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itstimeforstarwars · 7 months
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Being a new parent is difficult. Being a new parent to de-aged soldiers with knowledge of the future, a general mistrust of everyone, and a habit of keeping secrets, all in the middle of a tense situation between historic enemies...well, that is slightly more difficult.
(Sequel to Free Jedi to Good Home)
Chapter 25: It’s time to rescue some Jedi.
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crispyjenkins · 11 months
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Dha Kar'ta small snippet
i'm REAL excited for this next chapter y'all. there's pining, and politics, and bonding with the haat'ade, and obi-wan knowing too much about things he shouldn't even know about in the first place, which as i'm writing all that out, that's kind of just what this fic... is
Mando'a: Mand'alor - contended ruler of Mandalore jetii - "Jedi" Haat'ade - shortned form of Haat Mando'ade meaning "True Children of Mandalore" jetii'verd - lit. "Jedi soldier"; tho with verd as a suffix it's more like addressing someone by rank jetii'alor - lit. "Jedi commander", "Jedi leader"; also more like a respectful address
  Obi-Wan laughs. “I’ll refrain then, Mand’alor. Next time, though, you shouldn’t let me fall asleep in your tent, or you should at least wake me if I do.” He isn’t even entirely sure how he had ended up in Jango’s bed, or when.
  “I wasn’t going to be able to sleep this afternoon anyway, jetii,” Jango refutes, searching through the datapads stacked precariously in front of him to find a specific one, which he hands to Obi-Wan before he can, indeed, keep pestering him about resting. “Kal compiled everything from the battle for you to look over,” Jango says, not even trying to pretend he isn’t trying to head off said pestering.
  Unable to help a small, fond sigh, Obi-Wan takes the ’pad and leans on the side of the table facing the desk. “Do you need my opinion on something specific?” he asks, looking over the numbers he’d heard on the way back from Keldabe, and finds them adjusted only a little bit from then. “The only casualties were from the Keldabe clans?” That’s impressive, even considering how much more training the Haat’ade have than Death Watch.
  Jango settles to lean on the side of his desk facing the table. “We got lucky,” he agrees, crossing his arms over his chest; Obi-Wan idly wonders if his shirt is blue or red today. “And no, I don’t need anything from you, I simply knew you would want to see the numbers.”
  The more he witnesses Jango’s first-hand knowledge of Obi-Wan, the less violating it feels, which is definitely something to meditate on later. “They’ll certainly be helpful when we confront Satine again.”
  Jango groans at that, slumping his shoulders. “I was hoping to avoid speaking with her again.”
  “You know we can’t do that, not after the way our last... discussion ended.” He wishes he could be surprised that Satine would ally with Death Watch even temporarily, but he knows that given the choice between bending a few of her morals or losing her seat of power completely, even she would shake hands with Tor Vizsla. 
  Jango rubs a hand over his eyes. “I’m aware, jetti’verd, but that doesn’t mean I hate it any less.”
  Whatever Obi-Wan had planned to say halts before his tongue, and he stares at Jango with his grip too tight on the ’pad. “Jetti’verd?” he asks incredulously, and Jango just smirks at him.
  “You refuse a Mandalorian position, in my council or otherwise; are you going to refuse one tailor-made for you, as well?”
  Obi-Wan splutters. “I am not a soldier.”
  “Would you prefer jetti’alor?”
  He can’t help scowling, not used to anyone but Quinlan ribbing him like this, not since he was a junior padawan. Well, Siri didn’t mind less-than-kind banter, but Obi-Wan had spent very little time with her after she was knighted, and he’s only spent a fraction more time with the rest of their friends. Even Yan and his playful needling doesn’t feel like this, less like a mentor teasing and chiding a mentee, more like a friend poking at you because he thinks your indignance is funny.
  Obi-Wan just has no idea what Jango hopes to gain from it.
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the-starry-seas · 25 days
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Get to Know You
Thanks for the tag @insertmeaningfulusername!
Last song: Which Witch by Florence and the Machine
Currently watching: Bad Batch! and I keep saying I'm gonna rewatch Killjoys and Prehistoric Park but I've been saying that for a while 😬
Three ships: Mordecai/Brick, Wrecker/Crosshair, and fuck it I'm gonna say my strawberries too (OC clone/Paz Vizsla/OC Tusken)
Favorite color: purple!
Currently consuming: AriZona green tea
First ship: Parker/Hardison from Leverage, they've been my blorbos since high school
Birthplace: I just spawned in like in Minecraft idk what to tell you
Current location: North Carolina
Relationship status: single and no idea how to mingle
Last movie: Kissing Jessica Stein
Currently working on: *kicks so many docs under the bed. just so, so many* I have a "Myles survived Galidraan and becomes part of the Cuy'val Dar with eventual Myles/Jango" AU occupying a significant amount of my brain right now. Zer0 meeting Murderbot. Din/Cobb Bioshock-verse AU. Knightverse Bumblebee meets a TMNT OC. Post-canon fix-it Titanfall 2. Ghost Squad origin story (so many clone OCs). "Obi-Wan comes back home after the events of Kenobi to find Jango chilling in the Lars' living room and it gets poly from there". Boba/Din Pacific Rim AU. Just so many. So many.
No pressure tagging: @midwinterhunt @sofiaspeaksart @syn0vial @voidistooshortforausername @loverboy-havocboy and whoever else I was spam booping/wants to do it!
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seven-oomen · 6 months
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So, bit of an idea. My problem right now is too many ideas for these characters, but not enough time to write it all.
But the idea is that it's a Jangobi/Kenfetti soulmate au. Where soulmates are chosen by acts of true honor. (By the force/the manda/a higher power)
In this version of the story Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were at the battle of Galidraan at 44BBY (Obi-Wan is 16 at the time, a little aged up, Jango Fett is 22.) leading to an event where the Jedi don't kill Fett and his Mandalorians. Thanks to Obi-Wan's negotiation skills, they manage to get down to the truth and calm the situation. (And in particular Myles and Jango, which earns Obi-Wan massive amounts of respect by said Mandalorians.)
This event kick-starts a soulmate link between Obi-Wan and Jango, though soulmate links don't fully activate until someone is 18.
Now imagine two years later, Obi-Wan starts having dreams where he meets someone with a familiar voice. You can't see your soulmate's face in your dreams until you are fully aware of who it is. Once that clicks, the person in question is able to see their soulmates face. It has to click for both people.
Once they know who their soulmate is, a telepathic link forms if both parties are willing (even if subconsciously) to pursue the bond.
That's important, because you can refuse a soulmate bond. It's very rare in Mandalorian culture to do so. (Because of their beliefs). But it is more common in Jedi culture. (Though not required, it is very much a choice someone can make.) As long as their duties as Jedi take precedent.
Now, a 19-year-old padawan Obi-Wan and his master Qui-Gon Jinn are sent to Mandalore in 41BBY.
The true Mandalorians hold Keldabe while the New Mandalorians and the Deathwatch are at war over the rest of the planet.
Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon try to broker peace and install the New Mandalorians as the official government of Mandalore. However, things go haywire, and Obi-Wan has to take Satine and go on the run.
One day, he runs into a rather familiar face with an even more familiar voice. Jango Fett, the current Mand'alor of Keldabe, who's gathering more support among the different clans of Mandalore.
So in order to hide Satine from Deathwatch, Obi-Wan convinces Jango to take them both back to Keldabe.
And then you have this little fun and games section where Obi-Wan learns so much more about the true mandalorians and how they operate. And Satine learns much more about their heritage.
And there's this bit of a friendship of Obitine forming where they really care for each other on the deepest platonic level, but they have no real romantic interest in each other.
But of course Jango misreads that, even though he and Obi-Wan have been growing so much closer in their bonds, and he's come to see that the Jedi aren't all that bad either.
And there's this bit of shenanigans and misunderstandings that lead to an honest conversation about how they feel. And Obi-Wan comes to realize that Jango may be the person he'll leave the order for if it comes down to it.
But then Qui-Gon finds them in Keldabe. The Duke has been killed by Deathwatch. And there's more pressure than ever to just deal with the problem before it becomes bigger.
Jango, realizing that the fate of the planet, and potentially the greater galaxy, now rests on his shoulders, gathers the true mandalorians for one last showdown against Clan Vizsla. (And also avenge Jaster while he's at it.)
It's a tough fight, but Jango wins the darksaber from clan vizsla and is elected Mand'alore of the planet by the clans.
Obi-Wan, now faced with a choice to become a mandalorian or remain a Jedi, makes the choice to stay on Mandalore and honor his soulmate bond. A choice he doesn't make lightly, and that deeply saddens him inside.
Jango picks up on this and, although conflicted in his feelings, also recognizes that being a Jedi is the one true thing that makes Obi-Wan happiest. So he gives Obi-Wan the choice to leave and return to the Jedi temple. Obi-Wan refuses again, stating his place is here.
Jango isn't so sure after seeing just how miserable Obi-Wan is without a purpose. So he does something rather radical, he contacts Qui-Gon Jin and the Jedi order, except they don't send him Qui-Gon Jinn, they send him Dooku instead.
