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dracowars · 1 year

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luke figuring out reader's father is obi-wan. like, it would be so awkward talking to obi-wan's force ghost now, "how am i suppose to tell him you're my partner?" 😭😭

general kenobi | luke skywalker

pairing: luke x kenobi!reader

word count: 1,1k

summary: where luke finds out who y/n's father is

a/n: how my mind works: if obi-wan is y/n's father, then satine has to be her mother lmao (it's not mentioned!) there is just no other way for me

warnings: none

universe: star wars

"W-What did you just say?", Luke stutters, halting in his steps, his eyes growing wide while he looks at you as if you just turned into a rancor right before his eyes. Since he stopped you in the middle of your rant with this kind of expression on his face, you frown, not quite sure what he wants you to repeat since you just kept talking and talking.

"Uhm, I just said that we are going to carry out this mission without any problems..?", you say, but it sounds more like a question since you are feeling really unsure as his facial expression does not change. Judging by his big eyes and open mouth, this was apparently not the answer he was hoping for and even though you are confused, you can't help but find him especially cute right now.

Usually, Luke has a strict plan, always following every order, but right now it seems like there is no logical explanation for whatever is going on in his mind and you genuinely can't wait to know what caused this sudden change in his demeanour.

"N-No, no. I mean about your.. your father?", Luke tries again, but this time he actually seems like his mind has stopped spinning and he came back to the here and now, looking at you like you are the one acting weirdly. Which you definitely aren't, but you can't suppress a small giggle as he appears to hang on your every word in this moment. Now that he mentioned your father, you at least know what caught him off guard and you can hopefully help him.

"Oh, about that. Well, I basically only said that I will guide you the same way my father used to guide yours in the Clone Wars", you shrug nonchalantly, still not getting why this simple fact got him all messed up.

"And your father is...?"

"Obi-Wan Kenobi?", you finish his sentence, giving him the answer he has been waiting for. Suddenly, Luke's eyes grow even bigger - if that is even humanly possible - and now you are not sure if you may have actually turned into a rancor right in front of him. But no, you are still very much human and Luke is still very much acting weird.

"Luke? Are you alright? Do I need to call a medic?", you ask, actually concerned now that he hasn't answered you for at least two minutes. He is just standing in front of you, frowning as he seems to be connecting things in his head. The more you look at him, the more it dawns on you what your words might have to do with all of this.

"Wait, you didn't know?", you question, a more or less humourless chuckle leaving your lips as you can't believe that he actually did not know this very important fact about you. About you and who your father is.

"You only told me about your mother, really. And you never dropped any names! I knew your father was a Jedi but not that he was the Obi-Wan Kenobi!", Luke whisper-yells at you now, finally regaining his voice, looking like his whole view of the galaxy was shattered with this one single statement.

The way he runs his hand through his hair, ruffling through it, and how he bites down on his lower lip, finally breaks you and you erupt into a fit of laughter. He looks so cute, all flabbergasted and confused, that you just can't help yourself but to laugh at the weirdness of this situation. You would really like to say that you did talk about your very prominent father, but right now, you can't think of one moment where you actually dropped his name. And this makes you laugh even more and, slowly but surely, Luke starts to laugh too.

"May I introduce myself?", you manage to bring out after your laughter died down, hands on your hips as you try to catch your breath, feeling exhausted by all the laughing. "I'm Y/N Kenobi. At your service, General Skywalker."

Holding out your hand, you wait for him to place a gentle kiss on the back of it as part of your introduction, but Luke only shakes his head in amusement, still too caught up in his thoughts.

"You can't be serious, Y/N!", he almost reproaches you, running his hands over his face while sighing. Then, he takes a step closer, grabbing your hand and placing it against his chest as he leans in.

"How am I supposed to tell him that you are my partner? That we are a thing?", Luke whispers, but he is doing it so quietly as if he expects your father to listen in on every word, putting strong emphasis on his last words.

"I mean, that is not really my problem, is it?", you tease him, taking his proximity to you as a chance to place a soft kiss on his cheek, which riles him up even more. Caressing his cheek with one hand, you fix his disheveled hair with the other and smile your brightest smile at him while he apparently sees his life passing by.

"You are evil, you know that right?", Luke whines, pouting while you are enjoying this more than you probably should. But deep inside, you got a feeling that your father already knows about the two of you. You certainly did not talk to him about it, however, he has always been good at observing and you feel like this ability got even better since he became one with the Force.

"Just.. don't act like you did right now and you will be fine", you giggle, pinching his cheek before leaving a quick kiss on his lips. You catch his eye, wanting him to say something, anything, but all you see is utter fear. Only when you notice that he is looking at something behind you, you follow his stare and see your father, in all his Force ghost glory, making his way over to the both of you.

"Oh, is that Leia over there? I really need to talk to her about the mission", you lie with a bright smile on your lips and you squeeze Luke's hand to give him strength and support.

Completely frozen, he stands in front of you, but he somehow manages to take a deep breath after a few seconds to mentally prepare himself for what is about to come. The strongest Jedi you know nearly gets defeated by a simple conversation with your father, his master.

"I will leave you two alone then", you say your goodbye, waving to your father who is coming closer as you two talk, and make your way to actually find Leia. Turning around one last time, you give your boyfriend a thumbs up which he only replies to with a small smile.

Luke Skywalker is a great fighter, a Jedi who always finds a way out, who always has a plan, who can face the strongest opponent, but the one person he can't face right now is your father. And when he does, as your boyfriend, it is not as bad as expected.

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roseaesynstylae · 2 months

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Heir to the Empire: Chapter 2

"'Luke?'

The voice came softly but insistently. Pausing amid the familiar landscape of Tatooine -- familiar but oddly distorted -- Luke Skywalker turned to look."

Something about the way this chapter begins sticks with me. Opening a story with a dream is cliche, but it works in this context, Obi-Wan reaching out for the last time to bid Luke farewell.

"'I've come to say good-bye, Luke.'

The landscape seemed to tremble; and abruptly, a small part of Luke's mind remember that he was asleep. Asleep in his suite in the Imperial Palace, and dreaming of Ben Kenobi.

'No, I'm not a dream," Ben assured him, answering Luke's unspoken thought. 'But the distances separating us have become too great for me to appear to you in any other way. Now, even this last path is being closed to me.'

'No,' Luke heard himself say. 'You can't leave us, Ben. We need you.'"

This scene has always been bittersweet, but after the release of the prequels and spinoffs and all stories we've gotten with Obi-Wan, it's even more so. We've had all this detail on his life and now he's gone. Luke will never hear about Siri Tachi or Ahsoka or how he said "Hello there" to General Grievous. He won't know about Qui-Gon Jinn and all the adventures they had. I know the point is that Luke doesn't know any of these things, that he's basically winging it with the minimal training he got from Obi-Wan and Yoda, but it's still depressing. With all the expanded universe content, we know all of what was lost with the Empire's rise.

"Then I am alone, he told himself. I am the last of the Jedi.

He seemed to hear Ben's voice, faint and and indistinct, as if from a great distance. 'Not the last of the old Jedi, Luke. The first of the new."

I know that this was published decades before The Last Jedi was a twinkle in Rian Johnson's eye, but this is still a little distracting with hindsight.

My personal interpretation of Obi-Wan's final words is that, with so much lost, the Jedi Order Luke will build will be very different. It will try to follow the same principles, but it will take a different shape. Which it did.

"First Uncle Ben and Aunt Beru had been murdered; then Darth Vader, his real father, had sacrificed his own life for Luke's; and now even Ben Kenobi's spirit had been taken away.

For the third time, he'd been orphaned."

Luke doesn't know about Padmé at this point, but it just adds another layer of sadness. He can't even add her name to the list of parents he's lost because she's a cipher to him. He knows he has a biological mother, obviously, but it isn't like he has time to search for her. Later books in Legends make it clear that he had no clue that she was dead and tried to find her, which obviously didn't work out. The prequels just keep adding sadness to everything that was written before they came out.

"But for Leia, just over three months pregnant, to be spending the bulk of her time here...

[...] The really maddening part of it was that he couldn't sense any such concentration of evil in the Palace. The Council had made a point of asking him about that, in fact, when they'd first considered moving to the Imperial City. He'd had to grit his teeth and tell them that, no, there seemed to be no residual effects of the Emperor's stay.

But just because he couldn't sense it didn't necessarily mean that it wasn't there."

Knowing what ended up happening to Jacen, Luke's concerns seem quite justified, retroactively.

"Awakened in the middle of the night, dressed in an old robe with her hair in total disarray, Winter still looked more regal than Leia herself could manage on her best days. She'd lost track of the times when, as children together on Alderaan, some visitor to the Viceroy's court had automatically assumed that Winter was, in fact, the Princess Leia.

Winter had probably not lost track, of course. Anyone who could remember whole conversations verbatim should certainly be able to reconstruct the number of times she'd been mistaken for a royal princess.

Leia had often wondered what the rest of the Provisional Council members would think if they knew that the silent assistant sitting beside her at official meetings or standing beside her at unofficial corridor conversations was effectively recording every word they said. Some of them, she suspected, wouldn't like it at all."

Leia looks plenty royal. She just has that vibe, even when she isn't in formal dress.

Knowing how much trouble a certain Viceroy caused for Leia's biological mother, the fact that Bail Organa is referred to as a viceroy here is rather funny to me.

I haven't read much stuff with Winter in it, but the way she's described her sort of reminds me of Sabé for some reason.

"Whoever had taken over what was left of Jabba the Hutt's organization must have moved operations off Tatooine."

I take note of this line to say: Han, if you were in Disney's Star Wars, the answer to any questions would be that the man who took over did not move off of Tatooine, sarlaacs can be escaped via use of fire, and you should probably start running.

"As far as he was concerned, the only times when Wedge didn't stick out like a lump on plate glass was when he was sitting in the cockpit of an X-wing blasting TIE fighters into dust."

A wonderful description of Wedge.

That's all. I didn't find too much to comment on.

#star wars #Star Wars: Heir to the Empire #Heir to the Empire chapter 2 #heir to the empire #thrawn trilogy #leia organa #han solo #luke skywalker #obi wan kenobi #wedge antilles #winter celchu #star wars: read through

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thedarkladyy · 1 year

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overview of my dr selves

AVENA DELPHINUS

BASICS

Avena is a high princess of the flora planet GLAMOR, a force-sensitive human female, who serves the Galactic Republic as a Jedi Knight.

Shortly after birth, Avena was taken by a group formed by a Jedi, an undercover Sith, who took her to the highest peak on Xardeus Mountain’s, where she gained her magical abilities.

By the age of seventeen Avena was named heir to the throne and took possession as lady of Frostbound, and Avena was arranged to Prince Markin Salix of Drycall in 22BB

Delphinus encountered the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, helping him to Kamino where the two found the secret clone army. They were captured on Geonosis and almost executed in the Petranaki arena, along with Kenobi’s padawan Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala. The newly arrived clone troopers rescued them, but the following battle began the galaxy-wide Clone Wars, ultimately resulting in her father drop Avena has heir and her marriage to Salix was called off.

AVIANNA FALLON

BASICS

Avianna is one of the most talented spies and assassins in the world. Born with the latent mutant abilities to harness cosmic justice and order.

Fallon is descendant of an ancient bloodline of Greek Princesses, who were worshiped by many people during multiple eras of war, believed to be mutants, Ladies of Justice. Her mother, Gyda was a goddess of the Vanir, who married a mutant businessman, Lester Fallon and moved with him to Australia.

Sometime during her childhood, Avianna was kidnaped by the newly reformed Hydra, with early plans creating her into a weapon named Madam Hydra

Following her defection post world war ii, she formed a lasting partnership with Fury, becoming close friends with him. Avianna’s mind had been affected by the cryo, while on a mission, Avianna’s brain shutdown, putting her into a coma.

AVALINE SCORPONOFF

BASICS

Avaline is a sixteen year old demigod, daughter of the goddess Hecate and businessman Duke Scorponoff.

Avaline is one of the main characters in the The Heroes of Olympus series, she is one the eight demigods of the Prophecy of Eight, as well as being involved in the prophecy of union.

Legacy of both Ares and Thor, Avaline is considered one of the most powerful beings in the universe.

Taken to camp at an older age than usual, the 16 year old was forbidden from camp by the gods until she became of a certain age or was called upon, because of a prophecy told on her first birthday.

Growing in strength, Avaline helps several demigods find the son of Poseidon.

AVIELLA BRADSHAW

BASICS

Aviella (born S’avieltaha Xhy Atetabrith Nitmi’ite) is a member of the race known as the Atlanteans, a group of underwater breathing humanoids from the sunken city Atlantis.

Aviella is the daughter of Teyzi Xhi Vawiayr Nitmi’ite, an Atlantean warrior and Atlantean magus Talola Xhy Voefulì Nitmi’ite. She is a direct descendant of Atlantean god worshiped by the humans, known as Poseidon, who was apart of Greek Mythology

When the impact of the Nogitsune on the supernatural world became to much, her family was sent to Beacon Hills as told to help the state of the supernatural.

