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Star Wars AU Masterlist

(The Naruto Masterlist, previous pin)

Under a cut so I can edit as it grows. Since this list got long enough that tumblr started glitching when I tried to add more links, I’ve made other posts as well.

I have hit the maximum link limit… many times over.

Modern, Historic, Crossovers, and Otherwise Not Canonverse

Time Travel AUs: I have enough that they get their own list

Headcanons: Exactly what it says on the tin

Ships Masterlist: ships I do a lot with, not including nsfw

That Which is Unsafe for Work: You know the drill, folks. Tread carefully, for 18+ only.

Shitposts Collective: Shitposts

Wider AUs masterlist: masterpost for the AUs that have more than two parts

In the Big Leagues: for posts about fics that have made it to AO3

Miscellaneous: Star Wars Fic Writing Jokes, Discourse, Rec Lists, and Liveblogs

Meme Fills: What it says on the tin

If a line has an asterisk (*), then it’s been reworked into a proper fic on my AO3.

LAST UPDATED: Jan. 15th, 2023

This is currently separated into:

Random AUs (organized by era)

Modern AUs

Children and related (organized by era)

Weiterlesen

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AU where Xanatos is "redeemed by the power of cute," but it's actually a psychological whammy caused by Obi-Wan being supernaturally adorable as a species-specific juvenile defense mechanism, and is functionally immediate brainwashing by the 13yo who doesn't know that's what he's doing.

Tbh this is mostly just Defense Mechanism that makes Xanatos harmless, but in a way everyone finds very concerning and uncomfortable because it's kind of mind control.

Someone (@dracothulhu) asked if it was related to Mimic Spider AU, and it is not! Mimic spider AU is just "ohhhh you wanna fuck me so b--PSYCH! EATING YOU."

This is more "I'm a little baby, I'm SUCH a little baby, you don't want to hurt me, you could never hurt me, I'm so adorable I'm so cute doesn't it just kill you to think about hurting me?"

Mimic spider AU is just Hot and Confident. This is straight up Mind Whammie.

@threebea also thought brood parasitism, and offered:

I'm trying to figure out a reason for the Stewjoni to have like brood parasitism where they will stick their young with other families for awhile before picking them up Used to do it to Mandoalorians all the time, and it's part of the reason the Mandalorian adopt anything stereotype got so strong. Stewjoni looking at Jedi: those seem parent shaped here you go

Which is great, except I actually started with the idea of it being kind of the inverse!

(That said, I won't actually say no to the brood parasitism option.)

Xanatos: had been about to kidnap and put him on a deep sea mine now is feeding him pudding Is it he's acting normal but doing weird things or is he suddenly talking to Obi-Wan like he's an adorable puppy

He's kind of zoned out.

Xanatos: look at him so cute Omg Obi-Wan: standing there Xanatos: kriff I don't have a camera - also from threebea

Also cuddles! Which Obi-Wan actually Does Not Want. But if he's Very Very Still then maybe Qui-Gon will find him and fix this.

Like if a tiger held and groomed you and you just were waiting Very Still for the zookeeper to distract it and/or load up the tranq.

After the days he's had he'd perhaps like a cuddle but not from this guy Lol Xanatos: so soft The effect only works on humans and near humans so it didn't work on the hutt and (can't remember the other species) on the ship

We can say it works through the Force and that's why the Hutt is immune.

"Stewjoni are targets of slavers" but specifically for illegal adoptions. It's lucrative, because most bounty hunters last about twenty seconds before they give the crying baby back where it wants to go.

And most of the immune ones get caught by planetary defense forces.

So if you CAN steal a baby, the profit margin is insane, since it's so damn hard to do, but the baby up for illegal adoption is sooooo cute.

(…this concept would be hilarious with one of those "Tor adopts baby Ben Kenobi to turn into a weapon" AUs. Still a shitty childhood bc Death Watch can justify a lot under the umbrella of Teaching Self-Defense. But interesting.)

