Girl!AU fic: Struck Speechless

[donahermurphy]

Obi-Wan Girl!Au
Rating: PG
Words: 1,715
Summary: Training a padawan is not the most stress-free of livelihoods. A scene from the lives of newly knighted Obi-Wan Kenobi and ten-year-old Anakin Skywalker.

The Nineteenth Time Anakin Skywalker Struck Obi-Wan Speechless

Comments

[donahermurphy]

Thank you so much! Yes, Anakin doesn't find Obi-Wan nearly as aloof and intimidating as a girl. (And he's SHOCKED to hear that she's twenty-five. He spends most of TPM thinking she's a teenager, like Padme, becuase humans show thier age so much more on Tatooine.)

And even when Obi-Wan is being aloof, Anakin recognizes it as something Obi-Wan has always used to protect herself, becuase women on Tatooine often had to use every advantage they could get. In this AU, Anakin often has a rather skewed perspective of the current state of gender relations in the galaxy, but it ends up being quite insightful. (Most of the Jedi don't notice when they're being sexist, for example, becuase they're so much better about it that many of the cultures they encounter that the Order as a whole takes having moral high ground for granted.)

...I have so much re-interpreting of canon to do for this verse it not even funny. (But it's so much fun!)

[chameleon_irony]

This is sweet and heartbreaking and makes you think "if only". Anakin is so much like himself, and Obi-Wan, even as a girl, is still Obi-Wan in a few very distinct ways. I would love to see more of this AU; it has so much potential.

Provide them with options. Remind them of all those constraining rules you’re not currently making them follow, and then slip in the quite reasonable request.

My social psychology textbook agrees.

[donahermurphy]

Thank you!

I'm an English major, but I LIKE to think some of those other humanities courses sunk in...

[donahermurphy]

And I do plan to continue in this AU, even if it's mostly listfic and and small ficlets for a while.

[ext_479401]

Star wars :)

[vitoliel]

I stumbled on this fic by a recommendation on someone else's live journal and I am so, so glad I did. This is... brilliant, adorable, and perfect. I love your female Obi-Wan so much, and I love how their interaction changes while still remaining the same. And, Obi-Wan's hysterical little rant was fantastic.

I checked out another one of your stories in this universe, and I was touched by the insights offered especially in regard to Gender issues in the Jedi Temple. Poor Anakin.

Thanks for posting! I am really, really glad I stumbled on this :D