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REBELS APPRECIATION WEEK, DAY 1: FAVOURITE GHOST CREW MEMBER

Kanan Jarrus is many things.

He is a Jedi, taught by Depa Billaba. His training was cut short by the rise of the Empire, but despite the danger it poses, he still follows the Order’s teachings.

He is a rebel, given purpose by Hera Syndulla. He fights against Imperial tyranny to make the galaxy a better place for everyone, and he draws the strength to continue from Hera.

He is a genocide survivor, just like Garazeb Orrelios. Zeb taught Kanan that the best way to honour the past is to fight for the future.

He is a leader, one of few with the respect of Sabine Wren. Kanan helped her to find order in the chaos that her life had become, while giving her the freedom to finally be herself.

He is a teacher to Ezra Bridger. Though at times it is difficult, Kanan’s mentorship of Ezra is making them both better Jedi.

Kanan Jarrus is many things. 

Above all, he is part of a family.

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REBELS APPRECIATION WEEK, DAY 7: FAVOURITE SEASON

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REBELS APPRECIATION WEEK, DAY 2: FAVOURITE CREATURE

It was a rare day off for the Ghost crew. Hera had skillfully tucked the ship out of sight of Imperial eyes, amongst the rolling hills of Lothal’s grassy plains. 

Kanan was helping Hera with some repairs in the cockpit, Zeb was watching Sabine create her latest artistic masterpiece in the gun turret (“Non-permanent!” Hera and Kanan had both yelled in unison, and she’d rolled her eyes and groaned an “Of course.”) and so Ezra was free to do whatever he felt like.

And he felt like practising Jar’Kai.

With Kanan out of the way, it had been easy to sneak into his room and borrow (not steal!) his lightsaber. No-one was around to see him slip out into the long grasses, and then he was alone. He held Kanan’s lightsaber in one hand and his own in the other. With two simultaneous flicks of his thumbs, twin beams of humming blue energy swept out in front of him. 

Kanan hadn’t taught him any of the training forms for Jar’Kai, despite asking several times, so he made up his own, twirling the blades around himself. He imagined his Jedi robes flaring dramatically as he leapt and spun, looking just like the old forbidden holos his parents used to let him watch. This was so cool, Kanan only wanted to make Jedi training as little fun as he could, why else would he not let Ezra do this–

The blades struck each other above his head, and he was unprepared for the way they bit together. He managed to hold onto his, but in his off-hand Kanan’s twisted out of his grip. The blade retracted into the hilt as the metal cylinder spun through the air and vanished into the grasses.

“Karabast,” Ezra muttered. “I guess that’s why you need the proper forms for this.”

He took a step towards where the saber had fallen, but before he could get there, the blades of grass twitched. A loth-cat leapt out, looking inquisitively up at him. Gripped between its teeth was Kanan’s unlit lightsaber.

“Hey there,” Ezra said, grinning at the creature. “Did you fetch that for me?” He reached out to take the saber back, but with a sweep of its tail, the cat turned and scampered away.

“Wait, come back!” Ezra chased after the loth-cat, but it flicked his ears at him happily. Its eyes were lit up with the fun of the game.

“Oh man, Kanan’s gonna kill me! ‘This lightsaber is your life, Ezra,’” he said in a poor imitation of his master’s voice, “and I’ve just given his to a loth-cat!”

Ezra took off again, racing after the creature, but it stayed ahead of him easily. Each time he got close it would leap gracefully away before turning its head back to make sure Ezra was still playing. 

He tried every trick he knew; running at it quickly, approaching slowly and then pouncing, even walking away to see if reverse psychology would bring the loth-cat closer to him. Nothing worked. He was dreading facing Kanan, and worse, asking for his help to get the saber back.

Ezra watched the loth-cat happily curling its tail as it looked right back at him, lightsaber firmly grasped in its mouth. He could swear it was grinning at him. He could almost feel the creature’s satisfaction... 

Wait.

What if he tried to connect with it? 

