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Title: A Light in the Dark

Author: Jabean

Summary: After arriving on Ahch-To in search of Luke Skywalker, Rey finds herself thrown into the past during the time of the Galactic Empire, with the heroes and villains that she had heard stories about in the Jakku desert.

Pairing: Rey/ Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader

Tags: Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Star Wars: Original Trilogy Era, Post-Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Not Canon Compliant - Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, POV Third Person Limited, POV Multiple, Fusion of Star Wars Legends and Disney Canon, Force Training (Star Wars), Inhibitor Chips (Star Wars), Darth Vader Redemption, Older Man/Younger Woman, Slow Burn, ALITD Universe, Do not copy/post to another site, Please Do Not Feed Into AI.

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Read from Chapter 21!

Chapter 21 snippet: (Below the cut)

“Welcome back, Luke,” Obi-Wan forced himself to smile at the boy – a young man, really – as Luke tentatively opened his eyes.

He watched as Luke blinked once, twice, before the weight of the galaxy seemed to come crashing down around him once again. So much pressure on someone so young. Far too much.

Never again, Obi-Wan swore. Luke was not a pawn to be used by anyone. Not even by those in the Republic Alliance.

“Rey…” Luke croaked out. His bottom lip wobbled for a moment before he set his mouth into a firm line. “Is she… okay? Rex said that she’d be alright.”

Obi-Wan took a half second to consider his words, and smoothed a hand over Luke’s wavy hair which was sticking up every which way just like Anakin’s used to at that age.

“Rey’s surgery was a success,” he quietly told his padawan. “They were able to remove the chip that was in her head.”

“But?”

Obi-Wan couldn’t help but smile at Luke’s prodding.

“But she has yet to wake,” Obi-Wan admitted. He rubbed a hand over his face, scratching at his beard, and sighed. “It’s only been about an hour or so since her surgery, and a few hours more since she was stunned by Rex.”

Luke tried to push himself up in his bed with his non-dominant hand. “Rex shot her three times,” he said, his gaze finally locking on his bandaged right arm.

Luke’s new cybernetic hand was currently being held stationary by numerous clamps and splints. The cyberneticist in charge of the surgery had informed Obi-Wan that Luke was required to be awake for the final few adjustments. It was something that he was already aware of given the fact that he’d sat with Anakin during the installment of his cybernetic right arm.

Obi-Wan nodded. “That he did.” He cleared his throat, drawing Luke’s attention back to him once again. “The doctors aren’t too worried about it just yet,” he said as he settled back in his chair next to Luke’s bed. “Of course, the fact that she hasn’t slept much these past few weeks is likely having an effect on that as well.”

Luke frowned, and seemed to war with himself over something. “She was resisting it, you know. Her chip or whatever.”

#self reblog #chapter update #fic: a light in the dark #jabean’s stories #star wars fanfiction #rey of jakku #anakin skywalker | darth vader

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Title: A Light in the Dark

Author: Jabean

Summary: After arriving on Ahch-To in search of Luke Skywalker, Rey finds herself thrown into the past during the time of the Galactic Empire, with the heroes and villains that she had heard stories about in the Jakku desert.

Pairing: Rey/ Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader

Tags: Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Star Wars: Original Trilogy Era, Post-Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Not Canon Compliant - Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, POV Third Person Limited, POV Multiple, Fusion of Star Wars Legends and Disney Canon, Force Training (Star Wars), Inhibitor Chips (Star Wars), Darth Vader Redemption, Older Man/Younger Woman, Slow Burn, ALITD Universe, Do not copy/post to another site, Please Do Not Feed Into AI.

Read from the beginning!

Read from Chapter 21!

Chapter 21 snippet: (Below the cut)

“Welcome back, Luke,” Obi-Wan forced himself to smile at the boy – a young man, really – as Luke tentatively opened his eyes.

He watched as Luke blinked once, twice, before the weight of the galaxy seemed to come crashing down around him once again. So much pressure on someone so young. Far too much.

Never again, Obi-Wan swore. Luke was not a pawn to be used by anyone. Not even by those in the Republic Alliance.

