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hannah-schooler · 3 years

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hi hannah!! “night swimming” for the summer vibes prompts please? perhaps with some sneaky anakin and ahsoka and a very, very d o n e rex who got dragged along on one of their outrageously dumb adventures *again*??

only if you want to, of course <33

Hey Ash! Thanks so much for this prompt! I'm not saying writing this might've broken me out of my writers block, but i'm not...not saying that either.

from these prompts

Pacing the rocks, staring out at the midnight sea

Dark stretches of shadow painted the floor of the Naboo lake house as Ahsoka made her way out of the kitchen. She cradled a mug of jasmine tea gingerly in her hands as she shouldered open the large glass doors leading to the balcony.

The war might be over but the nightmares never stopped. Even here, with the steady sound of waves lapping against the lakeshore filling the air—possibly the most at peace she’d ever been—they still haunted her.

She sighed, bracing her forearms against the cool stone railing. Padme’s lake house—though Ahsoka thought it looked more like a castle than anything—was far enough away from the city that no light pollution marred her view of the stars. Years of astronav classes and the flashcards she’d memorized had her reciting the visible planets and star systems. Almost rotely, she picked them out: Geonosis, Ryloth, Eriadu, Corellia; Naboo’s three moons; the other planets of the Chommell Sector.

They were just pinpoints of light to other people, worlds that maybe their favorite food came from, or that they heard about on the holonews. But Ahsoka had a history with each one. And each memory was steeped in blood.

“You told me the nightmares had gotten better.”

Ahsoka didn’t turn at Anakin’s approach, simply continuing to stare at the spot on the horizon where dark water turned into the amorphous black of nighttime.

“You told me the same thing.” With the twins consuming nearly his every waking moment, he was usually passing out the moment they were asleep. There were few other reasons that he’d be awake too.

He came to stand by her side, glancing down at her out of the corner of his eye. “Guess we’re both liars, then.”

She huffed a laugh, putting aside her now-cold tea.

Anakin nudged her shoulder with his own, drawing her attention back to him. His long hair—now long enough to braid, much to her own enjoyment—was sticking up in random places, and she was pretty sure he’d been wearing the same shirt for three days. But there was a lightness to his eyes and a soft set to his shoulders that she had not seen in far too long. If she’d ever seen it. She liked to think that there were moments during the war when she had been able to remove the weight for just a little while with dumb jokes and pranks, but it always came back in the end.

He was carrying his trauma a lot better than she was these days.

“You wanna talk about it?”

She shook her head.

His gaze softened and he settled his arm around her shoulders, tucking her into his side. “You’re home now, Snips. Don’t forget that.”

They stood in silence for a little while, the fear and weariness leftover from her nightmare steadily leaking out of her in the face of Anakin’s all consuming warmth.

“I stayed here with Padme for a couple weeks right before the war started,” he said. When she looked up at him, he was watching the waves lap against the sandy shore. “She tried so hard to get me to go swim with her but I didn’t want to cross the sand.” He chuckled. “First and last time I ever thought I could win an argument with her. I was in the water within the hour.”

Ahsoka shook her head. “I can’t believe you used to be a bigger idiot than you are now.”

“Hey!”

The combination of his affronted expression and his bedhead had her doubling over in laughter. He looked like a startled bantha.

Suddenly an impish grin overtook his face. Then he was grabbing her wrist and dragging her behind him with what she was sure was Force-assisted effort, and heading toward the elegant stairs that led down to the water.

“Oh no, no, no, no. Skyguy, it's too cold!”

“Never thought I’d see the day when you were the one saying that instead of me.”

“That’s because we could go sunbathing on Jakku and you’d bring a blanket.”

Anakin just glared at her over his shoulder.

Well, if he was going to be like that… “Race you!”

Anakin spluttered as Ahsoka leapt down the stairs, rolling into a crouch at the bottom.

He tore after her, gaining on her with every step. Their laughter floated across the lake, and before Ahsoka could dive in, a massive wave crested, drenching her from head to toe.

She gasped at the icy shock, then turned around to see Anakin a few yards behind her with his arms still raised.

Ahsoka bared her fangs in a playful growl, and then Anakin was landing in the water with a splash. She waded in, up to her waist, waiting for him to surface. A few moments passed and he hadn’t come up. She scanned the water, but it had gone still once more, and even with her superior night vision, there was no sign of him.

“Skyguy?” she called. “Anakin?!”

Ahsoka sucked in a breath as something grabbed her around the waist, dragging her under the water.

She broke the surface, gasping for air, only to be met with Anakin’s unapologetic grin.

“You nerfherder!”