After helping the newly turned Liam Dunbar, she continues to help Scott many times. Bradshaw went on to become one of the most powerful of supernaturals as well as a member of the infamous McMall Pack of Beacon Hills.

#heros of olympus #star wars #teen wolf #marvel comics #wandaagore #anakin skywalker #Percy Jackson #Steve rogers #stiles stilinski

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phoeebsbuffay · 2 years

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Imagine Obi-Wan and Satine falling in love for the first time.

Warnings: none; it’s basically fluffy; and also bear with me because it’s my first Obitine (finally); it’s a short fic.

Recommendation: “Trying Not To Love You” by Nickelback; “Always” by Gavin James.

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Right before Satine’s ascension to the dukedom of Mandalore, when her father is the duke regnant of the region, two Jedis are sent to the planet in order to sign a peace treaty between the Senate and the Mandalorians.

Satine is a lass of golden locks and blue eyes in her late teenage days. Dressed in fancy robes, typical of the heiress of the dukedom as she’s the first child of the Duke and his wife, she’s taking her lessons when her father interrupts it.

“Satine, we have visitors. Come with me.”

“Of course, my father. If you excuse me, sir.” She says to her tutor before following her father.

“Well, would you mind telling me about who are these visitors and what is the purpose of their visit?”

“These are Jedis: a Knight and his Master. They often come in two.” Her father explains. “They are representing the Senate to ratify the treat our ambassadors offered after that situation concerning the commerce.”

“I’m glad to hear the Chancellor was inclined to accept our conditions.” Satine adds. “However, I cannot help but wonder what other option were there had they refused.”

Her father looks down at his daughter proudly. Her wit was a trait he’s been so proud to see as well as tranquilizes him where the future of Mandalore is concerned.

“Thankfully this is an option we are not obliged to contemplate.”

That said, the two walk inside the room appropriated to receive guests—whether them being fellow royals, ambassadors of other districts or even planets, politics and so goes on. There, as formerly told by her father, Satine is surprised by two gallant manners dressed in vine and white capes respectively. The one of vine cape is taller than Satine, slightly older—although no sign of a beard is seen. He’s redhead and his eyes are painted in a different shade of blue.

She blushes when he gazes at her, capturing her rather indiscreet stare. His Master, the taller man with gentle features, clears his throat in order to capture the Padawan’s attention.

“Greetings, Grand-Duke of Mandalore. I’m Master Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and this is my Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Our Grand-Master Yoda sent us with the purpose to ratify the treaty agreed between Mandalore and the Senate.” He bows his head and the ginger male follows his lead, feeling Satine’s gaze glued on him.

“Greetings, Master Qui-Gon Jinn and Padawan Kenobi.” The Duke returns the bow with a nod of his head. “You may be familiar with me, but let me present you my daughter and heiress, Satine.”

“A pleasure to make your acquaintance, lady Satine.” Qui-Gon Jinn addresses her with due respect and inclining his head gallantly. Obi-Wan does the same, although he stares pretty much the same way she had been staring at him.

Satine has the decency to blush when such thought occurs her mind. Thankfully, though, she lowers her gaze as she curtseys graciously.

“The pleasure is mine, Master Qui-Gon.”

The men there present seem to be oblivious by what is going on between the younger part of the group. Satine is relieved she didn’t give away any of the…

Is attraction the proper word for this?

She finds out that finding Kenobi the handsomest man she ever laid her eyes on scares her. The conflict in her heart is sensed by Obi-Wan, who gives her a furtive glance, curiosity twinkling in his eyes.

When she raises her eyes, Satine is surprised to see he’s staring at her again. She almost smiles at him, but holds it back when remembering this is not time nor the place to behave like the adolescent she is.

“…you surely understand, Master Qui-Gon, that we are not withdrawing the terms.” Her father is saying so. “It took months to get to a common understanding. Why is the Senate flirting with a different position?”

Her eyes move to her father. Obi-Wan sees a weak faint paint her cheeks and he struggles to keep his face composed. He’s admiring such soft, delicate features, never before so attracted to a woman as her. He’d have sighed so foolish had his Master not brought him to reality.

“Would you kindly remind me, Obi-Wan, of the points of the treaty conjectured by the chancellor?”

Obi-Wan senses his face is going a deep shade of red as all eyes turn on him. He clears his throat, takes the opportunity to drink the water there offered and says:

“Of course, Master. The Chancellor hopes that by this agreement with Mandalore, the benefits might extend to all of the Senate.” He goes on to point one by one the clauses of the treaty.

“A treaty signed between the Chancellor and Mandalore is something concerned two parts not the whole republic galactic.” Satine intrudes. “If you excuse me, Padawan Kenobi, but I don’t remember where Mandalore was consulted when the Chancellor signed a clause with Tatooine when concession was granted to slavery, a practice we abhorred. I don’t remember either that the treaty was exposed in the Senate. So why should we look into it? A democracy is, of course, perceived in a way where all parts are included and their decisions are heard. There is no such a thing of exclusion here and there.”

She would go on to make a passionate speech about equality, but her father clears throat.

“Satine, my dear. It is admirable how you present your defense to the interest of all Mandalorians, but let the man end his speech, please. It is our duty to listen even if the case argued is not in accordance to our will.”

She blushes at the slight reprehension. She nods obediently, but when looking anxiously back to Obi-Wan—was she trying to impress him?—Satine realizes she’s upset by how impatient he looks.

I did nothing wrong. Why’d he behave like I’m some foolish girl?

“Well”, her father says interrupting her thoughts. “We should better pause here. There’s little need to hurry as you are staying with us for the course of the month. But I pray you take in considerations the points we brought you, Master Qui-Gon.”

“Of course, my lord. It is always good to make business with you.”

“May I offer you some coffee? Satine, why don’t you take Padawan Kenobi for a stroll in our gardens? Be kind and show him our residence.”

She curtseys in obedience, but from the moment the door is open, Satine casts a discreet glance at Obi-Wan with a small smile dancing in the corner of her lips. However, it seems to disappear when she spots a frown in his front.

“Is my company giving my lord displeasure of some sort?”

Obi-Wan raises his eyes, surprised for such a question.

“What? Why?! No, my lady. Why’d you think so?”

“I see you are frowning in a similar manner when I contested your points at…”

“These weren’t mine to present. I was merely repeating the parts of the deal…”

“Even so”, she cuts him after he interrupted her. “What I mean to say is that you look dissatisfied. What can I do if I must do what is right?”

Obi-Wan offers Satine his arm and as she does, leading him into the gardens as instructed by her father, he’s amused by her remark.

“Are you quick to judge others, lady Satine? You don’t strike me as one who does.”

He finds himself admiring the blush that rises to her pale cheeks. His eyes are glued by hers when she turns her head at him.

“Who do I strike as a person for you, Padawan Kenobi?”

“I would rather not to assume anything before I know you better, my lady Satine.”

She giggles softly. Obi-Wan smiles.

“You are wiser than I thought.”

“But I should say”, he adds the more he walks by her side into a labyrinth of green leaves, trees and roses. “…that you are a dreamer.”

Satine raises an eyebrow at him.

“How so?”

Obi-Wan feels his cheeks going lightly red, but he is unable to part the gaze. There’s something enigmatic, inviting in Satine’s eyes that mirror his own that the Jedi is transfixed.

“It is a feeling I have. But your passionate perspective about Mandalore is not, uh, how many would see it.”

“As a Mandalorian, I don’t expect you to see my point, Padawan Kenobi.” She smirks at him. “But how do you like the gardens? You are not saying much. Will you kindly tell me your thoughts? No half truths.”

Obi-Wan chuckles.

“Half-truths?”

“That is how diplomats do, no? Jedis, specially.” Satine’s eyes twinkle with amusement.

He scoffs at her.

“You offend me, lady Satine.”

The rest of the day is spent between mutual teasings. When it’s time to go back inside, Satine, ready to go supper with her father and her sister, turns at him and says:

“Will I see you again tomorrow?”

Obi-Wan cannot look away from her warming eyes, that say so much. He smiles almost unconsciously.

“Definitely, lady Satine.”

He steps forward and takes her hand, taking it to his lips. There he presses a kiss, eyeing her intently as doing so.

“I pray to meet you again tomorrow, my lady.”

That being said, eyes lingering, though, they part—though their hearts might irreversibly be tied to one another.

***

The next day and the other, so it goes… Satine is more than willing to find excuses to tour Padawan Kenobi around the royal household and then by extension to the Capital of Mandalore.

The encounters are usually filled with mutual teasings and flirtations. Both are more than aware that if it deepens, they might incur in a severe mistake.

Or it is how it looks to them, bound to duty. It’s when Satine comes to an idea.

“Obi-Wan, I was wondering… I might have a solution to our problems.” She meets him after twilight in the gardens, a spot that has become the secret place for encounters that, innocent as it might appear, are motivated by not so innocent affections. “I’m asking Master Qui Gon to let you stay here for a long period because I have to tour around Mandalore as my father’s representative and I cannot go alone.”

Obi-Wan is removing a red rose when the idea gets to his ears. He turns at Satine and moves to where she is. He decides to be bold this day, his heart encouraging to make the first step: he takes her hand and lock fingers with his. Satine blushes upon this significant gesture.

“Well? What do you say?” She hopes she’s not sounding too anxious about it.

He then offers her the rose.

“Though I should lament about forming attachments when I stand before you. Here’s a rose to the queen of hearts.” Obi-Wan gives it to Satine. “I’ve been trying not to think about you. I’ve been struggling in vain to stay away from you. Oh Satine, to love you is a bliss I don’t intend to cease experimenting.”

Her face might be bright as pink and she, speechless as is before his unexpected declaration. But Obi-Wan hears her heart race, the excitement in her mind, the many words she is thinking but neither seem to reach her tongue. And yet he is surprised when she pulls him for a kiss.

It’s messy, it’s disastrous, it’s far from perfect. But it’s full of innocence, joy and love. It may take some more three or four attempts before their tongues finally find a good rhythm to follow. When they part, they giggle like the silly adolescents both are. However, neither seem willingly to let go of each other.

“I love you, Obi.” Satine says at long last, feeling butterflies in her stomach. “It’s the only certain I have in my life. That I’ve loved you since day one and I will never stop loving you.”

Obi-Wan holds her against him, his hand playing with her hair.

“I love you too, my moon and stars. I could never gravitate to any other than you.” He presses his lips against her forehead. “I am yours to command, lady Satine.”

“As I am yours, Padawan Kenobi.”

They smile to each other. There’s little to struggle from that moment on. Hands tight, hearts tied. There is no other escape. Their destiny is about to be written against all odds and only the moon and stars are the witness of an unspoken vow…

***

Epilogue.

Ten years later.

“Satine, Korkie is not an appropriated name for a child!” Obi-Wan sighs exasperatedly. “All I did was going to Tatooine and when I come back, my son gets this name?!”

“You said it yourself: you were not present at the labor. You made your choice, and I made mine.” She responds her husband maliciously.

He turns at her with eyebrows raised and folded arms.

“Really, now? Is this how it’s going to be?”

“Why, you should be here with your family, not away from us.”

Obi-Wan laughs as he envolves her in an embrace, holding her from behind as he rests his chin on her shoulder.

“You are a difficult little thing, my love. But I would rather face the delusions of a dreamer than being elsewhere.”

“As I would rather live with the sarcasm of a soldier.”

She turns at him. Obi-Wan and Satine laugh, never ceasing to tease each other even ten years after they started their relationship.

“I’ve missed you, Obi.” Satine strokes his cheek, her skin tingling under the beard he’d let grown. “Did you tell the Council about us yet?”

“No.” Obi-Wan leans to press a kiss on top of her head. “But soon they will. Anakin, my Padawan, is infatuated with Senator Amidala…”

Satine raises her eyebrows.

“Really?!”

“Mmhm.” Obi-Wan smirks. “He thinks I don’t know they are together, but when the council begins to say something, it’ll be an opportunity to present my case.”

“By the Maker!” She laughs heartily. “I didn’t know you could be so coy, Obi-Wan Kenobi.”

He pulls her against him, smiling at his wife with mischief.

“I thought you’d know me better, darling.”

Satine rolls her eyes at him.

“Come here, my love. I’ve missed you.”

She closes the door of her bedchambers and turns at him. Obi-Wan more than willingly takes all the time to kiss her… Perhaps a second child might come earlier than they planned.

#star wars #Star Wars imagine #imagine star wars #Obi-Wan Kenobi #Obi Wan Kenobi #Obi-Wan x Satine #Obitine #Duchess Satine

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c-rose2081 · 2 years

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Phantom of the Space Opera

Star Wars . . . but Phantom of the Space Opera 😮‍💨

*note: I’m swapping Anakin and Obi-Wan’s ages for this little thought experiment. ‘During’ Episode 1, Obi-Wan is 9, Padmé is 14, and Anakin is 25 — this also lines up better with the original Phantom stage production :3*

Padmé Amidala as Christine:

Padmé Amidala lost her father (a prevalent and well loved Senator) when she was only five years old. As his last wish, Senator Amidala ordered that Padmé be sent away from Naboo to avoid possibly becoming Queen, and losing her whole childhood and happiness to politics. Taken in by Jedi Knight Jocasta Nu to as a favor to the late Senator, Padmé grew up in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, despite not being trained in the Jedi arts, nor having any affinity to the Force. She mainly kept to the library growing up, keeping the books, ancient scrolls and holocrons well tended, and studying in her spare time to one day become a Senator/liaison for the Jedi Council.

