Summary: Deborah has betrayed Ava. Ava is blackmailing Deborah. Now, they are working together again, acting for all the world to see as if nothing ever happened... but can their personal relationship recover from their past, and perhaps even grow into something stronger?
The fic will be ~20k long and have 12 Chapters, rated T, no archive warnings apply. It's already fully written and there will be regular updates! The first part, going over the S3 finale before we're hitting post-canon territory, is up now here on ao3, lmk if you want me to notify you when I post more, or when it's fully published!
Summary: By an old Republic law, all members of the Jedi High Council are senators in the Galactic Senate, and can thus be voted in as chancellor. A Senator from a less prominent planet has had enough of Chancellor Palpatine's incompetence and calls for a Vote of No-Confidence and the installation of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. This one action becomes the catalyst that changes the direction of the galaxy. (or: “Obi-Wan’s Life Gets Worse. Though It’s Not As Bad As It Could’ve Been”.
131k words, rated T, still in progress!
https://archiveofourown.org/series/1266236
I highly recommend everyone read this and give @stonefreeak some love, the fic is so hilarious and emotional and just really really good!
You can find a more detailed (and highly spoilery!!) summary below the cut.
I don't have a tag list for Star Wars content yet - lmk if you want to be pinged when I post more! I regularly share fic recs and occasionally write some shorter fics myself as well.
More Star Wars Recs By Me • My Star Wars
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I always write summaries to wips and stuff I want to continue reading some other time, so I won't struggle with mixing up fics and half-remembered plotlines... Because this one is so long, I've run out of summary space on my bookmark, so I thought I'd transfer it to this post!
If you're also starting to read it and might not finish it in one go, or want to keep up with future updates, I recommend y'all's save this post so you can check what you already know :D
Ft: many characters, and written in different POVs
From Canon: Obi-Wan, Anakin, Padmé, Ahsoka, Bail, Mace, Yoda, Vokara, Quinlan, Dooku, Palpatine, probably others too
Ha'han-ash: the new vice chancellor working with Obi-Wan
Senator Mandai: from a pacifist species that can't be influenced by the Force, the one who called the vote of no confidence on Palpatine
La: killer & friend of the assassin Palpatine murdered, works with Quinlan to figure out who killed her
Part 1:
Shortfic, <1k, G, no warnings apply
POV Padawan Anakin Skywalker
Anakin has a nightmare about red and rage and betrayal and crawls into Obi-Wan's bed even though he thinks he's too old for this and worries Obi-Wan will refuse him. He feels safe with Obi-Wan.
Part 2:
2k ficlet, rated T, no warnings apply
POV Obi-Wan during the Clone wars
Anti clone sentiment is widespread during the Clone Wars
Jedi still take 'regular' missions next to their duties as Generals, if it's urgent enough at least
During a mission to save slave kids during the clone wars, there is a bomb threat, and it ends with Obi-Wan being photographed topless and saving two young children (he gave most of his clothes to the kids), and turns into a sexyman holonet sensation! Anakin and Ahsoka think it's hilarious. Obi-Wan just wants to forget all about it.
Part 3:
128k WIP, rated T, Graphic Violence
POV Alternating
Clone Wars + canon-divergent future
Chapter 1-20
A senator (Mandai) from a species that can't be influenced by the force calls for:
- a vote of no confidence on Palpatine
- to install a neutral Chancellor: Master Kenobi
Both pass. Obi-Wan feels horrible about it all and the sudden changes and new responsibilities, but he'll do his duty and try his best to weed out corruption and end the war.
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Obi-Wan then starts an investigation into Palpatine. Anakin is mad but can't deny the findings.
Ten worlds rejoin the republic.
There are several attempts on Obi-Wan's life.
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The Chancellor's rooms have several strange and possibly sithly artifacts. Obi-Wan remembers Dooku talking about the Sith in the Senate.
Palpatine POV we can see him seeking Obi-Wan's death.
Dooku has discarded Palpatine as no longer useful.
C21-40
Palpatine turns Anakin against OW by making him think OW is neglecting the war by staying on Coruscant.