“Language, Snips.” But the reprimand was broken up by laughter. Ahsoka rolled her eyes as her own grin broke out across her face, soon turning into a full blown smile at their combined ridiculousness. She hadn’t felt this young in a long time, just playing in the water with her older brother.

Anakin had gone quiet, and when she looked over, he was treading water with a gentle expression on his face. It was the same one she saw when he was holding Leia; watching her babble incoherently up at him like he would move mountains to make her smile. Like he would for you, a voice in her head whispered. “There she is,” he murmured.

He maneuvered to float on his back, and after a moment Ahsoka joined him. She was looking at the stars again. But instead of her bloody history and the deaths that hung heavily on her heart, she just saw pinpricks of light forming a tapestry of kyber across the sky. Worlds full of people who were hurting just like she was, and healing all the same.

“It still hurts,” she mumbled.

“I know,” Anakin replied. Soft ripples bumped against her from the steady movement of his arms. “I think it maybe always will. But I promise you Ahsoka, I’m always going to be here for you when it gets hard.”

She smiled back at him, pushing her gratitude across their bond. “Same here, Master.”

“Do I even want to know what you two are doing?”

Pushing herself upright, Ahsoka saw Rex standing at the edge of the lake. He was shirtless, with a towel thrown over his shoulder and a bottle of water in his hand. Probably ready for a morning run. There was no telling what time it was, but the sky was beginning to lighten. They had yet to break Rex of the soldier’s habit of waking before dawn.

Ahsoka slid her eyes to Anakin at her side, her sly, mischievous gaze mirrored in his own blue eyes.

In sync, they raised their hands. Their poor Captain had no time to react before he was being flung high through the air and landing in the lake.

They dissolved into giggling fits even before Rex came up, face red. “How many times do I have to tell you to stop throwing me?!”

A couple hours later they had dragged themselves up onto the beach, the Force glowing in contentment around them. Even Anakin didn’t complain about the grains of sand sticking to their wet skin.

Ahsoka leaned against Anakin’s shoulder, prompting him to rest his head on top of hers. She wrapped an arm around Rex, giving him a squeeze.

The three of them, relics of an unjust war and carriers of history, sat on that beach and watched the sun rise on a new day. So many laid out in front of them, offering hope. Offering peace. Ahsoka let the feeling fill her and carry the nightmares away.

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hungrywhovianjedi · 4 years

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Twin Moons

Chapter one of my Star Wars A/U fic

read the epilogue here also find the full fic on my FF.net and AO3 here FF AO3

premise: Obi-Wan never took Luke to Tatooine in fact they overshot the force forsaken dustball completely and instead Luke grew up on the planet Lothal being trained to become a Jedi like his father before him. Ezra Bridger is an orphan loner who only makes an exception to his solitude for one boy. The boy who helped him out when he was seven, and that Ezra always seems to get into trouble.

Chapter summary: snapshots into the life of Obi-Wan and Luke as the boy grows up on Lothal, and a meeting with a hungry little boy who really wants a jogan fruit

Lothal wasn’t an unpleasant planet, but from the start one thing was clear to Obi-Wan, it wouldn’t be somewhere they could stay forever. The one blessing of the place was the abundant amount of untouched countryside. It was in this countryside, a fair distance from Capital City, that he purchased a small hut that he and Luke could live in.

Luke… Luke was everything he believed Padme would have hoped for. His blonde curls and bright blue eyes were a spitting image of Anakin, and Obi-Wan would have been lying if he said that it didn’t send a pang of grief through his heart. Then there was raising the boy. Sure he had practically raised the child’s father, but that was from the age of nine on, he wasn’t unfamiliar with the needs of an infant, he had taken time in the Temple to assist Master Yoda with caring for the younglings that was not to say he was particularly good at it however.

Exactly how bad he was at caring for younglings became clear when Luke began crawling, and he realized how hazardous everything was, that was also when the old jedi had stopped carrying his saber with him in the house. These things truly come into focus, when a nine month old, trying to pull himself up your leg accidentally activates your lightsaber nearly losing his toes. No no he wasn’t very good at this.

When Luke was two, he began to train the boy. Luke was a natural, already he was able to call a toy from across the room, or even hold full conversations with his “uncle” through the force. Obi-Wan thought that better. He was Luke’s uncle, had loved his father like a brother. So he became Uncle Ben. The first thing that Ben needed to teach him, was something not commonly taught in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, shielding. It was something Masters taught padawans before taking them on risky missions, but now it had begun to be a necessity of life.