And Dooku decides, hey you know what, this place has the right idea about an actual functional government that fucking works. They need some help, sure, but I can work with that. So Dooku contacts Yoda to establish an independent Jedi temple on Mandalore (with permission from the Mand'alore, of course) that will be run by Obi-Wan Kenobi if the boy can pass his trials. He'll oversee it all, but is very much content by just being a helper of the people and being the wine uncle with crazy ideas.
The establishment of the independent Jedi Temple on Mandalore is what the force/the manda consider Jango's act of honor for Obi-Wan and their soulmate bond solidifies into a fully matured bond, resulting in a marriage of not only Jango and Obi-Wan, but also of Jedi and Mandalorian culture. Where the planet's ecosystem is restored, its people thrive, and somewhere down the line Jango & Obi-Wan have (or adopt, for the non mpreg fans) a couple of kids (Boba, Cal, Omega).
And that's how Obi-Wan Kenobi lives his best life on Mandalore. Idk. I never said the idea was perfect, just intriguing.
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fanfic-obsessed · 2 years
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Growing up Clones
We know that Dooku wanted to get Obi Wan on his side. What about an AU where he started earlier, like only about 2 years after Qui Gon died earlier. Dooku co opts a mission that Obi Wan and Anakin are on, convincing them that there are new orders from the Council. Orders for a long term assignment in which they would not be able to contact anyone. A mission to a barely known world past the Rishi maze. On the other side of things he faked their deaths, so no one would come looking. 
He convinces the grieving, slightly distrustful Jedi knight and his former slave padawan that their new orders are to assist with the training of the ‘Jedi’s Order’ of a clone army. Tyrannus convinces Jango this would be the best way to expose the cracks in the Jedi Order, using the fact that Obi Wan had and would leave the Order to help children (Melida/ Daan) and his age (he was a child at the time of Galidraan).  The intent would be for Obi Wan and Anakin to become slowly disillusioned by the Order who had, in their perspective, ordered them to help trian a child slave army. They would then help lead said army, all the while spreading dissent through the ranks of the Jedi order. 
Dooku underestimated Obi Wan’s kindness, Anakin’s protectiveness, and both their cunning. They bought the ‘New Orders’ hook line and sinker, and are even convinced that the High Council put in the order for the Clone. They agree not to contact anyone, though Obi Wan did leave a message in the drop box that his crechemates set up for when Vos or Siri Tachi was going undercover, with a message that he would be unable to communicate indefinitely. They are told that the clones are barely sentient and it takes all of five minutes for them both to realize that is very wrong.  At this point the Alpha’s are about Anakin’s age, physically, with the first CC batches being close behind. So Anakin joins in on their training in between his own lessons.  He grows up with the Clones and they grow up with him.
And they are isolated, Obi Wan particularly. It takes several months before the other trainers stop feeling like hatred in the Force around him, some never do. And Obi Wan has been told in his ‘orders’ that he is functioning as the sole oversight by the Jedi on this project.  It takes six months for him to end decommissioning, and those six months are among the closest in his life that he comes to falling, but he successfully argues that each life, each child, each clone, had value to the war effort.  He always hates himself, just a little, that he has to use the Kaminoans words of value and apply them to these little lives.  
In his heart they are all his children. 
Anakin corrals many of the more mechanically inclined clones to build devices for any of their little brothers that needed them. It didn’t matter the supposed ‘defect’ he always had something that he or one of the others was working on that could help. The Kaminoans even praised their foresight when one of the infants who would have been decommissioned grew and saved Nala Se’s life through some quick thinking.  
And from the side Jango watches this man who should be his enemy interact with the product wearing his face, and he wonders. He had never thought of the clones (other than Boba) as anything but products, as anything real. A vehicle for his revenge. But…but the face that one of the CC units made when he found out that there would be no other decommissioning wouldn’t leave his head, the way he saluted the Jedi just a little crisper.  The whispers he caught from around corners of ‘our brothers are safer’ and ‘he saved our brothers’. 
Obi Wan does everything he can to make things better for the clones, laboring under the belief that every horrible thing ‘in contract’ regarding the treatment of the clones is the will of the Jedi Council (there were a number of dehumanizing stipulations in the contract that the Kaminoans were following, they actually did not care one way or the other). Anakin, the little ball of possessiveness that he is, quickly comes to see all of the clones as his brothers. The Clones, for their part, learn of slavery fom Anakin. They learn of being a person and all that entails from the little boy who was won by the Jedi in a bet. 
Then, three years after Obi Wan had arrived, he finds out about Dred Priest’s little fight club. This is the last straw. Before this point nearly everyone on Kamino, including the clones, believed Obi Wan to be a bit of a cinnamon roll. Certainly well spoken and not weak but ultimately in need of protection.  That view changed a bit when he stormed into the room Priest had been using to force cadets to fight and proceeded to break a total of 16 of Priest’s bones without the Force and through his armor. Then he tracked Jango and very publicly tore a verbal strip from him in both Mando’a and Basic, told him he was a disappointment to his ancestors and his armor, and informed him that they (Jango and Obi Wan) would be marrying immediately as Mandalorian law would then allow Obi Wan to take custody of the clones. 
Between being the ‘sole representative’ of the Jedi  for the clones and now the Spouse of their Genetic progenitor, Obi Wan was able to successfully argue that he was now in control of the clones. The Kaminoans, who were paid in advance, didn’t fight him too hard as their leaving now would actually maximize their profits once Obi Wan agreed that any unspent budget for the clones training would remain with the Kaminoans. The order had apparently included the transportation, any not yet decanted clones, the broadcasting unit for the inhibitor chips, and Jango Fett's genetic material as belonging to whomever took control of the Clones. 
It may have taken Cody, Fox, Alpha-17(who outright refused a name), and Fordo throwing a pile of toddlers on Obi Wan to peel him off the ceiling after the words ‘inhibitor chip’ were spoken. It may have taken the Kaminoans agreeing to reverse the accelerated aging, for free, to keep the murders (and not just by Obi Wan) to a minimum when it became known that was a slave/control chip and not an inhibitor. Any loyalty Obi Wan, or Anakin for that matter, had to the Jedi Order died a swift death when Kaminoans could provide paperwork from the ‘Jedi’ that included the chips in their order. 
So now Obi Wan had a husband (who had been told under no uncertain terms that he would have to earn his honor, his armor, and his children back), four hundred thousand children ranging from chronologically two months to 15 years old (Anakin) and physically four months to young adult (The Alphas), another 5000 cloning tubes in varying stages of readiness to decant, the material and cloning tubes for another 5000, and 35 of the original trainers for the clones (including Kal Skirata who had adopted his own small group of clones who were full adults) who had declared him their Alor and were trying to convince him to put his hand in for Mandalore. He could not trust the Jedi Order or the Republic they served. If Tyrannus’s plan had come to full fruition this would be the point where he would sweep in, gain Obi Wan’s loyalty by giving the Clones citizenship on Serrano and slowly draw Obi Wan into the dark until they eventually killed Sidious and betrayed each other. 
This is not what happened. Obi Wan may have been isolated on Kamino but he had many friends throughout the galaxy. In fact he was remembered fondly on almost every planet he and his master had visited, even the ones where the mission went poorly. Friends that include Satine Kyrze, duchess of Mandalore. 
In this world it is not an army that she hears about first and condemns out of hand. She is still a Pacifist and has taken a hard line about Mandalore’s 'barbarian past’. But when Obi Wan calls she answers, and he tells her a tale of children, forced to fight, forced to grow too quickly (in a horrifying literal sense). He tells her about his people betraying everything he holds dear, the marriage he took to protect his children, and he asks for her help. 
She is quiet for a long moment, sorting her affection from her duty.  Concord Dawn, she says at last, is the only planet in our system that still allows armor.  It is where both the Death Watch and the remnants of the True Mandalorians are. I cannot accept an army wearing the face of my enemies into Mandalore, not even for you. But I can gift a world of exiles to the man who saved my life in so many ways.  If you can hold it, it is yours.
Obi Wan takes it, what else can he do? 
And the Galaxy changes.
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blackat-t7t · 20 days
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Another jangobi idea I don't think I've talked about anywhere:
Soulmates AU
Inspired a bit by this fic and this other one
(For some reason, this fic, or at least the first part, really wants to be written from Jaster's perspective, instead of Jango or Obi-Wan's 😆)
Fun ("fun") fact- according to wookieepedia, both the battle of Galidraan and Obi-Wan's time on Bandomeer take place in 44 BBY. (I love playing with this fact.)
So, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are on their way back to Coruscant after Bandomeer, when the jedi council sends out a request for any masters or knights who are in the area and aren't otherwise engaged to join Dooku on his way to Galidraan as backup.
Obi-Wan is supposed to stay on the ship, but he feels the Force urging him to go out, and he's curious. When he sees the mandalorians and jedi squaring off, he recognizes his soulmark painted on Jango's armor, and he can't believe his soulmate would have done the things the governor has accused them of. He thows himself in between Dooku and Jango and begs them not to fight. Although they argue over Obi-Wan's head, the truth eventually comes out that the Jedi were told the True Mandalorians were killing innocents and came to stop them, and the True Mandalorians were set up by the governor and Death Watch. Some of them are sent out to secure the governor and any Death Watch still on the planet, and the mandalorians and jedi agree to a ceasefire while they sort things out. Jango (head of True Mandalorians' supercommandos) calls in Jaster (the Mand'alor) to handle the politics and negotiations.