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OW finds altered Jedi mission briefings in Palpatine's files, often altered to request OW specifically. The Jedi investigate. Bail and Padmé and handmaiden Ellé help by looking for the originals.
Palpatine is mad. "Out of the ten star systems that are working to rejoin the Republic, 4 of them are from missions Palpatine himself set up for Kenobi to go on; out of the 135 worlds that set off the Vote of No-Confidence, 56 were worlds Kenobi might never have visited if Palpatine hadn’t altered the mission specifications."
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Obi-Wan is exhausted. Cody, Yoda and others are worried about him and look after him, forcing him to take some time to rest and sleep.
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Senators are not used to Jedi chancellors who can't get bribed. He (anonymously so he can't refuse them) gets a lot of plants.
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Anakin learns from Padmé that Obi-Wan has been deliberately kept from him and sent on dangerous missions, and has a panic attack.
OW and Anakin talk it all out.
Anakin keeps the investigation from Palpatine despite still trusting him and thinking someone else must be behind it.
C41-60
The Jedi High Council doesn't schedule anything on days Obi-Wan is supposed to attend council sessions so he at least gets a free day from time to time
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Palpatine hires new assassins, they're supposed to make it look like OW is just collateral.
The bomb nearly kills him, his clone guard and several senators, does kill two senators, but OW protects those closest to him from the blast. He is impaled by debris and hears force ghost Qui-Gon while waiting for help to arrive, telling him to hang in there. He's taken to the healing halls in critical state.
Anakin is given the choice to continue his mission or return to coruscant. He chooses to go home, for Ahsoka, despite thinking it might be a test that he is failing.
Someone tries to have Palpatine reinstated as Chancellor while OW is out of commission, but it fails.
Dooku has feelings about Obi-Wan almost dying that he'd rather not have.
Palpatine killed the hired assassin after the bombing, but she managed to shoot and injured him as well as send a distress signal. Quinlan, undercover as a bounty hunter, investigates with one of the assassin's friends, La, who figures out that he's a jedi.
They find the body and Quinlan figures out the Sith Lord killed her.
C61-70
Quinlan and La think they can identify the Sith Lord by the nanobots from the assassin's gun if they just happen to come across him.
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Palpatine does some voodoo doll style blood magic on OWK to kill him from afar while he's still in medical.
Vocara Che (with Rig Neema, Plo Koon, Yoda, Mace Windu) fights against the darkness and saves him.
Palpatine plans Order 66.
Anakin is shocked that Master Che lives together and seems to be dating Knight Rig and that Mace is friends with them.
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The Jedi realize Anakin's padawanship was sabotaged through more than just OW being sent away, his therapist was probably murdered on a mission when he was 12.
Padme realizes Palpatine has been manipulating her and Anakin for a long time.
Padme loved Anakin but thinks they never should have married, hates the need for secrecy.
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Obi-Wan wakes.
C71-80
Obi-Wan recovers and goes back to work.
Senators are being investigated and arrested.
Palpatine talks Anakin into believing that a dictatorship would be better than democracy because of the slow bureaucracy in the Senate.
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Plo Koon reports that the forces of the CIS seem to struggle without (Palpatine's) Intel about strategies of the Republic. Obi-Wan suspects Palpatine as the former spy but doesn't yet tell the council as he has no proof yet.
Obi-Wan tells Shaak Tii to investigate the Clone Chips.
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"Dooku snarls at the latest news. Slowly but surely his hold of the separatist worlds is slipping. Many have already left, and once the Republic proved that they would be reasonable during peace talks—there is no doubt in Dooku’s mind that that is entirely because of Kenobi—even more saw it as their chance to return to an improved Republic. The winds are shifting, the trajectory of the corrupt Republic is changing, unjust laws are being brought back to the Senate floor and retracted. Somehow... Somehow Obi-Wan Kenobi has managed to turn the Republic from a cesspool of corruption to a place that is slowly but surely starting to try and drag itself out of the mud."
