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ok I see y’all with the Jedi ocs who have forbidden relationships. I see the people shipping Jedi with other characters (*cough cough* anakin x padme, codywan, aayla x bly *cough cough*) (no shade bc I ship too). I see the Jedi!reader x clone trooper fics.
But i raise you
acearo Jedi who has no interest in relationships at all
sure this Jedi still bonds with their master like a parent/child relationship; what Jedi doesn’t?
this Jedi becomes close friends with other Jedi and sees their clone squad as siblings
this Jedi might even make friends outside of the GAR and Jedi order. maybe some civilian friends
but this Jedi just. never had an inkling of attraction for everyone. They just wanna protect the galaxy and have some laughs.
maybe this Jedi is completely oblivious to any romantic or sexual relationships/attraction/tension going on around them. Maybe this Jedi just doesn’t care. Either way, i think this has a lot of comedy potential (and maybe angst potential)
instead of a Jedi with a forbidden relationship, how about this?
Yoda: the Jedi way, attachment is not. In your future, marriage and family you will not find. Always first, the good of the galaxy comes.
aroace Jedi: okie dokie :)
Yoda: … no questions you have?
aroace Jedi: nope that sounds like a plan to me. Now if you’ll excuse me, I would like to meditate in my room alone by myself before dinner.
Yoda: easiest Jedi, this is
just *aroace jedi* :D
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love the idea of aroace mace windu who just- doesn’t get? why everyone is having such a hard time with the attachment rule?? Like just don’t??? Fall in love???? This shit is easy guys why are you so bad at this
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short-wooloo · 4 months
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The Jedi are an aro/ace culture that live happy and fulfilling lives and people hate them for it
People steeped in amatanormativity can't stand the idea that people don't want/need romance and can not only be content without it, but in fact very happy without romance
And thus they hate the Jedi, because an entire culture (even a fictional one) that is aro/ace-normative is an affront to them
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cadhla182 · 10 months
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Pride 2023 Day 13: Vernestra Rwoh
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a-wisebear · 4 months
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woke up to be a slut again, like everyday (never in practice) (it's not the jedi way)
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smol-baguett · 2 years
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I need to rant about Star Wars making aroace-spec!Obi-Wan canon because this hellsite needs to know what that means to bi/pan-oriented aroaces.
To preface, I have been a huge Obi-Wan fan since long before I realized I myself was bi-oriented aroace.
His understanding of love, especially for Satine, is something that had always resonated with me, and I am sure people like me. I never understood why until I realized it was because I shared those views.
I doubt the initial intention of Satine’s character was to highlight this aspect of Obi-Wan’s, but regardless of what Dave Filoni and other writers involved intended, they created a story that was tailored to the aroace experience. A narrative that exalts and celebrates the nature of our love.
Obi-Wan and Satine are two people who loved each other dearly. We know that they spent a whole year with each other as teenagers. But the beauty of it is that the writers never went far into detail of the nature of their love. How much of it was romantic, sexual, or tertiary attraction.
We do know is that it was a deep love that haunted them ~20 years later. We know they both fantasize about abandoning their duties to be with each other. But in the end they put aside their feeling for each other to prioritize their duties. Not because they thought their love was childish or anything, but because they loved each other so much they couldn’t bear to stand in the way of the other’s dreams.
Obi-Wan always wanted to be a Jedi. As established in the High Republic books, a Jedi cannot prioritize the sake of one person over the rest of the galaxy. He, as a Jedi and according to the belief he had subscribed to all his life, could not put Satine over everyone else. Satine could never put him in a situation where he’d have to make that decision.
Satine had an equally grave, but higher profile responsibility. She needed to fix her broken people and lead Mandalore. That could never be possible if she had a Jedi or even a former-Jedi padawan at her side. Obi-Wan could never jeopardize her dream of a prosperous Mandalore.
And so they parted ways. Because they love each other so much, they want the other to be happy, even if it’s without each other. This is something so inherently aromantic: happiness without needing to be with another person.
And what makes it all the more authentic is how complicated their love is. Because being aromantic or asexual doesn’t make you loveless, just more complicated to express conventionally. They prioritized another commitment over their relationship, but that did not diminish their love for each other. We see it when Obi-Wan goes against the council’s orders and runs blindly and foolishly into a trap to rescue Satine. And when in her dying breath Satine professes she’s always loved him, and she always will. Even after 20 years, their love persists. They bickered and flirted constantly, they were gentle with each other, and they gazed at each other like no one else. It’s subtle yet purposeful, and they both understood the dynamic of their relationship. Once they were kids who fooled around, but now they’ve grown into the people they always hoped to become. They know that because of their decision they could never do that to each other. They could never be together. A mandalorian and a Jedi. But this, for them, is enough.
