#Quinlan gets adopted too

[pyromaniac4198]

Silas: mand'alor, when I went to check on the prisoners one claimed to be literally climbing the walls with boredom

Jaster Mereel: what did you do about it?

S: I gave him a translation dictionary and the Supercommando Codex.

J: why are you laughing?

S: it wasn't a basic dictionary

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Elsewhere

Quinlan Vos, hanging off the wall like Spiderman: obi why are you not paying attention to me :(

Obi-wan: I am trying to read this book. It's difficult, since the translation dictionary is in shyyriwook but the parts I can read are absolutely fascinating.

Q: why is my best friend a nerd 😭

[stealthetrees]

Fox and the Mandalorian Adoption Instinct VS all the People he’s Stolen from

Rex- biggest rivalry. Fox got all the favorites, Fives, Echo, Dogma, and Tup but that’s only the main characters. The 501st are too chaotic and often end up involved in something top secret and they get a fake death certificate and drafted into the Guard as a result. The collective is referred to as Rex’s Idiots cause they’re too unruly to be trusted anywhere near the senate. Great for off world missions tho. Rex would fight tooth and nail to get them back once he finds out they’re not dead but Corries are too territorial. Anyone who goes back chose to.

Wolffe- very few, and only in extreme cases. Their adopted father/general always wants to get involved in the case and therefore it must be watertight. Avoided at all costs. Causes a huge custody battle after the war. The Clones being fought over have long since accepted having two fathers and are just enjoying the show.

Cody- pissed he never knew bc he didn’t figure it out till he got the memo. “I have your troopers and you can’t have them back finders keepers lol” is just something he opposes on principle. Trusts Fox to be a good dad but still.

Ponds- complains to Windu about it, and when he hints he may have known about Fox’s nonconsensual adoption program he pretends like he did too

Hunter- he don’t get an opinion on this because Fox claims Echo as part of the Domino Twin set and got adopted as collateral. Only a little grumpy about it

Anakin- when he finds out Fox tried to fake Ashokas death to get a second Jedi working for him (Quinlan Vos being the first) he’s not really sure how to feel about about it

Padme- her handmaidens dividing their loyalty equally between Fox and Padme is understandable, and she only tolerates him because he used their help to scam so many people she also worked against. They have a civil negotiation on who gets them on what holidays.

[tesalicious2]

Kesett Modern AU Headcanons:

Boba is the youngest of his fam, with his dad being Jango then goes Cody (married to Obi, both 26), Bly 25 (married to Aayla 25), Ponds 24, Wolffe 22, Fox 22 (married to Quinlan 24), Rex 20, Boba 18 (other clones are 1st cousins)

Cal and Boba were 16 when they met each other

All Mandalorians live in a community, kinda like Arabic Communities, just sprinkled around with Mandalorian Shops nearby and some neighborhoods with large groups of them

They all know each other and talk/gossip, especially about the younger Gen.

Because of this, Boba keeps his social life away from all that

Cal attends the same high school and they share a few classes (that’s how they met)

They both went to a party, got high, and made out/mostly talked in the backyard for several hours

The Monday of school, Boba asked Cal out on a date and they’ve been together ever since

They both really like each other but Boba keeps it a secret from his fam (Cal’s fam knows and have met Boba)

They are able to keep it a secret for a long time with the help of their friends

Bobas family have met Cal but under the pretense of being friends

At first they kept it a secret because they didn’t know how serious they were. When they were ready, it was hard to bring it up

Cal is adopted by Jaro Tapal, who isn’t home during the week due to work, but he is home on weekends

Boba and Cal are eventually caught by Bossk, Boba’s other father (not in a relationship with Jango but Jango needed help and Bossk was there a lot)

Boba and Cal were kissing outside of the school at the end of the day and Bossk went to pick Boba up (Boba’s car was being borrowed by Wolffe) and Bossk came too early

Bossk is like ‘okay why do I care’ and doesn’t tell anyone bc he thinks Boba’s panicked face is funny

Bossk’s condition for keeping it a secret is that he gets to be there when Boba tells everyone

It ends up during a large family party (a lot of relatives are there, not his brothers spouses, just his brothers), one of Boba’s cousins who hates Boba asked about Boba’s boyfriend at the table, like everyone knew

He pretended to be shocked that Boba hadn’t told anyone (he eavesdropped on them talking about dates and sneaking out)

You could hear a pin drop

It was quickly a brawl between the two, with Boba winning via breaking his nose

He ran out with his brothers clamoring after him, stopping when his father came into the yard and yelled at them

Boba ended up at Cal’s place, spending the night there

Both of them went over the next day, to introduce Cal quietly

Unfortunately, all his brothers and their partners were still there so it was more

Boba walks in and calls for his dad, everyone peaks out to see them, Cal pales and tries to walk out, Jango seats them all away and talks to the boys outside

it goes pretty well, Jango likes Cal but doesn't give him the shovel talk because Cal already looks like he's about to keel over and die

Jango doesn't pity him enough to save him from his children and has Cal go inside while talking to Boba outside

Cal looks traumatized after that and has yet to say a word without seeming like it was under duress

The whole night goes well but no one really *knows* anything about cal by the end of it

Fett Fam: we aren’t that intimidating, whys he so afraid? Cal: *inside his head* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA but also Boba asked me to be here so imma do my best :D but also AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

It isn’t until a few more meetings that they actually start to get to know him

Unfortunately, due to his fam knowing, Boba and Cal are more limited in their dates (and other more intimate activities, tho no one knows about this)

Bad to worse when a month or so later Rex walks in on them making out that’s more bordering on having sex with clothes on

Cue the ‘use protection talk’ that turns into ‘you’ve been doing this how long’ to ‘my baby brother is innocent and is a baby!’

So now they are limited to any fun activities outside of either home which has caused problems but they deal

Cal has a chance to meet the Fett family spouses during a family dinner turned storm hideout for the weekend

It was raining hard and supposed to be bad but as dinner continued the power went out and the streets were undrivable so no one could get home

Cal bonded surprisingly well with Aayla Obiwan and Quinlan and they eased him about being a part of the family

Despite being introduced to both families, they keep it rather private and just between them

A few weeks before leaving for college, both families decide to have a whole get together to meet (though Boba limited them to just his direct family, no cousins or aunts/uncles)

Cal and Boba are nervous but Jaro and Jango do the ‘dad’ thing and talk shop about whatever dads talk about and that eases everyone

To no one surprise, they get married after college and move into an apartment an hour from Jango’s home

They use Mandalorian traditions for the wedding, gifting knives, the vows, and exchange arm cuffs worn on the upper arm (instead of the vambrance, a modern substitute. Cal gets a set of armor later.)