Dooku also has nostalgic feelings about Qui-Gon, wishes he could see how far Obi-Wan has made it.
Obi-Wan meanwhile wonders whether there is still a chance to get Dooku to return to the light and the Republic.
C81+
Charges against Palpatine and Mas Amedda will go to court.
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I'll update this as I continue reading / when more chapters are published!
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And pls appreciate my inauguration Obi-Wan with the gold embroidery and blue trim and imagine how much he Hates it Hates it Hates it xD
Feel free to use the pic just source link back to this pls
Nothing machine made to find here, this is all handmade shitty Photoshop! In the apps AndroidSketch, PhotoshopExpress, Pixlr & with remove dot bg.
...because I'm insane enough to continue that this year
I've read 3 million words in fic this month!
Plus about 100k in books :) I read Agatha Christie's Miss Marple 'Nemesis' which is around 60k (only somewhat racist and homophobic lmao), started her first Poirot 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles', finally finished Terry Pratchett's Discworld 'Guards! Guards!' (can recommend! One of the best Discworld books yet) and started 'Moving Pictures' and also started by Jacques Berndorf 'Die Raffkes'.
If you want to check out this month's fic recs, pretty much exclusively Star Wars, you can find them here! And I think I never shared my December Recs because I did my overall year in review last month - more Star Wars fic recs on Ao3 here!
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Did my history in excel as explained here and got a sun of 4984775 words, then back to my bookmarks on Ao3, (exclude # series, exclude # external source) - # to read: -12983-2512-8993=−24488 & - # to continue reading: -149092-44314-54373-20203-121366-79050-142243-271618=−882259 - # Jan25 (especially high because I backuped old stuff and had to click it again but didn't reread): -30208-9979-6133-298450-24551-55765-82313-146360-21196-6134-11570-88468-15443-32999-45319-124359-61515-88731-2940=−1152433 + external source (exclude # to read, # to continue reading): 3000+10000+29000+31435+6000=79435
And I ran the list of authors I got in my Excel sheet of the month's Ao3 history through https://wordcounter.net/ so I can say with some certainty that the most fic I've read this month were from @shadowmaat @formlessvoidbeast @triscribe @wanderingjedihistorian @one-real-wrimonkey and @taz80390 (xypherskoti)! Thanks for all the fics <3 No-pressure-tagging y'all's to also check out what you've read this month :)
Works published: I wrote 54 fics this year - 51 you can see plus some on anon ;)
Wordcount: 142,245
I managed to hit my 100k goal quite early this year! And even without counting my ~20k Avorah draft pile, I'm way past it :D As I'm drafting this in early November, this is my stats sheet (adding how it looks now for comparison, I did have some movement in the last two months):
Kudos: 2489
Hits: 37008
Bookmarks: 385
Subscriptions: 183 to my account, 188 to separate works! Funny how that's almost identical numbers rn! Last year my work subs were much lower... I wish I could compare the account subscriptions of past years but for some reason it just shows the current one no matter where I click.
Most popular by kudos: ohhh all those upcoming stats looked So different a couple months ago, namely before I wrote some shortfics for Star Wars, which wins at all those stats by sheer number of people in the fandom xD and finishing the Mirandy Jigsaw podfic also kicked it back up the stats! I don't really know whether to count it as I didn't start it this year, but I did Finish it in October... Hm. So yeah, prior to that the top5 fics in all of the stats were Avorah fics i think. Wish I took a screenshot of that! Now, the most kudosed with 245 is Star Wars Visions of a Future Past
Most hits: Jigsaw with 4579, followed again by visions with 3236
Longest: Bering&Wells Being Known for @anandabrat 13.906 words
Shortest: apart from the podfics? Berena evening for @squishmittenficfan with 1010 words, followed closely by Avorah Closure for @emeraldorchids with 1017! No drabbles this year?? This feels fake, I remember writing at least a Berena one! Oh lol I still had the 'gift fic' filter because that's the last thing I looked at, doing this all out of order... I do in fact have several Berena drabbles. And a Gunpowder Milkshake ficlet of 333 words and a Star Wars Codywan ficlet at 350. All of them here.
