who successfully persuades PadmĂ© to go into hiding after the assassination attempts against her in Attack of the Clones by making a personal appeal rooted in his affection for her.
Both PadmĂ© and Anakinâs initial reaction to discovering Palpatineâs duplicity is to turn on him. The first thing Anakin does after Palpatine reveals himself as the Sith Master â reveals himself as having deliberately orchestrated the Clone Wars â is run to the Jedi Council and tell Mace Windu. After Order 66, when Palpatine makes his proclamation of empire, PadmĂ© realises that anyone in the Senate to vote against it will be the next to be purged saving future rebel leaders like Bail Organa and Mon Mothma.
PadmĂ© and Anakinâs revelation that turns them against Palpatine is that the person they believed was their friend was a mask who never really existed at all. That it was all a lie, that they were played right from the beginning. Itâs only after PadmĂ© is dead and Anakin has lost everything that his loyalty reattaches itself to Palpatine, now Anakinâs sole close relationship.
âI know a Jedi that I feel we should consult.â PadmĂ© Amidala âThat would be dangerous.â Bana Breemu âWe donât know how the Jedi fit in to all this.â Mon Mothma âI only wish to discuss this with one â one I trust.â PadmĂ© Amidala âGoing against the Chancellor without the support of the Jedi is risky.â Giddean Dani âThe Jedi are not any happier with this situation than we are.â PadmĂ© Amidala âPatience, Senator.â Chi Eekway Papanoida âWe have so many Senators on our side, surely that will persuade the Chancellor.â Fang Zar âWhen we present the Petition of the Two Thousand to the Chancellor, things may change.â Bana Breemu âWell then, let us see what we can accomplish in the Senate before we include the Jedi.â Bail Organa
This snippet of conversation between the leaders of the Delegation of Two Thousand mirrors the scene with the Jedi Council discussing what to do about Palpatine. Giddean Daniâs line about the danger of going against Palpatine without the support of the Jedi is one I find particularly telling, especially coming after Bana Breemuâs and Mon Mothmaâs. There are two reasons why it would be risky to make a play against Palpatine without gouging the support of the Jedi Order. One is the risk that the Delegation might not have sufficient clout to successfully pressure Palpatine without the Orderâs additional support. The other is the risk that the Order might side with Palpatine.
While Palpatineâs relationship with the Jedi Council chills considerably between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, in Attack of the Clones it is very cosy. Palpatine regularly inviting the Jedi Council into his offices to confer with them and ask for their advice; Palpatine giving the command of the Grand Army of the Republic to the Jedi Order; Palpatine publicly defending the Jedi against rumours circulating about them (in a way that adds fuel to those rumours). One reason Palpatine does these things is to persuade the Jedi Council that he trusts them; believing that somebody trusts you makes you more likely to think they are trustworthy in turn. Another reason is to cement the image of the Jedi Order as a bastion of his support.
It works. The Delegation of Two Thousand keeps their plans secret from the Jedi because they arenât sure that the Jedi arenât Palpatineâs trusting followers, who will report their intentions to him rather than support the Delegationâs attempt to shame him out of power. The Jedi Council mistrusts the Senate which they perceive as being under Palpatineâs thumb and make no effort to test those waters for potential allies against him. Notable Senators in the Delegation are members of the Chancellor's Loyalist Committee â he has played the same trick with them. Palpatine keeps his enemies divided and divided they fail.
Even Anakin and PadmĂ© being married to each other isnât enough to break the barrier of mistrust, and they arenât the only Jedi-Senator pair keeping secrets. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Bail Organa may be friends, but we never see them even consider reaching out to each other. Maybe Bail suggested it offscreen and was, like PadmĂ©, talked down. Maybe Bail was genuinely unsure where Obi-Wanâs political loyalties lay; his old Padawan and best-friend sees no problems with Palpatine becoming Supreme Chancellor For Life. Maybe Obi-Wan departed for Utapau before Bail considered approaching him.
The smog of paranoia weighing over Coruscant is so thick it effects relationships between characters of the same faction. âIf what you've told me is true, you will have gained my trustâ is an odd line because it is said by Mace right as he is embarking on a course of action that demonstrates considerable faith in Anakin. You donât burst into your head of stateâs office to arrest him on the word of one guy if you donât trust that one guyâs word. But I donât think Mace implying that he doesnât trust Anakin while making a choice which shows that he does trust Anakin is a writing mistake; I think it is a symptom of the suspicious mindset that has suffused through the cast.
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Perchance to Dream
Ok, before we get into what is happening here there are a few facts that I need to have entered into evidence pertaining to this universe. Please indulge me and take note, every one of these facts will be critical later.Â
Fact 1: In this universe Sheev Palpatine is not a Sith. Â
He is what he claims to be in canon, a career politician trying to do his best. He is no saint, he is still a career politician after all, but he is not the ultimate evil. He is still force sensitive, with a sensitivity that is enough that he could have trained as a Jedi if his parents had given him up, but not so high that he is a danger to anyone without training. But he does not keep it a secret from the Jedi, and has essentially been tutored by a few Jedi in the ways of the Force. He does not let on in the Senate about his sensitivity (Which amounts to a better than average sense of peopleâs emotions, and a good sense for danger and being able to move very small items with his mind.).  Â
Fact 2: Yan Dooku is the Sith Master, as of the clone wars, Hugo Demask was his master.
Hugo Demask survives 5 years longer than in canon, he corrupts Dooku, is Maul's Master and is ultimately killed by Dooku. The background steps needed for the clone wars to happen, that in canon were Palpatine, were performed by Demask or Dooku.Â
Fact 3: The Clones are not chipped.
There is no project Knightfall, no Order 66. The clones were not a co-opted project by Sith. Master Sifo Dyas did commission them, but (like with Palpatine), they are not a trap for the Jedi. While Jango Fett still died on Geonosis, he had been there on a bounty, separate from his job to be the progenitor and trainer of the clones. He trains them because he is paid, rather than for revenge.Â
Fact 4: Anakin Skywalker does not slaughter the Tuskens.
Shimi still dies, though it is an accident rather than being captured by the raiders. Anakin still has grief and horror and loss but it is tempered here because there is no group of beings that can blame, and he is not one to turn that anger inward. He does see his mother one last time, but there is closure rather than murder.
Fact 5: Jedi can get married.Â
Itâs not common. Marriage as a legal institution doesnât actually make sense to most Jedi. The rights and protections that a marriage grants by and large are not applicable to Jedi. Even as an expression of love, it just tends not to occur to most Jedi to want a wedding. They are more than happy to have the ceremony if their partner or partners want, but wonât seek it out. Â
There are only a few Jedi that end up with partners outside the Jedi. There are two reasons for this. The first is that most of the galaxy has some weird ideas about Jedi and Jedi relationships. Most of the time it is not worth the effort to navigate. The second is a bit more convoluted. There is a higher rate of asexuality and aromanticism, or the equivalent, in Jedi than in their native populations (of Jedi whose species has sexuality), by a significant amount (Something like 10%-20% of the Jedi, with a sexual identity, identify as either asexual or aromantic, as opposed to the galactic standard of 1%). Incidentally there is also a higher rate of polyamorous leanings. This combines with the fact that the Jedi truly are a melting pot, different species growing up alongside each other, going through reproductive maturity together. Relationship Norms and Mores for Jedi look nothing like anywhere else in the galaxy.
Fact 6: Anakin Skywalker's marriage is âsecretâ and causes much giggling in the Jedi temple.
The secrecy is actually part of Naboo wedding traditions. Nabooians are expected to elope, and the longer the marriage is considered a âsecretâ, the more luck the marriage is said to have. The Jedi are well aware of this tradition and try to adhere to reasonable traditions when possible. So when Anakin effectively broadcasts to every Jedi in the galaxy that he was now Mister Padme Naberrie (the legalities of being married may not matter to Anakin as neither the Jedi nor the slave culture really have any use for it, but the idea of giving someone else their name as a way of giving them belonging was very important in Tatooine slave culture), approximately 45 seconds after their marriage, there is a collective silent agreement by the Jedi to let newlyweds have their âsecretâ. There is a semi-formal betting pool as to who is going to give in and give away the secret first (Shortest odds are on âAnakin, finally doing something that is so obvious that the Jedi canât ignore it anymoreâ, âObi Wan, after Captain Rex is forced to lie badly to him again about what Anakin is doingâ, or âMace Windu after he catches Anakin and Padme in the Room of a Thousand fountains for a third time that day).    Â
Ladies, gentleman, and everything in between of the jury, now that we have established these facts in evidence it is time to turn our attention to the reason we are here today. Without the Sith Master at the head of the Republic the Clone war does take a slightly different trajectory, faster in some ways without their intelligence leaking quite as easily(The Senate still leaked intelligence like a sieve but at least the Separatists werenât getting it right from the source), slower in other as there was no real overarching goal. No one is actually sure what victory would look like for either side.Â
Some members of the Separatist leadership decide that the best way to be victorious is to take out the GAR leadership, the Jedi High Council. A chemical weapon was created, then tailored to each member of the High Council so it could be released and only affect the targets. It took a year to develop and tailor (so specific that it included the genetic code of each member of the council), then another to maneuver the release mechanisms into place. This chemical weapon included a powerful hallucinogen and a chemical agent that links the hallucinations of everyone affected (through the Force). Once deployed it would create a shared hallucination of the worst possible case scenario that could be created by the group. The aim being to hobble the GAR without their high command.Â
That shared hallucination is Canon, starting with the Jedi confronting the Sith Lord.Â
It is entirely possible that the Separatists greatly underestimated the amount of horror the mind of a Jedi could generate. And how well they would be able to keep moving when under the hallucination.Â
When a Jedi died in the hallucination, they would fall comatose and though none did, the chemical weapon would, for lack of a better way to explain, go a step further and try to convince them to give up(which would kill them in the real world) by continuing to show them this hallucinatory world as âpart of the Forceâ. Until this comatose state they would act in the real world according to the hallucination, including reacting as if injuries within it existed in the real world. Â
The High council is spread throughout the galaxy when weapons are deployed. The members of the council that fell to Sidious immediately fall into a coma, while the rest begin to act in varying degrees of strangely (Depending on where they were and how different that place was from where they now thought they were). Mace Windu drops into something that is not quite a coma as his body reacts to having his wrist cut off and falling from a high window, with all the trauma therein. As Order 66 goes out in the hallucination, more of the council drop until the only ones left moving are Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda, both of whom escape the planets they were on. It is only luck that neither hurt anyone in escaping.Â
There is immediate confusion, that is true. The unexplained coma of 9 members of the Jedi High Council, Mace Winduâs collapse (Physically nothing is wrong but brain scans and the healers say that his brain is acting as if he is in severe pain, as well as severe shock), and the disappearance of Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda.Â
The Officers, both clone and nat born, rally quickly and it becomes very obvious, very rapidly that the separatist were responsible for what happened to the Jedi Councilors. This gives the GAR, particularly the personal battalions of those same Jedi, a new vigor and driving force. In trying to destabilize the GAR, the separatist actually provided them with a rallying point (Fighting for freedom or protecting the innocent is a great tagline but hard to turn from concept to reality. Fighting because someone fucked with our generals is much easier to put a face to).
It takes eight months to track down the architects of the chemical weapon, who never developed a cure (During this time the war is categorically won by the Republic). Before being captured they managed to destroy about a quarter of the notes regarding the weapon. Using what is left, it takes two years to recreate the missing portion of the notes and another 15 months to synthesize an antidote.Â
By this point Mace Windu had to be under constant sedation to alleviate the strain of the injuries he sustained in the hallucination. Because of this it was Plo Koon who woke first.Â
Yoda and Obi Wan were still missing.
