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Alpha-17 and Obi-Wan being friends (derogatory) on 17's part and friends (threatening) on Obi-Wan's part is such an underrated dynamic

They could be so funny and terrifying, like Obi-Wan went through a soul shredding experience with Alpha-17 as his only company. They're friends because what else are you gonna be after you witness each other at absolute rock bottom from torture.

It's like 'dog put in cage of cheetah who's threatening to go crazy', except the dog is a grizzly bear and also threatening to go crazy.

Emotional support trooper except the trooper in question has never done any sort of supporting in his life and is actively an emotional distress trooper to a great number of the CC batch.

I want them texting everyday, I want Obi-Wan mailing handmade BFF bracelets to Alpha and Alpha sending pics back of him flipping off the camera but still wearing them, I want Alpha using Obi-Wan to keep track of and occasionally terrorize his cadets, I want 17 ending problems in the GAR (like Krell) before they begin because Obi-Wan has him shipped out on a personal transport at the first opportunity, decked out with slug-throwers Obi-Wan got him for his decant-day.

Natborn officers think this is all just an odd indulgence of General Kenobi, the Vode, however, correctly identify it as a goddamn threat and their danger assessment of Obi-Wan ticks up significantly.

When Alpha arrives on Kamino, Shaak Ti presses a shiny new comm into his hand. It has the Jedi Order symbol painted onto it alongside a smiley face sticker, and it pings immediately with a new message: Hello! I hope you're settling in well!

Alpha stares at the message, stares at the singular contact named 'OWK' and then stares Shaak Ti in the eye as he pitches the comm straight into the ocean. Shaak Ti's serene smile only grows larger as she calmly reaches into her robes and pulls out an identical comm, only this one has a frowny face sticker, and presses it into his hand. It lights up: I'm afraid we've bonded, Alpha :). Alpha shuts it off and pockets it with resignation.

Cody arrives on Alpha-17's personal recommendation.

A-17: He's the most difficult little bastard I have. You're perfect for each other. OWK: Thank you, he's very handsome :3 A-17: No. Stop.

The first thing he asks once he gets comfortable is who his general is texting so much that has him swinging his legs and twirling his hair. Cody assumes it's Anakin, given they seem joint at the hip anyway, but little does he know Obi-Wan's ability to consistently have the Weirdest Relationships Ever.

"Oh, it's Alpha-17, I understand you're familiar with each other?" Hmm. OK. Cody.exe is experiencing a processing error, please hold. He exits the room instead of answering. The next day he peeks over the General's shoulder when he's texting and sees walls of rambling messages from Obi-Wan. Alpha-17 replies every hour with a single text: Lose this number. Obi-Wan giggles. "He's so funny." he says.

When Obi-Wan meets the rest of the CC batch, Cody makes sure to stand perfectly angled so that he can record the reactions when his general cuts off their introductions with "Oh, no need, Alpha-17's told me all about you." It's always immediate FEAR.JPG followed by a slow spiral of What The Fuck.

What do you mean by that General. What does that mean Cody. What do you mean they text. No. Cody. What the fuck is happening, Cody. Alpha-17 doesn't have friends he has enemies and enemies he tolerates enough not to shoot on sight.

OWK: Wolffe reached for his vambrace? when I mentioned you A-17: That's where he keeps his spare knife. OWK: Hm that does explain the way he eyed me up, ambitious. A-17: Clearly not enough, he should have followed through. I taught them better.

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Shout-out to every author who's out there putting a doctoral thesis worth of research and analysis into setting forth an imagined society in which their extremely unlikely kink is considered vanilla. I do not understand, but I respect the commitment to the bit.

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I don’t know which author needs to hear this right now but even if you never update your wip i would never regret reading it a time of joy is never wasted

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for @sith-obikin

#obikin #sith obi wan

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*draws the same thing but babywan this time*

sith robes are so hard to color????

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Always wanted to see Obi Wan as beaten as this. Oh well just needs a little more beard eh? I can only imagine this is after a battle in the Clone Wars and after he had been rescued from Kadavo.

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'New' photo of Ewan from The Phantom Menace (x)

#ewan mcgregor

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I think the Jedi council should have at least considered sending obi-wan over to Dooku to be like “yes hello I am here for sith training” just to see what would happen

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Part 1

Part 2

“We’re losing him!”

“Hold on, Obi-Wan. It’s not your time yet.”

“The infection is eating through the thyroid.”

“Stabilize him!”

“It’ll be alright, little one, don’t cry. Just squeeze my hand.”

“It’s attacking the mandible and sternum. Move, move!”

“It’s going to be alright.”

“Save what you can!”

“Hold on, Obi-Wan. Listen to the Force.”

The tears on Master Qui-Gon’s face looked strange. He had seen him cry before but never over him. It hurt to move his mouth, hurt even more to speak. Hurt— hurt a lot to speak. He wasn’t sure he was actually saying anything. But he tried because Master Qui-Gon looked devastated and Obi-Wan already had broken his heart by choosing to become a Shadow as soon as his return to the Temple was permanent. “The Force is with—“

Obi-Wan opens his eyes. Makes sure the mask is in place.

The rain still hasn’t ceased its steady downpour. He pulls Mace’s robe tight around himself. His own robe, seldom as he uses it, might have been lost on the battlefield where he had dropped it, but semantics. Mace’s spare robe squelches.

Obi-Wan will never be dry again.

Wings snap back into armored plates as the hyperjets power down, and Obi-Wan takes a bit of pleasure watching Cody land silently despite the mass of the clone armor.

