#jedi positive fic

[bibxrbie]

"Luke Skywalker isn’t like the old Jedi. He saves Vader with his attachments!”

Wrong!

Luke Skywalker, at the end of Return of the Jedi, after his confrontation with the Emperor drags Darth Vader through the destructing Death Star. He’s desperate, knuckles white under the heavy weight of his father’s body, a little boy dragging his dad to safety. He sets Vader down for a moment, to catch his breath or maybe to get a better grip. He goes to grab Vader again, but Vader, uncomfortable and in pain, asks Luke to take off the mask. He wants to see Luke through his eyes instead of the eyes Palpatine built for him. Luke refuses, says that removing the mask is a sure way for Vader to die. Luke doesn’t want Vader dead, he wants Vader alive. Not to hold him accountable for his many evil acts, but for the same reason why Luke Skywalker can’t kill Darth Vader; Vader is his father and Luke loves him.

And yet, after a moment, Luke removes Vader’s mask. He doesn’t want to, he hesitates, but he removes the mask with enough slowness to allow Vader to take it back. In that moment, Luke sets aside his desire for Vader in his life, sets aside his desire to see him live, and sets aside his entire mission, the reason he was even on the Death Star in the place. In his compassion for his father, Luke stays with Vader until he dies. It is this moment where we see him be the best damn Jedi he can be. I’d even argue that this moment is the greatest example of non-attached love we see. Because Luke lets Vader go! He lets his father die, and in some ways, by removing the mask, he too kills Vader, he stays with him until his last moment, gives him the kindness of granting his last wish and finally chooses Vader.

And Luke doesn’t have to do this. If Luke Skywalker’s love for his father was an attachment, he would ignore Vader and continue dragging him to the escape pod, put his desire for a father as his central focus and ignore Vader’s wants and discomfort. Maybe he would even save him. But he doesn’t. Instead, he watches as Vader dies.

He builds a Jedi burial for his father and watches it burn the remnants of Vader and Anakin Skywalker away. He mourns Vader, he mourns what they could’ve had as father and son, considers what ifs and maybe-if-I-did-this. Vader/ Anakin is released from his mortal body, from his ‘crude matter’ and Luke lets him go. He says one final goodbye to Anakin. Then, he joins Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, and the rest of the Rebels and celebrates their victory. He lives in the present and celebrates what he has instead of what he lost.

Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi. Everything about Luke Skywalker serves as the foundational cornerstone of the Jedi, everything about the Jedi as a culture and philosophy is reflected in his character. Luke’s desire for the New Jedi Order isn’t to throw away the values of the old Order, but to vitalise them, breathe life back into dying lungs, and rebuild a path that people set out on their way to destroy. (Yes, his Order is different from the Old, but that’s because it has to be. He doesn’t have the resources or the safety of the Old Order.) The philosophies of the Jedi are difficult and they aren’t for everyone, and like the perfect Jedi that Luke is, he struggles and stumbles and sometimes he even rejects it. But, no matter how far he falls, it is a way of life he chooses again and again and again. It is a way of life that welcomes him back each time

[uh-oh-its-bird]

Fun starwars fic idea;

Countless years after the rise of the empire (the exact number and thus the cast of characters around up to you) an old tablet that used to belong to a clone commander is found. Curious as to what's was on its camera, the finder ends up slowly posting the cache of data online, including the many messages and videos stored on it -- both filmed on it and from the GAR chats it's still connected to.

TLDR; social media fic revolving around the general galaxy reacting to old messages, videos and pictures documenting the daily lives of the clone army, who ofc propaganda has painted to be emotionless droids, the very picture of obedience.

Sprinkle in some fun inside jokes, clone culture, jedi positive relationships and funny GAR pranks and memes, and decades after these brave men were alive, they finally seem to be getting their due.

(And some are left wondering just how exactly it all went so wrong)

Im thinking especially hard about internet sleuths drawing lines between the clones and later reports of where they were the day of the jedi purge. How these videos show Bly's near legendary simping for his Aayla, or Cody and Obi-Wan's pet names and undying loyalty to eachother and how the clones love their jedi and they love them back just as strongly -- only for reports to show the very same killing their loved ones.

I just love a good outsiders POV is all honestly. And I love the idea of not only civilians watching but also stormtroopers too -- who've specifically been taught taught and held up to the supposed standards of perfect obedience that the clones upheld. Depending on what year this is in to, you could have the few surviving clones or jedi seeing these videos and just. Painfully reminiscing.

Imagine someone of the public recognizing a specific clone from the videos, now so much older and possibly still chipped, and the internet just EXPLODING. Or the sudden jedi positive feels and clone/jedi shippers as they watch them be all dumb and domestic between fighting for eachothers lives. The online personality "what clone are you" quizzes and the online Aayla Secura fanclub where their front page declares Bly the founder and OG simp.

Just. Having so many thoughts

[maeve-on-mustafar]

I’ve seen a billion and one fics of Anakin getting torn to shreds by other Jedi for daring to have a positive opinion of Qui-Gon Jinn because that’s personally offensive to Obi-Wan, and other fics where Anakin is going around the Temple loudly announcing that he loves Qui-Gon more and would have preferred him as his master instead of Obi-Wan, and then he gets torn to shreds for that.

(Even though 1. that was never a thing in either canon or Legends, 2. by the time Anakin was 12, his own feelings on Qui-Gon were pretty complex, and 3. an ongoing theme of Legends and canon was Anakin feeling like a burden to Obi-Wan and like Obi-Wan didn’t actually want him.)

But you know what? Give me the fic where Obi-Wan has grown to only see Anakin’s mistakes, and other Jedi point out Anakin’s accomplishments. Give me the fics where Obi-Wan despairs of Anakin’s uncouth nature and lack of cultural refinement due to growing up on Tatooine, and other Jedi appreciate Anakin’s knowledge of illegal Outer Rim activities or ability to speak languages not common in the Republic or ability to not only emphasize with those oppressed but also recognize the best way to help them. Give me the fics where Obi-Wan is complaining about Anakin’s “unique” approach to rules or the Jedi Code or general etiquette, and other Jedi point out to him, that yeah, Anakin grew up in a completely different environment than the Jedi Temple, and therefore he’s not going to have the views or opinions or behaviors as kids who were sheltered and privileged growing up and don’t know the same hardships he did.

You know that scene in AOTC where Obi-Wan is complaining about Anakin and doubting his abilities and Mace Windu stops him and is like, “My decision is final, the Council agrees with me, and also, have you considered that Anakin is really fucking talented?" Just give me scene after scene of that.

Less “Anakin gets torn to filth for daring to think fondly of Qui-Gon Jinn” and more “The Jedi are Anakin’s found family and help him grow and take the time to understand his trauma.”

[happycattail]

The Jedi gets physically wounds from their empathy

He should really inform the clones that Jedi have more sensitive hearing when they’re using the force. It would help them protect their secrets. He should inform them a lot about the Jedi actually. Maybe it’ll help them trust him more.