He had seen the propaganda being streamed on the holonet, had seen Vader, a ghastly specter in all black, flanked by his enforcers. The inquisitors, force sensitive beings whose only driving goal was to hunt down the last of the “treasonous jedi” Vader’s robotically deep voice had informed the galaxy. He and his inquisitors would not rest until the galaxy was safe from the Jedi at last. It was horrifying, each one wore a mask but one, a tall man that Ben knew well. He had been a kind man, a guardian of the temple one he had spoken with often. He didn’t know his name, but his sorrow at seeing what he had become was great. The others were likely fallen Jedi as well, he didn’t want to know who else might be behind those masks, it was bad enough the force screamed at him who was behind the mask of Vader. The flashing lights on the front, others would assume were a control panel, likely thinking the man was no more than a machine, but Ben knew could hear the labored breathing of a man who would die without that mask. He did that.

Luke stirred in his arms, the toddler having fallen asleep while they watched Holo-programs for children. A stab of guilt went through him. He had cursed this child’s father to a fate worse than death by leaving him on the shores of Mustafar.

“I’m sorry Anakin, I failed you. I failed you” he looked down at Luke, “but I won’t fail him. I promise now I will not make the same mistakes with your son that I made with you”

Attachments were forbidden in the Jedi order, yet, despite trying his hardest to keep to the code, when he felt the love of attachment to his padawan, and even his grand padawan Ahsoka, he never saw what harm could come of it. He did however see the other side of it. Luminara... her padawan Barris, he had seen the hands off way she handled the girl, and in the end it led to her destroying the lives of not only those injured or killed in the blast, but Ahsoka and Anakin as well. He knew that the way the Council had ruled at that time had been one of the final blows to Anakin’s trust in them. That was the action that had lost him his padawan, it was why he didn’t go to the council for help when things got bad.

Luke wouldn’t have an easy time being raised in the ways of the force, but Ben knew he had little choice in the matter. The boy must learn to protect himself, especially if Yoda was right, and this boy and his sister were the last hopes of the galaxy.

The third year came and went quickly, and Ben crafted Luke his first practice Saber, really it was a wooden rod, since they didn’t have access to the Kyber needed to make a real practice saber, and began teaching the boy his forms. They did it by moonlight outside, as the hut was too small and doing it during the day would draw too much attention.

He taught the boy his basic Katas, he began with form one, and realized how difficult it would be to teach a three year old child the patience needed to learn saber forms. Instead the Jedi Master made a game of it.

It took months of their “game” Luke called it clack. Ben and Luke would each take a training saber, and they would clack them together, the goal was to break through and touch the other, and to avoid the “clack” of the sabers. Soon, he noticed Luke picking up some of his forms, as he had been careful to feed the basic stances of Shii cho into the game, and by the time his fourth birthday came Luke had learned all of the Kata’s of form one. It was then that Ben told him. Taught him that the game they played was really training to use a lightsaber. That was the first time he showed the boy his father’s saber. That was also the night that Ben told Luke a story.

He told a story of a young queen from Naboo, and a brave slave boy from Tatooine. He told the boy the story of an army of brothers, who became like family a young woman who became their sister, and for now, he left out all the heartache that went with it, let the little one live with the happy memories of the family who would have loved him.

By the time Luke was five, he was a natural of form one and had easily began to learn form two, it wouldn’t be long before he moved into form three Soresu, which Ben was looking forward to, his own mastery of the form making it the one easiest for him to teach. It was also when Ben began teaching Luke the way to find peace inside of the force.

Meditation had always been Anakin’s worst skill, the boy had always had a nervousness about him, that caused him to seek out alternative methods. Luke however seemed to have Padme’s patience, as he found it easy to dive into the force. Ben barely had to guide him.

He guided the boy with recitation of the Jedi code.

“There is no emotion, There is peace” Luke took a breath, “take all of your emotions, and release them, Luke”

“There is no ignorance, there is knowledge” Ben closed his eyes taking hold of Luke in the force and guiding him, “release your questioning mind to the force, allow it to answer you”

“There is no passion, there is serenity” The force flowed through him, “release your control, allow the force to guide you”

“There is no chaos, there is harmony” he felt Luke relax, allowing the force to take him deeper, “in the force all is equal, feel it there balanced before you”

“There is no death, there is only the force” Luke let out a breath, and Ben felt it too, a gentle sigh in the force, he could almost see the hands of Padme reach out and wrap around Luke. it shouldn’t be possible, non force sensitive people shouldn’t have a presence as such, even jedi do not keep their own energy when they die, yet there was no denying Padme’s presence, just for a moment then she was gone.

That wasn’t to be the last time he felt Padme in the force, the senator appearing that night as he did his own meditation

“Hello Master Jedi” came the soft voice of his friend.

