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#Padawan Kitsune
sarcastic-sketches · 10 months
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TCW Snapshots: Kitsune Ed. Zygerria
Back on my Kitsune AU bullshit and I have considered various scenes that take place during the Clone Wars - and have written tons of dialogue for - but I have some favourites. I’ve already covered Umbara and the Zillo Beast but this one covers the Zygerria Arc because oh boy would that play very differently.
Anakin cannot play the part of the slaver, not with those very visible ears and tails that mark him for what he is - supposedly the last Kitsune in the Galaxy - his price tag with be practically unnamable. Sure, he could play the slaver but there’s no way the Queen would listen to him as one, she would just see his rarity and value. Anakin would know this. He would have to be the bait. He has to face that long buried trauma again and play the role of the slave. It’s fine, he says to himself, it’s just a role. He can handle it.
There’s nothing they could use to trap him that would keep him for long.
Nobody is happy about this and everyone knows that’s gonna have consequences of the mental kind but they can’t just leave the Togruta to their fate. Plus, the only other likely alternative is the Togruta child in their midst. A Jedi’s duty is to others before themselves...
But this leaves the part of the slaver open. Ahsoka can’t do it, for the aforementioned reasons. Rex is briefly considered but ultimately decided to also not be an option because he’s not trained as a negotiator, he can’t bluff his way through this. Privately, he also doesn’t think at this point in the timeline that he would be able to just hand over his General like he were an item to barter with. The mission always comes first and all that but the guy has realised he’s in love with Skywalker for over a year now, there would be tells he could not control. But you know who can? Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan who is Anakin’s teacher, his best friend, who is called ‘Master’ by Anakin for an entirely different reason. He realises just how much trust Anakin is placing in him to take on this role, but Anakin tells him that he refuses to call Obi-Wan ‘Master’ for the entire charade - refuses to tarnish the word he has come to accept as a term of respect - and Obi-Wan is grateful for that. It would fuck them both up once this was all over if he did.
Rex and Ahsoka are now on infiltration duty and they are the ones who get caught later to be showcased in the slave auction arena.
So you’ve got Rex and Ahsoka about to be made examples of, with Obi-Wan forced to whip them. Except, he clearly hesitates; he knows he has to do this for the ruse but this was NOT discussed as a possibility beforehand. Rex can take it, they both know this and he signals as such, but Ahsoka is a child, their padawan. Anakin consented to be put in the position he’s in for the plan, but not Ahsoka. 
Obi-Wan doesn’t get to make the choice in the end.
Anakin has had enough. It’s not pretty. Ankin is flying into a Full Kitsune mode fuelled rage right in the middle of the arena, snapping Ahsoka’s and Rex’s chains free before taking out the guards. Obi-Wan tries to reach out to him, to calm him down but the guards are closing in and now Rex is getting tasered. The lack of control, being enslaved again (just the mindset he’s put himself back into alone), and seeing the people he cares about most having to hurt each other have eaten through Anakin’s remaining calm and patience over the situation. The electro whips are doing bugger all to a Kitsune the size of an Acklay.
But then he stops. Stops in horror because the Queen has got a guard with a knife to Ahsoka’s throat in all the chaos.
Queen: If the legends are true, Kitsune were meant to be very protective of their own Queen: You clearly care for this one. I wonder, what would you be willing to do to keep her safe? Queen: If you’re good, she won’t be harmed. 
In the ensuing stand-off, Obi-Wan manages to grab Rex and high tail it out of there. There’s nothing he can do for Ahsoka or Anakin at that moment and they have a mission to finish. The risk to Anakin physically right now is very low, given he’s shown what he’s capable of, but the risk to his sanity is very high. Especially using Ahsoka as a bargaining chip. Initially, the Queen tries to put her in the cage, like she does in canon, but this causes Anakin to be less than 100% compliant given his stress (and therefore constant form changes) so the Queen gets crafty.
Queen: I am aware there’s very little I can do to you to get you to behave. I know better than to try and force your compliance like the others but that girl? You react as if she’s your cub. Queen: As a token of my good will, I will give her to you unharmed and in return you will do exactly as I say. Break this simple rule and I will kill her and should she be found to misbehave… Queen: Then the consequences will be on you.
She’s effectively got them both trapped. As long as Anakin does what she wants, Ahsoka can stay in the palace unharmed. As long as Ahsoka behaves, Anakin won’t be hurt in her stead.
It seems like a kinder gesture than the Queen is known for, but it’s only surface level. If he tries to kill the Queen or hurt her in any way, the guards will activate Ahsoka’s shock collar and kill her without hesitation. He can’t kill them all at once.
They get an additional reason to play by the rules, when Obi-Wan manages to pay them a visit in secret. He’s not best friends with a Shadow for nothing. If they can get info about where the other Togruta are being kept from the other slaves then Obi-Wan and Rex can deal with that before coming back to rescue them.
Cue Anakin being torn between obeying to the letter out of worry that Ahsoka will be hurt or taken away from him if he acts out AND wanting to rebel against authority and choose the path of Malicious Compliance just to show how unhappy he is about this entire situation. All while trying to get the info Obi-Wan needs to complete the mission - that was why he was here to begin with after all. 
The Queen can’t really pick a single thing she wants Anakin to do. Either act as her bodyguard or have him shapeshift into Smol Fox so she can have him on her lap like some exotic pet. He has to fight to not sink his claws into her legs.
Dooku eventually turns up and fucks up the Queen’s set up, thereby allowing Anakin and Ahsoka to get the co-ords to Kadavo in the ensuing chaos, which in turns allows Obi-Wan to send out a message to the Council about where the Togruta are. Master Plo goes to Kadavo and Obi-Wan and Rex blow their cover to get Anakin and Ahsoka out. With Dooku here there’s no need for subterfuge anymore. Anakin is very close to making the decision to level the entire palace on his way out but Rex manages to calm him down, pointing out that it isn’t just slavers in there. Not to mention what it would do to his psyche on top of everything else.