He didn’t begrudge them their caution however. These men had nothing. No one but each other to rely on. It’s only fair they would not trust him. It would take time and he was willing to wait for eternity.

Obi-Wan hissed as his hand touched his bare chest and the bleeding cut that spanned the entire width of his upper chest.

The real question was whether he could survive the festering wounds the Clones unknowingly left on him before that eternity or die trying.

The Jedi were known as empaths. To the rest of the galaxy, that just meant they could sense others feelings. However, the Jedi knew differently.

To be a Jedi was to experience other’s affections as paint strokes on their skin. To feel their hatred as bleeding cuts and wounds that are slow to heal.

And the Jedi were determined to keep it a secret from their Clones.

[aldrendaux]

Chapters: 27/? Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Ahsoka Tano, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Satine Kryze, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Asajj Ventress Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Yoda (Star Wars), Satine Kryze, CT-7567 | Rex Additional Tags: Post-Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Alternate Universe - Everyone joins the Rebellion, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith AU, Attachment does not equal love in this fic, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Mustafar didn't happen, Suitless Vader, Basically Obi-Wan & Co found a new Jedi Order on Mandalore, and continue to be a pain in the ass for the Empire, Jedi Culture, Jedi Culture Respected, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

"Strong enough to fight the Sith Lord, you are not."

And just like that the fight drained out of Obi-Wan, the barely scraped together agitation running out of him like water from a broken glass. He looked at Yoda, the other Master already hobbling towards one of the back exits, his presence burning with focus, obviously expecting Obi-Wan to follow.

"And you are?"

---

There is no battle on Mustafar or in Coruscant's senate building.

Instead, a small but still alive Jedi Order rises from its ashes on Mandalore.

[thesunlikehoney]

my most offensive and controversial star wars opinion is that every single clone/jedi ship is the exact same degree of Problematic

[hedgehogoftime]

Star Wars fic idea called: Yoda Hires a PR Team.

Yoda recognizes that the public’s perception of the Jedi and what the Jedi actually are is a wide gulf, and allows a famous news-person to make a docu-series about the Jedi, debunking some of the more harmful myths about the Order. This somehow ends up saving the galaxy.

[sirikenobi12]

"Bane did not want his legacy to be his lineage,” Zannah corrected. “Bane chose those he felt would be strong enough in the Force to continue his own life.”

“He thought he could cheat death using essence transfer?” He asked.

“No, he thought he could conquer death.” She coldly replied.

(Or - the past always has a way of coming back to haunt you)

[azems-familiar]

nobody's won and we're safe at the end

for @jedijune for the prompts may the force be with you and faith. could fill others, but these are the two i'm mostly working from.

female jedi exile & kavar, pre-kotor, 4k

read on ao3

They have three days until they’re expected to be on board the Republic fleet and prepared to ship out. The Revanchists, as the news knows their group now, have already been hailed as heroes by almost every outlet and site reporting on the war, even though they have yet to actually join the fight, even though none of them, not even Revan herself, actually know if they’ll be capable of stopping the Mandalorians - it’s because they give people a ray of hope, Qatya knows. Something to cling to, that says that maybe the Core will be safe, maybe the Rim will be taken back, one world at a time.

She can’t entirely blame them. There was a Jedi enclave on Taris, after all; she understands, at least a little, what it is they feel.

Qatya folds a piece of her half-cloak through her fingers and shifts her weight, just slightly. They’ve been offered quarters with the military itself, to stay in if they want; most of the Revanchists aren’t exactly popular with the Order right now, even if more and more knights are joining up with each passing day. She’d been one of the ones to take the offer - after her argument with Atris, and with the fact that most of her friends are following her, staying in the Temple until she has the chance to board the cruiser she’s been assigned to had felt… awkward and strange in a way the Temple never has before. The huge building has been her home since she was a child, and all its warmth and beauty and gentle brilliance has remained a cornerstone of her life even after she began venturing offworld with Master Kavar; it’s the only home she’s ever had, the only home she’s ever wanted to have, and now that things are- tense with the Council, she feels off-kilter, like some essential piece of her foundation has been removed.

That sense will fade with time, she thinks, especially as she goes to war, but for now, stuck in an endless waiting loop, it’s difficult to deal with.

The barracks on Coruscant are a huge, sprawling set of facilities that take up an entire sector of the city and house more than just military personnel - equipment and civilian contractors often reside here as well, and the main headquarters for Coruscant Security Forces. The Jedi have been given an entire building to themselves, and eventually they’ll have to bunk together to save space, she’s sure, but for now she’s alone in the two-person room she’d snagged. It’s probably a good thing, gives her the space to pace, to meditate, to read without drawing attention from someone else, but it’s lonely, too.

But the war is going to be lonely, or at least completely different from her youth in the Temple. She’ll get used to it soon enough, hopefully.

(She doesn’t let herself wonder if getting used to it will be a bad thing.)

There’s a knock on the door and Qatya frowns, for just a moment - she hadn’t expected any visitors who didn’t comm first, hadn’t expected anyone at all who wasn’t a Revanchist or with the military. And she supposes it could be someone from either of those groups, but- they would have commed first, and when she reaches out into the Force, the person on the other side of the door is almost as familiar as her own heartbeat. She shouldn’t smile, likely, shouldn’t expect anything other than condemnation, because she knows the official stance the Council has taken on this war and none of its members truly have the space to let themselves be seen straying from that position, but Force, all the same, there’s a lightness in her step as she stands and crosses the room, sliding the plain durasteel door back into the wall with a press of a button.

“Master Kavar,” she says, and offers him a bow, smiling just a touch as she straightens. “Come in.”

Her master looks tired. It’s the first thing she notices, when she steps back enough to let him into the room; there are dark circles under his eyes and lines in his face and his blond hair is more disheveled than usual. She has to wonder when the last time he slept was. (She hadn’t thought, very much, about how difficult Revan’s declaration would be on the High Council. Hadn’t wanted to think about it, to see the story from both sides, even though that’s a betrayal of every lesson her master had ever taught her. It’s easier to avoid reading nuance into the situation, to see the Council as complacent and uncaring and wrong, even though the hours she’s spent at Kavar’s side during meetings directly contradict that idea. The Council has a reason for sitting back, she knows. They’re playing a long game, though she doesn’t know what their endgame is yet, and she hopes, sincerely, that they come out the victors.

She just can’t accept any reason for sitting back as enough to justify all the atrocities and death happening right now, without their interference. And that is her own personal right.)

“Don’t Master Kavar me, this isn’t a Council meeting,” Kavar says, his mouth curving just slightly, and she bites back a snort and closes the door behind him.

“No, but you are still my master, unless you’ve forgotten that in the four months since you cut my braid,” she teases. “I’m afraid I can’t offer you caf, unless you want to walk down to the mess, but you can pick a bed and sit on it. This one-” and she indicates the bunk she claimed as her own, “is softer, but that doesn’t mean particularly much in a barracks, I’ve found.”