“Padme, how is this possible? You were not sensitive to the force, yet I felt you with Luke and can tell you are real now”

Padme simply smiled and sat beside him, his meditation scape the room of a thousand fountains, “I’ve never known the great Obi-Wan Kenobi to question the force” she chuckled. “I suppose you could say I’m not truly here, but part of me is. It’s hard to explain, like a piece of me stayed behind when I died, I just remember being so scared, so cold. I reached out and someone answered, and it was like I split then. A part of me, the part speaking to you now, went with Luke, I suppose as some sort of guardian. The other with Leia”

Ben rubbed at his beard, “it is somewhat of an unknown what really happens when we die. Master Yoda says we rejoin the force, yet nobody has ever spoken with someone who is dead before”

“Now you have, I wanted to say something to you” Padme began, “Thank you, thank you for taking care of my son”

Ben didn’t know what to say, instead he just smiled, and nodded.

He came out of his meditation then, feeling lighter than he had for five years, confident in the fact that at least one of Luke’s parents was proud of what he was doing for their child. It was good that he came out of meditation when he did, as a sleepy Luke walked into the doorway, rubbing his eyes.

“Ben, I had a bad dream”

Ben smiled and opened his arms, “come here Luke, tell me about it”

~~~~~~~~~

Luke Skywalker knew he several things fir certain. One he had no parents, Ben told him they were heroes, his father a Jedi knight. Two nobody could ever know he was a jedi, Ben hid from him the worst of it, but he was aware that they were hunted. Three Ben Kenobi was the best father figure he could have asked for. Those of course were the obvious things, he knew he was loved. He knew he was safe, but he couldn’t help but be lonely. Sure he had Ben, and he enjoyed training to become a Jedi like Ben and his father were before the purge, but Ben was the only person he knew. He was seven years old, and he had no friends. He had tried talking to the person from the dormant tether in his mind, but they didn’t seem to like him, or they didn’t know how to talk to him more likely. Ben wasn’t very willing to tell the seven year old Luke why he had a quiet tether in his mind or why it was clearly a little girl his age, maybe Ben would tell him when he got older.

Until then, he helped Ben run the little garden behind their hut, and trained his saber katas behind the fence Ben built last summer.

Today he was doing his katas while Ben went up on the bluff to trade with one of the traveling farmers for some of the things they didn’t grow, that he heard the hum in the force. It was odd, sounding almost like the hum that came when Ben lowered his shields to teach Luke a new skill, but different. It wasn’t a very strong hum, and he didn’t think whoever had it had been trained at all. At least not by someone like Ben, his shielding was awful! At least he assumed it was a boy, as he hooked his father’s saber back to his waist and climbed up the fence to look over.

Huddled behind a boulder nearby, was a boy around Luke’s age, with black shaggy hair, and a dirty old orange jumpsuit. He was eyeing Ben’s Jogan tree hungrily. Luke dropped down and snuck around to the gate of the fence, and opened it. Continuing to move quietly, he moved so he was behind the same boulder as the boy.

“Are you hungry?” Luke asked.

The boy shot up into the air with a loud scream, that made Luke giggle, and hold out the tart he had brought out for a snack after his training.

“Here, it’s a jogan fruit tart, it will be better than a raw one off of my uncle’s tree” for a moment Luke wondered if the boy spoke basic, and started to try and think of other ways he may word it, he didn’t know many languages yet, it was one of the few things that Ben had any trouble teaching him.

“Wait, you’re just giving it to me?” oh good, he did speak basic, less struggle for him then.

Luke nodded, “Yes, Ben always says when people are hungry you should help them… so are you hungry?”

The boy nodded enthusiastically and wolfed down the tart. Luke was shocked how quickly the sweet treat disappeared. Then the boy grinned at him when it was gone “you’re right, that was really good”

Luke grinned back “I’m glad, my name is Luke Skywalker by the way”

The other boy held out his hand, “Nice to meet you Luke Skywalker, my name’s Ezra Bridger”

Luke shook his hand, he had a good feeling about Ezra Bridger, and when he reached out to the force, it seemed to have a good feeling about him too.

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searchingwardrobes · 4 years

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Would you answer 10, 12 & 18 for the 20 Fandom Asks List?

Thank you for the asks! Boy, have I got a lot to say for these . . .

#10 Characters that deserved worse?

Are you trying to get me in trouble? lol - just kidding. I definitely think Rumple deserved worse. Belle never should have taken him back. That relationship became downright abusive. And while I don’t despise Regina like some in the fandom, I definitely didn’t think she should have been crowned Queen of all the Realms. That should have been Snow. And the coronation should have been Emma’s birthday party to come full circle with the pilot.