Plo commented that the Force felt so much lighter. He jolted when he saw Commander Wolffe sitting next to his bed. Thankfully he accepted that he had been in a hallucination easily. And as he described what had gone on within the hallucination (As he had died early, he was cursed with the helpless knowledge of exactly what was going on: the chips, Anakin's fall, The march on the temple, all the evils of the galactic empire) the horror only increased. No one could even blame his slight flinch whenever Anakin spoke, not even Anakin after Plo described the march on the temple in devastating detail and the fight on Mustafar (It only takes a few moments to realize this was a worst case scenario specifically from the Mind of Obi Wan, who could not think about much worse than his beloved brother becoming Falling and becoming Vader).
Eventually Plo is asked if he knows where Obi Wan and Yoda are, even as the other members of the council begin to wake.Â
He does, but he recommends that it is not the Clones or Anakin Skywalker that go after either. For a moment Anakin considers being offended, this was his lineage after all, but after hearing what had happened in the hallucination, what Obi Wan and Yoda currently remember him doing, it only makes sense.Â
And Cody may be chomping at the bit to go after his general (he was only on Coruscant to see the antidote be administered in hopes that it would give them a clue as to where Obi Wan was, he has spent all of his time since the war ended with the rest of the 212th,searching the galaxy for their general) but he can also see the wisdom of not spooking the general. Â
Unfortunately the cure had to be administered intravenously, so there was no gassing the planet.Â
Aayla Secura is sent to Dagobah to make contact with Yoda. He is not able to sense her, because she is dead in the hallucination. He sees her and hears her but believes her to be the hallucination, come to torment him with his failures (Look I imagine that Obi Wan and Yoda have really similar headspaces regarding the genocide of their people and the self isolation that they enacted because of it.). She is able to administer the cure and get him back to the ship and headed toward Coruscant.
The thing is this hallucination has been active in his mind for 3 years. For the comatose Jedi there was an extra degree of separation from the hallucination (Because they could only watch, the horror was somewhat muted). So while the cure works, breaking Yoda of the hallucination he is utterly changed by three years of horror and isolation and the press of a created darkside. He abjectly refuses to take any seat of power (The entire order has been restructured by necessity since they had no idea when they would cure the high council) and retreats to the creche. It takes years before he stops being hypervigilant when he sees trooper armor in the temple (particularly if that armor is 501st blue). The troopers never begrudge how he stills at the sight of their armor, and it becomes a policy that troopers who want to enter the creche will change into anything but their armor.Â
Mace Windu also needs years to recover, having spent three years âhealingâ from having his hands cut off and being thrown from the Chancellor office. His mind expects his hands to be gone, which causes all kinds of issues (Kind of the reverse of having a phantom limb). Sheev Palpatine was a friend of Maceâs (It was friendship born of being leaders, doing their best and knowing that their every decision held the weight of a galaxy) and a frequent visitor while they were working on a cure. The first time he enterâs Maceâs room after the cure, Mace lashes out with the Force and throws him through the door in pure panic. This wild panic reaction lasts for three months (with countless attempts by Mace and the mind healers to break it) before Mace growls and decides that it would not happen again. He then would go to camp out in Palpatineâs apartments for two weeks to train himself out of the reaction.Â
It is Quinlan Vos that is chosen to lure Obi Wan out of hiding. Now that they know that the hallucination is affecting Obi Wanâs ability to sense with the Force, the 212th insist that they will provide Vos with hsi transportation to Tatooine, though they do agree not to actually set foot on the planet. Â
As far as the residents of Tatooine are concerned, Ben the hermit showed up one day to wander into the Wastes and give himself heatstroke. Â He is considered crazy but mostly harmless, and slightly obsessed with the Lars family. In this world Beru and Owen Lars did adopt a baby born right around the time Ben arrived. This little boy, whom they do name Luke, is the son of an escaped slave woman who died in childbirth on their farm. Like many slaves and children of slaves, she took the last name Skywalker.Â
Ben thinks he is watching over the son of his brother, and that Owen hates him for failing Anakin. Owen is leery of the strange hermit that watches their farm (particularly Luke) from afar and vanishes into the Jutland Wastes when approached. Particularly since the few times they have talked to him, he hasnât actually made much sense. Every so often other moisture farmers would come to the farm to chat and ask Owen or Beru about Ben. Both are forced to nod and go âyep, heâs still out there raving about a galactic empire and apologizing for killing Owen's brother. No, Owen doesnât have a brotherâ (Having only met Anakin once, and though he knows that Shimi had another son, really doesnât connect Shimiâs son to this brother).Â
Vos is eventually able to track Obi Wan/Ben down. It takes some trickery for Vos to administer the cure (Ben tries to kick him off the planet three times, hissing that Vos canât draw the empireâs attention to Tatooine) but once it does, it knocks him out enough for Vos to carry him back to the spaceport.Â
The Larâs happen to be in town when Vos comes through carrying Ben. Beru asks what Vos is doing with Ben. Vos responds that he is bringing him home. Owen asks if Vos will be able to get Ben the help he needs. Vos answers yes, and they all go about their day. Ben the hermit will remain a story told on Tatooine for years, particularly after High General Obi Wan comes back a decade later and awkwardly thanks the Lars for the kindness they exhibited. Â
Like Yoda and Mace, the time in the hallucination affected Obi Wan deeply. He keeps a constant âwatchâ though the Force on his men (within the hallucination their force presence flattened and fell away in the wake of Order 66) and feels deeply protective of all these individual lights that died just as surely as the Jedi did. He also clings to Anakinâs force presence, but cannot stand to be in a room with Anakin and children. He knows it is irrational but canât quite help it. At times even stepping foot on Coruscant or at the temple is difficult.Â
Obi Wan decides to take a step back from being a knight and Master. He and many of the clones, primarily of the 212th though there are others, plus a few Jedi and others they pick up along the way decide that they will take a survey mission to begin to map some of the wild space beyond the outer rim. He, Cody, and Rex end up entering into a relationship that forms the base for a polycule with the majority of the crew (with the exception of the children they acquire, those all call each member of the polycule some variation of mom/dad/parent). Â
They all eventually find happiness, though it does not always look like everything else.
#fix it of sorts#clone wars#order 66#obi wan kenobi#codywan#obirex#RexCody#star wars au#star wars the clone wars#anakin skywalker#sheev palpatine#star wars#fanfiction prompt#bamf obi wan#Implied Clonecest#clonecest#clone troopers#Luke is not Anakin's son#hallucinations#Non Dark Sheev Palpatine
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Plotting out loud, because I can. Glimmerglanger/Star Wars edition.
I read a fun smut Padmé/Obi-Wan piece from @glimmerglanger (another author I will read basically anything they write) that had a an interesting author end note:
....and the galaxy is saved because when Anakin tries to flirt with Padmé she goes, "Sorry, kiddo, not interested," because she's busy trying to arrange a time and place when she, Obi-Wan, and anyone else who wants to get down can all meet up.
And being me, I decided to plot out how this AU changes the timeline/plot. Because I can. And maybe if I do, itâll stop knocking around my head.
So, relevant âplotâ points to this exercise for those who donât want to read smut:
In Attack of the Clones, Anakin took a minor injury chasing Zam Wesell and went back to the Temple for treatment.
Padmé and the handmaids had crushes on Obi-Wan in The Phantom Menace.
Most of PadmĂ©âs sexual experience up to this point has been with her handmaids (and they with each other).
PadmĂ© initiates; the sex is very good; PadmĂ©âs reaction is âI should see if heâs up for an orgy with the handmaids, they deserve something this nice.â
So! How I would plot out what comes next:
1) Anakin still tries to flirt with PadmĂ©. Itâs just as embarrassing as in the movies. PadmĂ© decides to bring one of her handmaids with her to Naboo, hoping sheâll act as a buffer with Anakin. Letâs pick DormĂ©.
DormĂ© tells R2 to hang around PadmĂ© when Anakin is there & donât be afraid to use his arc welder/taser if he gets too pushy
2) The sojourn on Naboo is going to include fewer picnics and more Anakin bugging PadmĂ© while sheâs working with DormĂ© on Senatorial work. I see this leading to at least one argument about political structures.
DormĂ© totally yells at Anakin that heâs proposing fascism
How can a former slave think the scaled up version of what he suffered is a good idea?!?
Well the Chancellor could get so much more done ifâ
Dormé slaps massive history tome down on table
3) PadmĂ© has good memories of Shmi, so they still go to Tatooine once Anakin shares heâs having nightmares.
4) Anakin does a Mass Murderâąïž out of Revengeâąïž
5) When Anakin has his little ranting confession to PadmĂ© (because heâs thinks theyâre closer than PadmĂ© feels), R2 starts pretending to be shutdown in the corner and gets a recording of his confession. Because PadmĂ© is not interested in Anakin romantically, her little âanger is humanâ part of the speech also includes a âand Iâm going to be very careful not to trigger the anger of this person who can throw things with his mind and has a sword that can bisect people easily.â mental clause. Itâs a textual medium instead of a visual one. I get to include internal thoughts.
6) MEANWHILE, Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan got a nice dose of happy brain chemicals before starting his hunt and has gotten a decent amount of sleep while bouncing around the galaxy chasing down this attempted assassin. Obi-Wan digs in a little further at Kamino compared to the movies canon. He gets a copy of the contract from the Kaminoans. He ducks meeting Jango until after talking to some of the Alpha class (who introduce him to a couple of their proteges). Jango cannot hurry luring Obi-Wan to Genosis because he cannot find Obi for a couple days.Â
When Obi-Wan does talk with Jango thereâs a lot more âwhy are you building an army for the Republicâ and more paying attention in the Force to his answers.
Obi-Wan has concernsâąïž
Obi-Wan sends his concerns to the Council and Anakin with instructions to boost his signal to the Council and make sure it gets there. Also DO NOT COME.
7) Genosis. Obi-Wan sneaks around Genosis for a little bit longer before getting caught. He gets a little more information back to the Council. When Dooku says âthereâs a Sith in the Senateâ, Obi-Wan says âevidence or I think youâre lying to sow discord and ignore you.â
8) PadmĂ© and Anakin get caught on Genosis just as fast as in the movie. DormĂ© and R2 do not get caught. They feed technical info about the droids and on the ground tactical information to the arriving Jedi and clone rescue force. The rescue force tries a more diversionary attack expecting Obi-Wan, Anakin, and PadmĂ© to get themselves out of the arena. Fewer clones and Jedi die. Itâs still a shitshow with terrible numbers of casualties. Just fewer than in the movie.
9) Anakin still goes after Dooku. He still looses his arm. Dooku still gets away. Padmé and Anakin do not kiss, and do not sneak off to Naboo to get married.
10) Anakin is brought back to the Temple to start healing and doing PT for his new space-future prosthetic arm (see recent writing advice re:arm amputations and why theyâre portrayed unrealistically). Obi-Wan is sent off on a mission with Alpha-17. PadmĂ©, DormĂ©, and R2 speak with the council about Tatooine â the council diverts a Shadow to Tatooine for more evidence to back up the decision they know theyâll have to justify to the Senate.
11) Obi-Wanâs mission goes badly. He and Alpha-17 are captured and tortured by Ventress. Word of this reaches the Council and Anakin...
12) After his motherâs death, Anakin has slotted Obi-Wan into the âmust not die, will burn down the Galaxyâ slot that PadmĂ© occupied in movie canon. PadmĂ© has made herself unavailable for the role since theyâre not in a romantic relationship (although Anakin would like to and plans to continue pursuing her). So Anakin subconsciously choose the other parental figure in his life, instead of the female person he cares most about.
13) Anakin freaks the fuck out, runs off to Kamino, grabs the 212th being assembled for Obi-Wanâs return from this mission (which includes Rex and Cody), says heâs the Generalâs Padawan/Commander, and theyâre going to go rescue Obi-Wan.