“Rey…” Luke croaked out. His bottom lip wobbled for a moment before he set his mouth into a firm line. “Is she… okay? Rex said that she’d be alright.”

Obi-Wan took a half second to consider his words, and smoothed a hand over Luke’s wavy hair which was sticking up every which way just like Anakin’s used to at that age.

“Rey’s surgery was a success,” he quietly told his padawan. “They were able to remove the chip that was in her head.”

“But?”

Obi-Wan couldn’t help but smile at Luke’s prodding.

“But she has yet to wake,” Obi-Wan admitted. He rubbed a hand over his face, scratching at his beard, and sighed. “It’s only been about an hour or so since her surgery, and a few hours more since she was stunned by Rex.”

Luke tried to push himself up in his bed with his non-dominant hand. “Rex shot her three times,” he said, his gaze finally locking on his bandaged right arm.

Luke’s new cybernetic hand was currently being held stationary by numerous clamps and splints. The cyberneticist in charge of the surgery had informed Obi-Wan that Luke was required to be awake for the final few adjustments. It was something that he was already aware of given the fact that he’d sat with Anakin during the installment of his cybernetic right arm.

Obi-Wan nodded. “That he did.” He cleared his throat, drawing Luke’s attention back to him once again. “The doctors aren’t too worried about it just yet,” he said as he settled back in his chair next to Luke’s bed. “Of course, the fact that she hasn’t slept much these past few weeks is likely having an effect on that as well.”

Luke frowned, and seemed to war with himself over something. “She was resisting it, you know. Her chip or whatever.”

#chapter update #fic: a light in the dark #jabean’s stories #rey of jakku #darth vader #star wars fanfiction #star wars fanfic

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Title: Keep Me Where the Light Is

Author: Jabean

Summary: At over 300 years old and knowing she’s about to die, Alina prays to saints that she hasn’t believed in for centuries, desperate for a chance to make things right.

Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Alina Starkov might be three-hundred years old but she's feeling pretty spry, Aleksander Morozova is in way over his head and he's alright with that, The Ravkan Monarchy is Corrupt, Ravkan Politics, Ravkan Culture & Religion (Grishaverse), Small Science (Grishaverse), Second Army (Grishaverse), Revenge is a whole meal best served on the finest Grisha porcelain, Do Not Copy to Another Site, Please Do Not Feed Into AI.

Read on AO3!

Read from Chapter 3!

Chapter 3 snippet: (Below the cut)

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Alina let out a heavy sigh as Aleksander covered her shoulders with his travelling cloak before joining her in the spot she’d chosen for herself in the abandoned barn. They were seated some distance away from the bonfire that everyone else had gathered around for the night.

She poked her hands out of the too-long sleeves of her borrowed coat, and pulled the heavy cloak tighter around herself.

Out of the corner of her eye she could see Aleksander take a long swig of kvas directly from the bottle. He screwed the lid on tight before setting the half-empty bottle down on the dirt floor between the two of them.

“As surprising as it may sound,” Aleksander quietly began, “I’ve heard that sitting nearer to the flames tends to stave off the cold a lot better than hiding away from everyone in the shadows.”

“Lies,” Alina quipped, burrowing deeper underneath the warm cloak. “Next you’ll say something even more ridiculous, like needing to socialise with people in order to make friends.”

…

#self reblog #fic: keep me where the light is #jabean’s stories #darklina fanfiction #alina starkov #the darkling #aleksander morozova #darklina #shadow and bone fanfiction

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Title: Keep Me Where the Light Is

Author: Jabean

Summary: At over 300 years old and knowing she’s about to die, Alina prays to saints that she hasn’t believed in for centuries, desperate for a chance to make things right.

Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Alina Starkov might be three-hundred years old but she's feeling pretty spry, Aleksander Morozova is in way over his head and he's alright with that, The Ravkan Monarchy is Corrupt, Ravkan Politics, Ravkan Culture & Religion (Grishaverse), Small Science (Grishaverse), Second Army (Grishaverse), Revenge is a whole meal best served on the finest Grisha porcelain, Do Not Copy to Another Site, Please Do Not Feed Into AI.