[star-light-artist]

My thoughts on the Ventress episodes of Tales of the Underworld! I didn't really care about the Cad Bane ones.

The ending of the Dark Disciple book finally animated like they wanted to do before the book was written?! Ahhh!! I was so shocked to see Obi-Wan!! I did NOT think we'd get to see him in this!! I loved that scene in the book. I remember wishing that Obi-Wan had opened up about losing Satine when Quinlan was talking about his grief over Ventress.

Why does Mother Talzin resurrect Ventress, but not anyone else?! And why does she hate Quinlan & Ventress' love?! 😭

The woman Ventress works with is so hilariously unbothered - I love her! 🤣🤣

The new kid & Ventress have such a hilarious back & forth banter!! I love it! I never expected Ventress to suit the role of very reluctant, sarcastic, slightly evil, adoptive mom so well!

THE DISASTER LINEAGE HAS A NEW MEMBER!! 🥳🥳 Bro, has no idea what he's in for, lol. 💀

The action in these episodes is incredible!! I loved seeing Latti again - her character design is so cool & I love how they casually bretray each other all the time while staying friends.

"Anger leads to the Dark Side," - LOL!! I bet he said that to whoever was his Jedi master all the time.

Ventress is so dramatic, introducing herself! 🤣🤣 She did not have to clarify how many Jedi he must have known personally that she murdered.

A Separtist recognizing Ventress as a hero?! Between this, the Raxus episode of Bad Batch S1, & the visit to Dooku's castle later on in the Bad Batch, we're getting so much of their perspective of the war! I love it! So many of them really believed they were in the right, unknowing of Dooku's work with Palpatine.

"It's hard to let go." I love that so much!! He had held on to his hate for so long that he thought he couldn't change, but it's never too late! 🥹

I'm so sad that she never got to see Quinlan again!! 😭😭 That really broke my heart. They loved each other so much! She really became a true Jedi, letting him go and finding peace in who she is now and where the Force was leading her! 🥹

Lyco adopted Ventress as his mom, not the other way around! 🤣

[jebiknights]

Quinlan's backstory (which is mostly legends canon but I don't think we've gotten much new canon backstory for him) is complicated, and we don't really know how much time he spent in the temple or not and since he doesn't have a new canon backstory I sort of get why he kinda just gets shuffled into Obi-Wans creche clan - HOWEVER

I think there should be more fics of baby Quinlan being forcefully adopted by Obi-Wan and Bant and everyone. They're all still initiates, and Quinlan despite being under the age of 10 is already a Padawan!! Which means he doesn't really need a creche clan, Tholme has been handling all of his education, but he probably takes some initiate classes when on Coruscant. Just them seeing this too young Padawan and being like.... New crechemate let's fucking go! Baby Quinlan would not know how to handle it.

Like not only just so he has connections on Coruscant and friends, I'm also just imagining the trouble they'd talk him into. Sneaking him into the creche for a sleepover. Making sure he knows all the best secret passages in the Temple. Convincing him to use his psychometry to get gossip on their rivals.

Like Quinlan naturally was a bit of a trouble maker, but he doesn't often have accomplices hyping him up and digging the hole deeper with him. Doubly funny because like, Obi-Wan was a pretty rambunctious pre-teen and his other initiate friends were also pretty silly and fun. I just think we're missing opportunities not having more fun with Quinlan's Legends backstory wrt his friendships and relationships within the Order.

[sun-spice]

On a star wars prequels kick. AU where Sidious buys Shmi and tiny Anakin from Gardulla, like yes this the best back up apprentice plan ever.

Maul is obviously Not Happy, tries to pull some shit and Shmi is like. No.

Anyway Shmi secretly adopts a raging teenager and they plan to kill their slaver. Maul's not really in a place to accept a parental figure and Shmi only has the resources and energy for one son, so they end up with a somewhat sibling like relationship.

At some point, Shmi gets shunted out of the picture, and a furious Maul is left to cobble together a new plan on his own and he manages to escape with Anakin but not kill Sidious. Fuck, Shmi's not here and Maul has to take care of her kid on his own. Fuck. Oh well, he can't be worse than Sidious... Fuck it, he's going to be a best caretaker ever out of sheer spite. Anakin can be his apprentice now and it will be epic.

Anakin doesn't really want to be a Sith in particular but he's free! He can always say no later so he figures he might as well be Maul's apprentice until he finds his mom again. He likes Maul and maybe he can teach him how to fly because wow those were some crazy moves.

At some later point, an ex-padawan Obi-Wan stumbles upon two traumatised former Sith apprentices. One is a small child and terribly endearing, and the other is a passionate but still incredibly dubious caretaker okay? What's he going to do? Walk away and forget?

Maul hates him. Anakin adores him, maybe a little too much. Cue dysfunctional found family shenanigans.

Maul is determined to be a Sith without his master, Obi-Wan is there to say which Sith things are bloody fucking insane and not allowed in this house (ugly fucking smuggler ship that Anakin keeps tinkering with to have, are those flamethrowers in the walls?! Anakin.). Maul is there to stab at Obi-Wan's great wall of Disaster Lineage Repression™️ until it starts to crumble. They argue a lot and somehow both end up with healthier mental states and force connections. While arguing about how best to take care of a child they decide they need an third adult opinion and accidentally rope everyone into therapy.

They reunite with Shmi and wow, Anakin now has three parents! Wizard. Shmi, in her manic attempts to return to her son and ensure they are all free and remain so, has accidentally become a pirate queen... They can work with this.

So: a pirate queen freedom fighter, a rogue Sith, a rogue Jedi, and an Anakin. The galaxy isn't ready. Sidious is seething and frantically trying train a new apprentice.