Anakin is just too powerful at this point, with five tails his anger could rip apart the very ground he’s stood on. He can’t afford to give in because the destruction would be too broad, there’s no control to that. But Rex? His anger is just enough to shoot someone's head clean off at over 500 yards. After all, he’s not a Jedi.
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tennessoui · 2 years
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I’m here to pepper your inbox with some ideas! Hope this can cheer you up?
1: Either Anakin or Obi-Wan has kitsune heritage and the other one sometimes take a nap on their really fluffy tails. The mass of nine tails is basically a bed.
2: Established Obikin are dance instructors responsible for different lessons. Half their students sign up to ogle them and immediately backed out after the first class, because those two are serious about teaching this.
3: Percy Jackson AU. Just a Hephaestus kid Anakin trying to impress Athena child Obi-Wan.
4: A pair of Obikin has to bump around the multiverse like a pair of really exasperated ping-pong ball, having to save at least five pairs of other Obikins in a week.
oh bless thank you so much i love all these so so so so much let's see.
idk im getting massive reverse master/padawan vibes from this, because anakin as a master to young obi-wan would want to provide for him every way possible, up to being a literal bed for him to rest on. bonus points for careful grooming and feral hissing at anyone trying to disturb them. nice knowing you to the person who comes in and accidentally wakes obi-wan up.
oooo i've never thought of them as dance instructors before, but i do love it. bonus points if they're constantly using each other for their partners, even if the other does not know the first thing about the dance they're pulled into. it's just an excuse to press together. when obi-wan uses someone else to demonstrate a specific section of legwork, anakin gets very stroppy about it (practically hangs a bedsheet that says 'welcome home cheater' outside their shared apartment)
this is perfect greek god parentage in my mind tbh. anakin builds so many cool trinkets and obi-wan is secretly impressed with them all but in his mind even love deserves a battle strategy so he doesn't want to give ground and admit how nice he finds anakin's inventions. but he loves and keeps them all and offers notes and new ideas in return and anakin is even more in love
oh!! i think i've written something about this before, but it was a random ask and nothing more. i love it. only obikin can save obikin from obikin. moron4moron4moron4moron.
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Enjoy a sketch dump. From first to last we have: my new 501st kiddo named Scooter, Cadet Volt, expression and scar experimentation with Kit, and a confused bedhead Krayt. 
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inkognito97 · 6 years
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So in the baby kitsune au can we have obiwan randomly find a fox kit in the temple gardens that’s injured with him understanding it and taking it to quigon because quigon is a bleeding heart to animals?
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Happily did Obi-Wan share his lunch with the Mon Calamari girl called Bant. She was still an Initiate, even though she was about his age. And since she was no ones Padawan, there was no one making her sandwiches before she left. 
“Thank you,” mumbled the shy girl. She and Obi-Wan and grown very close. They were both different, in their own way. 
The young kitsune just smiled reassuringly at his female friend and bit into his half of the sandwich. A moan of pleasure escaped him and he closed his eyes so that he was able to focus more on the taste. His Daddy truly made the most tasty things in the entire universe, he was absolutely sure about it. 
Little did Obi-Wan know that his Master was aware that he was sharing his meal, which is why he put even more effort into it, than he already did.
The ginger haired Padawan was about to take another bite, but he froze mit-bite, with his mouth hanging open, just in front of the bread.
“Obi?” Bant asked. She wore a confused expression on her features.
“Did you hear that too?” Obi-Wan wanted to know. He could have sworn that he had heard someone calling out for help just now.
“No…” replied the female hesitantly. Her brows were furrowed in concentration and for a long moment, the two of them were quiet, listening to any kind of sound. Obi-Wan was just about to give it up, when the cry for help sounded again, much more clearly than the first time.
The young fox demon jumped to his feet immediately. “There it was again… I think someone is in trouble,” he looked to his confused friend. “Come.”
The Mon Calamari did not need to be told twice. There was just no way that she would stay behind all on her own, not when the danger existed that Bruck Chun was lingering nearby. Ever since Qui-Gon Jinn had had a long ‘talk’ with him, the white haired Initiate had actually been very friendly to Obi-Wan. But every time the ginger haired male was not present, he would gladly pick on poor Bant and she had no idea, how to defend herself. Usually it was always Obi-Wan sticking up for her. He was her hero.
A hiss escaped Obi-Wan’s lips, as a small brunch cut open the pale skin of his face. He could feel a drop of blood running down his face, but he otherwise ignored it. It was nothing major or life-threatening, his quest to find the source for the strange noises, was more important. Besides, his Daddy would make it better soon enough anyway. 
A gasp escaped the female Mon Calamari. She had found an easier path through bushes and plants and she had reached their destination first.
“Bant? What is it?”
“It’s… it’s a fox,” she looked up at him in expectation, “Can you understand it?” The Mon Calamari knew about his secret, Obi-Wan had felt bad to have it, after she had wanted to become his friend. It was rather complicated.
“Let me see,” said Obi-Wan. He too had arrived at his friend’s side and he did not need to talk to the small kit, for it was very small, to know that it was hurt. It was also underfed, but that was another matter altogether.
“She is hurt,” said Obi-Wan.
Bant blinked. “What are we going to do with her now? Should we bring her into the healer’s wing?”
Obi-Wan shook his head. “That is not a good idea, Master Che would not be pleased.” She had been more than furious, when Qui-Gon had brought a relatively rare bird with him into the healer’s wing, it was not an experience that Obi-Wan wanted to repeat.
“Do you have a better idea,” she sounded curious.
The ginger haired Jedi in training hummed in thought. His mind was running to find a possible solution, one that would be beneficial for everybody. “I could… I could take him to my Daddy,” he suggested. It seemed like the perfect idea, his Daddy loved animals over almost everything else. It was like he, Obi-Wan, had been found and adopted too, after all.
