An'ika and the Corries 🍉AU🍉

Mostly Random Au thoughts and the occasonal Starwars reblog. feel free to ask questions.

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One of the Interesting things I've noticed while rereading some of these snippets in regards to the relationship between Ani and the corries is the relationship between him and Commander Fox.

Mostly because the snippets don't really give much of a chance to really get it to it, so here are some stuff about their relationship

One: Of all the corries, Fox was the last one to fully come around to accepting Ani, Fox is incredibly protective of his guard, and at first Anakin is a huge security risk to the safety of the people he cares about. However as time progresses and especially after Ani's Little breakthrough and his official/unofficial adoption by a few of the guard, he begins to come to the realization that maybe he's not actually a threat, maybe he's on there side.

Fox is entirely in denial about Anakin for, actually quite a long time. Because his guard and even his fellow commanders adore the kid, but he's the leader, he has to be the reasonable one and the responseable one.... And if he admits that the kid has become just as much of an honorary Vod to him as he has to the others, he'll have to face up to the fact that there is a cadet on courcants front lines, a cadet who is actively consorting with the chancellor and who had admitted to playing spy for them and he is not ready to deal with that and the added stress it will cause, so he's keeping the kid at arms length. Or at least trying to.

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Lucky: Is it weird that it sometimes feels like the Senate likes it better when we're just nameless faceless meat droids?

Fox: No Shiney, it's also just how things are here on Couruscant.

Ani: Well obviously

Fox: what do you mean obviously?

Ani: if they don't see you as sentient it means they can pretend that they're not Depur sleemos.

Fox: Ani'ka what the Kriff.

Ani: what? It's true

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One of the more unforeseen side effects of adopting a chaotic Jetti youngling is that apparently it comes with random equipment upgrades?

None of them are on the books of course, and they have no idea where he keeps getting the parts. But the number of times something has broken in the barracks only to be repaired and upgraded by an over enthusiastic mechanically inclined 10 year old is higher than they can count.

He can also inexplicably usually tell when something is about to break or has something wrong with it. He'd more than once just appeared, took one look at a machine and told them what was wrong before the mechanic had even pulled it apart. It was great for costs because they stopped having to buy nearly as much new equipment.

Most of the guard also possibly had a soft spot for the image of a grease covered Ani grinning up at them while surrounded by whatever project he'd been working on.

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Hey people, this post is a little different than my usual ones.

I kinda wanted to post something on the 4th/5th but time got away from me.

I have a lot of snippets and segments of ideas from stories in this au that I wrote up.

This is... Sort of the extended segment of my little "Fox and Anakin's first meeting" snippet.

There will probably be more to follow this but for now, I hope you enjoy this little chunk of story.

Autumn

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"We put republic resources into your upkeep, and the bare minimum we expect in return is that you do the jobs that you were made for." The Senate guard fumed.

Anakin pushed himself back into the corner behind the trio of Clones who had all moved in front of him. The familiar mantra of 'I'm not here, there's nothing to see.' ran through his head even as he watched the exchange.

"The Chancellor has decided to cut a third of your funding until he believes that the guard has earned it back CC-1010." The man snapped.

"We need that funding to get supplies for the Men Sir." The clone said, and it almost seemed pleading even through the vocoder. And Anakin felt the surge of concern from the unfamiliar Clone Commander. 

"We're already struggling to get enough supplies after the last cut."

The other Man only snorted derisively. But Anakin was more interested by the surprise blooming in the force from the troopers around him in response to the Commander’s words.

"Perhaps you should put in more work into being worth your upkeep then." He said shortly.

And that didn't seem fair. It seemed to Anakin like the Corries did plenty of work, honestly he thought that maybe the Senators and other guards should be a little more grateful to them.

"Also, you will gather together every useless Clone that failed to stop the attack and bring them to us for proper disciplinary action.” The guard commander sneered, expression so much like that of an especially smug Master that Anakin couldn't help but lean away.

"If it were up to me I'd have them all sent for reconditioning, but unfortunately it's not.". He seemed to be enjoying this interaction a little too much.