#12 If you could change one ending in a book/show/game/etc, what would you change about it?

I have an entire thesis practically on how Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith should have gone. So pull up a chair . . . They did Padme dirty in that movie. In the first two, while her romance with Anakin was weak, they at least established her as a powerful, tough, smart woman. Do you seriously believe this woman would die of a broken heart? Not to mention she spent the entire movie on the sidelines, weeping. There was nothing wrong with her? SHE LOST HER WILL TO LIVE???? Please. She had two very good reasons to live - LUKE and LEIA! Oh my God, don’t even get me started. So in my opinion, Padme should have given birth to the twins at the beginning of the movie and Anakin should have already been descending into darkness (after all, he’d already committed genocide in episode II). I can get her giving up Luke as an infant because of the whole “every Sith needs an apprentice” and Vader’s quest to rule side by side with his son in the original films. They could have pretended she had the one child, and they both died in child birth while in reality, Obi Wan helps her get off world and disappear with Leia. The rest of the movie, order 66 is slowly carried out as years go by. It takes a long time to root out all the Jedi, and Leia lives on the run with her mom until she’s maybe three? Vader’s minions catch up with them somehow, and Padme dies protecting Leia’s identity. In her final moments, she sends a beacon to Baal Organa who takes Leia to Alderaan to raise. This solves three plot holes: #1 Jedi shouldn’t be that easy to take out. I know they trusted the Clones, but come on - where’s their Jedi reflexes? #2 Obi Wan told Luke in Episode IV that Vader “hunted down and murdered” the Jedi. #3 Liea’s comment to Luke that she remembered her mother makes sense. (He specifically asked her if she remembered her REAL mother, so don’t give me this nonsense that she was talking about her adoptive mother. Plus, there’s no evidence Queen Organa was dead before Alderaan was destroyed.) Whew, yeah that’s it. I’ve toyed with the idea of writing this as a fic. Maybe someday .. .

#18 Characters you want to wrap in a blanket and tell them they’re going to be okay?

Wow, it’s hard for me to choose just one! Little Emma and Little Killian, for sure. Poor babies! I wanted to do this for Chloe Sullivan in Smallville because she just had SO much crap happen to her, and I was so thrilled when she got together with Oliver. (Just to clarify I am talking about Chloe the character, not cult leader/trafficker Allison Mack.) And in The Mandalorian, I am a basket case worrying about The Child (Baby Yoda). I mean, I know the show won’t let that happen, but it’s a maternal instinct, I think.

#20 Name a song that reminds you heavily of a specific fandom or character.

Ever since Colin said that The Cure’s “Love Song” would be Hook and Emma’s song, I haven’t been able to listen to it without thinking Captain Swan. Colin really picked a good one! Then, of course, Christina Perri’s “The Words” is completely Captain Swan - she even said so.

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lizartgurl · 5 years

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Jaina Solo as Anastasia

So I was listening to the Anastasia soundtrack as I did my Jaina doodles and so enjoy this bullet-pointed AU with Jaina Solo as the Princess Anastasia, based on the Don Bluth Movie.

(I am so sorry this got so freaking long)

The Amidala family has ruled the planet of Naboo for a hundred years or so, the most recent being Padme Amidala, who married Anakin Skywalker and had two children, the twins Leia and Luke

Padme abdicated after her husband died, bestowing her grand kingdom to her daughter, the Princess Leia, who married General Han Solo and had three children, Anakin, the youngest, Jacen, and his twin, Jaina Solo, the oldest and designated heir.

Padme dotes on her only granddaughter, helping prepare the wild girl for ruling the planet one day.

During Padme’s reign with Anakin, they relied heavily on the advice of their counselor, Shiv Palpatine, who had mentored them both

Once Leia took the throne, she discovered that Palpatine had a hand in the death of her father, and would have executed him had he not escaped.

The Amidalas forget him, dedicating their efforts to improving their kingdom and trying to repair any damage that Palpatine had done to their people.

Jaina and her brothers grow up in the lap of luxury and want for nothing. Jaina learns to ride Fathiers and fly speeders like her father. Jacen is better with the Fatheirs than she is and she’s jealous of that fact because Jacen gets along great with ALL animals, and Fathiers are her favorite

All three children are strong in the force, like the rest of their family, and their Master Uncle Luke trains them to protect their friends and to fight for justice for their people.

One of the servants is the orphan boy Zekk, who often escapes from the palace with the Amidala children, searching for adventure. As much as they try to be friends, there is an entire world separating their very different lives.

Padme lives on the planet of Naboo, very similar to Alderaan, and all her grandchildren hate how far away she lives.

