#wan non

[ascalonsmercy]

9/08: SHED.

verb: (of a reptile, insect, etc.) allow (its skin or shell) to come off, to be replaced by another one that has grown underneath.

rating: g

characters: wan non, chanduciel de dansereau, euphemie de dansereau, prince haldrath (mentioned)

tags: oofie parenting 101, the dragonblooded heritage (& more) is showing & it jumpscared oofie, & nonnie is being herself (being no help at all)

summary: what a way to ruin a splendid morning. 

wordcount: 413

“Are you sure it won’t peel off?”

“I said no such thing.” Nonnie huffed, eyeing the toddler who seemed entirely oblivious to the distress that wrought terror into his mother’s lovely features. 

“I’ve been in a human body for less than a—” She paused, and sighed a beat after the boy cooed.

“...less than enough time to figure out how exactly man takes track of it!” Euphemie scowled as her manicured fingers attempted to make sense of what she could only describe as scales shedding from her darling boy’s cheeks. The lump in her neck bobbed as she swallowed in trepidation—dead, transparent skin—her boy’s skin—is on her fingers and she doesn’t know why. 

That’s a lie. She thinks she knows why but she can’t be sure—for once she hopes her uncertainty will be a good thing.

“Anyway. He seems to be ok. For now.” “And we don’t know how long that lasts!” 

“You’re talking to the wrong person.” Nonnie shrugged, and by reflex, almost clapped her hands and motioned for the little one to come closer—but she restrained herself at the moment, instead keeping her arms crossed atop the back of the chair from where she sat looking at the lady and lordling of the manor. The sun had only begun to rise and they had only found themselves in this questionably dire situation during breakfast time, and this sort of discord was not the kind Nonnie wished to begin her day with.

“I’ll have to talk to someone. Anyone—” She muttered, gathering the boy in her arms.

“That fellow Marcelloix. O-or—”

“Why not Dou?” She bit her lip, and tasted the tinge of rolanberry from the blossoming pink gloss she’d applied just a bell earlier.

“She…must be occupied.” “Not occupied enough for an emergency I’m sure.”

A pregnant pause fell between the two women, and somehow being fixated on Chanduciel’s bubbly smile made it worse. Years had passed since Douceline’s fateful return yet Euphemie had never truly wriggled out of the overreaching spotlight that her younger twin had made for herself—accidentally or not, something about it had been meant to happen, and the more she had discovered in the years following just pressed the knife deeper into the wound, for the more it became clear to all of them how fate must have played a hand in this somehow,

“I’ll give her a call.” Her free hand flew to the linkpearl tucked in her ear, but not without a begrudging—but not defeated—sigh.

[jedi-starbird]

Palpatine: My boy, Master Kenobi is lying to you!

Anakin: ?...yeah? He does that? Lying is Obi-Wan's favourite sport. Bant told me that he was dropped on his head by Master Qui-Gon when he was a child and Master Qui-Gon was really tall, so the fall shook loose some things in his brain and now Obi-Wan is allergic to giving straight answers. It took me 3 years to figure out his favourite colour. and his birthday. 5 to figure out that he's allergic to shellfish. I once told a restaurant that Obi-Wan can't have shrimp and he told me to "stop giving information to the enemy". I've made a game of it really.

Palpatine: *muttering under his breath* ok try using shrimp next time

Anakin: what?

Palpatine: Nothing!