IF YOU HAVE READ TWILIGHT: do you remember the bit about vampire babies being so cute that people would let them slaughter entire villages without a qualm?

It's like that, except Obi-Wan doesn't have dreams of mass slaughter and it only really activates as a Threat Response.

I guess the evolutionary trigger is it's kind of a paralytic You can't move far from where you stole the kid

Which is exactly right!

(an attempt of) luke in the clone wars (2003) style

Star Wars AU Masterlist: Time-Travel

So, it turns out tumblr has a Maximum number of links you can have on one post… and I hit that limit. Several times. So… multiple masterlists.

Main Masterlist

Currently this list is separated into:

Time Travel AUs in the Wider AUs masterlist

Jangosoka

Ahsoka-focused

Disaster Trio (one or more, exclusing Ahsoka solos or Vader solos)

Original Trilogy cast

Other

Weiterlesen

The Puppeteer

Ashes fell from red skies over the battlefield, on broken speeders, scattered weapons and lifeless bodies. Luke walked among them, checking, searching for familiar faces, hoping not to find the ones he was looking for among them. They had to be alive, he could feel it in the Force.

Six months had passed since the Empire attacked Hoth Base, but Luke remembered too well the burning cold and a blurry sight of the flames engulfing the building as Han carried him out, still weak and wet in bacta, running to the Falcon. Not even the howling blizzard could mask the screams and blaster shots exploding through his memories.

The Empire’s strike was fast, faster than what they all had anticipated and much more devastating. It was only when the survivors had escaped to the next rendezvous point that they realized a whole squadron of pilots went missing in the chaos that day.

Rogue Squadron was lost, each one of them was presumed dead in battle. Hobbie, Tycho, Janson, Wedge. Luke felt the knot on his stomach as he remembered them. He could have helped them, he should have, he was a Jedi!

“You should not carry on such weight upon you” Mon Mothma had told him, trying to stop him from going into this crusade “you are not guilty for surviving”

But Leia knew how he felt, the impotence, the desire for justice. She too had lost enough to the Empire.

“I trust you if you feel you can still save them,” she had told him, when Luke asked for guidance “just take care. The Rebellion can’t lose more pilots” I can’t lose you too her thought passed by Luke’s mind with their last glance as he boarded his X-Wing.

He took a deep breath, closing his eyes to clear his thoughts and focus in the present, in the Force. He could feel how strong the Dark Side was here, it’s web of faint tendrils spreaded through the field, around the light of his presence, guiding him towards the tangled black hole that was their core. Each strand seemed to be tied to a fallen Stormtrooper, withering and slowly fading.

This was something he had not seen before. The feeling of being a fly walking into a spider’s trap was stronger with each step.

The scattered comms intercepted by Rebel intelligence a few weeks back implied some kind of experiment going on with the Empire’s troops, but no one was sure about what exactly it was. Some thought it was a droid squadron relying on a hive mind, others suggested it could be a brainwashing program to make them unquestionably loyal, but they all were certain it would be tested here again. It was the Rebel’s opportunity to find out what had happened on Hoth and Luke’s to get some answers.

The plunging temperature was his first warning, the same cold he felt in Hoth not in his skin but on his soul, followed by a sound of a group walking closer. It was them; they were with Vader.

“Father” Luke said, standing out of his hiding place, caught by surprise at the sight of a group of Stormtroopers.

The troopers quickly turned to aim at him, all exactly at the same time like synchronized droids. There was something extremely wrong in the way they stood, rigid as if their bodies were not flesh and bone. Through their broken armor and helmets Luke could see their eyes, soulless, unblinking as their pupils glowed with an unnatural yellow. Behind them stood the Sith Lord, a towering shadow slowly turning to meet his gaze, deep black lenses on bright blue eyes.

“Son” Vader’s voice was unsettlingly calm as he watched down the Jedi standing a few feet away.

