All of my stories take place within the same universe (unless marked AU) - Timeline does not include drabbles from “Stolen Moments” or “Life Day Firsts” though I do consider those to exist in this same timeline. I try to keep them all in the known “canon” timeline with the exception of Ob-Wan’s famous year on the run with Satine, I just can’t accept that they were only 15 years old...sorry, just can’t do it - so I have set that event when he was 22 - 23 years old instead.
AU’s:
Aftermath - the Fall of Kenobi
Another Path
Timeline will be updated as stories are added - I have linked stories that are already finished/posted to AO3 (or are a WIP)
* = Scion’s Offering Series
42BBY
*Tested (2 years after Melida/Daan)
40 BBY
Scary Mission Stories to Tell in the Dark ( 6 years prior to Mandalore)
34 BBY
I’m Not That Girl (After Mission to Mandalore/Prior to Naboo)
32 BBY
It Takes a Village (Battle of Naboo - 28 BBY)
A Promise to an Old Friend (After Battle of Naboo)
27BBY
Promise Me You’ll Train the Boy (5 years after Naboo)
Drunken Lullabies (5 years after Naboo)
22BBY
Attachment (After 1st Battle of Geonosis - During Mission to Scipio)
*Zigoola Sunrise (During battle of Bothawaui)
Reflections (Post Zigoola)
21 BBY
Driving Rain (During 2nd Battle of Geonosis)
Decoy Duchess (During bombing of Kalevala)
*The Jedi Virus (During blockade of Pantora)
*Eternal Twilight (After battle of Kamino)
Jar’Kai (Prior to Coruscant Power bombing)
20 BBY
Special Agent Padawans (During Battle of Sullust)
*Azure Sunset (Directly after the Citadel)
Memoirs of Kadavo (Directly after Battle of Kadavo)
Deception (During/After the “assassination” of Obi-Wan Kenobi)
In the Shadows (Directly after Rako Hardeen Mission)
Revenge - Homecoming (During massacre on Raydonia)
19 BBY
The Next Right Thing (Directly after the Skirmish on Florrum)
The Trials (During/After the Jedi Temple Bombing **W/Jedi Apprentice Flashbacks**)
The Empty Nest (Directly after Ahsoka’s departure)
*The Hand-maid’s Tale (During Outer Rim Sieges - 0BBY)
Anakin is still angry about the Rako Hardeen mission and brings Padme down to the reactor room to see if he could beat the plasma shields to prove he's better than Obi-Wan.
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my dream as a fanfic writer is for one day, one of my fics to be someones comfort fic. like the fic that they reread when they don't feel good and want to be happy. i want my words to comfort someone one day
People are SLEEPING on the most interesting Leia & Padme comparisons because there's so much focus on Leia being "like Anakin" because she gets annoyed sometimes and Padme being this perfect moral beacon of truth and justice despite all of her very canonical lies and cover-ups and obstructing of justice.
If Luke is the Jedi that Anakin should've been, then Leia is the LEADER that Padme should've been.
Padme is a hypocrite, proclaiming that all people deserve basic decency and the right to safety, but at the same time allowing Anakin to get away with a mass murder with no consequences by covering it up.
Leia doesn't even let Han get away with being a little bit of an asshole, there's no way she'd let him get away with mass murder. She holds everyone around her to a higher standard, believing in the best of them but also but refusing to accept excuses for cowardice and selfishness.
Padme talks so much about wanting the war to end, but then allows one of the opposition's biggest generals go free just to get Anakin back because she cares about him, causing the war to continue to go on for even longer.
Leia lets Luke sacrifice himself because she knows it's possibly the only way they might have a victory and beat the Empire, even though she knows what he is to her and loves him. She knows what has to be done and respects the choice Luke is making and would never condemn their efforts just to keep him with her.
Padme's story parallels Anakin's, she devolves as the narrative goes on, until she's barely a shell of the person she used to be. That strength and moral clarity she showed as a Queen is entirely gone, leaving only a scared woman pleading with a murderer to come back to her.
Leia's story parallels Luke's, she gains more and more strength and clarity as the narrative moves forward. The bossy young woman we first met has become a confident rebel leader who knows she doesn't have to harden her heart to be strong.
Leia is also willing to let go of her son when she realizes that he likely won't come back from the dark, unlike Padme with Anakin. And unlike Padme, it's her faith and love that brings back Ben from the darkside.
“Do what, what is it you want?” Qui-Gon asked, frustration building on his side of their Force bond.
“I want to know why,” his voice was nearly a whisper. “Why, if you were going to choose to be a supportive Master, why couldn't you have chosen to be one for me?”
***** OR *****
An AU where Qui-Gon lives and his single-minded drive to train the Chosen One blinds him to everything and everyone else.
let them be uncomfortable with romance and/or marriage.
let them be repulsed at the idea of leaving the order.
let them feel liberated by jedi beliefs--let them see it as freedom from the burdens and chains of worldly life to follow the will of the force.
let them love the temple and think fondly of their fellow jedi and their communal lifestyle.
let them care for their masters and their padawans without imposing the dynamics of the nuclear family. let them explicitly reject comparisons of their masters to parents, or their padawans to children.
let them defend the jedi openly! without shame!
let them embrace the modesty, humility, and practicality of jedi clothing.
let them love being jedi, everything about being jedi, with no strings attached.
