keeping with the kenobi-skywalkers, chapter twelve
(aka obi-wan kenobi-almost-skywalker and the no-good, very-bad pta meeting)
chapter audience rating: g
chapter silliness rating: 8/10
word count: 3.5k
Question!! Which of your obikins go to Pride and how do they celebrate? Like I cannot picture pretty bird obi-wan ever going to pride, but keeping up with the skywalker-kenobis? 100% go to pride every year.
honestly yeah pbatmb obi-wan probably has pride parades banned in his city. most homophobic of the obi-wans despite being very demonstrably pro homosexuality. often accused of homophobia by his critics, points to his longterm loving and emotionally healthy partner, anakin, as if that means anything lmaooo (mobi-wan finds them far too loud and joyful. makes his teeth hurt. cody's just thankful this means he doesn't have to watch them be very disgusting in very public places MORE often)
obi-wan from kuwsk never went to pride before meeting the skywalkers but now they go every year and it's very fun even though obi-wan bitches about glitter in his beard for the week after
firefighter au!obikin would go to pride - anakin is technically working cause he's a firefighter rented out to the city's pride celebration and he's taking it very seriously cause there are a lot of flammables present (that his obi-wan is around of course) but rock star obi-wan is having the time of his life and not taking anything seriously (the 501st fire department retweets a picture of rockstar obi-wan conked out in leather trousers and a boa on anakin's shoulder while anakin is in full uniform and being very serious and it goes viral)
playmaker au obikin would go to pride - or, like. playmaker obi-wan would go to pride but as some inventive punishment for playmaker anakin pissing him off. it's not actually a celebration of his identity or anything (but he went a couple of times as a teen for that reason though he was quick to wash off all the temporary tats and glitter before qui-gon could see) - anakin does something obi-wan doesn't like so obi-wan puts together the most risque outfit he can find and sneaks out and like. hangs with the bears section of the parade lmao. makes sure to post a photo on his instagram (one that doesn't show anyone else's faces but his ofc because he's not looking to have anyone killed)
smithsonian au obikin would go to pride but neither would have a great time cause it's not really their idea of fun (too loud, they would rather be at their respective work stations, it's too crowded, too hot outside, etc) but they're also competitive enough to pretend that they're having the MOST fun. way more fun than the other guy. i'm way more proud than him. so proud. this is SO fun (this continues even after they get together because neither one wants to admit they don't really like pride parades/festivals) (one of their coworkers has to stage an intervention to get them to admit to this)
I dunno if this has been asked and answered, or if I just got caught up on it for a teehee moment but! in keeping up with the skywalker-kenobis what ever happened with the lingerie anakin stuffed in the toilet? 👀👀 i kept imagining obi wan finding them and having a right panic about anakin hiding womens lingerie in their guest bathroom toilet but kinda curious what you imagined, if anything
again if this is already answered somewhere then just ignore this dumbass
Ooo I don’t think this has ever been asked before!! there are so many different scenarios for this tbh like
I can very easily see KUWSK anakin coming clean about it because even tangentially lying to obi-wan is too hard so they have a good laugh about it and obi-wan thinks anakin is incredibly sweet and lovely all over again for putting his feelings first like that
OR I can see KUWSK anakin not saying anything because he’s embarrassed or he thinks obi-wan will be embarrassed by his crash out so he doesn’t bring it up and also forgets about it because of further distractions (like having both twins away at overnight summer camp and how enthusiastic obi-wan eventually gets about the empty house)
And in that case, I can imagine Obi-wan finding the discarded panties and having an internal freak out where he spends a solid 9 hours incredibly paranoid that anakin may be cheating on him
….before he realizes how ridiculous that is, and decides that this is somehow related to one of their female guests that sometimes come over and mostly use that toilet and it’s just for the best that he doesn’t mention it because he can’t think of a single good and non-mortifying reason why a pair of panties would end up stuffed into the toilet of their guest bathroom, so let’s just…let sleeping dogs lie
(Which would lead to a moment five years later where anakin confesses to the panties incident almost as an aside, without realizing that he’s just answered 20 questions that have lingered in obi-wan’s mind for years now)
🪲 - add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here
amazing thank you <3 i was about to go to the store but instead i sat back down and wrote 400 words of my wip: here is the last ~50!
(for my kuwsk wip, aka obi-wan vs the PTA)
“Don’t you dare,” Anakin hisses when Obi-Wan shifts against him again.
“Forget tragedy of the commons, this is its death,” Obi-Wan snaps back in a low voice, turning his head to look at Anakin in disbelief. “The funds are limited as it is, and she wants to squander them all on a Thanksgiving play? With a talking turkey character? Played by whose child? Certainly not mine.”
