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I write stories. My genre is fantasy, but I dabble outside it.
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SCTIR and ORV Crossover Writing Prompt
Kim Dokja is Pre-Regression Han Yoojin's child, born from rape and renamed by Yoojin as his hope. Han Yoojin disappears from Seoul upon learning of his pregnancy and raises Dokja on a farm, in a small village, far from the paparazzi and internet.
Kim Dokja is similar enough to Han Yoohyun to give Yoojin flashbacks, more star than human, but different enough to where Yoojin can separate the two and recognize Dokja as his own person.
Kim Dokja, to stay within the warmth of his mother, reforges himself into a human, lessening his more star-tied instincts until Kim Dokja is all that's left, no hint of the Most Ancient Dream in sight. Child Dokja feels his mother's arms wrap around him in joy after a successful harvest and smiles, burrowing into the warmth. Yes, he likes this life a lot. He thinks he'll stay here for a while.
SCTIR and ORV Crossover Writing Prompt
Kim Dokja is Pre-Regression Han Yoojin's child, born from rape and renamed by Yoojin as his hope. Han Yoojin disappears from Seoul upon learning of his pregnancy and raises Dokja on a farm, in a small village, far from the paparazzi and internet.
Kim Dokja is similar enough to Han Yoohyun to give Yoojin flashbacks, more star than human, but different enough to where Yoojin can separate the two and recognize Dokja as his own person.
Kim Dokja, to stay within the warmth of his mother, reforges himself into a human, lessening his more star-tied instincts until Kim Dokja is all that's left, no hint of the Most Ancient Dream in sight. Child Dokja feels his mother's arms wrap around him in joy after a successful harvest and smiles, burrowing into the warmth. Yes, he likes this life a lot. He thinks he'll stay here for a while.
Code Geass Writing Prompt
While they were discussing their plan of action against Schneizel, out of nowhere, Suzaku collapses.
The doctors found an old injury in his back that never healed properly. Lelouch sees the whip scars on his back for the first time, both those made by someone else and those self-inflicted. The self-inflicted ones are recent, the newest set just days old. And on top of the old injury that never healed properly, the scarring is infected.
It isn't just that the doctor told Lelouch that almost all of his injuries have never healed properly. He's an amalgation of scars, chronic pain, and improperly set broken bones. More than likely he's spent the last 2 or more years running on adrenaline and survival mode. The reason he collapsed in the first place was because his body - he - felt safe enough to finally shut down and rest, the doctors had concluded. More than likely, he'll spend the rest of his life dealing with chronic pain, being in pain in general.
Lelouch sits by his Knight of Zero's bed, alone with just the exhausted sleeping Suzaku, and shakes with the knowledge he's gained. His eyes lock on the self harm scars covering Suzaku's arm, those peeking past the bandages covering the new cuts (some are just a day old!) And wonders how he didn't notice. Is this why Suzaku insisted on arm covers and gloves?
Lelouch grabs Suzaku's hand and finally lets himself breakdown over what he's done to his friend. He knows he's not the only one, that his Knight was doing this before they even reunited a year ago, but he isn't delusional enough to deny the part he played. Nor the fact that he never noticed.
Code Geass Writing Prompt
While they were discussing their plan of action against Schneizel, out of nowhere, Suzaku collapses.
The doctors found an old injury in his back that never healed properly. Lelouch sees the whip scars on his back for the first time, both those made by someone else and those self-inflicted. The self-inflicted ones are recent, the newest set just days old. And on top of the old injury that never healed properly, the scarring is infected.
It isn't just that the doctor told Lelouch that almost all of his injuries have never healed properly. He's an amalgation of scars, chronic pain, and improperly set broken bones. More than likely he's spent the last 2 or more years running on adrenaline and survival mode. The reason he collapsed in the first place was because his body - he - felt safe enough to finally shut down and rest, the doctors had concluded. More than likely, he'll spend the rest of his life dealing with chronic pain, being in pain in general.
Lelouch sits by his Knight of Zero's bed, alone with just the exhausted sleeping Suzaku, and shakes with the knowledge he's gained. His eyes lock on the self harm scars covering Suzaku's arm, those peeking past the bandages covering the new cuts (some are just a day old!) And wonders how he didn't notice. Is this why Suzaku insisted on arm covers and gloves?
Lelouch grabs Suzaku's hand and finally lets himself breakdown over what he's done to his friend. He knows he's not the only one, that his Knight was doing this before they even reunited a year ago, but he isn't delusional enough to deny the part he played. Nor the fact that he never noticed.
Code Geass Writing Prompt
While they were discussing their plan of action against Schneizel, out of nowhere, Suzaku collapses.
The doctors found an old injury in his back that never healed properly. Lelouch sees the whip scars on his back for the first time, both those made by someone else and those self-inflicted. The self-inflicted ones are recent, the newest set just days old. And on top of the old injury that never healed properly, the scarring is infected.