Read on AO3!

Read from Chapter 3!

Chapter 3 snippet: (Below the cut)

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Alina let out a heavy sigh as Aleksander covered her shoulders with his travelling cloak before joining her in the spot she’d chosen for herself in the abandoned barn. They were seated some distance away from the bonfire that everyone else had gathered around for the night.

She poked her hands out of the too-long sleeves of her borrowed coat, and pulled the heavy cloak tighter around herself.

Out of the corner of her eye she could see Aleksander take a long swig of kvas directly from the bottle. He screwed the lid on tight before setting the half-empty bottle down on the dirt floor between the two of them.

“As surprising as it may sound,” Aleksander quietly began, “I’ve heard that sitting nearer to the flames tends to stave off the cold a lot better than hiding away from everyone in the shadows.”

“Lies,” Alina quipped, burrowing deeper underneath the warm cloak. “Next you’ll say something even more ridiculous, like needing to socialise with people in order to make friends.”

…

#chapter update #darklina fanfiction #darklina #shadow and bone fanfiction #alina starkov #the darkling #aleksander morozova #jabean’s stories #fic: keep me where the light is #ao3

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I was actually able to write these last 2 days!!

I’ve written ~1600 words in my Darklina fic, Keep Me Where the Light Is. 🤪

#I bet no one was expecting that one to ever be updated again #but I really like what I’ve written for this new chapter #hopefully it won’t take me too long to finish the next few chapters so that I can get back to posting again #jabean’s stories #fic: keep me where the light is #shadow and bone fanfiction #darklina fanfiction #darklina #alina starkov #the darkling #aleksander morozova

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Making some gluten free ham and cheese muffins, and completely forgot that I no longer had a muffin tin 😅

I do have muffin cups though, and some tin foil, and a cookie sheet. 📐🔨🦺

Hopefully they’ll turn out 🧁

#I had everything except the most important part #I usually forget ingredients #jabean’s ramblings

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Do you ever write out a multi-paragraph rebuttal to something and then think "actually I do not want to get involved in this" and close it

#yeah #it feels good to just walk away

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Hey Jab! I hope you’re doing well!

I was wondering to myself — who do you find more scary, Palpatine or Snoke?

For me, personally, I hate Palpatine for the things he’s done. But Snoke is just… unnerving. He wormed his way into Ben when he was in Leia’s womb. He kidnapped billions of children from across the galaxy and conscripted them as soldiers. I get that Palpatine had an indirect hand in blowing up Alderaan, but Snoke just decided to take out an entire star system. Plus, Palpatine was a Sith and Snoke wasn’t, he was a servant of the Dark Side of the Force and, I don’t know, that terrifies even me even more than Palpatine.

One thing I’ve also noticed, that is, the pattern that Palpatine and Snoke break Anakin and Ben. Palpatine manipulated Anakin and reshaped him to his own needs, Snoke just fucked Ben up and was using him as a sort of a proxy to access the Skywalker potential. (Could you add on your analysis/thoughts for this?)

What do you think?

Hey Quinn!!! I’m doing pretty well. A bit tired, but eh, that’s nothing new for me 😆

I’m not sure if I find one more scary than the other, both Palpatine and Snoke are terrifying in their own ways. I think for me, what terrifies me most about Palpatine is that he had such control over so much and so many people. He influenced so many people to do his bidding, or manipulating them to react a certain way that was beneficial to him and his plans (I’m thinking of Padmé here, in TPM). I think he always would’ve created his Galactic Empire with or without Anakin, but gleefully took advantage of Anakin from the very moment he met him, as a 9 year old. I have no doubt that he was attracted to Anakin’s strength in the Force and went after him because of that.

I think the attraction that Palpatine had of Anakin’s power in the Force is mirrored(?) (I don’t know if that’s the right word for it) by Snoke and his manipulation of Ben. I think Snoke and Palpatine are very very similar in their attraction to that Skywalker power in the Force. I think that Snoke was a lot more subtle compared to Palpatine in the way he manipulated his victim.