“I’ve lived in worse,” he says, shedding his cloak and dropping down to sit on the empty bed, and she takes a seat on her own, facing him, tucking her feet up underneath her and leaning against the wall. She’s sure he has; he’d never told her about all the missions he’s been on, especially when he was younger, but his work as a shadow, venturing into Coruscant’s lower levels for short- and mid-term cover operations against the criminal underworld is well-documented in the Archives. Having been down to some of the lower levels herself, far below where the sunlight ever touches, she can picture some of the worse he’s probably thinking of. His face sobers as he looks at her, and he’s quieter, more serious, when he asks, “How are you doing?”

She shrugs one shoulder and takes a long breath in and out, willing herself not to start picking at her robes again. “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous,” she admits, because denying the feelings will do no good - only through accepting them will she be able to properly let them go. “Revan is so certain, and that certainty is easy to feel when I’m around her or the others, but when I’m alone I… worry. The reports coming in from the Outer Rim are so morbid.” She sighs, blows a rush of air out through her lips, and tucks a strand of dark hair behind her ear. “I don’t doubt my decision - that will never come into question, I swore my loyalty and I meant it - but I have to wonder if we can be the heroes the Republic wants us to be. And some of Revan’s followers are already looking to me, too - you know why, I know why, but it doesn’t make it less intimidating.”

Her unconscious ability to form thread-thin Force bonds with anyone she spends much time with has always been kept somewhat quiet, among the rest of the Order. There’s little she can do to stop it from happening, and the influence she can have on another person’s thoughts is staggering and a little terrifying. It’s one of the reasons she was trained by a High Councilor, why someone with that much responsibility would choose to take a padawan; if she’s anything less than steady in her convictions and her dedication to the Jedi way, she could accidentally twist too many people into following a new path. She’s spent half her life learning control, and she doesn’t intend to let that lapse now - it’s all the eyes on her in something so precarious that worries her, more than the connections she’s formed themselves.

Kavar sighs, his aura flickering with more of the same exhausting living in the lines of his body, but he’s as honest as he’s always been when he answers her. “You’re a good Jedi, Qatya, and I trust you,” he says, seriously, and the statement, the steadiness inherent in it, sends a small tendril of warmth curling through her chest. “This war was never going to be anything but a mess. If we fought, if we didn’t - either way, everything was going to go to hell. But this is your course to follow, and I trust you.”

“Thank you,” she says, softly, and her fingers find a loose thread at the edge of her cloak. She winds it around the first joint in her pointer finger, almost absently, then grimaces when his eyes fall pointedly to her lap before coming back to rest on her face. “You might be the only one who still feels that way about me. About any of us,” and the gesture is expansive, encompassing the entire building, everyone who chose to follow Revan after her first declaration, all the new knights trickling in now that the news has picked up their story, too.

Force, but she doesn’t want to think about Atris, or the argument they’d had. She probably should’ve been expecting her girlfriend to respond as she had - Atris has always been the one more concerned with the letter of the Code and the Council’s decrees, not that Qatya has any idea where she could have gotten her… occasional disregard for the written rule from - but some part of her had hoped that if Atris couldn’t find it in herself to come along, they could at least part ways amicably.

Apparently that’d been too much to hope for.

“You don’t give yourself enough credit.” Kavar leans back against the wall, some of the ever-present tension leaching out of his shoulders as he does. “Look, we’re all concerned about Revan, but- you’re not her.”

“I’m not,” she agrees. “But I’m also twenty years old, I’ve been a knight for four months, and if I fall I’ll take everyone I know down with me. I may be less at risk than she is,” and that feels almost blasphemous to say, Revan is a good Jedi and her anger is righteous, is compassion and determination made into a weapon, but Qatya knows that righteousness can be just as dangerous as its counterpart, in the end, “but I’m not sure which one of us would end up more dangerous.” Though, of course, wherever Revan goes, Alek will too, and that tips the scales solidly in one direction. Probably.

Force, what is the galaxy coming to? Even six months ago she wouldn’t have believed it, if someone were to tell her she’d be sitting here across from her master discussing which particular rebellious Jedi will be the most dangerous, in the event that they fall. Surrounded by military-regulation furnishings, in a building empty of the centuries of life the Temple holds, she feels farther away from her old life than she ever has when out on a mission, even when Kavar took her offworld.

“You’re dedicated without fanaticism,” Kavar says, and she can’t help but believe him. “Qatya, you’re one of the best Jedi I know.”

She flushes slightly, looking down at her lap. She’s barely more than a padawan, and Kavar is friendly with the entire High Council; it’s hard to imagine that she could be such a good Jedi, when she has so much left to learn. “You’re flattering me,” she says, and smiles at him, lifting her head again. “Trying to make me feel better, since I’m going off to war without you?” She shouldn’t make the offer, she knows, he can’t turn his back on the Council, there are too many other things going on, but- “You could come with us. Revan would accept you, if I asked her to, and we could use your knowledge and expertise.”

“I know,” he sighs, closing his eyes for half a second before opening them again, and he looks far older than his years. “Before this, I would have. But too many are leaving now.”

It makes sense. Force, it makes sense, she understands, and she can’t hold it against him - the Order will need him here, because their duties aren’t just going to vanish because of the war existing - and she’d known what his answer would be even before she asked, but there’s still something aching in her chest as she looks at him. “I understand,” she says, aloud, more quietly than she’d been. “It’s just that we could use you.” A pause, and she sighs. “I would feel a little less overwhelmed if you were there. But you have your duty, and as a knight of the Order, I won’t infringe on that. I won’t ask you to abandon the Order for me.” As much as some part of her wants to, wants to have her master along beside her as she walks into the unknown, it goes against everything that’s been ingrained in her since she was a child. And now that she’s no longer a padawan- she’s a fully adult Jedi, and when her padawan braid was severed by Kavar’s mainhand lightsaber, it marked her as ready to stand on her own two feet and uphold the Jedi Code across the galaxy, no matter the trials she faces. Kavar believes she’s ready to face them as a full member of the Order, and how can she betray that faith?

“You’re a knight now,” Kavar says, and the words are a reassurance rather than a condemnation. “There are people looking to you like you look to me.”

“I suppose I should think of this as training for when I end up with my own padawan, then,” she says, and curls her fingers further into the fabric of her cloak. “Do you have any advice for me? I may not be a padawan any longer, but I’d rather not walk into this war unprepared, and there’s no one in the Order I trust as much as you.”

He smiles, just a little, at the words. “Trust your intuition, and always remember that the people you’re fighting for are people, not numbers.”

It makes sense. And she’s never quite had an issue with forgetting that before, but she’s also never done this, either, gone off and embroiled herself in a full-scale war. She’s going to be an officer in the fleet, when she’s never done more than work with peacekeeping forces and law enforcement, and that- gods, it’s almost enough to drown her in it, if she thinks about it. The responsibility of it all, with all these people looking to her.

She’s going to have to be very good at control.

“I will,” she promises. “Or- I’ll do the best I can, that’s more honest.” She sighs, offers him a smile. “If you have the time, master- Kavar, would you like to meditate with me? For old time’s sake.”