Later, Obi-Wan sneaks into the mandalorian camp hoping to spot Jango again, and ends up hiding from a passing mandalorian in Jaster's command tent. When Jaster asks what he's doing, Obi-Wan swears he's not a spy, he was just curious. They end up discussing mandalorian iconography, the mythosaur skull and the variant that is the True Mandalorians' sigil, the shreik hawk that the Death Watch wear, jaig eyes, the journeyman protector symbol, etc. Jaster, of course, is happy to educate him. When Jango stops by, Obi-Wan asks about the lightsaber in the symbol on his armor, and Jango is kind of dismissive, says it's not a lightsaber, but the Darksaber. Jaster explains the history.
Eventually, Qui-Gon comes to bring Obi-Wan back to the Jedi ship because they're leaving. He didn't recognize the symbol on Jango's armor at first, but now he's remembered Obi-Wan's soulmark and put two and two together. He doesn't want anyone to realize Obi-Wan is Jango's soulmate, partially because of the political implications and the age difference- but mostly because, after Xanatos, he's convinced that any close relationships, including soulmates, can lead a jedi to fall, and he doesn't want Obi-Wan and Jango to become close.
Before he leaves, Obi-Wan asks Jaster to tell Jango he's sorry they couldn't get to know each other better. Jaster is confused at first, but he quickly realizes what Obi-Wan was saying, and why Obi-Wan was asking about the mythosaur and the light/darksaber symbols, which are both part of the soulmark. When Jango comes to see him, he asks if Jango has checked his soulmark. Jango does, and it's colored in now instead of in greys. The lightsaber has the unique shape of the darksaber, but it's blue, which surprises him. He says he didn't feel a pull to any of the Jedi he met, and asks why Jaster thought the color might have changed. Jaster reminds him of Obi-Wan, intervening to protect Jango and asking about the symbols in the soulmark. By this point, Obi-Wan and the jedi have already left, and Jango can't go after them because he has responsibilities in mandalorian space.
Of course, this is only the begining of the story. There's more, when Obi-Wan seeks mandalorian help while on Melida/Daan, and when he's on Mandalore to protect Satine. But that's the basic premise of the fic.
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ironborealis · 23 days
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Lineage Cousins AU pt.2
Part 1: (link)
The Council is calling it a 'sabbatical' -- a chance for him to rest, reflect, and 'recover' from the stress of Galidraan and Komari being found unfit for Knighthood.
Only a senior padawan, Komari had slain twenty well-trained Mandalorians in their armor on that snowy battlefield. Then she'd turned to him, smiling brightly and so very proud and he'd known that things were about to go horribly wrong. He could see in her eyes that what she wanted was more than just the approval of her master -- she craved something from him that he could never provide her.
He'd dispatched his second, Master Syldatna, to take Fett on to the Governor, as the Senate ordered, while he pulled Komari back into the ship -- one of the many mistakes he made that day -- to try and make the foolish girl see reason.
She'd kissed him as soon as the door to the ship had shut.
He'd pushed her away, tried to make her see that this was a silly fantasy brought on by a post-battle adrenaline crash and likely not enough meditation (his own master's cure all for every wor).
They would forget it ever happened and neither would speak a word of it -- no one, but especially not the Council had to know.
There was shame enough on his lineage for having lost his grand-padawan to Falling so recently, and he'd not double down on the disgrace by losing his own padawan to something as fleeting as lust.
Komari was strong-willed though, something he both admired and cursed about her at times. Trying to make her see reason with a calmly stated rational argument was rather like trying to hold onto sand with a clenched fist -- a futile effort.
He'd been blunt, the only way to get through to her when she got this way: After the battle today he'd been ready to nominate her for her Jedi Trials. All of that was now in jeopardy with the revelation of her inappropriate attachment to him. She had until they returned to Coruscant to decide whether to become a Knight or to chase a foolish fantasy that would never be.
He hoped it'd be an easy choice for her to make in five days. Yet, when she stepped before the Council he'd known with only the intuition that a master could have about their padawan that she'd failed him. With a grieving heart he informed the Council of her attachment. Her subsequent outburst at his 'betrayal' had killed any future she may have had as a Jedi Knight.
She'd stormed off to join a task force headed towards Baltizaar, hard-headed as per usual, determined to prove both him and the Council wrong.
At least she'd finally broken her unseemly attachment to him.
Then the Senator from Naboo had disclosed to the Council the terrible truth of Galidraan -- that he and his fellow Jedi had murdered hundreds of innocent Mandalorians and assisted in selling the sole survivor of the massacre into slavery. The Council had bowed their heads in collective shame and then interrogated him for hours trying to find some fault in him that caused the confrontation to turn into a conflagration -- unwilling to say a word against the Senate who had not only given him the poor intelligence in the first place, but had demanded the surrender of any survivors to the Governor. Surely, the fault for this catastrophe lay mostly with the Senate --
The Council had demurred and invited him to take a period of reflection, which then was formally extended into months once word had returned of Komari's death at the hands of the Bando Gora.
This unwanted "sabbatical" is really a chance for him to set all his affairs in order with the Council none the wiser. Jenza has been hinting for years that with their father gone there could be a place for him on Serreno. Their brother is certainly making a mess of it currently.
There's no denying that he's grown tired of the Council's scheming and politicking that saw Mace Windu promoted to a Council seat before him.
Perhaps he may even be able to do some good once he slips the Senate's leash on the Jedi.
He's sorting through his personal library, deciding on which book he should pass on to Jocasta for her collection and those that he will keep for himself when the message comes.
It takes him a moment to realize that his communicator is going off, a series of strident rings. He's of a mind to ignore it -- commiserations on the loss of Komari have been pouring in non-stop, to the point where he'd actually silenced the Sith-cursed instrument just to get some peace...
Except... there were very few who had permission to override his silencing of the damned thing... and none would do so without a good reason.
He digs through the stacks of books to retrieve the obnoxious little device with an aggrieved sigh.
The message is short:
.bandomeer.
.obiwan kenobi.
.the boy must be trained.
The brevity and lack of capitalization meant that it could only be Qui-Gon. Some excuse about the keys being too small for his fingers, if he recalls correctly.
How interesting that Qui-Gon should reach out to him now, after a decade of strenuously avoiding him without an explanation ever given.
Stranger still that Qui-Gon would recommend to him some initiate washout who'd wound up in one of the "Jedi" Corps... Qui-Gon knew how he'd felt about the Corps, Stars knew they'd had enough "debates" on their utility to the Order back when Qui-Gon was his padawan.
It's a week or so out to Bandomeer, to go and gawk at Qui-Gon's newest pathetic lifeform and try and figure out what about the child had enchanted his former padawan so.
What does a delay of two weeks really matter in comparison to leaving the place that has been his home for over 60 years?
***///***
The limited space aboard the ship means that there really is no escaping Kenobi -- they're sharing a berth space at the Queen's command, along with Anakin, although he suspected there was enough space among the ship crew's quarters for *one* of them to bunk down there instead...
He's careful to never leave Anakin alone with the man, even though he knows that it's illogical. Kenobi did not see him at his best the last time they met all those years ago on Bandomeer, and he won't have the man dripping poison into the boy's ears.
Kenobi has been thankfully reserved at every strategy meeting, his attention mostly focussed on his own holopad where he jots down notes that he doesn't share. Qui-Gon would accuse him of shirking his duties, were it not for the occasional well-thought out suggestion that Kenobi offers when the silence grows too long between himself, the Queen, and Captain Panaka, as they desperately grasp for any semblance of a real plan to defeat the Trade Federation that isn't dependent on an outrageous amount of luck.
He'd sworn to himself that he would be civil to Kenobi as befits a Jedi Master, but after four days his patience with his unwanted companion has grown as thin as a Tooka's whisker. Especially the last two nights when Kenobi has taken up with the Queen's handmaidens after dinner in the mess hall until late into the night. The mess unfortunately shares a wall with their berth, and he can hear their raucous games of sabacc, what he's pretty sure are poetry readings, and occasionally Kenobi's lilting voice singing lover's ballads --
Speak of the Sith and he shall appear.
Qui-Gon groans internally as the door slides open to reveal Kenobi performing the sort of overcomplicated bow down the hallway that would not look out of place in one of those Alderani "historical" holodramas.
"Good night, fairest ladies," Kenobi calls out -- and Force, Qui-Gon thought Rael was bad!
There's a flurry of giggles, before a chorus of "Goodnight, Ser Kenobi"s comes from the handmaidens.
He's mollified to note that Kenobi's garments are undisturbed, the folds still crisp. Not that anything too untoward could have happened in a place as public as the mess hall.
Tonight it seems the handmaidens have elected to play with Kenobi's hair, arranging it in a braid that encircles his head like a crown. Kenobi's hair is still too short to do a proper version of the style, and short pieces hair stand out from his head. The handmaidens have covered these in some sort of wax that makes them curl up sharply at the tips.
Kenobi looks like a sun-bleached Zabrak.