It isn't just that the doctor told Lelouch that almost all of his injuries have never healed properly. He's an amalgation of scars, chronic pain, and improperly set broken bones. More than likely he's spent the last 2 or more years running on adrenaline and survival mode. The reason he collapsed in the first place was because his body - he - felt safe enough to finally shut down and rest, the doctors had concluded. More than likely, he'll spend the rest of his life dealing with chronic pain, being in pain in general.
Lelouch sits by his Knight of Zero's bed, alone with just the exhausted sleeping Suzaku, and shakes with the knowledge he's gained. His eyes lock on the self harm scars covering Suzaku's arm, those peeking past the bandages covering the new cuts (some are just a day old!) And wonders how he didn't notice. Is this why Suzaku insisted on arm covers and gloves?
Lelouch grabs Suzaku's hand and finally lets himself breakdown over what he's done to his friend. He knows he's not the only one, that his Knight was doing this before they even reunited a year ago, but he isn't delusional enough to deny the part he played. Nor the fact that he never noticed.
Imagine if this is what Suzaku did. Suzaku taking the villain down from the inside.. Perhaps in another world...
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yeah alright i’ll join in on the zelda movie screenshot redraw
Imagine Anakin absolutely losing his mind as it’s explained to him that his marriage is literally illegal because of article whatever subsection b and it’s because 400 years ago there was an entrapment scheme and that’s why Padme is being sued by the republic
Funniest possible set up for a fix it.
Padme dragged before the courts bc you had to know this was illegal there’s literally no way you didn’t know this was illegal. Naboo under a microscope bc the former queen/current senator married a jedi – and not even a real knight jedi at the time, a baby jedi!! – and is naboo trying to entrap the jedi order??? sources say: MAYBE!
Anakin, losing his mind and opening his mouth to cause more problems, says something – on live broadcast, beamed to every corner of the galaxy –about his good buddy the chancellor knowing and saying it was totally fine🤬🤬🥺🥺🥺.
“Oh, so it’s definitely an attempt by naboo to entrap the jedi order and/or claim ownership of them and/or do any of the other things we have that law to prevent huh” says literally everyone in the galaxy, “chancellor palpatine 💯 wants to Rule The Galaxy Forever and is going to extort the Jedi to do it”
which. yes, but also, no.
something something, investigations into everything naboo has ever touched, something something, hey, chancellor, why the fuck do you have a red lightsaber in your desk actually??
Very Concerned Adults (Jedi and reporters, anti-corruption officers, the entire karking holonet, etc) asking Anakin just how well he knew Senator Amidala before this happened.
Anakin just being like well he hadn’t seen her since he was nine but the Chancellor’s always talking about how nice she is?
Very Very Concerned Adults (not Jedi) wanting to know exactly why he’s spending so much time with the chancellor (since he was a little kid!), how long the Chancellor’s been pushing Amidala and these disturbing ideas about democracy being bad on him.
Palpatine getting caught on a legal technicality (red lightsabres) but really the holonet [except the creepy alt-right parts of it] and thus public opinion wanted to hit him with literally anything they could.
Sadakin continuing to insist to all the mental health people that Padme’s not a honeypot and Palpatine’s not been grooming him …until the latter half being true finally gets through to him and then, because half-way is not a concept to Anakin Skywalker, fully believing the worst of Padme too.
By the time public opinion and lack of other proof of involvement swings to Amidala was also duped (and how good of a politician can she be if she was? ignoring the fact that the rest of the senate also was hypocrites the lot of them) the marriage has been forcibly dissolved and the relationship is irreperably shattered.
Honestly I am suddenly reminded of that comic where Palpatine blatantly uses his rank to force Mace Windu to effectively give him visitations rights on Anakin.
So like, picture the media circus outside the temple when that comes up and like:
Media: Why did you allow one of your Padawan to be so close to the Chancellor, was this part of a Jedi scheme? (Paid for by Palpatine puppet accounts)
Mace: I can access the records of the day this matter was decided for us if you wish it, but suffice to say we were not given a choice in the matter. The Chancellor made it quite clear this was an order and there would be penalties for disobedience.
Media:… Do you not feel this was a moral compromise though? And why not tell Padawan Skywalker of this?
Mace: None of us were ever happy about it, but the fact of the matter is our ability to self govern is nearly none existent and the penalties could have cost lives.
Media: Why did you not tell Padawan Skywalker of this at least?
Mace: The council does not believe in places the burdens of others actions on the shoulders of children. Thus we did not tell Anakin, but instead cautioned and advised him as best we could, offered a safe environment and therapy. It was our hope that if anything malevolent was under way, that we would be able to help him process it in a safe environment and resolve the matter from there…. Maybe we could have done things differently, I wish we could have. But ultimately, our ability to protect anyone, be it the Republic, or our own children, is defined entirely by the will of the Senate.