This is the relationship many aroaces, like myself dream about. Something that is just love. No obligation for the conventional rituals of a relationship. But being comfortable in how we embrace our love and attraction (or lack thereof). This kind of relationship hard to come by in entertainment, especially in huge franchises like Star War. It is messy and complex and just as beautiful as any conventional romantic or sexual relationship. And Star Wars still has yet to realize how enlightened it is for people like me.
I accept that back in the 70s, George Lucas never intended to make. I accept that in creating TCW and Satine, Dave Filoni and co. never meant to write an aroace-coded narrative. Yet the story and character of Obi-Wan Kenobi was one aroaces could immediately identify with. Because his understanding of love is not unrealistic or unattainable. It is real and natural. Valid and reasonable enough for them to anchor it to the iconic and beloved character of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Making some queer Jedi stuff today!
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nevillesniffler · 2 years
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rey. rey is a goddamn badass. I see rey as aroace, and her platonic love knows no bounds. it’s so interesting that, instead of mistrusting people because she was abandoned, she has a deep love for so many and believes there is good in them. rey is wonderful and full of so much love
rey skywalker - star wars
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Signed, a disgruntled aroace young adult who's tired of seeing a character she relates to and identifies with being chained up and slobbered over in order to "make things more progressive UwU"; ESPECIALLY when you consider the context that he was born from a line of enslaved/impoverished civilians that were being exploited, extorted, and worked to death on a planet run by elitist criminals.
(and even if Luke isn't canonically aroace-coded I think it's very profound that his arc is centered around him saving the Galaxy through his platonic/familial bones instead of traditionally having a romance/"getting the girl" like other old time male heroes. It shouldn't be ignored.)
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greenreticule · 2 years
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Hello there, Star Wars fandom, specifically those who like to consider themselves supportive of queer representation in the franchise.
Let's talk about aphobia
That is: disdain for aromantic and asexual people, be it active or ignorant.
(This is not an exhaustive list of how aphobia can show up in fandom, nor is it taking into account intersections such as race, disability, gender, etc.)
Some definitions for people new to the conversation:
aro = aromantic. experiencing little to no romantic attraction ace = asexual. experiencing little to no sexual attraction allo = alloromantic or allosexual. experiencing sexual or romantic attraction a-spec = somewhere on the aro or ace spectrum
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THE HIGH REPUBLIC
Earlier this year, the twitter @/QueerSWatch posted about the number of queers present in The Fallen Star by Claudia Gray. There were two gay queens in minor roles, and then Leox Gyasi as a lead character, who is explicitly asexual and strongly implied aromantic.
Aside from two replies, the rest of them were bemoaning the lack of queers. Sure, three characters is not a lot. But what additional representation were the replies clamoring for?
Someone wanted Lucasfilm to hire a creator known for creating allo queer characters.
Someone who asked if Claudia Gray has ever written any queer characters, somehow missing the giant ace flag behind Leox in the tweet.
Someone who was insisting that a side character had to be allo queer.
Someone celebrating the side allo characters without a single mention of the leading queer character (which also happened with Into The Dark, where Leox gave a whole speech about his queerness).
And someone was clamoring for the aggressively straight Elzar Mann to be confirmed as allo queer.
In short, every single one of these people were replying to a tweet that was highlighting an asexual character, saying "not enough queers," and then offered fixes to that by suggesting EXCLUSIVELY allo representation.
That's aphobia.
That might not have been the intent, but it was still a very loud indication of what they considered actual, worthwhile representation. And it wasn't the leading aromantic, asexual character.
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THE SEQUEL TRILOGY
A less recent, but loud conversation, was about Rey.
Part of the fandom interpreted The Last Jedi as Rey's sexual awakening, and then were loud about how any disagreement with that interpretation was cowardly, misogynistic, infantilizing, and repressive. Actual words used.
They insisted that a sexual awakening was essential, critical, and universal in people becoming adults. Not only did this actively ignore the asexual fans who saw themselves in Rey, these arguments are a repetition of actual pressure that asexual people face in real life.
We are considered "late bloomers," repressed by religion, or prudish just by being who we are, and many of us end up pressured into relationships that we do not want because we are considered broken for not wanting them.
Real aphobic arguments were deployed in defense of a ship.
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THE JEDI CODE
For a more pervasive, ongoing discussion... let's talk about how a significant part of the fandom talks about the Jedi Code and Jedi chastity.
Some clarifications first:
Sex drives, participating in/enjoying the act of sex, virginity, chastity, being single, etc. are NOT the same thing as asexuality.