(He gets Dooku, except Qui-Gon is alive and very much Dooku's achilles heel, and will later foil Sidious' plans for his master. Jango Fett is in way over his head, good thing this Tyrannus seems to have suddenly had a chance of heart.)

The Whills are intrigued. The Jedi are totally lost, what is happening? Quinlan Vos in particular is laughing. The Shadow Council is somewhere between amused and bemused that the surprise!Sith apprentice actually turned out pretty decent, and he's helping them with their shared goal of getting rid of his master. What an unexpected win. They'll take it, the rest of the Jedi cannot know of him until then.

[jessicas-pi]

📓📓📓

So originally I was gonna do 3, but this one got REALLY long, sooo....

May I present the Jedi Get Hitched AU?

I posted about it once before here (and it got FANART!!!!) but other than that I haven't said much of anything else, soooo... here's more! and it's ENORMOUSLY self-indulgent.

The basic premise of the AU is that the clone wars end happily except the clones don't have rights but the Jedi find a loophole that will make them recognized as sentient citizens if one of them marries a Jedi, cue Aayla kicking open the door to the jedi council with bly in tow like I VOLUNTEER

ANYWAY. bly and aayla get married (they both freak out about it and Fox and Quinlan respectively have to give them pep talks before the wedding.) All seems well... and then Anakin saunters into the Jedi Council room one day and brings up that now that they're getting married (it was a one time thing, skywalker--) NOW THAT THEY'RE GETTING MARRIED, maybe they should consider that perhaps it would lower political tensions if a Jedi married, like, a senator or a planetary ruler or something. and the council is all like 🙄 skywalker we know this is just about you and senator amidala and he's like what??? haha no, i was talking about obi-wan and duchess satine. but while we're on the topic, i could definitely marry senator amidala too. she just adopted those twins and i could help raise them. they're force-sensitive, what a crazy coincidence amiright?? and plo and shaak are just lowkey planning their wedding and subsequent adoption of All Their Sons and mace. mace wants a break. please.

fast forward in time. Several more jedi have gotten married. Mace has retired from the council, citing "an excess of tomfoolery and nuptials" as his reason. Anakin married Padme, Obi-Wan married Satine and they officially adopted Korkie as their son, and Quinlan Vos and Asajj Ventress got married. Vostress is also currently running a jedi-nightsister exchange student program...

...which is how Merrin, 16 and slightly awkward but eager to learn more, ends up in the Jedi Temple, with a few other Nightsisters, though they're all a few years younger than her. Cal is assigned to give them the tour.

"Welcome to the Jedi Temple!" he says, holding one hand out to her and the other hand waving around them, indicating basically the whole jedi temple. it's supposed to be just a gesture, but then Merrin puts her hand in his. Completely seriously. Cal is like "...okay" and they hold hands for the rest of the tour.

Five years later, there is a second jedi-nightsister wedding.

Jocasta is delighted at the number of records being set within her lifetime.

(Jocasta is also officiating all the weddings, btw.)

A couple years after Mace resigns from the council, he decides to plan a shatterpoint lineage family vacation. So Mace, Depa, Grey (who is an unofficial part of their family), Caleb, and Caleb's brand-new Padawan, 11-year-old Ezra (who is pretty young to be a padawan, but he was following caleb around all the time anyway so caleb figured he might as well just make the apprenticeship official), all pack up... and go to Ryloth.

Caleb, who twenty-five at this point, promptly gets his first crush.

Mace Regrets This Vacation. He's actually started seeing marriage Shatterpoints. Depa and Grey, meanwhile, think it's really really funny that Caleb gets flustered around Hera, and Ezra has made more than a few insinuations about political alliances via marriage. Depa warns him that Caleb will get his revenge, but Ezra dismisses it. (Said revenge does come about, several years later, in the form of Caleb asking if Madame Nu needs to prepare to officiate the second Jedi-Mandalorian marriage in recorded history. Ezra kicks him in the shin. smh padawans these days just have NO respect for their masters.)

Ezra highly encourages Caleb to marry Hera.

It does not take much convincing.

[phoenixyfriend]

All the World's a Stage, Especially This Castle: Ch6

Chapter 6: Loverboy

To everyone who helped out with the math post, this is what it was for.

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Obi-Wan, despite being technically employed full time, and also the adopted grandson of an earl, is still taking courses. He’s not quite the academic that Depa and Qui-Gon are, but he’s got his interests.

Like bugs.

Namely, parasites.

Everyone else hates it, but Obi-Wan can’t help finding the little critters fascinating, even if he’s not allowed to bring school home with him like Depa or Qui-Gon. Too much of a risk of something escaping confinement and infesting the greenhouses, they say.

He’s more careful than that, really, but he lets them have their way. He’s only a part-time student, anyway, which is true of many graduate students, though not necessarily many in his department. The others, he knows, juggle school with work if that work is in same field, or at least a related one.

Obi-Wan’s still trying to decide how to marry his work in historical recreation with his studies in entomology. He’s been thinking about trying to do research on centuries-past plagues of the many-legged type, but he’s not had much time to look into the realities of such a study.

He’s barely had enough time to do his own homework, between the museum, the wedding, and Anakin.

Three hours into an essay, his phone buzzes. He shouldn’t look at it, but he’s been working, right? He deserves to see who’s calling for him.

Quin: Look outside

Obi-Wan is in the library, which sprawls across several floors of the building, and Obi-Wan is on the third of them. Realistically, anything outside this window would be a balloon, or a drone, or a kite.

He looks out the window, and isn’t surprised to see Quinlan, hanging upside-down from god-knows-what, grinning like a madman.

With a groan, Obi-Wan stands and goes to open the window. “Seriously?”

“You should be impressed,” Quinlan goads, doing some insane balancing act with his hands on the sill and a foot somewhere above, hooked into a decoration to prevent him from toppling to the tiled roof below. He manages to contort himself to stand on the sill, one hand gripping the wall for dear life and the other keeping up most of his weight, legs slowly coming down until he can just hop right in. “Not everyone could do that.”

“Most people aren’t reckless enough to try,” Obi-Wan scolds. He pulls Quinlan’s hands to him. “Let me see the scratches.”

