"Not so faded whispers" is so poetic and lovely. I'd like to hear more?
Not so faded whispers is one of my oldest AU’s, one that has grown progressively, well not necessarily darker, but more heartbreaking at the very least, as time has gone on.
The basic premise is this: Obi-Wan Kenobi and his 12 year old Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, are sent on a simple retrieval mission.
Obi-Wan Kenobi returns alone.
Time moves and Obi-Wan takes on a fiery togruta and then war comes knocking. War leads him far and away, to places he once knew and to that’s he has never seen before. And one day it leads him back where he came back alone from. He will not run from here like he did all those years ago, Anakin’s body may have been far beyond bringing home but his lightsaber can at least finally return home. So they get there, and so do the CIS, but then…then the shadows come alive. A beast of untamed shadows rises like a wraith, a blazing blue shard in their chest, a shard…of kyber. Obi-Wan does not get to think more about it before the wraith focuses in on him, tongue lolling out like a snake smelling the air, before it snaps around to their enemy. Whatever this thing is, it is at least an ally for this battle, the question is just if it will stay that way.
This wraith, of course, turns out to be Anakin. A lightsaber is a Jedi’s life, that is a phrase that is not meant to be literal, but when has the norm ever applied to Anakin? His father is the force, all bets are off when you are half force. So after all these years he has lived on through his ‘saber. After this he gets to come along, meeting the clones and Ahsoka, being a happy (or as happy as one can be during war) 12 year old.
Happy AU with an angsty start, right? Well let’s look back at the last line from above. Happy 12 year old, huh? Still 12, is he? But 7 years have passed, hasn’t it? Yet Anakin is still 12? Well welcome to the life of being eternally 12.
Anakin Skywalker died at 12 and he will be we grow beyond that. At least for now. You see I skipped over a little detail at the start: the accident that took Anakin’s life wasn’t meant for him. Obi-Wan was supposed to die. Palpatine was not as patient in this AU, wanting more from Anakin quicker, but he goes too quick and it costs him a future apprentice. But thanks to his presence the force is out of sorts, causing the perfect breeding ground for weird 12 year old force wraiths, and when Palpatine is killed his presence slowly fades. When Anakin turns 23, he celebrates the death of Darth Sidious as well as his 13 birthday. He has lost 10 years of everything, and he is a Jedi no more.
A bit of a more bittersweet story, but Anakin has quite a few brothers who are more than happy to discover normal life alongside him. Ignore the lingering wraith traits, that’s just how Anakin is.
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I’m so stupid I left my leftovers out last night thinking it’d be okay and ofc it wasn’t bc it’s fucking 32 degrees and I was looking forward to my leftovers but goddamn
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Happy Thursday to everyone except me bc I can’t watch critical role and instead I have to write a three page Spanish essay!!
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