Obi-Wan Kenobi as Raoul de Chagny:

Obi-Wan was brought to the Jedi Temple to begin his training at the age of 5, and would become an official Padawan learner by the age of 12 beside Master Qui-Gon Jinn. A highly intuitive and skilled young boy, he and Padmé met when Obi-Wan was only 7, in which he needed her assistance finding a book on the different forms of lightsaber combat. He easily charmed the shy Padmé, and the two remained good friends and study buddies until Obi-Wan had to say goodbye to continue his training beyond Coruscant. He never stopped thinking about her though, and despite the Jedi code, eventually fell deeply in love with her. He wouldn’t return for 8-years (20 yrs old), and would meet Padmé (now officially the Jedi Liaison in the senate) again as an accomplished and decorated Jedi Knight, in which he swore on his life to protect her.

Anakin Skywalker as Erik/Phantom:

Anakin was never found on Tattooine by the Jedi, but rather was located by Darth Sideous first and brought to train as a Sith Lord. Under his Masters keen eye, Anakin would grow up to be a skilled master of the Force, but also a key player in the politics of the Senate as Palpatine’s right hand. This would end suddenly however when Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas discovered the Sith plot. Anakin was sent to deal with him on the planet Kamino, but the battle was immense, and Anakin was badly burned after falling into a vat of cloning liquid. Sideous managed to save him, but Anakin was shunned from his side by his horrible appearance, and continued his training underground under a thick guise of a space phantom. Here, he discovered the Sith shrine still under the Jedi Temple, and began sneaking upstairs into the Library to steal Jedi knowledge under the shadow of darkness. This is where Anakin first laid eyes on Padmé amongst the shelves, truly an Angel in his eyes, making him feel things that weren’t the hatred Sideous so desired from him. He became obsessed, speaking to Padmé through the walls and within the Force, grooming her in her loneliness to his ideas. He helped her study to become a Senator, even pulled a few strings to get her there, just to try and earn her love. He would use mind tricks to put her to sleep, just so that he could be near her without hiding in the walls, but didn’t dare touch her lest she somehow burn him even more with her light.

—

Padmé didn’t know who the mysterious voice was, but she hoped it was her father speaking to her from within the ether. She followed his lead blindly, enraptured by what it whispered to her in the night. Untrained in the Force beyond basic understanding, Padmé was venerable to the Phantom’s mind tricks, and often forgot what she had experienced all together, or thought it to be merely a dream.

When Obi-Wan returned from war, he could sense something was wrong. Padmé was wistful and listless, badly jarred by the pulling and manipulating of her mind by the ghost which so haunted her. Even if she was entranced by the voice, she was still afraid, to afraid of the Council to speak up. Obi-Wan promised that he would keep her safe, and Anakin knew he was a threat to his plans and needed to be dealt with.

Anakin would use his manipulations to draw Padmé through a secret passage, kidnapping her and keeping her within the Sith Temple as he attempted to convince her to marry him. Had he tried earlier, she probably would’ve done it. But now Obi-Wan was back in her life, and she refused. Even pulled back against Anakin’s mind manipulation. He was forced to send her back, as his own Master was becoming suspicious of his activities.

Padmé returned to Obi-Wan in fear, panicking that he wouldn’t ever let her go and that she was scared. Against the Jedi code and everything that he was, Obi-Wan took Padmé directly to the Jedi Council, who (after probing her mind), decided that it was a Sith Lord who had manipulated her in such a way. Padmé was placed in Jedi protection, much to Anakin’s anger and frustration, and Obi-Wan refused to leave her side.

Eventually though, Anakin would find a way to draw Padmé back to him, and once again take her. This time, on a ship of his own design where he would fly her to Mustafar to become his wife and Queen. Obi-Wan and Anakin would eventually come to duel over her favor, and Anakin would come out the victor. But Padmé in a step of bravery would beg him for Obi-Wan’s life by promising her love.

She and Anakin would kiss, and he would feel something that wasn’t hate. He would allow Padmé and Obi-Wan their freedom after being shown such compassion, and would remain on Mustafar to eventually die out of self-loathing.

#star wars fandom #disney star wars #padme amidala #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #anidala #obidala #alternate universe #crossover #phantom of the opera #concept development #story ideas #star wars fanfiction #star wars au

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nightcoremoon · 2 years

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darth vader boards tantive iv and kicks ass, taking prince luke prisoner and blowing up alderaan. leia: “working on the moisture farm is like, eh I don’t mind a simple life… OH NO MY FAMILY IS DEAD. good thing the weird old guy in the desert who was friends with my family was here to save me. ok we need a ship. ugh I have to use this scumsucking bounty hunter creep. actually you know what he’s not so bad, he taught me to fly and I’m really good at it... anyway let’s rescue this prince guy.” luke joins the party. they try to escape. unfortunately darth vader shows up so the old guy decides to stay behind so that luke and leia can escape. darth vader kills him but by doing so allows everyone to go free. leia is like, hey I’m a good pilot let me join the rebels attack on the death star. they say ew a girl pilot? gross. han stands up for her and says “she’s a damn good pilot, probably the best I’ve ever seen who wasn’t me or chewie, and if she wants to help then by god she should help.” so they fight the death star. uh oh leia’s targeting system breaks but the old man’s voice echoes in her ears to use the force. she’s like ok and she blows up the goddamn death star. luke also helped by using his politician skills to get the fleet organized so he didn’t just do nothing.

basically everything in empire happens exactly the same just having switched luke and leia. but at the end when she is facing off against vader she’s like, you suck and I hate you because you’re evil and you killed that friendly old man. vader laughs. you don’t even know, he taunts, that that friendly old man was actually YOUR FATHER, ANAKIN SKYWALKER. she’s like no, that’s impossible. vader explains um actually, once upon a time he was a jedi named obi wan kenobi, but he learned the truth that the jedi order was corrupt so he joined the sith and has been working on using darth pelagius the wise’s magic shit because the greater good. so join me, help me put a stop to needless death and destruction and save the galaxy together. she’s like um. no. fuck you. and jumps.

anyway bounty hunter leia bargains for han’s carbonite body with a thermal detonator. it ends the same in that stupid slave bikini, right? WRONG, BITCH! she has the force and a lightsaber and she kicks their asses and she saves the man she fell in love with. also luke is doing a bunch of planning and tactics because he’s really fuckin smart and he refuses to sacrifice people because he is a good noodle. and he falls in love with one of the other men in the rebellion. they go to endor and all that jazz with the *sigh* the fucking ewoks. leia fights vader who turns out to have been obi wan all along but she doesn’t kill him because killing is wrong. obi sacrifices himself to throw palpatine into the death pit where he fucking died and didn’t sOmEhOw cOmE bAcK tO LiFe because that would be really fucking stupid. leia takes off obi-wan’s darth vader mask and he’s like. you have your mother’s eyes. and then he dies. she is sad but goes back down to endor. she and han, and luke and his husband, they all live happily ever after. leia and han name their child obi. and obi solo was a good boy who never turned evil. ~fin

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farfallsky · 2 years

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Get to know my OCs #3- Ani Kenobi

Basic Information:

Name: Ani Kenobi

Nicknames: N/A

Titles: Crown Princess of Onderon.

Birth year and birthplace: 16 ABY, Coruscant

Age: 0-12

Height: 155 cm (5’1)

Homeworld: Onderon

Species: Human

Face Claim: Lola Flanery

Relationships:

Master (s): Luke Skywalker

Padawan: N/A

Family: Mia Kenobi (mother), Luke Skywalker (father), Leia Organa (aunt), Han Solo (uncle), Ben Solo (cousin), Lora Jinn (maternal grandmother), Obi-Wan Kenobi (maternal grandfather), Anakin Skywalker (paternal grandfather), Padme Amidala (paternal grandmother), Qui-Gon Jinn (maternal great-grandfather), Shmi Skywalker (paternal great-grandmother), Ramsis Dendup (maternal great-great grandfather).

Love Interest: N/A

Friends: Ben Solo, Chewbacca, R2D2, Han Solo, Leia Organa, C3-P0, RO-LO (her own droid).

Misc:

Key Skills: accidently causing trouble (mostly for her parents), strong force sensitivity, force healing, jedi mind tricks.

Lightsaber: White.

Lightsaber Fighting Style: Form V- Shien, Form III- Soresu

Other: she can speak three languages, and she’s also very good at fixing droids.

#sw oc #oc: ani #star wars oc

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phoenixyfriend · 3 years

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Commander Buir: Cody & Shmi Talk About General Kenobi

Context: original post, Commander Buir

I prefaced this on discord with:

I have a full Awkward Conversation in my mind Between Cody and Shmi and Anakin, and then just Cody and Shmi, about General Kenobi, whom she hasn't met yet

At least one person encouraged me, soooooooooo here we go.

So it starts like this

They're on a ship from Tatooine to Coruscant. Probably there's multiple shorter legs to this journey, IDK. Probably Cody offers services as a hired guard in exchange for food and board for the three of them, since all he's got is armor and weapons, Shmi does some mechanical work, that sort of thing.

Point is, the journey isn't a short one. They have time to work together and bond. Cody and Shmi don't really know... anything about each other, really, and the versions of Anakin that they know are diametrically opposite to one another. But Shmi loves Anakin, and Cody is at least sort of fond of Anakin, in the sense that you are with coworkers you worked with for a bit, but now only see for a project once every few months because they got transferred to a different department.

But Anakin is very small and very needy right now, because he's a toddler. Shmi knows how to deal with some of that: she knows what foods he needs, when he needs sleep, what kind of fabrics and tastes he's going to hate, how to hug him when he's upset, all that mom stuff.

Cody... well, Cody knows how to deal with a soldier's night terrors, how to secure a room in an unsafe ship, how to run through theoretical exercises that are actually on Anakin's level of understanding, rather than the actual toddler stuff that people would expect out of this size, because it's not like anyone's going to let Anakin near the droids or engine, but nobody's going to pay too much attention if the Mandalorian is drilling a kid on Mando'a and battle tactics.

And Shmi notices that, obviously, because Anakin's her son and they've told her about the time-travel, and she understands that while she knows a slave's trauma, she doesn't know war trauma, and sometimes that's the kind of person Anakin needs right now. Cody is that person, until further notice, and Cody being the kind of person he is, likes to be helpful, and Anakin's the only Jedi in sight.

(There may be some of the indoctrination at play, but hey. There's also, you know, the only friend you have right now is the toddler. You gotta make it work.)

At one point, after yet another misunderstanding with a random bystander, Anakin jokingly calls Cody "Commander Buir" and gets an aggrieved eyeroll and a "here, you hold him" in response.

Shmi asks what the joke is, because she knows what a Commander is but she hasn't been picking up on Mando'a quite as quickly as Anakin.

"Well, buir is Mando'a for 'parent.' And I was Clone Marshal Commander, before, so basically, he's calling me 'commander dad.'"

"Given how you've been helping me care for him these past few weeks, I'd say it's not that far from the truth. You've been as much a father to Anakin as I can imagine a parent being."

Anakin makes an annoyed noise, and Cody makes a face, and Shmi obviously questions that.

Cody explains how most Master-Padawan relationships are functionally that of a parent and child, and that given what he's seen of the Skywalker-Kenobi team, that held true there, so it's mostly the fact that Anakin... already has, or at least had, a father.

Except Anakin's still kind of upset, and Shmi pokes him about it, and Anakin admits that one time, he did tell Obi-Wan "you're like a father to me," and Obi-Wan didn't exactly respond or anything, so Anakin's not sure if Obi-Wan would agree, really, that he's Anakin's dad.

Shmi's opinion of Obi-Wan abruptly dips, as one might imagine.

Cody is, uh, not particularly surprised by Anakin's little story there. He admits to Shmi that his General is what some might call 'emotionally constipated' and 'a little dense when it comes to relationship communication.'

And Shmi asks, maybe a little coldly, if this Master Kenobi ever told Anakin that he loved him, and Cody's just like "I don't know? I was still worried about getting decommissioned if I stepped out of line, ma'am, I was a little more focused on the war."

Which is, you know, fair.

And when she asks Anakin, he just whines and tries to crawl into her jacket so, uh, that's not exactly encouraging.

Basically, Shmi's got a plan to interrogate High General Obi-Wan Kenobi if she ever meets him, seeing as she's a free woman now, and Jedi presumably don't kill civilians just for getting a little snippy with them.

Ironically, the first thing she sees when they actually meet with General Kenobi is Anakin toddling as fast as his tiny legs can carry him to the man in question and getting picked up and hugged like both their lives depend on it, and also "Ben" might be crying a little.