In the Force he could feel the trooper’s minds screaming for release, prisoner of the same dark tendrils that laid all over the battlefield, holding their bodies like puppets on a string. Luke frowned, horrified as the painful realization fell on him.

He knew those eyes by different colors.

“Release them” Luke growled, taking his lightsaber to ignite it.

The wind blowed, carrying away the embers of near fire, glowing in the darkness like the yellow eyes staring at him.

The eyes of the Rogue Squadron.

Run Luke! A cacophony of overlayed voices cried through the Force, it’s a trap, run, forget us, we are dead already. But he would not leave them, he couldn’t, not after searching for them through the whole galaxy. Its was his fault they were prisoners on their own bodies; he had already failed once; he couldn’t fail them again.

“I said release them, Vader” Luke snarled, gripping his lightsaber tighter.

“You are in no position for demands, young one” Vader replied.

The painful screams of the Rogues at unison startled Luke as they echoed in his mind. The squadron moved, shooting their blasters at him with uncanny precision. They were not set to stun Luke noticed as he quickly deflected the shots away with his saber, soon overwhelmed by the heavy fire. With a swift movement he parried one last shot back towards Vader before running for cover. The plasma bolt ricocheted on the Sith’s chest armor.

Behind a crashed speeder shielding him, Luke could hear the steps of the Rogues approaching. He was cornered against them and what remained of an AT-AT. There had to be a way to release them, he didn’t want to harm his friends any further.  

“You cannot save them,” Vader’s voice boomed through the battlefield, clearly reading his thoughts “surrender and I shall release their feeble bodies”

A drop of cold sweat ran down Luke’s temple. He could still hear the whispers thrown at him. Run, save yourself. He certainly could strike them to reach his X-Wing, fly away from here, forget this all happened, tell the Rebellion he found Rogue Squadron dead… but every day he would remember this last chance to save the ones who risked their own lives for him so many times under unknown skies and Imperial fire, the ones who embraced him like a family when he had lost everyone. He could not attack them, much less leave their fate on Vader’s hands. The guilt already ate his soul slowly every day since Hoth.

Luke braced himself for a moment before deactivating the lightsaber, slowly rising from behind the speeder with his hands up. The Rogues on trooper armor still pointed their blasters at him. No! Don’t do this! Run! Wedge’s voice rippled inside his head. The lightsaber flew through the air from Luke’s hand to Vader’s, who clipped it to his belt.

“A wise decision”

His father’s voice stated before Luke watched in horror how his friends dropped to the ground, screaming and howling in pain. Their limbs twisted on unnatural ways, the snap of bones breaking.

“No! Stop!!” Luke ran towards them, unable to do anything as he tried to hold Wedge. He glared at Vader “I surrendered! You said you would release them!!”

“I stated I would release their bodies. I never specified they would be able to use them again”

Luke clenched his fists. He could not stand helpless to watch his friends being broken to pieces around him, not after all they had endured, after all he had done to save them. The Force sang at him, like a breeze turning into cold maelstrom, filling him with a power he had not felt before. The same dark tendrils covering the field and pulling the Rogue’s limbs suddenly tensed and stopped at his command, releasing their bodies. He focused on Vader, feeling his father’s surprise as he took hold of the strings, commanding them to coil around the Sith’s prosthetics. With a flick of his wrist he pulled them, and Vader fell to his knees, the strength of the Force shattering the durasteel armor covering his legs.

Luke held him there, immobile, thinking about breaking him the same way he did to his friends, to twist and turn him until he screamed in pain. With a single string he took hold of his neck under the mask. A sound from the vocoder stopped him, like a series of huffs. Laughing, Luke realized, Vader was laughing at him.

“You are a fast learner, son.” the Sith’s mask slowly tilted to look directly at him “You shall make an excellent apprentice”

The realization of what he had just done fell on him. Luke stared in shock at his friends laying in the ground, badly injured but still alive, free of Force strings surrounding them. He looked down at his hands, gripping the now withering tendrils that held Vader.