Asexuality and aromanticism are NOT the same thing. Not everyone who is aro is ace and vice versa.
However, allos often conflate all of these. Star Wars conflates all of these. The fandom conflates all of these.
Therefore, your opinions on #1 often reflect your beliefs about a-spec folks.
Whenever someone headcanons that Obi-Wan either is a-spec or chastely follows the Jedi Code, the constant reply is "Satine Kryze" or "no, I KNOW that he has sex!"
And some of the replies actually are written as if they are offended by the idea that Obi-Wan doesn't have sex.
Contrast this with the time that wording in an official Star Wars release suggested that Palpatine might have had sex. The day after International Asexuality Day 2021 (thanks!), the Star Wars fandom was flooded with people insistent that Palpatine could NOT have sex.
One reply to the myriad of tweets literally said "I know aphobia is bad but I just can't imagine him having sex."
Someone actively recognized they were near or in aphobia, and thought it was okay to continue on anyway.
What does it mean that the fandom will get offended by the implication that a desirable and good man might not have sex, and an undesirable and evil man might have sex?
That someone would prefer Obi-Wan to be allosexual and Palpatine to be asexual, based entirely in desirability and morality, is aggressively aphobic.
In general, the fandom attitude towards Jedi chastity consistently seems to include the assumption that it is wrong for the Jedi to be chaste, that it is repressive to avoid sex.
Obviously there are going to be parallels that people draw to fundamentalist Christianity and their rules about abstinence, but as someone who was raised in fundamental Christianity, I can tell you that those ideas about the Importance of Sex is also harmful to asexual people. It holds this threat of sex as a requirement after marriage, which is also considered a requirement. Because it’s That Important.
And this Importance of Sex gets repeated outside of the church too. Insisting that sex is an Inherent Good that All People Must Experience And Desire is elevating sex in the same way that fundamentalist Christianity does. It is still dictating how and when people must experience sex in order to be a full person.
This is reflected in fandom by being offended at the thought of a desirable character not having sex.
This is reflected in fandom acting as if it is an inherent evil for someone or a group of people to not desire or to choose to abstain from sex.
You need to consider how these things reflect upon your perception and treatment of a-spec people in real life.
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commander-sunshine · 8 months
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Another month of reading amazing works. Here's everything I read in July (I apologize for this being a little late). I strongly encourage everyone to read these fics if they haven't yet. Please make sure to read the warnings! 💛
💜: Fluff
🖤: Angst
🔞: NSFW/NSFT
Kix:
Prompt: "Arch your back"- Kix x Fem!Reader by: @rexxdjarin 🔞
"Don't touch it, it hurts!"- Kix x Reader by: @wild-karrde 💜
Two Steps Forward- Kix x Reader by: @ghostofskywalker 💜
Lean on Me- Kix x Fem!Reader by: @the-bad-batch-baroness 💜🔞
Cody:
weep not for what you've done, but rather who you've lost along the way- Cody x Fem!Jedi!Reader by: @ghostofskywalker 🖤
But Not Lost- Cody x Fem!Reader by: @ghostofskywalker 💜
Cody Thot 1 - Cody x Fem!Reader by: @rexxdjarin 🔞
Cody Thot 2- Cody x Fem!Reader by: @rexxdjarin 🔞
Cody Thot 3- Cody x Fem!Reader by: @rexxdjarin 🔞
Cody Sick!Fic- Cody x Reader by: @ghostofskywalker 💜
Captain Rex:
Lipstick Stains- Rex x Fem!Reader, Clones x Fem!Readers by: @sleepingsun501 🔞
Take a Ride- Rex x Fem!Reader by: @deejadabbles 🔞
Desperate Distractions- Rex x Afab!Jedi!Reader by @deejadabbles 🔞
Carefully- Rex x fem!reader by @sinfulsalutations 🖤💜🔞
Thrill in the Wind- Rex x Gn!Reader by @star-burned 💜
Illicit Affairs- Rex x Jedi Oc by @book-of-baba-fett 🖤💜🔞
Fox:
Shadow Play- Fox x Fem!Reader by @wizardofrozz 🔞
Tup:
Tup Spicy Alphabet Headcanons- Tup x reader by:@deejadabbles 🔞
A Man's Worth- Tup x Fem!Reader by: @the-bad-batch-baroness 🔞🖤
Hound:
Wrongfully Accused- Hound x Fem!Reader by: @zoeykallus 🖤🔞
Echo:
Like Real People Do- Echo x Fem!Reader by: @sinfulsalutations 💜🖤
Wolffe:
Making Dinner With Wolffe- Wolffe x Reader by: @wizardofrozz 💜
Just as You Are- Wolffe x Gn!Asexual!Aromantic!Reader by: @clone-anon-after-dark 🔞💜
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gffa · 2 years
