Thinking about my raised-as-a-Sith Anakin AU, and how it would be cool to have singing as a symbol for freedom. Though I'd try to keep it understated.
I've always loved the scene in The Approaching Storm of Anakin singing and thinking of his mom, and then Obi-Wan telling him he's actually got a really good voice. I headcanon that Anakin sang and hummed to himself as a kid, but stopped doing it where anyone could hear after his voice changed, because he hated the cracking, and it was embarrassing.
But it would be a cool thing to have in TMH, where the prologue opens with Anakin singing his mother's funeral song, and then gets taken and given a new name, Vader.
Jump forward 6 or 7 years, and Obi-Wan has this padawan, Aster-Ryn, who loves music, and it's just something she's often doing, singing or humming.
She grew up in a place where she could express herself freely within loving boundaries, she could have learned to play almost any instrument in the galaxy, she could have heard a hundred different kinds of singing from the hundreds of different kinds of species at the Temple. I bet Mace took her to the theatre a few times (probably to also teach her some lessons about fame or other important things, because it's Mace, but anyway).
And contrast that with Vader who never sings, and he wears a mask with a vocoder in it so he always sounds menacing and off. It's like he only growls. He hasn't sung once since Shmi died.
But as he gets to know Obi-Wan, and by extention Aster-Ryn, he hears her music, and he remembers how Shmi used to sing to him. Songs of hope and dreams and freedom, things they might never have, but the music made those things real for their hearts and minds.
Singing is like speaking, it's having a voice, a way of personal expression.
And I love the idea of that being a little sign of his progress, that music slowly starts meaning something to him again, and he starts humming, then singing songs with no words, because he has no words that express his pain and loss and anger and fear.
But finally Anakin gets to that point of being able to sing in words again, and it's a small but powerful part of breaking free from the Sith. Just as important as his first smile, his first laugh, the first time he cries in front of Obi-Wan. All part of reestablishing his personhood, and agency.
I wouldn't want to overdo it, but it would be a fun thread to run through the story. Also Aster-Ryn is supposed to be based off me, and I'm always singing/whistling/humming/playing music, so.... :))))
@clawedandcute you'd probably find this cool, and of course @thefinaljediknight @ablatheringblatherskite let me know what you think.
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CWBB Team 30: "Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Sorcerer's Phantom"
Writer: Aster (@renegade-angel, fic on AO3)
Artists: Punk (@punkascas, art on Tumblr and AO3) and Cody (AO3 and Instagram, art on AO3)
Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandoms: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & CT-7567 | Rex
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, CC-2224 | Cody, Anakin Skywalker, CT-7567 | Rex, Quinlan Vos, Mace Windu, Plo Koon, Darth Maul, Bruck Chun, Kit Fisto, Qui-Gon Jinn
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Harry Potter Setting, Fusion of Sorcerer's Stone & Phantom Menace, Alternate Universe - Teenagers, POV Obi-Wan Kenobi, Fluff, Romance, Obi-Wan is Crushing Hard, Oblivious Obi-Wan, Anakin Still Doesn't Think Things Through, The Closest Obi-Wan Can Get to a Vacation is an AU and Even Then He Goes Through It
Language: English
Collections: CWBB 2022 @codywanbigbang
Stats: Published: 2023-03-30, Updated: 2023-03-30, Words: 5949, Chapters: 1/10
Summary:
It's Obi-Wan's fourth year at Hogwarts, and he has way too much on his plate: his new mentorship with a first-year named Anakin, his rivalry with Maul, and continuing training to be the best Chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. If only he could stop thinking about his best friend's twin: Cody, the charming and mysterious Hufflepuff Beater he's had a crush on for years.
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Fic Stats Meme
Rules: Give us the links to your fics with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and your fic with the least amount of words.
Tagged by @trashquisitor-shirozora!
Most hits: Ever Decreasing Circles [Star Wars] - 48,008
His newest (small, green) student has been completely inconsolable, and so Luke Skywalker decides to track down the Mandalorian Grogu calls father, however long it takes.
