au where the Jedi Order has a program where Knights take odd jobs around Coruscant to strengthen their connection with the planet and also experience life outside of the Order, and Obi-Wan volunteers to work at a newspaper right before the beginning of the Clone Wars, because he thinks writing about intergalactic politics or reviewing new ship designs would be cool…..but the Coruscanti News immediately puts him on the Advice Column, creating a new section called Dear Ben because they think a Jedi would give interesting advice even though they won’t advertise that he’s a Jedi, and the Jedi Council are incredibly supportive because it’s a way to teach Jedi tenets and beliefs to people struggling with grief or anger, etc so Obi-Wan can’t quit even though he very much wants to
Meanwhile Anakin hears about a new column in his favorite section of the Coruscanti News called Dear Ben, and he’s dealing with so much as a senior padawan!! He’s going to see the love of his life Padmé Amidala again soon!! So he writes to the column for advice on how to woo her while on a job (“I’m seeing a woman I met when I was a kid again soon because she hired my company to help her. I know it’s time to kiss her. How do I make her see me as an adult? I dream of her supple body and her��“ the rest of this letter cannot be published in our newspaper for its vulgar depictions and explicit language)
And Obi-Wan gets this letter and he has to write back and be like “Dear Grown and a Shower Not a Grower, please do not do that. Be professional. Romance can wait until after your work is complete. That dedication will surely impress her.”
and Anakin takes his advice, it works, and he keeps writing in for more advice and every single time obi-wan answers because whoever this guy is has ideas of relationships and MARRIAGE and life that need to be corrected
and they absolutely don’t know who they’re writing to, but they carry out a very public correspondence throughout the war as their job allows, and Obi-Wan-as-Ben is able to talk Anakin through a lot of his hurts (ie Rako Hardeen) and eventually Anakin is like holy shit I think I am in love with Ben from the advice column around the same time Obi-Wan realizes he’s incredibly fond of Hopeless On Coruscant (his nickname for Anakin after the 4th major life crisis he wrote in about)
what ever are they to do about it 🙄🤪 other than….meet up 😏
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HAN SELLS BEN???????????? PLEASE
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Han sells Ben is a modern AU where Han is a single father struggling to raise Ben. He goes into a lot of debt. And that debt starts being owed to worse and worse people. To settle is debts, one suggests they can take his son and put him to good use.
Han goes along with this, rationalising it as Han being unable to provide, and thinks Ben will be put to work in the boxing rings that this gang run. He's wrong, Ren has other plans for the son of Leia Organa, the politician who is trying to shut him down. And who better to share the message back to her, than the ex husband she entrusted the kid to?
She needn't worry though, Ren will look after Ben much better than Han ever did.
--Essentially, RenBen noncon from the PoV of Han. It's not pleasant, here's a bit of the first draft of how it starts
Han tried his best. He really did. He just was never cut out to be a single father, and he should have admitted that 9 years ago.
It had been 10 years since his and Leia's divorce, and all Han kept was their son, Ben.
He had been given the option to go with whatever parent he chose. Of course, a seven year-old isn’t going to make the best decisions, and was currently hero-worshiping his dad, so straight off with Han he went.
In hindsight, letting a 7 year old make major life decisions is not a good idea.
(In hindsight, Han thinks that perhaps Leia knew Ben would choose him, she was always career driven and knew childcare would hold her back.)
The first few years were great, him and Ben, father and son versus the world. And then it all went downhill.
First, Han lost his job, and then they lost their flat, and then the lack of money meant they had to give up their dog, Chewie (Ben never forgave him for that). They spent a short while living out of Han’s car, but that’s no way to raise a child.
That’s when Han started borrowing money. It was never loads, just enough to get by each month. Managed to get them a caravan on the edge of the city, still close enough so that Ben could cycle to school. He was a good student, not quite top of his class, but close. Han tries not to dwell on that though - maybe if Ben had a more stable home life, he would be the best student. Either way, Ben had his whole future ahead of him, and Han was not going to let that be ruined.
He continues borrowing money - it just makes sense. Live on the brink of starvation without any sort of roof over their head, or borrow a bit here and there to help make ends meet. He never fails to pay it back, and it’s only ever small amounts, to cover food and fuel. Just enough that he can get to his next job and never too much that he can’t pay it back before the loan sharks come knocking.
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“Yeah.. Ok. Ok.”
The decision doesn’t take as long as Han would have liked it to, and he hates himself for it.
He’s never been good at them. It’s how he ended up in this mess. From agreeing to take Ben in 10 years ago as a single father right up to now, destitute and owing money.
The large man grins. His teeth glint in the dark.
Han feels sick to his stomach.
“Well you heard the man, boys. Go get him.”
Han’s heart is hammering in his chest and he feels like he might throw up. He almost stops and rescinds his side, ready to argue for his son, happy to offer himself up instead. Almost, but then something stops him. He doesn’t know what Ren wants Ben for, but Ben is a big lad and can hold his own in a fight. Ren probably wants him as a guard, indoctrinate the youth into the gang culture and he’ll have a loyal follower for years. That, or perhaps the underground boxing rings. Han is sure Ben could make some big money there. He’s gotten into enough fights at school that he could hold his own in a ring, Han is sure. With a bit of training, he could make a man like Ren a fortune.
Either way, it’s a future for Ben, one which Han is unable to provide. And if he wins big in the rings, maybe he will remember Han and help him out?
He turns to leave, finally a free man after years of debt had plagued him. (And free from the burdens of raising a teenager alone).
“I wouldn’t leave so soon, Han… Don’t you want to say goodbye to your son?”
He doesn’t. He really doesn’t. He doesn’t think he could look in those brown eyes (so much like his mothers) and admit he sold him. Admit that he has hit rock bottom so many times that the only way to claw himself out is to exchange his own flesh and blood.
But Ren doesn’t give him a choice, as two of his ‘knights’ move to stand in his way.
“I don’t need to see him, Ren. You’ve got what you want, and I’m sure he will make a great boxer, but you’ve already taken him from me. Don’t make me have to say goodbye to him too”
With that he hears the larger man chuckle from his seat. “Boxing? Who said anything about boxing?”
“You can’t send him out doing drug runs, Ren. He’s seventeen, he has no street smarts, he’ll get caught” Han looks back up at the gang lord, eyebrows furrowed
“Don’t you worry your little head about it Han, I won’t let your precious boy out of my sight. Someone grab him a seat, he’ll want to see this”
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