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THE WAY THIS WAS WOVEN INTO THE STORY WORKS SO WELL. As someone who is aromantic + bisexual/possibly asexual/maybe gray-ace, but who has spent a very long time being “??? I don’t know WHAT I am???” and still has a nebulous feeling of how I’m not 100% settled into what I am, the representation of the queer experience of not having yourself figured out is making me feel seen. It’s part of Obi-Wan’s journey in this book, that he’s at a point where he doesn’t know who he is or what he wants or what he’s meant for, and it’s through his experiences on Lenahra that he comes to understand more about himself, but also that not everything has to be resolved, that it doesn’t just happen once, he’ll be figuring himself out for his entire life, that’s how it works.  Again, I feel so very seen. And I love that it’s just a small part of the story, but an important one.  Obi-Wan is dealing with a lot of things at the moment, and ultimately his role as a Jedi is the most important thing to him, his relationship with the Force even above that, that he comes to embrace himself first and foremost in this story, it balances the nods to his sexuality while also showing that a fixation on romance has never been the true heart of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s story.  His love for the people around him, his love for the entire galaxy, his love for the Force, his love for the Jedi Order, his love for his Jedi friends and his Jedi family, those are front and center in his thoughts even more than anything with romance or sex.  That he just doesn’t know if he feels the pull, but he does feel the pull for the Jedi Order. IT JUST WORKS SO WELL.  You can read so many different things into Obi-Wan’s murky feelings, so many different directions of bisexuality and asexuality/gray-ace and aromantic/gray-aro/demi and the whole POINT is that he’s figuring it out, but whatever he is, his connections with the people around him are foundational to who he is.  You can’t really put him in a single box on this spectrum, only that he’s on it somewhere, and it’s okay to not have a specific point nailed down!  It’s okay that maybe he’ll shift along that spectrum throughout his life! As a queer person who will probably be spending my entire life moving around that spectrum without being able to neatly pin myself down, as someone who has always appreciated that Obi-Wan Kenobi’s true love is his Jedi family and his most precious duty to the people around him, that these things can co-exist in harmony with him, as someone who doesn’t prioritize romance in my life, either, I’m ready to cry for how much this means to me. Because it’s great if you have a specific label for yourself, there’s a ton of meaning in that!  But there’s also an entire journey to be taken to the place of “I don’t know entirely what I am, but I’m okay with that.  I exist in the undefined/nebulously defined spaces. And that place has value to me for being undefined.” ANYWAY JUSTICE FOR US BI/ARO/ACE SPECTRUM PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAVE OURSELVES FIGURED OUT AND EXIST IN UNDEFINED SPACES AND THOSE ARE PERFECTLY GOOD PLACES TO BE, TOO.
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starwarsbookclub · 2 years
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Transparent Pride Jedi Order Symbols made for the Star Wars Book Club Discord Server. Feel free to use and share as you like! Flags from left to right: trans, genderqueer, pansexual, rainbow, bisexual, aromantic, asexual, lesbian, and nonbinary.
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fanfic-obsessed · 1 year
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Perchance to Dream
Ok, before we get into what is happening here there are a few facts that I need to have entered into evidence pertaining to this universe.  Please indulge me and take note, every one of these facts will be critical later. 
Fact 1:  In this universe Sheev Palpatine is not a Sith.  
He is what he claims to be in canon, a career politician trying to do his best. He is no saint, he is still a career politician after all, but he is not the ultimate evil. He is still force sensitive, with a sensitivity that is enough that he could have trained as a Jedi if his parents had given him up, but not so high that he is a danger to anyone without training. But he does not keep it a secret from the Jedi, and has essentially been tutored by a few Jedi in the ways of the Force.  He does not let on in the Senate about his sensitivity (Which amounts to a better than average sense of people’s emotions, and a good sense for danger and being able to move very small items with his mind.).   
Fact 2: Yan Dooku is the Sith Master, as of the clone wars, Hugo Demask was his master.
Hugo Demask survives 5 years longer than in canon, he corrupts Dooku, is Maul's Master and is ultimately killed by Dooku.  The background steps needed for the clone wars to happen, that in canon were Palpatine, were performed by Demask or Dooku. 
Fact 3: The Clones are not chipped.
There is no project Knightfall, no Order 66. The clones were not a co-opted project by Sith. Master Sifo Dyas did commission them, but (like with Palpatine), they are not a trap for the Jedi. While Jango Fett still died on Geonosis, he had been there on a bounty, separate from his job to be the progenitor and trainer of the clones.  He trains them because he is paid, rather than for revenge. 
