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Obi-Wan’s Hands in Part V

(Parts I, II, III, IV)

#ELWEN.

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Ok ok good. We have stuff to do after all

*sobbing* SHILLIIIIIII MOOT????

What no!! 😱 Don’t believe these lies bb I’m still moots with you!! 🥺💖💖

This app’s trying to tear us apart 😤

#there’s a bunch of you #that don’t have the mutuals sign anymore #but I don’t wanna bother you #except you Chili

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with access to the 2022 tumblr vernacular, he'd be unstoppable

#CACKLING #house md

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Birthday twins!!!

Happy birthday to youuuuuuuuu 💜💜💜

#my birthday was last week #and it’s been BUSY

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Belatedly, then, but I hope you had a very very happy birthday, you wonderful wonderful person! 💕💕💕

AW YOUUUU 💜💜💜 Thank you! Yes I had an amazing day!

#bday wishes

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Happy Birthday!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ε>

Thank youuuuuu 💜

#bday wishes

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Okay, you know what? After reading this post, I jokingly said we should all just make a pact to reblog it five times a day forever. So I'm gonna do this louder for the people in the back:

AO3 WAS CREATED BY FANS, FOR FANS

AO3 IS RUN BY FANS (VOLUNTEERS, NO LESS)

AO3 IS PART OF THE NON-PROFIT, ORGANIZATION FOR TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS

AO3 IS NOT OWNED BY ANY COMPANIES AND DOES NOT EARN REVENUE

AO3 OPERATES ON DONATIONS FROM FANS

again:

AO3 WAS CREATED BY FANS, FOR FANS

#ao3 #fandom

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Is the last part of the Loud AU after Cody being activated?

Hello! :D

No, the part I posted today is all about hints and foreshadowing why Palpatine is gunning for Obi-Wan in particular (since in this verse he’s not as visibly present in Anakin’s life to outsiders) and how he knows to use Cody for that.

As far as the timeline events are concerned, an activated Cody is bringing Obi-Wan to Coruscant.

#loud au

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“Until tomorrow?”

Cody nods, nose softly bumping against Obi-Wan’s. “Perimeter is set up for patrols. Gunships and freighters are loaded up. Supplies are distributed, and lights out was ten minutes ago. We’re up ship-side at first light.”

Obi-Wan shivers, pulls the robe tighter around them. “Ten minutes past curfew already,” he teases. “How rebellious of us.”

“I won’t tell command if you keep quiet as well,” Cody whispers with a serious look. Cracks into a grin when Obi-Wan chuckles.

“My lips are sealed, Commander.”

The setting sun is playing with the mellow lines around blue eyes, and Cody shuffles in closer.

“I know we’re tempting fate but let’s take another ten,” he offers. Asks. Pleads, deep down under the duty, the responsibilities.

Obi-Wan’s gaze drops down to his lips before eyes close. Forehead coming to rest against his. “Let’s tempt fate.”

#last year’s bday art :D

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Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, Obi-Wan Kenobi, 212th Attack Battalion Members Summary:

Cody gets a new Jedi assigned to the 212th Attack Battalion after he is forced to execute his last one. He has enough experience to know how this new Jedi will behave.

But the Sith Slayer proves himself to be the exception to all of Cody’s expectations.

Cody leads his unit, fights a multi-front war, and tries to figure out JM-031.

Notes: In which I get to give Obi-Wan a really inappropriate nickname for the majority of the Fic and try not to think of all the people that will think of Buffy. 

#codywan #oh??????? #to read

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Part 6-I: Cowards, Here’s The Sun

How to steal a war on purpose, your ex(-ish)’s heart on accident, and the little that is left of your brothers’ sanity for funsies. Essay in two parts by Marshal Commander Cody.

I GOT MY HEAD CHECKED

“I have missed you, Obi-Wan,” Dooku says with a small smile, hugging him close.

“I haven’t missed you at all, Pops,” he murmurs back, forehead coming to rest against Dooku’s chest. He just needs a minute and he’ll let go.

Just another minute.

“What are they doing to you, child,” Dooku sighs against his hair.

A myriad of answers to that question and none of them are allowed to reach Dooku’s ears.

Read the rest on AO3

#on my dash 🥰 #ah man I love these two #they’re so so so fucked up about each other #loved writing them #also yes #bc Dooku strives for a nice work-life-balance #he definitely bakes Sithywan cookies once in a Serenno blue moon

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My one word:

selfless

"Maybe the Council could send someone else," Cody suggests quietly, his dark eyes concerned, "You're barely recovered from your last solo mission, and we have a campaign to plan. Surely it would be reasonable to ask." 

"I asked," Obi-Wan says, "There is no one else." 

Obi-Wan watches Cody accept it, sees his expression go troubled and resigned as he nods. Obi-Wan is needed, with urgency. Lives hang in the balance. Cody understands duty, above all things. 

