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    “Shh. . .” Anakin says, gathering the younglings around him, reminding Obi-wan of all those whispered arguments where he had insisted to Anakin that yes, he was good with children, he’d be just fine teaching Ahsoka. He can almost feel the terror rising off Anakin from the hologram; Anakin doesn’t know what’s happening either. But he isn’t letting the younglings feel it. “You need to listen to me very carefully, okay? This--” his voice breaks, “--this is going to be scary. But you have to be calm, and strong. Just like Master Yoda taught you.”
     
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    Or, the ROTS au where Obi-wan finds a very different type of pain while looking through the Temple's recordings of Order 66.

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    Colin takes a step back. Bulb, he feels so torn. He just wants to speak up, tell Deli everything he never said, like I think I love you and I know you love me back, you damned fool. But now he’ll never get the chance.

    Colin’s shoulders drop as he makes his decision and begins to leave, pausing in the doorway. He looks back at Deli, who avoids his gaze. He’s still beautiful. He’ll probably never stop being beautiful. But he isn’t a good person. And Colin can’t do this anymore. Whatever this is.

    (A canon rewrite to make explicit what was implicit in Zac and Lou's roleplay)
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    Resurrection is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

     

    Lapin Cadbury comes back from the dead. Everyone has thoughts on that.

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    15 Feb 2025

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    It is becoming easier, almost, to adjust to the new way of life. He has switched to using his left hand to cast the spell, and the effects are creeping further and further up his left arm with each passing day, even if they vanish by the next morning.

    But that is an understandable price to pay. A reasonable price, if it keeps everyone else safe. It doesn’t matter, really, if he has started to find more and more lacerations from stray waves of shadow each morning as he lies in his untouched bed. It doesn’t matter that the pupils of his eyes, when he gazes into the reflective glass of the captain’s desk, are starting to disappear entirely. Nor that he will sometimes start at the faint feeling of fingers threading around his neck, tracing the line of his cheek.

    “Praesidio. Praesidio, fortier defendebant, defendebant splendide...”

    The Rocks family is safe. Any price is worth that.

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    Lapin Cadbury returns to the living during a storm at sea. The Sugar Plum Fairy has her own twisted web of manipulation to spin, with him at the very center.

    Written for the Dimension 20 Big Bang 2020!

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    Nothing about their friendship had ever been either conventional or friendly. In fact, Theobald was being terribly optimistic by calling it a friendship. (Rivalry felt more appropriate, but that felt like admitting there was even a sliver of a chance that Lapin could best him.)

     

    The long history of Theobald Gumbar and Lapin Cadbury, and why they hate each other.

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