“I’m not hurt,” Quinlan feigns to protest, and it’s almost irritating that Obi-Wan indeed doesn’t find any scratches on the man. Fingerless gloves, as usual, and callouses that Obi-Wan can’t hope to match. “See? I’m fine, Obi.”

Obi-Wan huffs, deciding to fiddle about with Quinlan’s jacket instead of stepping away again. “That is not my name.”

“Sure,” Quinlan says. He leans down a little, with that damnable smirk playing on his lips, and Obi-Wan refuses to be cowed. “So, Obi-Wan… where’s my welcome home kiss?”

“This isn’t your home,” Obi-Wan says immediately. “You want home, you go to Plo’s.”

“Ooh, ouch,” Quinlan laughs. He crowds Obi-Wan back against the wall, and puts a hand on the stone like he’s some character from a modern soap opera. “So, we’re not together?”

Asshole. Obi-Wan rolls his eyes, because he needs to make it clear he’s doing this just because he wants to, and then finally presses his mouth to Quinlan’s. He keeps it firm and dry and chaste, and pulls away when Quinlan tries to deepen it with a twist of his head and a swipe of his tongue across Obi-Wan’s lips.

“You’re a tease,” Quinlan accuses. Obi-Wan doesn’t take it to heart, especially as Quinlan puts a hand to Obi-Wan’s hip and squeezes. “So cruel to me.”

Obi-Wan raises an eyebrow. He’s rather proud of how well he can manage that. “You’ll recover.”

“I’ll recover faster with a kiss,” Quinlan wheedles.

He laughs when Obi-Wan decides he’s had enough of the position and brushes past him to get back to his studies. Quinlan follows eagerly, leaning over his shoulder to see the dry texts that Obi-Wan is working his way through. “You wound me, Obi.”

“I aim to, Quinlan,” Obi-Wan says. There’s not much bite to it, though he decides that may change when Quinlan steps around to get between Obi-Wan and the desk, just barely squeezing in before Obi-Wan tugs his seat back in.

Quinlan doesn’t lean over him or sit on the desk, though he does bump it away a bit. Rather, he sinks to his knees and hugs Obi-Wan about the waist, peering up through his lashes and doing his best to manage the puppy-dog eyes. “Please, Obi? One kiss, that’s all I ask.”

“And here I was thinking you wanted to marry me.”

“Well, if it’s back on the table…”

Obi-Wan grabs the small pillow that was at his back and shoves it into Quinlan’s face.

Quinlan pulls him to the ground, and they wrestle for a few moments, Obi-Wan frantically shushing him before Grandmother somehow hears. He ends up flat on his back, Quinlan hovering over him on all fours, and there is no way that Obi-Wan isn’t flushed and mussed from what just happened.

“Come on,” Quinlan coos. “Are we dating again? Simple yes or no…”

Obi-Wan rolls his eyes again. “Let me up and maybe you’ll get an answer.”

Quinlan snickers and sits back, though he settles himself onto Obi-Wan’s thighs instead of actually getting up. Obi-Wan levers himself up as well, despairing for the state of his hair.

“How long until you’re sent off again?” Obi-Wan asks.

“I’m staying domestic until at least after the wedding,” Quinlan says. “Ms. Gallia said your dad wanted me to be one of the official photographers.”

Obi-Wan was part of that conversation. “They do, both of them. I’m sure Aayla and Ahsoka are both going to be delighted to hear that. I assume Aayla’s going to be visiting more often?”

“Mm-hm,” Quinlan says. He tries to steal a kiss, but Obi-Wan dodges it. “Speaking of little siblings…”

“I’ll introduce you, later,” Obi-Wan says, “and really, don’t climb the walls. I’m worried he might try to imitate you, and we don’t need that, he’s nine.”

“Aayla was—”

“Nine, Quinlan,” Obi-Wan stresses. “Please, for my blood pressure, if nothing else.”

The smile, this time, is softer. Fonder. Less of a tease. “Yeah, okay. I’ll keep the shenanigans to a low simmer.”

Obi-Wan sighs. He thinks. He lifts a hand and drifts his fingers across Quinlan’s cheek.

He draws his best-friend-and-lover into a kiss. It’s longer. Deeper. It lingers.

Obi-Wan pulls away with a smile. “Welcome home, Quin.”

(Continue on AO3)

[ircn-mvn]

temple university ★ obikin au

🅟🅘🅝🅣🅔🅡🅔🅢🅣 🅑🅞🅐🅡🅓 ➝ link

Anakin is a mechanical engineering student at Temple University (Coruscant), interning for a Formula 1 team.

Obi-Wan started teaching a Negotiation and Conflict Resolution class at Temple University (Coruscant) after a military career.

They (officially) meet at their parents' wedding. Anakin's mother, Shmi, is marrying Obi-Wan's adoptive father, Qui-Gon. They get along well enough.

A few months later, Anakin is having administrative troubles; something to do with his scholarship and dorm. He spends his first night back at Temple University (TU) on Ahsoka's room floor.

He calls his mom the next day, but Qui-Gon picks up Shmi's phone, and Anakin tells him what happened. Qui-Gon hangs up on him without another word... because he is calling Obi-Wan.

Qui-Gon bullies Obi-Wan into taking Anakin under his roof in his fancy apartment in Coruscant.

When his mother's husband calls him back, Anakin's first thought is 'hell no,' but then he realizes he doesn't have another option so he agrees to become Obi-Wan's roommate.

It's awkward, they don't know each other, but they also are sort of family so it's complicated. They have to make it work.

Of course, Anakin has a thing for trouble so he loses his keys on the first day and they have to get a locksmith because Obi-Wan is apparently a little paranoid (something to do with his old work). They settle in a sort of routine; they don't really see each other much, barely crossing paths now and then.

One day, Anakin forgets his keys at home and decides to wait for Obi-Wan at TU, and he ends up crashing Obi-Wan's lecture. Obi-Wan isn't impressed, but his students are definitely curious about their relationship after the exchange they witness.

A rumor starts about the two of them being involved. Anakin finds it funny, but he hopes no one can tell he is developing a major crush on Obi-Wan (Ahsoka can definitely tell!). Obi-Wan is trying to act unbothered by it all, but Quinlan's remarks are getting to his head.

The thing is, they are spending more and more time together, getting to know each other, sharing domestic moments, etc. And maybe one of them get sick and the other takes care of them for example.