He really is, Obi-Wan reflects, a good man. A good man who loves him. Obi-Wan feels it like a knife in his gut. He has a bad feeling about this mission, and any words of comfort or farewell he might have to offer feel woefully inadequate when he can feel the way Cody's tender devotion shines steady and bright and precious and rare.

Still, Cody is going to let him go.

"Look after the men while I'm gone, Commander," Obi-Wan says finally, "And be safe."

Be safe, be safe. It beats in his chest like a prayer.

"I will," Cody says with a fond half-smile, but his eyes are sad. "Keep yourself alive, for me."

Obi-Wan wants to go to him again. He wants to kiss the corners of his eyes where he tucks his sadness, and run his fingers through his short curls, and feed him honeyed bread from his own hands. He wants to fold himself up into the steady light of this man's heart, and be held there. He wants to stay. He wants to love him the way he deserves. 

But he is a Jedi. And there is no one else.

He walks out the door. He knows he takes Cody's whole heart with him.

#I am crying into my microwave #codywan

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

#it truly is and it’s unfair 😞 #adulthood is a myth

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LOUD.

a Jedi Shadow!Obi-Wan AU

“Each of us, every single clone, is a one-man army. And yes, I am… I’m so proud of them. We protect the Galaxy, we die fighting for the Galaxy and its peoples. We are not made for peace times, Obi-Wan.”

The cynical part of Obi-Wan wants to ask why Cody is so steadfast in his belief when everywhere the clones go they’re confronted with people dismissing them, equating them to the droids they’re fighting.

He understands, though. Jedi are only welcome where people know about the help they can provide. The Order is looked down upon, the Jedi just as easily dismissed, more often than not when it comes to it.

And still. And still. The call to protect people is too strong to ignore. He doesn’t want to ignore the call. He can help so he does.

So yes, he understands Cody and his need to fight.

He watches as Cody self-consciously rubs the back of his neck, fingers not halting over the port, so— so used to its presence, as the silence reigns. Cody doesn’t try to further his explanations. He said his piece and that’s that.

Obi-Wan settles down on the floor in front of the weightlifting bench. And Cody.

He crosses his legs automatically, the armor he has to don if he wants to engage in the battles blessedly absent, here. His fingers find Cody’s other hand in his lap, tapping it lightly, glancing by the embedded screen in the armored boot proclaiming Cody as belonging to the 212th.

Commander Cody got his own Attack Battalion. Mace remains the immediate superior but the brass saw Cody’s merit. No Jedi can easily fill the role as war general and Cody is… too brilliant to not be in charge. He and Mace have been flattening the CIS, the GAR is only too happy to spread out their heavy hitters.

“He’s always giving them a chance to surrender first,” Cody had commented on Mace, pride and admiration shining from his whole body. “How he’s able to walk with balls like that is a mystery to me.”

Obi-Wan had politely choked on nothing.

Once Cody is looking at him, apologies in his eyes for being made for war, of war, Obi-Wan signs a simple question. “How would you know?”

Temper makes the scarred eyebrow rise and Obi-Wan continues, undeterred now that Cody’s attention isn’t on misplaced guilt.

“You know nothing but war. You’ve learnt nothing but war. You’ve,” Obi-Wan pauses to swallow the grief, “experienced nothing but war in your life. How would you know you’re not made for peace times when you haven’t even had the chance to live in them?”

A smile, half there and fleeing, cracks, warm brown eyes watch Obi-Wan’s hands. “In my darkest moments I’m not sure I’ll even see them.”

Obi-Wan is against false promises but hope has never left his life’s side and he’d like to share. “We work together and we end this war. We see as many of you and us on the other side as possible.”

“Sounds like an easy first step,” Cody laughs ruefully, and leans down, captures Obi-Wan’s unmasked face, blurred by the unknown, and holds their foreheads together for a long self-indulgent moment.

Obi-Wan ducks his head, mask and scars in place once more. “Is that something you wish? To see me?”

Cody shakes his head, shoulders tight. “I’m sorry. I went too far.”

No, you didn’t, Obi-Wan wants to tell him, I want you to see me.

Soon. Probably. As soon as Obi-Wan has removed the screws from his heart and their doubting pressure.

“I think I can help you,” Obi-Wan signs, bullheading through the burgeoning silence. “But I need your help for that.”

“What do you need,” Cody asks, all Commander now that he’s got a mission objective.

“I want to know how you can communicate neurally and who has access to that channel.” He’s been looking into it for months, always ending in front of a Kaminoan wall. He’s at his wits end and now, now, with Bail confirming Palpatine is shuffling credits to the CIS and it’s still only heresy where a court is concerned…

Kamino confirmed only authorized personnel has access to the comm links in the clones’ heads. What if those include the CIS?