“That’s it,” exclaimed Bant happily, there was a huge grin on her features. “Should I carry him?”
Obi-Wan looked down at the injured kit, her brown eyes were calculating and looking up at him. “We will help you. My friend will carry you,” he explained to the frightened kit, knowing that Bant would not understand a single thing. The effect was immediate. The small kit began to slowly relax and it did not even tense, when the young Mon Calamari picker her up.
“Now, don’t jostle her too much,” Obi-Wan warned.
“I’ll be careful,” promised Bant and together, they went out in search for a certain long haired Jedi Master…
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sassy-dreamer · 7 years
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Qui-Gon and kitsune!Obi-Wan, from @inkognito97‘s lovely kitsune au!
As thanks for your fantastic writing and for sharing it with us, hope you like it <3
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sarcastic-sketches · 1 year
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Lap Fox
Still on my Kitsune!Anakin AU bullshit and I keep coming back to the idea that Anakin - as a smol fox - would just keep wiggling his way into either Obi-Wan's lap or under his arms somehow. Squeezing in beside him when his Master is sat in a chair, feet sticking out because he can’t fit them under him, or making himself comfortable on Obi-Wan. He wants attention and he will be getting it.
Obi-Wan at first is a little frazzled over what to do with an incredibly wriggly and energetic Kitsune, who can be picked up like a handbag, but eventually he just accepts the fuzzy hot water bottle muscling into his space. Anakin isn’t actually being that intrusive, or trying to get in the way of what he was doing, and at least he stays still once he’s settled down. Plus, it’s rather nice to know that despite the turbulent end to their Master-Padawan relationship Anakin still wants to hang out with his old Master. It helps Obi-Wan feel less like he’s messed up somehow with raising Anakin.
He still feels comfortable enough to annoy Obi-Wan.
It also highlights for Anakin how much more willing people are to initiate physical contact when you are small and fluffy. Or large and fluffy as time goes on. At first he wonders if it's deceptive to get the contact he wants from people as long as he's in fox form but everyone knows it's him, they choose to reciprocate. It's just not as socially acceptable for a full grown adult to lounge over people’s laps and get head pats. So fox form it is.
The transformation has given him a loophole and he's going to use it.
(Star Wars AU Masterpost)
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sarcastic-sketches · 2 years
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Order 66 Aftermath
Context for the Kitsune!Anakin AU here and a direct continuation of this.
Order 66 has kicked off and the Jedi are in chaos, along with the rest of the Galaxy. Meanwhile, Padme has been pregnant with Luke and Leia for the past few months.
Despite the casual FWB relationship she had with Anakin - and the emphasis both of them put on being safe with the physical side of it - Force Fated Twins are gonna happen whether you like it or not. Whoops. Padme was not that worried about it when she found out and decided she would like to keep them, especially as they were with a friend she was still in regular contact with. She’s more than financially stable and has a good support network. Anakin was slightly more worried about it because he’s now got a thing for Rex he was intending to commit to after the war and this complicates matters but he’s gotta be upfront about it. Also, all those times he wondered about what it would be like having his own children come back full force.
Rex, however, has no prior expectations of relationships or the implications of having sex within said relationships so he has a complete non-reaction to the news other than how his General feels about it.
Rex: Is this Congratulations or Condolences sort of news? Anakin: Well that answers my next question. Anakin: I’m happy about it Rex: Oh, then Congratulations!
Padme still never goes to see a doctor (only had droids) because she’s worried the parentage would have become obvious. She’s picturing them randomly showing up with tiny little fox ears or tails on a scan and people to be like ‘hmm, wonder who that could have come from?’.
Which is something Obi-Wan picks up on when he comes back to Coruscant after everything and does the rounds to try and find out what the fuck happened. Only to encounter Padme who is still on Coruscant despite everything with a very confused R2. I think Obi-Wan probably knew about the pregnancy too because it genuinely was an accident despite both parties trying to be careful and Jedi having accidental kids cannot be unheard of. So, Obi-Wan’s less ‘I’m so sorry’ about the whole thing and more ‘how are you doing?’ before he then fucks off to find Anakin. Taking R2 with him.
He’s still gonna side-eye his former Padawan hard for why he didn’t just ask to bring Padme to the Temple for a check up. Any child of his would undoubtedly be force-sensitive.
Anakin: She said she was handling it!
Padme retreats to Naboo in preparation to have the babies because yikes the Republic just succumbed into an Empire.
Meanwhile, Anakin has been playing eeny meeny miny mo with which planet to hide out on since he’s travelling with a pack of vulnerable children when Obi-Wan finds him. Given the lack of Skywalker Twins to commandeer his attention in this universe, he teams up with Anakin who feels so much better that the kids now have a Jedi Master because holy shit. Playing with the younglings in the Creche is one thing, being the designated adult is very different. It’s nothing like being a General or a Teacher to Ahsoka..
I’m not actually sure where they go to be honest. Maybe Florrum so Obi-Wan can bully Hondo into keeping them safe because that sounds hysterical. Probably Tatooine though because it’s literally the last place Sidious would expect Anakin to run to and he doesn’t think Anakin would attempt a double bluff. Also Anakin wants to see his mother, sue him.
Owen and Beru are surprised to say the least when not one but two fully grown Jedi tumble out of the massive ship that’s just parked outside their farm. Then they see all the displaced children.
Owen: We are not keeping them all Beru: Not all of them.
She is absolutely going to be adopting at least one though and Owen cannot stop her. Especially not when she has Shmi as back up. Cliegg had died sometime after the events of AotC but Shmi had already grown to deeply care for Owen and by extension Beru so she stayed. They are delighted to hear that there is about to be a new baby Skywalker soon though.
Shmi: I hope you can bring them here. I’d like to see them. Anakin: Mother, of course! Shmi: I can’t believe I’m going to be a grandmother… Anakin: How do you think I feel?!