One night, Anakin goes out with his friends at a club... and so does Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan catches a guy being a little too insistent with Anakin on the dance floor and just acts as Anakin's "knight and savior". They end up dancing together and having more drinks as their friends mingle, most of them knowing each other already.

That's when Ahsoka and Quinlan break the new this isn't the first time they meet like this: Obi-Wan and Anakin already met in this same club. It happened before the wedding, they were drunk and they danced, and flirted, and then their friends separated them so nothing more happened and they forgot all about it.

However, when they get home that night, they share their first kiss and maybe more...

[lothcatthree]

Last Line Challenge

hiiii I was tagged again by @frostbitebakery @whiskygoldwings @insertmeaningfulusername and @anxiousotters thank you all lovely, talented people <3

this is as good of a time as any to introduce my OC, Roan! he's a jedi shadow that works closely with Quinlan and they're besties. he's about 5 years younger than Quinlan so he gets to be Quinlan's token adopted introvert

here is a wonderful art of him that my beloved @holly-bearie did for me because Holly is wonderful and talented and I forcedasked him to draw Roan for me <3

I wanted to do some order 66 angst, so here's a bit from a WIP in which Roan, Quinlan, and Fox are about to go on an undercover mission right when the order hits. implied established quinfox :)

also fuck it. two snippets. you're all getting angst today, I don't care that you ordered smut

under the cut so this post doesn't get too long:

“You fuckers,” Fox rages once more, his accent becoming slurred and eyes fighting to stay open as the sedative begins to take effect, “Good soldiers follow orders, good soldiers–” His jaw goes slack, the arm in Quinlan’s grasp relaxes and Fox says once more, “Follow orders.” The silence that falls over them is thick over the rush of blood and a heartbeat in Roan’s ears. Quinlan stares down at Fox, slowly releasing his arm. Like this, Fox looks like he could be sleeping. He’s completely still, his curls strewn over his eyes as his face melts into the floor.  Quinlan puts two fingers on Fox’s neck to verify his pulse is still thrumming healthily, then nods to himself when he’s satisfied with it. Before he removes his hand and before Roan speaks, Quinlan tenderly moves the hair out of Fox’s eyes and pushes it back. Roan’s heart clenches.

aannddddd

He flexes his fingers on Quinlan’s shoulder and reaches for him in the void. He fumbles through it with his signature that shakes like his hands, clumsy fingers searching until they finally wrap around something. When he exhales, pink drifts back to purple as the blue edges on a flame.  Roan opens his eyes and Quinlan finally blinks as he comes back to himself. When he does, Roan almost wishes he left him in the safety of the vacuum.  “Roan,” Quinlan gasps. He looks towards him with tear tracks on his skin that match Roan’s. His hand comes up to grip Roan’s on his shoulder like a lifeline. “She’s gone. They’re gone.” “I know,” Roan says because he doesn’t know what else to say. A thousand voices yank at his peripheral, but he swallows and attempts to push it into the Force. A few screams escape through the fracture.  “He–” Quinlan looks back at Fox’s limp body. “I know.”

OOPSIES dw they'll find roan's super not-very-secret boyfriend, rex and everything will work out... in due time..

no pressure tagging: @holly-bearie @vytels @loverboy-havocboy @halfwaytoknowhere @sithfox

@theproblemwithstardust @tatooinetourism @raphaerolo @wolveria @bilbosmom-belladonna

[bearer-of-the-torch]

Intro Post

Took me long enough but here we are! Welcome to my FFXIV blog, where I will hopefully be centralizing all of my stuff for my Warrior of Light as well as any thoughts I have on the game at large.

But we just care about pretty Final Fantasy people, so here we go! This is my Warrior of Light, Rowena Stanier, a proud Lominsan Arcanist and Certified Traumatized Adult™️

Basics

Name: Rowena Stanier

Nickname(s): Nena (by her closest family only), Row (by friends), P̴̪͙̒͝h̶͖̜̙̅̌̈́i̶͓̓l̷̘̄̃̓͜o̷̭̹͚̓p̶̥̘̖̓̄h̴̰̋̓̂r̸̼̟̈͊ͅọ̶͂s̴͚͖͘ẙ̴̛̳̾ǹ̸̻̰͂e̷͓̯͋

Age: 29 (ARR)

Nameday: 17th Sun of the 1st Astral Moon (Jan. 17th)

Gender: Cis female

Orientation: Unsure (she likes men for sure)

Profession: Assessor/customs examiner at Mealvaan's Gate; adventurer; member of Scions of the Seventh Dawn

Physical Aspects

Hair: Dark purple

Eyes: Indigo (left), gold (right)

Skin: Light olive -- heavily freckled (some dark brown, most... lilac?)

Tattoos/Scars: Canonically no tattoos; acid-splash scarring across hands, large jagged scar across chest from Lahabrea fight at Praetorium

Family

Parents: Paget Stanier and Quinlan Stanier (nee Thosingeisswyn), a half-Elezen Ishgardian bastard and a Hyur adopted by a Roegadyn. Paget died three years before ARR, and Quinlan currently operates Stanier Shipping in his place. Paget was a transplant to Vylbrand, while Quinlan has called the place her home her entire life (when not asea).

Sibling(s): Robert Stanier, her older brother by 5 years. An engineer with a stubborn streak, Robert joined the Maelstrom in the days leading up to the Calamity and was presumed dead; he has only recently been liberated from an imperial facility in Ala Mhigo......

Grandparents: Her paternal grandparents, the Staniers, are both alive and well and in retirement from the shipping business, though they still mourn the loss of their son. Her biological maternal grandparents have been deceased for decades, but Quinlan's adopted father, Thosingeiss, has give up his life of piracy for a more refined setting. All three live in the family home.

In-Laws/Others: Any possible in-laws are. Deceased.

Pet(s): Her Carbuncle, Hercule, and her Chocobo, Dupin.

Skills

Abilities: Long-time practitioner of arcanima, alchemy, and goldsmithing. Capable botanist, anatomist, and illuminator. Able lancer/dragoon, thaumaturge, and blue mage. Adept healer (but maybe ask her fairy to do it instead). Intelligent, quick-learning, and innovative, she melds various combat arts in a terrifying way for someone who claims to dislike fighting.

