Star Wars Fic and Meta - From All The Spaces Between Times - Chapter 31

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Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter 32 — Waters Flowing From What Has Always Been to What Will Always Be
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars — Obi Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars — Jedi Apprentice Books
Characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, Watto, Quinlan Vos, Padmé Amidala, Sabé, Darth Maul, Yoda, Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, Quinlan Vos, Professor Huyang, The Force, Plo Koon, Vokara Che, Siri Tachi, Aayla Secura, Bant Eerin, Bruck Chun, Xanatos du Crion, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Hego Damask II | Darth Plagueis, Komari Vosa, Bail Prestor Organa, Bail Antilles Prestor, Rael Averross, Nim Piana, Original Characters, Other Characters To Be Added
Pairings: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn, eventual Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn (but not for a long while)
Word Count: ~ 6000 this chapter
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Explicit sexual content, violence (canon typical, not related to sexual content).

Summary: Obi-Wan Kenobi has never known it, but he has always been the Force’s Champion, destined to suffer infinite sadness in defense of the Light. On his last turn on the wheel, responsibility for The Chosen One, the false child of prophecy, had been thrust upon him with no warning, and Darkness held the upper hand.

But this time, the Force has marshaled its power and will protect its Champion until the time is right, no matter how long Obi-Wan has to wait and how much he has to suffer.

Or,

Obi-Wan is reborn as a twelve-year old.

He wakes up on a slavers’ ship, with all of his prior life’s memories intact, and he’s bound for Tatooine with a Force-inhibitor collar around his neck, a bomb implanted in his spine, and no way of knowing what state of the Galaxy is in.

Just another day in the life of the Force’s Champion.

Chapter Summary: Yan Dooku returns to the Temple for the first time in five years years. His grandpadawan, Nim Pianna, is taking her Trials and will soon be knighted, and it is important for him to witness this. He is a Jedi who put great value in his lineage and his legacy.

He’s also eager to meet his newest grandpadawan. His master, Yoda, has been telling him all about the boy and his many perfections. Yan doesn’t believe half of what the old troll is telling him.

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From All The Spaces Between Times — Chapter 32 — Waters Flowing From What Has Always Been to What Will Always Be (On AO3)

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Meta — Chapter 32 — Waters Flowing From What Has Always Been to What Will Always Be

As always, I am deeply grateful for all the love you’ve given this story, the outpouring of comments on the last chapter — the guessing on where the story is heading — makes me so very happy.

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285,188 words, 51 chapters

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A measly 3000 words this week. Not very happy, but I wrote myself into a corner and it took a few days to realize what was going on. Fixing it now and I think I should be able to finish this chapter by tomorrow. Just have to plow through a whole lot of rewriting.

Also, I completely forgot it was Thursday. Whoops!


Enter, Dooku

I wrote a lot of this chapter before I started writing the actual story. I’ve mentioned before that I’d gotten hit with the time-travel plot bunny, wrote a few hundred words on the first chapter but stalled out - I didn’t know how to write the slave market scene, so I decided to write a bunch of random chapters that would make me happy about writing the rest of the story. The scene with Qui-Gon and Dooku is one of them.

And it’s where I found my first big bad, Komari. I just got hit with the idea that she was poisonous to the rest of the lineage, and that Qui-Gon despises her. That she’d done something terrible and he held a grudge, but Dooku defended her, because lineage.

That became the jumping off point. The sexual assault of Anakin came much later.

The idea of a grumpy grandpa Dooku is probably borne out of Meggory’s Beekeeping and Husbandry AU, which is an amazing two-story Qui-Gon lives AU, and in the first novel-length story, Qui-Gon (and eventually Obi-Wan) do everything possible to keep Dooku from falling, by giving him meaningful work in the Temple. In the second book, he goes looking for Komari and finds Asajj.

I know that in canon Dooku is the character’s given name (and technically, he is Dooku Serenno), but fandom really loves "Yan Dooku", and so I’m going with fanon here.

Since I’m running late tonight, I’m keeping the meta short (I probably have a lot more to say about our favorite swordsman).

But for now, I'll leave you with my favorite clip of Christopher Lee (and Vincent Price). Just because.

Watch on YouTube

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