Cody blinks in surprise. “General Windu has access to that information.”

Does he? Obi-Wan is beginning to doubt that fact. “Humor me.”

Shoulders go wide, straight, loose. “Protocol dictates that, in case of emergency in an engagement situation, a High General is able to deploy orders directly to a CC-class clone via the Force after initiating with the correct identification.”

The clones are password-locked. Obi-Wan tries very, very hard to keep his expression neutral. “I assume every Commander knows the identification?”

Cody starts to smile, a mischievous twinkle in his eyes, ready to playfully lecture Obi-Wan about confidentiality. Obi-Wan can see that, can feel the intention of Cody to do so. Before his eyes sharpen like the back-up blade in the boot holster. “Is there a leak?”

“Not that I’m sure of,” Obi-Wan hurries to sign. “Cody, please, what is the initialization sequence?”

Cody watches him, tracks his every move and twitch and stillness with keen eyes. Obi-Wan lets him, not able to keep a lid on the worry he’s feeling, the Force hushed in absolute and anticipation. “Every Commander knows those words. No one else does. A High General can request it of his Commander. That is what General Windu knows. A Commander takes the words to their grave if they have to.” A built-in failsafe, based on the clones’ loyalty to the Republic. “And the Jedi,” Cody adds with a soft smile. “Maybe we have been trained to follow you but you have proven yourself over and over again. The initialization is—“ Cody’s face twists into confusion as the Force starts— starts to shriek in warning. “Is…”

Shards of glass hurtle towards Obi-Wan, high-pitched tone piercing his eardrums, hack into his thoughts—

“Who are you?”

Obi-Wan hurries, pulls a hand up and projects “Cody, wake”.

.

Cody wakes, blinks. Shakes the cloudy remnants of a dream gone wrong off, as stuck on him, burnt into him as some details of it are.

He looks up when he notices the presence by the training salle entry, smiles up at Obi-Wan, feels his eyes go soft, relaxed.

Obi-Wan stares back at him, mask in place which ups the distant, rumbling intensity of his gaze like an incoming storm. “Thank you,” he signs, and Cody can see the tremors in his fingertips. Blue eyes flick up to the surveillance camera in the ceiling, go back to him.

Cody… remembers. Obi-Wan pushing him behind a destroyed tank during battle, one hand covering the helmet camera while the other had signed “need to talk, no eyes” in battle signs.

He looks to the door again but Obi-Wan is suddenly right in front of him, cradling his face so gently Cody can feel tears prick at his eyes, forehead carefully, with no hesitation and too much meaning coming to rest against his.

#loud au #my wips #codywan #commander cody #I love putting him in tank tops

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Important

What’s the most amount of time you’re willing to spend in the shower? Note: “in the shower” refers to being in the water, not drying hair after shower or any other post water activities.

#wth people….

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“Who would become grand master of the order after Yoda?”

I think the unspoken order goes Yoda -> Mace -> Ki Adi Mundi as of PT, in an AU where the order survives longer it’d go Yoda -> Mace -> Obi Wan (older and more wise like in OT)

Mace def feels like he’d be looked to as the leader without Yoda, and he’s got a good head on his shoulders: keeps up with the politics of the reublic and is wary of authoritarianism, is a skilled general and great warrior, heavily invested into the Jedi order and its role as peacekeepers and defends all life - even the zilo beast. He’s everything a great Jedi leader ought to be imo , if only he could live t 900 like yoda lol

Ki Adi Mundi feels like he’s got wisdom, awareness and skill and also the seniority , but wouldn’t be the go to followup as he feels more of a “default” Jedi - would do a good job and earnestly invest himself into the development of the order and defense of the republic; he’d tow the line in the war and flourish in peace time, but not reach the heights of Mace or Obi Wan. Tho I could see an argument for Plo Koon in this similar tertiary role

Obi Wan who ages into his OT adjacent self he’d achieve that wisdom and talent , and we know his diplomatic and Command skills, and he’d be a bit more proactive and assertive in the council than a Ki Adi Mundi imo which would make him be looked to as a leader imo, and his expirences with Satine, Maul, Anakin, the war, relief, etc. would all put him in a great position to guide others and the order at large

#obi-wan has a force migraine from reading that last sentence #he’s researching how to reverse being a force ghost for his own sanity #< prev tags #DYING #so true tho #in the meantime until he’s alive again #he calls Quin #Grandmaster Of The Order Vos exclusively

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It has been… so long since I did anything traditionally literal years but starting with a random post order 66 Quinlan felt like the right way to begin doing it again

Really need to practice traditionally more because force, the issues I see XD we will persist though

#QUIN QUIN QUINNNNNN #quinlan vos #IS STUNNINGGGG #CONGRATS ON YOUR BEAUTIFUL LINEART #I cry #I love the line weights