Anakin as Obi-Wan's Campaign Manager?? Say more right now please!

correction - anakin (19yo) as obi-wan (35yo)'s nonconsensual campaign manager

here's a bit more! all just set up, i have no idea what i want out of this fic yet word-count wise. structure wise. etc.

The Kenobi thing happens accidentally, honestly. Anakin isn’t even sure how he got into it, but at the end of September, Padmé had mentioned how formative canvassing had been to her own political outlook, how impactful it had been to help out on a campaign, and Anakin had thought—that’s it. I can do that, and then she'll see we have things in common and then she'll fall in love with me. And that night, he’d gone to his apartment and researched upcoming local elections. He’d found the list of people running for the city council, and he’d chosen one at a random. Obi-Wan Kenobi was thirty-five and up for re-election. He’d first been elected four years ago, at thirty-one, one of the youngest city councilmen in the history of Coruscant, running—as far as Anakin could tell—on the issue of city infrastructure and misuse and diversion of funds away from public goods like pothole-less roads to drive on. Even just reading the summary on the guy’s past campaign had been boring as hell, but he’d won, is the thing. He’d won, which means he has a good shot of winning it again, which would make it incredibly easy to help him along. Not many people vote in city council elections—fact. Not many people vote for names they don’t recognize, and they have a higher chance of recognizing an incumbent’s name over a challenger’s—fact. It’s only impressive to canvas for a campaign if the guy you’re canvassing for is elected—fact. So Obi-Wan Kenobi was a safe choice. A stellar choice. Anakin hit the books that weekend, printed out a bunch of blurbs on what the guy’s done—apparently it’s been mostly advocating for filling in potholes on what Anakin would bet his tuition money on is the guy’s commute to work—and hit the streets to drum up support for him. The election is in the middle of November, and today is October 2nd. Half the doors Anakin knocks on remain unopened, a fourth are closed in his face, and the remaining percentage are either not registered to vote or seem lukewarm to the idea of voting in a city council election at all. Three different elderly ladies have asked him if Kenobi is running for president. Hell, next time he’s just going to say yes. —--------- But Ahsoka isn’t wrong. Anakin hates to admit it, but he knows he has to. She’s not wrong. Something needs to change in his strategy because he’s not getting the numbers he needs. Honestly, this whole adventure has made him lose faith in the effectiveness of democracy. Maybe dictatorships aren’t so bad. It’s not like these people are voting anyway. He’s smart enough to keep this observation to himself, of course, but he wonders what could have been so eye-opening about Padmé’s time canvassing when Anakin’s having a hard enough time making this whole thing door-opening.

The “Host”, Alt Cesar!

Drew this ref for HSH Alt Cesar a while ago and can FINALLY post it since the Prologue is out now-

Cripplepunk Modern Au Hiccup

“It chose you! You should be honored to be such…an esteemed guest.”

Host from Home Sweet Home AU by @shmorp-mcdurgen and @anotherr-side!! (Speedpaint under readmore)

Peter in the funni sweater

And then he punches them ✌️😔 Totally feeling normal about this fella

go whiteboy GO! my quickstrike design. he smells like a glue stick :P

Six at Gabe :

I am weary of your voice and the way you uniformly censure me for not achievement the plethoric task you designated me. I shall depart from your presence and locate my offspring

What's funny about this is that Lucifer would let Six go if he did/said something like that. But only because he knows Six would go running to his 'son' and it would be amusing to him to let Six get so close to what he wants more than anything else. He'd let Six interact with Adam, let him plead his case, and just as it's all about to fall into Six's fingers Lucifer would simply take it all away. He'd finish what he started that night after the Heathcliffs', but this time there'd be nothing left of Six at all.

"i feel like for a bit there i had an au percolating about obi wan time traveling and becoming korkie's double in order to save satine" 👀 oh? (if you want to talk about it)

See okay I really haven't thought this one out a whole lot but there's so many fun things that could happen with it!

-Obi-Wan is 18. One day he wakes up and the Republic is at war, and the Jedi are leading it. He goes to the Jedi for help, because he has no idea what's going on, and they don't believe he is who he says he is. They already have an Obi-Wan Kenobi, you see, and this has to be some sort of Sith trick.