There’s probably a joke in there about Anakin at least having a reasonable expectation of children happening so it’s not too much of a shock. Compared to y’know, immaculate conception out of fucking nowhere. He is slightly mollified by this, but then they can both celebrate the fact that this child is about to be born free and he’s going to do his damnedest to keep it that way.
Anakin tries not to make it obvious that he's trying to find Rex and Ahsoka because he knows what Obi-Wan will say but he's not subtle and the kids are nosy and talk loud. But Obi-Wan is totally on board with locating them and trying to see if they can reverse Rex's conditioning if he's still alive. Anakin does not almost throw up at that.
They get lucky though when Ahsoka pings through their bond again and they manage to slice the last known coordinates of the Resolute. It's a tracking mission from there and all the younglings are very eager to help out and make it into a lesson of sorts. They are a little hesitant about looking for a clone after what they faced in the Temple but they are assured by Obi-Wan that they will be safe. They will try to save Rex if they can but he will not let any of them come to harm for his sake.
Anakin is… less sure. Sure he dealt with the clones from his 501st in the Temple before but this is Rex. His Rex.
Then again, if Rex tried to harm any of the kids, Anakin would know it was no longer him in there. And these are His Kids. In the end, Anakin never has to find out how he'd react because Rex finds them and saves them from Bounty Hunters.
I'm just picturing The Team stopping on some planet to pick up supplies and news. Anakin has taken some of the younglings with him into town because they're getting cabin fever and they're trying to be low key. Robes on, hoods up, no lightsabers, and keeping to the edges but Anakin is still highly recognisable (those tails are hard to hide and he still can’t shapeshift them out fully). They get the attention of prowling Bounty Hunters who have a list of unaccounted for Jedi and Anakin's trying to keep himself between them and the kids. Teeth and claws out. Only for a shot to come out of nowhere, nailing one of the Hunters and spooking the other into running. A clone comes out of the dark. A clone with blue painted Jaig Eyes on their helmet.
Rex had been on planet searching for rumours of escaped Jedi that he could then put in touch with Ahsoka, and was planning to steal the Bounty Hunters list. Until he saw who they had cornered. He's not about to look a gift horse in the mouth if the Galaxy just wants to hand him back his General. Who is alive.
Anakin just rips that helmet off and then there’s crying and a lot of kissing before they get back to the ship.
This of course then puts everyone back in contact with Ahsoka. There’s more crying. Everything has gone to hell in a handbasket but the crew is back together (minus Cody, I’m sorry lad, we’ll get you back) and they’re all doing OK. Plus, Anakin managed to save a fraction of the Jedi Order.
A call comes for them a few days later from Bail on the Tantive IV with a set of coordinates. Padme has gone into labour. Ahsoka leads the way immediately, since Anakin is about to be responsible for two more kids and hot damn does she wanna be there for that.
Padme has the babies - surprise twins! - and at first they both seem human, until one of them sneezes and suddenly there’s a different pair of ears on their head (if you’ve ever seen Wolf Children, yeah it’s like that). They are both also incredibly bright in the Force.
Then Padme is handing them off to Anakin.
She can't have two obviously force sensitive children with her on Naboo when it’s the homeplanet of the newly self-titled Galactic Emperor. Especially not Anakin's kids - the former target of said Galactic Emperor - with parentage that obvious. She, Bail, and Mon Mothma are about to build a Rebellion. He can stay with them at the base of operations they are establishing when not in the Senate and help if he wants or he can go into hiding with the twins. Plus, he's had a lot of experience with children because of all the time he spent in the creche. He’ll be fine.
He chooses to stay and help form a Rebellion. Him, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Rex, the little twins. Plus a dozen or so young Jedi.
Rex is suddenly a dad. He takes it rather well, even if he keeps referring to them as ‘tubies’.
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sarcastic-sketches · 2 years
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More Kitsune Thots
This AU was originally going to be Anakin being a bit of a slut throughout the galaxy but then Captain Rex happened. Ah. Anakin committed hard with the whole ‘I’ll wait for you/the war to be over’ once they both clocked how they felt for each other and couldn’t do anything about it.
So, instead I have more thots on how Anakin's handling the Kitsune transformation and some world building. tl:dr Anakin gets transformed by a Force Temple to reflect the strength of his force connection right before the events of AotC and this has a lot of run on consequences.
To the Jedi, Kitsune are considered beings of myth but there's a basis for them having actually existed once upon a time as extensions of the Force. Beings whose existence were so tightly woven within it that they were deemed embodiments or spirits of the Force itself, with Lightside and Darkside variants. So to have the highly debated Chosen One turned into this Fox Spirit? Yeah, it raises several eyebrows and quite a few Masters begin to panic because oh shit. This lends some credible weight to the argument of the Prophecy. While others are like, maybe the ‘missing father’ was actually just a Kitsune that’s been hiding in human form that the mother didn’t want to talk about.
They do not mention this to Anakin.
His genetics/biology no longer make the Healers want to cry because he’s not half-human and half-midichlorians anymore. The identification system just straight up returns with ??? on his species markers because it hasn’t got a clue. Kitsune markers were not in the system before. They are now.
They do mention this to Anakin. Along with what they suspect might be new food intolerances.
One of the first things Anakin notices about his new form is his enhanced sense of smell and hearing. Initially, very distracting as he tries to focus in the Force but he gets used to tuning it out like he did with his regular senses before. But, Ahsoka notices. Ahsoka who is a predator species and fully coming to terms with the fact that her new Master is also, basically, a predator species. Even if he’s the only one of his kind that they know of.
It takes a little bit of encouragement for Anakin to get the memo that his new Padawan wants to go hunting with him but once he realises he’s all for it. His full fox form with three tails is about the size of a Great Dane so he isn’t massive yet and doesn’t overshadow her during their hunt. It’s a nice little bonding experience for them. It comes at the cost of freaking out some shinies when they return with prey but free meat is free meat.