Meanwhile, Din Djarin is coming to terms with the new, painful absence of the most important being in his life, and this damn Darksaber.
Not surprised in the slightest at this one.
Second most kudos: Not Going Anywhere [Voltron] - 1,788
Coming to terms with many different things, all at the same time.
I'm never fucking escaping this being one of the very first Galra!Keith reveal Klance fics back in 2016. Fuck.
Third most comments: Acid on the Horizon [Voltron] - 72
With Shiro gone and only Keith left, the Jaeger Gridelin Leo needs a new co-pilot. Enter Lance, a cadet Marshal Allura has seen potential in.
And far away, on the horizon, something stirs.
Still happy about this one. Pacific Rim AUs will never not slap hard.
Fourth most bookmarks: The Things with Feathers [Rise of the Guardians] - 43
Aster is a single father working hard to keep his family. Jack is the boy next door, and the babysitter. They’re just searching for the same thing.
2012 was a dark, dark time, ok?
Fifth most words: Stitch by Stitch [DC Comics] - 17,843
Jason is injured and finds a safe harbour in Roy Harper. An old teenage crush comes bubbling to the surface, even through Jason's innumerable personal demons.
There is also the complication of Roy's daughter Lian.
Yeah, still very happy with this one.
Fewest words: The Thrill of the Chase [Rise of the Guardians] - 695
They chase each other endlessly, but those chased are eventually caught.
The cringe is real and it is eating my brain with liquid nitrogen teeth.
Tagging some fic buddies: @aureutr @dangerouscommiesubversive @cam-elot and @maered613. Knock yourselves out!
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Miscellaneous [Masterlist]
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1 — Shane Acker's 9
Romantic Headcanons
Ace — The Powerpuff Girls
Romantic Headcanons
Alberto Scorfano — Luca 2021
Platonic Headcanons
Alternate Gabriel — The Mandela Catalogue
The Judgement of Satan (Platonic Scenario)
Amaimon — Blue Exorcist
The Narrow Gate (Platonic Scenario) (Team-Up with Mephisto)
Anakin Skywalker — Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
The Bad Guys — The Bad Guys 2022
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons (Wolf, Snake, Shark, Piranha, Tarantula)
Bakugou Katsuki — Boku no Hero Academia
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
In My Defence (Platonic Scenario)
Beast Boy — Teen Titans 2003
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Bender Bending Rodríguez — Futurama
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons (Team-Up with Fry)
Benny the 1980-Something Space Guy — The LEGO Movie
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Bill Cipher — Gravity Falls
So I Married a Dream Demon (Romantic Scenario)
Billy Lenz — Black Christmas 1974
Homme du Grenier (Scenario)
Black Hat — Villainous
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
B.O.B. — Monsters vs. Aliens
Chain Gang (Platonic Scenario) (Team-Up with Dr Cockroach, Missing Link)
Bob Velseb — Spooky Month: Tender Treats
Midnight Snack (Flash Fiction)
BoJack Horseman
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Buck Wild — Ice Age
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Caligosto Loboto — Psychonauts
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Candlejack — Freakazoid!
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Chick Hicks — Cars
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Chris & Zach — Hellbenders
Death Comes (Drabble)
Claptrap — Borderlands 2
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Daycare Attendant | Sun | Moon — Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
Sleep Like a Baby (Platonic Scenario)
Death the Kid — Soul Eater
Death and Dignity (Platonic Scenario)
The Devil — The Cuphead Show!
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Dr Cockroach — Monsters vs. Aliens
Chain Gang (Platonic Scenario) (Team-Up with Missing Link, B.O.B.)