(Public sympathy for the Jedi increases)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 4/? Fandom: 소설 속 엑스트라 - 지갑송 | The Novel’s Extra - Jee Gab Song, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kim Dokja & Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja & Kim Hajin (The Novel’s Extra) & Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja & Kim Hajin (The Novel’s Extra), Kim Hajin (The Novel’s Extra) & Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Hajin & Kim Suho (The Novel’s Extra), Kim Chundong & Kim Hajin Characters: Kim Hajin (The Novel’s Extra), Kim Dokja, Kim Dokja’s Company, Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Suho (The Novel’s Extra), Chae Nayun, Shin Jonghak, Yi Yeonghan, Yoo Yeonha, Chae Jinyoon, Evandel (The Novel’s Extra), Kim Chundong Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Reincarnation, Reincarnation, Mentioned Star Stream, Mystery, Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Existential Crisis, LATER, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Character Death, Minor Character Death Summary:
A fan reincarnates as Kim Hajin, regaining her/his memories as a child. They only read the manhwa and only know out-of-context light novel spoilers including the ending of The Novel’s Extra, knowledge mostly from Fanfiction. Luckily, Hajin was a writer in his past life, a fantasy writer, so they write Returnee Hero, giving their own spin and even writing in Kim Chundong as Kindspring. He gives himself breaks and works on other stories to not gain burnout. He wonders if the Co-Author will reset things to the same way they were in Novel’s Extra or if it will roll with the version the reincarnated Hajin made. Hajin wonders if the Co-Author will interfere at all. Hajin was also surprised to find out that Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk were his parents in this reality. He wonders why the Oldest Dream changed his mind upon Hajin’s birth, wonders if Dokja will go back to that train if and or when the Co-Author comes in and takes Hajin away, if it means bringing Hajin back to their world. Hajin shuts such thoughts down.
Author’s notes: Chapter 4 is now posted! :) I look forward to reading y’all’s reactions to this latest chapter! :)
It's interesting to think about the intersection of these two facts:
Films reflect the time period in which they were made.
Our most popular films right now are all reboots, sequels, and reused IPs.
On one hand, you could make the case that our generation is being deprived of its place on cultural timeline, because (as far as the mainstream goes) all we're being given is rehashed ideas from other time periods. Seems rather boring to analyze.
But on the other hand, I think future film historians will find that this era is culturally fascinating. Not because of the "nostalgia bait" itself, but because it represents the emergence of independent cinema and streaming.
When TV was invented, people could watch filmed media at home. You no longer had to go to a theatre just to watch cartoons or comedies.
So the studios responded with a wave of epics in the 1950s. They said "Okay, you can get Dick Van Dyke at home, but you can't get Ben-Hur." Television couldn't compete with the budget, big name stars, or visual tech that film studios could offer. They were financially incentivized to blow your socks off with visuals and big name stars.
But with the emergence of streaming and independent film, that's no longer the case. A-listers are happy to take TV roles, and TV offers Hollywood-level visuals. You don't need to mess with the theatre system at all. It's easier than ever to make good-looking movies and share them with the masses with no major studio backing.
So what's the one thing that studios still have going for them? What's the one thing that Disney can give you that an independent filmmaker can't? Yoda. The Little Mermaid. Iron Man. Fucking brands. That's all they have, so that's all they sell.
We aren't being sold reboot after reboot because it's what the people want to see, or because our current culture is somehow more boring and lifeless than ever before. It's because it's the last stranglehold that these soulless studios have over the industry. They will shove your own childhood down your throat because their domination over previous generations is the one thing they have left to sell to this one.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 4/? Fandom: 소설 속 엑스트라 - 지갑송 | The Novel’s Extra - Jee Gab Song, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kim Dokja & Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja & Kim Hajin (The Novel’s Extra) & Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja & Kim Hajin (The Novel’s Extra), Kim Hajin (The Novel’s Extra) & Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Hajin & Kim Suho (The Novel’s Extra), Kim Chundong & Kim Hajin Characters: Kim Hajin (The Novel’s Extra), Kim Dokja, Kim Dokja’s Company, Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Suho (The Novel’s Extra), Chae Nayun, Shin Jonghak, Yi Yeonghan, Yoo Yeonha, Chae Jinyoon, Evandel (The Novel’s Extra), Kim Chundong Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Reincarnation, Reincarnation, Mentioned Star Stream, Mystery, Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Existential Crisis, LATER, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Character Death, Minor Character Death Summary:
A fan reincarnates as Kim Hajin, regaining her/his memories as a child. They only read the manhwa and only know out-of-context light novel spoilers including the ending of The Novel’s Extra, knowledge mostly from Fanfiction. Luckily, Hajin was a writer in his past life, a fantasy writer, so they write Returnee Hero, giving their own spin and even writing in Kim Chundong as Kindspring. He gives himself breaks and works on other stories to not gain burnout. He wonders if the Co-Author will reset things to the same way they were in Novel’s Extra or if it will roll with the version the reincarnated Hajin made. Hajin wonders if the Co-Author will interfere at all. Hajin was also surprised to find out that Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk were his parents in this reality. He wonders why the Oldest Dream changed his mind upon Hajin’s birth, wonders if Dokja will go back to that train if and or when the Co-Author comes in and takes Hajin away, if it means bringing Hajin back to their world. Hajin shuts such thoughts down.