The next thing Snips and Skyguy work on is how Anakin can still wield his lightsaber while in full fox form. He doesn’t have opposable thumbs so he can’t hold it with his paws and his tails are not prehensile enough to swing it around either. The solution these two geniuses come up with?
Hold it in his mouth. Like this but with a lightsaber:
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(Ninetails from Okami)
As you can imagine this causes some amount of concern from the other Jedi. Captain Rex also takes some convincing.
I've already talked about Anakin's issues with excess force energy but a funny mental image in this AU is to just have him run an obstacle course. Over and over like training drills to wear himself out. It's much easier with four legs. I feel like there must be species-specific enrichment rooms in the Jedi Temple, kind of like there is in Beastars, in order to settle oneself in their body. It’s not healthy to ignore what the body needs even if the Jedi are trained to not let it control them.
Once Anakin grows more tails he gets bigger (Shire Horse size at four, twice as tall as a clone at five) and realises that his full fox form is quite strong. This is both a blessing and a curse for him because he finds it cumbersome but also bigger is more intimidating. Then he starts working out its utility purposes, like hauling cargo, or carrying wounded/exhausted soldiers. Big crates can be moved using the Force but he can move more in one go with less focus just by physically shunting them around. Carrying people is basically like letting them lean on him in humanoid form or giving someone a piggyback so it doesn’t bother him as much as people expected.
Rex may or may not often situate himself on Anakin’s back when charging into battle because they’re both insane and it looks cool af. Bigger target to hit but he’s willing to take that risk because it means his men get hit less.
He gets annoyed with himself for being so self absorbed all this time, thinking his larger form was a hindrance rather than seeing how it could be useful, until Rex points out that he’s worked it out now so the self pity doesn’t really do anything for anyone. He’s good like that.
Rex: [grabs Anakin’s fox face in his hands] What are you? Anakin: [pouting] An idiot sandwich
Next thing he notices is that his tails fan out instinctively during his fights with Asajj, which completely blocks her view. Usually, he’s having to fight against his tails, trying to keep them from getting in the way rather than making them work for him. I’m thinking of that Kung Fu Panda fight with Shen the Peacock who uses his tail fan as a distraction/block during fights. Obviously it takes some time for Anakin to be that fluid with it and they discover in the process that singed fur smells awful.
Which brings us onto the downsides of the transformation. Namely, he’s now susceptible to ticks and mites that just love to latch onto furry tails if he goes through tall grasses or jungles during a campaign. He's already had to deal with flea jokes (mostly from Ahsoka) and now he actually has parasites on him.
Anakin: It would be a misuse of the Force to just kill them all at once wouldn’t it? Obi-Wan: Extremely. Anakin: [whinges] But doing it by hand is such a pain. Obi-Wan: Consider this a trial of patience then Anakin: You are so not my favourite person right now.
Standing in the rain is a lovely experience for him even after all these years but now that he has fur it comes with the caveat of smelling like a wet dog afterwards. The troopers do not thank him for that. Even less when he shakes to get all the water off, spraying the hangar.
A bit of world building I’m adding to this is that the Kitsune’s powers are expressed through their tails. The more tails a Kistune has the greater their connection to the Force/the more power they control, etc (same in Japanese Mythology, the more tails a fox spirit had the more powerful they were). Except, people worked out that the tails themselves hold power and if removed from a Kitsune that power can be harnessed to influence the Force for whatever purpose. Like elongating one’s life... (Gee I wonder who could do with that who is very close to Anakin -eyes emoji-). The tail disintegrates once all the power it once possessed has been used. A kitsune that has a tail cut off will never be able to regrow it as each tail is its own connection to the Force, which has now been severed. It is why the Kitsune disappeared from the known Galaxy.
I’m thinking Obi-Wan eventually discovers this because as soon as Anakin turned into one he immediately dove for the Archives with whatever spare time he had to learn whatever he could about what Anakin might have to face now. He does not like the implication that they were hunted into extinction, or at least hunted to the point of exile. Already he’s picturing his padawan getting hunted for sport. He does however make a TL:DR version for Anakin to skim through, looking like he hasn’t slept in five days and Anakin is very touched by this display of care.
Obi-Wan is just not a words of affection kind of guy.
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Kitsune!Anakin Asks
@shining-nebula2000 sent a handful of asks about the Kitsune Anakin AU that I got at work and just never got around to answering so now that my brain is firing again I can go through them:
Has Kitsune Anakin ever done that fox thing where they dive headfirst into snow to try and catch mice to eat
He has and it's on my list of things to draw! He does it occasionally to hunt but the main time he did it was to retrieve some of his men who got burried in an avalanche.
Does kitsune Anakin have the power to suck the life energy out of people by kissing them (I think that’s a power that kitsune and they have but fill free to fact check me)
I don't think I've come across the concept of Kitsune being able to drain life force (though my big encyclopedia for methological creatures is in storage rn orz) but that sure would complicate Anakin's life even further. They can imbue people with elongated lifespans though iirc and that's definitely something this AU works with. Anakin, hundreds of years old, along with his descendants and his entourage of masked guardians. Oddly enough, each mask matches the helmet markings of clones who used to follow him during the Clone Wars...
I have another ask for the kitsune Anakin AU How was the whole Jedi bombing thing go you know when the temperature gets five minutes so get sprayed by Baruss (I don’t think that’s how you spell her name) how would that change or would it stay the same?
You know, this is still one of the arcs I'm not sure how I want to proceed with. It would be easy to argue that Anakin's increased sense of smell would make this whole plot fall apart really easily - also this happens after Umbara so Anakin would remember the scent of a Jedi turning bad and recognise it on Bariss. Yet, again, this arc is important for character development reasons and having Anakin just fix it is a cop out. Maybe Anakin tries to persuade Ahsoka to hand herself in, like he does in canon, pointing out that she's only making herself look worse and when that fails? He decides to accompany her.