“Of course,” he says, and she climbs up off the bed, reaches down underneath it for her well-worn meditation mat, unrolling it in the center of the room. She only has the one, but her former master doesn’t complain, just stands up and comes over to kneel down in front of her, a meter or so away.

He probably can’t stay for very long, she knows. He’s already risking things by coming to visit - the Council has to be impartial, neutral, has to be beyond bias where individual Jedi are concerned, or they cannot function properly as a governing body of the Order (and the members on it don’t always live up to that ideal, she knows - Vrook Lamar has always struggled with impartiality where Revan is concerned, seeing in her the shadows of Ulic Qel-Droma - but an ideal it remains, and she would never ask any of them to deliberately break it, especially not her own master). But his presence in the Force has always been steadying, an anchor for her, and she closes her eyes and lets herself sink into that feeling one last time.

The Force flows around her, around them, a river of energy rushing through everything, glimmering and brilliant and beautiful and close enough to touch. She doesn’t touch, just breathes deeply in a rhythm that’s been ingrained since she was a child and spreads her awareness out beyond herself, beyond this room, and lets go.

There is no emotion, there is peace.

Here, on Coruscant, the Force’s currents are filled with life, brilliant and blinding, with a warmth and a light that fills her to the brim. Billions of people call this planet their home, and all their rush of emotion blends seamlessly into the background noise of life that wraps her in a peace she has only truly ever felt here, on this world. A miniature galaxy around her, and her master a steady beacon of brilliance before her, and all the serenity of the universe in her bones, and this - this is what it feels like, to be a Jedi, immersed in the beauty of the living world, and there’s nothing quite like it. She may be leaving all this behind to go off to war, to fight against the most dangerous enemy the galaxy has seen in a long time (because how much of this- merciless marauding is just a leftover from the fact that thirty years ago, the Mandalorians went to war under Ulic Qel-Droma’s command and discovered a taste for facing the Republic across the field of battle?), but the Force will be with her no matter where she finds herself.

There is the Force.

Qatya exhales and opens her eyes, studying her master for a moment, watching him with the added awareness of being not-quite all the way back into her body. The exhaustion that seems permanently engraved into his bones is lessened, like this, and there’s a calmness on his face rarely seen except for in the training salles when he’s fallen so deeply into the serenity of lightsaber katas he hardly seems to know she’s there. She knows that some of the other masters in the Temple consider him to be unorthodox, but Force, there isn’t another master she’d rather be like, when she finally is awarded that title. She isn’t sure she could picture anyone but him, if she were asked to visualize the ideal Jedi. And that, combined with the thought she’d had earlier-

“Kavar?” she asks, softly, and he opens his eyes to look at her. “What… what would you do, if I fell? Or if I simply- went far enough the Order felt I couldn’t come back?”

Kavar pauses, for a long minute, something sober and serious flickering over his face. “I don’t know,” he says, finally, “but… I think, if you ever got to that point, it would be because you’d had no other choice.”

“I’m afraid,” she admits, quietly. “Of losing my way and not realizing it, not even noticing I’ve lost something until it’s already gone. I don’t think that Revan has properly… realized just what going to war, having positions of authority, will mean, but how can I not think about it? I’m going to have to feel everyone I interact with die. And almost none of our followers are masters, we have no one watching to make sure we stay true, and- one only has to look at recent history to see how dangerous that can be.”

She’s hardly even admitted it to herself, but gods, she wants to come home, when this is all over, and pick up the life she’s leaving behind. She wants to have the chance to be a Jedi in an era of peace, and if she falls-

She doesn’t think she’ll fall, but who ever does? 

“It’s dangerous,” he agrees, and she curls her fingers into her palms. “More dangerous than anything since Ulic Qel-Droma, for the Jedi. But your way is inside you, and as long as you remember that, you can’t fall.”

Qatya takes a long breath, in and out, and then again, and she wills the tension to fall from her shoulders. “If you believe in me,” she says, “then how can I not believe in myself? I couldn’t live with myself if I betrayed your trust in me.”

“And what about your trust in yourself?” he asks, and he smiles, and the Force is warm and reassuring around him. “That’s more important than anything I can think about you.”

“It is the master’s responsibility to trust their padawan when their padawan is unable to trust themself,” she quotes from a long-ago lesson in the Temple, “with the intention of encouraging the padawan to develop their own personal faith in themself. In this way, by the time a padawan has faced the Trials and stepped out from under their master’s shadow, they will look forward to the future with confidence, and will be able to extend that confidence to the rest of the galaxy.” She returns his smile and adds, “I do trust myself, master - but it was your faith in me that let me develop that trust, and it still helps, when I find myself doubting.”

“I’ll always have faith in you, Qatya.”

“I’ll hold you to that,” she says, and lets out a sigh, climbing slowly to her feet and bending to roll up her mat. “I know you probably weren’t really supposed to come see me - I appreciate you taking the time to do so. It’s… good to remember that there are people important to me here who don’t hold my choices against me.”

Kavar gets to his feet with a bit of a grimace, waving away her offered hand and taking a couple of steps towards the door. “We both had to make difficult choices,” he says. “Even if they weren’t the same ones, you need to do what you think is right.” He smiles, then, and offers her a proper Jedi bow - a rarity from him - and when he straightens, she takes two quick steps forward and wraps her arms around his chest. For a moment, she’s a child again, as he squeezes back, and then she takes a deep breath and straightens her shoulders and steps away from him, letting her arms fall back down to her side. “May the Force be with you, kid.”

“And with you, master,” she says, softly, and bows back, more deeply than she really has to, now that she’s a knight. By the time she straightens and tucks her hair out of her face again, he’s gone, and once again, she’s alone.

The loneliness of the military barracks doesn’t feel as crushing now as it did before, though. Because no matter what happens, out in the greater galaxy - she will come through it herself as long as she stays true to herself, and there will be someone waiting to welcome her home. Maybe not the person she most wishes would - maybe things with Atris have been broken beyond repair, she won’t know for certain for some time - but Kavar is the closest thing she has to a father, and his respect and care for her are more than enough of a reason to return home. And maybe, when she does, she’ll have the chance to properly engage with him as a proper knight, instead of as a padawan looking to impress her master.

There is an entire future spread out before her, once this war ends. And she cannot wait to properly seize it.

[kcrabb88]

Shoulder the Sky

Chapter 4: Let the Rain Come Down, Darling

Summary: In the wake of General Grievous' death, Obi-Wan finds out the true identity of Darth Sidious. He races back to Coruscant, hoping to stop the plans already in motion and keep Palpatine away from Anakin. When Obi-Wan is hurt in the process, Anakin has a choice to make: stand by his old master, his best friend, and the man who raised him, or let his fears of Padme's death consume him? With the Jedi order threatened, Palpatine scheming to smear Obi-Wan's name, and the galaxy at stake, every choice matters.

