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since i haven't been around, and i haven't been able to write as much as i've wanted, here's some stuff i was noodling with

i've been toying with a hurt/comfort fic exploring sith lightning as more (pun intended) insidious than in the films, because it is, technically a bolt of purely malevolent energy. i wanted the effects to work like radiation sickness. i have an unfinished WIP using this idea with obi-wan and anakin, where anakin's throat just kind of melts, but we can have all sorts of fun here.

a longer fic about the anakin-doesn't-fall-to-the-dark-side AU i keep in my back pocket, mustard gas & roses, covering exactly how it goes AU from the third episode. this would be from padme's perspective and be largely about her, but it would change a lot of the key details of that universe (obi-wan's role changes quite a bit) and by necessity would be plot heavy

another plot heavy anakin-doesn't-fall-to-the-dark-side AU, except from obi-wan's perspective. in this one, anakin doesn't do the stupid shithead idiot move, and he and mace work together to arrest palpatine. obi-wan is selected (because of his reputation as the negotiator, and the context he has thanks to anakin's knowledge about palpatine) to interrogate palpatine and get a full picture of how compromised the republic's security actually is, but inevitably palpatine is still playing the long game. i just think it'd be fun to explore what could make palpatine compelling as a villain even when he seemingly has no avenues left.

another fic featuring palpatine as the primary antagonist, but this one borrows from legends. in legends, the jedi temple is actually built over an old sith temple; the idea was, palpatine manipulates anakin into sneaking down to explore it for him. the unfortunate thing about sith temples is that they're passively acting on you, the whole time you're in them, and anakin, both particularly sensitive and particularly wounded, goes a bit off the deep end.

......... werewolf jedi. i'm sorry i've been watching a lot of god of war playthroughs. this is way dorkier than you think it is i promise.

shmi survives AOTC, but for whatever reason, anakin believes she died then. they reunite during a rehash of the slaves of the republic plotline, which i'm sure doesn't spark any specific emotions in anyone in particular. this would be a classic husborth fic-where-the-plot-is-feelings but, like, come on, this would be all feelings all the way down.

between the third and fourth episodes, say about ten years into the empire, obi-wan gets captured by palpatine. palpatine leverages his presence for all it's worth, including showing off to obi-wan exactly how loyal to him vader's become. this is an excuse to force vader and obi-wan to interact regularly without vader being able to kill obi-wan (he is not allowed because palpatine did not sign his permission slip) which leads to delicious character interactions not otherwise possible on account of vader's homicidal general state of being