Ahsoka: Master, this is treason! Anakin: Nope. I'm supervising you. We both know you didn't do it, so I'm going to follow you as a witness to find evidence to prove you didn't. If I can do that at the same time as keeping on eye on you then all the better Ahsoka: Won't they just think you're in on it too? Anakin: It's my job to make sure my padawan stays out of trouble. As your Master, that's what I'm doing.
Even with support I imagine Ahsoka would still be severely shaken, since the Order has shown that it cannot provide the safety it once did for it's members if the Senate wills it otherwise. But Anakin would be far less reserved about straight up telling Ahsoka to chill out at Padme's for bit before she goes off on her journey of self discovery.
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Kitsune Rexwalker
Some specifically Rexwalker takes for my Kitsune!Anakin AU tl:dr Force Temple transforms Anakin into a Kitsune to better represent his Force connection and this inconveniences him greatly.
It starts off slow at first. Anakin is thankful that none of the clones really mention the ears or the tails because they’ve never seen him when he was human. To them, this is just what the Padawan of the 212th looks like. They start to question when it becomes apparent that these appendages are considered new to their Commander but they don’t press. They’re already starting to encounter natborns who are a little too inquisitive about clones for their liking and they have no intention of doing the same to their brand new Jedi.
The 501st is separated from the 212th into their own division which Skywalker gets command of once he’s knighted and they start to notice that he’s quite lax about regulation and protocol. It’s important and upheld on the battlefield but while everyone is just waiting around or in transit on the Resolute? It becomes obvious that he does not care for it. Rex keeps it up simply out of habit but gradually they loosen up around their new General, becoming keenly aware that developmentally they are very close in age. They also realise that the ears and tails are fantastic emotion signals that help the clones gauge his moods. Something their brothers are already starting to complain about with their Jedi but the 501st got a bit of a headstart with this one while he was still a Padawan.
Rex is reassured early on that Anakin isn’t about to get all his brothers killed. He never asks them to do anything he isn’t willing to do himself and he’s quick to show how proud he is of them. Rex gets braver, feels less cautious around their Jedi so that when he suggests something that Rex knows won’t work with the 501st he says so. And Anakin listens.
He starts including Rex in all of his strategies. They get to the point where Rex can openly laugh at his General when he gets a surprise Padawan.
Admittedly, at first it was alarming because this is a child who will be participating in a war, with a particularly high fire-power battalion. Then it became funny because Skywalker was obviously not informed and had no idea what he was doing.
Only Rex got to see the later panic from Anakin because he had no idea what he was doing. Having this new padawan was making him very anxious; he was meant to teach her, keep her safe, and encourage the best traits in her so she would one day become a Knight. All while fighting in a war with a form he still hadn’t quite gotten used to.
Rex had some choice words to share with Cody on their private comms as he bitched about whoever had decided this was a good idea.
Cody: I believe it was Grandmaster Yoda Rex: Ah. Figures.
Thankfully, Ahsoka seemed to like Rex so he decided to help his General out with keeping her safe. Who also seemed to be getting some help now and again from Obi-Wan on the teaching front but other than that, Rex had to admit he was doing a pretty good job.
As the war progressed, they ended up spending more time with each other outside of necessary meetings. They would just sit together in Anakin’s quarters going over battle reports or checking supply stocks. It’s Rex who gradually coaxes Anakin to join the rest of the men during downtime since it became obvious that he didn’t want to intrude - his ears flattening against his hair and tails curling around his knees whenever he saw the clones laughing together or roughhousing, turning away quickly to separate himself from them.
Ahsoka found it easier to join in with their fun because she was a kid, the clones had sort of adopted her as a sibling but Skywalker was their commanding officer. It was a different line to cross. But Rex had developed no qualms about crossing it and it was obvious his General was lonely. Turns out he never really had many friends in the Temple and just stuck with Obi-Wan most of the time, or hung out with droids. Which given this war was a little concerning… Nevertheless, Rex trusted this man and his trust was rewarded when Anakin followed him to spend time amongst his brothers. There was no need for distance off the battlefield. Just as they didn’t need to stand on protocol.
Rex: You told us that, sir Anakin: Yeah. I’ve just never been very good at taking my own advice
Rex ends up getting a bit of a reputation for being ‘close’ to his Jedi. He recognises he’s being overly familiar with him but it’s also pretty clear that General Skywalker doesn’t care. It’s almost as bad as the flak Bly gets for his obvious crush on General Secura. They were friends, he wasn’t going to deny that, and yes Skywalker was good looking but that didn’t mean …
Rex: Oh fuck Cody: Ah, the penny dropped then? Rex: What do I do? Cody: Why are you asking me? That’s Bly’s department. Rex: Vod … are you serious?
Anakin remains completely unaware, he’s just happy to have a friend! Ahsoka is aware because she has eyes and deduction skills but the only acknowledgment she gives is a raised eyebrow and a smirk when Rex is perhaps a little too enthusiastic with his praise for the latest Skywalker Plan.
Obi-Wan pointedly does not see it.
And so it carries on like that for a while. Anakin gets more touchy feely, letting Rex rest against him when in Big Fox mode and wrapping his tails around the man's legs in an unconscious effort to keep him protected. Sometimes Anakin goes small just to hitch a ride on his Padawan’s shoulders, only for Rex to offer him the inside of his helmet to jump into.
The 501st learn to set up camp around Skywalker when he’s full Kitsune because who would be stupid enough to attack when he looks like that. The clones all sleep better when they sleep around him, but only Rex gets wrapped up in the tails. Ahsoka is asleep on him.
Then there are the moments when Anakin just bugs out into Trueform Kitsune, crushing enemies or tearing them to pieces with his teeth because the situation has become utterly FUBAR and they need to secure a win here. Rex is clinging onto his back like a boss with nothing but the power of his thighs and bipping enemies left and right as he goes. Maybe he takes a rocket launcher with him. He can use the space between Anakin’s fox ears as a weapon sight.
