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oh_what_can_it_meanBits of the Ara 'Verse that have little or no mention of "The Library Kidnapping." Short version: kidnapped with a bunch of younglings at 15/10, when rescued (16th life day while captive) after 45 days she was carrying an embryo that was eventually adopted by a family on Colstev, then the child (LNF for "Little Nightmare Fuel," eventually I picked the name Andken Woolmati from a name generator) was sent to the Temple when he was found to be Force-sensitive. He became friends with Anakin, whose meetings with Palpatine started when he was 10, and in these conversations Skeevy Sheev told Anakin that Ara was Andken's "mother" and that caused Ara upset to the point that it affected her health, and she became Eller's assistant because that way the "Jump Scare Twins" couldn't bother her at work.
Ara is a Sphinxian Peasant and ages at 2/3 the rate of a baseline human, so her age will be listed as, for example, 12/8. LNF/Andken has the same germ-line edits, so he ages at the same rate. (Arrek Melnau is a Sphinxian Aristocrat who is 60 years older than Ara, he ages at 1/3 the rate of a baseline human. Not much mention of him yet but he's important in Ara's childhood because they're the only Sphinxian heavy-worlders in the Order until LNF shows up and he's the only person who can hang out with her "in grav.")
>> this is in chronological order of posting <<
Arala Melnau, Age 8 (this was before I decided Sphinxian aging, she's 10 in this scene now)
Arala Melnau, Age 11 (probably 12 now, and I don't think Drallig had been made Battlemaster at that point)
Arala Melnau, Age 10-12 (she's 13 in this part now, her age cutoff is onset of puberty plus one year or 19.5 standard. this story deals with food-related issues and unintentional child neglect, and I'm only putting it in this entry because there are occasional mentions of Ara's food issues [mostly in Cin Asks Ara])
Jocasta Nu to the Council and Eller about Ara becoming Ara's Assistant Vague allusion to TLK here, but nothing linked on this page will be graphic (though some pages will link to the entry about TLK, but just skip those if you don't want the dark stuff, I'm going to re-write that whole ordeal to be less dire than that entry anyway...eventually...I should make a to-do list maybe).
One idea for long-term ending. Would take place outside the lighter fare and most of the content. This is basically the brightest, kindest ending for everyone. (last paragraph mentions TLK, but only for the barest explanation of why LNF is upsetting to Ara)
More Iterations of the Mid-meal conversation. (takes place after Ara and Yoda have begun their D/s dynamic--that dynamic was going to be the main focus of the 'verse, before Jitters and Cin took over. I do intend to get back to it, and I've already written out the conversation in which Ara is conversationally cornered into broaching the subject to Yoda, I just have to write out the afternoon tea on the South Terrace that happens before that) (the previous entry that's linked contains mention to some of the dark stuff, so reader discretion and all)
[NSFW] Straight-up smut with non-romantic feels. Ara is 24. [25 in the new timeline] (Ara and Cin's first time. It's a scripted first draft and needs re-writing [for one thing, Jitters is 20 in this fic which means he's not knighted yet, timeline issue], but I'm generally happy with it. This is from before I re-re-read FF and got sidetracked by Cin Drallig for...a little over a year now, though Ara's relationship with Jitters grows throughout the same time period)
The Vigil: Misremembering, Daydream, Writing it Down, Checking the "Source Fic," Sighing.(1/2) (scripted bits, not all align with who was actually in the room at the time, The Vigil should probably be my next "big story" but it might have to wait until I sort out the few days before and After Cin Asks Ara)
The Vigil: Misremembering, Daydream, Writing it Down, Checking the "Source Fic," Sighing.(2/2) (More of the same. Way too many "source fic" quotes in this one)