She returns to Alderaan for the Anniversary ball to celebrate the Hundredth year of the Amidala reign, with special gifts for all of her grandchildren to remember her by.

Jacen receives a rare Crystal Snake, Anakin gets a puzzle to test his wits, but Jaina’s is the most special. A tiny music box that she can tinker with so that it plays their favorite Alderaanian lullaby.

The night of the Ball, Palpatine returns, revealing his true form of Darth Sidious. He curses the Amidala family with death and unhappiness, and uses his newly found dark powers to stir the peace-loving people of Alderaan to violence against their beloved rulers.

The planet is racked with war, tearing at its seams. The Amidalas try to stay as long as they can, insisting that they can stop the violence in some way.

They cannot, and they must escape as a deadly weapon orchestrated by Darth Sidious aims for the planet’s core.

Desperate to keep a hold on her precious music box, Jaina is separated from her family in the spaceport, but is aided by Zekk, who directs her to a ship full of orphan children.

The two are cornered by Sidious himself, though Jaina drives him back with her wild powers, just barely defeating him.

This leaves her without her memories, but she is preserved somehow and stowed onboard the ship, but separated from Zekk, who now has Jaina’s beloved music box in his possession.

Alderaan is destroyed by Sidious’s hatred, its people scattered throughout the galaxy.

Much of the diaspora is concentrated in the capital of the galaxy, Coruscaunt, including Jaina, Zekk, and Lando Calrissian, a conman by nature and an old friend of Han Solo.

Having lost their daughter, Han, Leia, and Padme refuse to believe that she died with Alderaan, and offer a reward for anyone who can produce the heir of the Alderaanian throne, or any information leading to her.

Jaina has grown to adulthood being called “Jaya” by the other orphan children, no memory of the esteemed life she once led. She leaves the orphanage, to find work, wandering across the planet as a mechanic.

Lando has somewhat adopted Zekk the street rat, and they think they know how to get the reward money for the location of Jaina Solo.

They hold auditions for someone to pose as the lost heir, who they will teach the ways of courtly life, specifically the life of Jaina Solo.

Jaya is called in to fix their ship, and she is amazed by the familiarity of Alderaanian tech, and the lullaby Zekk is humming as he plays with the silent music box hanging around his neck.

Lando is struck with a brilliant idea, scruffy-looking mechanic Jaya will pose as the wild Jaina Solo Amidala, giving him and Zekk a shot at the reward money and Jaya a chance to leave Coruscaunt for once in her life and see the galaxy.

Their ship is attacked by Sidious’s demons, forcing them to take a public cruiser to Naboo, where the Amidalas now live.

Jaya is getting increasingly frustrated with the courtly rules and the fancy clothes Lando tries to make her dress up in. Zekk is getting just as frustrated with trying to teach her, and can’t help but feel like he’s missing something, and Lando keeps insisting that Jaya can pull it off perfectly, all with a winning smile.

While transferring between ships, Lando decides to teach Jaya to ride a fathier, as Jaina was so fond of doing

Suddenly it just clicks.

Jaya is sprinting ahead of Zekk and Lando, and remembering just about everything they’ve taught her. She carries herself like a princess, and discusses Alderaanian history with Lando, bringing up some points Zekk is very certain they’ve never taught her.

Finally it comes time to teach Jaya the Alderaanian waltz.

Lando tries first, but Jaya’s too stiff and awkward, so he makes Zekk do it.

Jaya doesn’t even question it but she is comfortable with Zekk. She trusts him, somehow, and hopes that he trusts her in return.

Zekk’s stomach aches as the though flits across his mind that maybe this is Jaina, his old friend, the princess of the Alderaanian Empire. If it’s true, she will find her family, and he will be happy for her, but it also means he will never see the princess again. He is a simply a common man, they cannot be.

Jaya doesn’t understand why Zekk is suddenly not talking to her.

Then she has a nightmare. Brothers, parents, family she does not recognize, all turn to demons before her eyes and try to pull her in with them, she is pulled through the ship as she sleepwalks, unable to awaken.

(another of sidious’s ploys to tear the amidalas apart)

Zekk awakens her as she is about to throw herself into the ship’s core, banishing the demons, how he doesn’t know.

He refuses to leave her side for the rest of the night.

Jaya doesn’t mind.

They arrive at Naboo, and Lando takes them to the estate of Master Skywalker, his former lover, and sister to Queen Leia Amidala. All attempting to prove themselves the Princess Jaina must speak to him before the Queen and her mother.

Jaya’s presence is dim in the force, almost severed somehow. Luke cannot get a reading on her, but she answers all his questions with sincere honesty.

Then she is asked to relay the story of her escape from Alderaan.

Her memory is fuzzy, but it’s been returning since her lessons.

She mentions the servant boy with emerald eyes and a sad sort of smile, how he pulled her by the hand through a crowd, and then he was gone.