Author’s notes: Chapter 4 is now posted! :) I look forward to reading y’all’s reactions to this latest chapter! :)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 4/? Fandom: 소설 속 엑스트라 - 지갑송 | The Novel's Extra - Jee Gab Song, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kim Dokja & Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja & Kim Hajin (The Novel's Extra) & Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja & Kim Hajin (The Novel's Extra), Kim Hajin (The Novel's Extra) & Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Hajin & Kim Suho (The Novel's Extra), Kim Chundong & Kim Hajin Characters: Kim Hajin (The Novel's Extra), Kim Dokja, Kim Dokja's Company, Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Suho (The Novel's Extra), Chae Nayun, Shin Jonghak, Yi Yeonghan, Yoo Yeonha, Chae Jinyoon, Evandel (The Novel's Extra), Kim Chundong Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Reincarnation, Reincarnation, Mentioned Star Stream, Mystery, Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Existential Crisis, LATER, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Character Death, Minor Character Death Summary:
A fan reincarnates as Kim Hajin, regaining her/his memories as a child. They only read the manhwa and only know out-of-context light novel spoilers including the ending of The Novel's Extra, knowledge mostly from Fanfiction. Luckily, Hajin was a writer in his past life, a fantasy writer, so they write Returnee Hero, giving their own spin and even writing in Kim Chundong as Kindspring. He gives himself breaks and works on other stories to not gain burnout. He wonders if the Co-Author will reset things to the same way they were in Novel's Extra or if it will roll with the version the reincarnated Hajin made. Hajin wonders if the Co-Author will interfere at all. Hajin was also surprised to find out that Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk were his parents in this reality. He wonders why the Oldest Dream changed his mind upon Hajin's birth, wonders if Dokja will go back to that train if and or when the Co-Author comes in and takes Hajin away, if it means bringing Hajin back to their world. Hajin shuts such thoughts down.
Author’s notes: Chapter 4 is now posted! :) I look forward to reading y’all’s reactions to this latest chapter! :)
Writing Prompt: Dialogue
"They made you into a Weapon!"
"I was already a Weapon. The only difference between you and them is that they pointed me in an enemy's direction and used me to fight, rather than let me gather dust in a forgotten corner."
"Oh, I'm so sorry I wanted you to have a normal childhood!"
"I'm a Weapon, brother. I can't be anything else."
"... You didn't even try to be."
Writing Prompt: Dialogue
"They made you into a Weapon!"
"I was already a Weapon. The only difference between you and them is that they pointed me in an enemy's direction and used me to fight, rather than let me gather dust in a forgotten corner."
"Oh, I'm so sorry I wanted you to have a normal childhood!"
"I'm a Weapon, brother. I can't be anything else."
"... You didn't even try to be."
the tragedy of anakin skywalker (x)
#no but really#why wasn’t anakin a crechemaster#why did they let him major in stabbing?#star wars#queue (tags @cadesama)
OH GOD NO BUT THAT WOULD BE PERFECT. how did the jedi not think of that?
what is anakin’s biggest weakness? attachments.
you know who needs lots of attachment? babies. small children.
anakin should not have been made to study murder: he should have been put in charge of Small Things. He would have bonded with all of them instantly, and it would have given his life Meaning and Purpose.
He’d bond with the kids, but he’d be able to move on because they are Bigger now and they have to go to the Big Kid Class but he still sees them around all the time, and it finally teaches him how to let go of his attachments??? He’d find a kid that he’s particularly fond of and go to Obi-Wan and say “I have found your newest padawan.”
this could have fixed so. many. things. ;_____;
Heh, and Anakin would keep picking Obi-Wan’s padawans for him, and it would be annoying but damn if he wasn’t right every single time.
BUT CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE HOW ANNOYED PALPATINE WOULD BE his life would be never-ending string of trying to get a hold of Anakin (I mean, would Anakin give him a time of day if he can spend it with small kids who absolutely adore him instead?)
he keeps comming over the years, but it’s always like
BEEP
“Anakin, my boy, we haven’t seen each other in a while—“
“I’m sorry, Chancellor, now’s not the best time. I’m tutoring a class.”
BEEP
“My dear boy, I wonder if we could meet for a chat—“
“Well, it can’t be this week, we’re going to Ilum, but maybe later…”
BEEP
“Anakin, I’d like to—“
“I’m terribly sorry, Chancellor,” Obi-Wan Kenobi answers. The apologetic tone might be just a tad exaggerated. “Anakin is on a trip with younglings, he must’ve left his comlink behind accidentally.”
BEEP
“You’ve reached Anakin Skywalker’s private comlink. Leave the message after the tone.”
BEEP
“It’s such a shame that Council doesn’t consider sending you on this campaign, considering the lightsaber skills you demonstrated when I was last visiting the Temple, Anakin.”
