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This is the one where I use waaaaaay too many quotes (in this case, from Chapter 12). I did my best to skip over long bits of conversation (ms_nawilla, the author of ATLL, has the same tendency I do to have super long-ass Heinlein-esque conversations that are most of the plot.) I didn't want to cover every single beat because for many of them, there isn't much I can add via Ara, so I have her tune out or go wash dishes or something.
I spent two weeks or so going over the various versions of Ara at the vigil, and now, while I still want to stay with Ara in the prequel-verse, and I like original characters like Masters Si and Bes and Jitters and Kressa, aside from the stuff I'll be re-writing for the updated timeline, I'm going to be moving to scenarios that take place at different events (some will be at the same place, like there are scenarios that take place on the South Terrace at tea, and at least one idea for a future Light Nights, and an Aldera Summit where Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Ara are the Jedi attendees). The story is great, but I feel like a weirdo being so canon-specific for a fanfiction, even a fairly epic 'verse like this one. Vigil stuff incoming (this first part is gonna be looooong); after that, more on the updated timeline, then, slowly, more bits of story may or may not ever become something I can post to AO3.
(They said, as if anyone else was reading this.)
Author's Note: Stelara House is something from my Sequel Trilogy daydream, the Elia Garek 'verse. They make custom leather BDSM paraphernalia (like whips and floggers), and they have an optional coating that makes it so that the item can be completely sterilized in a high-pitched sonic shower. (As opposed to real leather, which can absorb fluids and get gross, those details are irrelevant to anything in this post because while there are a few mentions of kink, but nothing that's particularly NSFW.)
( Day 3 of the vigil, enter Bail and Rouge )
This next part is an alternate version of what happens directly after Yoda, Quinlan, and Kressa ask Ara how to talk to Obi-Wan about the near-SA in this part of the previous entry. I thought Ara offering to help Eller in her regular work during this time could be one of the things that leads to Ara becoming Eller's assistant.
Relevant context for this scene:The Library Kidnapping (TLK); Master Nu suggesting Ara be Eller's assistant. Timeline changes will mostly affect how old Ara was for TLK and LNF's arrival in Temple.
At the time of The Vigil, Ara is still an Archvist. Her job is sometimes admin work with Master Nu but mostly either helping people use the Archives or taking reference calls from field knights (the latter being what Qui-Gon Jinn kept calling Tahl on her personal line for throughout the Jedi Apprentice series). LNF's creche group (which includes Anakin) is old enough to use the Archives. [Not sure how LNF finds out that he and Ara are gentically related--either he sees her name on his paperwork when he's in the Halls of Healing, or maybe he just goes to the Archives with his creche group, Ara looks at him but sees the worst of the Bad Men from TLK, can't hide the horror in her face or her Force presence, and runs to the 'fresher to be sick, then she has to explain herself.] Either way, LNF's friend Anakin's friend Chancellor Palpatine will convince both of them that LNF "deserves" a relationhip with "his mother" and refuse to leave her alone, which makes the trauma reactions, loss of appetite, nightmares, etc., go from bad to worse to the point where it's affecting her work.
And...wow, I think I put more thought into this summary than the actual snippet. Oh well, it's my DW.
( an offer of help )
This next part takes place early on Day 2 of The Vigil. I'm lonely and touch-starved, so myself-insert OC gets TWO CUDDLES. The conversation after "Oh, bite me" is ridiculosity that will never make it to the AO3 version of this 'verse but it was fun to imagine.
( more action than these quarters have seen since the previous occupant )
Edit: Just remembered there was an earlier version of trying to find a way for Ara and Yoda to cuddle on Obi-Wan's couch during The Vigil. This takes place overnight between Days 1 and 2:
( self-indulgent ridiculosity )
Edit, 03/30/24: I started to correct the tenses here, then I remembered that I started to re-write this entire piece to reflect the still-changing (but not as drastically as before) timeline and to try to quote the source fic less. So...sorry the tenses in especially the first part are so wonky.
I spent two weeks or so going over the various versions of Ara at the vigil, and now, while I still want to stay with Ara in the prequel-verse, and I like original characters like Masters Si and Bes and Jitters and Kressa, aside from the stuff I'll be re-writing for the updated timeline, I'm going to be moving to scenarios that take place at different events (some will be at the same place, like there are scenarios that take place on the South Terrace at tea, and at least one idea for a future Light Nights, and an Aldera Summit where Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Ara are the Jedi attendees). The story is great, but I feel like a weirdo being so canon-specific for a fanfiction, even a fairly epic 'verse like this one. Vigil stuff incoming (this first part is gonna be looooong); after that, more on the updated timeline, then, slowly, more bits of story may or may not ever become something I can post to AO3.
(They said, as if anyone else was reading this.)
Author's Note: Stelara House is something from my Sequel Trilogy daydream, the Elia Garek 'verse. They make custom leather BDSM paraphernalia (like whips and floggers), and they have an optional coating that makes it so that the item can be completely sterilized in a high-pitched sonic shower. (As opposed to real leather, which can absorb fluids and get gross, those details are irrelevant to anything in this post because while there are a few mentions of kink, but nothing that's particularly NSFW.)
( Day 3 of the vigil, enter Bail and Rouge )
This next part is an alternate version of what happens directly after Yoda, Quinlan, and Kressa ask Ara how to talk to Obi-Wan about the near-SA in this part of the previous entry. I thought Ara offering to help Eller in her regular work during this time could be one of the things that leads to Ara becoming Eller's assistant.
Relevant context for this scene:The Library Kidnapping (TLK); Master Nu suggesting Ara be Eller's assistant. Timeline changes will mostly affect how old Ara was for TLK and LNF's arrival in Temple.
At the time of The Vigil, Ara is still an Archvist. Her job is sometimes admin work with Master Nu but mostly either helping people use the Archives or taking reference calls from field knights (the latter being what Qui-Gon Jinn kept calling Tahl on her personal line for throughout the Jedi Apprentice series). LNF's creche group (which includes Anakin) is old enough to use the Archives. [Not sure how LNF finds out that he and Ara are gentically related--either he sees her name on his paperwork when he's in the Halls of Healing, or maybe he just goes to the Archives with his creche group, Ara looks at him but sees the worst of the Bad Men from TLK, can't hide the horror in her face or her Force presence, and runs to the 'fresher to be sick, then she has to explain herself.] Either way, LNF's friend Anakin's friend Chancellor Palpatine will convince both of them that LNF "deserves" a relationhip with "his mother" and refuse to leave her alone, which makes the trauma reactions, loss of appetite, nightmares, etc., go from bad to worse to the point where it's affecting her work.
And...wow, I think I put more thought into this summary than the actual snippet. Oh well, it's my DW.
( an offer of help )
This next part takes place early on Day 2 of The Vigil. I'm lonely and touch-starved, so myself-insert OC gets TWO CUDDLES. The conversation after "Oh, bite me" is ridiculosity that will never make it to the AO3 version of this 'verse but it was fun to imagine.
( more action than these quarters have seen since the previous occupant )
Edit: Just remembered there was an earlier version of trying to find a way for Ara and Yoda to cuddle on Obi-Wan's couch during The Vigil. This takes place overnight between Days 1 and 2:
( self-indulgent ridiculosity )
Edit, 03/30/24: I started to correct the tenses here, then I remembered that I started to re-write this entire piece to reflect the still-changing (but not as drastically as before) timeline and to try to quote the source fic less. So...sorry the tenses in especially the first part are so wonky.