Chapter Summary: Anakin arrives on Tatooine. Padme finds a shred of joy in the chaos. Obi-Wan is dragged from the Jedi temple to be locked up in the Republic Military Base on Coruscant before his trial, missing the friend who has never let him down, until now. The Jedi band together. Rex and Ahsoka share information with Cody that might change everything.

“I do not consent,” Obi-Wan bites out. “Until you manage to kill me, I do have rights. Let go of me, sir.”

“Master Kenobi,” the clone captain warns again, and he sounds like Cody. He sounds like Rex. “Calm down.”

The tip of the needle presses against Obi-Wan's skin, and something deep deep deep down boils over. Everything that’s happened. Qui-Gon. The war. Maul. Satine. Every dead clone and Jedi. Anakin. Anakin. Anakin. The fear and the rage and the grief he has trained himself to accept and manage and let go of.

All of it explodes.

He raises his hands ever so slightly to keep Mas Amedda away, and for the first time in his life, he loses control of his power.

[bibxrbie]

It is so difficult loving Luke Skywalker and being Jedi positive.

[plokoonsdisapprovingeyebrows]

know what can be broken

Rating: G Characters: Tyvokka, Yoda, Plo Koon, various Jedi OCs Chapters: 1/2 Fic Contains – Outsider POV on a time-traveller of the ‘inexplicably waking up in ur teenage self’s body’ variety, lots of worried chitchat from Adults who know something's up but not what, Jedi culture/philosophy, and lots of worldbuilding and OCs.

In which Master Tyvokka finds himself grudgingly railroaded into making a certain choice by the combined efforts of a lifelong friend, an enthusiastic coworker, a surprisingly talented Initiate, and a certain meddling Grandmaster of the Order. (And also the Force.)

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Here’s Part 2 of the time travel fixit fic! I intended to post this as a oneshot, buuuut it grew and grew and I realised it needed chapters. Hopefully the count stays at 2 lmao.

[gffa]

Jedi culture & community fics, my beloved! They're a bit of a rare breed for what you're specifically looking for, specifically focusing on positive Jedi worldbuilding, so if anyone has genfic recs outside of the ones I know, please feel free to add them! But these should help scratch that itch for you, each of them has at least some focus on Jedi philosophy or how Jedi interact with each other or the lessons they teach! It's been awhile since I've read some of them, so there might be some that aren't quite as in-line with how I see the Jedi these days, but they're all ones I felt portrayed them pretty positively and they're all genfic (except one that I made an exception for) and all really lovely fics I remember enjoying for the Jedi worldbuilding aspects! And there are some that will make you absolutely melt with how much you love these characters and their beautiful culture, because by god if canon's not going to give us as much detail as we want, fandom will step up. And fandom made sure to not just focus on the disaster lineage--we love Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka, we always want more of them, please don't stop writing Jedi worldbuilding with them!--but also Mace and Yoda and Quinlan and Qui-Gon and even some Jedi OCs get some love in these fics, which makes me want to explode with joy to see! So, come cry about how much we love the Jedi with me, I WILL GIVE YOU A CRAPLOAD OF FIC TO READ. STAR WARS & JEDI CULTURE & WORLDBULDING RECS YOU'LL FIND HERE:

NOVEL AND NOVELLA LENGTH

MID-LENGTH

SHORT AND YET SO GOOD-LENGTH

NOVEL AND NOVELLA LENGTH: ✦ Remedial Jedi Theology by MarbleGlove, obi-wan & anakin & jedi & cast, 51.3k     Let us consider the fact that the Jedi Order is a monastic religious organization based out of a temple, with five basic tenets of faith. ✦ Festival of Light by dendral, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka, 8.7k     During his first year at the Jedi Temple, Anakin learns that even the Jedi celebrate holidays. ✦ Out with Lanterns by SkyeBean, ahsoka & mace & jedi & clones & cast, 312.5k     In another universe, Jedi Masters Plo Koon and Depa Billaba decide a Padawan could do Mace some good. It takes a while, but he eventually agrees. When he takes Ahsoka Tano as his Padawan, Mace knows that he's broken through a Shatterpoint and changed the course of a life. How, he doesn't know. ✦ eat well; be well by gingerbeer, rainsoaked_benevolence (oceans_bluem), obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & yoda & depa & shaak & quinlan & aayla & cast, 18.6k     Or, (almost) all of the Jedi High Councilors (plus Ahsoka) gather to eat dinner together. ✦ Supreme Chancellor Obi-Wan Kenobi by stonefreak, obi-wan & anakin & padme & ahsoka & palpatine & yoda & quinlan & cody & cast, 126.3k wip     By an old Republic law, all members of the Jedi High Council are senators in the Galactic Senate, and can thus be voted in as chancellor. A Senator from a less prominent planet has had enough of Chancellor Palpatine's incompetence and calls for a Vote of No-Confidence and the installation of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. This one action becomes the catalyst that changes the direction of the galaxy. ✦ Pragmatics of the Jedi by aroacejoot, ghostwriterofthemachine, loosingletters, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & jedi, 31.3k     A series of fanfiction exploring the consequences and results of the Jedi having their own language, and speaking it still. ✦ light by loosingletters, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & mace & jedi, 56.1k     Anakin Skywalker is a Jedi and being a part of their Order means that he is protected and accepted. The war is over and the Republic has to recover from the crimes of the Sith Lord, the Jedi have to figure out what it means to be peacekeepers again and the Clones have to learn how to be more than expendable soldiers. ✦ When Darkness Seems to Hide This Place by IllyanaA, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & kanan & ocs & cast, 94.9k wip     After killing three of the Jedi Order's best and brightest, Palpatine's fight with Jedi Master Mace Windu goes shorter than expected. Afraid he's lost his chance at recruiting a new apprentice, Sidious unleashes Order 66 across the galaxy, but, per their programming, the Clone Army is not to harm Anakin Skywalker. After witnessing the most painful loss he's ever experienced and injured at the hands of his captors, Anakin is ready to die like the rest of the Jedi, though not before getting his vengeance.