He still wasn’t convinced he could do this, but by this point he was desperate. He closed his eyes, stretched out a hand and emptied his mind, focusing his senses forwards towards the loth-cat. It was smug, pleased that it had won the game to hold onto the strange stick. Ezra used this to form a bond with the creature; they both wanted the stick, and they both loved playing under the open sky. They were friends, right? And now that the game was over, it was okay for the loth-cat to bring the stick back to Ezra. 

He could feel the cat warming to him. It agreed with his logic, and a few moments later Ezra felt soft fur under his outstretched hand. The cat purred, happy to have made a friend, and Ezra opened his eyes and retrieved Kanan’s lightsaber hilt. That hadn’t been so hard. He scratched the loth-at under the chin and smiled at it – maybe it was pretty cute.

He should probably return the lightsaber to Kanan’s room before his master realised it was gone...

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In the cockpit, Kanan sipped his fresh cup of caf as he watched his apprentice through the viewport.

“See, he got it back!” Sat next to him, Hera had her perpetually cold fingers wrapped around her own cup. “I told you you didn’t have to go down there.”

Kanan’s brow remained creased in a disapproving frown. “I’m still going to discipline him for losing it. And for stealing it in the first place!”

“No, dear, that’s a terrible idea,” Hera said, reaching out to place a hand on his shoulder. “The fear of you finding out will do far more to make sure he never does it again.”

Kanan huffed out a sigh. “Maybe you’re right.”

“I always am. And speaking of being right, we really do need to fix the proximity sensor, I think there’s a whole frequency band it doesn’t pick up.”

Hera leaned over to bring up the results of the latest diagnostic scan, and Kanan finally turned away from the viewport to give his captain and the repairs his full attention.

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“Pay up, big guy!” Sabine crowed from her perch on the turret gun’s controls.

Zeb grumbled from the gunner’s seat as he handed over the last blue cookie from the packet. “I still can’t believe you chose to root for the kid.”

“Not for the kid – Kanan’s training,” she said through a mouthful of cookie. “Had to kick in sometime.”

“Hmph. Fair enough.” Zeb glared through the transparisteel bubble to where he could still just about see Ezra, who was now walking back towards the Ghost with two lightsabers in his hands and a loth-cat on his shoulder. “I just wanted to see telling-off he would’ve got if Kanan had found out.”

A cunning look came over Sabine’s face. “Maybe next time we can engineer that...”

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REBELS APPRECIATION WEEK, DAY 5: FAVOURITE ANTAGONIST

Initiating startup sequence...

Primary databank online.

Initialising memory caches...

Pre-loading cache data...

Recovering state from last shutdown...

Previous state restored.

##INFO: 283 drivers have pending updates##

##WARNING: 17 libraries have been deprecated##

##WARNING: 65 components are no longer supported##

Suppressing warnings...

Loading crew list...

CrewList:

- HeraSyndulla::Captain

- KananJarrus::FirstMate

- GarazebOrrelios::CrewPet

- SabineWren::CrewMember

- EzraBridger::Stowaway

##ALERT: Stowaway on board##

Alert dismissed.

Fetching tasks...

Tasks.size: 97

PriorityTasks.size: 3

PriorityTasks loaded into primary databank.

PriorityTasks[1]: Remove stowaway.

Suggested completion method: Airlock[2].

PriorityTasks[2]: Hyperdrive maintenance.

Suggested completion method: Run diagnostic scan.

PriorityTasks[3]: Feed pet.

Suggested completion method: Engine oil poured over space waffles.

Initiating task completion sequence for PriorityTask[1].

##TASK INTERRUPTED##

##INCOMING ORDER##

Source: HeraSyndulla::Captain

Parsing verbal input...

>> Chopper. I need you to run that diagnostic on the

>> hyperdrive, now. And I’ll be checking your databanks

>> later, you’d better not have Ezra still listed as a

>> stowaway. In fact, if you’ve stored anyone incorrectly

>> I’ll make you purge the caf machine’s logs again.

New priority task created: Reassign objects GarazebOrrelios and EzraBridger.

PriorityTasks have changed.

Initiating task completion sequence for PriorityTask[1].

Reassigning objects...