[tomeebear]

julian and ding dong doing literally anything I love them

standing in a white void, got it

[tennessoui]

thinking about a soulmate canon au where you find your soulmate via touch and the jedi order is a bit more pious and has a very respectful no touching culture that obi-wan absolutely abides by. meanwhile anakin is raised on tatooine before coming to the temple and he's really used to touch, and it drives him a little insane, that no one touches him casually in the temple but he learns to abide by it as well and follow his master's example

only for him to fall head over heels for padmé as soon as they touch in aotc and he thinks his reactions to her are due to them being soulmates so they get married because padmé doesn't really know what finding her soulmate feels like either, but anakin's touch and attention feels good (and maybe he unintentionally uses the Force to convince her) so they must be soulmates

meanwhile obi-wan saved his padawan's life when he was like sixteen and was knocked unconscious and tossed into an ocean or something so obi-wan gives him mouth to mouth to resuscitate him---and discovers instantly that they're soulmates....but anakin's out cold and doesn't feel it so obi-wan's left alone with the realization that he's some kind of monster, being the soulmate of a child and anakin can never ever ever know.

so canon happens as canon does but with obi-wan knowing and keeping this secret to himself and carefully making sure he never touches anakin while anakin gets all of his touches from his wife and obi-wan watches from afar knowing he can never tell anakin or anyone else

but palpatine works it out and definitely tells anakin once he's Fallen and killed his wife and also been barbecued (by his soulmate), which makes vader obsess with finding obi-wan (more than he is in canon)

and he finally captures him and has the acolytes chain him up in mustafar. vader visits and asks if obi-wan cut off his arms so he couldn't touch him and know, and it's obi-wan's worst fear and biggest regret that anakin finds out they're soulmates, but now he has no control over the situation. not as vader approaches, not as he takes off his helmet, not as vader leans close and brushes what remains of his lips against obi-wan's cheek

and it feels just as good and right and perfect as it did the first and only time they touched, except now obi-wan isn't sure who the monster is. maybe it's both of them

[currentlyonstandbi]

[muffinlance]

Woo got Linux working! On a related note I have gotten over any fear of breaking things through the command line and also can now roll back to an earlier system backup. Yes those are related. In my defense, breaking things in interesting ways is a great way to figure out what's actually going wrong.

[radmule]

Went to an early screening of Nosferatu yesterday, and couldn't stop grinning when in the adverts for upcoming films appeared "directed by Leigh Whannell" and "produced by James Wan" :)

[questforgalas]

The High Republic series confirmed that part of a Jedi youngling’s day in the creche are midday naps on little nap mats, and now the image of all our faves in youngling form curled up on the nap mat is living rent free in my head

[unreachablevoice]

NO HOME ANIME PREMIERED TODAY???? AND IT IS IN LAFTEL WHICH IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN SOUTH KOREA???? AND I AM NOT FROM SOUTH KOREA??????? ALSO VPNS ARE NOT FREE ANYMORE SO I CAN'T??????? KWHEGEHWHW I HATE Y'ALL

[separatist-apologist]

The most popular ships in the fandom are all canon, het ships. Can we stop acting like people shipping outside of those preferences are somehow erasing you?

[arbre-mes-espaces]

Anakin: Je vais vous tuer!

Obi-Wan: What did you just say?

Anakin: I enjoy learning from you.

Obi-Wan, unsure: I hope so—

Anakin: Je te déteste.

[sapphicsparkles]

“Well, I suppose you do come from a long line of non-traditional Jedi…”

[makedonsgriva]

THESE FUCKING WONTONS ARE GOING TO KILL ME

[tennessoui]

'do you specifically like former padawans? i think i could offer mine, she’s adventurous, she’d wear a wig if we asked nicely. ' - lolllllllllll

quinlan, earnest: she was never much of an actor but maybe like we could get mace windu to act out skywalker's lines, you know, real singing in the rain type shit, so it feels natural

obi-wan, aghast and mortified in some upper levels bar: please just let me die

quinlan, matter of fact: not without trying everything else first

[macaroni-stars]

Do you ever think about the fact that Han said the first "May the Force be with you." in the franchise, and he said it to Luke? Because I do...

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Obsessed with the way Padme was right that there was still good in Anakin but she was wrong to try to reach him then; he killed her.

Obi Wan was wrong that Anakin was dead and gone, but he was right to walk away; he lived to protect and guide Luke and Leia.