(Anakin really loves his teacherbrotherdad! A lot! But also like man does the radio silence of that incident just Grate for him.)

Also "Commander Buir" ends up a stupid in-joke that Cody 100% doesn't process Anakin is actually serious about. This is partly because Anakin himself doesn't recognize that he's serious about it. Because Cody's just His Dad's Assistant, right?

(No, Anakin, you got feelings and he's also your dad now. You have a mom and two dads. Get used to it.)

#commander cody #shmi skywalker #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #codywan #eventually #time travel #star wars #phoenix posts #de aging #commander buir

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generalobi · 3 years

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oo I saw your tags on the last melida/daan story and angst *side-eye hopeful look*

There’s a ringing in Obi-Wan’s ears as he stumbles to his feet, dust and smoke obscuring his view.

The explosion shakes the walls of the Fortress. Jango’s eyes snap open, mind caught between the present and the past. Screaming, smoke, Jango cowering under a table age 12, troops next to him and then gone.

He shakes himself, sitting up. He’s in the Fortress, not Sundari. And something in the city has just exploded. He doesn’t know why, or even what. But it was big and there could be more. Is it terrorism? he wonders, Or something else? He pulls his armour on, muscle memory taking over. He doesn’t wear it during negotiations but when things are blowing up he feels it might be alright to break protocol.

Myles and his father are already in the common room, helmuts under arm.

“It came from the direction of the hospital,” Myles says.

“The lights on that side of the city have gone off,” his buir continues, “And there’s been some yelling in the corridor. We thought we’d wait for you before looking for the Council.”

Jango nods, “Alright, let’s go then.”

Daria rests her head on the table, the voices of the Council a comforting buzz around her. She should be contributing but she can’t bring herself to move. Obi-Wan was in the hospital when it exploded. Obi-Wan had been summoned there only an hour before. Was that a coincidence? Or was someone in the hospital working with the Elders?

“It must have been the Elders,” she says finally, cutting through the chatter.

Nield sighs, “We don’t know that, though, and if we throw the accusation out there it might push them to act.”

Daria rolls her eyes, “Who else could it be?”

“The Elders have been making a lot of noise lately,” Mal says, “This faction has been calling themselves “The Originals”. They claim to be descendants of the Melida and the Daan who started the first war.”

Eris snorts, “Who knew all it took to get the Elders working together was winning the war and not letting them govern.”

Nield shoots him a look he can’t see, “Yes well, have they claimed responsibility?”

“No,” Mal says.

“Have we heard anything from the hospital?” Nield asks.

“No,” Mal says.

“From Obi-Wan?”

“No.”

“Kind of,” Daria says, “He’s alive.”

Nield sighs, rubbing his eyes, “Well, that’s something. They have a better chance with him there, at least.”

“If he wasn’t there, they might not have been attacked at all,” Eris points out.

“Has anyone checked on his Mandalorians?” Jyfn asks.

Nield sighs, “Eris, try and get in contact with the hospital, Jyfn dispatch search and rescue, Mal work on figuring out who did this, Daria try Obi-Wan again, and I will deal with the Mandalorians .The rest of you… just be useful. Why did this have to happen now?”

“Because this is MelidaDaan,” Parasi says.

“We’re always one disaster away from collapse,” Eris agrees.

“And we’re always in the middle of a disaster,” Parasi continues.

Nield looks up at the ceiling, “Fuck you Cerasi, this should’ve been your problem. Why’d you leave me to wrangle the idiots?”

Daria allows herself a small smile.

It’s been three weeks but Jango feels no closer to figuring out the maze that is the Fortress. He can get to the exits, his room, the archives and the hall just fine. But the Council aren’t in any of those places.

They’ve been wandering around for nearly forty minutes before Jango gives up and pulls out his comm.

“What are you doing?” Myles asks, joining Jango on the bench.

“Calling Minister Kenobi,” Jango says.

The comm rings for a full minute before a grainy image of Minister Kenobi crackles into view. He looks… terrible. Even in the miserable quality of a hand comm.

“Hello there,” he greets, as though there isn’t blood on his face and screams in the background.

His arms are raised in a way that tickles Jango’s warrior brain unpleasantly.

“Where are you?” Jango asks, concern growing.

“I-” Obi-Wan grunts suddenly, knees bending under an invisible weight, “I am currently in the centre of a bomb site holding up tons of duracrete and… I actually don’t remember the word in Basic. Where are you? Are you and your companions alright?”

His buir and Myles arrive at the same conclusion seconds before Jango does. It makes sense. His stories for the children, the way he speaks, the fact that he’s not from MelidaDaan. Minister Kenobi is either an incredibly lucky Force Sensitive… or he’s a Jedi.

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beckyh2112 · 3 years

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Half-Formed Fic Ideas That Probably Won’t See the Light of Day

Several of these are rooted in @one-real-imonkey‘s fics because they write things that please my brain.

- Very firmly off one of @one-real-imonkey‘s clone time-travel AUs: it’s around ten years after the events of the fic. Jedi Master Plo Koon is paying a visit to Mandelore for Handwave-y Reasons, but mostly so he can check on the Mereel quints and the Fett twins. (He still has no idea why one of the quintuplets latched onto him in particular, but he returns the young man’s caring as best he can.)

Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos are along for some nice, mostly safe practice diplomacy in front of their padawans. For some (inexplicable to the Jedi) reason, the reaction of four out of five Mereel quintuplets and the blond Fett twin to Padawan Secura is: “Bly is going to hate this.”

(Bly’s reaction is he needs to be on another planet right now, kthx.)

Jango also spends the next several days dealing with Rex’s breakdown over Padawan Skywalker.

- From another of imonkey’s clone time-travel AUs, specifically “A Second Chance, A New Family”: Jango sits with the vode until one of them wakes up. He has a lot of questions about his past now that he’s found out he’s a clone of someone or another.

Rex wakes up first. Rex is Very Confused by a young Jango calling him vod and talking as if he’d been on Kamino with them as another clone. Well, talking as if he’d been somewhere with them as another clone, and that they might have “known him before he was rescued.”

- Based off the general idea of Palpatine secretly restricting the Coruscant Guard’s communications to cut them off with the rest of the GAR. So the Guard thinks they’re sending messages to their non-Guard friends that are getting ignored, and the GAR thinks they’re sending messages to their Guard friends that are getting ignored.

Palpatine’s efforts to isolate the Guard fail to account for the fact Gree is a weird bastard who is good at seeing from other people’s point-of-view. Fox hasn’t responded to any of his messages in the past year, but they’re marked as read? Fox is in charge of defending Coruscant from Separatist threats and doesn’t have transit downtimes like Gree does. Fox never accepts his invites to drink at 79s? The Guard does have to do a lot of military police work with drunken vode, Gree can see Fox not finding 79s relaxing. He’ll bring himself and some booze to Fox. Fox can’t relate to him as a frontline commander and he can’t relate to Fox as Guard commander? Good fucking thing they’ve got other ways to relate to each other. Also, Gree knows how to tell stories that don’t require the listener to have his exact experiences to enjoy them. Why does he put in all of this effort when Fox doesn’t seem to? Friendships take work to maintain, and he’s not going to fault Fox, who is basically always on deployment, having to focus on his duty.

Palpatine actively clouding Gree’s mind so he thinks he’s already visited Fox? Works once, until Barris asks him about his visit with Fox because it’s one of those nice, non-war things she can talk to him about that aren’t just her telling him about her studies. Gree realizes he “forgot”, sets multiple alarms on his next shore leave so he doesn’t get caught up in other things.

Senator being a dick to Guard shinies? Gree is an amateur xenologist and familiar with this particular culture. What said Senator is claiming as an insult is not an insult in their culture. It’s very... Coruscanti of them to find it insulting. (Senators do not appreciate being Judged by clones. Gree does not appreciate people terrorizing shinies. One of them is going to back down, and it sure as shooting isn’t going to be Gree.)

Palpatine rerouting the 41st to have their leave on someplace not-Coruscant and forging the paperwork to make it look like Gree put in the request? “Commander Offee, can you request Commander Tano to check with Commander Fox if he has any requisitions unique to [the planet in question]?” “You want to know if he wants a souvenir.”

Just a mix of Palpatine’s efforts being thwarted because Gree is perfectly willing to give Fox the benefit of the doubt in regards to communications, especially since Fox always seems happy to see him when he comes by the Guard base, and Gree having two Jedi to stumble face-first into Shenanigans as Jedi are wont to do.

- After the Temple bombing arc, Fox shows up at the on-Coruscant GAR barracks with booze. Rex is Not Impressed. Fox didn’t bring it for Rex, so Rex can stay Not Impressed. He brought it for his brother whose baby Jedi just got unmasked as a terrorist willing to frame her best friend.

Gree appreciates the booze, and also Fox’s willingness to get into a knockdown, drag-out fight with him, because no one else will, and he needs some catharsis.

Some ARCs don’t clear the training room they have their fight in when Fox tells them to. Said ARCs come to regret this decision as Fox and Gree use them as obstacles in said knockdown, drag-out fight.

Someone calls one of the other CCs about the time the knives come out, because it looks like Fox and Gree are going to kill each other. (They are not. They are much too good at hand-to-hand to kill another vod without meaning to, and neither mean to.) (They are also being a lot more careful with the knives than it looks like. Frankly, they’re more careful with the hand-to-hand than it looks since neither of them has broken bones.)

- Based off @silverxsakura’s “Your father wants me dead”: Gree gets decapitated by General Yoda during the execution of Order 66. Gree wakes up as a cadet on Kamino with a scar around his neck he definitely never had before, but everyone acts like he’s always had it and are Concerned that he doesn’t remember that. Also, Weird Things keep happening around him.

Fox gets killed by Darth Vader. Fox wakes up as a cadet on Kamino whose temper is a lot more volatile than he remembers it ever being. Also, when he’s really deep in his fury, his eyes turn sulfur-yellow, and Things Happen. The rest of his cadet squad are freaking out that he’s forgotten he has to hide that from the longnecks.

Neither have noticed that Wolffe keeps reaching up to rub a scar he doesn’t have yet.

#bextalk #bexfic

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tennessoui · 3 years

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So I love your keeping up with the Skywalker/Kenobis au😍!!! It's adorable and it makes me so happy to read aaaand I wanted to ask what you think Satine's reaction is to Obi Wan basically getting himself a husband two kids and a dog like 2 months after she's left him? Like if they randomly ran into each other and Obi Wan is with his whole family and is carrying Leia, while holding Luke's hand and Luke is holding the dogs leash, while Anakin is I dunno monologing about something as he usually does

hi!!!! thank you so much for the prompt i love it <3 I thought a really long time about this prompt because I kind of knew what I wanted to do but I also didn't want to throw satine's character under the bus to accomplish it because i think from what Obi-Wan's told us about his marriage she's completely justified to want a divorce, so she's not necessarily a jealous ex in this snippet. But she's sort of angry, which i feel is fair!! i also (for reasons we will hopefully see tomorrow) changed your 'two months' to '3 years', so this happens 2 years after the Skywalkers move in, which is one yearish after the divorce! mostly because Something Else happens about 2 years after the Skywalkers move in and I have an ask cooling in my inbox asking about That that i want to answer tomorrow and these two felt like they fit together

(big sigh)(2.5k)(this is Obi-Wan's POV so its a bit pretentious and also a bit sad)

It’s a very strange thing, what the body remembers but the mind forgets.

“Obi-Wan?” A tentative voice asks from his left, and he knows that voice intimately. That voice had been at one time the most beautiful sound in the entire world. That voice had been what he heard before going to sleep, what he waited on tenterhooks to hear upon waking. He’d heard that voice cry, scream, laugh, gasp, moan--he knows that voice, and for a second his body responds the way it always has to that voice.

Butterflies erupt in his stomach and he turns to look at Satine for the first time in almost three years.

“Satine,” he says and clears his throat and tries again. “Hello there.”

She smiles delicately, as if she’s unsure of her welcome. Obi-Wan’s never seen Satine shy, but he supposes he’s never seen how she acts around her ex-husband.

He surreptitiously glances to where Anakin and the twins are standing in line at an ice cream truck. It had been a nice day, so they had bundled the kids and the dog into Anakin’s car and gone to the city park with loose ideas about kite flying. Perhaps a picnic.

Perhaps twenty yards from the parking lot, Leia had spotted an ice cream truck from her perch on Obi-Wan’s shoulders, and the twins had successfully convinced Anakin to make a quick pit stop on their way up the park’s central hill. It had been a very easy sell. The sweet tooth is most definitely inherited, and nothing Obi-Wan really shares, so he had taken Chewie and gone to sit on a near park bench, graciously pretending not to hear Anakin tell his children to let the old man rest.

That had only been five minutes ago.

“Would you like to sit?” Obi-Wan asks politely, gesturing to the part of the bench he’s not taking up.

“If you have the time,” Satine responds just as politely. Obi-Wan wonders if this sort of false veneer of courteousness is putting her teeth on edge as much as his.

Do you remember how you left? Would you like me to recall the amount of things thrown by you, or would you like to do the honors? He imagines saying.