“Thank you, Chancellor, but this is precisely why I need to stay behind. In fact just the last week, the Masters decided I should take over some advanced lightsaber classes, considering senior Padawans accompanying their Masters on the frontlines need the training. I might take the Bear Clan along, make it a learning opportunity for the young ones—“
Palpatine closes his eyes slowly. He knows this from experience; Anakin won’t let himself be budged from the topic of little monsters for at least another half an hour.
BEEP
“Ah, Chancellor Palpatine. Anakin left his comlink behind again, he’s in class—“
BEEP
“Anakin, I hoped you—“
“Oh! Chancellor,” the voice on the other end is distinctly female, and Palpatine recognizes it after a second. Kenobi’s second Padawan. He barely restrains the urge to gnash his teeth. “Um, Skyg—I mean, Master Skywalker can’t pick up now. I can tell him you called? It’s just that he was helping me with forms, and he forgot his comlink, and he’s probably already in crèche…”
BEEP
Then there’s that one time when an actual youngling picks up the call. The less said about his reaction to that incident, the better.
BEEP
“—fortunately, they were all right in the end. But in my opinion, this should never happened in the first place, Chancellor.”
Palpatine snaps awake. Was that… was that anger? Finally, the hours of listening to worthless drivel about Jedi younglings paid off.
“My boy, I absolutely agree,” he begins slyly, but before he can continue, Anakin steamrolls on.
“I think Jedi Order is too deeply entwined in the conflict! I honestly don’t think even senior Padawans should be anywhere near battles, not to mention in command of GAR, but now even younglings are acceptable targets for Separatists and pirates! Master Yoda and I were talking about this lately, and—“
Palpatine swallows a scream of rage with some difficulty.
BEEP
“Forgot his comlink again, Master Skywalker has. With younglings, he is.”
Slaughtering younglings moved to the top on the list of things Darth Sidious will do after taking over galaxy some time ago.
this post keeps getting better and better
More please! Tagging @systlin, @beautifultoastdream and @karama9
That is what the Council would have done if they were smart. Seriously. Here’s Yoda saying Anakin should not be taught because he senses too much fear in him, and it’s fear for the people he cares about, something everyone present realizes fully because when it comes to his own safety, Anakin couldn’t be more reckless. Then Qui Gon announces he’s training him anyway, someone points out he might fulfill the prophecy and bring balance to the Force, and nobody, NOBODY, thinks that MAYBE giving him a job that’s more about caring than killing might be an idea. Nope. Okay, we’re training him, let’s foster the loose canon aspect of his personalities, make him a war general and keep pushing him into vicious battles to the death. Sounds perfect for his mental health. The Jedi Council were a bunch of idiots with their head so far up their own asses even a lightsaber shoved up there to the hilt would not provide them enough light to see further than their own noses.
I think I got lost somewhere in this metaphor. You get the point.
After ten years, Palpatine loses his patience and decides to change his plans. Fuck it, Skywalker has kids now–two adorable little moppets who can be captured, broken, and twisted into twin powerhouses of the Dark Side. Torture one while the other watches, convince them Daddy doesn’t love them, easy-peasy.
Unfortunately, he fails to reckon with the fact that not only is he going up against Anakin Fucking Skywalker, but that Anakin Fucking Skywalker is the surrogate father/big brother/best friend/cool teacher of ninety percent of the current Padawans and young Knights in the Order. And while the Council might make decisions and talk about the Will of the Force and stuff, those Padawans and Knights only care about the fact that the man who scared away the monsters under the bed–made it feel less lonely and frightening to be away from home when they were small–is now hurting and scared for his own children.
Just like Palpatine always wanted, Anakin ends up leading an army. An army of young Jedi who smash the ever-loving shit out of everything “Darth Sidious” can throw at them, rescue the terrified Skywalker twins, and drag the Chancellor hisownself before the Senate with conclusive proof that he’s an evil Dark-Side-wielding bastard who kidnaps adorable kids.
Attachments FTW.
God, YES
Luke and Leia would have grown up with 500 brothers and sisters of assorted species. Whenever you see Anakin there are 10 kids with him, occasionally actively hanging off of his arms or riding on his shoulders. (Anakin looks downright gleeful about this). Padme thinks it’s the most adorable thing ever.
20 years later by the time “A New Hope” would have begun, Anakin is 45. Padme is the new Chancellor. Luke and Leia are finishing their own Jedi training. 90% of the current young Jedi order calls Anakin ‘Dad’. He has amassed the galaxy’s largest collection of refrigerator art. After that incident with Chancellor Palpatine 15 years back, Yoda was forced to admit to Qui Gon’s very smug force-ghost that he was right. Everything is right with the galaxy.
I am so sorry this ate my brain and then things ran away from me. I AM SORRY. So. Anakin leads an army to retrieve his children and it’s this twisted version of everything Sidious ever wanted and he’s prepared for that.
But Sidious always underestimates how love changes things. And while he’s prepared to fight Anakin’s devoted army of former crechelings, he underestimates how that’s changed the rest of the Order.