Most Comments: technically Jigsaw but not all of them are from 2024, so Being Known with 22 comment threads
The other fics you can see on my stats screenshots here are
The Avorah fics that used to lead in all categories: All About Risk, Tethered, Mistaken Identity, Totally Straight and of borrowed swimsuits, panic attacks and parties without purpose. Mostly smut here!
battles left behind and won, the second part of my Star Wars time travel fic. The third part with Dooku/Jaster smut didn't do as well, maybe because of the rare pair, maybe just because I forgot to link to it from part 2.
& my Avorah wip pile which I'm not counting for the word count total because it consists of several abandoned drafts
(and yes my cursed HP sioc is winning by subs and bookmarks probably because I never update it)
Comment to show off: I'm bad at remembering things so idk which one was my actual fav but I got a comment last month that really made me smile, it's on an old fic in a fandom I'm not really active in anymore but the characters and that fic idea is still very dear to me and the fic only ever got a handful of comments, so seeing this was lovely <3
I also really love getting comments on my podfics as well, especially from people who've already listened to the whole thing! I don't have one specific one but I remember I got a couple comments on old HP podfics this year, as well as on Jigsaw :)
Fics that made me cry: of my own fic probably Bering&Wells And After All We're Only Ordinary Men. For fics I read, you can check out which fics I bookmarked under that tag! Definitely Star Wars magic blanket by @my-insanity-is-an-artform <3
Fics that made me smile: I think most of my fics make me smile at least a little at some point in writing or re-reading, but probably mostly the fluff&humor fics. For reading, this Star Wars ficlet by @calltomuster is the last I remember not just making me smile but actually laugh out loud! And looking into my bookmarks I also found Codywan Keep on the Sunny Side by @themonopolyhat as well as Sith Lord Swell by @AMournfulHowlInTheNight :D
gifts: I gave 23 gifts this year - two less than last year, I guess I did a couple less gift exchanges but I still gift people fics for other reasons so the number is still similar. I also got gifts, by @lavendelhummel @73chn1c0l0rr3v3l @wickedheadache @die-schwanenkoenigin @wilfriede @prozac-shaped-urn, thank you darlings!
collaborations: I don't think I actually collabed with anyone this year? Some things were in the works but didn't pan out... I did start some fics that others continued though! Particularly in Avorah - the inspo fics are linked at the bottom of this work!
events: back in January I posted my Star Trek Winter Gift Exchange fic, then in February the Bering and Wells gift exchange, at the beginning of the year I wrote some ficlets for the Weekly Berena Fix, then I joined May Trope Mayhem with two Avorah ficlets, was part of the Summer Podfic Swap with several short podfics of my own - I also finally finished my 8 hour long Mirandy podfic Jigsaw, which while not part of the event feels a lot more momentous! Now in December I posted my Hacks gift exchange fic, and I wrote three ficlets for the @berenaadvent!
And you can all thank @viharistenno for this cursed addition:
Reader Wordcount: over 40 million! I counted this every month because last year it was so impossible to go through it all in one go xD but by now I've actually learned about an easier way to count it, namely with this:
random.fangirling.net/scripts/ao3_works_stats
Don't worry you don't have to give anything online your Ao3 login, it just helps you to put it in your own Excel sheets to do the sums with.
Also, it just gives you your history - I did Not count my full history because when I click fics I don't read, I then bookmark them 'to read' or 'didn't read' and then filter them out, obviously if you didn't do that all the time you end up with more than you actually read in your history, but it might still be interesting to see the number! For comparison, my full history of December is over a million words more than the one I'm counting.
Bookmarks: (adding this category because I bookmarked truly exorbitant numbers of fic this year, also partly bc of the wordcount checking thing but also because I add summaries and tags and stuff to bookmarks to find fics again later), I had to scroll to page 64 to reach last years 2023's bookmarks, I literally have almost as many bookmarks from this year as i havs from the ten years before that! 1264 of just over 3k total!
