Friday Fic Recs: Time Travel List 1/3 - The Backwards in Time Edition
This Friday Fic Recs, although unfinished, is about Time Travel! It has been split up into three sections: The Backwards in Time Edition, The Forward in Time Edition, and The TFA Edition. I am a bit of a Time Travel Fic junkie so there's a lot here. I hope you all enjoy the last Friday Fic Recs.
Ad Utrumque Paratus by @obeyingthemuse (13k words, wip)
It's hard to bring balance to the Force when the only method you've seen is your black-cloaked psychic cyborg sorcerer dad with a severe breathing problem throwing an old man down the Death Star reactor shaft. As much as Luke would like to see the not-yet-Emperor dead, he doesn't want to be arrested by his unusually attractive(?) war-hero dad and spend the rest of his indeterminate time in the past dropping Ewok beats in a jail cell. Also Leia would probably kill him. But not before breaking him out of jail.
So when the twins wake up on Tatooine decades in the past, they play it safe. They take over a planet, reconnect with their adoptive and real parents without weirding them out (too much), and accidentally cause the Chancellor perpetual near-death experiences.
And The Next by @iendrafting (Cassian/Jyn, 51k words, wip)
Jyn looks to the disappearing horizon and thinks, The Force is with me, I am one with the Force. The Force is with me, I am one with the Force. The Force is strong with me, I am –
Jyn wakes up in her Wobani prison cell, panting and a scream dying in her throat.
Attack of the (Time-Traveling) Clones by ilyena_sylph, and Merfilly (QuiObi, 19k words, complete)
Rex, Cody, and a combined squad of their men wind up overlooking a man fighting two Jedi, using a red lightsaber with two ends. Oddly enough, their first instinct is to fire... and then everything falls into different places.
Or, that tumblr post about time-traveling clones strikes back!
Back From the Future: Episode VI The Clone Wars by @arielsojourner (ObiDala ObiTine, 107k words, complete)
In which Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader travel back in time together to the Clone Wars era, have amazing adventures, and save the galaxy.
Carpe Diem by summerfiction (8k words, wip)
What if everything you knew could be altered? One minute, you and your twin sister are embracing after a long hard-won battle, the next, you wake up in a medcenter somewhere very unfamiliar, with people arguing over how much of a threat you are.
Luke Skywalker was never one for the easy way out, and the mysterious power of the Force sensed that in him. So how does he react when he's thrown back to a time when everything was different? Before the most celebrated duo in Jedi History fell apart, and half of it was seduced by a dark power?
Luke is faced with a choice: see how things played out before the fall of the Republic to better understand the past, or alter it altogether and try to save the man he would someday call his father?
Chronophobia by @inkognito97 (18k words, complete)
The Force provided Obi-Wan with a second chance to change how things turned out. Will he be able to save his Master, his Padawan and the whole universe?
The Dark Path Lit by Sun and Stars by @delicatefury (16k words, wip)
"I don’t know how this happened. I don’t yet know why. But this is definitely Anakin’s fault."
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master, Exile, and now Force Ghost, was pleased with the way things had turned out. The Sith were dead. His padawan had returned to the Light. And Luke Skywalker was beginning to lay the foundation for his new Jedi Order. And while Luke, Leia, Han, and the Rebellion cleaned up the last traces of the Empire on the physical plane, he and Anakin would devote the next stage of their afterlives to repairing the damage Sidious and his ilk wrought on the Force itself.
At least, that was the plan.
After a disaster on the cosmic scale that Obi-Wan is still trying to wrap his mind around, he finds himself back in the early days of the Clone Wars, Commander Cody loyally at his side, Anakin at his back, and Sidious plotting against the Jedi at every turn. He's been given an unasked for chance to do everything over again. And with the Force as his ally, he intends to set the galaxy on a brighter path than the one it's currently on.
Dreams, Reality and Nightmares by Iva1201 (4k words, wip)
In one reality, redeemed Anakin Skywalker has just become one with the Force - vanishing from Luke's lap on the board of the second Death Star. In another reality, Master Vokara Che finds a mysterious scarred man occupying one of her beds, dying despite her best efforts. And then there is Obi-Wan Kenobi in his prime - and his former Padawan plagued by nightmares.
Feathers on the Sand Series by Carradee (101k words, wip)
Padmé Amidala Naberrie was a politician, with years of experience dealing with direct and indirect communication. Why did she knowingly marry a volatile, traumatized Jedi who gave off so many "creepy! stalker!" flags?