Fact 4: Anakin Skywalker does not slaughter the Tuskens.
Shimi still dies, though it is an accident rather than being captured by the raiders.  Anakin still has grief and horror and loss but it is tempered here because there is no group of beings that can blame, and he is not one to turn that anger inward.  He does see his mother one last time, but there is closure rather than murder.
Fact 5: Jedi can get married. 
It’s not common. Marriage as a legal institution doesn’t actually make sense to most Jedi.  The rights and protections that a marriage grants by and large are not applicable to Jedi. Even as an expression of love, it just tends not to occur to most Jedi to want a wedding. They are more than happy to have the ceremony if their partner or partners want, but won’t seek it out.  
There are only a few Jedi that end up with partners outside the Jedi. There are two reasons for this. The first is that most of the galaxy has some weird ideas about Jedi and Jedi relationships. Most of the time it is not worth the effort to navigate. The second is a bit more convoluted. There is a higher rate of asexuality and aromanticism, or the equivalent, in Jedi than in their native populations (of Jedi whose species has sexuality), by a significant amount (Something like 10%-20% of the Jedi, with a sexual identity, identify as either asexual or aromantic, as opposed to the galactic standard of 1%). Incidentally there is also a higher rate of polyamorous leanings. This combines with the fact that the Jedi truly are a melting pot, different species growing up alongside each other, going through reproductive maturity together. Relationship Norms and Mores for Jedi look nothing like anywhere else in the galaxy.
Fact 6: Anakin Skywalker's marriage is  ‘secret’ and causes much giggling in the Jedi temple.
The secrecy is actually part of Naboo wedding traditions. Nabooians are expected to elope, and the longer the marriage is considered a ‘secret’, the more luck the marriage is said to have. The Jedi are well aware of this tradition and try to adhere to reasonable traditions when possible. So when Anakin effectively broadcasts to every Jedi in the galaxy that he was now Mister Padme Naberrie (the legalities of being married may not matter to Anakin as neither the Jedi nor the slave culture really have any use for it, but the idea of giving someone else their name as a way of giving them belonging was very important in Tatooine slave culture), approximately 45 seconds after their marriage, there is a collective silent agreement by the Jedi to let newlyweds have their ‘secret’.  There is a semi-formal betting pool as to who is going to give in and give away the secret first (Shortest odds are on ‘Anakin, finally doing something that is so obvious that the Jedi can’t ignore it anymore’, ‘Obi Wan, after Captain Rex is forced to lie badly to him again about what Anakin is doing’, or ‘Mace Windu after he catches Anakin and Padme in the Room of a Thousand fountains for a third time that day).     
Ladies, gentleman, and everything in between of the jury, now that we have established these facts in evidence it is time to turn our attention to the reason we are here today.  Without the Sith Master at the head of the Republic the Clone war does take a slightly different trajectory, faster in some ways without their intelligence leaking quite as easily(The Senate still leaked intelligence like a sieve but at least the Separatists weren’t getting it right from the source), slower in other as there was no real overarching goal. No one is actually sure what victory would look like for either side. 
Some members of the Separatist leadership decide that the best way to be victorious is to take out the GAR leadership, the Jedi High Council.  A chemical weapon was created, then tailored to each member of the High Council so it could be released and only affect the targets. It took a year to develop and tailor (so specific that it included the genetic code of each member of the council), then another to maneuver the release mechanisms into place.  This chemical weapon included a powerful hallucinogen and a chemical agent that links the hallucinations of everyone affected (through the Force).  Once deployed it would create a shared hallucination of the worst possible case scenario that could be created by the group. The aim being to hobble the GAR without their high command. 
That shared hallucination is Canon, starting with the Jedi confronting the Sith Lord. 
It is entirely possible that the Separatists greatly underestimated the amount of horror the mind of a Jedi could generate.  And how well they would be able to keep moving when under the hallucination. 
When a Jedi died in the hallucination, they would fall comatose and though none did, the chemical weapon would, for lack of a better way to explain, go a step further and try to convince them to give up(which would kill them in the real world) by continuing to show them this hallucinatory world as ‘part of the Force’.  Until this comatose state they would act in the real world according to the hallucination, including reacting as if injuries within it existed in the real world.  
The High council is spread throughout the galaxy when weapons are deployed. The members of the council that fell to Sidious immediately fall into a coma, while the rest begin to act in varying degrees of strangely (Depending on where they were and how different that place was from where they now thought they were). Mace Windu drops into something that is not quite a coma as his body reacts to having his wrist cut off and falling from a high window, with all the trauma therein.  As Order 66 goes out in the hallucination, more of the council drop until the only ones left moving are Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda, both of whom escape the planets they were on. It is only luck that neither hurt anyone in escaping. 