Only if you would be so gracious as to recite the long list of things you called me, he can imagine Satine responding.

That sort of conversation would be better than this. More honest. It’s a strange hurt, to realize you’re lying to the person you used to think you’d always be truthful to.

“Oh,” Satine says when Chewie immediately starts sniffing at the hem of her dress. “Is this...your dog?”

Obi-Wan fights the urge to wince. He had. Well. He had been quite against getting a dog when they’d been married. Or a cat. Or anything, really. He had vehemently protested the idea of a pet.

Of another living thing in their house.

“Ah,” he says. “Yes. His name is Chewie.”

Satine pets him with just the right amount of pressure to have Chewie tilting his head eagerly for more. “Chewie?” she asks incredulously. “I always figured we would have to name any dog or--child after some sort of literary figure.”

Obi-Wan pretends he doesn’t notice her hesitation. He has to pretend he doesn’t notice her hesitation. “I originally wanted to name him Dante,” he admits instead. “Leia compromised down to Danny, but I just couldn’t do that to the poor dead man.”

“Oh,” Satine says and then she’s quiet. Obi-Wan can just imagine the sort of things running through her head. He would deserve all the mean-spirited barbs she could throw at him now. He reminds himself that he understands that.

I hadn’t thought you knew how to do that, he imagines her saying. Compromising, I mean.

Or, does the dog hair everywhere drive you as crazy as you used to say it would?

Or, perhaps worst of all, how much has your library of dead mean kept you comfort these last three years?

Instead she gently strokes the dog’s head and refuses to make eye contact with Obi-Wan.

“You look well,” he says, breaking the silence first. He thinks she’s probably put in enough work in speaking first for a lifetime.

“Thank you,” Satine responds, tucking a piece of her ash blonde hair behind her ear. Obi-Wan catches a glint of a ring on her finger from the action. He doesn’t know if it was purposeful or not, doesn’t blame her either way. It’s been three years. Their lives are their own now. There’s always going to be those years where they...converged, and Obi-Wan isn’t sure he regrets them. He might never regret them, no matter what he thought shortly after the papers were mailed in.

After all, he’d never have met the Skywalkers if it wasn’t for the divorce.

“You as well,” Satine says, crossing her ankles. It’s her version of a fidget, Obi-Wan thinks fondly, and then wonders if he’ll ever forget that sort of information.

He smiles. “Yes, I’m...well.” He coughs and glances over to the ice cream truck. Leia waves at him from where she’s curled into Anakin’s chest, very near the front of the line. Anakin and Luke are looking at Obi-Wan with almost the same expression of pinched worry. Anakin most probably because he knows who Satine is. Luke because the boy has gotten quite possessive of Obi-Wan’s attention in the last few months.

Obi-Wan smiles slightly to let them both know that he’s fine. “I’m very well,” he tells Satine, turning back to her.

“I’m very glad to hear that,” she says, and it sounds like the most honest thing she’s said this entire time.

“Thank you,” he responds, and that’s the most honest thing he’s said today too. He knows she won’t understand exactly what he means, but it feels nice to say it anyway. Thank you for the years we were happy. Thank you for leaving before we could really start hating each other. Thank you for the divorce. Thank you for the Skywalkers.

There’s very loud footsteps on the pavement and then suddenly a blond blur is clinging to Obi-Wan’s knee.

“Obi,” Luke says very reproachfully.

Obi-Wan automatically fixes the boy’s fringe. “Yes, little one?” he asks, very, very aware of the way Satine’s posture has shifted from almost relaxed to preparing for battle.

“Daddy wants to know if you want anything. He says they have those pop--pop--cycles that you like.”

Obi-Wan switches his attention away from Luke so that he can raise a very scathing eyebrow at Anakin, who shrugs as if butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth. He had most certainly told Anakin that he was fine and that he didn’t want to spoil his lunch. Sending Luke over had not been a friendly check-in. It had been an invasion.

“I’m fine,” Obi-Wan tells Anakin’s son. “I don’t want to spoil my lunch.”

These words seem just as foreign to Luke as they did to his father, because he squints up at Obi-Wan before shrugging and clambering up into Obi-Wan’s lap.

“Who is she, Obi?” he asks, not quietly at all.

Obi-Wan sighs. And then resists the urge to sigh harder when he catches sight of Satine’s pinched face.

A thousand conversations rush back to him.

“My career has to come first, Satine.”

“Don’t call me that.”

“A child? At my age?”

“It’s Obi-Wan, not Obi.”

“I’m not sure I’ll ever be ready, dear. Our lives would change. Fundamentally. We’d have to compromise, we’d have to figure out a way to be there for them whenever they needed it. I know people manage. But would we?”

“Don’t--”

“I’m sorry, darling. I don’t want children.”

“Don’t call me Obi.”

He understands perfectly why Satine looks as if someone has just fed her half a lemon. He does.

She’s run into her ex-husband at the park and settled in to have a civil conversation with the man, only to see that he owns a dog (which he had been against when they were together), has a child (Luke isn’t his, of course, but he can understand the confusion), and lets that child call him one of his most hated nicknames.

“Obi?” she asks, which is probably starting out small, something he is very grateful for.

“Who are you?” Luke asks more forcefully, gripping onto Obi-Wan’s shirt with his little hands. Of all the times for the boy to decide to speak up to strangers--

“I’m Satine,” Satine answers graciously. And then, “Who are you?”

“Luke,” the boy says, far less graciously. “Obi lives with us.”

“Us?” Satine asks, mostly to Obi-Wan. “You mentioned a...Leia earlier?”

“My sister,” Luke interrupts before Obi-Wan can, perhaps, explain the situation. “We’re twins.”

“Twins!” Satine gasps in a way that’s most definitely pointed and directed at Obi-Wan. “Obi, I hadn’t known you had twins!”

“I…” Obi-Wan starts to say that he doesn’t, but the twins have started shooting him very hurt looks every time he corrects strangers on the fact that the twins aren’t actually his. He’s mostly stopped correcting people now because Luke and Leia’s betrayed expressions are really, quite frankly, works of art.

“Obi-Wan!” a voice interrupts him to his right. It’s a familiar voice, one that he’s heard as he falls asleep, one he’s heard first thing in the morning, one he’s heard cry and yell and gasp and laugh, one he thinks to himself might just be one of the most beautiful sounds in the entire world.

Without his permission or even his consent, butterflies erupt in his stomach and he turns from Satine’s rigid expression to Anakin’s slightly manic grin.

“Anakin,” he says, standing immediately with Luke cradled in his arms.

“We got you the red popsicle because Luke never came back,” Anakin says, thrusting the icy treat forward as Leia tries to clamber on the bench to hand Luke his own chocolate-covered cone.

“Thank you,” Obi-Wan says, all thoughts about his appetite for lunch pushed out of his mind by the size of Anakin’s smile. “That’s very sweet of you.”

Anakin ducks his head and rubs at the back of his neck, his face turning red like Obi-Wan’s popsicle. Obi-Wan thinks he’s never been this hopelessly endeared in his entire life.

“I should be going,” Satine says suddenly, standing up. Obi-Wan is a bit ashamed to realize he has forgotten her in the wake of the arrival of the Skywalkers.

But he knows he should not leave like this. They deserve more than this stilted sort of interrupted conversation.

Gently, he sets Luke on the ground despite the boy’s protests and chases after his ex-wife.

“Satine, wait,” he pants as he catches up with her.

“What, Obi-Wan?” she asks, voice strained and eyes a bit wet. “What else do you want me to see? What else is there left? I get it, alright. I get it. It was never you--it wasn’t--it wasn’t that you didn’t want pets or kids or--or all of it. You just didn’t want them with me. It was me. All along.”

She turns away, wiping frantically at her eyes. Obi-Wan isn’t sure if he’s ever felt worse.

“No,” he insists, reaching out to touch her forearm, painfully aware of how public they are right now. “No, you’ve got it wrong. It’s not...it was never you. It’s just…”

He pauses and tries to find the words to describe the past three years of his life. That first year of despair and hopelessness and isolation. And then the way Anakin and his children had crept into his life like a summer sunrise in the dead of winter, unexpectedly and then slowly and then all at once.

Obi-Wan shrugs helplessly, at a loss for words. There’s no way to describe something like that to someone who hasn’t experienced it. “It’s just…them.”

Satine takes a few moments to breathe before she turns to face him. She’s smiling and it looks mostly like a grimace, but he’ll accept it as more than he deserves.

“Oh Obi-Wan,” she says, laying a hand over the hand he has on his arm. “You always had so many rules.”

Obi-Wan fights the urge to bristle, reminding himself that Satine has the right to say anything she wants to him today and the amount of hurts they’ve dealt each other still probably wouldn’t be even.

It takes him completely by surprise then when she hugs him. He hugs her back automatically, blinking stupidly further into the park.

“I’m glad you’ve found your exceptions,” she whispers to him as she pulls back with a sad smile.

“Satine,” he says, but he doesn’t know where he’s going with that and falls silent. She shakes her head and rolls her eyes, leaning in to press a featherlight kiss to his bearded cheek.

“Glad to know I can still make you speechless,” she tells him wryly.

“Always,” he promises her, and she laughs. Obi-Wan is suddenly struck with a sort of gut-wrenching realization that she used to be his best friend as well as his wife. He had lost both in one fell swoop.

“I think I just put you in a world of trouble,” she smirks, tilting her head back down the path. “Your partner doesn’t look very happy.”

“He’s not my--” Obi-Wan starts to say and then decides fuck it. He shrugs. “It was nice to see you again, Satine. I hope. I. I really am glad that you’re doing well.”

Satine smiles and squeezes his hand once before letting go. “You too, Obi-Wan. You too.”

When he gets back to his family, Anakin is staring intensely down at his shoes, while Luke and Leia are glaring just as intensely up at Obi-Wan.

“Who was that?” Leia demands immediately.

“Satine,” Luke relays to her, as if the word means one hundred terrible and tragic things.

“An old friend,” Obi-Wan corrects. “We haven’t seen each other in a while. I just...I just wanted to say goodbye.”

“Did you?” Anakin asks, strangely intent as he looks down at Obi-Wan’s face.

“I did,” Obi-Wan tells him. It sounds like a promise. Yes, seeing Satine had been a peculiar twist of fate, but it had felt like a goodbye. To her. To the last vestiges of their marriage. To the man he had been when he had been in love with her.

The realization feels like it should hurt, but it doesn’t. Instead of ruminating on it though, he holds his hand out to Luke’s sticky fingers. “Shall we?” he asks, as Anakin falls into place on his other side, Leia held firmly in his arms. “It’s a fairly large hill, are you sure you’re up for it?”

“Yes!” Luke insists enthusiastically, all thoughts of the blonde woman his Obi had been talking to immediately forgotten.

“Perhaps by the time we get to the top, we’ll be prepared for lunch,” Obi-Wan tells Anakin wryly. The other man laughs, but his eyebrows stay pinched. Obi-Wan has the strangest desire to kiss them smooth, to lean over and kiss Anakin’s face until he’s blushing and laughing and light as he knows he can be.

But it’s very obviously not the time and place. Such a step forward needs both a proper time and place. After all, you may have multiple loves of your lives, but you only ever kiss each of them for the first time once. And Obi-Wan is pretty sure he’s only got the two; he’s not looking to mess this one up.

#asks #obikin #KUWSK #Keeping Up With The Skywalker-Kenobis #two days after this ficlet #obi-wan accidentally kisses anakin as he's leaving the house #anakin probably would react better to that if he hadn't spent the past 48 hours worried out of his mind that satine and obi wan #are gonna get back together #anakin to padme: i mean how can you meet him and NOT fall in love with him i dont understand #padme: i mean im not in love with him and ive met him....#anakin: and i don't understand!!!!!

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Maul, Obi-wan, and Raydonia

I was doing research for an entirely different post and I just...couldn’t leave this scene alone. There’s just too much going on here for me *not* to dip my oar.

So Maul goes to Raydonia and terrorizes the populace in order to send a “message” to Obi-wan at the end of TCW Season 4:

First of all, the panel where Maul says, “face me,” is interesting as Maul is directed away from Obi-wan as Obi-wan looks at Maul’s back, perhaps in facing Maul’s back, he is looking at the past, or, more specifically perhaps not being able to look at his past he cannot face Maul’s holoimage dead-on.

Secondly, this is such an obvious setup. (I know, I know. “Spring the trap.”) But Maul’s hilarious line in Twin Suns really shows us how much he not only knows Obi-wan, but the Jedi at this point (and in Rebels, he contrives this plan because it has worked twice already, on Raydonia and later, Mandalore):

Although this is not the point of this post, you have to laugh. Maul and Obi-wan, to some degree, have been dancing the same tango for over 20 years and the only time there had been a misstep, so to speak, was when Obi-wan left Ahsoka in charge of the second attempt at a Mandalore occupation instead of going himself. But otherwise, geez, no wonder Maul ended up in Obi-wan’s arms at the end of it all, just like a “dip” maneuver at the end of a dance as mentioned above. (They *know* each other’s moves, flit between lead and follow, and if you take this metaphor to its conclusion, then you realize Maul went to Tatooine, sought Obi-wan not because he wanted Luke, but because he wanted closure, knowing what closure would mean in that circumstance.)