14) Anakin did not have an assignment to do this. Anakin is disobeying direct orders to come the fuck back to the Temple. Anakin takes the 212th and runs silently. No one in the 212th knows that theyâre not in communication with the rest of the GAR and are in danger of being declared AWOL.
15) Obi-Wan or Alpha escape long enough to send a transmission to the GAR before getting recaptured. The 212th pick up the signal and rescue Obi-Wan and Alpha. Obi-Wan contacts his superiors (the Council and GAR military) and gets informed of the situation with Anakin. Obi-Wan orders them all back to Coruscant.
16) The dressing down of Anakin is a) in the medbay before Obi-Wan is dunked in a bacta tank and b) EPIC. Phrases used include âMy life is not worth all of these men!â and âDo you have any idea what happens to AWOL clones?!â Obi-Wan has to arrest Anakin for fear the boy will accidentally start a mutiny by ordering the ship NOT to go to Coruscant.
17) The Jedi Council. Anakin and Obi-Wan think theyâre there for Anakinâs punishment for absconding with the 212th and disobeying order. Nope. Surprise. You done did a mass murder. Into Jedi jail you got to go Anakin. âItâs not fair! You need me in this war!â excuse me? âTheyâre just animalsâ excuse me? âThe chancellor didnât think I did anything wrong?â ex-fucking-cuse me? say that one again.
18) So yeah, Anakin goes to Jedi jail, the Jedi Council decides to hide that fact to figure out the Chancellorâs involvement in that and prevent him from ordering the Jedi to release Anakin, Shadows start investigating the Chancellor (plus keep an eye on the Coruscant guard who have to interact with him), and sad Obi-Wan goes back to war while trying to investigate his concernsâąïž about the Kaminoans and the clones (which is where I want the discovery of the chips to come in, but like, later. In a different story in the series. One where Ahsoka is Obi-Wanâs Padawan.
And yes, Padmé and crew do occasionally meet up with Obi-Wan during the war for some mutually fun sex.)
#writing#am writing#fanfiction#writeblr#star wars#plotting#wip#plotting out loud#long post#good grief#how do other authors make those pithy 5 point bullet posts that are hilarious and outline an entire story#believe it or not I see the series ending with Padmé/Sabé and Codywan
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âŁGuns & Flowers Master list/Timeline
This is a canon divergent universe, and anything written here is of course subject to change!
Characters
Silver May - August 4th 1900
The only daughter of the Argenis family. Later adopted by Atlas and Mitzi May. Known for being quite the skittish recluse.
Mordecai Heller - March 28 1899
Atlas' golden boy, unforgiving and relenting, though Atlas claims he is more than that. Cold and professional by default.
Viktor Vasko - April 16th 1886
A mysterious and grumpy man who keeps his past and his secrets close to his chest. Though can be quite playful and teasing to loved ones.
Mitzi May - September 25th 1885
A musician who falls in love with Atlas and ends up helping out with the café and speakeasy. Overall friendly and playful, but isn't afraid to say it how it is.
Atlas May - January 3rd 1884
The owner of The Little Daisy Café and the Lackadaisy speakeasy. Known as an opportunist that is slowly collecting a menagerie of misfits. Known to be quite interested in the human nature and often pries into the psychology of those around him.
Rocky Rickaby - December 19th 1904
A rather rambunctious member of the crew who ends up asked by Atlas to look after Silver. Atlas, however, wonders what fate he has designated Silver to, seeing as Rocky is not entirely there.
Serafine Savoy - 1902
Mordecai's coworker at The Marigold, along with her brother, Nico. She had a short fling with Mordecai that ended up being a more permanent arrangement. Confident, spiritual, and appears to know more than she lets on at times.
Wick Sable - January 11th 1895
The man Mitzi has an interest in after Atlas' death. Has a fascination with rocks and is considered a pillar of the community, stopping him from financially supporting the Lackadaisy despite frequenting the speakeasy.
Timeline
1916
âŁA Light In The Shadows
M | Two | Mordecai/Silver & Atlas |Â 1916/1920
When fleeing from New York, Mordecai is nearly killed for embezzling funds from the gambling rink he used to work for. Given a gun by Atlas, he is forced to kill the gamblers to save himself, marking his first kill.
âŁFirst Days
M | Two | Mordecai/Silver & Atlas |Â 1916/1920
Mordecai stays with Atlas in Washington as he recovers. Atlas observes him in the meantime, while Mordecai begins suffering from lucid dreams.
Atlas encourages Mordecai to travel with him back to St. Louis, stopping at many cities along the way in the process. Mordecai notices Atlas often gets caught up in opportunities when he spots them.
1917
Prohibition is proposed in the Senate.
Atlas offers Mordecai a job as his bookkeeper, and tells Mordecai to think about it. Mordecai is extremely reluctant considering what he's seen from Atlas so far, though feels he is destined for this life.
Atlas begins training Mordecai in some of his ways.
Mordecai continues helping Atlas in his various travels, but is still yet to accept the job in all this time.
1918
Silver, reluctantly, is married to Valentin.
With a fair amount of money now, thanks to Atlas, Mordecai parts ways with Atlas to deal with some "unfinished business".
Atlas meets Viktor during this separation.
Mordecai returns briefly to New York for revenge. Receives bullet related head injury in the process.
Mordecai is taken back to the Little Daisy to recover.
1919
Prohibition is ratified.
Atlas can see Mordecai is cracking and coming to a decision, so he asks him that fateful question; "who are you?"
Mordecai accepts Atlas' offer for a job at the very end of the year. Atlas is thrilled, though curious what made him accept then.
1920
Atlas converts the limestone caverns under his café into a speakeasy.
Atlas hires Viktor and stops him from making a drastic decision.
âŁIt's a Short Drive
M | One | Viktor & Atlas |Â 1920
Mordecai begins working with Viktor distantly. The lodge incident shown in Gravediggers through to Momentum occurs.
Mordecai goes back to St. Louis with Atlas as his shadow, while Viktor takes a break.
Atlas meets and courts Mitzi. Mordecai meets Asa and Mitzi.
The band begins working at the Lackadaisy.
Mordecai becomes a bookkeeper for the Lackadaisy.
âŁA Light In The Shadows
M | Two | Mordecai/Silver & Atlas |Â 1916/1920
Silver is admitted into an asylum after attacking Valentin. Silver is soon taken into Atlas' and Mitzi's care months later.
âŁFirst Days
M | Two | Mordecai/Silver & Atlas |Â 1916/1920
âŁMy Bloody Valentin
M | One | Mordecai/Silver & Atlas |Â 1920
Dress To Impress
M | One | Mordecai & Atlas & Tawny |Â 1920
Atlas becomes curious about Mordecai after noticing a few of his quirks concerning love and romance.
Lovemaking
M | One | Mordecai & Atlas/Mitzi |Â 1920
Viktor and Mordecai work together again specifically for the Lackadaisy back in St. Louis.
Mordecai and Viktor become rather close, spending nights together and doing the dirty work of run-rummers/triggermen together. Mordecai is confused by this, though thinks it's nothing more than a friendly business partnership.
ïżœïżœïżœLackadaisy's Ghost
M | Two | Mordecai/Silver/Viktor & Atlas |Â 1920
Mordecai's lucid dreams become worse after starting the job.
Mordecai develops feelings for Viktor around the end of the year.
âŁDaughter of Mine
M | One | Mordecai & Atlas/Mitzi |Â 1920
Mordecai is informed May and Atlas have a daughter. However, he is not permitted to meet her.
1921
Atlas and Mitzi get married.
Viktor and Mordecai's love for each other becomes more evident.
1922
âŁLove As a Scheme
M | 12 | Mordecai/Silver/Viktor & Atlas/Mitzi |Â 1922
Silver joins Viktor and Mordecai on the job after being introduced to them by Atlas.
Mordecai and Viktor make a promise that Mordecai will explore his feelings for Viktor if things with Silver do not work out.
Calm
M | One | Mordecai/Silver |Â 1922
I've Got Your Back
T | One | Silver/Viktor |Â 1922
1923
âŁLove As a Scheme
M | 12 | Mordecai/Silver/Viktor & Atlas/Mitzi |Â 1922
Mordecai confesses more properly to Silver.
Mordecai asks Mitzi and Atlas for permission to marry Silver.
1924
Silver is accidentally shot in the head by Mordecai during a job, and presumed dead after being left in a house fire afterward.
Silver is saved and kept in hiding within the caves of the Lackadaisy.
1925
Rocky joins the band, and the Lackadaisy, in extension.
Mordecai and Rocky become friendly acquaintances.
Silver reads the Great Gatsby. Rocky accidentally lets slip that it's Silver's favorite book now and, despite coming out that year, is able to convince Mordecai it was always that way and he heard it from the others.
âŁThe Day Met The Night
T | Two | Mordecai/Silver & Rocky & Atlas |Â 1925
Rocky is introduced to Silver and asked to look after him.
âŁMordecai's Rocky Road
T | Two | Mordecai/Silver & Rocky & Mitzi |Â 1925
âŁThe Day Met The Night
T | Two | Mordecai/Silver & Rocky & Atlas |Â 1925
Rocky's drug trip makes Mordecai curious about the rest of the caves in the Lackadaisy.
âŁGuardian Angel
T | One | Rocky & Silver & Atlas |Â 1925
âŁOh Sweet Violin
M | One | Mordecai & Rocky |Â 1925
Atlas goes traveling for a while. He meets Serafine at a station while she is left waiting for her brother.
âŁA Line Without a-
M | One | Mordecai & Atlas |Â 1925
Mordecai has a fling with Irene before breaking up and finally accepting his sexuality.
âŁMiss Irene
T | One | Irene/Rocky & Atlas |Â 1925
Rocky begins dating Irene.
1926
Atlas is killed mysteriously one night.
Silver is relocated by Rocky to hide in an apartment, via Atlas' instructions before his death.
Mordecai leaves the Lackadaisy to work for the Marigold, but not before kneecapping Viktor in an attempt to convince him to retire.
1927
Mordecai begins working with Nico and Serafine.
âŁRight Here
M | Three | Mordecai/Silver & Serafine & Nico |Â 1927
âŁProphetic Bubbles
M | One | Mordecai/Serafine |Â 1927
âŁMr. Sweet's Tidbits
T | One | Mordecai & Asa |Â 1927
âŁSilver Bullets & Black DandelionsâŁ
M | 29 | Everyone |Â 1927
Mordecai realizes Silver is alive when he is given the task to kill Silver by Asa. However, he can not do it and freaks out on his coworkers instead.
#Now I can finally stop messing up the timeline cause I have it all neatly written down!#I hope this helps readers as well though!#silverđș#humdingerđ#naoworneverđŸ#hatsofftoyouđ©#âdaymethenightđ#honey&sugarđŻ#wickerchairđȘ#âŁGuns & Flowers
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Star Ware Rebels Bechdel Test Rewatch- 3x18 'Secret Cargo'
Plot
The Ghost crew must escort Senator Mon Mothma, now wanted by the Empire, to a meeting that can change the galaxy.
Female Characters: 3
Hera Syndulla, Mon Mothma, Arihnda Pryce
Male Characters: 8
Ezra Bridger, Zeb Orrelios, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Jon Vander, Erskin Semaj, Kassius Konstantine, Vult Skerris
Droid Characters: 1
Chopper
Does it pass?
Yes, this episode has always been a favorite of mine and I'm happy to say it passes with flying colors! I love Mon Mothma, ever since I saw her in Return of the Jedi. I wanted to know more about this woman who was leading the Rebel Alliance. She popped up in The Clone Wars, Rogue One, and is a background character in Revenge of the Sith since all of her scenes were deleted. At the time this episode aired, this was the biggest showcase for her story we had gotten on screen. Now, we have Andor so we know quite a bit more about her. I loved revisiting this episode with knowing her backstory. The episode passes throughout as Her and Mon Mothma talk in the cockpit of the Ghost. They discuss the Rebellion and what it means to fight behind the scenes vs the front lines.