"Good evening, Master Jinn," Kenobi takes a seat on the bunk opposite of Qui-Gon's, and begins to undo the braid, held in place with what is revealed to be an alarming number of pins.
"Kenobi," he replies, but it comes out sounding hostile so he adds, "You seem to have been having fun."
Force, that came out even worse.
Kenobi lets out a vague hum in response, running his fingers along his scalp to break up the last of the braid.
"Rabé was eager to experiment. Apparently Stewjoni hair is supposed to be more naturally inclined to sculptural styles than their own, and Eritaé and Sabé decided to join in."
"Not Padmé, then?" He's glad that not everyone seems to have fallen for "Ser" Kenobi's charms.
"No, I rather imagine the Queen has other things on her mind than pantomiming Courtly Love."
Kenobi reveals the Queen's identity so casually that Qui-Gon barely resists the urge to suck at his teeth - he can feel the ghostly cuffing of Master Dooku's palm on the back of his head every time he's tempted to.
My padawan will not act like a common farmer was the frequent rebuke.
Judging by the length of Kenobi's hair -- it's practically tradition for young Knights with hair to let it grow untamed for a time once they're no longer obligated to wear the traditional padawan cut -- Kenobi must have been knighted two to three years ago.
Qui-Gon thinks he may have received an invitation, but he'd been terribly busy with the mess in Ankorhajj that he absolutely couldn't tear himself away to attend something as frivolous as a lineage brother being knighted.
Then Master Dooku left the Order shortly afterwards and there hardly seemed a point in reconnecting with Kenobi at all. Their Master hadn't even deigned to leave a note.
"They're teenagers," He scolds, because while Qui-Gon's not unfamiliar with the concept of 'Courtly Love' in the Naboo sense, he's also aware how quickly attachments can form. Attachment has been the downfall of so many in their lineage...
"They're children preparing themselves to fight in a war," there's a flicker of what can only be described as an 'infinite sadness' in Kenobi's eyes, before the anger that Qui-Gon remembers most about Kenobi as a boy burns it away.
"The Naboo make a sport of Courtly Love. I'm already a lost cause by their rules, since my vows as a Jedi warn me away from developing the sort of jealousy required to even be capable of 'love' by their definition." Kenobi sighs and his anger cools, his gaze becoming distant.
"If pretending with them for a few hours every evening, however, keeps their minds off the horror that awaits them upon return to Naboo, then it's no hardship for me to entertain them."
Kenobi's expression becomes haughty and Qui-Gon is unpleasantly reminded of their mutual master. "It should comfort you to know that Captain Panaka has volunteered to act as their chaperone. He stopped looking ready to disembowel me after a couple hours last night and tonight started regaling us with the details of the courtship of his first wife. A romance worthy of a holodrama I believe was the consensus,"
Kenobi melodramatically collapses back into his bunk as if swooning.
This conversation is not going any place where Qui-Gon thought it would. He feels like he should apologize, but he's concerned that if he gives even a little that Kenobi will take a whole parsec. Their master certainly knew how to, and made certain to teach his padawans the skill.
"I should not have been so hasty in my judgement," Qui-Gon settles on. "I do not know you well enough to make such judgements about your character."
"And whose fault is that, brother," Kenobi replies with only the faintest hint of bitterness, as he sits back up and begins to remove his boots carefully.
They both sit in the uncomfortable silence that follows as Qui-Gon fights the urge to feel stung by Kenobi's accusation.
There was a grain of truth to it after all, at least from a certain point of view. Kenobi had messaged him multiple times in the early years of his padawanship, but there had always been something more important that needed Qui-Gon's attention immediately. Once Qui-Gon found the time to write a response months might have passed and he frequently found himself with nothing to say at all.
Eventually, Kenobi got the hint and the messages stopped.
Force, why couldn't Kenobi be satisfied that Qui-Gon had found him a master to make him into a knight and leave it at that?
Kenobi has moved on, placing his boots at the end of bunk, and standing as he begins removing his leather obi.
Kenobi pauses, staring into the dim red glow of the wall chronometer for a moment, before looking over his shoulder at Qui-Gon with an absolutely wicked look on his face.
"It's ten in the evening, Master Jinn, do you know where your padawan is?"
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reconstructwriter · 6 months
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So I Finally Finished Attack of the Clones
...for the very first time. When did this movie come out again? I am late, is there still room on this bandwagon? Anyway more thought vomiting on this movie...
Sith Pattern: I do appreciate that Palpatine is old, rich, white male fascist. Dooku is old, rich, white male fascist. Anakin shakes things up a bit by starting out young and poor but he’ll get there and has the rest down. Meanwhile our heroes are Padme Amidala, Mace Windu, Yoda, Bail, etc. Would have loved for George Lucas’ original casting of Obi Wan to have gone through! This does make Mirror!verses and morality flip AU's very weird because the Galaxy is being saved from aliens by three white guys? Unfortunate implications aside I can suspend a lot of disbelief about laser-swords and magic IN SPACE but I gotta draw the line somewhere.
Anakin’s attachment: Is well-shown here with convenient comparison to Cleigg – her husband and her son, the two who should love Shmi the most. At her funeral Cleigg is all ‘you’re in a better place. Thank you for the time we had,’ vs Anakin’s ‘I wasn’t strong enough to save you, I won’t fail again’ and ‘I miss you’. Exact opposites. Cleigg was entirely focused on Shmi while Anakin was focused on himself.
Also Anakin’s focus kinda screwed up Obi Wan’s mission when he wasted precious moments FINDING Anakin to get his galactically-important message through.
Mace Windu Not Killing Dooku: Shatterpoint, along with some fanfics, has Mace beating himself up for not ending the war by killing Dooku but my man you’re too hard on yourself! You only killed Jango when he decided to fuck around and find out with you in the death arena. Dooku did not fuck around and find out so your only chance would’ve been to throw away all your Jedi morals and stab him in the back! Thus risking becoming Darth Tyrannus 2.0 and screwing the galaxy.
Jango why did you fuck around and find out? I get Mace held a laser sword to your throat and you had a working jetpack going into the arena…but that arena is No Man’s Land. Even if Galidraan was canon you could’ve stayed back and taken pot shots.
The scene with Boba giving one last keldabe kiss to his father’s helmet is heartbreaking! Ouch!!!
Padme: So I kinda get being willing to confess her terrible taste in men on Space Fantasy Death Row. She doesn’t want to live a lie and is straight up expecting to die so what does it matter if she confesses? And then she does live so consequence time! Still feels like she’s ignoring the genocide – or George Lucas is ignoring the obvious implications. Genocide does work for foreshadowing Jedi genocide and Nazi comparisons (boy howdy does it!!!). But murdering every single member of an entire tribe down to the babes in arms doesn’t work for ‘Anakin doesn’t Fall here, he just dips his toe in the Dark’.
Padme otherwise doesn’t seem too terribly out of character throughout. She stands her ground against Anakin and where she does give in – rescuing Shmi – or chooses to go after Obi Wan? Well both did do her immensely big favors it’d be weirder if she brushed them off. Plus, rescuing both comes with additional benefits – no assassin will look for her on Tattooine (it worked before) and Obi Wan’s rescue could offer the opportunity to discuss peace with the Separatists before war happened.
And it did – in the cut scene :P
Dual with Dooku: So Anakin did put his duty first when Padme fell in the (barren, sans enemies) sand with an ally but damn if his attachment to her wasn’t still affecting him. The hot-headed idiotic attack was the worst possible timing! Why does everyone beat Mace up (including the man himself) for not killing Dooku but give Anakin a pass when he had every chance of ending the war Right There if he’d been able to keep his head on straight for two minutes.
The End: As with the first movie, we end with Mace and Yoda clearly knowing what the Sith are doing, though they're split with Mace believing Dooku while Yoda thinks its a trick. And I think they’re both right because I read somewhere Dooku and Palpatine were hoping to sow doubt between the Jedi and the Senate but also was telling the truth – from a certain point of view. Anyway, they aren't oblivious. Yoda straight up says the Shroud of the Dark Side has Fallen.
The last scene really drives that home! How the beginning of the war is the beginning of the Empire. The war kills the Republic and this is repeatedly smacked into our brains with the imagery of Palpatine standing at the head of everyone else, the most powerful Supreme Chancellor ever as the army of white-clad troopers marches out into the galaxy below him. The Destroyers lift off. The Empire’s freaking theme music plays.
Overall the movie had its high points and stinkers but that was a damn fine end!
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Quick question for the Star Wars fandom... for the Codywan/JangObi(Kenfetti?)/JangCodyWan(?) fandom:
If Cody travels back in time so far he hasn't even been cloned yet and wakes up in the body of Jango Fett and he still gets romantically entangled with Obi-wan, which ship is it?
I'm just. I was thinking about Desert Husbands, and also Time Travel Fix Its, because I love them, and thought, what if-
Obi-wan post series is finished with the Force Ghost nonsense, everything is fine and settled and Luke is bringing light and the Jedi teachings back to the Galaxy, and Yoda's still around and Anakin is finished being an asshat and there's no unfinished business he needs to attend to and he's really freaking tired even as a non-corporeal force entity so he's ready to just... dissolve back into the force.