The Jedi Order, or the Jedi Council at the very least, had gotten to a point where they did not trust Palpatine one bit by the last year or so of the Clone Wars. But knew that they couldn’t act until they knew without a doubt the kind of monster Palpatine was.

Do I think they knew Palpatine was a Sith Lord, THE Sith Lord that they were all looking for? No. Not necessarily.

Although, I don’t think Mace Windu was all that surprised when Anakin told him in ROTS. And I really don’t think that Palpatine was all that subtle with his manipulation of Anakin. He didn’t need to be. The Jedi Order (and the Republic Senate) had stagnated, and he took advantage of their inaction/inability to do anything quick enough to protect the Jedi under their care.

Snoke, on the other hand, got control of Ben by slithering into his mind and manipulating his thoughts, etc.. since he was really young. (I need to look it up because I don’t know if it’s my own headcanon, or if it’s confirmed in one of the Sequel Era comics, but I always thought that Snoke had gotten into Ben’s head before he was even born — I mean, how terrifying and heartbreaking is that?!) I don’t know if anyone in the New Republic even knew he existed until the First Order was making significant moves in the Outer Rim and Unknown Regions.

#qvnthesia #answered ask #thanks for the ask!! #I may add to this later on… #I have thoughts and my brain is not entirely happy with my answer…

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Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

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Why does writing sometimes feel like you're drawing stick people when others are creating full on Renaissance paintings

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Writing another Regulus raises Harry/Slytherin Harry Potter fic. (I deleted the old one that I had posted last year, as I wasn’t feeling it all that much)

Apparently my brain doesn’t like working on WIPs that I’ve already got, and instead prefers to start new fics. I think I’ll try to at least get a few chapters done first before I even consider posting it though. I don’t want anymore WIPs 😅

#it’s my ADHD brain I swear #jabean’s stories

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Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

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Hmmm…

I don’t like my writing.

#maybe I’m burnt out…I dunno #words are hard #just writer things

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Rey of Jakku

#I love this!!! #rey of jakku #just rey #rey #rey star wars

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Hey Jab! I hope you're doing well <33 Did you delete the 3rd part of 'plain in the firelight'? I'd read it but I couldn't drop a review unfortunately, I've just been a bit freed from some work. (the whole point of view of the clone feeling so listless after the chip removal was INSANE 😭)

Also, I'd like to ask one small thing - I know you stated your reasons as to why you're rewriting ALITD, but - and if you're totally comfortable with it - could you narrate your experience about reaching to that decision? I'm actually in a similar situation regarding two of my fics and I'm just stuck at crossroads T~T

Hi Q!!

I did delete the 3 chapter of ‘Plain in the firelight’. I want to add more to it — like make it into a longer chapter, 3-4000 words kinda thing — and will likely post it later on as A Light in the Dark progresses (I’m thinking maybe when Vader and co join up with the rebellion).

Regarding rewriting that beast of a story… I definitely wasn’t all that happy with what I was writing and posting for Falling Into Light, but still felt the need to keep updates going semi-regularly. I think I just got burnt out with writing that story about halfway through, and felt guilty for wanting to stop writing it. I’m also a bit of a pantser when it comes to writing, and because of that there were a bunch of things in Falling Into Light that I didn’t prepare/foreshadow for. I think I came to a decision pretty easily wrt rewriting the story, I did like what I wrote early on in Falling Into Light, and from there I just kinda brainstormed what could have happened in the fic at certain points throughout the fic. Almost like brainstorming a fanfic of my fanfic 🤪

I’m a firm believer in rewriting something if you want to. I don’t think rewriting a story of yours, any story, is something that you should be ashamed of. Writing should bring happiness (as cheesy as that sounds) and if something isn’t bringing you happiness with its current state, then change it so that it does.

#qvnthesia #thanks for the ask!!

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I’ve actually been able to get a bit of writing done this last week, although it is going slower than I’d like it to. But slow progress is still progress.

#just writing things #jabean’s stories