Dr Octavius Brine | Dave the Octopus — Penguins of Madagascar
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
E. Aster Bunnymund — Rise of the Guardians
Platonic Headcanons (Team-Up with Guardians)
Emily — Corpse Bride
Kiss of Death (Drabble)
Fix-It Felix Jr. — Wreck-It Ralph
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Flippy | Fliqpy — Happy Tree Friends
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Gregory — Gregory Horror Show
Hotel Gregory (Platonic Scenario)
Gristol Malik | Nick Johnsmith — Psychonauts 2
The Last Carriage Out of Grulovia (Platonic Scenario)
Grizzly "Grizz" Bear — We Bare Bears
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Heinz Doofenshmirtz — Phineas and Ferb
Prima Facie (Romantic Scenario)
Henry Bowers — Stephen King's IT
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Hexxus — FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Invader Zim
Persona Non Grata (Platonic Scenario) (Alien 1979! AU)
Jack Frost — Rise of the Guardians
Platonic Headcanons (Team-Up with Guardians)
Jack Pumpkinhead — Return to Oz
Platonic Headcanons
John Doe | Telltale Joker — Batman: The Enemy Within
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Jumba Jookiba — Lilo & Stitch
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons (Team-Up with Pleakley)
Kaa — The Jungle Book 1967
Snake in the Grass (Platonic Scenario)
Klaus Hargreeves — The Umbrella Academy
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
LaCienega Boulevardez — The Proud Family
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
LEGO Joker — The LEGO Batman Movie
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Lloyd Garmadon — The LEGO Ninjago Movie
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Lord Hater — Wander Over Yonder
Polyromantic Headcanons (Rivalry with Wander)
Lord Shen — Kung Fu Panda 2
Fallen Leaves (Platonic Scenario)
Luke Castellan — Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Platonic Headcanons
Master Shifu — Kung Fu Panda
Shifu as a Father Figure (Discussion)
Matthew Patel — Scott Pilgrim
Romantic Headcanons
Mephisto Pheles — Blue Exorcist
The Narrow Gate (Platonic Scenario) (Team-Up with Amaimon)
The Missing Link — Monsters vs. Aliens
Chain Gang (Platonic Scenario) (Team-Up with Dr Cockroach, B.O.B.)
Mohawk — Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Romantic Headcanons
Mushu — Mulan
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Nicholas St. North — Rise of the Guardians
Platonic Headcanons (Team-Up with Guardians)
Nightmare Sans — Dreamtale | Undertale
Untitled Scenario
Oswald Cobblepot — Gotham
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Philip J. Fry — Futurama
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons (Team-Up with Bender)
Philip Trousers — Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Queen Tyr'ahnee — Duck Dodgers
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Reagan Ridley — Inside Job
Romantic Headcanons
Reigen Arataka — Mob Psycho 100
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Richard Hendricks — Silicon Valley
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Roger the Alien — American Dad!
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Sam-I-Am — Green Eggs and Ham: Netflix Series
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
The Sandman — Rise of the Guardians
Platonic Headcanons (Team-Up with Guardians)
Saul Goodman | Jimmy McGill — Better Call Saul
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Scott Pilgrim
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Spider-Gang — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Dinner at Tony's (Miles, Peter B., Spider-Ham, Spider-Noir, Gwen, Peni)
SpongeBob SquarePants
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Sun Wukong the Monkey King — Monkey King Reborn
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Tangerine — Bullet Train 2022
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Thrax — Osmosis Jones
Novelisation of His Introductory Scene
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Toga Himiko — Boku no Hero Academia
ブラッド・クイーン (Scenario)
Tom Lucitor — Star vs. the Forces of Evil
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Toothiana — Rise of the Guardians
Platonic Headcanons (Team-Up with Guardians)
Wander — Wander Over Yonder
Polyromantic Headcanons (Team-Up with Hater)
The Warden — Superjail!
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Warriors of Hope — Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
The Good Teacher (Platonic Scenario)
Wendell & Wild
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons
Wendy Pleakley — Lilo & Stitch
Platonic & Romantic Headcanons (Team-Up with Jumba)
WX-78 — Don't Starve
Three Gears and a Gasket (Platonic Scenario)
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