But I’m getting off-topic. Maul goads Obi-wan by threatening to burn Raydonia to the ground and Obi-wan, of course, being of “noble heart,” immediately proclaims that he has to go. Alone, of course.

Mace, being the only voice of wisdom in this room, offers a sound strategy:

Obi-wan immediately rejects this perfectly viable option.

This justification is bullshit. Obi-wan is known for being a master tactician and yet he’s refusing Mace’s offer of backup? First of all, between the two of them alone, I’m certain they could have come up with a decent plan. Secondly, Obi-wan had to know that Maul wasn’t going to keep his word. Raydonia was going to burn, regardless of whether Obi-wan came alone or not.

And, in fact, here is Exhibit A of Raydonia burning:

Even if he isn’t fully aware of this, I posit that Obi-wan rejects Mace’s offer not because he wants to save Raydonia on the premise of a very false promise (if he were truly concerned about Raydonia, he would have taken the task force), but because, as the title of this episode suggests - he wants revenge.

And I doubt Obi-wan even admits this to himself, using his “noble-heart” to justify going to Raydonia alone to face a massive threat to both the Republic and Jedi in the middle of a war headed by the Sith.

By every logical, tactical measurement, Obi-wan should have taken backup. And he outright refuses it because of a personal vendetta. I have more to say about this in another post, but his actions here seem to be part of this cycle of “fall” and “absolution” that Obi-wan goes through in TCW, each “fall” going lower, each act of contrition more extreme. (And it plays into a theory I have that if the war had continued, if events had been just a little different - Obi-wan would have fallen and Dooku would have eventually gotten his most prized pupil.) It also says a lot that in the mirrored situation during the “Siege of Mandalore” arc, Ahsoka is only able to capture Maul because she brought the backup. Or, more precisely put, because Obi-wan authorized the (illegal) backup of he 501st.

Mace, however, isn’t swayed by Obi-wan’s pretty terrible argument. (And for pretty damn good reason.)

But here is where it gets truly bizarre.

What the hell, Yoda? I was trying to figure out the thought process that would lead to Yoda authorizing this. Clearly, it’s not stemming from any military advantage or even thought towards the people of Raydonia. They’re already burnt to the ground, both in Maul’s mind and the Council’s mind (despite Obi-wan’s thin rationalizations).

So then why? If I start with the really wild speculation, I suppose I could say that Yoda had someone form of...Force premonition that Obi-wan going alone to Raydonia would lead to an intervention by Ventress (who Yoda did sense was kicking and ambivalent about her role in the war) which would lead to Ahsoka’s trial and eventual acquittal which would lead to Maul being captured on Mandalore which would lead to the Duel on Malachor which would lead to Luke finding Grogu -

Yeah, you know what?

NO way that’s true. Not even Palpatine could see that far into the future so I can BS on that idea.

So why send Kenobi alone?

I think this harkens to what we see later during the “Wrong Jedi” arc.

If Ahsoka’s trial was her great test, then Maul’s reappearance was Obi-wan’s. Both Mace and Yoda have to know that Obi-wan was teetering on the Dark Side when he beat Maul all those years ago (in fact, the TPM novelization basically states Obi-wan harnesses some Dark Side to beat Maul in his rage.) Mace wants to bring backup, for very practical reasons but also probably keep tabs on an Obi-wan who was at severe risk of becoming unbalanced.

Yoda, on the other hand, sends Obi-wan alone to face his past, to face his darkness and overcome it (in the middle of a war with the Sith where the balance of power could have shifted significantly if Maul and Dooku and Sidious were able to coexist in the same room without the threat of first-degree murder).

And here’s the thing. Both Obi-wan and Ahsoka FAIL this test. Ahsoka walks away from the Jedi, Obi-wan gets the snot pounded out of him, taps into his rage (this is not a man in control of himself),

...and then lets a war criminal go free in exchange for her help, all of which set up the disaster that Mandalore becomes in later seasons. In fact, Obi-wan doesn’t pass this supposed test until over 20 years later, on Tatooine. And...is it worth everything that occurred between this episode and “Twin Suns”? Could Yoda have foreseen all of this? Highly unlikely. It’s nice poetry, but at what cost?

Which leads to another interesting observation - if Yoda feels this is Obi-wan’s test, then both he and Mace feel Obi-wan is more than capable of flirting with the Dark Side. (Yes, all Jedi are, of course, but this seems rather pointed for a man who is considered the pinnacle of Jedi-ness). Again, I have another long post gestating about this topic, but I doubt Mace and Yoda didn’t notice some signs of Obi-wan’s slow fall and attempts at absolution (it’s almost like the habits of an addict - fall, swear off the sauce, and than fall again, even lower) throughout TCW, but between the pressures of the war and trust in Obi-wan, they didn’t see it as a huge threat.

So after Obi-wan leaves for his Revenge Tour, Mace explains, rather diplomatically, that he thinks Yoda’s idea is hot garbage and that his (Maul’s) -

Yes, and Obi-wan at least does learn from this, as stated above...eventually.

Oh, Yoda. This is where I feel the Coucil lost their way. Again, Dooku’s famous quote about Yoda and the Council from the Clone Wars novelization:

"The Jedi Order's problem is Yoda. No being can wield that kind of power for centuries without becoming complacent at best or corrupt at worst. He has no idea that it's overtaken him; he no longer sees all the little cumulative evils that the Republic tolerates and fosters, from slavery to endless wars, and he never asks, 'Why are we not acting to stop this?' Live alongside corruption for too long, and you no longer notice the stench."

It could be argued that Yoda is placing this “test” of Obi-wan above the people of Raydonia, hell, the entire Republic, in priority. Raydonia is collateral damage, and if Obi-wan fails his test, so are many planets in the Republic (which is *exactly* what played out). I suppose, in the very end - again, 20 years later on Tatooine - this was resolved and Luke Skywalker was saved to eventually help redeem his father and destroy Palpatine but...that only really makes sense in hindsight and overlooks the bad decisions the Council and specifically Yoda, are making in real-time.

And Mace is not convinced here. Too many things could go wrong. Maul could escape. Obi-wan could be killed. Obi-wan could possibly turn, or at least “darken,” so to speak.

“Trust in the Force,” Mace might say, “but all others pay in credits.”

#hello there #long post #obi wan kenobi #darth maul #mace windu #yoda #raydonia #meta #well i dont know where *that* little analysis came from but #hey it's my weekend right now so enjoy the fruits of my spare time #and yes i will write that obi wan falling post at some point

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giggles-and-freckles · 3 years

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my fic masterlist

decided to do this for my own sake more than anyone else’s because sometimes I have to make sure the idea I get at 3am isn’t one I’ve already written hehe. anyway, a lot of these are on my ao3, but I’m also going to try and track down some of my TuMbLr-eXcLuSiVe fics, too. I’ll update this as often as I remember (so, uhhh–)

In-Progress: Not On A Consistent Updating Schedule Bc Abi is a Mess ™

midst of the mind – Anakin has always had a pretty good understanding of his feelings, even if he's not particularly disciplined in acting on them. But things surrounding the Chancellor seem to be off and Anakin's determined to get to the bottom of it. With a little help from his friends.(or: fix-it ROTS fic where Ani, Obi, and Padmé take down the Chancellor one fake smile and late-night tea party at a time)

evermore – "dreamscapes and tragedies and epic tales of love lost and found" within the lives of our favourite space fam. (or: TAYLOR SWIFT LITERALLY OWNS MY SOUL, OKAY?) (unrelated one-shots based on taylor swift songs ha)

filling the gaps – after the horror of Naboo, Obi-Wan has flipped from Padawan to having a Padawan in a matter of hours and he's not sure how much longer he can pretend like he's okay. thankfully, this one spunky youngling who keeps popping up in the corners of his life seems to know what to do. (or: baby!Soka unknowingly helps new Knight!Kenobi figure things out and braids his hair along the way)

Obi-Wan & Ahsoka: Best Father-Daughter Duo In The Galaxy According To Me (because let’s be honest...that’s why I’m here) (tagged: #obi & soka)

filling the gaps – *in-progress multi-chapter* after the horror of Naboo, Obi-Wan has flipped from Padawan to having a Padawan in a matter of hours and he's not sure how much longer he can pretend like he's okay. thankfully, this one spunky youngling who keeps popping up in the corners of his life seems to know what to do. (or: baby!Soka unknowingly helps new Knight!Kenobi figure things out and braids his hair along the way)

playing catch – Ahsoka finds an old friend on Tatooine and has lots of questions. they cry a lot. obi-wan tells some white lies. they get the hugs they need. (Obi-Wan & Ahsoka reunite on Tatooine)

all too young – during a bout of insomnia while on Onderon, Ahsoka gets some advice and insight about her Master. (or Obi-Wan hears Ahsoka laugh for the first time and they get to have a snuggle and he absolutely spends the entire next day training the rebels trying not to cry thinking about it every dang time he sees her.)

hologram heart-to-hearts – we see Obi-Wan and Ahsoka have a conversation via hologram in the final season of tcw, but what if there had been...more?(three-parter) (basically Obi and Soka keep in touch after she leaves the Order and there’s...a lot of emotions involved)

little love – a sort of follow-up to hologram heart-to hearts; Ahsoka sticks her nose into the wrong Alliance meeting and discovers a certain Jedi is alive and on Tatooine of all places, so she places a long-distance call.

bad days – Ahsoka tries to squeeze out of her Grand Master exactly what happened on Mortis. and, as always, Obi-Wan is powerless to deny her anything, no matter how painful that truth may be.

sleeping with monsters – Ahsoka is having a hard time sleeping after her time on Felucia, so Obi-Wan offers a solution.

chance meeting – Obi-Wan is up late researching for his Master in the archives when a certain sneeze–and pair of big blue eyes–catch his attention.

‘drooping eyelids’ prompt fill – Ahsoka and Obi-Wan have a conversation about attachment while Anakin’s missing. they (plus Anakin) get some platonic cuddles.

‘dancing’ prompt fill – they attend a senatorial gala without Anakin because he’s feeling grumpy grump after deception arc fall-out. Obi realises that there are still things to be thankful for.

sorrow – Ahsoka feels the full weight of loss as she clutches her Grand Master’s dead body. (deception arc FEELS!!!!)

‘I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong’ prompt fill – *trigger warning: death of children; Obi comforts Ahsoka after they witness an atrocity of the highest order.

the silence between — Ahsoka gets assigned to the 212th as her Master recovers. Unwanted quality time with her Grand Master doesn’t go as planned.

untitled ‘Obi & Ani role reversal au’ ficlet — Padawan Obi-Wan pays a visit to his best pal Ahsoka in the crèche.

‘falling asleep on each other’s shoulder’ prompt fill – the summary says it all. fluff!

'I don’t wanna die’ – Obi-Wan comforts Ahsoka in her pain. *tw: implied major character death

‘I made tea’ – Anakin is off-world so it’s up to Obi-Wan to take care of his sick grand-padawan.

sorry for the soup – post-deception arc. Ahsoka stops by Obi-Wan’s quarters to check-in.

Obi-Wan & Anakin: The Early Years (tagged: #obi & ani)

figuring it out – Anakin learns waking Obi-Wan up can sometimes be a good thing and Obi-Wan learns that maybe everything's going to be okay. (padawan!ani & new dad knight!kenobi)

if I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more – Anakin overhears a conversation he wasn’t meant to hear and lashes out in response. lots of hurt is uncovered and Obi-Wan hears some hard truths from his Padawan. angst, angst, angst...but with a hug.

reading lessons – the team takes a trip to the archives to find some reading material. Anakin is adorably insecure.

cold – Obi-Wan and Anakin have their first solo mission, but in typical Kenobi & Skywalker fashion, it does not go as planned. Exasperated Obi-Wan and Won't-Shut-Up Anakin are put to the test by deep space and a completely out-of-fuel ship. (or some more fluff where padawan!ani and new knight!kenobi get to try and figure out how the heck this master-padawan thing WORKS. hint: it's not easy!)

playing hooky – angel baby Anakin breaks Obi-Wan's heart and it's not for the last time...womp wooooomp.

like you – sweet, angel baby Ani gives himself a haircut and Obi-Wan deals with the aftermath. (I’m copying and pasting most of these summaries directly from ao3 and cracking up because I called Anakin a sweet angel baby in two in a ROW hahah)

fun? – the Jedi Council gives Obi-Wan his newest orders as a young Jedi Knight and he struggles to understand them. he was instructed to take his new Padawan and...have...fun?

go away/please stay – Obi-Wan has been disappearing for solo missions more and more often and Anakin's starting to wonder if it's more than just on request of the Council. (or: can you say TEEN ANGST!)

‘forehead kisses’ prompt fill – Anakin stumbles upon his Master having quite the nightmare, so he handles it the way his mom always handled his own nightmares. with patience and affection.

unnamed NAP TIME fic – Obi-Wan gets home from a solo mission early to find his bed occupied.