Because Obi-Wan is quieter about whom and how he loves but doesn’t make it any less strong. When Obi-Wan loves someone it is unconditional and unyielding and he has never loved anyone as much as he loves Anakin Skywalker. Then the twins are born and Anakin is bashfully about it but he’s not ashamed and of course Obi-Wan has to know, he can’t imagine Obi-Wan not knowing his children (Obi-Wan totally already knows, he has been rolling his eyes about this for months and waiting for Anakin to come to him so he doesn’t spook him or for Padme to knock some freaking sense into him, which she does, because not-dying Padme is scary post-pregnancy and not willing to deal with the stupid anymore) and then Padme hands him Leia and everything stutters to a halt for a moment because oh, oh no, Anakin has found him another padawan.
There is no one Obi-Wan will ever love as fiercely as Anakin, except for Anakin’s children, who may as well be his own children. And he knows from the moment he first holds her that Leia will be the greatest Jedi he ever has a hand in raising.
(It becomes a joke among the Knights and Masters at the temple after the Skywalker twins arrive. If you even think that you might like to take Leia as your padawan, you can feel Obi-Wan glare at you no matter where he is in the galaxy.)
And when Sidious kidnaps Anakin’s children – his future padawan – Obi-Wan is the only Jedi in the galaxy who can put a hand on Anakin’s shoulder and say we need a distraction to do this safely, trust me to bring them home for you. Anakin will lead the frontal assault and tear down all of Sidious’ carefully constructed plans. Obi-Wan will sneak in and safeguard their children and bring them home.
That’s the plan, anyway.
Here’s what none of them expected:
When Luke Skywalker came screaming and red-faced into the world, an ancient, meddling, troll of a Jedi Master who had vowed never to take another padawan felt it and thought: fuck.
Whereas Leia is, even as a child, stubborn and willful and silk hiding steel, Luke is twin balls of sunshine. Raised among Jedi, he is so bright a presence it hurts. Even raised among Jedi, he wears his heart on his sleeve and has absolutely no guile and he pouts when the cafeteria doesn’t serve his favourite dessert but will cheerfully walk across the room and give it to someone else if he senses that person is still hungry. The first time Luke sees Yoda he stares at him, all big blue eyes and pudgy baby hands, then grabs his ears and won’t let go. Everyone is horrified. Yoda harrumphs at him and tell him, “Patience, young one.” He toddles after Yoda from the time he can crawl and no matter how grouchy Yoda seems he never actively dissuades him from it.
After the twins enter the temple, Anakin always knows not to worry if Luke is missing from the crèche. Yoda will escort him back sooner or later.
(He’s always much more worried when Leia disappears because, yes, Obi-Wan will bring her back but they’ll have always gotten into trouble in the meantime.)
Yoda does not confront Darth Sidious. Yoda does not lose his duel with the Sith lord and become diminished because of it. Yoda is with Obi-Wan, sneaking into his stronghold to see the twins safe. Yoda cannot go Sith hunting when Luke is in pain and gently clinging to him, his arms around his neck, bruised and bleeding and smiled at Yoda when he saw him because Luke knew he would come.
(Sidious cannot win, with them. Leia would risk her home being obliterated rather than betray her righteous cause. Luke would willingly walk into flames rather than give up on those he loves. It hurts, oh it hurts, to see the other in pain, but Leia can watch Luke being hurt and know there are more important things at stake than the two of them and Luke can watch Leia being hurt and trust that they will be saved.)
Sidious escapes but his Empire falls before it solidifies. He will never be as powerful as he needs to be.
(It’s Anakin who notices there is something wrong with the clones. He’s not their General but Obi-Wan is and Obi-Wan is a good general. When Obi-Wan is hurt, they’re all nosey and worried and Anakin – all but glued to his former Master’s bedside when it’s really bad and first and foremost a mechanic – can tell that something is wrong. He’s not always with them so it never becomes familiar, it never becomes normal, and it niggles at the back of his brain until he’s sitting in front of Obi-Wan’s bacta tank – old training bond humming between them because Obi-Wan hates drugs and hates being sedated and he stays quieter and heals faster if Anakin is there to keep him calm – and Rex walks in to check on the General and Anakin turns around to look at him and he sees it.
The Jedi Order quietly deprograms the clone army. They trace the chip back to Palpatine. Padme and Bail Organa and Mon Mothma start quietly amassing information against him and his allies – enough for criminal charges, pushing Sidious to show his hand and try to kidnap the twins.)
Obi-Wan takes Leia as his Padawan the second she’s old enough for it to be proper. They are scarily well matched. If he was the Jedi’s best hope to keep planets from succeeding during the war, together they can talk whole systems into rejoining the rebuilding Republic.