Anakin’s mouth opens and closes, and his eyes go soft the way they always do when Obi-Wan refers to the twins as his.
hello look at me being beautifully almost on time 😇 i have finished and posted the november ko-fi fic on my ko-fi for monthly supporters to read! it was so fun to return to the skywalker-kenobi family in this fic, especially because this one is set after they're together and engaged and in the midst of domestic bliss, which is not a flavor of obikin i generally write (but i should cause they're just silly even when they're ostensibly fighting!!) here's a snippet:
“If you’re seriously upset with me for volunteering to help out with the twins’ school production of a Thanksgiving play, I’m going to need you to say that sentence out loud a couple of times,” Anakin says finally, and Obi-Wan cuts him a scathing look.
“It’s not even going to be historically accurate.”
“Baby, you’re not even American.”
Obi-Wan sniffs. “That’s besides the point.”
“I know you don’t like her, and I’m sure you have your reasons, but it’s for the greater good, yeah? I mean, do you actually trust any of the other parents to build anything else for the twins to stand on or around?”
“Michael’s father works in construction,” Obi-Wan points out, raising his mug to his mouth and blowing on it carefully. “And Parker’s mother is an architect.”
Anakin shrugs with one shoulder. “You’re sort of intimidatingly neurotic about the twins’ safety, baby. We know this by now.”
so as stated in the title this is gonna be my last ko-fi fic. it has been such a pleasure and a learning experience for me as a writer and y'all have been so supportive during this project - thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed for either a month or the whole year 🙏 i'm going to be deleting my ko-fi account on november 30 because i don't want anyone to accidentally forget to unsubscribe when i won't have a december fic for y'all - so if you've been going back and forth on supporting, do it now and you'll get access to all the fics on my ko-fi (final count: 18 ficlets - and 1 au that's just on ko-fi!!) before i upload them to ao3 in 2025*
and because im deleting my whole ko-fi, i do just want to say thank you to everyone who supported it since i set it up like 3 years ago - y'all are truly just so amazing and i'm constantly happy and content with this lil corner of fandom space in ways i don't know how to articulate even a million words of writing in
*this will be a slow process because of who i am as a writer - if you really want to have continued access to the fics currently on ko-fi, i'd bookmark the google doc they're on because those won't be deleted until the fic is permanently on ao3
thank you for sending!!! this is some much needed motivation tbh my brain is elsewhere today
[from this ask game]
🪲: add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here
i'm still working on my kuwsk ko-fi fic where obi-wan is a terror at the pta meeting. here is the last 100ish words (cause you sent 2 beetles) of him being a terror.
Anakin’s leg shifts next to him, most probably readying for another gentle, discouraging kick to his ankle. Obi-Wan crosses his leg over his other leg preemptively. No point fighting a war on all sides.
“Actually,” Obi-Wan says, clearing his throat. “I have a few considerations I’d like to put forward concerning your proposal.”
“Christ,” Anakin whispers, raising his hand to rub at his forehead.
Chelsea’s nostrils flare and her lips thin. Otherwise she doesn’t move, which Obi-Wan has to admit is rather impressive. “It’s not a proposal, Mr. Kenobi, it’s tradition. The third graders put on this play every year.”
hello thank you for sending this, it was an excellent writing warm up!
[prompt from this ask game]
51. What’s a non verbal way they say I love you?
so i'm setting this in the kuwsk verse because i was thinking about her the other day and also because if anyone knows how to say 'i love you' in a non-verbal way it's those fuckers who shared a house for years without realizing they were practically married and 100% in love (well, anakin realized the in love bit at least)
i think anakin's most used way of saying i love you is that he starts making obi-wan his lunch and tea to take with him as he goes out the door - he defends this by saying it's really not that much more work to make three sandwiches instead of 2 cause he was already making luke and leia's. yeah he puts just as much love into the sandwich for obi-wan as he does for his kids.b. b ut. but he doesn't want to talk about it.
meanwhile obi-wan is a bit more oblivious but still very dramatic. after the first few years, before they're together but after they've built a family, obi-wan quietly gets the kids' initials tattooed on his arm or chest or something. he also includes anakin's and just. doesn't tell anakin. that he now has a big stylistic 'a' right near his heart.
snippet:
(late may, nine months after the Skywalkers move in)
Anakin feels incredibly silly and far more transparent than he's comfortable with, the first time his hands make Obi-Wan Kenobi a sandwich.