“The siege is going well,” Cody says, tapping one of multiple antenna links on his helmet. Obi-Wan smiles under the mask. Quin and Bant have accused him many a times of having weird preferences, but the professionalism and calm control Cody so casually exudes is very, very attractive. The news makes him even more attractive. “Shouldn’t take longer than three months,” Cody continues, optimism apparent even with the vocoder.

Any kind of attraction spurning on Obi-Wan’s wet, frozen body drowns in the rain rather pityfully. “Three months,” he repeats in tap code where he’s gripping the robe.

The helmet turns to him fully. “Yes. It’s going really well.”

Obi-Wan strengthens his resolve to leech off any warmth Cody possesses when they crawl into bed after their shift.

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“You can’t ever steal my voice,” Cody repeats in a murmur, fingertip stroking over the words on Obi-Wan’s forearm. He looks up to find blue eyes watching him over the mask. “Is that your sense of humor or your defiance speaking?”

The hand where he started tracing the letters moves back and forth, undecided. A little bit of both, then, Cody guesses.

The hand is retracted, flows so naturally into sign language. “Many tried.”

“Tried to steal your voice?” At Obi-Wan’s nod, Cody shuffles up the bed, re-categorizing the scars he’s seen. “No one was ever successful, I’m guessing.”

“Many broken bones on both sides,” is signed with a careless shrug before Obi-Wan turns serious, determination and the even more familiar defiance spinning Cody close. “I will only ever be silent of my own choosing.”

#obi wan kenobi

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Something something Crechemaster Obi-Wan, something something rallies Jedi Temple Guards for attack on Kamino, something something reassigns himself to Kamino or reassigns tubies and cadets to the Temple, something something no Padawans serving in the war after Obi-Wan's post Melida-Daan shit fit, something something Obi-Wan beheads Grievous while holding a tubie, Cody's in love.

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while we’re on the topic of boba’s mandalorian-ness, i would just like to inform y’all that in the expanded universe, a huge part of boba reconnecting with his mandalorian identity as an adult is him getting found-family’d by a canon-gay-married mandalorian couple (goran beviin and medrit vasuur)  and it’s exactly as glorious as it sounds. highlights include:

boba gets invited to one of their family dinners and spends the whole time disassociating bc he’s never been to a large family gathering before and everyone is SO LOUD and their adopted kids are staring at him and he knows he’s coming off as a surly asshole and he can’t stop

when beviin and medrit find out boba is going to meet a jedi, medrit smiths him a new set of beskar, including a new piece to protect his neck, and beviin tags along to hover protectively around boba and shit-talk the jedi. 

you know, like a true friend 

early on, boba hears beviin is struggling financially and, while trying very hard to look preoccupied with weapons maintenance, casually offers to maybe send some bounty hunting work his way… not that he was interested in it himself… honestly he’s too busy rn… so this isn’t him being nice or anything–

beviin sees through this immediately and is touched by his friend’s concern for him

the second boba realizes beviin is touched by his concern for him, he HANGS UP ON THE POOR MAN MID-SENTENCE 

“haha yes i’ve done a friendship thing and i’ve done it so subtly and stealthily that no one will ever kn– oh god he knows too much ABORT ABORT”

boba does eventually chill lol

beviin has a habit of affectionately referring to boba by the diminutive form of his name

forming the diminutive of someone’s name in mando’a is done by simply adding the suffix “‘ika”

bob’ika

boba experiences a gradual adjustment of “dude wtf” to “hmm this is fine actually” to “this is Our Thing and if anybody besides beviin ever tries to refer to me as that, i will beat them to death with their own arms”

beviin is also the only person allowed to make sarlacc jokes around him

“Why do you bail me out all the time, Goran? And don’t say it’s because it’s duty to the Mand'alor.“ “Because nobody can live the way you do and not notice how much it hurts.”

(THIS KILLS THE ME)

anyway, disney is too cowardly to include canon gay characters of any significance so i doubt we’ll ever see beviin or medrit in new canon. but they were there and they were some of boba fett’s most significant mandalorian connections in the expanded universe and more people should know about them.

#apparently beviin and medrit were the first canon gay characters too? #fantastic

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happy Valentine's Day my dears <3 you are all so very lovely

#codywan

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Do you ever think about how obi is the youngest on the council? All of his. colleagues remember him as a baby and an angry teenager. I would die if that was my workplace

ONLY ALL THE TIME

Obi-Wan getting jokingly called the "Council baby" in fics brings me so much joy. They recall when he was a feral, traumatised kid who would constantly get into trouble (though not much has changed there.....). Yoda has padawan photos. After Obi-Wan fucked up on a mission and landed himself in medbay, Yoda probably forwarded them to the rest of the council as punishment for getting hurt. Obi-Wan is STILL mad about it.

Anakin flat-out doesn't believe any of this, until Adi shows him a video of Qui-Gon dangling a squirming teenage Obi-Wan by the back of his robes like a mama tooka to stop him from leaping at another padawan and taking a chunk out of him

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# for science

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Finished!!

This image popped into my head about a week ago and I couldn’t resist it. I love the idea of the clones painting their armor and the nose art on the LAAT/i gunships (“Plo’s Bros,” anyone? :D ), getting to have some fun downtime. They deserve it. T^T <3

I imagine the scene directly following this moment involves Cody hearing Obi-Wan coming down the hallway to the hangar and marching over to the largest paint can to fling its contents onto the little heart-eye Cody, hiding the evidence. When Obi-Wan arrives, he’s very confused by the wails of despair from Waxer, Boil, Crys, and Wooley, but compliments them on their abstract nose art nonetheless. He is equally confused when, a few days later, he looks over the duty roster and notices that the four of them have been listed under latrine duty ad infinitum. >_>

*Timelapse video*

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