I love seeing the formal formation of the Rebellion here. It is more meaningful knowing how narrowly she escaped the Imperials to get there. Gold Leader himself, Jon Vander, is also here and gets some fun scenes fighting the TIE Defender with Ezra.
This episode is notable in that it is the first episode featuring Hera but not Sabine. Sabine is off with her family at this point, so we won't be seeing her for a few episodes. This is also the first episode that hasn't featured Kanan. I'd also like to mention the character of Gold Two, one of the female pilots escorting Mon Mothma. She has a decent amount of dialogue before she is unceremoniously knocked unconscious when the Rebels fall under attack. She is never named, not even on Ye Olde Wookieepedia, so I can't count her as a named character. To be fair, none of the members of Gold Squadron are named in the episode.
#star wars rebels#bechdel test#women in star wars#rebels#women of star wars#hera syndulla#mon mothma#swrebels#ezra bridger#chopper#zeb orrelios
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every few months I feel like I have to reiterate that for all of Johnâs âreputationâ as the uncontrollable volatile raging hot-head with anger issues (which yes he does have some anger issues), he is actually pretty restraint for the most part and no more âvolatileâ than most of the MCU heroes
people canât look beyond the one big obvious moment where he made a huge mistake in public because it was so dramatically focused on but if folks were to actually take all of his interactions in the whole show into account, heâs really not the person that people often make him out to be, he doesnât just go all over the place and casually does violence simply because he can nor is violence/murder somehow his go-to specialty more than anyone else
in fact, in all of his dealings with the flag smashers before the end of episode 4, John never actually attacks with any intent to kill, he only just wants to arrest them, this is even after Karli blew up a building with people still inside it, and any amount of violence he engaged in is in direct response to violence directed at him or people heâs trying to protect, and even when he shot that one flag smasher on top of the trucks in episode 2, he fires a non fatal shot only to wound so Lemar could be free even though he easily could have killed that guy and no one would have blamed him given it was a life or death situation
and when John faced off with the Dora in episode 4, it was not John who attacked first, it was Ayo who landed the first blow with John pretty much on the defensive for the entire fight just trying to not actually get killed by a spear
Iâm not saying John doesnât have anger issues, he clearly does, he has a temper and is hot-headed, however, heâs also shown to be capable of restraint, heâs not the one in the show running about just beating folks up because he felt like it, if anything, he spends the show more physically and verbally getting smacked around by other people than vice versa
itâs only after Lemar dies that John starts to spiral out of control without any restraint and by that point what we are shown is that it took seeing his partner being killed AND suffering side effects from the serum AND the trauma causing dissociation and a mental breakdown to finally break his restraint to just go complete total violence, and even then it was only for a brief time before his restraint was back after the warehouse fight
if John was really the completely uncontrollable volatile monster folks thought he was, he wouldnât have shown any amount of self control when faced with how he was treated by the senator in that hearing, and yet even with his life crashing down around him, even though he had the physical strength to literally take out everyone in that room or force them to make him Cap, the most John does is shout one time and then walk out (not even slamming the door) and sit down and bitterly yet softly complain to his wife about not being understood
and at the end of the day, even when so close to the revenge and justice that he craved, John choose to let it go and save the people who threw him out like trash
honestly the ending scene in episode 4 and the warehouse fight in episode 5 have caused a mandela effect on the lens that he is viewed through, his entire character has been extrapolated from and distorted by the one worst choice he made instead of actually objectively taking everything he did into account and seeing the whole context, itâs like if Tony or TâChallaâs entire personality was solely defined by their actions in trying to kill Bucky after parental losses, that theyâre just viewed as extremely emotional rage monsters who have no control or restraint
Natasha said in Endgame that she didnât judge people by their worst mistakes, yet it seems like all some folks do is judge and define John by his worst mistake and making it somehow his whole personality when it really isnât
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Yes, Qui-Gon Jinn is a certified Problem Childâą
But not in âšTHAT WAYâš
Qui-Gon Jinn is not a bad Jedi, nor is he the perfect example of what a Jedi SHOULD be. He is not an abusive monster, nor is he a hippie maverick that smokes the Star Wars equivalent of weed and thinks the Council should fuck off.
We must remember that Qui-Gon Jinn exists only as a device to further the plot. He is supposed to cause problems. He is supposed to die. All to further Anakinâs journey. Heâs there to get the ball rolling. Heâs there to fuck around and find out because it is a MOVIE. SOMEONE has to do it. In A New Hope, itâs Obi-Wan, Mystical Tatooine hermit who picks up a daydreamer blonde kid and plops him right in the middle of a rebellion. 30 something or so years before that, Qui-Gon Jinn, Mystical Jedi Master, picks up a daydreamer blonde kid and plops him right in the middle of an invasion.
Itâs meant to function as a parallel, and I donât know where people abandoned basic media comprehension and decided ânah, fuck it, hereâs what really happenedâŠâ and then they go off on some bullshit you could honestly liken to the opinions of Andrew Tate about how the Jedi were bad and deserved genocide.
So yeah, Qui-Gon Jinn is a fucking problem. And I love him for it. Heâs a massive pain in the ass to the council, but you know what else he was? A Jedi Master. If the Council hated him that much, they couldâve kicked him out any time before then. They clearly have no issue with rejecting people, they literally denied Anakin entry in the first place.
You know what else was going on at that point? The Sith had established a massive power base within the Senate and had been actively manipulating the rule of the galaxy, AND THEREFORE THE JEDI, WHO OPERATE UNDER THE INSTRUCTION OF THE REPUBLIC SENATE, to its ultimate downfall.
Qui-Gon served as the earliest example of: do your best to help who you can, and you get fucking got by the Sith. He is the earliest reminder in the prequels that the Republic is going to fail, the Jedi are going to die, and they canât do anything about it. Mace Windu becomes a Problem in Revenge of the Sith. He very nearly destroys their entire coup! What happens? He gets fucking GOT. Obi-Wan becomes a Problem, and it takes a long time, but he gets fucking got too!
So yeah, Qui-Gonâs a Problem. And it gets him killed.
Because. That. Is. The. Fucking. Point.
The good guys (the Jedi, btw, for some of you dummies) make decisions that are neither good nor bad. It isnât as black and white as that. Sure, thereâs good guys and bad guys, but thereâs good in bad and thereâs bad in good. The characters have to make decisions that they feel will ultimately work in the favour of their greater good. For example: Qui-Gon cannot save EVERY slave on Tatooine, but he CAN save one and at least TRY to save two (yall forget that he attempted to bargain for Shmi and was turned away). Betting on a podrace WAS a stupid decision, but what else could he do with Republic credits in Hutt space? It was not so Good and very dangerous, but it was the best they could do in such a short amount of time. Donât forget that all of Naboo was at stake at this point.
Qui-Gon did his best. The Jedi did their best. And in the end, it wasnât enough. The corruption of the senate, the power of the Sith, was larger than them.
Also, these tags are perfect:
I saw The Phantom Menace last night (in an empty theater!! after a couple beers!!!! my life is complete) and now I'm coming to you with the most rancid-ass takes!! Let me first just say that it was so beautiful to remember the core message of that film: Qui-Gon Jinn Is a Problem
Not in a bad way!! Let the man be a problem!! He's thriving, flourishing in his role as one! The sheer multi-second "this bitch" look between Mace and Yoda after Qui-Gon interrupts arguably the largest intergalactic crisis in a decade including the removal of a Supreme Chancellor and reemergence of the Sith to talk about some kid he met and ramble about the prophecy again. Obi-Wan's multiple, failed attempts to get his Master back on track. "Don't defy the Council, Master - NOT AGAIN!" The sheer pleading in that last part. "I'm not allowed to train you, Ani" proceeded by him going into a training lecture on the Force and then taking him into battle at his side like a Padawan. FOURTEEN YEAR OLD PADME sitting there being the only adult in the room going "hey, maybe don't bet MY ship on a 9 year old's street racing when we're in the middle of a desperate mission that relies on me getting back to Coruscant to tell everyone my planet is being invaded and people are being killed!"
Seriously, straight up half the screentime in that film is people doing a doubletake at Qui-Gon's big ideas and going "what the fuck did you just say" while he gazes serenely into the middle distance, thinking about something else, and I'm so here for it. Never change, king.
#I needed another reason to vent about why I love qui gon so much#so thank you#peak disaster lineage#qui-gon jinn#star wars#pro jedi#pro jedi council#disaster lineage#prequel trilogy
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sometimes i feel like obi-wan was meant to fall
the emotional kid in the crĂšche and had a tough time controlling his anger
rejected by qui-gon
sent to bandomeer and ended up being a slave in the mines
finally becomes a padawan
then, the mission to melinda/daan
he leaves the jedi order (the place he tried so hard to belong) to help the young in the war
the amount of distrust that grows between him and qui-gon
when anakin comes along, obi-wan is basically disowned publicly by qui-gon so he could take on anakin as a padawan
(not that he blames anakin, because he is a kid who has no clue whatâs going on)
yet when maul comes to fight, obi-wan is still willing to die for qui-gon because he is so loyal (and attached)
the fight with maul is the first time he touches that anger to use the dark side. there is no way a padawan can just beat a sith apprentice without the dark side
when the fight ends and he âkillsâ maul, i think he suppresses it enough because he wants to complete qui-gonâs final wish to train anakin
(wtf, why would you put that burden on him itâs basically a soon to graduate high school kid now having to raise an elementary student)
so obi-wan suppresses any darkness to become the perfect jedi to train anakin
when the war starts, things begin to change
when arriving at kamino, obi-wan feels the millions of lights, with different personalities
obi-wan is introduced to his commander, cc-2224, who, when asked a name, is hesitant due to pure fear of what happened to past troopers
he slowly learns of the horrors of kamino, the reconditioning and decommissioning of former troopers. the clones are afraid of the jedi due to stories heard from the kaminoans, i mean, theyâre just products to be sold
obi-wan goes out of the way to make an effort to learn all of the 212stâs names. yet as the war goes on, he feels the lights blink out on the battlefield
then his ex-padawan gets his own padawan. now, ahsoka is bright, but her training is very different from past generations. instead of learning about cultures and preserving life, they are taught to fight separatists and serve the republic (and that is the exact reason he got kicked out in melinda/daan)
than umbara happens. right under obi-wanâs nose. he was on the planet, sending his troops into massacre
pong krell was a jedi, yet treated the clones like droids, not the life forms they were. while filing the report, obi-wan let himself truly grieve for the first time in the war
when before, obi-wan was rolling down a hill to the dark side, he begins to fall on kadavo
each action obi-wan did wrong became punishment for the tortugas. as they worked pointlessly for âtrainingâ the tortugas lost all hope on the jedi. they were the ones to blame for the punishment
the mission was to get the citizens of kiros back. any other action could be seen as an act of war for the republic
this is what the order has become is all obi wan can think, the republics slaves. jedi are supposed to protect the people, not whatever the republic demanded
his spirit begins breaking down. no physical torture can match the guilt of not being able to save others.