There is immediate confusion, that is true.  The unexplained coma of 9 members of the Jedi High Council, Mace Windu’s collapse (Physically nothing is wrong but brain scans and the healers say that his brain is acting as if he is in severe pain, as well as severe shock), and the disappearance of Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda. 
The Officers, both clone and nat born, rally quickly and it becomes very obvious, very rapidly that the separatist were responsible for what happened to the Jedi Councilors.  This gives the GAR, particularly the personal battalions of those same Jedi, a new vigor and driving force.  In trying to destabilize the GAR, the separatist actually provided them with a rallying point (Fighting for freedom or protecting the innocent is a great tagline but hard to turn from concept to reality. Fighting because someone fucked with our generals is much easier to put a face to).
It takes eight months to track down the architects of the chemical weapon, who never developed a cure (During this time the war is categorically won by the Republic). Before being captured they managed to destroy about a quarter of the notes regarding the weapon. Using what is left, it takes two years to recreate the missing portion of the notes and another 15 months to synthesize an antidote. 
By this point Mace Windu had to be under constant sedation to alleviate the strain of the injuries he sustained in the hallucination. Because of this it was Plo Koon who woke first. 
Yoda and Obi Wan were still missing.
Plo commented that the Force felt so much lighter. He jolted when he saw Commander Wolffe sitting next to his bed. Thankfully he accepted that he had been in a hallucination easily. And as he described what had gone on within the hallucination (As he had died early, he was cursed with the helpless knowledge of exactly what was going on: the chips, Anakin's fall, The march on the temple, all the evils of the galactic empire) the horror only increased. No one could even blame his slight flinch whenever Anakin spoke, not even Anakin after Plo described the march on the temple in devastating detail and the fight on Mustafar (It only takes a few moments to realize this was a worst case scenario specifically from the Mind of Obi Wan, who could not think about much worse than his beloved brother becoming Falling and becoming Vader).
Eventually Plo is asked if he knows where Obi Wan and Yoda are, even as the other members of the council begin to wake. 
He does, but he recommends that it is not the Clones or Anakin Skywalker that go after either. For a moment Anakin considers being offended, this was his lineage after all, but after hearing what had happened in the hallucination, what Obi Wan and Yoda currently remember him doing, it only makes sense. 
And Cody may be chomping at the bit to go after his general (he was only on Coruscant to see the antidote be administered in hopes that it would give them a clue as to where Obi Wan was, he has spent all of his time since the war ended with the rest of the 212th,searching the galaxy for their general) but he can also see the wisdom of not spooking the general.  
Unfortunately the cure had to be administered intravenously, so there was no gassing the planet. 
Aayla Secura is sent to Dagobah to make contact with Yoda. He is not able to sense her, because she is dead in the hallucination.  He sees her and hears her but believes her to be the hallucination, come to torment him with his failures (Look I imagine that Obi Wan and Yoda have really similar headspaces regarding the genocide of their people and the self isolation that they enacted because of it.).  She is able to administer the cure and get him back to the ship and headed toward Coruscant.
The thing is this hallucination has been active in his mind for 3 years. For the comatose Jedi there was an extra degree of separation from the hallucination (Because they could only watch, the horror was somewhat muted). So while the cure works, breaking Yoda of the hallucination he is utterly changed by three years of horror and isolation and the press of a created darkside. He abjectly refuses to take any seat of power (The entire order has been restructured by necessity since they had no idea when they would cure the high council) and retreats to the creche. It takes years before he stops being hypervigilant when he sees trooper armor in the temple (particularly if that armor is 501st blue). The troopers never begrudge how he stills at the sight of their armor, and it becomes a policy that troopers who want to enter the creche will change into anything but their armor. 
Mace Windu also needs years to recover, having spent three years ‘healing’ from having his hands cut off and being thrown from the Chancellor office.  His mind expects his hands to be gone, which causes all kinds of issues (Kind of the reverse of having a phantom limb). Sheev Palpatine was a friend of Mace’s (It was friendship born of being leaders, doing their best and knowing that their every decision held the weight of a galaxy) and a frequent visitor while they were working on a cure. The first time he enter’s Mace’s room after the cure, Mace lashes out with the Force and throws him through the door in pure panic. This wild panic reaction lasts for three months (with countless attempts by Mace and the mind healers to break it) before Mace growls and decides that it would not happen again.  He then would go to camp out in Palpatine’s apartments for two weeks to train himself out of the reaction. 
