#fitting because i woke up this morning thinking about the zookeeper au for no reason whatsoever

[tennessoui]

College Student Anakin and RA Obi-Wan and their weird interactions in public where Anakin calls Obi-Wan “Master” and Obi-Wan calls Anakin “dear one” bc reincarnation (and everyone side eyes them) is one of my most fav aus ! 🙌

damn!!! galaxy near and dear au my beloved

(so beloved in fact that i had completely forgotten about it until this ask)

i think the thing with this au is like. the second hand embarrassment is off the charts here. it could easily be so angsty but they're just idiots about each other instead because the first things/memories/feelings that came back to them were ones of affection and a warmth and sensation of surety and steadiness. dear one and master, both nicknames born out of affection. mustafar haunts their nightmares later, but the thing they feel when they're with each other/around each other is that familiarity.

also imagine both of them getting into an elevator to go up to their 8th floor dorm floor and they just accidentally fall into the SAME VIBES as the elevator ride in aotc except somehow more flirty because there's no padmé Anakin is nervous for, he just remembers the feeling of being nervous so he feels like he is just nervous to be in the elevator with his objectively smoking RA

and someone gets on on like the fourth floor to go and visit a friend, but RA Obi-Wan and college student anakin don't even stop bantering and flirting, Obi-Wan is literally fixing Anakin's shirt collar and he pulls on a long piece of curly hair right behind his ear as if that's normal and he snatches his hand back like he doesn't even know why he's done such a thing.

and this poor 4th floor college student is like. what the fuck. goes to her friend's dorm room traumatized and she's like 'i think i just saw your RA do like. weird foreplay in the elevator with---'

'anakin skywalker?' her friend asks. 'yeah. we know. no one understands. did he call him master?'

'did he what???' the 4th floor girl exclaims.