unlike bandomeer, he is not the one getting punished for his actions
when he and rex get free, obi-wan wants to kill agruss and his eyes flicker yellow for a moment. but, like canon, rex does it for him
afterwards, rex and obi-wan talk about the horrors of the facility and the lack of faith for the republic and what they are fighting for
rex points out that the clones are a slave to the republic anyway and that they have no other options with their lives (he would never say it straight out to a commanding officer, but this is a headcanon)
âwhat would you do if we werenât fighting this war?â âi wouldnât exist, but i sometimes think many of the vod would prefer thatâ
thatâs when obi-wan snaps. the clones deserve rights more than anyone, yet they will never get it from the republic
the 212th join him with no questions asked cody would follow obi wan till the end of time
obi-wan offers the idea to anakin. he says he is betraying the republic and the chancellor. obi wan says anakin is betraying his troops, yet makes sure he knows that he and ahsoka would always have a place with him
âwhy?â âthe jedi have lost their path. in zygarria, it was get in and out with the tortugas, yet so many remain in slavery.â
âwhat about my mom?â âwhat about your mom?â obi-wan was never told anakin was a slave
âi need to stay here. padmĂ©, the chancellor, ahsoka. they need me.â âok anakin. i am always here for you if you want to reach out about anythingâ ahsoka stays for anakin
rex wouldnât leave anakin and ahsoka, but allows for the vod to make their own decision and half of the 501st leaves
so obi-wan, with a battalion and a half leaves the gar and the jedi unannounced. he travels the galaxy picking up clones (who want to join) as well as anyone in need
it is uncalled for and brings the senate and the order to chaos. how can the perfect jedi leave?
as a sith, he isnât fighting for power or revenge. he is fighting for freedom and justice for the people in the galaxy
the only reason he would fall would be to help others
(he tried so hard to be the perfect jedi, which makes it impossible in his eyes to leave, but is also a great excuse for falling)
he wears armor b/c he wants cody to be happy (the only reason he wasnât before was b/c it was unjedi-like and straying too far from his beliefs)
he keeps the blue saber, yet also uses blaster now because he became uncivilized
he does read about the powers of the sith and explores what he can do
obi-wan was always good at force suggesting people
while the senate and the public panics (how could they not, the great negotiator has deflected with the best battalion in the galaxy), the order uses the time to reflect. no one joins obi-wan, but there is an unspoken agreement to support his cause
he never explicitly fights against the republic, but doesnât mind fighting separatists when ever he gets a chance
if a jedi was asked, they didnât get mysterious help when they were previously losing. yeah, a bunch of clones disappeared, but we won. the senate doesnât know the difference
falling is a disgrace, but that doesnât mean plo koon and shaak ti doesnât send some troopers kenobiâs way as the vodâs honorary buirs
palpatineâs plans begin falling apart
it allows windu and yoda to sooner recognize the flaws in the order and in the senate
barriss leaves the temple sooner, but goes to obi-wan instead of bombing the temple
anakin is now able to trust obi-wan with his and padmĂ©âs relationship, in which he can voice his approval and anakin doesnât have to feel guilty
when palpatine promises anakin a way to save padmĂ©, he asks obi-wan if thatâs true
obi-wan kills palpatine for being a pedo (or he lets fox a clone do it if they want ceaser style)
everyone lives happily with palpatine dead
anakin leaves the order to become a trophy husband (and learn more from obi-wan)
as does ahsoka
the clones get a vacation
i got this idea from @curioscurio âs sith!obi-wan fan art
#add on if you want#sith obi-wan is hot#even dooku wanted him to be a sith#sith obi wan#obi wan kenobi#obi wan#tcw obi wan#sw#sw tcw#justice for the clones#fanfic#codywan#anakin skywalker#tcw ahsoka#clones#clone wars#captain rex#qui-gon jinn
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Okay but I would LOVE to here your heretical opinions on Padame if you ever want to share them or any of your other views on star wars prequel characters. Your character analysises are INCREDIBLE and really fun to read <3
Oh boy, are you sure about that? Well, the ask has been made so here, we, gooooooooooooooo!
Padmeâs one of those strange characters who appears as one thing but in actuality is quite different. Because she appears as the first thing, and itâs something people really like, most people accept that at face value and if sheâs not always consistent--well, she came from a series of screenplays written by George Lucas.
Padme comes across as a very noble, kind, and courageous character who is also quite politically savvy. At fourteen, against all odds, she saves her planet from invasion when the Senate did nothing, secured herself an ally in the chancellor (nevermind him being secretly Palpatine), and even after relinquishing her title as queen remains a major player in the senate for years and is seen as enough of a threat to warrant several assassination attempts (one so bad she has to be guarded by Jedi and sent home to Naboo for several weeks).Â
And Iâm not saying sheâs not any of these things. Padme is very courageous, is one of those odd politicians who... believes she stands for what she believes in (more on this later), and has a remarkable political career.
However, sheâs also romantic to the point of being completely and utterly delusional, self-centered, and frankly a little nuts.
(Yeah, you knew you were waiting for me to say something terrible, WERENâT YOU?!) Right, so whatâs wrong with Padme?
Well, if you look closely at a few of her choices, the ones that never seemed to make much sense, then you can look at her other choices and... Well, it all sort of comes together.Â
Thatâs right, Iâm talking about âAttack of the Clonesâ and âRevenge of the Sithâ.
Attack of the Clones we have the very lackluster and strange romance of Anakin and Padme.
On Anakinâs end, his infatuation with Padme makes a lot of sense. She was part of the party that rescued him from slavery, she was very kind to him, and was the prettiest girl heâs ever seen in his life. Ten years later, always having harbored a crush on her memory and keeping it alive through whatever news he hears of her, sheâs grown into a very beautiful woman and Anakin is by chance introduced back into her life. I get why Anakin falls head over heels for Padme, Iâll get more into this later and how their relationship has some major issues (aside from the obvious), but I understand why he marries this girl out of nowhere even when it could get him thrown out of the Jedi. (As an aside, since this is more of a Padme post, I think Anakin was spurred on in part also by the death of his mother and his massacre of the Tusken Raiders. Anakinâs life was flipped upside down in a very short amount of time, one of his great emotional ties is suddenly gone, and I think he has this internal crisis that culminates in him deciding to marry Padme. Without this, he and Padme may have become lovers, but I donât think heâd marry her).
On Padmeâs end... itâs a little less clear. Anakin has grown into an attractive young man, yes. Take out all of George Lucasâ dialogue, and maybe Padme finds Anakin very charming. However, Padme secretly marries a Jedi sheâs known for three weeks. Now, Iâd be a bit more forgiving of this, love is love and we canât always think rationally, but thereâs some other things.
Unlike Anakin, Padme hasnât been spending the past ten years romanticizing her memory of Anakin Skywalker. When they met in Phantom Menace, Anakin was not only five years younger than her, he was nine-years-old. To fourteen-year-old Padme, Anakin was not then dating material and was instead this poor boy in slavery. Which means while Anakin has build up justifying this rapid romance, Padme really doesnât. What this means is that her romance with Anakin reads a lot more like a romantic fantasy. Cute dashing bodyguard shows up, saves her life, through contrived circumstances theyâre sent back to beautiful Naboo where they spend time together, only cute bodyguard is a Jedi and canât marry, which makes their love excitingly taboo!Â
Everything Padme does, before and after this point, lends itself to this overdeveloped sense of romance. Padme wants to be whisked away, wants to have this secret unsustainable marriage with a man who cannot be married, sheâs in love with the idea of being in love. Given how little time she spends with Anakin, how little they really know of each other, Iâd say sheâs more in love with the idea of Anakin than Anakin Skywalker himself. And this isnât a bad thing necessarily, or at least not a grievous flaw, however, thatâs not all.Â
Padme chooses to marry Anakin knowing he murdered an entire village of men, women, and children. She marries him almost immediately after the massacre of the Tusken Raiders. Note, she does not learn about this later and have to come to terms with it, she is right there. She is on Tatooine with him and sees him go to do it and then return.Â
Padme doesnât take it... particularly well, that said, she also seems to shove it under the carpet immediately. She, first, marries Anakin within days after this event. She second, never really has a âholy fuck, Anakinâ conversation with him. And worst yet, she never confesses to anyone else. Padme is a hypocrite and willing to sacrifice everything she believes in, albeit I believe unwittingly, for her romantic fantasy.
She tells no one about what happened. An entire village was brutally massacred, those who are already poor and oppressed and have no voice, by a man who is supposed to be a protector of all people in the galaxy. Iâm sorry, Anakin, but if Padme was who you think she is then she would have to tell the Jedi Order at the very least if not the Republic. Instead, there are no consequences, only Anakinâs descent into guilt and madness as three years pass with it festering in the back of his mind. Padme does not stand for the poor, for the people, or for justice. She only does so when it does not conflict with her own interests, i.e. her actions regarding the invasion of Naboo. More, I do not believe Padme has the introspection to realize this about herself, she never realizes that not narking on Anakin was very very very bad. Three years pass and she lives the whirlwind romantic fantasy that she and Anakin both want. Theyâre secret lovers/spouses, meeting up at the oddest hours of the day and... This is three years of this ridiculous affair. Three years to come to terms with the fact that something must change. And then the kicker, Padme gets pregnant, and this is where the extra delusional comes in.
The child should have been a signal of the end. There can be no more secret now. Padme is having a child, presumably out of wedlock, and even if space is very very very different from our society I imagine this would be quite the scandal that could even get her thrown out of the senate. I believe Padme mentions as much to Anakin. More, Anakin is no longer a lover, he is now a father. Whatâs supposed to happen now? They raise this secret child, instructing them that Anakin is only a father in private, never in public?
Anakin and Padme briefly flirt with the idea of Anakin leaving the order. Anakin even wants to do so, but it... never happens. Now is the time it absolutely should happen. Yes, Anakinâs a big part of the war effort, but he could at least start talking to the Order and they could decide if itâd be a slow or fast exit.Â
My theory, Padmeâs too in love with the fantasy. Anakin leaving means heâs no longer a Jedi, it means heâll come to Naboo, be unemployed and be around. Anakin visiting will no longer be this romantic, fraught with the danger of being found out, passionate, short lived event for Padme. Itâll become real life. Heâll be a real, ordinary man, sheâll be a real, ordinary, woman, and that spark of romance will be gone.
I donât think Padme wants that.Â
Which is why, even with the child on the way, we see Anakin and Padme continue to play out this ridiculous secret lovers fantasy. And then, of course, Anakin goes insane off screen.
Padme is told that, once again, Anakin has murdered dozens of children. Of course, this is a terrible thing to be told and she canât process it. She needs to find Anakin and confront him, but people always criticize Lucas here and feel itâs out of character for Padme to have run to Anakin in sobbing hysterics with no plan of enacting vengence.
Frankly, I think itâs very in character. She did nothing about the Tuskens, remember? I think at the end of the day, the murder of the Jedi children means very little to her. What hurts Padme the most is that the fantasy of Anakin she married is not real. The Anakin she married would never murder the Jedi children, betray the Republic, or do any of what heâs done. And I think Padme only has that strong, iron, will when she knows the world sheâs in. With the Trade Federation, her stance was obvious. Her people were being oppressed, butchered, and invaded. In this case, the world she knew no longer exists.
The Republic is gone, perhaps hasnât existed in thirteen years, as it turns out the senator who had always been her biggest supporter was a Sith Lord. The Jedi are gone, children murdered by Anakin while those in the field are picked off by their own clone soldiers. Padmeâs world has fallen apart, and I think that makes it much harder for her to be the girl we saw in Phantom Menace. In time, perhaps, she would have joined the rebellion but... I do think Padme might have also given into despair.
So, yeah, thatâs Padme for you.
#ask#anon#padme amidala#star wars#star wars prequel trilogy#anakin skywalker#anti anidala#anti padme amidala#are you sure you wanted this rant?
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The one of my favorite Star Wars aus might be role swapping Breha and Bail with Padmé and Anakin
All of this is going into a read more because I accidentally wrote an insane amount <3
Imagine an Anakin who has never been touched by the force. An Anakin who still grew up on Tatooine, but was never whisked away at nine years old to become a Jedi. An Anakin who, as ïżŒdevastated as he was by his motherâs death, was never able to inflict any fucked up revenge fantasy on an entire tribe of people.
This Anakin is angry and scared and every part of his planet reminds him of his mother, so he leaves. He goes to Coruscant, unsure of what heâs to do once he gets there, but knowing that he has nothing left for him on Tatooine. He spends time working for room and board on Coruscant before running into a very fancily dressed woman. They get to talking and exchange comm codes, and Anakin, as tired as he is, doesnât realize heâs talking to the ex-queen and senator of Naboo. A comical reveal scene happens, as does a longwinded romance full of pining.