I think sometimes it's easy to forget that Star Wars worldbuilding/the Jedi's ability to sense the future isn't meant to be hard and fast, that they're not meant to be perfect barometers of anything. That the future is in motion, your choices matter, they affect things, it's not already set in stone, that you're meant to live in the present and actually be present in it, not get hung up on the future and what is/isn't, because you can't predict it with 100% certainty.
Whether Obi-Wan can see pieces of the future here is helpful, but it can't be the foundation for his actions, he can't act like it's already happened, because it might not happen at all, that's how the Force works! That's how Star Wars and the Jedi work--you're meant to be mindful of the future and what's likely to happen, but it's not already set.
It's about the balance of the two, what's likely to happen versus what you make happen. JEDI PHILOSOPHY AND WORLDBUILDING IS SO FASCINATING.
I first want to thank you for sticking with my WIPs despite the long delays in updating, your comments and your encouragement mean everything to me. Secondly, I wish to apologize that this isn’t a story update - well, not really. It’s more of an update on the delay and a plea for more of your patience.
The last 6 months have been…a lot.
The loss of my cat of 13 years, who grew deathly ill while I was away on vacation
Fired from a job that while high pressured gave me a sense of purpose and was at least somewhat creative. I also lost the job as an act of betrayal when I was used as a scapegoat to save my boss’ skin. …I was the sole breadwinner at the time as well, so there was intense fear of becoming homeless for a couple of months.
My brother, who is my best friend and who I live with was diagnosed with a brain tumor (which is what also killed our father a few years ago); and we had to fight with his insurance just to get all the tests and doctors he needs.
I started a new job, that I hate…for far less money.
I live in Los Angeles and while my house was safe from the wildfires (it was scary for a bit), many people I know/love weren’t so lucky.
I had an interview for my dream job and didn’t get it.
The Country / Republic that I love is crumbling before my very eyes, with the rise of fascism to take it's place.
I have a sibling who is non-Binary, a nephew who is Trans (who I called my “Padawan” when they were growing up) who I’m now constantly terrified for as hate is rapidly and openly spreading.
And most recently I learned that I am losing my central vision and probably within the next 5 years will not be able to read / write, drive or continue as a Special FX makeup artist which is my other creative outlet (and career).
Needless to say, I’m struggling to find the energy to write these stories, but I know that coming back to fanfiction and the world of Star Wars helped me with my depression before, so I’m really trying to get back into it. The reason I wanted to let you all know what is happening is to hope that you’ll have patience with me as I try to get back into the mindset of these stories. I have full intentions of finishing my WIPs, I just might have to get some shorter / angst riddled ones off my chest first.
It’s kinda too close to home right now to write about the rise of an Emperor who is deceiving an entire population when you’re an American right now.
Thank you all for sticking with me, and I promise I will finish my stories - it just might take a bit longer than I expected.
Headcanon #4: Qui-Gon Would Have Been a Bad Master for Anakin
Reason n°1: this scene
That's when Qui-Gon lost any chance of being a good Master to Anakin.
Anakin is smart, he will remember this moment. He will remember that Qui-Gon left his Padawan without warning for another. There is no way that the possibility of it happening to him too does not exist in his mind.
What tells him that Qui-Gon won't replace him if he finds someone with more potential? Or if Anakin isn't as great as he thought?
Or would it boost his ego more that a Jedi Master chose to replace his Padawan for him?
His entry into the Order would literally be due to an injustice caused to another. While he has just been refused for not meeting their criteria. It would have been a very bad start for everyone.
Reason #2: The Chosen One of the Prophecy
Anakin knows, he's not surprised when Father tells him about it on Mortis, he just never talks about it. He barely believes it in fact. It's neither a subject of pressure, nor a subject of arrogance. The prophecy exists, period.
On the other hand, this situation would not have been the same if his Master had been someone ready to force his entry into the Jedi Order despite his age, to the point of replacing his own Padawan BECAUSE Anakin is the chosen one of the prophecy.
Because Qui-Gon is so sure that Anakin is the Chosen One, Yoda corrects him when he tries to be subtle. Anakin doesn't meet the criterias and in a psychological state that makes him difficult to open to Jedi teachings, which makes it extremely dangerous to train him to master powerful powers but Qui-Gon wants it anyway. He repeats several times that he is the Chosen One and insists heavily on it, he is not going to suddenly stop mentioning it if Anakin had become his Padawan.
Which can go in two directions:
Either Anakin has this gigantic pressure to be worthy of being the chosen one that Qui-Gon thinks he is,
or he thinks he is special and superior to the other Jedi because he has a great destiny
It is not excluded that it is both at the same time. (Yes, these are the same options as above. Impact x2 therefore)
Anakin would probably have fallen to the Dark Side earlier.