Aaaaaaaaand he wakes up in his younger body in the mines of Bandomeer.
Meanwhile!
Vader got pissed that Old Ben pulled a final fast one, and wanted to hurt someone over Obi's "if you strike me down" vanishing act, so he took the cloak and light saber and went to find CC-2224 in the training facility where he's been training disappointments the new storm trooper recruits. Vader turns off Cody's chip, gives him just enough time to catch his balance, reveals Obi-wan was alive the entire time, them shoves the cloak and light saber at him and dashes that hope that hadn't even had chance to take root.
And Cody's just like "excuse me sir, the General's marching ahead, I think it's time I caught up." an just walks off. Vader considers it a win and goes back to what he was doing.
And Cody dies quietly in his sleep. (It's the perfect alibi for the entire facility being blown up by "insurgents".)
Aaaaaaaaand he wakes up in the body of a young(ish) Jango Fett on Korda Six. (He has all of Jango's memories to date. And all of Jango's memories up to his death on Geonosis depending on whether or not that creates more trauma/identity crisis.)
And then the duo quietly unscrew the fate of the galaxy, the Haat Mando'ade, and the Jedi. And then they get married or something, I don't know. probably some trip related angst first though.
but is it still (only) Codywan?
also: If Jangobi no korda6/galidraan au, Jango goes under cover and introduces himself with "Cody" as his cover name, does it count as Codywan? (I feel like "no but easter egg"?)
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twinterrors29 · 7 months
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Kenfetti Beauty and the Beast AU
it all began on Galidraan
Jango and his Haat'ade were getting ready to leave the planet in a hurry after spotting the Governor secretly meeting with Kyr'tsad
as they were finishing their packing, they were approached by a dark, hooded figure who introduced himself as 'Sifo-Dyas', a Jedi summoned by the Governor to arrest them
Jango immediately decided to call bullshit and started shooting, backed up by the rest of the company
which is when the disguised Dooku activated his Sith Trap Card
Jango's armor lost its color as the rest of the crew disappeared
when Jango demanded that 'Sifo-Dyas' tell him how to break the curse, the 'Jedi' then smugly informed Jango that the only way would be to kill the entire Jedi Order, for as long as they stood together there would be power behind the spell
Jango is then left to stew in his guilty grief for a few years, letting the anger and resentment for the Jedi grow into hatred, before he was approached by a Sith by the name of Darth Tyrannus, who had heard a rumor that Jango had a grudge against the Jedi Order, and would like to hire him for a very specific venture
but first, he needed Jango to explain the nature of his grievance against the Order as part of the 'vetting' process
after listening to Jango's account, Tyrannus 'theorizes' that the Jedi destroyed the Haat'ade's bodies and have been holding their souls for power
(which is actually somewhat accurate, if you replace 'Jedi' with 'Sith')
and then laid out the outline of the Kamino project
he emphasizes that the clones would be soulless vessels, who might prove suitable hosts for the freed souls of the Haat'ade if their plan succeeds and Jango is able to enact their revenge by killing the Order
so Jango agreed
ten more years pass, with Jango working alone on Kamino with the scientists to create their perfect clone army
and then a Jedi Knight landed on Kamino
Jango duly reported this development to Tyrannus, who ordered him to lead the Jedi to Geonosis to kick off the war
Jango's attempt to flee the planet to lead the Jedi was unsuccessful however, explosively so: both of their ships were destroyed in their fight as Knight Kenobi caught up to him a little too early, stranding them both on Kamino with little ability to communicate with their allies off-planet
they both figure that those allies will come to investigate/rescue them soon, with Jango secretly confident that Tyrannus or whoever he would send to check will reach them first since he knows where they are and was expecting him to arrive shortly on Geonosis
so they reached an uneasy truce to tolerate each other until that time, and that they will stay within sight of each other throughout that time to preempt any betrayal
Kenobi, of course, insisted on continuing to investigate the creation of this clone army and its purpose, dragging an annoyed Jango along with him as he interviewed many of the scientists and started getting to know the clones themselves
these conversations left Jango increasingly suspicious of Tyrannus' assertions that the clones are soulless, leaving him to wonder how much of the rest of his claims and promises were also lies
and then Obi-Wan uncovered the true purpose of the army, and the nature of Jango's own vendetta
and Obi-Wan revealed the fact that Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas has been dead far longer than the Haat'ade have been gone
and Jango realized that he'd been used, manipulated from the start
which was, of course, the moment that Tyrannus finally arrived on Kamino to tie up the loose end that Kenobi represented, also serving the purpose of a provocation for the Republic to enter war with the Separatists after Count Dooku killed a Jedi after 'uncovering' that the Order had been building an army for the Republic
but Jango had come to the realization that everything he thought he knew about the 'Jedi Curse' was a lie
that the Haat'ade were long gone, almost certainly dead
and that Obi-Wan, whose integrity he'd grown to trust, had only ever tried to help him find the truth
so when Dooku won the duel against Obi-Wan, he intervened and killed Dooku instead
Obi-Wan immediately recognized what Jango had done for him: he'd just killed the only hope he'd had of saving his people, or even finding out what had really happened to them
Obi-Wan pulled Jango into Keldabe Kiss, to show his trust and gratitude for saving him
and there's no love truer than that: saving someone at great cost to yourself, and then receiving love and trust in return, no need for romance
and there's no stronger curse breaker than true love's kiss
as the color bleeds back into Jango's armor, there are suddenly a lot of fully armored Mando'ade in the halls around them
once they all recovered a bit, they all stole the clones together to help prevent the war from kicking off and move to Mandalore to advise (heckle) Obi-Wan's ex, the Duchess Satine, and end up uncovering and chasing off several less savory (cough corrupt cought) members of her government on her behalf, starting with Governor Pre Vizsla, Senator Tal Merrick, and even Prime Minister Almec
and they all lived happily ever after
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itstimeforstarwars · 3 months
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I like to flip between Dooku being the wise and knowledgeable master who is the epitome of wisdom and Dooku doing some absolute dumb shit that you would expect from Qui-Gon.
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crispyjenkins · 2 years
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I do love Jango having a lower midi-chlorian count than the average rock, but how about this- Jango is found by the Jedi, Obi Wan taken in by Jaster. They meet on Galidraan. Jango isn't meant to be there, he has a vision or sees the mission info and has a feeling. Either way, the force has apparently decided its his job to save a random mandalorian (the random mandalorian, who can't be any older than him, turns out to be the mand'alor. There goes hoping he can keep this quiet from the council)
(well howdy do would you look at that, jango's got the force visions now
there was not supposed to be so much Yearning on jango's part, but well. what am i if not a writer of jangobi longing
also sorry if the Force bits are a little hard to read: i want them to be all mooshed together to like. convey how rushed and confusing they are. but also i have dyslexia. so i’m trying out this way)
  The captain of the Mandalorians they had been sent to deal with is... even younger than Jango is.
  He freezes after managing to knock said human’s helmet clean off, watching their head jerk with the blow, watching their flushed, freckled face flinch in momentary pain before twisting into a snarl with blood in their teeth.
nothimnothimdonotharmhimdonotharmhim
 Jango stares breathlessly at the scowling man before him and barely manages to dodge the ferocious swing of a Mandalorian sword right at his face. He stumbles back a few steps, wildly bringing up his blue lightsaber to deflect the next blow, and it’s only with the realisation that his opponent must have a sword made of beskar that Jango realises the importance of the Mandalorian coming at him with cold rage saturating the Force between them.
lostlostheislosthelphelphimhemust comebackdonotharmhimdonotharmhim
  Jango leaps backwards to put some distance between them and nearly careens right into a snowdrift, stumbling on landing and leaving his defense wide open; Master Tahl is absolutely going to have his ass on drills for months if he even manages to survive thi—
  Except the Mandalorian doesn’t take advantage of Jango’s opening, instead stilling right where Jango had left him.
  The battle continues on the other side of the ravine, Jango unsure when he had gotten so far away from his fellow Jedi, and the cold air only amplifies the echoing blasterfire and ’saber strikes and screaming. This is hardly the first skirmish Jango has been a part of, but for some reason, it feels infinitely more important than any other battle he’s been in before.
  Looking up at the teenager that can only be the kriffing, Force-damned Mand’alor, maybe it isn’t so mysterious a reason.
  And the Mand’alor stares right back at him, heaving breaths painting the air before their parted lips in clouds, lips that Jango had bruised and split with the blow landed to their head. Lips that are no longer snarling, the Mand’alor instead furrowing their brow at Jango in confusion, with their sword angled in front of themself in defense.
  Fuck fuck fuck fuck, knocking their helmet off was a fucking mistake, because now Jango has to watch blood drip from their nose over a perfect cupid’s bow, down a chin with an endearing scattering of moles, and has to meet eyes so brown they’re almost black even in the harsh sunlight reflecting off the snow.
yesyesyesyesyeshemustlive
  Their hair is a perfect copper-red, Jango notes a tad hysterically, cut short to not be a bother inside the helmet, but with two braids framing their face in front of either ear, not... not unlike a padawan braid, actually. A simple, black metal circlet rests on their forehead with the majority disappearing into their hair, a single red gem in the center matching the Mand’alor’s black and red armour perfectly.