Took culinarian lessons and spent time on a farm in her teen years. Can sew and tailor. Talented assessor and organizer -- Thubyrgeim misses her presence.

Hobbies: Reading Everything, cleaning (unironically), exploring, absorbing local cultures, trying new foods and clothes... jumping puzzles? Helping people (unironically).

Traits

Most Positive Trait: Generosity. She will give you the shirt off her back (or she'll just buy you a new one, it might fit better).

Most Negative Trait: Savior complex. She must save everyone. Even those who have done her wrong. (She's trying to get over it.)

Likes

Color(s): She claims to not be picky. The real answer is green, but she's been told it's unflattering to her coloration.

Smell(s): Lavender and bergamot. She makes her own scented products to keep it close to her.

Texture(s): Cotton wool. Leather. Parchment beneath her fingers.

Drink(s): Rich coffee, spiced and sweet meads. Also water.

Other Details

Smokes: No. She's seen too many rotted teeth.

Drinks: On occasion.

Drugs: No. She has medicines but not recreational drugs.

Mount Insurance: For Dupin, of course. No one will insure her magitek mounts, however.

Been Arrested: Wrongfully.

If you'd like some small backstory, go -> HERE if you'd like to read exactly how the MSQ begins for her!

As a general heads-up, I am a Sprout but I am well spoiled for story content and might post about such things; I will do my best to keep spoilers tagged for those who might not wish to see them.

I am also notoriously bad at just spitting stuff out into the aether unprompted, so feel free to send asks!

Current MSQ Progress (5-20-2025): Reflections in Crystal [Post-Shadowbringers patches]

Short Story Archive: Here [TBA]

Tags:

#wol: rowena stanier - any and all content of the girl herself!

#hercule the carbuncle - I love my funky little guild-mandated familiar, so he gets his own tag

#dupin the chocobo - I also love my funky little company-mandated steed

#cidena - 🤫

#writing: seventh umbral era chronicles - personal writing that takes place before or during A Realm Reborn proper

#writing: seventh astral era chronicles - personal writing that takes place nebulously after A Realm Reborn proper

#missives: q&a - asks from ask games

This post will be updated periodically.

'Til sea swallows all! 🫡

[kcrabb88]

So it's gonna be a while before this gets posted because I've got other stuff and I'm probably going to write this whole thing (for once) before I start uploading (I'm thinking it'll be about 5 chapters) but I'm obsessed with my QuinObi AIDS Crisis AU (set from 88-96) entitled Blood Makes Noise and wanted to share this little snippet I have after Obi-Wan gets his diagnosis (he is one of the lucky ones who survives in the end but obviously he doesn't know that here and it's a hard road):

There’s just one name that feels right when the kind nurse asks him if there's anyone he wants to call. Quinlan Vos.   His best friend (love of his life).  Best. Friend.   (Love of his life).   Positive.  

HIV … positive.   “Honey?” the nurse prods, putting one hand on Obi-Wan’s shoulder. She’s not scared to touch him. Not scared to breathe his air.   “Yes.” Obi-Wan swallows, and the test results crumple in his clenched and shaking fist. “I’d like to call my best friend. Can I … could I use your phone?”   His runs his thumb over the ACT UP button on his denim jacket while he waits for her to cart the phone in so he can call in private. It was one year ago today, exactly one year, when he heard Larry Kramer’s speech at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Services Center.    When he heard him say AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. Quin was there too.   Quin’s voice is muffled with sleep when he answers. There aren’t music classes at the elementary school where he teaches on Fridays, so he must have slept-in.   “Lo?”   At first, Obi-Wan simply can’t speak.   “Anyone there?”   “Quin?”   Tears cut into Obi-Wan’s voice despite himself.   “Obes? You okay?”  Quinlan asks in the lyrical lilt of his Haitian accent. “I’m at the HIV clinic down the street from my apartment. I’m—”  He can’t say it. He must say it. He has to be brave enough to say what thousands of dead men before him have said to their loved ones.   “I’m positive, Quin.” Obi-Wan breathes in deep. “I ... I can't call my dad yet." Even the thought of Qui-Gon makes Obi-Wan want to cry again. Qui-Gon, who is sitting at his desk at the ACLU without the knowledge that the kid he adopted and loves so much will die before he does. "I can't ... can you come?”   “I’ll be there in ten, babe,” Quinlan says without a moment’s, a second’s, hesitation. “We'll call Qui-Gon together, yeah? Just sit right there. Right there, okay?”  Obi-Wan says he will.   So, he waits.   He calculates.  

[blodgmonster]

Part 5 of my Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadow reread commentary that barely anyone reads. We're on the last 100 pages!

- wait...Polaris' blood is red?? I thought...I thought it was black...

- oh WEIRD the Princes of Hel have set aside their "humanoid skins."

- Tharion lost the antidote. Good fucking Lord, man. Get your shit together!

-"Ruhn had fucked up. In so many ways, he'd fucked up."

- Tharion got to Lidia with the antidote.

- "Tharion withdrew. Lidia shook with rage and power. Tharion could feel it shuddering around him, like a behemoth from the deep. What had that antidote woken in her? What had been taken during the Drop? And what had lain dormant, all this time?" OH just you WAIT, Tharion.

- Ithan fell and broke some vials of antidote. STOP BREAKING THEM, YOU IDIOTS!!!

- "A flame lit deep inside her, crackling and blazing."

- oh. Tharion has been shot. That sucks. I need Lidia to pop off.

-"Ruhn snarled, saying the words he hadn’t dared voice until now, 'She's my mate, you fucker.' Awww called it.

- "I love you. I fell in love with you in the depths of my soul, and it's my soul that will find yours again in the next life." I've said it before, I'll say it again. Men written by women are so much BETTER than the real deal.

-"she burst into white-hot flames." Yes!

"'Brannon,' She stifled a sob around the boy's full name,....'What are you?' Ace breathed. Still panting, blazing with fire, Lidia said, 'An old bloodline.'" YES!