The whole thing with Obi-Wan and Satine is way funnier considering Anakin here is not romantically involved with Padme. He can dig in deep without fear that his Master will turn the tables on him. He drags Rex with him to record interactions for posterity because good lord can those two go at it in an argument. Normally Obi-Wan is quite controlled in his banter, but this is catty. Anakin is delighted and Rex has so many things to tell Cody.
Eventually, Umbara happens and it’s a slap in the face to all the clones involved.
Krell proves to be nothing like the other Jedi and Rex feels regret for encouraging Anakin to leave his men (as ordered to) in the first place. He clearly hadn’t wanted to. Tails hanging limp behind him as he made his way onto the shuttle to take him back to Coruscant. They had worked well together, his large fox form easily drawing fire away from the men and making the Umbarans far more cautious about attacking them head on. But then he’d been called away and Rex didn’t want him to go against a direct order and get in trouble. Again.
When Anakin gets back, every lost name from his battalion visibly hurts to hear and he is so very angry on the clones behalf. But he doesn’t let Rex blame himself, he is very adamant that this is not Rex's fault, curling around his Captain and burying him in his many tails like a cocoon. Keeping him safe and hidden while he breaks down.
Anakin: It was Krell’s choice to abandon the Jedi, to disregard the lives of the clones in his care. You did nothing wrong.
Rex falls just a little bit more in love.
Then Zygerria happens and Rex understands where Anakin has been coming from. Why he gets so angry when people only see the clones as fodder or lesser beings. Why he encourages them to speak their minds and make choices where they can. Why he’s never been particularly strict on protocol unless in battle where the Chain of Command is important.
The event leaves Anakin shaken, having placed himself back into such a vulnerable position. Being such a rare species, having himself play the role of the slave was the only logical play. It was easy to grab the Queen's notice, but it makes him twitchy for a while. Just not so much with Rex. That was when Rex realised how much Anakin truly trusted him.
Anakin: I knew you wouldn’t leave me there. I can always count on you.
That is when Rex kisses him and Anakin doesn’t stop him.
Later they will agree that pursuing a relationship during the war, with Anakin still a General, is a bad idea no matter how much either of them want to continue anyway. The nature of their working dynamic, the inherent power imbalance, and the fact that as a subordinate Rex might just be going along with whatever Anakin asks of him makes Anakin uncomfortable. Especially so fresh off of Zygerria, where he’s had to put himself back into a slave mindset.
They keep what they had intact with the promise of waiting for the war to be over, but it doesn’t stop them hesitating in front of each other every so often unsure if they should touch a certain way or not. They lean against each other when there’s a perfectly good wall to stand against, and then there’s all the late nights spent secluded in Anakin’s room doing work and then just sharing the same space.
Rex is aware of the arrangement Anakin has with Padme to occasionally spend the night together (or the day if their schedules matched up) and he doesn’t really care. It’s sex. He can go find his own if he were so inclined and he’s not about to begrudge his General getting some when there’s a war on and they’re not committing to each other yet anyway.
Sometimes they give in to affection because the war just keeps throwing them curveballs and it’s nice to just have someone, to just hide away in their embrace because you don’t want to deal with reality for a little while. The hits just keep on coming.
But through it all, it’s nice to have something to look forward to after the war is over.
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hey what about that archon Star Wars where Obiwan goes undercover as a mercenary and fakes his death would Anakin still get tricked?
Ah yes, the Rako Hardeen arc. This is one of the story arcs that's going to happen very differently to canon because of the elements involved directly impacting Anakin being a Kitsune. I'll have to watch the arc again when I come to write it to make it more accurate (along with some medical research) but this is the way I imagine it playing out. TW for bodily harm, people getting shot.
So while Obi-Wan is all ready and set up for his mission to be shot by a bounty hunter that's been hired specifically for this task, everyone has kind of forgotten that the reason Anakin is the only Kitsune left in the GFFA is because they were hunted to the point of near extinction for their tails. By hunters.
They've all gotten a little complacent with the change by now. He's an accomplished General in a war, he dodges death all the time, they all forget that he is still vulnerable to attack from sources other than the Separatists. Even when on Coruscant.
Obi-Wan is putting himself directly in the way of a blaster bolt from a bounty hunter. A group of people who are rewarded for their oppotunistic nature. The plan kicks off, Obi-Wan gets shot and falls off the building, with Ahsoka reaching him first only to discover that he isn't breathing. Anakin is still at the top of the building, leaning over the edge to see Obi-Wan's body in his Padawan's arms.
Meanwhile, Rako is lining up another shot as his other, personal target has now walked into frame. He's thinking, 'you know what? Maybe I should take a pot shot for a tail while I'm here'. You miss all the shots you don't take after all and he brought a bullet just in case. Obi-Wan is known for always having Skywalker not far behind him after all.
What are the chances he can nail two Jedi in one day?
Only Anakin isn't wearing body armour or being targetted by a fake bolt. He's too busy zeroing in on his Master's body down on the floor to notice something else is wrong. In his distracted state, the next shot goes straight through his chest. A real solid bullet made of silver. The silver doesn't actually do anything, Rako might just be a bit superstitious and thought it might help weaken such a creature, but it's really just the physical trauma of the shot itself that brings Anakin down.
Ahsoka, still cradling Obi-Wan's body has to look up and find her own Master now slumped over the side of the building after a second shot has gone off. She reaches the top of the building just in time to see Rako advancing on an unconcious Anakin with a knife. She doesn't even hesitate to launch herself at this bounty hunter, who is now far too close to defend himself against a light saber. He makes a run for it and Ahsoka can't leave to chase after him, she needs to call support. She needs to...
Stop the bleeding and call for help.