-Obi-Wan gets frustrated and seeks help from another friend--Satine. She doesn't know how to send him back to his own time, how to make the Jedi believe him (but she believes him, she always has), or how to stop this war that they both agree the Jedi shouldn't be leading, but she does know how to offer a lost child shelter. And Korkie needs help learning how to deal with the intricacies of the Senate, and Satine's good friend is Padmé, and Padmé uses doubles as bodyguards, and hey, do you mind keeping an eye out...

-Obi-Wan does keep an eye out. And then when some assholish Zabrak comes trying to usurp Satine, he's quite unprepared for Korkies unassuming bodyguard to fight him off long enough for General Kenobi to rescue everyone.

-Obi-Wan has no idea how close Satine came to dying that day.

Alternatively:

-Ben Kenobi is an old man, until very suddenly, he isn't.

-After dying on the Death Star, he wakes up on Mandalore. He looks very young, though he's not entirely sure how young. His best guess is somewhere between 16 and 23. He has a padawan braid. He cuts it off.

-It's the middle of the Clone Wars. He thinks it's...close...to the time Satine died. He's not entirely certain. The war has all sort of blurred together in his memories, into a mess of pain and loss and betrayal and Anakin--

-Anyway. Satine dies soon, and Ahsoka leaves the Order. Ben can stop that. He remembers this part. He can make it happen differently.

-He shows up on Satine's doorstep, looking like a lost little Jedi, with sweet manners and a very shell-shocked demeanor, and Satine knows beyond a doubt that this is Obi-Wan Kenobi's child. This is Obi-Wan's child, and he has run away from the war, and he has deliberately sought asylum from a neutral planet. And she says, mine now.

-He's not quite Korkie's age, but they do look very similar. If pressed, they could pass as siblings. Even twins, if no one looked too carefully.

-Korkie is 110% on board to hide a Jedi. It is possible that Korkie has hidden several other Jedi refugees before. Ben's not entirely certain; Ben also will not ask. If there are Jedi taking refuge on Mandalore, that only makes it more likely that they will survive the inevitable betrayal by the clone troopers.

-Death Watch is getting bolder, and Satine fears for Korkie's safety. She remembers another young Jedi protector, protecting another New Mandalorian noble. She should not ask this shell-shocked child to protect her nephew. She does anyway.

-Korkie teaches Ben everything he does not know about being a Mandalorian. Ben teaches Korkie everything he does not know about politics and lying by telling the truth. He also teaches Korkie to use a lightsaber. Just in case.

-And when Maul tries to take over, he finds himself taken by surprise by two unassuming young men who take great offense to an attempt against their aunt's life.

-And when Ahsoka leaves the Order, Satine sees another lost child of Obi-Wan's, and she again says mine now.

-Maul isn't dead. He's pissed off and in a dungeon somewhere but he isn't dead. He's spinning stories to Ahsoka about how Anakin is the next Sith apprentice, about how the mysterious Sith Master only took Dooku until Anakin could fully come into his power, about how the Sith Master had betrayed Maul, and of course Ahsoka knows it's all banthashit--

-Except Ben the bodyguard agrees with him, and isn't that interesting--

-Do you think the Jedi would let me come back to them if I kill the head of state even if he's secretly a sith lord--

Anyway, regardless of whether Ben travels forwards or backwards, this story would include:

-remarks about how Ben and Korkie look remarkably similar (and no clear conclusion on whether there's a reason for that, because I prefer my Korkies of dubious parentage and Force sensitivity)

-Korkie gets to use a lightsaber

-General Kenobi shows up and finds an identical Force presence and has a "Why are you me? I'm me?" kind of moment.

-Satine introduces Ben to Padmé who introduces him to Sabé who gives him a lot of tips about being a double once she realizes what's going on. They're great friends, even though Ben seems...odd, at times.

-Ben has no idea about the chips.