The rage had filled him, disguised as rightful justice, convincing him he deserved to have revenge. A moment of weakness was enough to fall to the Dark Side. 

Post-Episode 5 reaction

Empress

This AU really starts when Anakin finds his mother in the Tusken camp, but only truly works if there is a little set up before.  It is imperative, for reasons that will become clear, to note that in this Palpatine has been manipulating Anakin with the Force, as opposed to only psychologically, since he was a child.  Palpatine has been seeding the darkside, hidden deep so that it was never discovered (even by Anakin), waiting to sprout and spread the darkside like an infection at the appropriate moments. 

When Anakin finds his mother as she dies, he loses it, but not to violence. Instead he panics and shoves every bit of Force that he can into his mother’s body to try and bring her back and heal her. Every bit of the Force, including the darkside seeds that Palpatine had been planting.  Because healing is primarily a light sided technique, thus somewhat purifying, Shmi does not get the full force of the darkside infection that would have hit her son (so we avoid Vader!Shmi or even Full Sidious!Shmi) however there were a number of long lasting effects to the way Anakin panicked and brought her back (incidentally Anakin has now created two new deities for the Tuskans, which Shmi does note and will make use of later).  These include:

A Force bond between her and Anakin that gave her Anakin's memories and feelings for the past decade. 

A working knowledge of what Palpatine knew (From Palpatine’s Dark Seeds), though no firsthand memories. 

Force Sensitivity that is powerful enough to use the various techniques she just gained the knowledge to use.

A significant hit to the moral centers of her psyche.

A Soul Deep and engrossing ambition to rule the Galaxy.

Now Shmi is not evil in the way that Palpatine is (Palpatine is the kind of evil that not only does whatever he wants to accomplish his goal, but actively goes out of his way to create as much collateral as possible and will in fact even mildly inconvenience himself in order to increase collateral damage) but she does now fall closer to Amoral than not. Like her first option is not to kill kids, but it is never not an option. Shmi does justify her new desire to rule the galaxy, based on the fact that she would be better at it than Palpatine. 

By the time Anakin and Shmi have made it back to the Lars homestead, she has her son wrapped around her finger even more than she would have. She had also, through the careful recounting of how one of the men who had seemed so kindly to the slave children had actually been a child murder (couching it it in terms that one of Anakin's childhood friends, who it turned out had been a victim of this man, grave had been found and the man brought to a rather brutal justice), partially broken Anakin’s trust in Palpatine without ever letting on that she knew who Palpatine was.  

After they get back to the Homestead, Shmi tells Anakin that she wants him to visit again and to bring Obi Wan (It was after they had talked about what had been happening since he left). Anakin loves Obi Wan as a brother, and as such Shmi loves him too. Padme has also fallen quickly under Shmi’s influence, which is good considering that Shmi intended to make Padme another daughter in law (Both because Anakin had a crush, and she wanted Anakin to have what he wanted, and because Senator and former Queen of Naboo is actually a decently powerful set of titles).  Shmi gently shoos her sweet, oblivious son off the planet with her future daughter in law (it is for the best that her Jedi Son be off the planet for what she is about to do next) making them promise to visit soon. 

Cliegg and Beru also fall quickly under Shmi’s spell. Owen holds out a bit longer (I am fully convinced that his ability to hold back Skywalker BS comes from growing up with Shmi, not his few interactions with Anakin) but is just as willing to follow Shmi’s lead within a tenday.

While a galaxy wide war is breaking out, Shmi quietly but very firmly takes control of Tatooine. Then, in spite of the fact she had not left the planet in decades, she quickly takes control of the rest of the Hutt Empire.  Her identity remains hidden; she does not want to fight her son or his Jedi family because they do not yet understand her vision for the galaxy. They will, of that she is sure, but it will take time.