Anakin becomes the wife of a senator and whilst not becoming one himself, he becomes a voice in politics. He speaks in the senate and campaigns strongly against slavery, in and out of the republic. Padmé and he grow to have a strong relationship, Anakin is taught to handle his emotions by a professional, and the two of them become well known figures in the galaxy.
Now imagine a Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan who are transporting a young princess instead of a young queen. Who are shot down as they try to exit Alderaanâs atmosphere, halfway across the planet from the palace they left from. Who land next to a small home in the mountains belonging to a senator, his wife, and their little nine year old son.
Imagine a little Bail Prestor, excited to learn about the Jedi who crashed outside of his door and enthralled with the most beautiful girl heâs ever seen in his entire, short life. Whoâs bashfully trying to show Breha all his model starships and big books in his room whilst Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan speak in hushed voices outside about the strongest force presence either of them have ever felt.
Imagine a Bail who, after witnessing the death of one of the Jedi he looked up to so much, vows to be the best Jedi he could be. Imagine padawan Bail, who pushes himself too hard and buries himself in every Jedi text he can get his hands on. A Bail who when seeing learns to sass and trade barbs as good as his master. A Bail who uses form one when sparring because he truly believes in the philosophy "the defeat of a foe without inflicting serious injury as the highest form of victory" that comes with it.
Bail and Obi-Wan are put in charge of protecting senator Amidala and her husband Skywalker from an assassination attempt and whilst Obi-Wan goes to Kamino and learns about the clones, Bail turns into a glorified babysitter for two full grown adults. Bail hears Obi-Wanâs comm from Geonosis and goes to save him, and is joined by two very insistant passengers. They are inevitably captured and put in the area, but they all escape when the clones arrive.
Bail gets his hand cut off in a duel with his great grandmaster in a bid to protect his master from having to fight another sith. Whilst he is stuck in the temple recovering, Breha learns about what happened to the kid who she had met those ten years ago and sends him a card wishing him well, with her comm code attached. They start talking and fall for each other pretty quickly, eventually marrying.
I havenât actually thought about the events of rots yet, but I have been daydreaming about this all day at work and will likely continue
It really started out as a funny âwhat ifâ sort of thought, but I started thinking about Anakin channeling the pain and anger from his childhood as a slave into politics and I was hooked
And then Bail! His lightsaber is orange and thereâs a muted orange glow from his prosthesis that match Brehaâs pulmonodes! And his last name is Prestor because I think he should take Brehaâs name <3
Anyways, older and wiser Anakin and Padmé paired with younger and brasher Bail and Breha for the win
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Fallen Star: Chapter 1
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Summary: The Clone Wars have raged on for three years. With Dooku dead, the war's end is finally within reach, and peace may come to the galaxy.
For Jedi Knight Padmé Amidala, Senator Anakin Skywalker, and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, the world seems to have too many other plans to let it.
[Or, a Revenge of the Sith Roleswap AU]
A/N: I explain a bit of why it took me so long in the author's note on AO3. I don't have an excuse. Next chapter drops Friday.
The battle above Coruscant had been raging for several days. Anakin was surprised that the Separatist forces were getting that bold, or maybe they were sure that the Jedi were weak enough to let an attack on the planet through. Both were a possibility. He hadnât heard from PadmĂ© in almost a month and a half, maybe more, and sheâd been distressed over the state of the outer rim and already beyond tired. It was likely the other Jedi were in similar states.
If he was being honest with himself, it wasnât just the Jedi who needed a break. Everybody was tired, and it was why the Senate meeting today was so important. For once, it seemed as though the Republic Senate was finally getting its act together to discuss restarting peace talks, a goal Anakin had tried several times over the course of the war to get going if for no other reason than to bring his wife home.
Despite the importance of the meeting today, Anakin was finding it difficult to focus on what was going on in the Senate. He was worried for PadmĂ© and Obi-Wan, and his meetings with members of the delegation to discuss knocking Palpatine off his seat as Chancellor were keeping him too busy to try to take naps to catch up on the sleep he was missing while worrying when there wasnât work to keep his mind off everything.
âAni?â He was pulled from his distracted thoughts by his motherâs hand on his shoulder, grabbing his attention back to the world around him as opposed to his distracted thoughts. âAni, you should rest.â
âI have to be here.â Not a lie. âBut if you could meet with Bail later aboutâŠâ he let his voice trail off, Shmi knew exactly what he was going for, the treasonous words that could not be spoken in the Senate Hall. âIâd appreciate it.â Sleep was off the table, but he could come up with some small amount of rest at least.
Shmi nodded, and Anakin almost collapsed there in relief, almost. âSee if you can get in contact with PadmĂ© and Obi-Wan, an update on the war situation would be helpful, and I know you must be worried.â
âSenator Skywalker, we know youâre the face of the peace talks, perhaps you have an idea for all this?â Anakin turned back from his mother to face the Chancellor. Perhaps paying attention would have been beneficial. The entire Senate knew that Anakin, Bail, and Mon were the center of the talks for peace, him knowing exactly what was being discussed wouldâve been nice.
âMy mother and I have been discussing which Senators in the Separatist council might be most open to peace talks.â Something he had researched earlier in the war, back when Senator Bonterri had still been alive. His focus may have been elsewhere at the moment when it came to the inner workings of the Senate, but peace was still a part of his goal. He could only hope that it was somewhat relevant to the conversation at hand. âWeâre still coming to conclusions ourselves who might be willing to open channels after our last attempt.â
Palpatine nodded, and Anakin almost let out a sigh of relief. âAn important task, I agree. Perhaps you can come to my office afterwards, and we can go over your list.â
Even now, years after Anakin had turned down his tutelage in politics and instead turned towards others like Bail, Palpatine was still trying to get Anakin alone to speak to him. It made his skin crawl, but there was nothing more he could do. âOf course, Chancellor.â He would have to attempt to pay more attention for now to the discussion, rather than simply be present in the meeting.
âIf that is settled, I believeââ Before anybody else could react, the ground shook beneath them all, a possible stray attack from the battle in space hitting the ground near Coruscant, and an ill omen.
It didnât take long for any feelings of dread Anakin had been feeling to come to a head, as within moments the Senate Dome flooded with Battle Droids, with General Grievous leading the attack. âI believe your talks of peace wonât be happening today.â
Anakin turned behind him at the sound of a click in the Senate Pod to see one of the battle droids at the exit, a blaster aimed at him and his mother. He stood in between the two of them, his hand going for the blaster he kept on his belt.
âThis is madness.â Shock and disgust colored Palpatineâs tone, though Anakin couldnât help but wonder just how much of it was faked.
After all, an interruption of the talks of peace would just make the war go on longer, and that seemed to be all that Palpatine wanted.
More battles. More war. More power for him to sink his claws into.
âChancellor Palpatine, if you wish to protect your senators, you will come with us.â
The sound of a lightsaber igniting brought Anakinâs attention back to the pod. One of the Jedi Masters on the council, Shaak Ti if he remembered her name, was pulling out her lightsaber, ready to defend the Chancellor. âThe Chancellor wonât be going anywhere.â
âVery well.â Grievous let out something that sounded like a mix between a laugh and a cough as he indicated the droids. âTake out the Jedi, so she understands just how serious our threat is.â
Red blaster fire rained down from the pods, aiming for Jedi Master Ti. She started off blocking the blasts, but it wasnât long before even she couldnât keep up with the attacks, and she fell to the ground. Anakin was unsure if she was alive or not. The blaster fire stopped as soon as she hit the ground.
âNext time, each of those blasters will be trained on the senators if you do not come with.â For a moment, there was silence. Most of the Senators were aware of the Moffs that Palpatine had put into place only a few weeks prior as military leaders (or replacements for the Senate, a small voice whispered in his mind). It was possible they could be released with no lasting harm to the chain of command. It was entirely possible that Palpatine could decide toâŠ
âI do not need another demonstration, General Grievous.â Palpatine lowered his pod, and Anakin almost let out a sigh of relief. âI understand the threat you pose is quite serious. I will come with you. I trust in the Jedi to be able to come to my aid before it is too late.â
And with that, Palpatine was gone, the droids following after him and Grievous. The Senate was quiet, as though they couldnât quite believe what had happened.
Before Anakin was aware of what was happening, heâd already taken several steps forward, and it was only his mother grabbing hold of his arm that stopped him. âAnakinâŠâ
âWe donât know when the Jedi will get here. We canât afford to wait.â It wasnât that he didnât trust the Jedi, he mightâve been one of the few supporters they had left, it was that he knew that they were spread thin if even PadmĂ© and Obi-Wan hadnât been able to escape from the front in months. âIâm going to see what I can do in the air.â
âRight now, youâre needed here.â Shmi insisted. âWe need to notify the Jedi of the attack so they can mobilize a clone squadron. Going out there alone would be suicide.â
Anakin frowned. âThen Iâll let the Jedi know, and then Iâll join in the battle.â
His mother hugged him, and Anakin knew she wasnât happy with his decision. âDonât do anything stupid.â
âI never do.â Although both mother and son knew it was a lie, he waved to her before running out of his pod, ready to start taking out the Droids as they came. It wouldnât be a long drive to the Jedi Temple, so he just had to hope itâd be alright.
-x-
âSenator Skywalker, weâre surprised to see you here and not in the Senate Building?â Anakin was relieved to find Master Windu at the entrance to the temple, heading out. âIâm guessing youâre here about what happened?â
Anakin nodded. âThe Chancellorâs been kidnapped by General Grievous. He managed to get into the Senate somehow.â Somehow...that was something that would be bothering Anakin for a while. Security was tight there, and the clone battalion stationed on Coruscant were top recruits, with only PadmĂ©âs own 501st coming even close to their skill levels. There was no chance that they just managed to get through that easilyâŠ
Still, Anakin couldnât focus on that for now. âI came to request Jedi help in rescuing the Chancellor.â
âWeâre already taking care of it. Weâve called in several clone battalions from the front. Two of our finest generals will hopefully be here soon.â
Anakin dared to let himself hope for a moment that those two generals being summoned were PadmĂ© and Obi-Wan, but for now held off on asking. Instead, he simply nodded again. âDo you have enough ships in the sky until they arrive?â
Master Windu nodded. âEnough to keep further landing parties from Coruscant and to hold the battle.â
âGot room for one more?â
âSenator Skywalker, I donât thinkââ
Anakin shook his head. âIâm a trained pilot. I can fly those ships and give cover until the Jedi come back from the front.â And he was a powerful force sensitive, but holding that over Master Winduâs head didnât seem fair, not at the moment. War had been a powerful driving factor in making peace with the fact that they wouldnât train him. âIâve helped the Jedi in air battles in the past whenever my ship ends up in the area, and I already know how to fly around in any ship youâve got in that temple.â
Master Windu seemed to hesitate for a moment, as though appraising Anakin in front of him for the first time. âYou have fifteen minutes to find the hanger. After that I notify the guards of a break-in in the temple.â
Anakin grinned. Even if the Jedi had thought him to be unteachable, they still trusted him, at least in that regard. He was grateful that his piloting skills spoke for themselves. âThank you, Master Windu.â
âDonât get yourself hurt. Explaining why I let a Senator steal one of our ships to join in the battle is going to be enough work if you do come back alive, let alone if you donât.â
Anakin saluted him. âSir.â And with that, he entered into the temple, noticing the small smile on Master Winduâs face.
When the war was over, he was really going to have to address his grudge against the Jedi once and for all. Perhaps heâd find that some of his anger and blame towards them was incorrect after all.
