I do enjoy those dubconny arranged marriage/bartered as tribute/whatever type of fics but anyway right now I’m thinking what if omegaverse and someone tries to get Obi Wan. And then Mace just drops an unexpected No actually he’s spoken for. By me. And Obi Wan is like I am? Um, yes, I am, Master Windu is my mate. Yes we jedi sometimes mate. Our rules are complicated. It’s none of your business. So. Sorry. Not available for... whatever archaic concubine thing you had in mind.
And then they navigate this new arrangement and it ends up being very soft.
Something like the sex tape gag in B99, "Title of your sex-holo" *gasp* title of "our" sex holo
Jake: Now as you know, this decision has been quite hard upon me - Title of mine sex tape...
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“So…” Mace said slowly. “We broke the code.”
A lot. In quite a few… different positions.
“What a disaster,” Obi-Wan sighed sounding anything but regretful for it. Then snorted. “What a Disaster, title of your sex holo–heh, title of our sex holo.”
“What?”
“It’s a joke Anakin has been–never mind.” Obi-Wan fell back on the pillow and rolled to his side to gaze at him. “We broke the code?”
Mace went still. He had revealed more than he had meant to.
“You’re not wrong,” Obi-Wan said quickly. “We did. We broke the code. Maybe that’s the title–” he huffed at himself, “Why am I thinking of that stupid joke right now?”
“Easier than thinking about the implications?” Mace was trying very hard not to think of the implications. He was doing a good job of it too with Obi-Wan skin-to-skin with him under the sheets.
“There’s a lot of those aren’t there?” Obi-Wan groaned. He shuffled closer and rested his head on Mace’s shoulder. Mace smiled at the tickle of his hair.
“What do you think?” Mace asked.
“I think this is a Master Kenobi problem. He doesn’t get up for another… five standard or so?”
“Master Kenobi gets to sleep?” Mace raised an eyebrow.
“Sometimes,” Obi-Wan yawned. “This is good too.”
“I recall something about a disaster.”
“A good disaster,” Obi-Wan. “A perfect disaster.”
Mace chuckled. “That’s what you do to me.”
Obi-Wan turned and kissed him again, long and luxurious. Taking his time. Maybe because they didn’t have much time left.
When the morning came they would have to talk, figure out what to do. Force, probably report it to the Council. Be adults. Generals. Jedi Masters.
There was a war on. Neither could lose their positions so there would have to be a separation.
The fact that it hurt so much to think about. That he had the urge to fight against it probably showed how compromised he was. How tempting it was to beg for an exception. Just let me keep him.
“So, what’s that joke about?” Mace asked. He decided to be in the here and now. Let the future come when it comes.
“It isn’t funny if I explain it to you, dear.”
“It’s Skywalker’s joke. Is it actually funny?”
“When you hear it enough times,” Obi-Wan shrugged. “I’ve been desensitized to it.”
“Well, it’s still early. Do you want to make up some more titles?”
“That isn’t how the joke works,” Obi-Wan shifted and climbed on top of him, smirking mischievously. “But yes. Master Kenobi has a few hours yet before he wakes up.”
i am personally adverse to all obi-wan pairings other than obikin (and, in very specific circumstances i.e. works created by my close friends, quiobi). you won't believe how many tags/words i mute here on tumblr.
that being said i think maceobi is definitely a cool concept!! it'll be an interesting development i think, since i get the feeling they're both pretty adamant on keeping to themselves, even if they have feelings for each other. (not to mention the Code, which they are both very serious about upholding.) i like the idea of obi-wan being still kinda tormented about his sai tok move when killing maul and about dark side in general, and he finds inner peace in mace's delicate balance (purple lightsaber and all). mace probably hella appreciates how well read obi-wan is and they can discuss super obscure shit like ethnomusicology for hours on end. and it's easy for obi-wan to tell when mace is relaxed: he allows himself to slow down in his speech, soften his voice, have little 'umm' stops, space out a bit and smile, all that.
...well shit maybe i just made myself like this pairing a little
this isn't really rare i don't think but mace/obi-wan
send me the rarest pair you can think of and I'll tell you if I ship it and how I think it can work
I do ship it a little but Mace's age is a bit vague dependent on your canon (and Disney's choice of age doesn't quite make sense to me), which means that some of it would definitely be a bit of age difference/power dynamic navigation if I were to play around with it.
Other option is obviously a post-66, on the run together, raising baby twins and rescued younglings (and possibly a half-mad-but-trying-to-be-better Anakin?) on the way