One of the many things she does is abolish slavery within her new Empire.  It is both easier and harder than it would appear. Easier in that she does not care about the power or money of the people who made their living in trafficking of sentient life, so she does not care about the economics of the systems she dismantles. Harder because the Hutt Empire was built on slavery; there are significantly larger portions of every population of the Hutt Planets then anyone realized who had spent most of their lives enslaved, with no training or education and very little idea how to exist without being enslaved (with all the psychological and sociological implications therein).  But she does it, quietly absorbing the fledgling Zygerrian Empire as well. 

A year and a half into the Clone wars Shmi is finally ready to make her move. 

In that time she has become well connected with Padme, who asks for approval to marry Anakin six months into the war (Approval that Shmi grants, on the condition that Padme also get approval from Obi wan, as Anakin’s older brother/father. Padme asks, and to the surprise of both Padme and Anakin immediately gets Obi Wan’s baffled, but pleased, approval. In this one marriage is not forbidden to Jedi, it really isn’t even discouraged. No one seems to want to marry a Jedi, as far as the Jedi are concerned. Date a Jedi, well that seems to be common fantasy. Sleep with a Jedi, all the time. But never marry. This all serves Shimi’s true purpose, to continue to break the trust between her son and Palpatine). They do decide to wait until after the war, when they can have everyone attend; in part because Palpatine is pushing them both in a really creepy way. 

She makes her move by going on vacation with Cliegg to a world she knew, from her own spies, was about to be attacked by separatists. A world that it was highly likely the 212th would be deployed to. In the time it takes for the 212th to liberate the planet, it is a relatively minor battle so only takes a few weeks, Shmi and Clieg have connected with the battalion and convinced them to transport them (Shmi and Cliegg) to Coruscant.  If asked, even Obi Wan, Cody, or the Natborn officers are not sure how they came to agree to take two civilians to the Core but everyone Shmi meets becomes absolutely convinced that it was a reasonable decision. During this trip Shmi bonds with Obi Wan, as her son’s brother/father/teacher.  This was one of her goals, to get a clearer picture of who Obi Wan is, and through him the Jedi Order; Anakin’s memories and feelings are a bit mixed on the Jedi as a whole but she also knows, from Palpatine’s knowledge, that Palpatine had been manipulating those feelings for years.  She finds that she does like Obi Wan. Because of this Shmi intends, beyond even what her plan calls for,  that she would ensure that Obi Wan found happiness in her Empire. 

Upon arriving on Coruscant Shmi sends Cliegg (in disguise) to meet with various criminal underworld leaders who know of her fledgeling Empire, while she meets with members of the Jedi council to plant the seeds of her Galactic Empire. 

It is in this that we truly see the difference between Shmi and Sidious. Shmi wants to Rule the galaxy. Sidious wants to Subjugate the galaxy. Now granted the difference between the two is not as much as people who want the former would protest, but is greater than what the people who want the latter would claim. In this case ruling is a small group having a disproportionate amount of power over a larger group. Subjugation is a group or person asserting total control over another group or person. While a ruler can abuse the power they have, in order to subjugate someone, a being MUST abuse them to break them in such a way the subjugator can control them.  

In spite of her forced amorality Shmi is actually a good person and wants to be a good Empress for the galaxy. So for her, subjugation is more work (realistically 90% of the galaxy is not going to notice if they are in a republic or an empire, and not just because the Empire had been disguising itself as a republic for a decade. That same 90% have comparatively simple needs and are going to be fine with a ruler who provides them. Whereas requires constant control measures to apply the exact correct amount of pressure to bend the populace to your will, without breaking them into rebelling. Ruling well is actually less costly) for less benefit. Because of that having the super powered warrior monks, who most of the beings that would oppose an Empress on principle are going to look to as a paragon of wisdom,  buy into the idea that Shmi should be Empress and that they would be happier in her Empire makes more sense than eradicating them.  Also, complicated feelings aside, the Jedi make up part of Anakin’s family and she does not want to hurt Anakin’s family.