"A wall of blue flame leapt between them. Pollux collided with it and then stuck. A fly in a burning web...Flame rippled from her mouth into Pollux's flesh. The angel screamed — or tried to. Freed of any secrets, of any need to keep them, Lidia seemed to unleash all that she was. Ruhn could only watch as fire poured down Pollux's throat. Into his body. Roasting him from the inside out until he was nothing but smoldering cinders. " YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!

- Ace called her mom!

- "It confirmed what Lidia had long guessed. Why she had named Brannon after thr oldest legends from her family's bloodline: of a Fae king from another world, fire in his veins, who had created stags with the power of flame to be his sacred guards." LIDIA CERVOS, CHILD OF TERRASEN, GALATHYNIUS DESCENDANT

"Her fire a song in her blood, Lidia walked across the battlefield. Bullets melted before they could reach her." YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

- FIRE SPRITES! FIRE SPRITES HAVE COME TO HELP LIDIA!!!! "And as one flame, one unified people, as Bryce Quinlan had promised, their fire struck the enemy line."

- Oh dip. Bryce is siphoning Rigelus' s power

- Bryce opened the portal to suck in the Asteri. But she's getting sucked in too and I don't know if there's a way to stop it.

- Doesn't Hunt get in a mech suit and do weird shit to get her back??

- wait shit the mech suit is SHAHAR!!!?

- Aidas and Apolloion are HOLDING the portal OPEN for Hunt and Bryce.

- They're ALL holding the portal open. "Through love, all is possible."

-Bryce is dead but this is SJM, so obviously she's not going to stay that way.

-yo, Hypaxia! When'd you get here?

- JESIBA IS TRADING HER LIFE FOR BRYCE'S. SHE ALWAYS COMES THROUGH.

- DANIKA!!! "Light it up, Bryce!" LEHABAH TOO!!!!!

-"It took their power. But what is eternal, what is made of love...that can never be destroyed."

-Ember Quinlan, beloved. The Mother you are. "Ember continued, looking only at Nesta, 'I am glad of one thing: that I was able to meet you.' Nesta's lips pressed into a thin line, and she glanced down at their joined hands." Nesta needed a mom, needed a mom SO badly and Ember was like "Okay, here I am. I've adopted you!" I just LOVE her. Nesta is CRYING saying good bye to her!!!

-Bryce gave back the Mask and Truth-Teller AND GAVE NESTA THE STARSWORD. OH YEAH!!!!!!!! I'd read the shit out of Nesta with Ataraxia and the Starsword figuring out the meaning of the eight pointed star.

- Lidia deserves every moment of joy

- oh, Tharion, go work on the Depth Charger. Sathia is great and I think you two make a cute, if kinda weird, couple but...she ditched you.

- oh, hey, Ari!

- down with the Fae monarchy!

- PEGASUSES.. .Pegasi?...FLYING HORSES!!!!! A great note to end it on.

-i might have to do a review of all the "bonus chapters" too. What a gimmick those are. Bless the folks that put them online.

[cross-d-a]

Fandom: Star Wars, Jedi Apprentice Series, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Legends: Republic Comics

Chapter: 1/4

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Relationships: Bruck Chun & Feemor, Bruck Chun & Anakin Skywalker, A'Sharad Hett & Bruck Chun, A'Sharad Hett & Anakin Skywalker & Shmi Skywalker, Bruck Chun/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Feemor/Mace Windu (background relationship)

Characters: Bruck Chun, Feemor, A'Sharad Hett, Anakin Skywalker, Shmi Skywalker, Zule Xiss, A'Yark, Komari Vosa, Padme Amidala, C-3PO, Nobot the Protocol Droid, Quinlan Vos, Aayla Secura, Beru Whitesun, Darth Maul, Sharad Hett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, Dooku

Additional Tags:  Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Jedi Bruck Chun, Jedi Xanatos, Good Jedi Master Dooku, Basically Xanatos doesn't go bad and that creates a positive cascading effect, Yoda's Disaster Lineage as Family, Tusken Culture & Customs, Tatooine Slave Culture & Customs, Bruck Chun and his Force Shenanigans, Bruck Chun-centric, BAMF Bruck Chun, Older Sibling Bruck Chun, Pining Bruck Chun, Oblivious Bruck Chun, Mutual Pining, Oblivious Obi-Wan Kenobi, Idiots in Love, BAMF Shmi Skywalker, Protective Feemor, Feemor just keeps adopting angry little Padawans with attitude problems, me laughing as I snatch Sidious' apprentices away from him one by one, Angst, Fluff

Summary:

Bruck Chun is annoyed about a lot of things: like how the Temple refectory only bakes sweet buns on Taungsdays, and how Master Feemor doesn't mind Master Windu getting a bit too handsy, and how he ruined his favourite set of tunics two missions ago, and how his new little Padawan sister is a bit of a brat, and how he somehow managed to kark up the best thing in his life by being a big stupid idiot and kissing his best friend.

But right now, he's mostly annoyed about how this whole Naboo mission has gone so horrifically wrong.

[jessepinwheel]

Oooh. About your parasitic extraction au? How do force sensitives live in the Mandalorian empire? Like you said conscripted, do they have a bastardization of Jedi culture? Are they enslaved? What is it like? Do canon characters live in the empire or in the Jedi Order in hiding? (I'm thinking Mace Windu, Depa Billiba, Plo Koon, and Ahsoka Tano mainly.) Also! Do other clones exist? Mainly the CCs. Wolffe, Fox and Bly lol

the mandalorian empire love having force sensitive warriors because they're extra strong and have superhuman reflexes so they do everything they can to get their hands on as many of them as they can

general practice is for young force sensitives to be 'adopted' by high-ranking mandalorian clans for training. if they're born into a less prominent mandalorian clan, maybe they can train their kid themself or they can surrender the kid. if the family is not a mandalorian family (e.g., one of the occupied worlds) they're supposed to surrender their force-sensitive child for training and this is considered an honorable thing to do. if they don't want to do that and try to get their child to the jedi order instead to save them from being conscripted for basically the rest of their life then usually their whole family gets killed and the child gets sent to a mandalorian clan as above (this happened to ahsoka and she hates the rebellion because she blames them for her family's death)

mandalorian jedi all wear collars which cannot be removed, and the collar denotes their rank. each mandalorian jedi is also assigned to a handler who is supposed to act as support and also is supposed to kill their jedi if they go off the rails (drink too much dark juice from all the murder and start killing everyone). a mandalorian's jedi armor specifically has an undefended back for this purpose. they're not *technically* enslaved because this is considered an honorable position and they get a lot of privileges but like. read between the lines here.