So I re-read a thing, then I wrote a daydream thing, then I re-re-read it ahead of posting this... (contains a bit of dialogue from FF, the first version the daydream and the second version the post-re-re-reading re-write; this is where Cin gets the "lovely musical composition from a dear friend" that's mentioned in Cin Asks Ara)
[NSFW] BDSM Scene With Feemor and the Next Morning. (bottle episode; can be skipped without missing any lore)
A couple more "lunchtime conversation tidbits" because why not. (I really enjoyed daydreaming the "next therapy appointment is gonna be lit" bit, though it did remind me that my pasty western European mutt ass can only go so far vocabulary-wise in being inspired by Beckett Mariner from ST:LD for Ara)
>> Cin Asks Ara on a date, sort of. (the first Big Story! I spent a good two months going over and over and over this 8k or so words, and I still to back and tweak it once in awhile. The beginning of this story overlaps with the ending of FF. Also features a bit of my Gi-Ho headcanon and a bit about Ara's food issues as an adult) (outtakes from Cin Asks Ara; includes things like discussion of Yoda's "kiss test" for Obi-Wan from ATLL that I decided to drop entirely)
The "Three Words Meme" (fun activity from the Jedi Temple Intranet Hookup Board)
Inserting more of my own worldbuilding into my version of ATLL. (just for fun; also, for the purposes of my AU of the ATLL AU, Jitters was Master Bert's padawan)
Pour one out for Healer Vygor. (Ara mentions her interest in Yoda to her therapist, though not the kink part)
>> The Only Way Out Is Through (the second Big Story! [of two so far] Part One takes place a few months before FF, Part Two goes back to the year before Ara was knighted. NSFW in Part Two: Ara and Jitters near the end of the fic; Ara is 24/16 [developmental age addressed in author's notes] and Jitters is 20) (outtakes; some of these conversations I definitely want to use elsewhere)
The conversation between Cin and Jo during "The Only Way Out Is Through" (I was originally going to leave this open, but then I got an idea for what they'd actually say. Also in my headcanon, "Don't make it weird" is something Dooku is known for saying, often to avoid showing emotions that aren't haughty disdain)
Some bits and bobs of ideas from the Ara 'Verse. (this is how short some of my daydream bits are, my two main Google Docs [I had to start a new one for 2025 because the original took too long to load on my old laptop] are full of stuff like this)
"Riding the Green Dragon" (Just because, and I wanted to have something for April. I guess I'd better keep my promise soon! [this doesn't count])
Two ideas for Ara and Cin's bond snapping into place. (exactly what it says on the tin. These were fun to imagine, and I want to make a "big story" about the whole impromptu musical event one of these days)
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Ara is a Sphinxian Peasant and ages at 2/3 the rate of a baseline human, so her age will be listed as, for example, 12/8. LNF/Andken has the same germ-line edits, so he ages at the same rate. (Arrek Melnau is a Sphinxian Aristocrat who is 60 years older than Ara, he ages at 1/3 the rate of a baseline human. Not much mention of him yet but he's important in Ara's childhood because they're the only Sphinxian heavy-worlders in the Order until LNF shows up and he's the only person who can hang out with her "in grav.")
>> this is in chronological order of posting <<
Arala Melnau, Age 8 (this was before I decided Sphinxian aging, she's 10 in this scene now)
Arala Melnau, Age 11 (probably 12 now, and I don't think Drallig had been made Battlemaster at that point)
Arala Melnau, Age 10-12 (she's 13 in this part now, her age cutoff is onset of puberty plus one year or 19.5 standard. this story deals with food-related issues and unintentional child neglect, and I'm only putting it in this entry because there are occasional mentions of Ara's food issues [mostly in Cin Asks Ara])
Jocasta Nu to the Council and Eller about Ara becoming Ara's Assistant Vague allusion to TLK here, but nothing linked on this page will be graphic (though some pages will link to the entry about TLK, but just skip those if you don't want the dark stuff, I'm going to re-write that whole ordeal to be less dire than that entry anyway...eventually...I should make a to-do list maybe).