Anakin wasn't sure what reconditioning was, but the fear that had soaked the force around them at the words spoke for itself. Anakin wasn't sure what proper disciplinary action entailed either. But the overly pleased look on the other guards face and the fear in the air brought to mind images of Electro whips and beatings, water and food restrictions, abandoning people to the freezing nights or biting sandstorms for even minor provocations.

He quickly pushed those thoughts away, this was Coruscant, not the slave yards. Things worked differently here. It was fine. Even if the words felt suspiciously like a lie even in his own head.

"Don't Talk back to me, Clone." The man snarled, snapping Anakin out of his thoughts.

He must have missed part of the conversation but he came back in time to see the man grabbing hold of the front of the commander's armor. "You do what the republic tells you, you got that? we say send half the guard to the Lower levels, you send the guard." He leaned in closer, expression angry. 

"We tell you to send your useless men back to Kamino to be Reconditioned, you send those men."

He reached in and ripped off the Clone commander's helmet. Anakin couldn't help but notice that the Clone Commander hadn't moved a muscle since the other man had grabbed his armor, he was frozen staring straight forward, short curly hair tumbling into blank eyes as the helmet came off and hit the ground with force.

"You do, as we say." The man snarled, leaning in again. "We could order you to execute your own soldiers and you'd have no choice but to obey." 

He reached up and grabbed the silent man's face. "We own you, Every pound of duplicated flesh that comes from Kamino is ours, and we will do what we wish with it, do you understand?"

"Yes Sir."

In the back of his head Anakin had the feeling that he shouldn't be here, that he was seeing something that an outsider shouldn't see. But the thoughts were dulled by the Man's words echoing in his head. 

'We own you.' He didn't want to think about it, didn't want to look at the picture that was slowly coming together in his head.

The guards almost never spoke unless addressed. They were entirely ignored unless someone needed them or took some kind of issue with them. The entire Senate seemed to treat the guard, the clones as lesser than them. He thought back to the interaction he and Padme had crashed, how the two aids had been talking about them. He'd thought that there was something wrong with how the guards were treated in the Senate, but did it go deeper than that.

'we own you.' 

Slavery was illegal in the republic, they had rules against it, Qui-Gon had told him so. 

Maybe the man meant something else, but Anakin was having trouble seeing what else 'we own you' could mean.

Anakin pressed himself further against the wall, he didn't hear whatever else the Man said over the screaming in his ears, he couldn't tell if it was his own thoughts or the force pressing in around him. He wanted to be wrong, he had to be, he couldn't. It couldn't.

"..Ad..? Are you ok..?" A hand brushed his shoulder and he started, looking up into the helmeted face of one of the Clones.

From further away he heard snippets of voices.

"Wait, what do you mean he heard everything?"

"Fox, he's just a kid, he's not going to do anything."

He tried to peer around 'Twelve-Sixteen' to see what was going on, he could still feel distressed in the air, but it had a desolate edge to it now.

'Twelve-Sixteen' Knelt down in front of him.

"Hey, it's ok Ad'ika. Don't worry about any of that ok?"

He was trying to sound cheery, but Anakin could feel the nerves underneath the false cheer. He opened his mouth to say something, but instead of agreement or a confirmation of understanding, the words that spilled out were the ones echoing around his head.

"..They own you..?"

The words came out far louder than he'd ment them, and suddenly all four clones were looking at him. The Commander, who had put his helmet back on, sighed Audibly.

"The Coruscant guard and Grand Army of the republic are both republic property." The man said he sounded tired, like he didn't want to have this conversation.

"But… they, they can't." Anakin stammered, pushing to his feet. "You're People." 

The clone who'd been talking to the commander shook his head. "Maybe to you Ad'ika, but not to most Nat borns."

"They bought us off of the Kaminoans." 'Twelve-Sixteen' told him, shrugging. "If they hadn't brought us, we wouldn't exist."

That did not make Anakin feel better, in fact somehow that was worse. 

"But… they're not - this isn't the outer rim." Anakin stammered. The one thing in the way of his discovery was the fact that Qui-gon had said that Slavery wasn't legal in the Republic, but… that had been ten years ago… had that changed?

The guard commander sighed, if Anakin focused he could feel the storm of emotions around him.

"No, it's not, Welcome to Coruscant." He said flatly. 

"Now, you really shouldn't be here, go back to your Jedi." 

The Commander turned and stormed off, but he didn't seem angry, just tired, so so Tired.