Zekk is astonished. He has to leave the room. He has never told anyone of this, not even Lando. He wanted to forget his life on Alderaan until Lando concocted his get-rich-quick-slash-reunite-with-his-ex-boyfriend scheme.

Luke determines to take a chance on Jaya, inviting her to the Calamari opera Padme Amidala will be attending with him that evening. He takes them on a shopping spree around Naboo for fancy new clothes.

Zekk is even more in love with her than before, though he knows he shouldn’t. Jaya can’t understand why Zekk seems so upset when they are having so much fun.

They arrive at the opera, Zekk is still debating whether or not to tell Lando. Jaya dons an elegantly simple suit, rather than a dress, and follows Lando’s style with a flashy cape, and Zekk is speechless as he guides her into the opera.

At the end, they make their way to the Amidala’s private box.

Zekk tries to introduce Jaya as the Princess Jaina, but Padme will not have it. She is tired of girls trying to claim her money and legacy and break her heart as she searches for her family.

Zekk insists, he has to get Jaina back to her family.

Padme’s guard recognizes him as one whom they heard organizing auditions for a Jaina look-alike. Padme has him thrown out. Jaya overhears.

She leaves in tears, refusing to speak to Zekk or Lando.

Lando is just about to give up when Zekk tells him the truth, and makes one more attempt to reunite the Amidalas.

An expert pilot, he steals Padme Amidala away in her cruiser before her driver can get in, and shows her the music box Jaina dropped with him on the night the planet was destroyed.

Padme agrees to meet Jaya just once, in return for the music box.

Jaya is just leaving with her meager bag when Padme intercepts her, looking the girl up and down. The girl looks remarkably similar to herself and her daughter and grandson. Then again, so did many other girls.

She notices the key hanging around Jaina’s necklace, and asks what it’s for.

Jaya doesn’t know, it’s the only thing she’s always had, her only connection to her past life.

Padme looks again at the music box. It is definitely the one she gave Jaina, but a small lock is fastened on the side. A amateur’s handiwork, but a dedicated amateur.

Curious, she asks Jaya to humor an old woman, and Jaya holds the music box she thought was Zekk’s. Her key twists inside the lock, plinking out a gentle melody.

It isn’t until she hears the old Queen’s voice singing that she realizes she is singing with the music too.

Her memories accompany the words of the lullaby, and Padme embraces her. Jaina reunites with her parents, brothers, and meets Jacen’s golden-haired fiancee within an hour.

Lando settles in with Luke again, and so Padme tries to offer the reward to Zekk, who refuses. He is simply happy to see Jaina with her family.

A ball is organized to celebrate the return of the Princess.

Jaina is fitted for a dress, to her mother’s delight, and it isn’t so bad. It feels more like a cloud than yards and yards of ridiculous fabric. Jacen himself even says he can’t find anything to tease her about.

At the ball, Jaian tries to deny that she’s looking for Zekk but her grandmother knows her too well, even after all these years.

Jaina goes to the gardens to think, away from the parties and celebrations that are far too foreign to her now.

Sidious appears and attacks. Taken by surprise, Jaina is barely able to hold him off.

Zekk tries to leave and go back to Coruscaunt, but the bad feeling in his stomach won’t go away. He runs back to the palace just in time to distract Sidious.

Jaina snatches Sidious’s reliquary, the source of his power, and smashes it on the ground.

Sidious’s body disintegrates, left without a soul, and his curse upon the Amidalas does too.

Jaina returns to her family with her childhood friend, where he is welcomed into the family with open arms, by Jacen especially.

They know too well what it is like to live without an important part of their family.

It is far better to add more family members than to reject them.

Jacen marries the Princess of the Hapan Empire, and Zekk feels a lot of pressure, but Jaina reminds him that her title is simply honorary, because Alderaan no longer exists.

And they all live happily ever after on Naboo.

The end.

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Bottle of Blog No.42

An Aggressively Bias Review of Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones With NO Quarter Asked Nor Given 17 Years Later

The blogging saga continues. I carry forward my quest to review the entire live-action Star Wars series of movies before (what's claimed to be the end of the Skywalker Saga) Episode 9 is released later this month. In my last entry, I remembered being disappointed her hopeful at the end of the Phantom Menace. Justifying George Lucas’ cinematic septic swamp abortion as a sub-standard preface to what would surely be pure science fiction poetry on the big screen. I am aware many talented people poured their hearts and souls into this project. Working very hard to contribute to a project of this magnitude. Most remain blameless for the quality of the finished product. They were just doing their job. The one ultimately responsible for the travesty I am about to reign reasonable Hell upon is George Lucas. However, anyone who was even mildly in a position to suggest to Mr. Lucas that maybe this or that might not be a good idea is also to blame. My hypothesis is there was a serious case of sycophancy going about. I is I will not dabble in the melodrama that suggests this was an intimate betrayal unparalleled in human history. Yes, I was profoundly disappointed but I will not be seeking a therapist help for it. Badmouthing this expensive overindulging badly written and terribly assembled cash grab is all the therapy I need if needed.