‘sweets’ prompt fill – Anakin gets a little ambitious with his choco-ball indulgence.

‘fuzzy socks’ prompt fill – years after arriving at the Temple, Anakin still hasn’t quite adjusted to the cold. Obi-Wan gets him a gift to help. (really just an excuse for some obi ani banter)

‘snowball fight’ prompt fill – Anakin takes his boredom to the next level, much to his Master’s chagrin.

untitled Anakin sickfic bc I’m not feeling very creative right now – the team goes on a mission but Anakin gets sick. Obi-Wan is ultimate mother hen and Anakin makes an observation.

got germs – sickficlet where both of our best boys are sick.

you’re okay – just some classic protective parent!Obi-Wan and teenaged son!Anakin post disaster.

‘you lied to me’ – angstpril day 13. Anakin really wants to go to Ilum and make his lightsaber...but is met with disappointment.

random sickfic – because we all know Anakin is the most annoying sick person in the world.

don’t struggle – the ship is crashing, as usual. but this time, Anakin’s seatbelt is stuck. *tw: implied major character deaths

relic – sith!Obi au. *tw: major character death

aspectabund – Anakin’s eyes betray him and his Master.

Obi-Wan & Anakin: Brotp But Also Idiots Who Don’t Know How To Communicate (still tagged #obi & ani)

define ‘attachment’ – while the dads esteemed Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker wait for Ahsoka to wake up, they talk about attachment, worry, and that time Ani caused an accidental security breech at the Temple.

favourites – Obi-Wan has been tasked with telling Anakin of his special assignment to keep an eye on the Chancellor, but he gets sappy and sentimental in the process because these conversations are hard.

after all these years – Obi-Wan tries to talk to Anakin, but it doesn't go well. does this sound familiar OR WHAT? (post-decpetion arc angst)

brilliant – Anakin is having a difficult time adjusting to his new mechno-arm for one very specific reason. (the boys communicate properly in this one and even get a hug as a treat!)

sober words said aloud – Anakin's meeting with the Council is interrupted by his highly intoxicated–and wildly affectionate–Master. (crack fic turned fluff)

‘you’ve been crying, I can tell’ prompt fill – Anakin makes the mistake of checking in on his Master after a particularly grueling mission. it doesn’t go well. (or: Obi-Wan loses his sh!t)

going somewhere? – Obi-Wan catches Anakin on his way out for a midnight rendezvous with a certain Senator. Anakin makes a quick decision and chooses Obi-Wan. sweet words are exchanged on a sentimental walk.

shaking hands – in the immediate wake of Ahsoka’s departure form the order, Anakin...isn’t okay. Obi-Wan tries to do something about it. (post S5 angst)

untitled platonic tired cuddles/back scratching fic – Anakin resorts to an old tactic to make his Master rest.

sun shine on – Obi-Wan and Anakin take a little trip to Tatooine to visit Shmi’s grave. (post-ROTS fix-it au of sorts)

pushing it too far — Obi-Wan calls Anakin for some help when he takes ‘intel’ too seriously and ends up drunk on a street in lower-level Coruscant.

whump prompt fill – Obi-Wan looks after Anakin after a near-miss. They talk.

‘was it another premonition?’ – Obi-Wan dreams of Luke. He wakes up to Anakin.

post-mortis angst – Anakin remembers. *tw: implied suicidal thoughts

angstpril: ‘you have to let me go’ – Anakin and Obi-Wan are stuck in a pit. only one of them can make it out alive. *tw: implied major character death

role model – post-deception angst. Obi and Ani talk. it doesn’t go well.

here either way – conversations about mental health. *tw: panic attack

hiraeth – Obi-Wan walks alone. *post ROTS

Anakin & Ahsoka: Dream Team Sharing One Single Brain Cell (tagged: #snips & skyguy or (for the really angsty) #its crying about snips & skyguy hours)

that one person – (my first fic!) Anakin gets assigned to lecture a class of younglings, but he's not the only one who doesn't want to be there.or Ahsoka Tano is done with Jedi sh!t and tries to leave, but this time it's just a classroom and not the entire Order and there's a lot less tears and pain.

here and now – the Force has tried to swallow Ahsoka Tano three times. it's hard to be the last one standing. (or Ahsoka feels the death of three important men in her life and is tired of being left behind) *tw: major character deaths (canon compliant and not depicted, only mentioned)

whumptober: crying – Anakin comforts a distraught Ahsoka after her disaster mission over Ryloth.

reaching out – Anakin is always there...until he’s not. Ahsoka reflects on how different it is fighting and living without Anakin at her side. (angst)

help would come – Anakin and Ahsoka get stuck on an ice planet and things get dire. I chalked this full of parallels to the final conversation between Ani and Luke bc I love pain, I guess?

whump: ‘i’ve got you’ – Anakin pulls Ahsoka from a nightmare.

zen!Anakin ficlet — Ahsoka visits Anakin in his new job as Galaxy’s #1 Dad (well Plo Koon still exists so maybe #1.5?).

right as rain – Ahsoka insists she is fine when she is distinctly not.

snoozeville – Anakin and a few boys of the 501st find their Commander catching some extra z’s.

stitching up – Ahsoka performs some in-the-moment surgery for Anakin and he tries not to scream. *tw: field surgery

‘platonic spooning’ prompt fill – do I need a summary after that?

sad hours: dancing – Anakin and Ahsoka dance in the aftermath of tragedy.

rainy ending given to a perfect day – Anakin and Ahsoka take a trip into downtown Coruscant.

Anakin and Padmé: Abi Tries and fails To Write Romance (tagged: #anidala)

not enough – Anakin has a hard time with the Mortis fall-out. Padmé doesn’t know how to help someone who doesn’t want it. some painful connections between Ahsoka and Shmi are made. (angst, no happy ending, trouble in paradise)

I will not have this baby in a jail cell – some fluff, some crack, some Anakin-being-so-proud-of-his-badass-wife.

marcid – domestic fluff in which Padmé almost shoots him. ha. oops!

rubatosis – angsty anidala hours. Anakin can’t go to sleep.

Obi-Wan and Satine: Abi Tries and fails some more To Write Romance (tagged #obitine)

don’t go – Obi-Wan makes a choice. *year on the run timeline

that’s mine – some happiness AU obitine. waking up next to each other. laughing. all the sappy stuff.

accidental keldabe kiss – all the ridiculous tropes I love with our favourite pining idiots. it’s the ‘kiss me so they don’t see us!’ trope!!!! *year on the run timeline

you’re shaking – Satine knows Obi-Wan more than he’d like. *year on the run

Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Rex, Padmé: Space Found Family In Whatever Form It Comes

i want your midnights – the gang attends a New Year's banquet (read: party) and Padmé surprises them all with her midnight kiss.

flair for dramatics – when the gang gets their ship stranded on a desert planet, Anakin and Ahsoka get creative as they try to keep spirits up and minds off the sweltering heat. Obi-Wan questions his sanity. (crack fic turned fluff)

nothing a cup of tea can’t fix – when Anakin shows up to Obi-Wan's quarters in the middle of the night, the Jedi Master knows something has gone awry. answering Anakin's desperate cry for help, Obi-Wan is reminded of how very, very prone to dramatics his former Padawan and Grand Padawan are. (or: Ahsoka gets sick and Anakin flips his shit.) (sickfic)

in the sandstorm – when Tatooine's weather takes a turn for the worst, Ben Kenobi finds a young boy in need of shelter and some lessons on how wonderful his dad had been. (luke and obi-wan hurt/comfort)

remembering hurts – Rex and Ahsoka strive to survive on the snowy moon in the days after Order 66. tensions are high and emotions are volatile.

balter – disaster trio dances at a senatorial ball.

reunion – au where Anakin doesn’t completely turn to the dark side but everything up to and including Mustafar (except for the last like...five minutes) happens. Padmé has the twins, Obi-Wan is overwhelmed, Anakin is a mess. they’re happy...or at least, they will be soon.

‘cookies’ prompt fill – disaster trio makes cookies for the crechelings for Life Day. (just fluff and banter)

first ever codywan! – Cody does some bedside vigil for a hurt Obi-Wan. :’)

transponster – disaster trio is tired and delusional. Rex and Cody want Jedi to have some kriffing self-preservation.

one final salute — Obi-Wan and Cody get trapped. Obi-Wan’s luck is running out. (angst? angst.)

codywan whump – Cody saves Obi-Wan’s life. again. (more fluff than whump)

girls’ night – Ahsoka hangs out with her mom pal Padmé.

driving lessons – Obi-Wan and Anakin teach Ahsoka to drive. ha.

affectionate obi – the kids get Obi-Wan a puppy. fluff!

sorry I don’t speak idiot – Rex and Fives deal with a drunk Echo :’)

post deception disaster trio sadness – Ahsoka tries to keep Obi-Wan company in the aftermath of Rako Hardeen...but Anakin isn’t playing nice.

verklempt – Ahsoka and Yoda talk about being chosen. and Ahsoka finds out maybe she hasn’t been left behind afterall. *pre-TCW

apricity – disaster trio have a picnic at the temple! just pure fluff.

pyrrhic – codywan but make it angsty. some battles are won at too great a cost.

disaster trio sickfic – two Jedi dads and their (sick) daughter :’)

‘you’ve been here this whole time?’ – newlyweds anidala (but shh, Obi-Wan doesn’t know that! yes he does, everyone does.) are there when Obi-Wan wakes up and he ownders just what he did to get so lucky.

Febuwhump 2021: A Foray into Hurting the Characters I Love the Most

mind control – Anakin’s narrative as he fights Ahsoka on Mortis. sad boy hours. a lot of insecurity happening here.

‘I can’t take this anymore’ – during the Obitine (plus third-wheel Qui-Gon) year on the run, Satine gets tired of Obi-Wan trying to die for her. a bit hurt/comfort, a lot sappy.

imprisonment – on their first mission together, Obi & Ani get captured. Anakin learns how Obi-Wan feels about tight spaces.

coma – post deception arc. Obi-Wan goes into a coma after a particularly intense conversation with Anakin. Anakin tells Obi’s unconscious body how he’s feeling. angst, angst, angst. there’s your warning.

‘take me instead’ – Anakin escorts Padmé on a diplomatic mission but things get dicey and quick decisions must be made. Anakin isn’t the only one in this relationship willing to be an idiot for the sake of *love.* (or: another attempt to write Anidala in a convincing way because they give me a tough! time! so this time make it...dangerous)

insomnia – Anakin overhears a late night holo-call and learns that his Master has a...friend that is a girl???? and is pretty???? but also that his Master may need some fixing and he thinks he may just be the nine-year-old for the job.

poisoning – Ahsoka gets drugged and Anakin gets...er...angry. (read: dark)

‘hey, hey, this is no time to sleep’ – as Ahsoka and Anakin wait for help, Anakin tells a story. an ancient monster in the heart of Tatooine...waiting for it's day of reckoning. (or: Ahsoka gets dehydrated and Anakin can't deny his hurting sister/padawan anything so he talks a little bit about home.)

buried alive – Anakin reflects on some things as his Padawan tries to rescue him from the rubble. angst!!!!!!!!!

‘I’m sorry, I didn’t know’ – the Council loses a planet and Obi & Ani get tasked with finding it, but after nine hyperspace jumps and a painful discovery, Obi-Wan teaches his former Padawan one more lesson. (or: the boys talk about failure and feelings when Obi-Wan finds out Anakin's mechno-arm has been causing pain for a couple years)

hallucinations – Ahsoka tries to fix things. it doesn’t work. (post-order 66) angst

‘who are you?’ – Anakin and Ahsoka rescue Obi-Wan, but things aren’t okay and Obi-Wan doesn’t recognise Anakin. (or: Obi is tortured for information about the fall of the Republic before it happens and goes a bit mad bc of it)

‘I didn’t mean it’ – Obi-Wan learns how cold and unfeeling his young Padawan thinks he is and has a rough day. angst

burned – Anakin mourns the loss of his Padawan in a tactile way. Obi-Wan watches. (or: Anakin throws Ahsoka’s Padawan beads into a fire)

‘I wish I have never given you a chance’ – Obi-Wan is reminded of his own incompetence through a vision form his old master.

you have to let me go – Ahsoka has one heirloom: a hologram of her old master as a padawan. but it’s time to let the past go and step into the future, with help from an old friend.

#my fic #maybe I'll go give creative names to some of these prompt request fills someday but #probably not #anyway I definitely should have been doing things other than making this tonight but HERE WE ARE #:)#also at the time of me typing this I have 49 fics listed on here #which is so crazy to me #bc I just started writing in september and if you had told me I would have 50 fics in five months I would have laughed at you #and its so fun and cringey to look back at some of these #its only been a few months but my writing has CHANGED #(hopefully for the better?)#anyway yay! an organised archive!#sw fanfiction

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Revelations

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31326755

“Satine never said Mandalorians couldn’t wear armor! Where do people get these ridiculous ideas?” Obi-Wan threw up his hands.