"Jedi emergency. Calling for med evac!" Ahsoka hisses into her comm as she jabs a thumb into the hole punched through her Master's back, just under his left shoulder blade. That's a collapsed lung... "Copy that. Ship in the air, what's the situation?" the voice of a clone responds. No doubt one of the Coruscant Guard who are always monitoring the military comm frequencies for just such an occasion. "Two Jedi down. General Skywalker is critically injured, projectile through the back. General Kenobi is," she has to pause to swallow through the saliva filling her mouth, throat tight with her panic. A fluttering inhale quells the nerves in her chest before she raises her comm again. "General Kenobi is unresponsive. Blaster bolt to the chest. Please, I need immediate medical assistance."
"We're on our way. ETA two minutes."
It is the longest two minutes of Ahsoka's life as she tears the fabric of her glove from her arms with her teeth to stuff against the bleeding around her thumb.
It is later commented upon that it's remarkable the shot didn't kill him. Kitsune are durable but perhaps some baser instinct caused Anakin to move the slightest inch so the bullet missed his heart. But it means he is left healing for the duration of Obi-Wan's mission. With blood loss and a perforated lung, a bacta bath would not be enough to get the General back on his feet. The news that Anakin got shot for real because of the deception has Obi-Wan feeling very unnerved and guilty. He had a mission to complete, and he committed to the task, but Anakin was never meant to become a target himself. The plan succeeds without issue and the bounty hunters captured at the end of the Festical of Light. All this subterfuge and fuss hardly seemed worth it in the end... it all felt very anticlimatic.
Anakin is still upset that he was lied to - especially in an attempt to take advantage of his emotional reactions - but since he was out of it for the whole thing, he never had to really experience Obi-Wan's death. Never had to go through the mourning of his Master or contemplate living in world without him in it. But he knows Ahsoka did, and he's more pissed off on her behalf than he is for himself once everything is over. Especially since he wasn't able to be there for her either.
Ahsoka, on the other hand, is still reeling from nervous relief that she didn't just lose her two Masters at the same time. Plus the fact that her on the spot first aid - and I like to think she'd previously bothered Kix for some pointers - actually saved Anakin's life. There isn't enough space in her brain to feel the sting of deception really. Perhaps it'll come later. Right now, she just wants her two Master's to get along and forget everything else that has happened.
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I just read your post about kitsune!anakin and now i have the visual of anakin as a fox stealing things from obi wan and obi wan chasing him to get his stuff back
!! LMAO
While he's still a Padawan I could imagine he absolutely does. His small size as a fox really bothers him until he learns that people just don't look down. He can be so sneaky now he's not gangly 6ft tall.
He always gives the game away though, right at the last second, by projecting a surge of victory through the Force whenever he manages to steal something of Obi-Wan's and his Master is instantly on alert.
Obi-Wan: What are you doing? Anakin: -flees with a bag of tea in his mouth- Obi-Wan: Get back here, Padawan! You pest!
Much later on as a Knight embroiled in the war, he starts stealing Rex's helmet instead.
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Post-AotC Kitsune!Anakin
Throughout the entirity of AotC you’ve got Obi-wan despairing over his very headstrong and arrogant nineteen year old Padawan, who has recently changed species and he just knows Anakin is not dealing with it. He’s doing everything he can to distract himself from having to deal with it and pretend that it won’t cause any major changes. This is all fine!
The ears he can ignore - even if no-one else can because they keep moving - and the tails he just keeps behind him or wrapped around his waist when he sits down. Safe and out of the way and out of his line of sight.
Then he rushes Dooku. Dooku of all fucking people and Obi-Wan can only watch in horror as his Padawan’s arm gets cut off for his hubris.
Now your Padawan - but not for much longer because war is here and they need all the Knights they can get - has had a huge blow to his self confidence, is stuck in medical, and is now missing an arm. His dominant arm. He’s going to have to re-learn how to hold things, how to fight with a lightsaber in a hand that has no sensesation in it. He’s going to have to learn how to deal with his brain expecting there to still be a flesh arm when there isn’t one and that painful aching numbness of a missing limb. Even when he gets the prosthetic fitted, it can hijack his severed nerve endings and combat some of this, trick his brain into thinking the limb is responding to it’s signals, but it’s still not enough sometimes.
But it doesn’t hit the soon to be made Master Jedi just how much more this will affect Anakin because of the transformation until he walks into the healing halls and sees a very depressed fox bunched up on the bed with his twin tails tightly curled around him looking down at the stump of his front leg. To lose an arm is life-changing for a humanoid but they can learn to use the other arm for things and learn how to get along with a prosthetic. For a four legged being to lose a limb that balances it, that needs all four to run without hindrance...
And Anakin had just started getting used to the change. Even showing signs of enjoying aspects of it.
Can you imagine the relief when Anakin gets his prosthetic fitted and he can move it at will, wiggle the fingers and grab items without them shattering into pieces. To then take the leap and turn back into his full Kitsune shape only to find that the prosthetic has transformed with him? The prosthetic is a part of him now, it is his arm and so it changes with the rest of him.
He can still run.
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I’m alive, I swear. This is just my mood lately. 
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*10 minutes after leaving the Star Wars equivalent of McDonald’s*
Obi-Wan and Kit: *drinking tea*
Cody: *drinking hot chocolate*
Volt and Sej: *quietly drinking coffee*
Nexus: *loudly slurping a milkshake*
Keller: *drinking chocolate milk because Sunny loudly insisted he try it*
Sunny: *overtired and holding a milkshake, but not really drinking it* I WANT CHICKEN NUGGETS!
Volt: ...Sunny, we only stopped for drinks, bud.
Sunny: *whines in disappointment*
Volt: Drink your milkshake, vod.
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Kitsune after Obi-Wan and Cody both get injured being reckless maniacs for the 5th time in the past two weeks: I’ve reached the conclusion that either all human males are idiots who want to die, or I just have incredibly bad luck.
Nebula: Nah, I think they’re all just stupid. My entire battalion is a bunch of morons. I love them, but they’re morons.
Ahsoka: Yeah, human males are just dumb as hell.
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