I'll Be There For You by SinkingLikeASunset (ObiAniDala, 44k words, wip)
Just days after his fateful encounter with Anakin on Mustafar , Obi-Wan has resigned himself to a lonely existence on Tatooine. However, he has been granted a chance to go back and fix things. Obi-Wan must alter events and make changes as he struggles with memories of a dreadful future and deals with new developments this time around.
Iridescent by @loloia-brabock (AniDala, 70k words, wip)
“Hmmm…” The old master grumbled, narrowing his eyes at Obi-Wan and whacking him in the shin good-naturedly. "Thought about this, I have. Go, you will, to defend Master Skywalker’s fleet.”
Obi-Wan nodded with a smile, almost expecting something of the sort to transpire. It wasn't a show of favoritism, Kenobi himself knew that Master Yoda was more than likely sending him in to control the situation in case it got out of hand which, knowing Anakin, it would. To him, what the Grandmaster was proposing simply made sense.
“Leave immediately, you will, with Master Jarrus.”
...Master Jarrus? Obi-Wan thought, tilting his head in confusion.
“Find him in the gardens, you will.” He told him, changing his body so he could head down a larger hall as his cane tapped lightly against the floor.
After what looks like a fatal crash, Kanan miraculously survives and somehow (by the will of the Force??) winds up in the past. He swears to himself that he's going to fix everything he can and try to stop Order 66 before it even happens.
Lost Reflections by @esamastation (30k words, wip)
Obi-Wan didn't become Qui-Gon Jinn's apprentice, and Ben didn't exile himself to Tatooine. On Bandomeer the two meet.
The One That Got Away by @punsbulletsandpointythings (QuiObi, 35k words, wip)
Qui-Gon really hadn't expected much when he agreed to go out for a drink with Micah and Tahl a few months after his Knighting. Really.
But the Force had other ideas.
Pebble in a River by kj_feybarn (15k words, wip)
He woke up.
And everything changed, but of course, that’s what life does. It changes.
There are so many options, so many things that seem right. And yet each of those things also feels wrong. Failure isn’t an option, not again. But there is no outline for success, and he’s hardly the only one in the game. He’s tired, and exhausted, and so very lonely.
But force help him, he’s going to save as many people as he can.
The Reality of Change by midnight_vision (ObiAniDala, 185k words, complete)
Padmé dies on Mustafar and wakes up in the past, about a year before everything falls apart. She’s determined to make sure none of it happens again, and with some help, she tries to expose Palpatine for what he really is. But even if Anakin and the Republic can be saved, that doesn’t mean life will be easy.
Reprise Series by @elfpen (329k words, wip)
Ben Kenobi dies aboard the Death Star in the year 0 BBY. He wakes up shortly thereafter in the Jedi temple in the year 41 BBY. Haunted by memories and regret, Ben must forge a new path for himself in the Jedi Order of his youth while navigating the murky waters of time travel. Crafting a better future from bitter experience is hard, but learning to heal is even harder.
Soldier, Poet, King by @glare-gryphon (ObiKin, 102k words, wip)
Second chances are very rarely given, but the Force smiles upon two of its favorite children and returns them to a time before their actions have met their consequences. Anakin Skywalker, also known as Darth Vader, seeks redemption while Obi-Wan “Ben” Kenobi, disillusioned with the Jedi Order and its Code, falls to the Darkness. Trapped out of time, Master and Apprentice must once again work together to stop Sideous’ plans from reaching fruition and bring Balance to the Force—all the while dodging the Jedi, the Sith, and their feelings for each other.
Tano and Kenobi by @fireflyfish (100k words, wip)
Master Skywalker always said “The Force works in mysterious ways” and Ahsoka Tano has to admit, getting thrown backwards in time by about forty years was very mysterious. Now she just needs to figure how to get back home and how to get Master Qui-Gon Jinn to take Senior Initiate Obi-Wan Kenobi as a Padawan before the young boy is shipped off to Bandomeer to take up the quiet life of a farmer.
Of course, that’s assuming she doesn’t take him as her Padawan first...
The Time the Force Sent Obi-Wan Back in Time and Quinlan Vos kept him from Going Kamikaze because let’s be Honest, Being Forced to Come Back in Time Would Suck. by kj_feybarn (6k words, wip)
The Force has sent Obi-Wan back in time, allowing him a chance to fix everything.
Quinlan doesn't know this, all he knows is that the Force has been practically screaming at him to get to Obi-Wan. Quinlan might not be good at following the code, but he always does his best to follow the Force. Which is why he's there the day that Obi-Wan can't take it anymore. Obi-Wan is a stubborn man, but Quinlan has his own special brand of stubborn, the force, two battalions of clones, one former padawan, and one great padawan on his side. Maybe, just maybe, they might be enough to keep Obi-Wan sane.