-x-
The sound of fire all around her alerted PadmĂ© to the fact that they had finally left hyperspace and arrived in the space around Coruscant. She heard Artooâs beeps behind her as the light speed ring detached, allowing her greater mobility as she began taking aim at the enemy fighters in front of her, shooting down the droids to keep what remained of the 501st with her from taking too much heavy fire.
A small holographic projection of Obi-Wan appeared on her dashboard. âPadmĂ©, the Chancellor is located on General Grievousâs ship. Weâll need to fight our way through quickly if we want to ensure he doesnât escape into Separatist space.â
âAlways one to deliver easy tasks.â PadmĂ© smiled. Admittedly, she was a bit nervous to be involved in an intense battle. Even six months pregnant, Droids in a space battle were no challenge. General Grievous however would be significantly more difficult. âAny other news?â
âSome preliminary reports say that Dooku should be on the ship as well.â PadmĂ© tightened her grip around the shipâs controls, trying not to let that news bother her given all heâd put her through throughout the war. She needed to release those emotions to the Force and a battle was not the time or place. Maybe later.
âWell, we donât have much time, weâd better get going before the skies become worse.â PadmĂ© smiled. She and Obi-Wan flew straight into the battle in front of them, firing at the enemy ships without much thought, letting the Force guide her as it always had and letting Artoo focus on the flying around them. Thankfully, the droids werenât advanced, and it was easy flying. The challenge, of course, would come from the ship in front of them.
After a few minutes, Artoo started beeping quickly at her. Sheâd never gotten as good at understanding binary as her husband, but she did have a basic grasp. âWhat is it Artoo?â
âI believe weâre getting a signal from...the Twilight?â So Obi-Wan was getting it too?
PadmĂ© stared for a moment. âThat canât be. I know that shipâs still in the Temple. Anakin wouldâve killed me if I took his pet project while we were in the sieges.â Though the ship was legally in the possession of the Jedi, Anakin had liked to work on it with Ahsoka back during the war. It rarely saw combat, but it saw his tools sometimes even when she wasnât home on Coruscant. âPatch it through Artoo.â
A new voice appeared through the headset, one achingly familiar and alarming to be sending a signal from the battlefield like that. âAbout time you showed up. I was beginning to doubt that the reinforcements Master Windu sent for werenât going to show.â
âAnakin?â both she and Obi-Wan said at the same time.
âPadmĂ©? Obi-Wan!?â PadmĂ© could practically hear the grin in his voice.
âAnakin, what are you doing in the sky like this? Youâre a civilian. Youâre in danger up here.â
Anakin laughed. âDonât worry Obi-Wan, Iâll be fine. Master Ti was injured in the Senate building and unless you wanted Master Windu or Master Yoda in the airââ Both of which PadmĂ© wanted to argue were fully capable of fighting this battle, ââthen there was nobody skilled enough to pilot one of these things to help keep things under control.â
âAnd they approved?â PadmĂ© pulled her ship out of the way of the fire, attempting to keep her focus on the battle rather than her reckless husband.
âMy record precedes me. Master Windu was willing to let me with a little bit of persuasion.â That was almost as hard to believe. Mace Windu letting the Senator pilot any ship in the Jediâs fleet in a battle was unlikely. Then again, the war had been taking a toll and if there really wasnât anybody else available at that momentâŠ
What was the war even leading the Jedi to become? PadmĂ© wasnât sure she wanted to know.
âAnakin, Iâm pretty sure PadmĂ© and I will both be having it out with you after this. Youâre going toââ
âObi-Wan!â PadmĂ© hissed. Anakin didnât know about the child yet. Obi-Wan shouldnât have even known about the baby growing in her and if she hadnât found out in a panic while they were in the other rim he still wouldnât know. Telling Anakin about this in the middle of a battle was not the way she wanted her husband to learn about his future son or daughter. âI think Anakinâs aware heâs in trouble. Right now, we need to focus on the battle ahead.â
Obi-Wan sighed. âVery well, but Senator Skywalker please hold some regard for your own safety in the future.â
Obi-Wan closed the communication channel, likely to give the two of them an ounce of privacy so she could tell Anakin about their child. Anakin, at least, was willing to take full advantage of it. âYouâre really here.â
PadmĂ© smiled slightly. âIâm really here Ani. I missed you.â
âI missed you too.â She could hear the smile in his voice, followed by a curse moments later. âSorry, thought the droid was farther away.â
PadmĂ© shook her head. âAnakin.â
âI know.â He chuckled, embarrassed. âIâll see you back on the surface, letâs end this.â Anakin closed the channel as well, leaving her to focus on the battle, but unable to ignore how much lighter her heart felt even after that brief exchange. Six months away from Coruscant was longer than she ever wanted to take ever again.
But for now, there were more pressing issues than her time away from her husband. She fired off at a ship tailing Obi-Wan.
âThank you, my Padawan.â Obi-Wanâs voice meant heâd opened back up the channel.
âThank me by staying alive.â That was really all she wanted, the two most important people to her to come home safely. Before they could say anything more, Artoo spun her starfighter (much to her annoyance. Going upside down was not good for developing humans and it was only by the Force she had a chance at protecting them) just in time to help her avoid two rockets chasing after her as the two smashed into each other.
âHey Artoo! No fancy flying. Baby, remember.â The droid beeped back in response and PadmĂ© sighed, just knowing that he was complaining for her not appreciating him saving her life. âThank you, Artoo.â
Finally, there was an opening in front of them. âWe can get through!â
âI see our opportunity as well.â Obi-Wan started flying towards the ship, only to miss the cluster of buzz droids heading towards him.
âMaster!â PadmĂ© shouted, but her warning came too late as the droids attached themselves to the side of Obi-Wanâs ship, beginning to work their way through the metal. âMaster are you alright?â
âGet to the ship PadmĂ©. We need to get in and rescue the Chancellor.â He was right, of course he was. PadmĂ© knew she needed to get into the ship as quickly as possible, but that meant leaving her friendâŠ
She shook her head. âNot without you.â She rammed into the ship, attempting to take off some of the buzz droids. Which had minimal impact and no positive effect as rather than take out the buzz droids on Obi-Wanâs ship, it simply allowed them onto hers. She watched Artoo push one off with one of his tools, thankfully keeping her and the ship safe from harm.
âPadmĂ©, youâre going to get yourself killed too. Iâm already done for, just head to Grievousâs ship.â Obi-Wan was determined to get her moving, but PadmĂ© frowned as she pulled back, there had to be something she could doâŠ
âIâve got this.â Anakinâs voice came back over as the Twilight swooped in, firing a singular beam at each of the droids, taking them out one by one. âPadmĂ©, you need to shoot as well.â
âIf this kills Obi-Wan, itâs your fault.â But she did as she was asked, and before long she and Anakin had gotten the remaining buzz droids off the Starfighter.
âIâll cover you until you get on that ship. Afterwards, Iâll return to Coruscant to let Master Windu know.â
âAnakin, are you certain?â Obi-Wan asked.
âItâs our best move. I may be good here, but in the ship itself Iâll slow you both down.â Anakin was right about that. He was gifted with a blaster, but going up against a Sith and a cyborg who made it a habit to steal as many lightsabers as possible would make even his skills near useless, and this time there was no lightsaber for Anakin to steal. âBesides, I know you both can handle it.â
PadmĂ© smiled at the vote of confidence. âThank you, Ani.â
âIâll see you both after you finish this mission.â Anakin shut off the channel, and PadmĂ© and Obi-Wan began their flight towards the hanger. Without a second thought, PadmĂ© shot at the sides, disabling the shields so she and Obi-Wan could get through the door, their ships crashing to the ground and running over the battle droids within the shipâs hanger.
Obi-Wan launched out of his ship, lightsaber already lit as he began slicing through the droids, and PadmĂ© followed suit, and before long they were deflecting blaster bolts left and right until only the two of them remained and Artoo remained. âArtoo, see if you can locate the Chancellor.â The droid beeped a confirmation of understanding his orders in response that neither of them needed a translation to understand. âWhile he searches, we should get going.â
âYou sense it too?â That cold feeling that only came from the dark side of the Force, from a Sith, pervaded the room and everywhere that PadmĂ© could feel. âIt looks like your info was correct.â
Obi-Wan nodded, a frown on his face. âDookuâs here. This is probably a trap.â She agreed with the assessment, but before she could ask anything further, Obi-Wan spoke up again. âAre you sure you want to continue with the mission. Iâm sure I can handle Grievous or Dooku alone.â Ahsoka had wondered the same thing too when theyâd rushed off towards the mission while she had gone to Mandalore.
âMaster, I know youâre good, but Iâm not sure you can face Count Dooku alone.â PadmĂ© smiled, though she had the same thoughts herself. Her fear for Obi-Wan facing the Sith alone was far greater. He was a gifted duelist, and had had little trouble defeating herself and Obi-Wan in the past. âI wonât let anything happen to you.â
âItâs not just you fighting this if you come with me.â
âI know. And heâs important too.â Her hand briefly rested on her stomach to focus on the life growing inside, the large glow of light. âBut Iâm not about to let you fight Dooku without me.â For all his faults and any fights they may have had, Obi-Wan was her best friend. âYou wonât be able to talk me out of this.â
Obi-Wan sighed, shaking his head. âHonestly, youâre just as reckless as Anakin.â He tossed a comm unit to Artoo who caught it before starting to head off into the ship. âIf I canât convince you to stay, then youâd better stay close. After all, we have a trap to spring.â
With that, Padmé followed after Obi-Wan with a smile, and the two entered into the main halls of the ship.
Their mission to rescue the Chancellor had begun.
#Star Wars#Anakin Skywalker#Anakin#Padme Amidala#Padme#Obi Wan Kenobi#Obi Wan#Anidala#Heather Writes
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For the Obi-Wan prompt, he is undercover somewhere for shadow work and meets jango, they have a fun time, and then years later they see each other on Kamino and instead of thinking Obi-Wan is actually a Jedi jango thinks heâs pretending to be a Jedi
âWhat the kriff are you doing here?â Jango hissed, once Taun We had left his quarters.
Ben, the karking idiot, had gone the color of spoilt milk at the sight of him. He was lucky Jango hadnât blown his cover and gotten him tossed into the ocean or executed by clone firing squad for impersonating a Jedi.
âDad?â Boba asked, losing the cute but ineffectual glower heâd been giving the supposed interloper.
âEverythingâs fine, Boba,â Jango said, watching the fascinated glance Ben cast at his son. Ben was honorable, as far as bounty hunters went, but Jango would make sure to threaten him just in case. A lot of people would pay an obscene amount for something to hold over his head, and Jango had very little in the galaxy he cared for other than Boba. âGo work on your modules, weâre gonna talk shop.â
Bobaâs eyes sharpened with interest, knowing by now what his fatherâs trade entailed, and he gave Ben an assessing look. Ben was unassuming when he wanted to be--disguising himself as someone important wasnât his style, but heâd done a damn fine job with his cover, as he always did. He was carrying himself like a Jedi. He even had what looked like a kriffing lightsaber hilt tucked into his belt, though Jango wasnât sure if it was a replica or if Ben had somehow managed to get his hands on the real deal. It wouldnât exactly surprise him if he had; Ben was good at what he did, even if Jango was better.
âIt was good to meet you, young one,â Ben said, in that stilted but sincere way he had with kids. Boba rolled his eyes as he left, and Jango didnât bother to stifle his smile. He doubted that Boba had made Benâs first few minutes on Kamino especially pleasant.
âAnswer the question, Ben,â Jango said, once Boba was safely in his room. The little womp rat probably had his ear pressed to it, just like Jango used to do when Jaster held war counsels, way back when. âWhat are you doing here?â
Ben still looked a little like heâd been cold cocked at the sight of him, but he was getting over it quickly. It was a trait Jango appreciated just as much as he mistrusted. Ben had never screwed him over before (at least not in a way Jango hadnât enthusiastically reciprocated and participated in, at any rate), but Jango had been in the game too long to trust a bounty hunter who was good at their job.