✦ Knightrise by Deviant_Accumulation, obi-wan & yoda & satine & ahsoka & asajj & cast, 89.4k wip     "Strong enough to fight the Sith Lord, you are not.“ And just like that the fight drained out of Obi-Wan, the barely scraped together agitation running out of him like water from a broken glass. He looked at Yoda, the other Master already hobbling towards one of the back exits, his presence burning with focus, obviously expecting Obi-Wan to follow. ✦ Make a Brand New End by Batsutousai, obi-wan & anakin & feemor & qui-gon & yoda & mace & dooku & jedi, 118.6k     Feemor, Qui-Gon Jinn's first padawan, did not survive Order 66, but the Force granted him a boon: A chance to go back to days before Qui-Gon's death. He doesn't know why the Force picked him to remember that terrible future, but he's going to do what he can to change it. And if he can heal the rift fallen between himself and Qui-Gon, and finally get the chance to know Obi-Wan, well, he's not about to turn that down. ✦ Unexpected Awakening (The Rewrite) by Rhiw, obi-wan & qui-gon & bruck & feemor & cast, time travel, 135.1k wip     The life of General Kenobi is cut short at the hands of his Padawan, but the sight that greets his eyes upon awakening is not that of blinding light of the Force, but the Jedi Temple he knew when he was still a youth. As he struggles to understand the path laid out before him, Obi-Wan unwittingly captures the attention of a singularly unusual Temple Guard, and that of a reluctant Qui-Gon Jinn. ✦ No Rest for the Weary by orphan_account, obi-wan & anakin & jedi, 61k     Needing a break from life at the Jedi Temple, Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, visit a Jedi AgriCorps settlement on the Midrim planet of Helia. There they encounter new friends, new enemies and have new adventures, all while attempting to navigate their sometimes turbulent relationship as Master and Padawan. ✦ The Moments That Time Remembered by CallToMuster, obi-wan & mace & vokara & bant & quinlan & garen & depa & jedi, 82.4k     Obi-Wan’s first memory was not his own. Rather, it was a vision steeped in darkness and flashes of red and choking heat and you were my brother and the harsh crash of lightsabers striking one another. He woke up sobbing in the arms of the crèchemaster, Master Kitaddik, who was hushing him and gently stroking the top of his head with her furry hands. Obi-Wan hid his face in the soft folds of her tunic and, still crying, fell back asleep. The first time Obi-Wan collapsed due to a vision was not long after that. [Or: in all the various iterations of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s life, the Force spoke to him. But in this one, it never stopped.] ✦ Starrunner by orpheus_under_starlight, obi-wan & jedi & oc, 80.2k wip     In what would have been the year 17 BBY, Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine is found slumped over his desk, dead to rights and emitting a foul odor. The coroners declare the body victim to a heart attack and the smell a result of a lack of a timely embalming—a bit of bowels humor, the head coroner says with a nervous laugh when interviewed by the Galactic Enquirer.

MID-LENGTH: ✦ 飽了嗎? | Have you eaten your fill? by virdant, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & qui-gon & quinlan & yoda & dooku & mace & bant & jedi, 13k     The Force is the first language that Obi-Wan learned to speak, the brush of one mind against another. But food is the second language that Obi-Wan learned to speak with, and he talks, he talks, he talks. A collection of fics about food and how food is an articulation of love. ✦ We Will Abide by naberiie, plo & shaak, 10.3k     Light. Dark. Balance. Beneath the Jedi Temple, far below the chaos of Coruscant's Galactic City, ancient halls and corridors sleep in silent darkness. Padawans Shaak Ti and Plo Koon are determined to explore them. ✦ What Is My Heritage? by Marnie, qui-gon & yoda, 7.7k     Qui-Gon, age 13, tries to find a place to belong. ✦ Coming Home by Marnie, qui-gon & yoda & dooku, 18.1k     A story telling how Qui-Gon comes to be Dooku's apprentice. ✦ Master by CJinn, obi-wan & anakin, 27.5k     Obi-Wan Kenobi had always wanted to become a Jedi Knight. What he didn't expect was to become a Master merely days after his own Master died. Adapting to his new role as the mentor and Master of the quite unusual Padawan Anakin Skywalker became a bumpy road.

✦ into the statue that breathes by spoonks, obi-wan & feemor & cin & cast, 8.5k     The night watch in the garden was supposed to be the calmest of them all. No mischievous Padawans “sneaking” in or out, or ne’er-do-well civilians conducting “business” around the lower-level entrances that they didn’t know existed. No the gardens was still, and it was like time was frozen in ice that slowly melted away with the rising of the sun. A slow drip, drip— Drip. Immediately Feemor turned towards the central waterfall. Someone was standing there. Whoever they were, they were small and moved through katas with their hands open like a greeting. ✦ The Cave by Ria Talla (ronia), anakin & ahsoka & cast, time travel, 10k     Ahsoka Tano, post-Star Wars Rebels/? And there was something else, more important, though Ahsoka found herself loath to do it. Her lightsabers drawn, deep in the labyrinth formed by the stone warriors and the crumbled temple. Yet the words broke certain into her mind. Your eyes can deceive you. Her heart pounded, as though warning her otherwise. But Ahsoka withdrew her sabers, and closed her eyes. Rather than her weapons, she let the Force be her light. ✦ A Candle in the Night by phoenixyfriend, anakin/luminara & obi-wan, time travel, 12k     In which Luminara finds a heavily injured Jedi, nurses him back to health, and falls in love. Then they get back to the real world, and she just can't figure him out... ✦ Found Clan by silvergryphon, boba & ocs & obi-wan & anakin & cast, 25.3k wip     After the Battle of Geonosis, a Jedi Healer discovers young Boba Fett mourning the loss of his father. Not about to leave a ten-year-old boy on his own, she promptly adopts him with the full collusion of her Padawan. ✦ the heart of kyber by outpastthemoat, obi-wan & anakin & qui-gon & depa & kanan & jedi, 32.7k     Tales of the Jedi: Stories about lightsabers, masters, and apprentices. ✦ Stars of Tatooine by Be_Right_Back, ahsoka & mace & kanan & obi-wan & rex & cast, 10.5k     After the end of the world, Ahsoka more or less kidnaps a child, has to air some old grievances, and tries to find whatever peace the universe can still offer. All paths in the Force lead home, eventually. ✦ The Uses of a Sandwich by Laura Kaye (laurakaye), obi-wan & qui-gon & yoda & cast, 17.6k     A few months after being taken as a Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi faces a challenge: meeting his Master's first apprentice. ✦ Familes Found by fyrefly, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & padme & mace & plo, 8.2k     In a universe where "The Wrong Jedi" never happened, the war ends under different circumstances and perhaps everyone will get a chance at a happy ending after all.

SHORT AND YET SO GOOD-LENGTH: ✦ The Mathematics of Repair by panharmonium, obi-wan & anakin & cast, 4.6k     For raw teachers and rough-edged students building in the rubble: tiny steps are enough, provided they carry you in the right direction. Immediately post TPM, in short snippets. ✦ The Living Force; Parables for Padawans by glorious_clio, obi-wan & cast, 6.1k     Since infancy, younglings are taught the Jedi Code, “Emotion, yet peace. Ignorance, yet knowledge. Passion, yet serenity. Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet the Force.” Obi-Wan Kenobi learns these tenets backwards and forwards again. But even as a child, he is interested in nuance. And so his teachers tell him parables. ✦ A Jedi's Cloak ImperialKatwala, obi-wan & anakin & qui-gon & cody & rex, 6.4k Jedi cloaks are made for children. Obi-Wan Kenobi is a year and a half old when he first sees this principle in action. He is fourteen, twenty-five, twenty-nine, and thirty-six when he gets a reminder.     Or: Jedi cloaks are weird. Here's a series of events showing why they're made that way. ✦ the master, the padawan, the Force by skatzaa, kanan & depa. 1.4k     Caleb expects things to be different after Master Depa takes him as her padawan, but really, it feels like nothing really changes. ✦ For the Future of the Order by thetorontokid, obi-wan & qui-gon & cast, 3.9k     There are important lessons to be found in the Jedi Temple creche.