Star Wars Episode 2 Attack of the Clones was one of the most monstrous pieces of burning Banta poodoo to ever smear a movie screen.

As before the dialogue and acting were stale stoic and uninspiring. ”Aggressive negotiations ” is one of the worst lines ever uttered on screen. Though it was spoken twice in the movie. Not sure if it is my bias, it's actual quality of the words or the how it delivered. But those words send angry vibes of annoyance my spine. Jar Jar Binks is still as irritating as ever though many of the characters with speaking roles give the obnoxious talking horse rabbit a run for his money. CGI took center stage while logic taken the day off.

An assassin tries to take our now Senator Amidala and instead of blowing her highrise apartment to smithereens some sort of giant poisonous centipedes are sent I to her bedroom instead? Why not load a flying droid with a ton of explosives and blow the building away. Clearly, the assassin does not care about collateral damage and flying droids could easily blend in with all the airborne traffic cluttering up the skyways.

From there it gets sillier. The over use of the word ”milady” while addressing Padme is pretentious at best. Again she changes costumes at least 9 times.

Padme goes into hiding to avoid any further assassination attempt. So what does she do? She goes back home to Naboo. Like her home wasn't being watched. Which brings me to my other point. It clearly wasn't being watched but they didn't know that. Seems the antagonist are just as dense as the protagonist are but to be fair the latter do come across as denser.

Anakin Skywalker who is now a teenage padawan is arrogant and whiney with no sign of the towering dark lord of the Sith he is to become insight.

The entire movie was an uncreative hack love story coupled with the introduction of what would eventually become the Empire’s stormtrooper army.

Needless CGI centerpieces and revelations everyone saw coming miles away. Before the prequel trilogy was even conceived those hopeful that we would get to see those movies surmised that the following bullet points would be to be addressed.

Anakin and Obi Want would meet and his Jedi training would commence.

Analkin would meet whom ever was destined to be Luke and Leia’s mother

The Clone Wars would break leading towards galactic wide devastation and bringing about the formation of the Empire and the rise of Palpatine as the Emperor.

Anakin falls to the dark side of the force and at some point knocks up Padme with twins.

Obi Want vs Anakin: Where Obi Want believe him to be dead after their duel.

Birth of Darth Vader

The Jedi Purge

Birth of Luke and Leia and away they go I to hiding along with Yoda and Obi-Wan.

All those events needed to.take place before Episode 4 A New Hope. Episode 2 touches on some of those and plants the seeds for the rest but in the crappiest way possible. By now George has had a serious ear or eyeful on how disappointed his fanbase was with Episode 1. So what does he do instead of correcting his mistakes? He doubles down and yells full steam ahead. The first time around I am fairly positive he had no ill will towards the audience but this time around there may have been some malicious intent.

”SCREW THEM! I’M GEORGE FREAKING LUCAS! They love Star Wars and they'll love what I give them”

At least that's what I figure he did. After such a backlash how can you not want to approach this from another level? Seems he just dug his heels in and with nothing but yes men around to support his decisions that created the finished product.

The other prime directive was merchandising again.

Now I am well aware this was a business venture first and foremost but with the obscene amount of money hurled at such an immense project one would think writing would a chair at the precedent table. Other stacks of turds called movies such as the Transformers franchise come to mind.

In conclusion, this movie was so unremarkable I feel it ultimately makes this blog entry the same. Primarily because all the proverbial tomatoes that can be hired have been hurled. This entry is just my take on it. Although greatly abbreviated.

There are dozens of bits of dialogue and scenes that are just bad. I could write a novella of reasonable length. Filling the pages with sharp letters of seething hate. All along though I would be writing about something that I use to love and looked forward to seeing again with tremendous glee. This is what I imagine divorce is like. For at this point I found my self separated from galaxy far away and a relatively long ago.

Oliver Evergloff

December -10 -2019

Post-Script Musings- I sense this entry needs a decent polishing. I'll get back to it at some point in the future.

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