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When Obi-wan Kenobi decided to remain on Coruscant, to protect and support the transfer of the most vulnerable out of the Empire's grasp, he never thought it would be permanent. He expected to be dead within the year. He's still not sure whether or not his luck has been a gift, or a sign that somehow the Force has something worse planned for him.

A quiet child and diligent padawan, Obi-wan suspects the remnants of the Council appointed him to be an experienced nodding head for younger survivors to follow. What they didn't know was of all of his regrets, none run deeper than the orders he followed in the war. When Yoda tried to close the curtain around the vestiges of the Order and draw them deeper into insularity, it was Obi-wan who suggested Bail Organa and later Padme Amidala. It was Obi-wan who created the system to find gifted children - of any age - before they could be taken into the Inquisitorius or the Hands.

He tries to keep mindful of the present, of padawans without masters, younglings who have known only threat of extermination their whole lives. The children who need instruction in how to trick a Stormtrooper more than they need to know the proper forms. But in the under-levels of the glittering, decaying megalopolis, sometimes it is his ghosts that feel like his only company.

I tried to make this happier but then the trio were involved and that was the end of that. (I keep trying not to make the text so long ah whoops).I think what I like so much about AUs is that somewhere in the twisted reflection of what might have happened you get to hint at the parts you liked best in the first place, in a context that strips away what that grew dull with familiarity.

Might take a break from this after the next one to do the color palette suggestions I've got in my inbox that I promise I didn't forget about. It's still open if anyone wants to put more in there, too.

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The Empire begins 10-12 years earlier. The siege of Naboo escalates rapidly, provoking the onset of the Clone Wars instead. Order 66 comes 7 years early, the Jedi better prepared for the deceit. Mace Windu survives the battle with Palpatine to warn the rest, leading to greater survival for the whole. And in the underlevels of Coruscant, the Council-in-exile seek liasons with what will become the Rebel Alliance.

A less naive Padme Amidala finds she can no longer hide from the atrocities committed in the name of retaliation for her people, and takes her place in the Imperial court.

And in the turmoil of all the war, the clones, and the billions of deaths that ensued, a former padawan had no room for a learner of his own - and a former slave no place within the Jedi Order.

I can't get this idea out of my head, so there are definitely going to be more of these. (It's a combination of the trio with something more Dark Times and an excuse to draw a lot of costume porn, how can I resist myself)

Drew AU Amidala from Bedlamsbard's fantastic Queen's Gambit because it's got me so hooked I have to do something in between chapter updates.

For || Royo || on Gaia.

I'm getting out of hand on these prompts but I knew when I started this one I'd go overboard because Ventress.

In trying to explain to someone who asked what I was drawing, I came to the conclusion that Ventress is now pretty much the only significantly recurring entry on an incredibly short list of female Star Wars villains who are still canon. I don't miss too much of the EU most days (and if we were gonna get just one at least she's excellent), but that struck me as a genuine loss.

Either the precursor to this previous set or a direct result of the decisions made in it.

(The soft-shaded style with lines was supposed to be a faster style than my usual one what happened?)