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Title: We Could Be Beautiful
Fandom: Star Wars
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Ace Kudzulek/Tobi Wrentz (nonbinary OC/female OC)
Warnings: nonbinary character, trans characters, PoC characters, Jedi positive (but Coruscant-critical b/c of pov), OC-heavy
Summary: Newly knighted, Ace Kudzulek pays a surprise visit to their girlfriend, Tobi, on Corellia. Which...isn't actually as much of a surprise as they might have wished.

A/N: For Star Wars OC Week's day three prompt of relationship. (Technically, I'm a little late, but the mod(s) actually sketched out 8 days for the event week, so there's wiggle room. ;P)
I was actually sort of tempted to try writing the mission where Ace and Feemor met Tobi, but it would have meant using Ace's birth pronouns, and that was making me...super uncomfortable. So, first date after Ace has been knighted.

This is not, necessarily, a part of the Make a Brand New End series—Ace is one of my multi-fic OCs, and this would have happened around the time Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon were on Mandalore, so well before the events of that series—but Tobi's only shown up there, so... *shrugs* I'm not going to add it to the series collection, but I'll link this to Now I Fly on AO3.

For those familiar with Make a Brand New End, you may recall that the Corellian Temple and the Coruscant Temple have slightly different takes on marriage, and Tobi is more than a little hopeful that Ace will transfer so they can marry, but Ace doesn't want to. That will feature in this fic, but there's no actual conversation about it, just Tobi thinking a lot about how much she wants Ace to become a Corellian Jedi.

I did put together an image of Ace and Tobi, using a dollmaker (unfortunately, not one of the ones that have been upgraded online to work without Flash, sorry), which should be included on all of the sites this is posted at, including tumblr, with a description of the image. If that's broken anywhere, please let me know.

This has not had even a cursory reread, because it was already late enough, whoops. If you see anything wonky, especially any misused pronouns, please let me know.

Cross-posted to Archive of Our Own and Dreamwidth.

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Title: Hukaat'kama
Fandom: Star Wars
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Jango Fett/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Warnings: Asexual!Jango, AU, hurt/comfort, pre-relationship, established relationship, mentioned drug addiction and withdrawal, mentioned slavery, mentioned genocide, canon-typical violence, Mandalorian culture, Jedi culture, non-binary clones, grief, angst, Kamino is the worst, Jango's questionable parenting, mention of reconditioning, hopeful ending
Summary: Five times someone threatened Jango for Obi-Wan's sake.

A/N: This is less of a +1—or even particularly related to the theme, tbh—but I woke up one night with the idea for it already half formed, and it is extremely relevant to this fic. And I don't know where I'd put it, if not at the end of this set. So.

The Kaminoans are the worst, and the clones definitely deserved better. But so did Jango.
Nod to watch it grow, child of woe by afearsomecritter; I'm not sure if this fic can be wholly blamed for sparking the idea of Jango getting reconditioned, but I did end up thinking about it a bit while writing this chapter. (Gen, the Kaminoans recondition Jango to the point that he doesn't remember who he is.)

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Title: Hukaat'kama
Fandom: Star Wars
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Jango Fett/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Warnings: Asexual!Jango, AU, hurt/comfort, pre-relationship, established relationship, mentioned drug addiction and withdrawal, mentioned slavery, mentioned genocide, canon-typical violence, Mandalorian culture, Jedi culture, non-binary clones, grief, angst, Kamino is the worst, Jango's questionable parenting, mention of reconditioning, hopeful ending
Summary: Five times someone threatened Jango for Obi-Wan's sake.

A/N: At last, the person who started this foray. :') And then dragged their feet about actually getting to the threatening, sheesh.

I do personally ascribe to the headcanon that Cody's name was Kote before it was changed, for...idk, pick a reason. (My headcanon is that Jango gave it to them, and then it came out that Jango had been working with the Republic's enemy—not, necessarily, accurate in this AU; more likely, Jango did something that made Kote/Cody rethink using a name he'd given them—and they decided to change it to something else. Cody is close enough to Kote that any slips as their vode got used to using a new name wouldn't upset them or bring questions from any natborns who might be trusted enough to overhear.)
Sideways related, the first time I wrote a scene with Cody, they claimed they/them, so that's the pronouns I use for them. (Alpha actually did the same thing, which is why Jango kept using neutral pronouns for them last chapter.)

Warning for anyone who needs it that Jango has a panic attack when he and Cody are on Slave I. Let me know if I should put in a jump-link so y'all can skip it.

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Title: Hukaat'kama
Fandom: Star Wars
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Jango Fett/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Warnings: Asexual!Jango, AU, hurt/comfort, pre-relationship, established relationship, mentioned drug addiction and withdrawal, mentioned slavery, mentioned genocide, canon-typical violence, Mandalorian culture, Jedi culture, non-binary clones, grief, angst, Kamino is the worst, Jango's questionable parenting, mention of reconditioning, hopeful ending
Summary: Five times someone threatened Jango for Obi-Wan's sake.