  A slightly-crooked nose implies a break that had not healed properly, and they have a smattering of small scars on their right cheek, a couple clipping through their eyebrow, that could have only been caused by shrapnel. The tatters of a red rapier cape hang from one shoulder, having seen much better days with a large stain taking up what little of it Jango can see. A blood stain.
hisnothishisbuirhelosthisbuirheis tooyoungaking
  To the Jedi’s knowledge, the Mand’alor was a middle-aged human man, so his death must have been recent because the Temple certainly hasn’t heard about a shift in leadership until now. Amd the last Mand’alor must have been this one’s family, Jango realises, for why else would he have taken up the mantle so young?
  Jango himself is not yet twenty, and the teen before him is obviously several years younger still. He can’t even imagine what that sort of responsibility is like: he’s not due for the knight trials for at least another five years, if not more, which says nothing of the decades until mastership, and even more to qualify for Head of the Order. How can someone even younger than him lead and care for an entire people? 
  Actually, that thought makes Jango suddenly question this whole mess of a mission. Why would an incredibly new ruler suddenly attack protestors on a planet far out of their borders? If it was a contract, why would they have taken it at all? He suddenly questions how easy it would have been to manipulate a teenager into a vulnerable position, especially if said manipulators wished them harm.
  And isn’t that the saying? All are enemies of Mandalorians (especially other Mandalorians.) Who doesn’t wish them harm these days?
  A shift of boots over snow wrenches Jango back to the very present problem of facing down the actual Mand’alor of the actual Supercommandos of the actual Mandalorians. Don’t the Supercommandos have a creed of as little violence as possible? 
  His distraction costs him this time, the Mand’alor shifting their grip on their sword before snarling that perfect face again and launching themself at Jango. He barely gets his ’saber up in time, but is still slammed onto his back into the snow, knocking the breath from his chest and leaving him panting.
  Panting as the Mand’alor straddles his chest and bears all their weight down on their connected blades. Instead of afraid, or panicked, or even offended, Jango feels nothing but awe as he as he’s forced to stare at the teen above him, entranced by brown eyes that turn the inky purple of Wild Space in the blue sparking light of beskar against kyber, as this Wild Mandalorian tries to take his head 0ff. And Jango is no poet (despite Master Tahl’s continuous effort), but if he could simply name the colours that ripple over their face in infinitely more shades than blue, Jango thinks he would make a very fine poet indeed.
  Now if the Force would just allow him the time to start counting them.
yesyesyesyesyES
savehim.
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phoenixyfriend · 2 years
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In which the Obitine baby is mostly for politics, but at least a little to piss off Jango
Setting: For whatever reason, Korda VI and Galidraan haven't happened. Jaster is Mand'alor, Jango his heir. The True and the New are working together relatively successfully. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon did have the mission with Satine, because Death Watch is still a thing.
Slightly post-TPM. Obi-Wan needs to do a mission in Mandalorian space. He brings Anakin with him, but he can't bring the kid to a lot of the mission bits, which means that Anakin gets left with Bo-Katan as his babysitter, as often as not.
Premise: Now, Jango, deeply infatuated with Obi-Wan, and jealous that Obi-Wan wants to visit with Satine regularly. Jango has been contemplating proposing to Obi-Wan, who is... well, he respects Jango as a fighter, and the sex was decent, but he's not interested in anything more than the hookup. Most of the AU would be from Jango's POV, with occasional bits from Jaster or Obi-Wan, who are very tired of his nonsense.
And I just think.
It would be really funny if Obi-Wan avoided sex with Jango for this entire mission, with Jango building up his hopes and dreams and getting ever more infatuated... and then at the end it comes out that Obi-Wan had snuck off to see Satine multiple times in private (because Jango was being a jealous moron who was trying to monopolize his time). Satine, during those meetings, had asked Obi-Wan for a very particular favor: get her pregnant.
She needs an heir, eventually. She's never built up an interest in anyone else (it's not true love, though she does still love him; she's just really demi). Since her father is still alive and she's of a decent age to do it safely, she'd like to get a pregnancy over with, and time with her child, before she has to take over as Duchess. If the Duke retires when Satine is thirty, then she'll have at least four or five years with her child before she has to be a greater target for assassinations than she already is.
(And by that point, if the baby is Force Sensitive, then it'll be about the right age to go to the Temple instead.)
Obi-Wan is the obvious choice for baby daddy. She still loves him, and she knows from prior experience that he's a blast to have in bed, and she has a backup plan if a war breaks out for a safe place to send the kid, even if they're not Sensitive. Obi-Wan's into her, and he's not interested in fighting for custody or marrying her for power, and she's maybe fantasized about what their kids could look like.
With the knowledge that Satine is fully aware of how Obi-Wan can't be around to marry her or be a 'proper' father, and that she's certainly wealthy enough to raise the child on her own, Obi-Wan sees no problem with this. He pings the Council to let them know, gets approval, and goes ahead with enough sexytimes during her ovulation period to Make Baby.
Anyway. Just the mental image of Jango pining away throughout the mission, and at the very end when Obi-Wan is ready to leave, he's about to propose... and instead, Satine comes running up to Obi-Wan like "it worked! I'm pregnant! We're having a baby!"
Delighted noises and hugging and Obi-Wan spins her around in congratulation. He's a bit confused at first because, well, she's having a baby, he's just a sexy sperm donor, not they, but then he sees her glance at Jango when the latter can't see and it's like Oh, You Wanted Him To Know It's Mine.
Anakin is incredibly excited to have a little sibling. No, no, you cannot tell him this is not a little sibling. Satine's baby is also Obi's baby, and Obi's baby is Anakin's sibling. So there.
Bo-Katan is just glad that Anakin's leaving, because she's really tired of digging him out of the fighter ship engines. The kid is not qualified to be messing around with those! How does he keep escaping her to fuck with hyperspace engines! GET BACK HERE.
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WIP Game
Rules: Make a 24-hour poll with the names of your wips, let it run, then write one sentence for every vote the winner received.
Oh lord how many slots do you get for these polls? Someone save my soul. These are the ones that I haven't finished yet (or rather 10 of them as I recently learned). XD
Thanks for the tag @bluemaskedkarma
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Generation swaps, role-reversals & remixes on the mission to Mandalore (III)
Obi-Wan is one of the Knights sent to Galidraan. After the massacre, he has a screaming match with Master Dooku, leaves the Order on the spot and sets out on a one-man mission to investigate what happened, track down the survivors, and wipe out those responsible, starting with the governor of Galidraan and the Death Watch. It snowballs from there.
Obi-Wan is one of the Knights sent to Galidraan. After the massacre, he has a screaming match with his (grand)master Dooku, who led the mission. Riddled with guilt, he leaves the Order on the spot and sets out to investigate what happened. He tracks down and rescues the survivors, sets out on a one-man mission to wipe out whoever thought to use the Jedi as their executioners starting with the governor of Galidraan and the Death Watch, figures out they also were pawns for someone else, and it sort of accidentally snowballs from there.
Plus:
- Obi-Wan goes about his revenge mission wearing one of the downed men’s armour, avenging them in their stead. That, combined with his use of the force, of course sets off rumours about the ghost of one of the fallen warriors/the Ka’ra exacting their revenge. (I don’t know who first started the idea of Mando’ade carrying out revenge in the stead of the fallen, wearing their armour, but kudos to them!) Alternatively, the armour could of course be stolen off of the body of some Kyr’tsad that got in Obi-Wan’s way.
- The armour? It’s entirely silver, of course. Obi-Wan probably semi-accidentally becomes one of those traditional types who never take off their buckets—he’s not in this for glory, he really does not want to be known. So it’s easy to just… not take the helmet off and let people think what they will.
- Obi-Wan maybe, falls, a little bit, either during the Battle of Galidraan or when wiping out Death Watch. That might be the other half of the reason why he leaves the Order so abruptly. And another reason to feel guilty, because he *also* failed the Jedi.
- Obi-Wan might be Dooku’s padawan (in place of Komari Vosa) or maybe just grandpadawan but with an actual relationship with his grandmaster. That’s why he feels doubly betrayed that Dooku didn’t listen to his concerns on the mission and also doubly guilty because it was his (grand)master’s poor decisions that majorly contributed to the disaster.
- In this AU, Obi-Wan could have had a mission to Mandalore in his youth, but I think it would be more poignant if he learned Mandalorian culture to respect the fallen and not for some random past mission. Maybe he gets a start on this when he returns the armour of the fallen to their families (maybe he googled Mando burial customs way back on Galidraan and found out that it’s something you’re supposed to do). Some clans would probably just as soon shoot him, but at least some people probably see a guilt-ridden young man and promptly sit him down and stuff him full of tiingilar. Maybe Obi-Wan has been leaving the armour on their figurative doorsteps in the dark of night; some venerable Mandalorian grandma has heard about it and parks herself on her doorstep to ambush whoever is going to bring her grandson’s armour home. Maybe one of those families and the stories they share is the start of his Death Watch hunt. Maybe they approve and gift him the set of armour he tried to return. Maybe that Mandalorian grandma is/was an armourer, even? Or maybe returning the armour is just such an integral part of the culture that the custom is respected even if the families would prefer to spit on the person returning it.