Anakin felt frozen, even as his mind was spinning with thoughts, unfamiliar pieces clipping together into a picture that was all too familiar even as the setting was the furthest thing from.

"Ad'ika…?"

"I.." Anakin stepped away, his hands balling into fists. "...I… They…"

The words weren't coming, but he could feel the worry and resigned acceptance suffusing the air around them.

When he eventually did find words, they weren't addressing the fact that his new friends weren't what he'd thought, maybe weren't even Free like he'd thought.

"...I… can you… I need to talk to Padme… do.. Do you know where I can find her…?"

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Since my brain is determined to not let me actually work on this in proper fic form, I'm thinking about simply posting some of the scene snippets that I've written here on Tumblr.

I don't know if any of you would be interested in that but I'll probably do an edit run or two and see what happens.

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Out of context meme for one of my AU’s. No I will not elaborate.

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Yoinks your out of context meme and shoves it into my context.

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There is a certain amount of disconnect between the Guard and the rest of the GAR.

On the surface there's the low level resentment about them having the "easy jobs" that have been circling, and the fact that they tend to "look down." On the other troopers.

Of course those two things are born on an inability to really talk about what's going on back on Coruscant, but there not the only difference.

By far the weirdest difference is that, while the guard does speak Mando'a when they're not on duty and not around the senate, they also seem to have randomly spawned new terms and phrases that make no sense to any GAR troopers that hear them.

Cody to this day still has no idea who Depur is but apparently having to talk to them is a point of intense annoyance.

The GAR also isn't entirely sure what Dukkra ba Dukkra means, but it must translate to something because the guards have a habit of saying it whenever a trooper dies or does something that will probably get them killed.

Rex is particularly confused by the fact that they've somehow picked up the 501st habit of using their generals name as a description for chaos. Except he's not sure what the Corries idea of a "Skywalker story" is or why it's somewhat of an inside joke, or who this Ekkreth is for that matter.

What the GAR does know, is that there's something weird going on with the Guard, and the more weird it gets the more curious the rest of The GAR seems to get.

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Obi-wan, on temple shore leave: And what of young Anakin?

Mace, rubbing his temples with a sigh: Don't get me started..

Yoda: Spends much time in the Senate young Anakin does. Requested by the Chancellor the visits were.

Mace: we have tried to make them less common, but Anakin enjoys the visits and you know we can't stop them.

***Meanwhile***

Anakin: and then he was like 'it was nice seeing you Anakin, and remember, if you need anything just ask' he's so weird!

Lucky: I know, and everyone thinks he's so nice! He's got the nat borns completely fooled.

Anakin: he's got me fooled too, like, other me. Padme says that they're good friends, it's really weird.

'Sighter: if you don't like him why do you still visit him? You're pretty much a cadet can't you get the Jedi say you can't visit anymore?

Anakin: maybe... But I don't want anyone to get in trouble, masters get weird when you cross them. And I wanna know what he wants with me, maybe then I can convince other me that he's bad news.... And also if I stop visiting the Chancellor then I'll barely ever get to come over here, and I can't visit you guys, and I like it over here.

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Tiny adorable thing.

The clones are prone to giving people nicknames based on various things, it's how half of them got their names after all.

So it was inevitable that the Corries would give Anakin one, outside of the default An'ika at least.

They float a few nicknames around, but in the end it's actually Thorn whose suggestion ends up sticking.

Senaar, or Senaar'ika, Or little Bird. Because he loves flying and ships.

And also because much like their habit of referring to Ani as their little Skywalker, it's secretly a reference to the stories that the boy introduced them too.

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An average day in the Corrie guard Barracks.

Fox, exasperated: Trooper, what do you have there?

The Trooper, Who has tiny Anakin sitting on his shoulders: A Ration bar.

Ani, waving : Hi Commander Fox.

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Of all the things I've had to do in this au, writing the illustrious Chancellor has been one of the hardest, which is annoying because I have so many ideas for his relationship with the Anakin's in this au.

Because Adult Anakin is much the same as canon. But little Anakin is... well he's definitely not.

At first he is, although personally I hc that he was a little confused at the beginning by what exactly the Chancellor wanted with him. (This is true for both, but Big Anakin unfortunately grew out of this.)

