A Very Convenient Marriage (if you ignore the attempted murder)
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“Obi-Wan,” Dooku says, “let me put it like this: if you marry Maul, you will have access to the libraries and laboratories of the late Lord Damask. Not all of them, but those that Palpatine saw fit to leave to Maul, and your sex may allow you to access the libraries of the Sisters of the Night nunnery, as the spouse of a man from the Dathomir region.”
Oh.
Well.
That changes things.
This was intended for Day 2 of @quinobievents QuinObi week, vaguely relating to the "with the help of their friends" prompt.
Anyway. Have trans Obi-Wan in Regency England.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi is a man destined for a marriage, but not necessarily a happy one.
Women cannot inherit, and Obi-Wan was born as one. Therefor, no matter how he cuts his hair, or how many dried testicles he eats, or how carefully he flattens his upper chest, he cannot inherit. People already know him, and he’s not inclined to kill off his existing self and connections just to please people. Grandfather doesn’t even care.
So, Obi-Wan must marry. He must, in fact, marry a man, because the odds of finding a woman born as a man are as slim as the odds of Obi-Wan himself. And there are few men among the gentry that are willing to sacrifice their reputations to marry Obi-Wan.
The dowry is good, but with grandfather’s political scandals, father’s multiple bastards, and Obi-Wan’s own rejection of his birth sex, there aren’t a whole lot of suitors. Those who are, with noble parentage and an attraction to at least some men and a disregard for the gossip such a marriage would bring, are by and large already married, and to the most gorgeous women to boot.
Bail would have been nice. It’s a pity that Breha caught his eye so early, though they make a beautiful couple.
Quinlan, darling Quinlan, actually had proposed, early on, in private, but then he’d learned of the all the money his estate had lost to his aunt’s greedy hands, and suddenly, hundreds of livelihoods depended on a large dowry coming in.
Obi-Wan’s dowry is good, but not that good.
Had Obi-Wan been born a man, he would have tried his hand at marrying Lady Satine Kryze, daughter of the Duke of Mandalore. He would likely not have succeeded, given his own lack of title, since Serenno will continue with Rael’s line, but he would have tried.
He’d been eighteen when he and Satine had spent some whirlwind weeks together, unchaperoned as he’d still been in dresses and dainty dance shoes, kissing in the gardens and then fumbling in the dark of her bedroom. It had never gone further, and his heart still yearns for her.
Quinlan had been when Obi-Wan was seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-three. On and off. The proposal had been when Obi-Wan was twenty-three; by that point, he’d already started presenting himself to society as a man, and the prospects had become rather grim.
Obi-Wan could never have married Satine, and he could not condemn the people of Quinlan’s duchy for the sake of his heart.
So Obi-Wan did the best thing he could do, and introduced them to each other.
What if I had a "Never a Jedi, heir to Stewjon" Obi-Wan AU that was structured as one of those tropey arranged political marriage AUs, but specifically to Satine, organized by Jango, and the background shenanigans to the plot are all, like, "visiting Jedi Include Padawan Vos, who is trying to score a threesome with the bride and groom" and "for ambiguous darksider-sighting reasons, Qui-Gon shows up, Shmi and toddler Anakin in tow, and no he won't explain how he got them" with a dash of "Jango keeps trying to get Satine to make teenybopper Bo-Katan stop Stalking Him, but Satine thinks it's funny and she's petty enough to bribe Bo-Katan into going harder."
Not the santine/Quinlan/Obi anon. I have a couple ideas. One Satine or obi asks for a threesome for Their birthday. Quinlan called dibs. Two: total au Threeway courtly love marriage for alliances Kiffu gets an heir, stewjoni gets protection, Mandalore is forcible united by competent leaders. Jango watches on weirdly proud of the three. Lots of yearning and guilt. Three: Quinlan just climbs into their bed and is like you want Obes you get me too. Satine is bafflingly charmed by this.
Okay so the courtly marriage and 'Quinlan climbs in and declares himself a package deal with a very embarrassed Obi-Wan' are working for me.
I got quinobi and obitine for rarepare and problematic pair and that’s so perfect
The #problematic ship quiz
The rarepair quiz
The femslash quiz
I think my favorite variation on quinobitine is what I've got going on in the Regency AU, where Quinlan and Satine are married to each other (it's convenient and they get along well enough) while Obi-Wan is married to Maul (there are many attempts at murder, it's fine) and the three of them are constantly hooking up because Maul literally could not care less about his spouse's sex life.