Yoda leaves Luke in the crèche until the day before his thirteenth birthday. Everyone is worried except Luke (who knows he is meant to be a Jedi and knows Master Yoda is meant to teach him and trusts this, since he was raised in the Temple. It’s easier to have faith when you’ve always had it and it’s never been wrong). Fourteen Jedi have tried to ask him to be their apprentice. Yoda bashed twelve of them over the head with his stick before they could and Luke turned two down himself, the last three days before his birthday. He spends his last day as a twelve-year old following his dad around, both of them a little clingier than usual. Anakin has always thought that Yoda intended to take Luke as his Padawan but he’s literally hours from aging out and he’s seriously considering comming Ashoka and begging her to come act as backup, when Luke suddenly hugs Anakin hard and quick and Anakin looks over and sees Yoda waiting in the doorway.
Anakin hugs Luke back very, very tightly and then he lets him go. Luke already has his few things packed and waiting. Yoda harrumphs at him. “Ready, you are, padawan mine?”
Luke’s smile is blinding. “Yes, Master.”
Leia talks star systems into rejoining the Republic. Luke returns the Fallen to the Jedi. Dooku is the first and most fleeting (having not been killed by Anakin) – having been betrayed and split from Sidious – Luke finds him when he’s dying and gets Yoda to him in time for him to pass them information on Sidious’ new schemes and die a Jedi, with his old master at his side. There are others, after that, who Fell during the war and didn’t think they could ever return from it. Luke, bright and shiny and full of faith, sees them, thinks, I can fix this, and brings them home one by one.
After the second Return, which is unavoidably public, Leia and Obi-Wan look at each other and enlist everyone they can to begin working to make Luke the new poster boy for the Order. Luke is intensely embarrassed by this and a bit bumbling and shy about it, which just makes it more attractive to everyone. It also keeps the spotlight well away from their rebuilding efforts, which are way easier when there’s less press exposure.
Sidious, who would still like to capture and corrupt the twins, eventually stops trying with Luke because there’s only a 50/50 anyone he sends after him will come back and between years of Yoda’s training (ie dodging his stick), Luke’s innate Force sense and his dumb luck he’s practically impossible to kill.
(Sidious dies ignobly at the hands of a new apprentice, one of the Fallen who Luke has been trying to save. His defeat was always going to be someone else’s redemption.)
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Oh GOSH!
Everyone predicted Leia would eventually leave the order to follow in her mother’s footsteps but the SCANDAL that erupted when she married a former smuggler had the gossip rags going for years. Because circumstances sometimes change, but the Force will always find a way for certain absolutes. They have one son, and adopt several wayward young people along the way.
Anakin is delighted by his grandson for all that he’s sad that he couldn’t share him with Obi-Wan, who passed just before he was born. Ben would follow his grandfather around like a baby duck and hated sharing him with the other younglings. He’d get so angry when he felt Anakin was giving the other children more attention than him. Anakin would gently explain that he couldn’t play favorites, but Ben would still react with anger and find a place to pout alone.
He is five when he finds a nice secluded spot in the gardens, barely visible from the main path. A fountain sits in the center and Ben lets out his frustration by throwing small stones into it. He doesn’t notice Mace until he sits down right next to him and says “I like to come here too, when I’m angry.”
Ben is startled at first. Though he’s still small and largely untrained, no one has ever really snuck up on him before. He’s also never heard a master admit to being angry before. When questioned, Mace answers that everyone gets angry sometimes. The Jedi way isn’t the eradication of emotion, but the control of it. He brings Ben back to Anakin, who apologizes to the aging master for troubling him, but Mace dismisses the apology and tells him it was no trouble at all. Anakin glances sideways at Mace; they don’t always agree on things, but he can’t help but smile. It has been decades since Master Windu last took a padawan.
As Ben grows older he excels in his lessons. He’s smart, persistent, and so, so powerful in the Force. He’s the very top of his class, and the only one who has yet to be chosen by a master. He still goes to the fountain when he finds himself at war with his emotions. Usually he meditates alone for a while until he is able to calm down, but sometimes, when he feels particularly lost, Master Windu will show up. At these times Ben will often ask for advice, but sometimes they will simply sit together in silence.
Ben is desperate the day before he turns 13. He doesn’t understand how he could work so hard and not be noticed by a single master in the entire temple (which isn’t true, nearly everyone knows Ben Solo and can feel the pull of the Force around him. They also know they were not meant to guide him). He almost, almost comms his uncle and begs to take him as his padawan, but ultimately doesn’t because he knows how Luke follows the Force and if he were going to take him, he would have a long time ago. (Luke is busy anyway; a small girl in the outer rim is about to turn 3.)
He goes out to the fountain to watch the sun set. The next day he’ll go before the Council of Reassignment to be placed into a division of the Jedi Service Corps. He supposes it wouldn’t be so bad to be placed into the Exploration Corps, he’d see much of the galaxy that way. He sits and plans and wills himself to not cry. After all, the Jedi way isn’t the eradication of emotion, but the mastery of it.