Then the whole Slave army thing comes out, and he hears one to meny comments from the Corrie commanders about how they view him. And then several of the shiney's half jokingly start referring to him as Depur and any chance of him endearing himself to Ani'ka is completely blown from the water.

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One of my favorite things about this au is that I get to learn into Anakin's feral gremlin side.

This kid grew up on an outer rim planet, in a really dodgy situation. He's not going to be like the temple raised Jedi

Said Jedi have become more or less accustomed to Anakin's traditional brand of nonsense, but last time he was trying to make a good impression, so while he was definitely different, it was more or less somewhat manageable.

At first, this was also true for young Anakin.

Then he found out about the millions of people they bought and all bets were off, and they were dealing with a tiny feral 10 year old who had completely lost any and all respect for anyone who was ranked Knight or higher. And almost the entire Senate.

Suddenly Coruscant was just a more fancy tatooine and every lesson his Mum and the elders taught him was suddenly very relevant again.

No one in the temple knows what to do with Anakin's very abrupt attitude change. But suddenly he's sneaking around under the noses of the cresh masters, hoarding food and sometimes medical supplies that he got from somewhere that randomly vanishes whenever they try to discuss it with him. (They're mostly for his trooper buddies, but the Jedi don't know that.) and generally avoiding interacting with anyone with authority to the point where they would sometimes not see him for days on end.

And the council are being pinned in by Skywalker nonsense on both sides, because adult Anakin in reeking havoc on the battlefield, and Child Anakin is reprogrammed their bots to rebel against their original programs, refusing to listen to the elder Jedi because "they're not his master." and spending half his time in the Senate doing who knows what.

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Random au thought.

So I briefly mentioned Ani's smuggling in an earlier post, and because I love it I've decided that I need to elaborate.

It starts when he discovers that the only thing that the Corries (and most of the GAR) have ever eaten is ration bars and weird nutrient supplements. He has feelings about this of course.

And those feelings result in him smuggling in a couple of pretty much any snack he can get his hands on during visits, something that increases when he discovers just how little food that they actually have.

Around the time he discovers that they also have some severe shortages in other areas as well, he ends up subtilty recruiting the handful of senators who are working to improve clone rights in the Republic into his plotting because. "Negotiations with the masters are a lost cause, trust me. if you really wanna help you have to find more subtle ways."

With their help they also manage to add extra medical supplies and sometime new equipment almost entirely under the table.

The Corries are all deeply confused as to how it is that a 10 year old pulled this off.

It actually wasn't that difficult, mostly because Senator Amidala is weak for Anakin's puppy eyes and she still feels guilty about what happened with his little outburst after he found out about the slave army.

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ok this is definitely an interesting take on a fix it au.

where did you pull the idea from?

The short version? Fanfiction.

The longer version is... longer... but questions give me an excuse to answer stuff so strap in because this might be a long one.

It was mostly born from two places.

One, reading a few too many fanfics about the guard, and then getting attached to them.

Two, reading a few too many au's that dive in to Anakin's background. (A lot of which involve some of Fiallaril's Tatooine slave culture headcanons, which if you haven't ever seen you should go check out because they're amazing, credits to them for that particular aspect of this au)

And 3, a slowly building opinion that Anakin really should not have been as chill about the clone situation as he was.

Now, I'm not a huge au maker, my au's have a habit of being two fanfictions mashed together via alternate universe combination, and they rarely see the light of day.

But this one just popped into my head one day while I was reading Corrie fanfiction and I started making notes in a document and before I knew it I'd written the intro fic.

The main problem is that I have so many thoughts and things I want to do that I can't figure out how to write into a cohesive fanfic, so I'm just writing Snippets of character interactions and waiting for my brain to actually figure out how to put things together into something more substantial.

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There are some things that all troopers know Nat born's will never understand.

All the troopers grew up in a world where perfection was the standard and anything less resulted in death. Where individuality was a crime and being anything more than just another number was a danger, Where saying the wrong thing in front of the wrong person could get you killed.

All troopers know this, but post Kamino the Guards have had it drilled into them all over again. If they want to survive In the Senate they have to fall back on the lessons they learned on Kamino.

The Corries know that there are some things that nat born's will never understand. Things that Nat born's shouldn't understand.