$ CrewList.GarazebOrrelios.reassignObject(::CrewMember)

$ CrewList.EzraBridger.reassignObject(::CrewMember)

CrewList updated.

##INFO: Stowaway has been removed##

PriorityTasks have changed.

Creating new PriorityTask: Health diagnostic for recently acquired CrewMember objects.

Suggested completion method: Probe.

PriorityTasks have changed.

PriorityTasks.size: 2.

Initiating task completion sequence for PriorityTask[1].

Retrieving probe...

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REBELS APPRECIATION WEEK, DAY 6: FAVOURITE DYNAMIC

Hera Syndulla had known Kanan Jarrus for eleven years.

She’d first met him on Gorse. A drifter, a roughneck and a flirt, at first he didn't strike her as the right kind of person to join her cause. But after working with him to stop a moon from being destroyed she realised he was far more than that. When she left, he came with her.

They worked well together, especially once he cleaned up his act. Her work was much easier to achieve with an extra crewmember, not to mention the use she could put his other abilities to. As their team grew, he became the leader they all needed.

She didn’t fully appreciate the space he’d filled in her life until it became a gaping hole. When the Inquisitor took him prisoner, her ship felt empty, even with the rest of her family still safe and on board.

But then he came back.

She was determined never to let something like that happen again. Joining Phoenix Squadron brought new tensions, but they weathered them as a team, as they always did, and came out stronger on the other side. Unfortunately, the Empire was growing stronger too. More Inquisitors put increased pressure on her two Jedi, until finally, they took the decision she’d been afraid of. They left, even if it was unanimously agreed to be in everyone’s best interest.

Nothing was the same after Malachor.

But, as Kanan said to Ezra, he always came back.

Grand Admiral Thrawn posed a new threat, their biggest challenge yet. Evading his traps felt like delaying the inevitable, but they still managed to build their rebellion, and they still managed to help people. Even when star destroyers were battering their base on Atollon, Kanan insisted on leaving to warn Bendu.

But he came back. He came home.

Their missions often took them to different places. Mandalore, Jalindi, Lothal, Yavin. But their crew always regrouped. They always came together again. Not even her capture by the Empire could stop them from reuniting on Lothal.

Then the fuel pod exploded.

This time was different. She didn’t know how she was supposed to continue. Where would her strength come from? Where was her support? Who was there now, to pick her up from her lowest point?

She thought he’d…

He’d said he would…

Where was he?

Then, outside the Jedi Temple, she felt him. Just the lightest of touches, a hand on her shoulder, but it was enough. A reminder that she had everything she needed around her, in her crew and her rebellion and inside of herself. And he hadn’t broken his word.

He always came back.

And she always kept going.

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“Jacen?” Hera called from the cargo hold of the Ghost. “Jacen!”

The ship remained silent around her.

“Zeb? Alex? Anyone in?”

She started to get suspicious. Yes, she was a little early, but school was long since finished. Her son was supposed to be ready and waiting for her to pick him up.

“Jacen? It’s time for shockball practise!” she called again. She was on the brink of heading further into the Ghost to find out why they weren’t listening to her when her ears caught a noise from outside.

“And then what happened? Were there more bandits?”

“No, even worse – pirates!”

She recognised the two voices carrying into the ship immediately. The excited, high-pitched one was Jacen, and the deeper voice was in the middle of a story. She turned to face the pair of them as they came up the ramp, schooling her face into a stern look. It was spoiled slightly as she had to look up – Jacen was sitting on his storyteller’s shoulders.

“Where have you been? You were supposed to be back an hour ago,” she scolded. “Jacen has shockball practise now!”

“And we’re back in time for it! We just wanted to go for a walk, that’s all.”

“Yeah, ‘ma, there’s still time, I just wanted to hear the story!” Jacen piped from his lofty perch.

She could feel her expression softening. They had come back in time, and they both looked so happy, eyes sparkling with the joy of their shared adventure.

“Well, come on and get ready,” she relented, letting the smile take over her face as they came in for a hug.

She should have known better. After all, Kanan always came back.