It is Quinlan Vos that is chosen to lure Obi Wan out of hiding. Now that they know that the hallucination is affecting Obi Wan’s ability to sense with the Force, the 212th insist that they will provide Vos with hsi transportation to Tatooine, though they do agree not to actually set foot on the planet.  
As far as the residents of Tatooine are concerned, Ben the hermit showed up one day to wander into the Wastes and give himself heatstroke.   He is considered crazy but mostly harmless, and slightly obsessed with the Lars family. In this world Beru and Owen Lars did adopt a baby born right around the time Ben arrived. This little boy, whom they do name Luke, is the son of an escaped slave woman who died in childbirth on their farm. Like many slaves and children of slaves, she took the last name Skywalker. 
Ben thinks he is watching over the son of his brother, and that Owen hates him for failing Anakin. Owen is leery of the strange hermit that watches their farm (particularly Luke) from afar and vanishes into the Jutland Wastes when approached.  Particularly since the few times they have talked to him, he hasn’t actually made much sense.  Every so often other moisture farmers would come to the farm to chat and ask Owen or Beru about Ben. Both are forced to nod and go ‘yep, he’s still out there raving about a galactic empire and apologizing for killing Owen's brother. No, Owen doesn’t have a brother’ (Having only met Anakin once, and though he knows that Shimi had another son, really doesn’t connect Shimi’s son to this brother). 
Vos is eventually able to track Obi Wan/Ben down. It takes some trickery for Vos to administer the cure (Ben tries to kick him off the planet three times, hissing that Vos can’t draw the empire’s attention to Tatooine) but once it does, it knocks him out enough for Vos to carry him back to the spaceport. 
The Lar’s happen to be in town when Vos comes through carrying Ben. Beru asks what Vos is doing with Ben.  Vos responds that he is bringing him home. Owen asks if Vos will be able to get Ben the help he needs. Vos answers yes, and they all go about their day. Ben the hermit will remain a story told on Tatooine for years, particularly after High General Obi Wan comes back a decade later and awkwardly thanks the Lars for the kindness they exhibited.  
Like Yoda and Mace, the time in the hallucination affected Obi Wan deeply.  He keeps a constant ‘watch’ though the Force on his men (within the hallucination their force presence flattened and fell away in the wake of Order 66) and feels deeply protective of all these individual lights that died just as surely as the Jedi did.  He also clings to Anakin’s force presence, but cannot stand to be in a room with Anakin and children. He knows it is irrational but can’t quite help it. At times even stepping foot on Coruscant or at the temple is difficult. 
Obi Wan decides to take a step back from being a knight and Master. He and many of the clones, primarily of the 212th though there are others, plus a few Jedi and others they pick up along the way decide that they will take a survey mission to begin to map some of the wild space beyond the outer rim. He, Cody, and Rex end up entering into a relationship that forms the base for a polycule with the majority of the crew (with the exception of the children they acquire, those all call each member of the polycule some variation of mom/dad/parent).  
They all eventually find happiness, though it does not always look like everything else.
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providing-leverage · 9 months
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The A-Team
(asexaul and aromantic Ted Lasso fic recs)
Let's be honest, half the reason for this post is the title. But also to shine some light on a couple beautiful fics I've found with aro and ace characters in this fandom. The purple heart indicates ace, green indicates aro content.
A is for Ally by starryeyedknight 3.8k💜
When Richard suggests a novel way for the Richmond boys to show their allyship, Colin ends up coming out to the team...just not in the way they were expecting.
In which the team gets distracted (multiple times), Isaac is overprotective, Jamie suspects Colin might actually be a Jedi knight, and Bumbercatch reveals way more about his sexual preferences than anyone was expecting. (And poor Will is inadvertently scarred for life.)
A cute little fic that I found perusing the asexual tag. I really enjoyed this au, and Colin's coming out/the guy's reactions to him as well as him not having it all figured out himself.
Love Stuck by @altschmerzes 6k 💚
When Keeley opens the door, Jamie bypasses any kind of perhaps typically-expected greeting. While this isn’t exactly unusual for him, what he says is.
“I’ve got great news,” he tells her, smiling like he really does have great news, which helps to somewhat offset the sense of foreboding she’d been starting to feel. “I am not in love with you. Can I come in?"
OR: Jamie Tartt is aromantic. This changes everything. This also changes nothing. A study in identity, defining your own relationships, and different kinds of love.
I am completely in love with this fic. Jamie having a bi panic before he realizes actually, neither is good/ref. It's very true to my own experiences and made me relate to him so much.