Shmi also, at the behest of Anakin, took time to go with him to meet his friend Palpatine.  While in the waiting room she speaks with Fox, on guard duty, who she recognizes from her talks with Cody as the person to place a bet with(No one suspects the stern commander of the Coruscant Guard to be the biggest bookie in three systems). After about an hour of chit chat (During which Palpatine has no idea he has met someone with all of his knowledge, who is planning to abscond with the Grand Sith Plan) Anakin and Shmi leave the Senate. Anakin semi anxiously asks her what she thinks of Palpatine, babbling a little bit that Obi Wan doesn't like him, but Obi Wan hates most politicians. Shmi, after letting a long pause stretch, says that Obi Wan has good instincts (Look I really want Palpatine to be faced with his own manipulation tactics) and casually mentions Obi Wan’s time enslaved and how that must have hond those instincts- which he had not told Shmi about but that she could guess.  Again without directly accusing Palpatine of anything, Shmi manages to get across to Anakin that as the Chancellor, Palpatine actually currently has all the power and has used it to effectively enslave the clones and the Jedi. Fully breaking Anakin’s trust in Palpatine and tying him closer to the Jedi (where Shmi wants him).   During this exchange Anakin asks what she had been talking to Fox about and she answers with ‘placing a bet’. Anakin lights up and guesses it is the ‘CodyWan Bet’, because literally everybody noticed their pining and that neither will admit it (Shmi uses that to drive the point home that both are effectively enslaved and do not feel free to be together if they might be ‘sold’ apart-a concept that Anakin is very familiar with).

I am not sure where it ends, except that Shmi does indeed become Empress and her Force powers work as such that she gains power through being loved, so in being a good ruler she stops aging. The Jedi do buy in and Palpatine does end up dead. Someone in Shmi’s smaller Empire, before she becomes Empress, discovers the chips and their purpose, which leads to the entirety of the Clones transplanting themselves (GAR, Cadets, everyone) to a planet in the former Hutt space (deeply freaked out over what they could have been made to do to their Jedi) and refusing all calls for like a year, while they dechip. The Jedi (all of them) transplanted themselves to the next planet over, waiting semi impatiently to be allowed to visit their men again.  Shmi meeting Ahsoka after she becomes Anakin’s Padawan and deciding that, as her oldest grandchild, Ahsoka would have the option to be her heir if she would like (Ahsoka really wants to be a Jedi, but agrees to hold the status until another heir comes along-she gratefully passed the heir status to Leia when Leia was born, as she could not be knighted while still the Empress’s Heir). 

Oh and Obi Wan does get to be happy with Cody in the new Empire, with frequent visits from Satine (I like the idea that they were childhood sweethearts/first loves that knew they would not fit well romantically but still loved each other and got to be overprotective of each other-Satine adores Cody, thinks he is perfect for Obi Wan and thy find time every so often to take an evening to drink over whatever ridiculous situation Obi Wan go himself into this time)

The new Jenny Nicholson video makes me want to write a Star Wars fanfic based on her experience in the Star Wars Hotel. Amiithia Tope, a wealthy influencer from Coruscant (Jenny's actual choice of "character," if I spelled her name right), trying to help the First Order but getting ghosted by them even as the Resistance tries to recruit her.

Chewbacca escapes because Lieutenant Croy assumed her attempts to warn him that a high-profile prisoner was escaping, come on, were just a youngling prank. On the Baatu excusion, Amiithia and her sister end up doing a mission for the Resistance out of boredom and confusion, but it turns out their Resistance contact gave them inaccurate instructions and they have to check all the crates again to find the Holocron. Amiithia meets Hondo Onaka and discovers she dislikes him. Sammy thanks Amiithia for helping him steal a TIE Fighter even though she never even responded to his text messages. Maybe Lieutenant Croy hears this and Amiithia gets in trouble with the guy she wanted to surrender, which is why Kylo Ren Force-tortures her to get Rey to talk.

Worst cruise ever. There was a support column in front of her table at the dinner show!

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