One idea for long-term ending. Would take place outside the lighter fare and most of the content. This is basically the brightest, kindest ending for everyone. (last paragraph mentions TLK, but only for the barest explanation of why LNF is upsetting to Ara)
More Iterations of the Mid-meal conversation. (takes place after Ara and Yoda have begun their D/s dynamic--that dynamic was going to be the main focus of the 'verse, before Jitters and Cin took over. I do intend to get back to it, and I've already written out the conversation in which Ara is conversationally cornered into broaching the subject to Yoda, I just have to write out the afternoon tea on the South Terrace that happens before that) (the previous entry that's linked contains mention to some of the dark stuff, so reader discretion and all)
[NSFW] Straight-up smut with non-romantic feels. Ara is 24. [25 in the new timeline] (Ara and Cin's first time. It's a scripted first draft and needs re-writing [for one thing, Jitters is 20 in this fic which means he's not knighted yet, timeline issue], but I'm generally happy with it. This is from before I re-re-read FF and got sidetracked by Cin Drallig for...a little over a year now, though Ara's relationship with Jitters grows throughout the same time period)
The Vigil: Misremembering, Daydream, Writing it Down, Checking the "Source Fic," Sighing.(1/2) (scripted bits, not all align with who was actually in the room at the time, The Vigil should probably be my next "big story" but it might have to wait until I sort out the few days before and After Cin Asks Ara)
The Vigil: Misremembering, Daydream, Writing it Down, Checking the "Source Fic," Sighing.(2/2) (More of the same. Way too many "source fic" quotes in this one)
So I re-read a thing, then I wrote a daydream thing, then I re-re-read it ahead of posting this... (contains a bit of dialogue from FF, the first version the daydream and the second version the post-re-re-reading re-write; this is where Cin gets the "lovely musical composition from a dear friend" that's mentioned in Cin Asks Ara)
[NSFW] BDSM Scene With Feemor and the Next Morning. (bottle episode; can be skipped without missing any lore)
A couple more "lunchtime conversation tidbits" because why not. (I really enjoyed daydreaming the "next therapy appointment is gonna be lit" bit, though it did remind me that my pasty western European mutt ass can only go so far vocabulary-wise in being inspired by Beckett Mariner from ST:LD for Ara)
>> Cin Asks Ara on a date, sort of. (the first Big Story! I spent a good two months going over and over and over this 8k or so words, and I still to back and tweak it once in awhile. The beginning of this story overlaps with the ending of FF. Also features a bit of my Gi-Ho headcanon and a bit about Ara's food issues as an adult) (outtakes from Cin Asks Ara; includes things like discussion of Yoda's "kiss test" for Obi-Wan from ATLL that I decided to drop entirely)
The "Three Words Meme" (fun activity from the Jedi Temple Intranet Hookup Board)
Inserting more of my own worldbuilding into my version of ATLL. (just for fun; also, for the purposes of my AU of the ATLL AU, Jitters was Master Bert's padawan)
Pour one out for Healer Vygor. (Ara mentions her interest in Yoda to her therapist, though not the kink part)
>> The Only Way Out Is Through (the second Big Story! [of two so far] Part One takes place a few months before FF, Part Two goes back to the year before Ara was knighted. NSFW in Part Two: Ara and Jitters near the end of the fic; Ara is 24/16 [developmental age addressed in author's notes] and Jitters is 20) (outtakes; some of these conversations I definitely want to use elsewhere)
The conversation between Cin and Jo during "The Only Way Out Is Through" (I was originally going to leave this open, but then I got an idea for what they'd actually say. Also in my headcanon, "Don't make it weird" is something Dooku is known for saying, often to avoid showing emotions that aren't haughty disdain)
Some bits and bobs of ideas from the Ara 'Verse. (this is how short some of my daydream bits are, my two main Google Docs [I had to start a new one for 2025 because the original took too long to load on my old laptop] are full of stuff like this)
"Riding the Green Dragon" (Just because, and I wanted to have something for April. I guess I'd better keep my promise soon! [this doesn't count])
Two ideas for Ara and Cin's bond snapping into place. (exactly what it says on the tin. These were fun to imagine, and I want to make a "big story" about the whole impromptu musical event one of these days)
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