:)

But yeah I don't really have a lot for this story these are just the half-baked percolations. It's fun to think about when I have no idea what I'm doing with paw and galidraan.

whats hdm

his dark materials! the book series by Philip Pullman where your soul has a physical manifestation in the form of an animal called a daemon

please please tell us how Obi-Wan finds out he has a "campaign manager" 🙏

im SO glad you asked currently the plan is that one of the doors anakin knocks on is either quinlan vos or satine kryze and so when anakin is like do you care about local politics/do you know who obi-wan kenobi is and would you vote for him in the upcoming election, they're like 'boy, do i know who obi-wan kenobi is'

and they're like 'wait i didn't realize obi-wan was hiring for his campaign re-election?' and anakin is like 'wait people get paid for this shit? i've been doing it for free'

and they're like 'wait. you've been canvassing for obi-wan kenobi?'

and anakin is like (lying) 'yeah im getting into politics for my university class here's my flyer of information as to why you should vote for obi-wan kenobi'

and its clearly made in ms paint and features a picture of a sweaty obi-wan kenobi post hot yoga class that is just him in sweaty leggings and a thin shirt looking very handsome and then him during a council debate looking even more handsome with his sleeves rolled up and glasses on and hair dishevelled and quinlan or satine is like....'wait are you the reason obi-wan has been recognized in the grocery store three times in the last week???'

and anakin is like maybe idk i guess?

and they're like stay right here actually i need to. make a call.

and they have a call and then obi-wan either comes tearing into the house or his campaign sends anakin an email requesting his presence at the city council's office where obi-wan gives him a please cease and desist order

and anakin says no absolutely not and then the feud begins

and yes, obi-wan has been asked to autograph the flyer anakin made with the hot yoga pictures. anakin prints 100 more.

Did Ingo in ageswap AU get back to the age where his voice is changing? Cause if that is the case, all I can imagine is Ingo being very embarrassed, and Emnet having the time of his life 😆

I think Ingo is spared from that particular brand of suffering, thankfully! Except... he doesn't tell Emmet that his voice actually cracked back in Hisui. It was bad enough that Melli heard it, he does not need to give Emmet this particular piece of information now that his voice has once again settled.

i was born with the gift of hands and i’m going to make that everyone else’s problem

Promare sequel concept idea:

It’s been a few months to 2 years after the events of Promare. Everyone has been preoccupied with trying to rebuild the city and housing the displaced Burnish. The Parnassus has been broken down and sold for parts, which funds have been used to help build a borough in the city where the ship crash-landed. There is continued conflict as the Burnish struggle in the city that once spearheaded their genocide, and rumors about what happened during Promare run rampant. Strange thefts and disappearances start happening in the city, and while some are ready to chalk it up to internal disturbance, our heroes start to suspect something sinister is afoot. Things come to a head when Lucia and/or Heris’s lab is raided. Through some detective work (featuring some classic infiltration scenes, stakeouts and chases) we find out that many of the parts of the Parnassus were sold to another extremist group. They believe that Kray didn’t go far enough when planning his actions from the first movie. They plan to use the technology to hop dimensions and destroy the Promare star, killing all Promare. It’s up to Galo and Lio to once again save the Promare by stopping the group before they can use their technology for evil.

"X AU_ Missed Connection"?? it sounds sad...

it starts off as like. Angst train 101 but surprisingly speedruns into "the entire Xio team has adopted X (who has taken on Daichi's appearance and is claiming to have amnesia) and now X has like, 5 siblings and 4 parents"

there's teeeechnically a fic I posted about it already (The Dream is from the MC au) but most of it is unposted still. (which is a shame, its like. 30k words and only 6~ chapters so far. well, 6 chapters and then mini .5 chapters between every chapter w/ silly in between moments/things only mentioned in the main chapter/other chara's introspection on misc events)

I'm tempted to post it, but also i feel like I should re-do the first few intro chapters so it's more coherent (p sure i wrote those ones back in 2020...? MC AU's been a WIP for SOOOOO long, awhoopsie.)

Not me suddenly creating an AU in my head about Altan and Lera being broken puppets in a magical shop owned by a wizard named... Sergey, of course. They try to repair each other in secret and find surprising comfort in one another.