It's nothing, like, actually overt or telling or anything like that. It's just a sandwich. He's made two already today for Luke and Leia, cheese and tomato for Luke, no crusts, ham and cheese and absolutely no tomatoes at all for Leia.
And he'd just gone to the store yesterday too. It had been easy as anything to throw in a packet of sliced deli meat turkey for Obi-Wan. A head of lettuce and a packet of the actual good-tasting cheese he knows Obi-Wan prefers. It was easy.
And it's not as if he's going to cut the sandwich into little hearts and include handwritten notes about how much he loves him in the box. That would be telling. This is just a sandwich.
Still, when he finishes the lunchbox---tucking a small apple and a clementine on top of the sandwich as well as a packet of fruit-flavored gushers he'd included not because he thought they'd be eaten but because he was sure Obi-Wan would find the idea of eating fruit gushers at his age in his very important professor office funny---he has to convince himself to linger in the kitchen.
If he just left it on the counter, he's almost positive that Obi-Wan would accidentally ignore it.
And if he left a bright sticky-note on top of the box, he's sure as well that Obi-Wan would ignore it.
He's not his brightest in the mornings. Anakin doesn't mind.
Fifteen minutes later, at precisely 7:08, the time that Obi-Wan always leaves, Anakin sits up from where he's been slouching against the counter.
A moment later, his housemate barrels through the kitchen, eyes still half-closed and tie askew. It's the lead-up to exams, if Anakin remembers correctly.
It's almost criminally adorable, the way he has to reach out and physically stop Obi-Wan in his tracks just to get the man to look at him. He's in too deep. This is terrible. This is--
"Oh," Obi-Wan says and he blinks at him as if he's surprised to see him. As if Anakin hasn't been up for an hour and a half already and gone upstairs to wake up the twins as well. As if this is not where he normally is around this time of day. "Good morning, Anakin," his housemate says.
"I made you lunch," Anakin blurts out, which is not quite the way he planned this. Though, to be fair, he hadn't. "Here."
He pushes the box into Obi-Wan's chest until the man raises his own hands and takes it from him.
Obi-Wan blinks again. "You made me lunch?"
"A sandwich," Anakin says. "Cause you said the other day you usually just get some crisps from the vending machine. And obviously you need more than that to function, so--"
"So...lunch."
"A sandwich." Anakin stresses, even though he can feel the blush creeping up his cheeks. He's fully dressed but he feels sort of naked standing before Obi-Wan and pushing a lunch that was made with love into his hands.
"Oh," Obi-Wan says. "Thank you." He sounds as if Anakin has taken a stop sign and slammed it into his face.
"I was going to make you some tea, too," Anakin adds. Just for something to say. "But then I couldn't remember how you take it and I know you take that very seriously, so I thought it was better if I just stuck to the lunch, you know, I was making sandwiches already for the twins, it was really no bother. Like, at all. I mean. You even eat your crusts, so that was a relief. And don't worry, I didn't use the American cheese that the twins like, obviously, I got some swiss for yours and--"
Obi-Wan hugs him. Anakin shuts up.
"Thank you," Obi-Wan says when he pulls away. His eyebrows are all furrowed but he looks far more awake now. "This is incredibly kind."
"It's just a sandwich," Anakin mutters, rubbing at the back of his neck. It's not, but he's suddenly terrified that Obi-Wan has seen that. Understood it. Fuck.
"I, ah," Obi-Wan starts then stops, clicks his tongue once, softly, then says, "One sugar, just a bit of milk. A splash."
Anakin blinks. He can't fight the smile he wants to give Obi-Wan in payment for this information, and he doesn't think he should have to. Obi-Wan is a man made of walls and secrets and bite-sized bits of information never given completely willingly.
To be given---to be entrusted with--his tea preferences, it's not nothing. Not for Obi-Wan. And so not for Anakin either.
Deeply love the fact that in KUWSK falling in love with an older man is a hereditary kink of every Skywalker. It is inescapable. Anakin can be mad all he wants they get it from him. (He thanks God every day Rey doesn't actually have any of his genes)
tbh after anakin falling for obi-wan, leia falling for han, and luke falling for din it really is a skywalker trend
it's also one that obi-wan finds hilarious and anakin does not
obi-wan walks in on anakin reading a story to rey and the story absolutely amounts to 'let's date people who are exactly your age because it makes me anxious otherwise for reasons i cannot explain nor do i want to think about. and also please don't ever use this against me because i do understand i am married to someone sixteen years older than me. unfortunately you are the last baby we will ever have and all the hypocrisy has already been used up. im very sorry. these are the rules and we cannot break them. let's repeat that part after me.'