A/N: Look, I started reading the comics when I fell into prequel hell this last time, and this snarly asshole just completely won me over; you had better believe I'll be giving Alpha a chance to give Jango shit.

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Title: Hukaat'kama
Fandom: Star Wars
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Jango Fett/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Warnings: Asexual!Jango, AU, hurt/comfort, pre-relationship, established relationship, mentioned drug addiction and withdrawal, mentioned slavery, mentioned genocide, canon-typical violence, Mandalorian culture, Jedi culture, non-binary clones, grief, angst, Kamino is the worst, Jango's questionable parenting, mention of reconditioning, hopeful ending
Summary: Five times someone threatened Jango for Obi-Wan's sake.

A/N: This chapter is a...little rough. Jango's suffering from a rather severe case of mental dissonance; part of him recognises Obi-Wan as safe and someone he loves, but another part of him despises jedi and wishes them all dead. Including and especially Kenobi.
Related, Jango is more than a little apathetically suicidal, once he can think straight. He doesn't make any attempts, but he also just doesn't care; take care of yourself, and if you need to skip out this chapter, I promise the next one will be better. (Although, these morons take their time about actually talking to one another.)

This was originally going to be Anakin, but it occurred to me that he's more likely to threaten Jango on Padmé's behalf, and since Quin got relegated to 'distract Obi-Wan so Dex can threaten his suitor' last time... (If you thought that comm call's timing was suspicious, congrats, you get a virtual cookie. ;)

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Title: Hukaat'kama
Fandom: Star Wars
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Jango Fett/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Warnings: Asexual!Jango, AU, hurt/comfort, pre-relationship, established relationship, mentioned drug addiction and withdrawal, mentioned slavery, mentioned genocide, canon-typical violence, Mandalorian culture, Jedi culture, non-binary clones, grief, angst, Kamino is the worst, Jango's questionable parenting, mention of reconditioning, hopeful ending
Summary: Five times someone threatened Jango for Obi-Wan's sake.

A/N: This was originally going to be Quinlan, but then Dex elbowed his way in, so here we are. (Sorry, Quin.)

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Title: Hukaat'kama
Fandom: Star Wars
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Jango Fett/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Warnings: Asexual!Jango, AU, hurt/comfort, pre-relationship, established relationship, mentioned drug addiction and withdrawal, mentioned slavery, mentioned genocide, canon-typical violence, Mandalorian culture, Jedi culture, non-binary clones, grief, angst, Kamino is the worst, Jango's questionable parenting, mention of reconditioning, hopeful ending
Summary: Five times someone threatened Jango for Obi-Wan's sake.

A/N: Spiritual successor (precursor?) to Only You Now, which was one of my 2021 JangObi Week fics. By which I mean, thinking about that fic spawned this one, and this should be, if not completely accurate to the hints of backstory in that fic, close enough for government work.
This started as me wanting to write Cody giving Jango the shovel talk the first time Jango docked with the Negotiator to see Obi-Wan, and then it occurred to me that Cody would not have been the first person to threaten Jango for Obi-Wan's sake, so you get this disaster, instead. Heh.
I thought about doing one for Qui-Gon, but ultimately decided not to. Reader's choice if Qui-Gon is missing because he's knew better than to get in the middle of Obi-Wan's interpersonal relationships, just never had the opportunity, or was a shitty master.

My usual headcanon has Jango wasting away on the spice ship until around the time of Obi-Wan's mission to Mandalore—Tor's murder would explain why Death Watch, who had been so gung-ho to claim Mandalore, got their arses handed to them by a bunch of pacifists—but Jango was freed sooner in this AU.
Also, this Jango does not wholly blame the jedi for Galidraan; any part he had in the plot to use the clones against the Order, was wholly due to sith mind fuckery. Which is implied, but not outright stated. (Mostly because I didn't care to try to figure out what all, exactly, Dooku was willing to trust him with about the plan to have the clones kill the jedi.)

Mando'a has hovertext translations—mobile-capable on AO3, not on DW or LJ—and there is also a glossary of terms—last chapter on AO3, link at the bottom of any chapter on DW/LJ—for those who prefer that manner.
Title is given to mean "watch your six" in the dictionary.

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Glossary of Mando'a words and phrases from Hukaat'kama.
Words will be added as the relevant chapters post.

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Title: Haat'Mand'alor be Yaim'ol
Fandom: Star Wars
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Jaster Mereel
Warnings: Time travel, canon-typical violence, fix-it (apparently), not everyone dies/some live, the Kaminoans are the worst, Jaster is the Mand'alor we deserve, character death, the clones deserve better, Jaster has 3 million grandkids, mental manipulation, Mandalorian culture, Mandalorian morality, an excessive amount of murder (of Kaminoans), Jedi culture respected, Jango needs a hug, Rex needs a hug, Fox needs a hug, EVERYONE GETS A HUG (except the Kaminoans), asexual Jango, nonbinary clones, trans clones, polyamory mention, disabled characters, happy ending
Summary: Jaster Mereel doesn't die on Korda VI, but is instead thrust forward thirty years to Kamino.

A/N: Jaster backs the Jedi Order, and the potential wedding is discussed.

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