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REBELS APPRECIATION WEEK, DAY 3: FAVOURITE FIGHT SCENE/DUEL

Kanan was right; the blades were drawn together. Every time solid black came close to blinding blue Sabine had to resist the pull, forcing the Darksaber to follow the path she set for it.

What she was not expecting was how they locked together when the two blades clashed. Then, it was less like directing a beam of energy and more like she was controlling a winding chain, the teeth caught against Kanan’s blade and struggling to be free again.

Energy sparked between them like lightning, in ways Sabine had never seen when Kanan and Ezra duelled with their own lightsabers. She supposed it was because of the Darksaber, something about that pitch-black blade that somehow radiated light nonetheless, its Mandalorian nature in antithesis to its Jedi origin.

But Sabine hadn’t been lying about her own training. Mandalorians used all manner of unconventional weapons when raising the next generation of warriors, and even though the Mandalorians had now abandoned her, her muscles still remembered which motions to take. Combined with Kanan’s own teachings echoing in her ears from the last few days, Sabine knew exactly what she was doing.

“Don’t try,” Ezra had said.

She certainly wasn’t trying. She was winning.

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REBELS APPRECIATION WEEK, DAY 4: FAVOURITE EPISODE

“Nice hiding place, kid.”

“I'd say nice landing, but we were lucky to make it out of that crash with our lives.”

Zeb sniggered. “You still got that meiloorun?”

“Sure do.” Ezra patted his backpack to prove it.

“Then let’s get out of this thing and head to Shadow Site Two.”

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pretchatta on ao3 || writing tag (top picks)

I’m not able to write as much any more but I hope to someday return to my wips folder

ratings: (G)eneral, (T)een, (M)ature, (E)xplicit

fics marked with a * have only been posted on tumblr

rebels:

instructions: how to make tea* (kanan & chopper, G)

life day ghosts (hera & jacen, G)

golden light* (hera/reader!kanan, G)

spectre seven to ghost* (kanan & jacen, G)

all spectre's eve (the ghost crew dress up to go trick-or-treating, G)

the warmth of a moment (ghost crew+wren family, winter family fluff, G)

his worst nightmare (kanan has a nightmare, T)

the final dawn (hera/numa, T)fever relief (kanan/rex/hera, E)

rebels appreciation week (various art and fic pieces)

rebels/kanera:

love languages and laundry* (G)

i saw her tomorrow (kanan/hera, jedi night time travel fix-it, G)

kanan and the underworld (orpheus and eurydice, G)

is this love?* (sharing a bed, G)

pining* (G)

faking it official (not-actually-fake relationship with the whole family, G)

making it official (the wedding prequel, T)

mark of the phoenix (soulmates/soulmarks au, T)

a rude awakening* (T) (explicit version)

hear it in the silence (songfic, T)

the laws of spectre dynamics (modern university au, T)

as if you were a mythical thing (lekku massage, T)

tripping the light fantastic (undercover as married at a fancy event, T)

reflections in a broken mirror (jedi caleb meets pregnant hera for the rebels minibang, T)

caf machine's broken (M)

a thousand lives (inquisitor!kanan for swbb2022, M)

tipping the velvet (sequel to tripping the light fantastic, E)

thinking of you (E)

swoon june (30 romantic prompt fills for kanera, various ratings)

7 standalone fics for kanera week 2021

original trilogy:

the generals (hera & lando, set during rotj, G)

the clone wars:

civil war (obi-wan/satine on the run during the mandalorian civil war, E)

life & death (bo-katan would never forget the night her nephew was born, T)

catharsis (tears of the heart) (obi-wan/satine after onaconda farr's funeral, G)

breakable heaven (aayla/padmé aotc au, T)

unity in the face of destruction (aayla/bly, T)

the mandalorian:

forging (the armorer reflects on the past, G)

sleep, little soldier (din & grogu, G)

chaos engineering (din & grogu, written for the clan of two zine, G)

the bad batch:

wartime traditions (cham/eleni/howzer, T)

coming home (cham/eleni/howzer, cont. from wartime traditions, E)

post-war traditions (cham/eleni/howzer, T)