âI was hired to track down the person who put a hit out on a senator. I wasnât aware it was you Iâd be dealing with or I wouldnât have come.â
Jango smiled again at that; Ben had the oddest way of pulling those out of him without even trying. Most bounty hunters would never admit to something like that, because they worked in an industry where you really couldnât afford the resultant loss of face, but Ben had always been an oddball. It was a breath of fresh air to hear someone self-deprecate when most bounty hunters preferred to self-aggrandize.
Of course, Ben was too skilled, and Jango too smart to fall for it--but he admired Benâs dedication to his cowardly, pragmatic facade. He might have believed it if Ben hadnât saved his life in situations where he stood to gain nothing from it. The man was about as noble as a bounty hunter could be, with a healthy serving of death wish, to boot.
âThat quick, huh. Hadnât known you were on Coruscant. If I did I wouldâve subcontracted to you instead of Wesell.â
âYes, well, Iâm currently in the employ of your target, and I wonât be swayed without a much more significant percentage of the payout than youâre willing to give.â He hesitated, tugging contemplatively at his beard, then said, âNaboo is a very wealthy planet, you know--â
âNot happening for me either, though I appreciate the offer. My employer isnât someone I want to cross.â Yet.
âI see,â Ben said. âWell, I donât suppose youâd be willing to talk about your... other contracts?â
He sent a significant glance at Bobaâs door.
âBobaâs not a product,â Jango said sharply. âHe was the reward.â Thatâs what the others are. Products. I have only one son.
âI didnât mean to insult your family in such a way,â Ben said delicately, though he almost certainly had. Jango let it slide; up until a few minutes ago, he hadnât known his colleague, rival, and occasional fuckbuddy had a son. All things considered, he was taking everything very well.
And the Jedi might receive the intel better if it was Ben selling it to them. After all, a clone army with the Jedi Killerâs face was always going to be a hard sell, and Ben was a born salesman. Jango had worked too hard for his revenge for it to falter now.
And... he found he wanted Ben and Boba to get to know each other. As it stood, the only other bounty hunter Boba knew was Aurra Sing, and as much as Jango respected her she was hardly a role model. He still had his Mandalorian sense of honor, and Ben was the only other bounty hunter he knew who had even a semblance of a moral code.
That was the only reason he wanted Ben to meet his son.
Besides, they hadnât slept together in years, and Jango was nothing if not an opportunist.
âWhy donât you stay for dinner, and weâll see if we can work something out.â
#fwb to enemies#prompt#my writing#sorry this took forever#Anonymous#jangobi#kenfetti#obi-wan really needs to choose another undercover name#tho kenobi is basically smith in the gffa so i guess it works#i wanted to work in a 'lets get you out of those wet clothes' joke but rest assured jango says it as some point#hes a dad now hes allowed to have dad jokes
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So I'm curious, Dave Filoni has been quite critical of the prequel era Jedi at times (and has got hate for it), but I wondered was the element of criticism of the Order that comes over the prequel movies intentional on Lucas part? A lot of people insist it wasn't and the Jedi are perfect, but I'm not so sure Lucas intended that, at least not in the prequels.
The Jedi Orderâs fallibility was necessary for the prequels to exist. I know Iâve posted this many times already but George Lucas said on multiple occasion that he was going for political themes, specially themes about how the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The story being told in âStar Warsâ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when youâre in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but theyâre actually not. â George Lucas in 2005
[The Jedi] sort of persuade people into doing the right thing but their job really isnât to go around fighting people yet there are now used as generals and they are fighting a war and they are doing something they really werenât meant to do.They are being corrupted by this war, by being forced to be generals instead of peacemakers. â George Lucas for E! Behind the Scenes - Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith
The prequel trilogy is based on a back-story outline Lucas created in the mid-1970s for the original three âStar Warsâ movies, so the themes percolated out of the Vietnam War and the Nixon-Watergate era, he said. Lucas began researching how democracies can turn into dictatorships with full consent of the electorate.
In ancient Rome, âwhy did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew?â Lucas said. âWhy did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? Itâs the same thing with Germany and Hitler. "You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more control. A democratic body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybodyâs squabbling, thereâs corruption.âÂ
George Lucas has admitted that one of the biggest influences on the series was the Nixon era. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Lucas said Star Wars âwas really about the Vietnam War, and that was the period where Nixon was trying to run for a [second] term, which got me to thinking historically about how do democracies get turned into dictatorships? Because the democracies arenât overthrown; theyâre given away.â
Thereâs a clear difference between the Jedi being fallible and the jedi being evil, but that is a line fandom stan culture has erased. Because of the strong stance people are taking âin the defense of the jedi orderâ we are living in a environment where recognizing they made mistakes is considered being âcriticalâ or an âantiâ.
The main difference between the clone wars and the movies is on how these themes were explored. Where George had a limited amount of hours to explore them as the plot moved forward Filoni had years. Itâs a big difference, one that allowed to Filoni to consider multiple POVs. The movies focused on Anakinâs journey, Filoni could give a lot more time to the clones, jedi padawans, senators, citiznes, etc. Thatâs why TCW feels more âcriticalâ of the Jedi order.
The truth is both explored the fallibility of the Jedi Order, but itâs much easier to pretend that wasnât the case when you only watch the movies. for anyone who has studied gffa history and politics will notice right away how messy everything was and how so many mistakes were made by all sides involved. Itâs not just a case of TCW vs movies. If we are being real, itâs a case of comics, novels, shows, movies and creators vs people who canât admit their fave fictional characters have human flaws.
Itâs kind of ironic. The more we see of the Jedi order the easier it becomes to see the cracks the allowed Palpatineâs evil to spread. But instead of enjoy the themes being explored the fandom reaction is Why are you showing me this?!
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OH WOW, LOOK AT THE TIME. AHAHAHHAHAHAAAAA... oops?
Anakin can't believe what he's hearing and seeing. He can't believe that the investigation really would find something on Palpatine. The man has been nothing but devoted to the welfare of the galaxy for years! There's no way that he would do something like this. There just isn't.
Just then, something Palpatine said to him comes back with a vengeance. "Well, I know my innocence, so I feel that I have little to fear⊠Unless, of course, someone has tampered with evidence or files to implicate me, of course."
He feels cold, shudders and shivers running through him and immediately it's as if a hand is holding his throat. Not squeezing, just holding there, like a threat, making his throat feel clogged and his breathing speed up.
Could someone have interfered with the investigation and planted evidence against Palpatine? It is possible that all of this is a sham of a trial, held on false evidence? Palpatine suggested the possibility after all, surely that must mean that he suspected he might have a political rival willing to stop at nothing to smear him?
... It... It can't have been Obi-Wan, can it?
All of this began with Obi-Wan, after all. Obi-Wan took over Palpatine's position, ousting him from office without a shred of remorse. Obi-Wan locked himself in his room after that Senator had suggested it... Was he plotting something? Working on how to make his plans proceed even as he pretended that he was just an unwilling Jedi Master being put in an impossible situation his sense of duty wouldn't let him ignore?
Because... Obi-Wan was the one who confiscated Palpatine's possession and it was Obi-Wan who started this infernal investigation in the first place! Maybe he planted information while he did his "research" into Palpatine's conduct?
Maybe... Maybe this has all been a bid for power and Obi-Wan's been lying to Anakin all along. Maybe that's why he hasn't given up his place on the Jedi high Council or his place as a High General of the GAR.
Pressing his palms against his eyes, Anakin grits his teeth and breathes harshly through his nose, trying desperately to get it together. Is it really possible that Obi-Wan would do such a thing?
... He would if the Council ordered him to. But that... that doesn't make sense either, does it? Why would the Jedi want to be in charge of the Republic anyway? There's nothing in it for them, not really.
And the only thing Obi-Wan's really done since coming into office is being a stabilising influence on the political scene, start investigations he doesn't participate in, and send laws out to be deliberated on by groups of senators without his presence. Padmé has said all of that, has talked at length about what good she thinks Obi-Wan is doing in the Senate.
But... What if... What if...
He pulls his hands away and straightens, suddenly feeling the way Padmé's hand is rubbing his shoulder. He glances up at her, but her eyes are still trained at the screens.
There's a smile on her face. She looks pleased. There's a light in her eyes and Anakin can tell that she thinks this is right, that she doesn't harbour any sort of suspicions against the investigation.
But... But it all fits so neatly together. It makes sense that Obi-Wan would have set everything up.
Except then, like lightning from clear skies, he remembers something incredibly important, something he had overlooked.
Senator Mandai is a Naangni from the planet Haa'ndu.
All Naangni are impervious to Force suggestions.
There is no way Obi-Wan could have influenced her into doing what she did, not unless he did it entirely without the Force. But that would have taken time and effort, and Obi-Wan had been off Coruscant almost as much as Anakin had before that session ever happened.
It's as if a huge weight is lifted from his shoulders, and he almost wants to cry.
Obi-Wan hasn't orchestrated all of this in some mad bid for power.
It's such a relief to realise that he'd simply jumped to conclusions that Anakin nearly forgets that it means that Palpatine really must be guilty of these crimes. That he really must have abused his position and accepted bribes.
Anakin feels cold, like he can't breathe.
That means that Anakin was wrong.
And Obi-Wan was right.
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Padmé feels like she's torn between satisfaction and dismay as she watches the results of the trial come in. On one hand, she feels like this further proves that her realisation that Palpatine used her when she was still Queen is true, because clearly it was not the only time Palpatine decided to ignore convention, the law, and his duty to do something that improved his own standing above everything else.
On the other hand, however, she's watching a man she long considered a mentor be proved a corrupt liar, who missed the fact that his close colleague and the Vice Chair of the Galactic Senate was beyond corrupt.
It makes Senator Mandai's words during that fateful emergency session ring painfully true: "Heâs been inefficient, slow to act, and allowed his own term to be dragged out without a new vote for far longer than any competent politician should have allowed! The war has dragged on because our Chancellor has done nothing to stop the powers that drive it, and it is the Jedi and the Clones that shoulder the weight of his incompetence!"
She has long since harboured worries regarding the usage of a Clone army, creating living and sentient beings simply for the sake of throwing them into war for a Republic they have never known... And this is just another layer of anxiety on top of that.
If Palpatine had been a better Chancellor... Would the war have ended already?
Or...
Perhaps the war never would have begun in the first place...
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The news are all over the Holonet as soon as the sentence is dropped. Some quite large fines, but no jail time.
The people seem conflicted, as many of them had been holding on to what they've been told throughout Palpatine's time in office: that he's a hard working man who's doing his very best for the Republic to even his own detriment at some times.
Some are weeping and in denial, claiming that it cannot be true.
Others are mounting protests, that the punishment is too little for someone who abused the highest political office in the entire Republic.
And Palpatine...
Palpatine is locking down all of his rage and disgust, down as deep inside himself as he can, lest he ends up killing multiple people in an explosion in the Force.
As satisfying as he would find it, he can hardly expose himself like that.
Regaining his reputation will be hard work, harder than he ever expected, but he cannot create more bodies to bury with no control. There are enough people that need to die without him adding random pathetic rabble to the list.
He'll take his time, things will blow over...
And when they do, he'll mount a charm offensive that will make everyone forget about these pesky little convictions. They're barely anything at allâthough he's almost impressed that the investigation managed to pin them on him. Seems he might have underestimated the Jedi just a small amount.
It's not a mistake he will repeat.
And they will come to regret ever taking part in this farce in the first place.
Not that they would have been spared even if they hadn't put their noses where they don't belong.
Death to all Jedi...
Just as soon as he can formulate and enact a plan to enact Order 66. There must be some way...
As long as he can activate the chip in the mind of just one single commander, he can ensure that commander spreads it to the others and then the destruction of the Jedi will commence.
And the revenge of the Sith will finally be complete.
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