- In canon, the Jedi are sort of portrayed as one-man armies. Maybe here we’d get to see why they’re so kriffing dangerous and just how much damage one truly pissed off (fallen) Jedi really can cause.
- Obi-Wan could find a lead on survivors having been rounded up and at least some sold to slavery. This might include more people than Jango (I know canon says Jango was the only survivor but I find it unlikely, unless the other survivors were executed and dumped in a shallow grave). Tracking down and rescuing any survivors might be the first step in his not-really-a-plan.
- After slaughtering the slavers, rescuing the survivors and dumping them in various medical facilities on his way, Obi-Wan finds his guilt is not assuaged at all and sets out to hunt down whoever thought to use the Jedi as their executioners, starting with the governor of Galidraan and the Death Watch.
- In his investigations, he uncovers a trail leading to republic entities… and certain Sith and their plots. And, well, his guilt is still eating him up alive (or maybe that’s the uncontrolled dark side), so dirty politicians and the Sith become next on his shit list.
- And if, while tracking down the Sith, he also finds some Sith artefacts, holocrons or books—well, the better to know his enemy.
- Maybe Obi-Wan’s uncontrolled Fall took that kernel of real guilt and grew it into something else entirely. And we’d get to see not just why Jedi are so kriffing dangerous, but why Fallen Jedi are doubly so. Whether he realises it or not, Obi-Wan is probably not capable of stopping at this point. And since his whole spiral sort of coincidentally centred on the Haat Mando’ade, Jango—being the Mand’alor—is probably the only one who could make him stop (not that Jango has any reason to think so).
- I don’t know how, but part of Obi-Wan’s self-appointed mission could eventually grow to include reparations, not just revenge. Maybe he figures out how to make a resurgence of Haat’ Mando’ad politics happen? Maybe he points the Jedi Agricorps towards Manda’yaim? Maybe he eventually funnels his ill-gotten gains from Sith accounts to Mandalorian funds for environmental reclamation/supporting orphans/their adoptive families/moderate political parties? Maybe he meets Jango and after they’ve both done some healing, it’s Jango who says enough revenge, work on improving Manda’yaim instead? Maybe that’s how he finally gets his happy(ish) ending instead of burning out in a blaze of glory after all his enemies have been slain. He doesn’t necessarily return to the light side after however many years or decades of the dark, but his Mand’alor’s command helps him redirect the dark.
- Maybe the resurgence of moderate politics is entirely/at least half accidental? Maybe at that point, Obi-Wan has obtained the Darksaber and has been visibly using it on his mission (since he gave up his own lightsaber when he resigned), accidentally inflating the legend of the avenging ghost/Ka’ra even more. Maybe after obtaining the Darksaber, he’s been leaving some of the rank and file of Death Watch alive, provided they swear to the Resol’nare and go forth living their lives according to the Supercommando Codex. And what are you supposed to do when the Ka’ra themselves come down to take the symbol of the Mand’alor off of your leader’s hands and command you to dedicate your life to following The Way? Some of them go home to their families, but some start contributing to the resurgence of Haat Mando’ade.
- Obi-Wan has a whole speech(tm), telling the Death Watch that they’re already dead, but they can choose to die as dar’manda and have their names forgotten, or be reborn as mando’ade, swear to follow the Resol’nare, and take a cin vhetin.
- When Jango finally catches up to this ghost that’s been plaguing him (he was high on spice when he got rescued and is half-convinced he hallucinated the whole thing), he has his worldview rearranged a bit. The vengeful ghost of the fallen is actually one of the Jetiise (even worse, the one who finally managed to subdue him?), avenging the fallen in the name of the Haat’ade. And, maybe, almost singlehandedly engineering a resurgence of their politics—of which not an insignificant part are actually ex-Kyr’tsad. The emotional whiplash is enough to unmoor him, a bit (it’s so right yet so wrong).
- At that point Obi-Wan, without entirely noticing it, has been in truth living as a Mandalorian for years. He wears the armour, he honours the code. It’s not a cover, it’s not planned: it’s just the actions his own honour demanded, so he did it without thinking too hard about it. He fucked up, so it’s his duty to fix things because the Haat’ade can’t. It’s partly his fault their traditions are in danger of dying out, so it’s his duty to make sure they don’t. That sort of thing. Of course, he’s entirely uncomfortable when it’s pointed out to him that at this point, he’s a mando’ad, whether he likes it or not (he likes it, he just doesn’t believe he deserves it).
- Your choice how much the legend of the avenging ghost affects Jango’s actions. Maybe he doesn’t take the Kamino job? Maybe he does and the Ghost ends up as one of the Cuy’val Dar? Maybe Obi-Wan tracks down the operation at some point and promptly sets about stealing an army and repatriating them (in Mandalorian space, since giving an army to the Republic and all its dirty politicians is not in line with Obi-Wan’s thinking in this AU)?
- Maybe Kamino is where Obi-Wan and Jango’s paths cross again. Instead of one soaking wet Jedi(tm), Jango meets the Avenging Ghost, in full unpainted beskar’gam, carrying the Darksaber, framed by a Kaminoan thunderstorm. Up to this point, mind you, Jango had thought the whole thing had been a spice hallucination. He has his worldview rearranged a bit, and when Obi-Wan tells him that they’re going to steal the clones, he… doesn’t say no. So far, Obi-Wan’s revenge operation has been objectively getting much better results than his own plan anyway. (And maybe, Obi-Wan with his… everything—beskar’gam, Darksaber, blood of his enemies, red-gold hair and golden eyes—is as close to an avenging angel as a Mandalorian gets. Jango is maybe not entirely convinced he *hasn’t* been sent by the Ka’ra.)
- What are the Jedi doing in the meanwhile? This sort of revenge mission would be grounds for hunting down a darksider, I’d imagine. Maybe Dooku, himself shaken by the events on Galidraan, delivers Obi-Wan’s resignation to the council but neglects to mention his Fall. Maybe he does report it, but the Jedi have no jurisdiction in Mandalorian space and after Galidraan, they dare not send in even Shadows. Maybe one of the Jedi donning Mandalorian armour after what happened is the last thing anyone (Jedi or Mando’ad) would think and it ends up being just the disguise needed to evade pursuit. Of course, then the rumours start, but if Jedi Shadows ever follow up, all they find are the same trails Obi-Wan did. Or maybe Obi-Wan knows exactly how the Jedi security works and uses his master’s/grandmaster’s/some random council member’s access codes to stay up to date on what’s going on on their end (at least until Dooku himself quits the Order).
- Of course at some point while Obi-Wan is off doing his thing, Dooku leaves the Order, Falls in with the Sith, and hires Jango for the job on Kamino. Two very different reactions by two different Jedi who were on Galidraan. Obi-Wan might respect Dooku’s thing with the Separatists, but the clones? As a commenter pointed out, the clones put Dooku squarely on Obi-Wan’s list.
Alternatively:
- If Obi-Wan doesn’t leave the Order on the spot, he might go back to the temple and request a transfer to the Jedi Shadows, making it his mission to uncover the truth, make reparations happen and make sure it never happens again.
- Maybe one technique Obi-Wan might use is publishing the data he extracts/forwarding it to the judicial/law enforcement, then later mindtricking/hacking into their files and stealing the results of their investigations? Maybe he pretends to be a Jedi Shadow to gain the help/resources of law enforcement? And that’s one way how his one-man operation gets outsized results.
How did the Jedi find out they were in the wrong AND yet before that manage to turn their captives to the governor?
- Maybe the timeline goes something like this: the Jedi mop up, turn the living captives to the authorities, burn the bodies. Obi-Wan, badly shaken, is adamant about respecting the traditions of the fallen, whether they’re enemies or friends (SOP for Jedi as far as I’m concerned). So he volunteers to return their armour. Only when he does that, he finds out the real story in pieces: the Haat’ade were contracted for a job, the political landscape at home and the motivations of Kyr’tsad—and that several warriors neither made it home, had their armour returned, or their families informed about their imprisonment. Not one of them has had a word, and most incriminatingly, their leader is MIA. The Mandalorian news are all over the matter too, now that someone is there to translate for him. Obi-Wan connects the dots and realises that the detainees the Jedi turned over never made it into the legitimate judicial system. And that the Jedi were operating under false information. That’s the real turning point: so far, there’s been a niggling feeling of wrongness about the mission, a feeling of missing something crucial, and of course the un acknowledged struggle to keep the creeping darkness at bay. But now he feels the ground dropping away. This, perhaps, is the real point of no return fall. So Obi-Wan sets out back to Galidraan post haste, interrogates the governor, realises he is just as guilty as he feared, turns his mind into a pulp pulling out every last bit of intel, and kills him. In a very graphic, warning to your enemies kind of way. Possibly digs Jango’s armour and weapons out of the governor’s storage and stabs one of Jango’s blades through his heart. He ransacks their office for leads on the captives, finds some, and sets out on a fevered hunt before the trail goes completely cold and the survivors disappear into the vast darkness of the galaxy. He also finds incriminating information about the Kyr’tsad’s role in the events, so whenever his hunt for the survivors stalls, he goes kill some Death Watch. Or maybe his hunt stalls, so he goes to raid a few bases for information. He finds some survivors alive, and he finds some dead. And oh boy, those deaths that happened after his hunt started hit hard, each a personal failure. And his first massacre of a Kyr’tsad base probably happens after one of those. And there are some he never finds, but never stops looking either, and maybe that’s how he stumbles on the information on the Sith: because he just has to keep digging no matter what. But eventually his leads on the missing peter out and his mission turns more into avenging the dead, slaughtering the guilty. It would be great to get closure and find everyone, but that’s not how the world works—and besides, that incompleteness of his task is a great force feeding his spiral into the dark side, so it works for storytelling. Maybe at some point he manages to cross everyone off his list and regain some balance, before truly setting off to hunt the Sith and eventually stumble upon Jango again. That could be a timeskip, even, or some subplot/turning point, that sort of reframing from acute hunt for survivors into hunt for the Sith and making reparations.
