Chocolate Box Reveals + Fic: The Long Way Round

So, chocolateboxcomm has revealed and I can finally talk to the world again! When I signed up, I offered Padme/Obi-Wan (as I've done for a few exchanges where it's been an option) and then discovered I needed to offer two relationships, hovered on the point of deleting that offer (because I've never written proper SW fic!) but then added in Padme & Obi-Wan as well... and guess what I was assigned?

The long and the short of it is, I wrote Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon master and apprentice fic for dragonlingdar, since I liked their prompts, and, why not?

So... then I rewatched the Prequels, inadvertently had overdue fictional catharsis and broke through something, except I apparently also broke through my carefully constructed 15 yr old "I don't have SW Prequel Feels" dam, and I do have feels, okay. I've written 25k overall in three weeks, my tumblr draft folder has gone up to 100+ Prequel reblogs I was trying not to drive away all my followers with. (I have 57, which is very much not a lot on tumblr. I don't want to lose them and they mostly came for the vampire gifsets and not Obi-Wan Kenobi). ( I've been trying to pretend I was just having a bit of a resurrection of Padme/Obi-Wan feels, and be casual ever since. It's a lie. Send help. Or more beautiful gif sets. Either will do. /o\)

Anyway, that has very little to do with this fic, which was fun to write even if it had me permanently on Wookieepedia, checking everything and learning that every single pre-canon idea I had for early Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon has already been done. At which point, I decided I could write a bland missing scene, default, or just damn the EU and write all the ideas up into a five times fic, so obv. I did the latter. (It is one of those stories, though, where this is totally not what it was going to be when I started out and I'm still not sure what happened to that story. It just... went somewhere along the way?)

(The irony of this being the time that I finally got to watch Good Omens was also pretty funny, after waiting all that time and hoping I'd feel fannish about it like everyone else in the universe my flist. Yeah. Somewhere in between being drowned in my pent up Prequel feelings, I may have had an actual feel, like, once in episode 4? I enjoyed it very much otherwise, though. But the thing about stories is it's the right thing that comes at the right time for you, and what that may be and if it will come at all is unpredictable.)

But I wrote a little real SW fic and didn't die even though I put Yoda in it. And then I wrote more, including two treats I'll post later. (Although none of them have Captain Janeway and Obi-Wan on a coffee heist, so I will never again reach the heights of glory of my first attempt (but crossovers can never count fully). ;-p)

The Long Way Round (4386 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Qui-Gon Jinn & Obi-Wan Kenobi
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: 5 Times, Jedi, Pre-Canon, Master & Padawan Relationship(s), Lightsabers, Hurt/Comfort, Crash Landing
Summary: Five steps forward in a Master & Padawan relationship.

Fic: Some With Arrows, Some With Traps + Masquerade (SW)

So, as I said, I also wrote two treats for chocolateboxcomm. The first one (for Prix) was the long one I claimed might kill me. (They'd put casefic on their list of likes and I was thinking that for Star Wars, casefic would just be ridiculous adventure as usual, and then this happened. When it comes to being short, trying to write typical adventures and ship a thing is not a plan.) Anyway, I thought it mostly came out well (although I doubted everything as I waited with a complete lack of comments for what felt like forever) and it was nice to do something that was also kind of just writing all the SW things I love.

I'm amused though that 2 out of the 3 comments are about the fate of my made-up droid instead of the ship. (And, actually, they weren't truly a definite casualty, only a casualty of me trying to keep it short!) isis was the person who helped me out with the emergency US-pick (sort of, given it's SW anyway) - thanks again!

Some With Arrows, Some With Traps (13944 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pre-Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Droids, Crashing Spaceships, Abduction, Antiquated Technology, Jedi, Poisoning
Summary: A Jedi Knight and a Senator walk straight into a trap. Because that is obviously always the best plan.


That done, I also managed a last minute treat for the other person who requested Obi-Wan/Padme (even though they'd already had two, but who knows if this feeling will last?) Which persiflage_1 gave me a speedy beta for. (♥) It was fun and obv. got (slightly) mroe comments than the ones that took so much longer!

Masquerade (1234 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Dancing, diplomatic missions
Summary: Obi-Wan's not used to wearing any kind of mask to go about his business; Padmé is.