✦ Memories of Peace by Margan, obi-wan & clones, 2k     It's not quite flash training, but the Clones are used to learning fast. It helps that this is something that they actually look forward to learning, to putting into practice. Obi-Wan teaches the Clones how to make dumplings in the middle of war. ✦ Liberosis by Be_Right_Back, anakin & mace & yoda & jedi, 2.2k     The war is over, the Sith are gone, and there is now Anakin Skywalker's secret marriage to deal with. While love is a wonderful thing, some truths are hard to face, and letting go is the destiny of all Jedi. Or: the Council and Anakin clash. It doesn't go as terribly as it could have. ✦ Accepting Emotion by LazarusII, obi-wan & ahsoka, 1.1k     Dealing with the stress and anxiety of being a prospective Padawan, Ahsoka Tano struggles to manage her emotions. Obi-Wan Kenobi finds her practicing in the dojo, confidence in tatters. His words make all the difference. ✦ A Long, Long Time Ago by ruth baulding, dooku & qui-gon + qui-gon & obi-wan + obi-wan & anakin + anakin & ahsoka, 5.8k     A wisdom tale handed passed down through the generations poses troublesome questions for a line of masters and Padawans, from Dooku to Ahsoka Tano.

✦ Duet by Silver Sky 1138, oc & cin, 2.3k     Asha Scarsi, the Jedi Padawan who feels the Force through music, isn't half as good at lightsaber combat as she is at singing and mindtricks. So she's a little nervous when Battlemaster Cin Drallig calls her to the training room after class. ✦ The One Where Anakin Tries to Be Serious by GirlwithCurls98, anakin & ahsoka, 1k     Even though they're fighting a war, Anakin finds the time to lead his apprentice through one of the Jedi's sacred ceremonies. ✦ Obi-Wan and the Force by AwayOHumanChild, obi-wan & cast, ~1k     One of the first things Jedi Initiates learn is that everyone experiences the Force differently.

✦ Night Shift at the Temple by ReneeoftheStars, oc jedi & cast, 1.8k     A Jedi Temple Guard sees all, speaks to few, and has attachments to no one. One must be prepared for any threats that may arise, especially at night, while most of the Temple sleeps. ✦ The Orchards by Raven_Knight, obi-wan & qui-gon & cast, 3.6k     When young Obi-Wan Kenobi is injured on a previous mission, Qui-Gon Jinn refuses to accept further off-planet missions until his Padawan's recovery. Yoda assigns the pair an in-Temple mission of utmost importance while Obi-Wan heals. Master and Padawan welcome the change of pace. ✦ Tipping Point by Ria Talla (ronia), adi gallia & finis valorum & eeth koth, 3.3k     "I believe that if what's happening on Naboo is allowed to continue, the other member systems will wonder what they owe to a Republic that can no longer protect them." ✦ A Personal Touch by DragonHoardsBooks, obi-wan & anakin, 6.2k     New jedi padawan Anakin Skywalker realizes that there is more to being a jedi then he tought. Discovering a completely new culture will take time and effort, but maybe he'll make some friends along the way.

✦ Jedi Parables by Peppermint_Shamrock, jedi, 5.8k     Values are often passed down generation to generation through stories, parables, and fables. What stories might the Jedi teach their children? ✦ Songs for Little Jedi by soft_but_gremlin, mace & jedi, ~1k     The initiates are having nightmares, so Mace sings a lullaby to comfort them. ✦ a thin thread of hope by wrennette, shaak & clones, ~1k     Shaak Ti introduces some cadets to one of her favourite crafts, under the guise of training. ✦ rah kat by js71, obi-wan & anakin & aayla, 1.6k     "Aay’shee," Obi-Wan murmurs into her ear, rocking her gently, like when jaieh was off on a mission she couldn’t go on, so her jaieh-raheniel would take turns having her over at their apartments. ✦ Lessons on Attachment by Siri_Kenobi12, obi-wan & anakin/padme & cast, 2.7k     "Anakin once told me that a Jedi is actually encouraged to love." She said after Obi-Wan had settled. ✦ Straw Dogs by Cymbidia, obi-wan & jedi & cast, 2.9k     An old Jedi Master imparts some wisdom concerning Mercy, Balance, and the Will of the Force to young Padawan Obi-wan Kenobi and a gaggle of other younglings. It is a lesson that haunts Obi-wan for the rest of his life. ✦ Refractions of Light by Independence1776, ezra & kanan, 1.3k     Kanan celebrates a Jedi holiday with Ezra.

✦ The grand outing by Ingata, dooku & sifo-dyas & obi-wan & bant & garen & reeft & yoda & cast, 4.5k     Eight younglings and two Jedi masters on a field trip. What could possibly go wrong? ✦ A Short Break by Peppermint_Shamrock, luke & yoda, ~1k     Luke complains about his training, and asks about Jedi training of old. ✦ we are made of our longest days by bereft_of_frogs, obi-wan & anakin & cast, 4.4k     Two years after the events of The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan and his new apprentice are called to a remote moon to fetch a baby who’s showing signs of a rare, unique power. On their journey home, Obi-Wan reflects on the last child he brought to the Temple and catches a faint glimpse of three possibly entwining futures. ✦ yellow, you're a dreamer by nightdotlight, jocasta & anakin (& obi-wan), 2.6k     Normally, it wouldn’t be unusual, but— Jocasta did not earn her post without listening, and from where she stands in the aisle, gaze fixed upon the back of the young child’s shaking shoulders, she can hear a sniffle reverberate around the space. There’s a child curled up in the corner of the Archives— and they’re crying. ✦ once upon a time (a long, long time ago) by thebitterbeast, barriss & mace & shaak & ki-adi & bacara & trilla & cere, 2.3k     The Jedi love children. Children love stories. This changes some things. ✦ not the place that I was born in (doesn't mean it's not the place where I belong) by ghostwriterofthemachine, obi-wan & anakin, 5k     “What were you consulting Master Obi-Wan about?” “Tea!” says the other Padawan brightly. “I’m performing a tea ceremony for my Master, one that originates from her home world. It’ll be the first time I sit foveo with her!” She says that word— foveo— as if it should mean something to Anakin. It does not. ✦ A Friend Indeed by ExtraPenguin, plo & ahsoka, 3.3k     After their rescue of the colonists of Kiros, Ahsoka Tano's Master asks for her to be sent on a mission away from the front. She ends up being sent to the Deep Core with Master Plo Koon to investigate one of the first known locations of the Jedi Order, since abandoned. ✦ In which we burn bodies as bridges by GraceEliz, obi-wan & ahsoka & depa & kanan & ezra, 1.4k     Lineage mantras, and the processing of grief. ✦ Five Times Mace was There for Obi-Wan, and One Time Obi-Wan Returned the Favour by wrennette, obi-wan & mace, 4k     five of the many times Mace Windu offered Obi-Wan comfort over the years, and one of the many times Obi-Wan returned the favour