“The Duchess,” Jango replied, barely holding back the contempt in his voice, “makes no secret of her disdain for anyone that does.”

“Her not liking it doesn’t equate to people not being allowed to do so!” came the sharp reply.

“The New Mandalorians also won’t allow us our weapons.”

Obi-Wan thumped his head against the pillow with an annoyed groan. “Jango, please. Have you ever listened to what Satine says? I mean truly listened to her words, not what Death Watch twists them to?”

Jango bristled at that. He would never listen to what those dar’manda shabuire said. Obi-Wan continued, undeterred, “Not once has she said that weapons are forbidden. Lethal weapons are prohibited in the city of Sundari unless you have proof of exemption. That does not mean giving up your weapons altogether! Force, she carries a deactivator! Her guards carry energy pikes and armor, in case you haven’t noticed. I carry my lightsaber! She doesn’t want people resorting to violence when there are other options. And she wants Mandalore to be able to define itself by something other than armor and weapons—arts and crafts, for example—but she hasn’t forbidden either.”

“Are you saying armor and weapon smiths aren’t craftsmen?”

“No,” Obi-Wan stated firmly. “But they aren’t the only valid form of craftsmanship. Take glassblowers, cabinetmakers, potters, painters, masons, just to name a few. She is asking that you remember that a people need more than just warriors. Focusing solely on the martial aspects is unsustainable.”

Jango frowned, mulling over the younger man’s words. Now that he thought about it, Obi-Wan was right. But there was another detail niggling him.

“You always call her by her first name.”

“Well, of course I call Satine by her first name unless I’m in a more formal setting,” Obi-Wan scoffed, shooting Jango a disappointed look. Had he missed something? Kriff, he must have. Why else would Obi-Wan level such a look at him?

Obi-Wan rolled to his stomach, resting his chin on his hands, his hair shining reddish-gold in the light, “I thought you had made the connection by now.”

Jango seldom felt out of his depth but in this instance he had no idea what the Jedi was playing at. He blinked, thoroughly confused, and shook his head.

“Do you want me to tell you or would you rather figure it out yourself?”

“Kriffing hells, Obi-Wan,” Jango said, narrowly avoiding rolling his eyes. He was in no mood for guessing games. “Just tell me already.”

“Satine is my sister.”

What? Jango blinked again. He must have misheard. There was no way—but there is, a quiet voice in his head spoke up. It was true, he had noticed the similarity between Obi-Wan and the younger Kryze sister but had always ignored it. For one thing, his name was Kenobi, not Kryze. Then again, perhaps he was adopted. Jango’s own name was Fett after all, and not Mereel.

Obi-Wan said nothing as these thoughts raced through Jango’s mind, his expression one of mild humor.

“Are you adopted as well?” Jango blurted out.

“Yes, by the Jedi,” Obi-Wan replied.

Jango let out an annoyed huff. “That isn’t what I meant and you know it, Kenobi,” he ground out, stressing the name.

A smile twitched on Obi-Wan’s face. The bloody bastard was enjoying himself. Before Jango could feel too put upon, he moved, placing a kiss on Jango’s lips.

“I am the third of four siblings. Considering the animosity between Mandalorians and Jedi, my mother wished my heritage to remain undisclosed,” Obi-Wan began explaining softly, carding his fingers through Jango’s hair. “Kenobi was my mother’s family name. Either way, the name Kenobi is a credit a dozen on Stewjon whereas Kryze was, is, firmly tied to Mandalore and its problems.” He paused. “As you may know, my father always supported Jaster, even if they had minor disagreements. But a Force-sensitive child? He wasn’t sure how that would have been taken by the Haat mando'ade. You must admit, most Mandalorians think of Jedi as sorcerers, and not in a good way. So when my talents became too apparent my mother brought me to the temple during one of our visits to Coruscant.”

Jango winced. He knew too well what Obi-Wan was talking about. If you asked a random Mandalorian about the Jedi, the answer would rarely be favorable. He was also guilty of it, especially after the clusterfuck that had been Galidraan. Looking back, his own actions had exacerbated the situation. And now? Of all the people he could fall in love with it had to be a Jedi and, apparently, a Kryze. The ka’ra were clearly laughing at him.

“I didn’t return to Mandalore until the civil war. My master and I were the envoys that were sent after Satine asked the Republic for aid,” after our parents were assassinated, Obi-Wan doesn’t say but Jango fills it in anyway. “Yes, I grew up on Coruscant but just as our Togruta Jedi speak Shili alongside Basic, and our Twi’lek Jedi speak Ryl, I speak Mando’a.” Obi-Wan sighed. “One can have more than one family, you know? Mine are the Jedi, first and foremost, but also my clan on Kalevala and Stewjon.”

He stopped talking, the small crease between his eyebrows deepening the way it always did when Obi-Wan was thinking. Jango found it far too endearing. The silence stretched between them until Obi-Wan went on quietly, “Satine loves Mandalore just as much as you do. She wants it to thrive and for the violence to end. I’m not asking you to agree with everything Satine says but I am asking you not to twist the words in her mouth. Can you do that for me, Jango Fett?”

Jango swallowed. Could he? For Obi-Wan, yes. If he could accept that Obi-Wan was a Jedi and love him then him being Satine’s brother wouldn’t stop Jango, either.

“I think,” he began carefully, “I can manage to tolerate her.”

He was rewarded with a blinding smile lighting up Obi-Wan’s eyes. “That’s all I ask.”

Jango couldn’t help but smile back. Then, “But what about your other sister?”

Obi-Wan snorted. “Feel free to kick Bo-Katan’s ass when you see her. I know I will. Death Watch, seriously.” He shook his head, his fingers trailing slowly down Jango’s chest, “But right now I really don’t want to think about my sisters anymore.”

Jango’s breath hitched. Yes, there were definitely better ways to spend the morning before they both had to return to their duties.

#obi-wan kenobi #jango fett #satine kryze #bo-katan kryze #jangobi #star wars fanfic #canon divergent au #my writing #hawk writes #Revelations #not beta read

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duchess-of-mandalore · 3 years

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Bo-Katan Kryze’s Age

Or rather, it’s not polite to talk about a lady’s age, except in this Lady’s case

How old is Lady Bo-Katan Kryze by the time she appears in The Mandalorian?

We don’t have a canon answer, but we can get pretty close. And yeah . . . it’s a weird answer. But it’s not without reasoning.

Though Bo’s exact age has not been explicitly confirmed, Bo-Katan is in her mid-60s by Mando S2.

How did I get to that conclusion?

1. Dave Filoni has implied that Bo-Katan and Satine are twins, or at least very close in age.

At least twice, Dave, who has said that he has an “extensive genealogy of Clan Kryze,” has referred to a formative event that happened in the Kryze family when "[Bo-Katan] and Satine are six.”

The first is in a YouTube video (source listed in reblog, or search YouTube for the title listed below)

You ask yourself why is [Bo] acting one way & why was [Satine] a pacifist? I have a theoretical backstory that outlines them even at six years old—the two of them—& what transpired to make them who they are today.

- Dave Filoni, The Clone Wars Hangout - February 2, 2013, start at 28:15

The second is in an interview with IGN (source listed in reblog)

I have a rather lengthy backstory that even explains how [Bo] became a Death Watch soldier that goes all the way back to the time she and Satine are six. Because to figure out how she got to that point, and yet Satine is a duchess… I have a whole story about who their father was and what their relationships were and everything with Vizsla, going back for a very long time and how that intersects with Obi-Wan Kenobi.

- Dave FIloni, IGN Interview, 2013

Both of these sources come from shortly after The Lawless aired in 2013. Yes, it is possible that Dave has since backtracked on this idea, however, until we know more, that’s unwarranted speculation (however, we’ll speculate on whether or not Bo could be younger than her mid-60s by the time of The Mandalorian later).

2. Bo-Katan (and Satine) are close in age to Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Even establishing that Bo and Satine are probably twins or close in age, we don’t have a canonical age for Satine in order to solidify how old they are. However, we do know that Satine is close in age to Obi-Wan Kenobi. They fell in love together while they were on the run together during the time that he was a padawan.

Because this is all we know, the reasoning behind Bo’s age has to rely on Obi-Wan birth (57 BBY). I’m willing to allow for a slight difference between Obi-Wan and Satine & Bo, but it can’t be much (especially since we know that Satine begins ruling Mandlore immediately afterwards). Thus, we’ll consider the difference basically negligible at this point, and just assume that Obi-Wan, Satine, and Bo were all born in 57 BBY.

That makes them 38 years old at the time of Satine’s death in The Clone Wars (19 BBY). Bo and Obi-Wan are about 56 when they appear in Rebels (1 BBY), and Bo is about 67 years old by the time of The Mandalorian Season 2 (~10 BBY).

So yeah. That’s definitely different from how Bo looks in Mando S2. Katee Sackhoff is 40 years old (about the same age as Bo in The Clone Wars), but they really did not try to age her up at all.

Could Bo be younger?

So, just for the sake of argument, could I be wrong about all this? Let’s say that Dave has backtracked on his original plan to have Bo and Satine be twins. Could Bo be younger? And by how much?

If Dave backtracks on them being twins, he’ll probably have to backtrack on the story that he had about something happening to Satine and Bo when they were six that had a formative effect on why Satine became a pacifist and Bo a warrior.

(Though it’s only speculation, I’ve always assumed that event was the death of their mother, so in my mind, Bo can’t be more than six years younger than Satine, but I could be totally wrong about that headcanon)

But let’s say that just for the sake of argument, Bo is quite a bit younger. Let’s say she’s 15 years younger than Satine, and that would make her a little older than 50 in The Mandalorian Season 2 (still over 10 years older than Katee). That means that she would have been about 23 years old at the end of The Clone Wars.

There’s nothing that concretely denies this, but we do know that Bo’s nephew, Korkie is about 18 at that same time (he’s listed as being in his “late teens” in Season 5, in the original novelization of The Lawless), and it’s just hard for me to believe that Bo is only five years older than him. She’s clearly much closer to Satine’s age.

Plus, making her that much younger robs Bo and Satine of a connection that they clearly had at one point. In The Lawless, Satine says that it’s been a long time since they’ve seen each other and that there was a time when the two of them weren’t enemies. Again, there’s nothing concrete here, but I’d have a hard time buying an actual enemies-life feud between them when, for example, Satine is 25 and Bo is 10.

Impossible? No. But personally, I just don’t think that’s what Dave is thinking about.

Was her appearance in Mando S2 intentional, or was Bo’s age simply forgotten/ignored?

As I mentioned, Katee Sackhoff is 40 years old, but they really did not try to age her up in The Mandalorian, even though Bo likely is in her mid-60s.

While this is strange, I do not believe that this is an oversight. Dave Filoni loves timelines, and Katee has said that between takes all they would do is sit together and Dave would tell her everything about Bo’s backstory and work through all the timelines with her.

So what could the explanation be? Well ... it could be an out-of-universe explanation. It could have been decided not to age Katee at all in order to make her as instantly recognizable as possible in live-action for those who already knew her from the animated shows (I struggle with this though, because some streaks of grey in her hair would not make her less recognizable, especially with that iconic armor).

However, there could be an in-universe explanation. Instead of having Katee play someone who looks like she’s in her mid-60s, Dave may have decided to have her play someone who doesn’t look like she’s in her mid-60s (but still is).

Some options include: 1. Canonizing the idea that was present in the EU that Star Wars humans simply live longer than regular humans (personally, I’m not a fan of this because we’ve never seen characters aging in a way different from Earth humans before, so I think it would set an awkward precedence).

2. Giving Bo herself a reason for why she looks much younger than her age. The one I’m most fond of is the idea that maybe for most of the time between TCW and Rebels, Bo was stuck in carbonite (perhaps by the Empire for some reason). 15 years in carbonite would allow her to be 65 but act as if she’s 50.

3. Hanging a lantern on the whole situation by saying that “wearing a helmet in the sun really keeps the wrinkles away!” or something like that. Bo’s in great shape. She’s led a healthy (if dangerous) life, but it’s not unheard of for people in their mid-60s to be very athletic. However, I do think that if that’s the fact, it still needs to be explicitly referred to.

Will we learn more in the future?

I sure hope so. Katee has basically confirmed that Bo’s story will be ongoing and she expects/hopes to be in The Mandalorian Season 3. It’s possible we’ll learn more about Bo’s backstory (including how old she is), and hopefully we’ll get an explanation for her appearance.

Katee has said that she desperately wants to know more about the story of Bo and Satine, and how Obi-Wan/Satine’s relationship affected Bo as well. Those are all things that Dave has expressed interest in exploring:

I’d give you more detail [about Bo and Satine’s backstory] except I’d like to tell that story at some point in some form of Star Wars media in the future. I’ve discussed it with a couple people, and we’ve started to architect it into the timeline of Star Wars somewhat, just to see where these things fit.

- Dave FIloni, IGN interview (2013)

So I’m just clinging to the idea that perhaps some day, we’ll be getting more answers. Bo’s appearance in The Mandalorian and bringing her story to a more general Star Wars audience certainly bodes well for more details on the Kryze family story in the future.

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