mandalorian jedi are basically all trained in combat and not so much in the psychic philosophical spiritual stuff because the mandalorians think that 'don't kill people' thing is for chumps and they burned down most of the jedi temple's libraries. they just don't know how to do the psychic stuff and most of the psychic stuff doesn't work very well when you don't teach them emotional regulation first. like a trial for all mandalorian jedi is that they get their kyber crystal and they're not promoted until they've killed enough people that it turns red. if that puts things into perspective.

anyways, the old jedi order is in hiding across the galaxy. they wear normal clothes and they got rid of the padawan braid because they don't want to be murdered on sight. instead of the braid, they use a set of prayer beads, which they carve and add beads to as they go through trials and visit different worlds, partially because prayer beads are really easy to dispose of in a hurry. they do have a base in dagobah though where they take care of and teach the youngest force sensitives.

re: who's who, there are a lot of canon characters on both sides. obi-wan, obviously, is one of the traditional jedi. he was mace's padawan when he got captured by jango. depa, plo koon, jocasta, yoda, and maul are all traditional jedi. obviously there are more, but those are the ones who get mentioned by name.

on the mandalorian side, we have ahsoka (whose handler is padme), anakin (whose handler was rex), qui-gon (who is dead), ventress (whose handler is isabet reau), dooku (whose handler is myles), quinlan (who is a spy trying to infiltrate the jedi order), also aayla and vokara che who kind of just briefly show up

the other clones mostly don't exist. I say mostly because when jango put in a clone order for two sons, kamino made three in case one of them didn't make it, but all three of them did make it and the third one is fox, who the kaminoans then put into the brainwashing factory to turn him into a brainwashed super soldier. and then when jango went back and asked for a new son because cody and rex disappointed him, they made three again and two made it. one of them is boba, and the other one I have named kiki. he is also put into the brainwashing factory.

which is all to say. being a jedi is rough as hell regardless of what side you're on.

ask me a question about parasitic extraction, the role reversal mandalorian empire au that I have

[veny-many]

This became suffering whump to chaotic crack so quickly in my head

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*Jedis under shadow chat*

Fulcrum but on top: master

Nosand: what is it Ahsoka?

Fulcrum but on top: Master Plo and I required some kids

Nosand: what???

I'm on highground: I can't say I'm surprised, Master Plo.

Explorer: They were hurting, and I needed to protect them.

Fulcrum but on top: Yes but the real problem is that those kids all have same faces

Nosand: wha

Nosand: Like twins? Like my kids?

Fulcrum but on top: I can't say that human can deliver nine boys at once

Nosand: NO WAY

I'm on highground: That's interesting. They may have not born in average way.

Fulcrum but on top: Um what kind of way?

Nosand: Force? Science?

Explorer: I once asked them about where they were from, but they not yet opened to me for that. Perhaps the time will help us to find them a home.

Shark tea: oh wait about that

Shark tea: I think I know where they from

Fulcrum but on top: Wait, really??

Shark tea: Yes

Shark tea: There was a rebel in Kamino, where was a facility that making clones and experimenting to them. I arrived there to rescue survivors, but they said that many clone children already escaped and lost.

Nosand: Oh my force, that's tragic.

I'm on highground: I never heard about them, Master Shaak.

Shark tea: Yes, because you were living in the cave in Tatooine. And I forgot to inform you all that now I have dozens of children.

Nosand: WHAT

Fulcrum but on top: I should be surprised but i'm not

Explorer: Isn't it too dangerous for you and your children in this state?

Shark tea: Thankfully the most matured clones who call themselves Alpha, had required safe hideouts for the rebel.

I'm on highground: Most matured?

Shark tea: Yes, they are oldest clones alive, despite they look like barely in twenties.

Fulcrum but on top: Skyguy, I'm gonna visit your home with these boys. For babysitting advices.

Nosand: Oh, my mom said that she will make more cookies for them. Safe travel Snips.

I'm on highground: I will visit you soon as well, Anakin. I really want to see those interesting children.

Nosand: You are living like next cave from my house, Obiwan.

I'm on highground: I'm busy man, Ani. I have to take care my living by myself and I have few time to visit you.

I'm on highground: And now I have little roommates living with and I have been more busy.

Fulcrum but on top: wait

Nosand: hold on

Explorer: ...Obiwan, are your roommates are human boys who are having various haircuts but have same faces and golden eyes?

I'm on highground: um

I'm on highground: yes

Nosand: Holy kark master i need to visit your place right now

I'm on highground: please give us some time to prepare your visit, Anakin.

Shark tea: Thanks to Force they children are founding their ways to us somehow.

Explorer: It is the will of the Force.

Fulcrum but on top: Your adoption as well, Master?

Explorer: They need more time to learn about us, little 'soka. Patience.

Secured in shadow: Wait, does this mean that the boy I found in dumpster are from Kamino too!?

Fulcrum but on top: Why were you in dumpster??

Secured in shadow: My Master suggested me to hide there

Best Shadow: That was the only way to hide from stormtroopers, Aayla

Secured in shadow: there was a manhole we could get in master

Best Shadow: but what's the fun of it?

Secured in shadow: my boy saying that you're too rude to throw me in that dumpster. I win :)

Best Shadow: I want to find my own clone kids to support my opinion.

Explorer: May the Force will guide you to your friends, Quinlan.

Nosand: Wait, so how many of us found clone kids and yet not informed us??

Only Adi: me, and Stass.

Only Adi: my parents are giving boy a lots of treats. But he looks like still upset for some reason.

Shark tea: they are traumatized, please take good care of them everyone.

Key Adi: I want to, after the boy comes back to me with my speeder he driven away. If I miss this visit to my home Shea will kill me and I really need that speeder

Only Adi: May the Force be with your safe visit and life, Master.

Key Adi: Thank you

Green troll: Jealous, I am. The boys, I need to find my own.

Nosand: Master Yoda, stop hitting r2 with crowbar again please!!

I'm on highground: Oh, not again