spill the tea on seven pillared house 👀👀👀
god, okay. this one's my baby, my athena, my f*cking albatross. it's an OC jedi/clone fic, and i started planning for it literally five wholeass years ago, and it's taken that long just to write... *checks* 115k because this story is MASSIVE, it's just real damn huge. huge in the worldbuilding, huge in the plot, huge in the characterization.
so like, we're all in agreement that the clones are slaves, and that tcw did a really shit-awful job at acknowledging it. way back when i was a relative n00b to the clone wars fandom (sometime ca. june 2016, but likely upwards of a month earlier) i was like "i want a jedi to actually acknowledge this. i want there to be big emotional Scenes about this. i want someone to feel responsible for this sapient rights abuse!" so i invented a jedi OC, and then for added subtlety, i made him zygerrian. (god, don't get me started on the zygerria arc, there is a Rant in me. there is so much rant it started this fic.)
anyway, his name is jaicente alhurayrah, and he's really bad in a fight but really good over the negotiating table. he's 24 standard, so basically still a kid, and he's against the war because, and i quote, "war is what happens when negotiations fail, commander." he's a math nerd and he's got moon-sized identity issues re: his being zygerrian and a jedi (read: "the only way i can make up for the stain of original sin being born zygerrian is to be the best jedi i can be"). he's Very Extremely distraught at the prospect of becoming a general.
then there's maia, CC-9863, the clone commander assigned to jai. maia's fun secret hobby, when he's not off commanding an engineering... technically a brigade, but that's an explanation for another day—is organizing the clone resistance. this is one of the more recent developments for his character (for a long time i couldn't decide how much i wanted him to have broken his programming, i went back and forth on it a lot and made my drafts a godawful mess), so i don't fully know the extent of it at this time. my current tentative idea is that there's multiple cells throughout the GAR, they're connected by a network of droid allies (because fuck yeah they recognize the importance of solidarity over enmity), they don't all know who/where the others are, and their general goal is clone emancipation. the primary disagreement between these various cells (discussed back and forth on anonymous message boards on the holonet) is the methods that should be used to obtain it. i reckon maia is much more on the "hold the GAR hostage until they give us our freedom" end of things.
as you can see, this is a SPECTACULAR mix of personalities. especially since jai's fragile self-esteem is almost entirely tied to the idea that he's safe from being a filthy slaver because the jedi absolutely aren't slavers.
they are also, of course, extremely, unwisely, and desperately horny for each other. there's lots of averting of eyes and clearing of throats and careful discussions of how "it wouldn't be appropriate." inevitably, they start banging. inevitably, they have relationship problems. hey, if padme can make terrible life choices based on her libido, then maia can too—and at least for maia, the story has a happier ending :p
the rest of the story is 80% milwank by volume, because holy FUCK tcw's military worldbuilding gives me hives.
and that is my monster OC fic, coming to an ao3 near you in... 2025, probably. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