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.
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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!
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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.
stonefreeak replied to your photoset: HELL YH GUESS WHO FINALLY GOT THRAWN. >:D I had...
Yooo, good job! I’m currently #struggling to try and 7* the asshole. I am SO SICK of seeing the animation of him looking over his shoulder before he starts dragging me. Like, stop telling me I’m gonna fail! I already know! I’m a bit sad I’ve had to put Fulcrum on ice because of ships, but those crystals in the payouts… So she’s stuck at 5* for me, currently.
Oh my god I am crying about ships right now because I’m getting closer to having a decent roster of characters, so I want to finish them off before I focus on ships, but my ships are so weak right now that I’m not anywhere near the good payouts for them.
And my Phoenix team is doing pretty well, given that I’ve only half-heartedly been working on them, I’ve prioritized other things, so I’m glad to get 5* for now, because I did it on my first try! And I don’t have to worry about trying to 6* the asshole because there’s no way I’ll get Hera up to that in the next week or get decent gear on them.
BUT GOD I’M TRYING TO WORK ON SHIPS AND IT’S SO MUCH WORK, SOB.
Fic idea that @stonefreeak and I came up with, in which Obi-Wan has to go undercover as a con man, and ends up being Too Good at the job. He ends up being SO GOOD that no one ever even finds out it’s him, which allows him to continue going on missions in which he has to play a con man.
As a side effect, Obi-Wan ends up collecting information that becomes useful to the Republic in the war, and the Republic becomes aware of his con man persona as an informant for the Republic--but no one knows who this informant is, or that he’s even a con man, since he’s only ever conning other criminals. So Obi-Wan just keeps doing this con man thing: scamming criminals, sabotaging dangerous operations, collecting information about said operations to pass on to the Republic, and never being caught.
This is inspired by nothing more than the “Ten Commandments for Con Men,” which is full of rules Obi-Wan would be frighteningly good at following.
stonefreeak replied to your photo: “Been quite productive with work today! Now I’m gonna settle down and...”:
FOR SOME REASON I THOUGHT YOUR FOREHEAD LOOKED LIKE MY FOREHEAD FOR A HOT SECOND AND MY STOMACH JUST DROPPED TO THE FLOOR BECAUSE HOW DID YOU FIND A PICTURE OF ME TO POST HERE???? I HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT HAPPENED BECAUSE MY HAIR IS FUCKING PURPLE HOW THE HELL DID I SOMEHOW BECOME CONFUSED (ALSO WHAT @ ME SUPPOSEDLY RECOGNISING MY OWN FOREHEAD). Just thought I should share me freak-out with you. :'I
This keyboard has literally moved two keys and removed one... I make so many typing errors you wouldn't even believe. My most common being shit like: didn¨t It's absolute balls and I don't appreciate it at ALL. lol
I FEEL YOU
I would totally believe, btw, because it keeps happening to me too. It takes waaaay too long to type a single sentence when I have to keep backtracking to fix all the problems. *bashes head against keyboard* (which, lbh, would probably produce less typos than typing normally at this point)
stonefreeak replied to your photoset: MY CURRENT SQUADS, with some slight...
Tie Fighter Pilot is SO good, jsyk. Using him with a team that gives a bunch of debuffs is amazing. I must say that I’m jealous of your rebels, I’m currently working my ass off on them to get a shot at 7* Palpatine too. Also agreed, Phoenix feels like it takes forever.
I’ve heard that TFP is really good, that he’s strong but also really versatile in that he works with a whole bunch of different teams! I had to finish getting Lando first, but now I should probably go back to farming TFP? Or should I work on Chirpa for the Chirpatine duo? Or is Chirpa fine just so long as he’s there?
I spent probably about a month doing nothing but focusing on Rebels, including a lot of days where I did so much farming for difficult to get gear (I AM SO TIRED OF GEAR FARMING), but it was really, really worth it. With Wedge’s abilities bumped up, my Rebels regain so much health every time they hit someone, Biggs can use his Comrade-in-Arms special move every other turn, and Lando just fucking wrecks the enemy team with his special move.
I know Phoenix will be worth it once they’re together, they’ve utterly destroyed even my Rebels team if they’re amped up enough, but it’s so much work. Especially when I really, really want that hideously monstrous Sith team, too....
(And I wouldn’t be too jealous, I know your ships are in far better shape than mine are! XD)