Such a Skeptic: or, Keeley Jones is Bad at Communication by ellarree 800💚
Keeley Jones is definitely not bitter about Shandy. Barbara is definitely interested in double dates and the institution of romance as a whole. Jamie Tartt definitely knows why he’s here. And Jack Danvers? Well, she knows that none of those three statements are true.
A short sequel to the above fic, with aromantic bonding and Barbara who quite honestly deserves so much more screen time in cannon. It has it's own sequel which you can find here.
A Simple Matter of (Mis)Communication by starryeyedknight 3k💜
For the past few weeks Moe Bumbercatch and Jan Maas have been spending an awful lot of time together, and everyone knows what that means. Everyone, apparently, except for Moe Bumbercatch himself...
Apparently I just need to binge read this author's whole collection of works because I didn't realize they also write A is for Ally until making this. Asexual Jan Mass which again I found myself relating to a lot. Technically part of a series and his asexuality was mentioned in the first work, but it's central to the plot of this one. It's also super cute.
Self rec: it's a rather touching notion by providing_leverage 5.7k 💜💚
“I won’t beat around the bush. We think you might be bisexual. You familiar with it?” A friendly team game of spin the bottle ends in a few revelations, some quicker than others. (AKA Moe Bumbercatch going through the unofficial aroace right of passage: adding no real attraction to men with no real attraction to women and coming up with bisexual, with a little help from his friends)
I really enjoyed writing this, even if the last 2k was just a fight against myself. It went through so many different versions and ended longer than I meant for it to be. I really neat part of the Ted Lasso fandom is how platonic so much of the content is.
If you've got any aspec recommendations of your own, please drop them here or tag me. Self recs are absolutely invited. Happy pride!
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merlyn-bane · 8 months
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SubCody Week Day Six
Cody/Obi-Wan/Kit Fisto. Prompts for DP, Subspace, and "Say it. Tell me what you want, Cody."
@subcodyweek
Expanding Horizons (6094 words) by MerlynBane Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, CC-2224 | Cody/Kit Fisto, Kit Fisto/Obi-Wan Kenobi, CC-2224 | Cody/Kit Fisto/Obi-Wan Kenobi, CC-2224 | Cody & CC-6454 | Ponds, CC-2224 | Cody & CC-1010 | Fox, CC-2224 | Cody & CC-1004 | Gree, CC-2224 | Cody & ARC Commander Colt, CC-2224 | Cody & CC-10/994 Gray Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Kit Fisto, CC-6454 | Ponds, CC-1010 | Fox, CC-1004 | Gree, ARC Commander Colt (Star Wars), CC-10/994 | Grey Additional Tags: Bottom CC-2224 | Cody, Submissive CC-2224 | Cody, Top Kit Fisto, Dominant Kit Fisto, Top Obi-Wan Kenobi, Dominant Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bottom Obi-Wan Kenobi, He's Vers Okay, Threesome - M/M/M, Oral Sex, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Double Penetration, Spitroasting, Subspace, Speculative Nautolan Biology, Nautolan Biology (Star Wars), Sexual Experimentation, Spice (Star Wars), Recreational Drug Use, just a tiny bit though, Blow Jobs, First Time Blow Jobs, Praise Kink, Dirty Talk, Aromantic Obi-Wan Kenobi, Asexual Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Little Shit, CC-2224 | Cody is a Little Shit, Kit Fisto is a little shit, Order 66 Didn't Happen (Star Wars), Queer platonic relationships, Queer Platonic Codywan, kind of, sibling shenanigans, Brotherly Bullshit, Subcody week, SubCody Week 2023, Marshall Commander Cody's Slut Era Series: Part 5 of They Told Me I Couldn't Bag A Jedi (And I Took That Personally) Summary: That just makes the insufferable man giggle harder, taking several minutes until he’s regained enough composure to actually respond. “So who do you think you’ll be pursuing next, my dear Commander?” Cody scoffs at the question but finds himself seriously considering his answer anyway. He hasn’t actually thought about it with any sort of intentionality before now—Kenobi and Vos had been spontaneous, and Luminara had come to him. Even Windu was mostly a case of things just sort of happening to work out the way they did. “I don’t know,” he says. “I’ve already been with baseline human males and females. I think I’d like to try something else—maybe some non-standard dick?” Obi-Wan is suddenly grinning wickedly at him, and Cody can’t help but eye the other man warily. “What?” “Fear not, dear, I think I may have just the being in mind.” Obi-Wan’s still grinning as he reaches over to pat Cody’s pec twice and then he’s rolling out of bed, ducking down to collect his threadbare lounge pants off the floor, and Cody narrows his eyes at him suspiciously as he ties them around his waist. “On one condition, though, I’m afraid. I’d very much like to play, too.” or Cody's Slut Era™ Is Equal Opportunity
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