For ease of copying: Works published: Wordcount: Kudos: Hits: Bookmarks: Subscriptions: Most popular by kudos: Most hits: Longest: Shortest: Most Comments: Favorite Comment: Fics that made me cry: Fics that made me smile: gifts: collaborations: events: Wordcount read: bookmarks:
Tagging, only if you want to do it of course, everyone tagged above, @cacodaemonia, @guardianrock @bkwormkate @doctor-milfi @anoel and everyone else who sees this :D just pls make your own post, don't reblog! And remember to leave a blank of the qs for the people you tag :)
Also: I've got 440 unread in my inbox o.O pretty sure last year I was on 200sth? (I don't always reply immediately, bc I want to let ppl know once I update that there's sth new - which in some fandoms never happens lmao - or bc I need to think of a good reply to more interesting comments... But 200 that I haven't dealt with from 1 year is excessive adsfg)
Heh I know I said on my rec list here that I remember 90 words and that was true at the time but because I take ages to reply to asks it's been a while, so let's see what I still remember now, I've mostly read clone wars fic lately, nothing with that much Mando'a...
Gonna try to structure this a bit to try and remember more. Also btw this is definitely just what I remember from what I've learned via fic reading osmosis, so take this with a grain of salt, for actual Mando'a knowledge there are a couple online dictionaries you could check out!
...I've spent 35 minutes trying to remember All The words xDxD fandom brainrot much lmao, why can't I get obsessed with like an actual useful language xD anyway lots of words below the cut, indeed over 90! Lots of words on weapons and family which tracks with Mandalorian culture xD but also a whole bunch of other random words!
Culture:
Mando'a - Mandalorian language, manda'yaim - planet Mandalore, mando'ade - mandalorians (children of Mandalore), Manda - the mandalorian Force (the council of fallen mandalorian warriors), kara - stars/the Force, jetii - Jedi, jetiise - Jedi plural, dar'jetii - darksider/sith, aruueti - outsider or traitor, dar'manda - no longer mandalorian, demagolka - monstrous criminal
Counting 10 words
Weapons and stuff:
Buy'ce - helmet, beskat - sword, beskar'gam - armor, kar'ta beskar - heart of the armor, jetii'kad - lightsaber, kom'rk - vambraces, hal'cabure - chest plate, cabur - guardian, arane - also guardian/protector? Not sure whether there's a difference, ramikad - fighter, ori'ramikaade - supercommandos, deece - gun
Counting 3 words (and I can't believe I forgot the words for head and chest and limbs. Also a bunch of words are used for private parts but most of them I'm sure are made up slang like deece (gun) for dick so I won't count those xD)
Insults:
Dikut - idiot, mir'shebs - smartass, shabuir - motherfucker, din'la - crazy, hut'uun - (goddamn I can't speak English anymore. The opposite of brave???)
Counting 5 words
Places:
Yaim - home, kar'yai - living room, Khedabe - keep/city of Keldabe, khi'khedabe - little Keldabe (the enclave on Coruscant), Coruscanta - planet coruscant
Counting 5 words
Pronouns etc:
Gar - you, ni - I, mhi - we, sa - mine
Counting 4 words
Other:
Kyr - death, gai - name, solus - one/alone, tome - together, dar'tome - apart, haat - truth, evaar - new, ijaat - honor, haa'it - vision, kyr'tayl - know, darasuum - forever, jate - good, ori'jate - very good, ori'haat - promise, ni ceta - I kneel (an apology), nayc - no, elek - yes, nu draar - no way!/not possible, an - all, bar - and, dinui - share, tuur - day, var'tuur - morning (new day), shereshoy - lust for life, ne'tra gal - (a strong alcohol), tingilaar - (a spicy stew), tihaar - (an alcoholic beverage), shig - (a mandalorian spice tea), olarum - welcome, oya - let's go, cin - white, tra - black,
Counting 32 words
So unless I've counted wrong we're at 93 words. Not bad! Pretty close to my guess from a month ago, and I'm pretty sure I've forgotten some in the meantime (or just can't think of them right now, there are always some that I can translate when I see the English word but can't think of when making a list in one go), so it's actually more than I expected!