So no one in the guard quite knows how to feel about the strange fallout of the Shiney squad's Jetti Cadets apparent discovery of the Guards position on Courcant.

It starts small, the guard notices that the boy stops being weird about the fact that most of the Corries don't use their names, when asked, the boys. "It's because I know that you have them now." raises more questions than answers, because apparently the boy just figured out that they used their designation numbers around the Senate because their names were a secret on his own. He also seemed to get an unreasonable amount of joy from the fact that all the clones chose their own names.

If it has stopped there then it probably wouldn't be so weird, but it didn't. From sneaking in extra medical supplies and food, (actual food, not just ration bars) when he discovered that 'depur' was cutting their budget for stuff that they needed to function, to the way he seemed to intrinsically understand their need for secrecy, and their reasoning for it. "secrets keep us safe." Without anyone seemingly telling him.

They all agreed that they weren't gonna ask about how the boy had managed to rangle several senators around to the truth of the situation and his point of view with only a few words to one of them. A point of view that not only had them working on trooper sentient rights bills, but also had them aiding in his more under the table helping.

At first it was weird and confusing, both because this kid was a nat born, and because how did a Jetti Cadet develop this kind of understanding, he was a child. It took them a while to connect the dots, Even as the boy started unconsciously dropping hints.

At first it was that weird little nickname he had for the Senate and Senators, in a language that even the most nerdy of Corries didn't seem to understand. They weren't sure what a Depur was, but apparently it applied to the Senate and was probably not a good thing.

The next clue was the stories, because as Anakin spent more time with the guard, becoming more of a Vod'ika than a Jetti Commander and subsequently beginning to learn more and more about the secrets that they kept from the rest of the Senate.

As the boy learnt about the lighter side of the inner workings of the guard, and how to speak the clones particular brand of Mando'a, the guards began to learn stories about Ekkreth, Leia and Ar Amu, stories about secret plots and tricking the The infamous Depur in ways that resulted in the freedom of those he enslaved.

About secret Languages, Tzai, Jappor snippets and secret rituals. About the ways one could steal back some control from the Masters in ways that they would never even notice. About things that the boy claimed that all Slaves should know, lessons that would help keep them safe from their Masters. A term that by now the guards suspended was not referring to the kind the Jedi had.

By the time the boy causally mentioned that he and his mother had been enslaved prior to him being taken to the temple, the Guards already had a pretty decent picture of the situation.

The fact that the boy had been adopting them into his own culture right under their noses had been vastly more surprising. He'd been a little awkward when he'd admitted it. Saying that he knew that they were sort of Mando'ade, but they could be Amavikka too if they wanted.

And sure, maybe it was a little dark that part of the reason the boy spent so much time in the barracks was because it felt familiar, but also this kid cared about every single one of them, to the point where he apparently sees them as family.

Well it really was no wonder that it was agreed that the entire guard would do just about anything for their Ad'ika. Including possibly stopping said Ad'ika from doing the same for them. (Bloody Skywalkers)

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Thorn: do I even want to know what's going on here?

Lucky, Fuse and 'Sighter, surrounded by half their armor and a bucket of paint.

Lucky: since you asked, probably not

Fuse: In fact, it would be best if you forgot you saw this.

Thorn: what are you three doing this time.

'Sighter: i believe it's called finding a loop hole Commander.

Thorn, rubbing the bridge of his nose: Shinies

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Time travel is a weird thing, especially when it's done by the force.

Anakin was already a force anomaly with a crazy well of untapped power that gave him the ability to do shit that would be vastly beyond most Jedi.

Tiny Anakin is worse.

Not because he's any more powerful, in terms of raw potential he's on par with his older counterpart.

Even if he has almost zero official training

But he's also had his connection to the force amped way up. He can feel every little nudge and poke. Every warning and message.

All that talk of the force being cloudy and hard to read? Not for Ani, he wishes it would stop being so pushy and there all the time.

He's also become vastly more prone to visions, not pure see the future ones, but snippets and moments of stuff that has happened and stuff that will, or might be coming.

When something is going bad, he knows, when the force needs him to be somewhere, he knows. And if he causes trouble on the way, well, the Jedi are always saying to follow the will of the force right?