Master Windu is still able to sneak up on him even though he’s doing so with a cane these days. Ben once held the hope that maybe the old master would take him as a padawan, but everyone knows Mace doesn’t take padawans anymore. His work on the Council is too important and he can’t give his precious time to a student, no matter what sort of strange bond has formed between them over the years. They sit for a moment before Ben breaks the silence. “What do you think my chances are of being assigned to the Exploration Corps?”
Mace seems to ponder the question for a moment. “Your scores in xenolinguistics is very high. You’ve also done very well in your survival field tests. You’d be a credit to the ExplorCorps.” He pauses for a moment. “Is that what you want to to do?”
Ben doesn’t give a straight answer, “It’s an honor,” he swallows the lump in his throat, “to be a part of the Service Corps.”
Mace sighs. “For someone who feels the Force so acutely, you have so little faith in it.” Ben winces. “Your patience leaves a lot to be desired. And you never really let go of anything.”
Ben is shaking. Of course. It doesn’t matter how well he does in his studies when the fundamentals of the ways of the Force is where he has always failed. He could never be a true Jedi. But it feels like the rawest betrayal when Mace says, “You can’t go into the Exploration Corps, Ben. Being left to drift through the galaxy unguided would be disastrous for you. You’d be very susceptible to the Dark Side if left alone.”
Ben’s eyes feel wet. He knows that too, though he’s never confessed to any of the masters about it. He was stupid to think he could hide it, though. The masters probably felt the Dark Side around him and rejected him outright. A bitter voice inside him resents them for dragging it out for so long.
Then he feels a warm hand on his shoulder. “I’m not afraid of the Dark, Ben. And you shouldn’t be either.” In spite of Master Windu’s gentle tone, Ben can’t bare to look at him. “Self mastery is a life long pursuit that no one ever really accomplishes. You have to take it day by day, even I’m still learning. You have everything you need, you just have to remember that it is a choice you must make and commit to every day.”
Ben sniffs. “Yes, Master.” But when Ben looks up at Mace, he doesn’t see the cold face of a stern teacher or the disappointment of an unsatisfied elder. He doesn’t even see the sympathy that everyone has been directing towards him as he got closer and closer to his 13th birthday. Instead there is warmth and fondness.
“However,” he continues, “it’s not a path you need to travel alone. At least not at first… if you’ll have me as your master.”
Ben lunges at Mace and hugs him tight. “Do you really mean it?”
Mace huffs a short laugh and ruffles the boy’s hair. “I’m too old to say things I don’t mean.” He pulls away. “But Ben, are you sure? I’m not the easier teacher.”
Finally able to hope again, Ben gives his master (his master!) a grin. “I’m not the easiest student!”
Mace gives an actual laugh at that. “Good!” He pulls himself up. “Alright, lets go make it official. I know that grand-daddy of yours is dying to start gloating like the gossiping old hen he is.”
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Beautiful
No one’s quite sure where the little boy originally came from. He was found in a far-off system on a small icy planet, their names erased and replaced by code numbers, in a facility run by former followers of the late, unlamented Sheev Palpatine.
Most of the children were adopted out, but this one boy wasn’t. The reviewers found him to be strong in the Force, but some of the Council were worried about him - he was easily distracted, because he was constantly afraid of what was going to happen to him.
That first night, he lay in his bunk, in greater luxury than he’d had at Starkiller Base, and cried in terror after lights out. It was the first time he’d been alone in a room for, as far as he could remember, his entire life. He was alone, and terrified, and wondered what he’d done to be punished like this.
The door slid open, and the Training Master looked in. “Excuse me,” Anakin Skywalker, aged but smiling, looked in. “I sensed you in the Force. What’s wrong?”
The boy, who had been FN-2187, and named Finn, curled up. “’m scared.”
Anakin entered the room, closing the door, and sat down on the floor. He drew on the floor for strength and relief in his creaky joints, and smiled the smile that fifty years of younglings had learned to trust. “It’s okay. It can be scary.”
“Jedi don’t get scared.”
Anakin laughed, softly. “Oh, no, we do. But it’s not being scared that’s important. It’s what you do when you’re scared. A Jedi knows how to focus past the fear, and what fear does to you, and listen to the Force. Let me show you.” And in that moment, Anakin hears the voices of Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn and Mace Windu and Yoda in his mind, all of them saying the same thing: “There you go again, Anakin.”
When Finn is thirteen, he becomes Anakin’s padawan, because of course he would, after Anakin’s first lesson, and then his time teaching that first meditation exercise to the new younglings, helping them the way he was helped, showing the compassion that was at his core. If Anakin is Dad, now they have their big brother Finn, who knows how scary it was and how one good moment can help you feel not so alone, not so scared, and how to find where you fit in.
When the time comes that Anakin must step down from active duty because he’s too old, too frail, to keep going, Finn is gobsmacked to be told he will take Anakin’s place.
And he always, always, has a bit of candy hidden in his belt, because he knows a dozen ways to calm a crying child and believes a little bit of candy is a good distraction while he figures out the best one.
And to the next generation of Jedi, Finn is the one they call “Dad”.