#reconstructrambles

[reconstructwriter]

⭐!!! for the director's cut ask game

Thank you @s-c-g-s-c-g 😊 Once more such trust my decision so…

I’ve recently returned to my published work ‘The Clone Fuckability Index’ which contains no actual on-screen fucking. One reviewer said it was the Ace-est thing they ever read. Which I take as a high compliment because I am very ace 😉

Anyway that fic’s first shitty rough draft was spawned years ago in the dawn ages of my Star Wars obsession. I’d read a couple of fics on the premises of ‘all clones attracted to Obi Wan’, who was at the time my one and shining blorbo so I gobbled those fics down like a kid with chocolate cake, wanted more and found myself with the harrowing prospect of having to Write My Own.

Which didn’t get too far beyond a single chapter of ‘Obi Wan shows up on Kamino and all the clones go ‘oh no, he’s hot!’ I didn’t really have anything more so I shoved the story into a document of shitty rough drafts that didn’t yet warrant being a WIP’.

But it was an idea I kept returning to, re-writing and occasionally adding more. As I grew deeper into Star Wars and added Cody, Fox, even Alpha-17 to my blorbos I fleshed out the clone PoV’s. As I got into Ferus I added the blurb about Ferus seeing all the clones and going ‘oh no, they’re ALL hot!’ because it was funny.

And then came upon the concept of Sithspawn clones. The concept ate my brain and spat out an actual reason for clones to collectively have a crush on not just Obi Wan but all Jedi (I had a lot of Jedi blorbos). Also the thought of the Sith foolishly disregarding beta testing and scientific procedures and therefore getting clones who want to fuck Jedi instead of kill Jedi was hilarious! This also led to, dare I say it, a plot for the Clones would need to figure out why they’re all hot for Jedi this can’t be normal right?

Thus I came to the ridiculous yet reasonable conclusion that the clones figure out Palpatine is a Sith because he’s just that unfuckable. It makes sense in story (even if it didn’t I’d have to add it in). The chapters finally flowed, a sub-plot of ‘wtf is gender’ developed to spark yet more joy.

A long and loving review had me coming back to the story and rereading it and realizing how bare it was of scenery details. So I’ve gone back and started filling in those details, fleshing out a few characters and anchoring people in place. I’m hoping to eventually post it again, this time with more detail but either way if I could have one contribution to the Star Wars fandom this would be it 😊

[reconstructwriter]

I can't pull it up because AO3 is down, but

⭐ Tell me more about what drew you to write about Jaster Mereel!

@beskad Ohhhh! Yes let me ramble about my blorbo'lor XD

Enemies to Lovers and Foe-Yay are some of my favorite tropes but when I came to Star Wars I hit a stumbling block. Sith/Jedi pairings usually felt too spicy for me…unless I’m specifically in the mood for a toxic garbage pairing. Clone/Jedi pairings got me rabid into Star Wars and from there Mandalorian/Jedi pairings were a natural progression. Jaster kept popping up and the more I learned about him and got used to him in fanfic, the more I loved him and the more fitting he seemed paired with a Jedi. He strikes me as nerdy enough to research Jedi, noble enough to pair with a Jedi ye big moral conflict arising but just ruthless enough to be the enemy in ‘enemies to lovers’ or the foe in Foe-Yay. Given Jaster taught Jango he's also probably competent enough to at least take a Jedi bounty on his own. Whether or not he’d be successful without said Jedi’s cooperation? Well, maybe.

Anyway I've read enough fanfic about him (even if I still haven’t read his comics!) that he’s become one of my precious blorbos, but in almost all Jaster/Jedi fic, he’s the dominate partner. Mandalorians in general are. Which I like just fine but sometimes I see a trope repeated enough I get the itch to flip it around. Jaster, as my all-around go-to for Jedi pairings seemed a natural PoV for the Hearthfire series. Which started as a bunch of bullet points of scene summaries – all from Jaster’s PoV.

And wow was his point of view so much fun! I think Sifo-Dyas’ shenanigans showed best through his eyes. I enjoyed fleshing out his thoughts with little tid-bits (and drawing from Maori culture doing so) and adding in hints about my Mandalorian headcanons while doing so. I’ve already got several WIPs in files I’ve poked at every so often so hopefully this won’t be the last I’ll share of him 😊

[reconstructwriter]

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@charmwasjess ah an open-ended ask 😊 Given the recent holidays I’m in the mood to yammer about “A Life Day Lament”, my Star Wars spin on the Christmas Carol. It was my first *checks ao3* no my second story in the Star Wars fandom because I am compelled to write a spin-off of Christmas Carol in every single fandom I get into.

(My preemptive apologies to The Untamed/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation fandom)

Anyway I was very new to Star Wars – hadn’t watched any of the movies in decades, no tcw (2003 or 2008), no new shows, hadn’t even seen that infamously wretched holiday special (I had to look up what Life Day was, blissfully ignorant of the terrible movie intertwined therein). Every bit of Star Wars stuff in that fanfic was cannibalized from those I read before or snagged from brief, repeated checks of Wookiepedia. And wow did that fic not go at all like I wanted to.

Initially Anakin/Darth Vader was my Scrooge. He was the main bad guy, lots of his associates fit various Christmas Carol roles. Shmi made for an amazing twist on a ‘business partner’ bound not by her own sins but by those of her son committed in her name (bummed that I never included that). Qui Gon made for a too-perfect Ghost of Christmas Present (except I needed him to be in the past), Rex in Bob Cratchit’s place…

But I stalled out early on. Anakin just isn’t very Scroog-ey. Asshole yes. Crosser of Moral Event Horizons, sure. But Scrooge specifically? He hadn’t an aristocratic bone in his body, his evilness leaned towards hiding horrors behind an open personality, many of his associates were inconveniently alive, etc. I needed someone cold, someone lonely, someone who was ‘solitary as an oyster’, someone who had already murdered most/all their loved ones. The more I typed on this story the harder the words fought me, the more stuff I had to look up, the more I struggled to merge Anakin’s narrative with Scrooge’s into something resembling coherency. And I failed. I couldn’t write this I didn’t know enough yet.

Hey, what about this…whatshisname? The Count Dooky guy.

On a whim I looked this guy up on Wookiepedia and whoo boy! Deceased partner (friend? Lover?) Check. And the dude who helped create the clones. I gave Sifo-Dyas delightfully creepy chains made of the bones of clones who’d been decommissioned. Dooku/Darth Tyrannus also fits the Scrooge personality almost to a T – formerly a nice guy driven by fear and greed towards his current horrible self, aloof, aristocratic, incredibly lonely having conveniently murdered most of his loved ones. This gave me a plethora of ghosts to choose from and let me twist the knife a little further with each one! Dooku also died just before the rise of the Empire and at Anakin’s hands which made Darth Vader an utterly phenomenal ghost of Life Day future for him.

So I scrapped something like 10-20k words, read through the OG Christmas Carol and started again. The words leapt to my fingers and I was (and still am) pretty proud of how this turned out. Knowing what I know now I’d have put a canon clone as Tiny Tim, not an OC and given them a bigger role but otherwise I think my fic turned out well.

And that was the start of Dooku sticking his big stupid nose into my stories.