+ these phrases etc:
Haat' mando'ade/haat'ade - true Mandalorians (Jaster Mereel's fraction), evaar('mando)'ade - new mandalorians backed by the Republic led by the Kryze family, kyr'stad - deathwatch (terrorists)
Jate var'tuur - good morning, Gai bel Manda: Ni kyr'tayl gai sa'ad - adoption vow: I know your name as my child, riduruuk: mhi solus tome, mhi solus dar'tome, mi me'nidui an, mhi bajuri verde - marriage vows: we are one together, we are one apart, we share all, we will raise warriors, ni kar'tayl gar darasuum - I will now you forever (I love you)
I don't quite know this one yet: 'today is a good day for someone else to die', it's a saying for going into a battle, especially when it's for revenge
Thank you for the ask xD
Edit: yeah looking at my list from the last time I counted my vocab there are a bunch of really easy ones I've forgotten to list here
January Feb&Mar April May June Jul&Aug Sept&Oct November
In December I read 3.9 million words, and *drumroll*
in 2024, I read 50 million words in fanfic (almost)! If we add the books I've read, I bet it's at least that much :D
I mainly read Star Wars last month (and probably all of last year), details below the cut :)
Tagging some of the folks whose fic I've read last month - thank you for being at fault for my excessive fandomy consumption xD if you also want to get your reader wordcount (though if you click stuff and then don't read it, that'll be in there too), I describe how to do it here! also feel tagged in the fic writer Ao3 Wrapped! (& do pls lmk if you no longer want to be tagged in things like these!)
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December count:
history: 4,968,894
to read (exclude: series) -24198-65,473-17661-17124
to continue reading (exclude: series) -178313-162703-424867-143611
(I deleted the rows with the wordcount numbers above of fics I clicked but didn't actually read so this is accurate this month!)
396 Star Wars fics aka 3,551,491 words, consisting of:
283 All Media Types (51 All Media Types unspecified, the rest also has other tags)
267 The Clone Wars
132 Prequel Trilogy
43 Legends (17 Legends Jedi Apprentice, 4 republic commando, 5 jango fett open season, 5 republic, 1 knights of the old republic, 1 kenobi)
19 Original Trilogy
8 Rebellion Era
7 Mandalorian
3 Rebels
1 Rogue One
1 DC crossover
by @shadowmaat @dragonladyzarz @bolithesenate @calltomuster @jessepinwheel @merlyn-bane @c-m-li-s-fanfic-corner @dontbelasagnax @theshinylizard @galateagalvanized @fanfictasia @phoenixyfriend @bitter-chocolate-stars @boybandjediorder @tapemonkey21 @trixree and many others! Thank you for all the wonderful fics!
Other fandoms:
1 The Hobbit, 1590 words
2 Hacks HBO Avorah fics, 50059 words, by @stardust-and-the-tardis and @prozac-shaped-urn *waves* :)
4 Harry Potter, 301947 words
7 Holby City Berena, 7963 words, by gazing and @cllrnat hi :D
I have the hobbit lying on my bookshelf for quite a while now that you've mentioned it i will take it as a sign to read that and give it a go ! I too have great fondness for enid Blyton books i devoured magic faraway tree and famous five as a child and it makes me all nostalgic 😊 I'll try reading miss murple as well i love a good mystery
Ooop I don't know whether I just didn't go through my ask box since May last year or whether I missed this last time I answered stuff, either way sorry that it took me half a year, that's excessive even for me o.O
I don't remember where I mentioned the Hobbit anymore, but I definitely still agree that it's a great book! I hope you have/had a good time reading it for the first time :D
And yess Enid Blyton my beloved <3 I was more of a St Clare's & Mallory Towers girl, but I did also read and love quite some Famous Five books :)
And I'm currently rereading a Miss Marple book! Nemesis, I've read it once before and keep vaguely remembering stuff as I read it now, but I still don't know who the murderer is so it's been a dun re-read it :D
Hope you're doing well, thanks for the sending the ask! <3