✦ as the dust settled around us by thebitterbeast, finn & jedi, 5.2k     Bravery has never been the absence of fear. Prompt: There is no emotion, there is peace. ✦ Adi Gallia, Master of the Order by Perspicacia, adi & jedi, 7.2k wip     Palpatine didn't expect it. It was too soon for that in his plans: which Jedi would have left the Temple under assault? But Adi had. Ashes in her heart, she had left the younglings and the elders and the wounded for her duty to the galaxy, choosing to stop the Sith instead of protecting her people. ✦ “The Padawan Chooses The Master” by lurkingcrow, obi-wan & anakin & cast, 3.6k     prompt: AU - The Jedi say “The Padawan Chooses The Master” Qui Gon lives, Obi Wan is very preoccupied, and Anakin is put into the creche as an Initiate to learn what he can until Qui Gon wakes up from his coma and gets yelled at by the Council. In the meantime, Anakin meets other Jedi Masters and when the Council asks him who he wants to be his teacher, his answer isn’t Qui Gon. Instead it’s *insert your fav Jedi here* ✦ The Only Home We Know by ReneeoftheStars, katooni & petro & ganodi & byph & gungi & zaft & cast, character death, child death, 2.4k     The Jedi Temple is under attack. Determined to fight for their home, younglings Katooni, Petro, Zatt, Ganodi, Byph, and Gungi make their way to aid the Jedi Masters in defense of the Temple. But the situation is far graver than they expected. ✦ Obi-Wan and the Force by AwayOHumanChild, obi-wan & cast, ~1k     One of the first things Jedi Initiates learn is that everyone experiences the Force differently. ✦ The One Where Anakin Tries to Be Serious by Mini_and_Might, anakin & ahsoka, 1k     Even though they're fighting a war, Anakin finds the time to lead his apprentice through one of the Jedi's sacred ceremonies. Might become part of a series of missing scenes from the Clone Wars. ✦ Markings by wabbajack, ahsoka & plo, 1.6k     In which it is revealed that Master Plo Koon has always had a difficult time putting his foot down when faced with his Little 'Soka. ✦ The First Trial by Raven_Knigh, obi-wan & qui-gon, 2k     Accompanied by his Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, young Obi-Wan Kenobi undergoes his first trial and rite as a Padawan Learner on the frozen planet of Ilum.

✦ Arrival by CJinn, obi-wan & yoda & jedi, 2.6k     Little Obi-Wan was only a few days old when he was brought to the Jedi Temple. His arrival caused some confusion among the Jedi. ✦ The Spire by skatzaa, obi-wan & jedi, 2.4k     The galaxy was on the brink of war, and Obi-Wan Kenobi had been assigned a new room. ✦ Room Arrangements by skatzaa, obi-wan & anakin, 2.2k     Anakin has some concerns about room arrangements at the Temple. Obi-Wan does his best to reassure him. ✦ Lineage by virdant, obi-wan & anakin & yoda & jedi, 1.5k     Anakin is new to the temple, and he does not yet understand that these are his brothers and sisters, his cousins, his uncles and aunts. He does not know yet, but he will learn, Obi-Wan thinks. ✦ A Discussion of Choices by Peppermint_Shamrock, luke & mace, 2k     Mace Windu has traveled the galaxy since the fall of the Republic, keeping out of the Empire's sight and teaching where he can. Upon the request of a ghost of an old friend, Mace finds himself instructing Luke Skywalker, who is still reeling from the truth of Vader's identity. ✦ Emotion is our Shared Tongue by virdant, obi-wan & anakin & qui-gon & quinlan & jedi, 2.1k     There are thousands of different species, with different languages and voices and hands, but what all Jedi have in common is the Force, and with the Force, they have language. ✦ To Know by Armin_05, obi-wan & anakin & shmi & kitster & fives & cast, 4.8k     Nearly all Jedi love learning. Anakin Skywalker is no different. Or, how Anakin found a love of learning and shared it with others. ✦ Shatterpoints and Students by soft_but_gremlin, mace & depa, ~1k     Depa always has shatterpoints hovering around her.

✦ Home-onym by virdant, jedi, 1.1k     Jedi younglings, like any other children, enjoy playing. Playing with lightsabers and playing with words. ✦ Threaded Lineage by Pandora151, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & kanan & ezra & luke & rey, 2.9k     The journey of a single river stone through many generations of Jedi, allowing the Jedi of the old and the Jedi of the future to be threaded together. ✦ the river and the rock by nightdotlight, anakin & luminara, 1.8k     Lightsabers clash, and Luminara Unduli holds her ground. She doesn’t move, doesn’t lock her muscles, just makes herself an immovable object and lets her opponent strain against the lock. ✦ Five Meditations of Jedi Depa Billaba by skatzaa, depa & mace & yoda & kanan & kit, 5.3k     What is says on the tin. (Plus one more, for good measure.)

[serena-darrin]

And chapter 8 of my Whumptober Longfic is live! Welcome to the start of the Flashback sequence. I think this one also needs the reminder that Bracca is (also) Not Nice.

But we get to see and hear some familiar faces, so that, at least, is something!

[aldrendaux]

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Han Solo, Chewbacca & Han Solo, Cal Kestis & Luke Skywalker, CC-1010 | Fox & Leia Organa, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Original Character(s), Leia Organa & Original Character(s), Luke Skywalker & Original Character(s), Obi-Wan Kenobi & Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker Characters: Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, CC-1010 | Fox, Cal Kestis, Han Solo, Chewbacca (Star Wars), Original Clone Trooper Character(s), Obi-Wan Kenobi, CC-2224 | Cody, Bail Organa, Breha Organa Additional Tags: Some surprise characters, Canon Rewrite, AU, Action/Adventure, Escape, Sibling Banter, Good Sibling Luke Skywalker, Good Sibling Leia Organa Series: Part 11 of Arcadia Summary:

Eventually the next generation needs to step up. For the Skywalkers, this happens explosively. The Original Trilogy, redone to fit the Arcadia Verse.

[rochenn]

man whenever palpatine gets killed off during the clone wars in a fic and fucking. padmé or bail become chancellor right after him. i understand this in a "i want a happy ending for everyone" kind of sense but this solution seems so out of touch sometimes. as if you wouldn't have mas fucking amedda as an interim chancellor first and as if the next election wouldn't either solidify him or result in the ascension of someone like tarkin.

"but palpatine was outed as a sith" ok. how do you even prove that to the public, to the feared Average Voter, the dreaded Moderate, without sounding like a conspiracy lunatic? like the sith as a whole are even less known about than the jedi and they might as well just be the same thing (about 10 thousand jedi exist in the galaxy. coruscant alone has a population of 2 trillion. "minority" doesn't even begin to describe the position of the jedi here)

even if palpatine fucking dies it's too late for the republic because his old lackeys and corpo friends are in ALL the positions of power and could so, so easily pin this situation on the jedi one way or another. also dooku's training weights are essentially off now that the guy who could have killed him via zoom is gone. ppl need to realize that everything was already SO over before the clone wars even started, no matter if palps lives or dies