#darning au

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/CT-7567 | Rex, CC-2224 | Cody/Feemor, Anakin Skywalker/Consequences, Padmé Amidala/Consequences, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, CT-7567 | Rex, Ahsoka Tano, CC-2224 | Cody, Feemor (Star Wars), 501st Legion Members (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), 212th Attack Battalion Members (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Jedi Council Members (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Clone Troopers and Jedi as Found Family (Star Wars), Ahsoka Tano Becomes Obi-Wan Kenobi's Padawan, Jedi Appreciation (Star Wars), Recovery, Supportive Jedi Order, Supportive Clone Troopers, Hurt/Comfort, Falling In Love While Helping Each Other Rebuild, everybody needs a hug, everybody gets therapy, Fix-It, Order 66 Happened Differently (Star Wars), Clone Trooper Inhibitor Chips (Star Wars), not Anakin skywalker friendly, Canon-Typical Violence, Clone Trooper Dehumanization (Star Wars), Divorce (Not Between The Main Ship), Chip Activation, Palpatine Being An Asshole, Brief Faked Major Character Death, (Emphasis On Brief And Fake), Hope Is The Thing With Bloody Knuckles, recovery is a process, Love Is An Action Summary:

Captain Rex has been gathering evidence against his Jedi General for a year: casualty numbers, disobeyed orders, falsified reports. When he presents his case before the Jedi Council they are obligated to act, regardless of the fallout to the war effort or to those in Skywalker's orbit. Absent of better options, Obi-Wan assumes command of the 501st in addition to his own unit. He and Rex must lean on their families--and on each other--through what follows.

My fill for @rexobibang 2025!! Shoutout to my team, @liaonyxrayne and @archfey-edda, whose art I am VERY excited for you all to see 😁😁😁 

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Six Sentence Saturday

Promo time is here for the RexObi Big Bang!! I can't believe I actually managed to keep this to only six sentences 😂😂

Please enjoy the Jaws theme starting to play louder in the background for a certain Jedi. Consequences are one half of the second ship of this story, after all 😌😌

Now or never. "I believe that one of the Jedi generals has not been conducting themselves accordingly to their rank and responsibilities," Rex informs them, voice and posture carefully modulated and manual-perfect, because it is his brothers and his men that he is here to protect and he will not fail them by presenting himself as anything less. "As a general, or—if you will forgive me for the presumption—as a Jedi." The chambers go quiet, the air inside growing suddenly heavy. General Windu's eyes are just a little bit pinched at the corners when Rex's gaze finds them again. "Can you give us a name, Captain?"

Shoutout to my teammates @liaonyxrayne and edda, whose art i am very excited about 😁😁

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For the WIP game: In the Darning, sounds interesing with the pairings, thanks!

AHHH I'm glad you asked!!!

In the Darning is, admittedly, born at least in part out of spite. As anyone who's followed this blog long enough has probably noticed, I am not a fan of Anakin Skywalker. I typically try to be more nuanced with him in my works, because largely I believe that most characters should be handled with nuance (especially because I prefer my characters to have depth) and because a lot of the time, the plot demands it. For example, with Foelu, there were a lot of things with Anakin that I couldn't address without spending more time on him than I wanted to or putting Obi-Wan through even more than I already did, so I focused more on Anakin choosing to make better choices moving forward rather than addressing the things he'd already done.

Darning is, if not the opposite, close to it. I'm putting the rest of this under a read-more since this post is getting a little long.

Essentially, Rex realizes pretty early into the war that the 501st's casualties are higher than they should be. He decides to give their general the benefit of the doubt, because it became clear very quickly after they deployed that (most of) the Jedi had little to no practical experience with warfare. He gives Anakin a year to get his feet underneath him and learn to do better, and then he takes all of the evidence he's compiled over the course of that year to the Jedi Council. Anakin is then pulled from the field and put into mandatory mindhealing, where he opens his mouth and manages to make things...much worse for himself.

Darning is a method of mending fabric wherein the repair is often visible and becomes a part of the fabric itself. It can be very beautiful. This story is about Obi-Wan, Rex, and their family mending themselves and each other in the wake of that.

I am hoping to write this piece for the RexObi Big Bang.

I'm taking as many questions on each WIP as y'all wanna send me, so don't feel like you can't ask about one just because someone else did <3 The WIP game post can be found here.

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I'm eyeing "In The Darning" because of the Anidala/Consequences tag. May I have a snippet please?

Hello there! I have also answered for this AU here, so feel free to check that out! I believe I may have already posted this snippet in the interest of full disclosure but I'm not sure how many people saw it and it's the only snippet I have at the moment since this fic is still mostly in the planning stages, so here you go!

People speak a lot, Obi-Wan has found, of Jedi precognition. Of the way they seem ever able to sense danger, to side-step seconds before a blaster shot, to duck before a blow. They speak of warnings from the Force that give Jedi the edge in a fight (it’s always about the violence they are capable of, never their capacity to avoid it). They seldom understand these things, but then, that has never been much a deterrent.  They rarely speak about the sort of warnings from the Force that caution. That bid you to slow, to consider, to not rush to a decision. That warn against impulse or acting on first impressions. Perhaps those warnings aren’t as exciting. Obi-Wan often dreads them the most. Obi-Wan wakes in the morning during what should be a perfectly average shore leave feeling heavy, as though the air is thicker or someone has been tampering with the artificial gravity, with the knowledge written into his bones that whatever happens today will have effects upon this galaxy beyond the scope of his perception—and that whatever it is, it will have just as far-reaching consequences for him, personally. He allows himself a moment to breathe through that understanding and then he swings his legs over the side of his bed and rises to get ready for the day.  There is little else to be done.

I'm taking as many questions on each WIP as y'all wanna send me, so don't feel like you can't ask about one just because someone else did <3 The WIP game post can be found here.

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for the wip list, i'm torn between 'in the darning' and 'dinosaur brokeback mountain', but i'll go with 'darning' please!

Hellooooooo @wrennette :D you've stepped into my trap.

People speak a lot, Obi-Wan has found, of Jedi precognition. Of the way they seem ever able to sense danger, to side-step seconds before a blaster shot, to duck before a blow. They speak of warnings from the Force that give Jedi the edge in a fight (it’s always about the violence they are capable of, never their capacity to avoid it). They seldom understand these things, but then, that has never been much a deterrent.

They rarely speak about the sort of warnings from the Force that caution. That bid you to slow, to consider, to not rush to a decision. That warn against impulse or acting on first impressions. Perhaps those warnings aren’t as exciting. Obi-Wan often dreads them the most.

Obi-Wan wakes in the morning during what should be a perfectly average shore leave feeling heavy, as though the air is thicker or someone has been tampering with the artificial gravity, with the knowledge written into his bones that whatever happens today will have effects upon this galaxy beyond the scope of his perception—and that whatever it is, it will have just as far-reaching consequences for him, personally.

He allows himself a moment to breathe through that understanding and then he swings his legs over the side of his bed and rises to get ready for the day. 

There is little else to be done. 

The WIP game post can be found here. Don't worry about duplicates, if I don't have another snippet for a particular WIP I'll give you a fun fact<3

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Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

Thank you for the tag, @brokenphoenix99 <3 I've spent most of the last few days working on my 212th Breakout and plotting out the fic I'm trying to write for the 2025 RexObi Big Bang, so I don't have a line from a fic for you today, but I do have this 😁

Open tags because I'm not sure who hasn't been tagged yet, but feel free to tag me if you decide to post one <3