- Or maybe Obi-Wan wants to return the armour but realises he doesn’t know who to return it to. He goes to ask the local law enforcement if he could talk to the detained people and ask them. Only… either he can’t, which is incredibly suspicious, or he can and they tell him exactly where the Jedi failed. Actually, the Jedi probably should want to question the survivors they captured to close the case and write their report. Maybe the local law enforcement insists that they’re going to do it and provide the Jedi with the intel. Or maybe it turns into posturing about who has jurisdiction (which is probably really common problem/source of delays for Jedi). Or maybe the governor of Galidraan/Kyr’tsad try to make it look like there are outstanding warrants on Mandalore and the captives should be turned in to them. Either way there’s a delay/confusion/an attempt to make the prisoners to disappear into the system. Or maybe the Jedi are relieved to turn over jurisdiction to the Galidraan, and Obi-Wan doesn’t get any backup when his questions aren’t answered. Makes me wonder just exactly how Jango ended up on that spice freighter? Maybe it’s not a case of manipulating there system but a case of not following any procedure in the first place, the governor being little more than a despot?
- Either way, there’s this moment when they’re mopping up after a mission that turned into an epic clusterkark, and something just doesn’t add up or feel right, prompting the Jedi/Obi-Wan to investigate a little further. But it takes a few days to get to that point and in that time, the prisoners are already taken off-world.
- Why don’t the Jedi ever follow up and attempt a rescue, if they do figure out they were duped (trail going cold, lack of manpower, what)? Is the whole matter swept under the carpet? Or maybe the better question is when and how do the Jedi figure that out? Maybe the Order doesn’t, and it’s Obi-Wan who does. He then reports it to the Council, and his disagreement with the Order and resignation actually happen at that point, maybe (partially) over how the Order chooses to react to the news.
Or perhaps:
- Obi-Wan starts hunting down the survivors, destroying and accidentally turning the death watch, and at some point, it turns into a mythic quest for the missing Mand’alor, which manages to reunite large swaths of mandalorians in a common cause. And maybe when the specific trails for Jango go cold, Obi-Wan and his ramikade launch a full-scale operation against slavery in the Outer Rim, hoping they’ll eventually hit Jango or information about him. By the time they find Jango, not only has Obi-Wan been living as a mando for years, he’s been acting as the commander of the oriramikade and warming the Mand’alor’s seat. Probably fully half of Jango’s people are calling him Mand’alor behind his back and a number of them (including various ex-slaves) are following him because of personal loyalty, not his quest to find the missing Mand’alor.
- There’s probably a veritable mythos of rumours about Mandalore the Lost/Missing and Mandalore the Seeker/Liberator, and no one outside the system can be entirely certain what the leadership situation actually is.
- That story might work better if Jango’s been coerced into the clone contract by some Sith mind-trick which Obi-Wan breaks. They then decide to steal the clones and launch a war against the Sith. And now the Sith have a war on their doorstep—only it’s a few years too early and it’s not the war they had been planning, but angry Mandalorians out for blood.
The fic where the idea of Mando’ade carrying out revenge in the stead of the fallen wearing their armour came from might have been Tea & Fire by AppoApples, https://archiveofourown.org/works/40090614/chapters/100404453
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Okay, I'm compiling fics in one place, because I know my memory and I will forget shit and end up on a three-hour search for things again and it's just... Lost fics will also be here for when I find them.
Note: these summaries are actually the little pieces that I remember them by, so... not terribly accurate. Be warned.
The one with Argicorps member Obi and the potato sprouts: Put your empty hands in mine by K_R_Closson.
The one with Jango meeting Obi during Melida/Daan and being the one that brings him into the Mandalorian world: Stewjoni Traits. by TessaVance.
The one where Cody and Senator Obi end up together and meet Nield and Cerasi from MeliDaan: A Heart's Revolution by thevalesofanduin.
The one where female Obi gets married to Jango after their both held captive and she hides things in her hair: The Mandalorian Entanglement by InvisibleSilence.
The one where there's bird people and Fem!Obi attracts the attention of the queen: The Path of Rain by sirladyknight.
The one where Stewjon people leave unwanted children at the edge of a forest:
The one with an SI/OC that goes 'Nope!' every time they see Krell: An Ocean of Paths and Links by Maginary.
The one where Obi was married to Jango, ran away but was brought back years later with Anakin: The Dragon King by Shelaar (JonathanAnubian).
The one with the flowers: The Brute Divine by catboydogma.
The one where Obi is a medic and still falls in love with Cody: We’ll Meet Again by little_dumpling.
The three with Jango and courting via knife sheath: Kal'Koora by MusicSoul1982. Sheath and Dagger by Llamaal. Mandalorian Courtship by Lyricalvillain.
The one where Galidraan goes differently and a Jedi helps Mandos find Jango in a spice freighter/The one where Jedi help a group of Mando children stuck in comas: Defying Expectations by Thunder_and_Tea.
The one where the clones get mass adopted by Mandalorians: You Could Be My Luck (Safe and Sound) by SkybreakPrime.
That one with Mandalorian Obi kicking ass and taking names with a pet strill: Strangers Like Me by K_R_Closson.
The one where time-traveling Obi calls Jaster to help with Melid/Daan: Who you are today (is not who you have to be tomorrow) by wildimaginingsofhalfbakedideas
The one where Krell was captured on Umbara and put in a cell for wanting to be a Sith: Just this once, captain, everyone lives.
The one with the Kasava fruit: patron saint by spqr.
The one where Jaster shows up in the halls of healing to see padawan Obi/The one where Obi saves Depa from a holocron: The Star (-17) by handdrawnisopach.
The one where Obi becomes padawan to a wookie and there's a holocron of his father: No Absolutes by Eff_Dragonkiller.
The one with the doors depicting battles: Unintended Consequences by sparkly_seagull. and The Slave's Gambit by bgyeetusthefetus.
Fics about Jedi braids and beads:
Where Obi gets beads from everyone who loves him: You Are Wanted Obi-Wan Kenobi by Allwalkfree
Where he's adopted into a family of librarians: The Librarian’s Padawan by Mithril_and_Acorns (Feemor!!!)
With the Beskar bread from Feemor: Of Crechemasters and Archivists and Outtakes by Mithril_and_Acorns
Defying Expectations has a part about beads too.
Guard Feemor fics: list
The one where fem!Obi-Wan goes back all sneaky like to a compound where she was held prisoner: Ner Mesh'la Cyar'ika by wearethewitches.
The one where Jaster goes 'I have your kid- oh, wait, no! fuck! I meant we found your baby Jedi!': Buir by SkybreakPrime.
The one with time traveling Obi painting his beskar 212 gold/orange: (and now I lay myself down) and hope I wake up young again by cjwritesfanficnow
The one with the fanfic writing clone: Clone Company Companion by therehavebeenworsenames.
The AU with the unintentional Jedi shrine and safe place: they're neutral by deniigiq.
The one where Obi-Wan adopts all the clones. It's Buir Obi-Wan: He Let the Bounty Hunter Go by Lemonsunset
The one with post-war clone happiness/establishing their lives: Post here.
The one where Obi-wan and Jaster steal Bacta Robin Hood-style, making it more affordable by printing the code to make it across the internet: The Gift by handdrawnisopach, SniperAnon (The_Big_Reveal).
That one with the cave in where Obi-Wan rescued padawans from the corps: To Be Free Once More (That's Worth Fighting For) by Batsutousai
That fic where Obi-Wan, Quinlan and Bruck get trapped in a mediation with Sifo-Dyas before Obi-Wan brings them out: The Temple by me_again.
The one where Young Obi-Wan is sold to a spice frieghter instead of the deep sea mines, meets Jango there and they become family: Mand'alor bal Kaysh Vod'ika (The Mand'alor and His Brother) by sometimes_i_right
The one where young Obi-wan and Quinlan have a force bond, and can feel baby Maul through the force, and call him 'brother in the dark': The Temple by me_again.
That one with dualsex Obi, who was previously with Quinlan who wasn't attracted to his 'feminine parts': When You Say Nothing, You Miss the Understanding by MusicSoul1982
When Plo Koon has both the knife and gift in his hands (metaphorically): A Mandalorian Guide on How To Save the Jedi in Just Three Easy Steps by miyaji_08
The one with the mouse droids who go after ankles: Mando'jekai jedi by Anonymous.
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