two-fer! "incorruptible youth" and "raise a child up." Both PG-13.
Author: wyncatastrophe
Title: incorruptible youth
Challenge: SWMININANO2
Prompt: seraglio
Word Count: 154
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A diplomatic mission leads to some unexpected revelations.
Author's Notes: Yeah, I did this. Go 'head, mock away …
incorruptible youth
“A seraglio?” Obi-Wan blinks, taking a minute to absorb this new information. “I ... uh ... was not aware that your people still practiced that particular ... uh, practice.”
“Oh, yes,” the minister assures him, smiling with urbane confidence. “The Petrarch is quite the traditionalist, you know .. although I believe most of the time it’s just a formality. The ladies are quite free, you will see ... they were chosen very carefully, of course, but each of them consented to her own contract. All very progressive, in a manner of speaking. It’s our way of honoring our fathers’ past, even as we look toward our children’s future.”
Yes, but it’s what my Padawan will be looking toward that worries me ...
“Of course,” says Obi-Wan, smiling determinedly as he settles one hand on Anakin’s shoulder in what he hopes is a grounding gesture, squeezing just a little. “We ourselves look forward to getting to know ... your customs.”
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Author: wyncatastrophe
Title: raise a child up
Challenge: SWMININANO2
Prompt: Twi'lek
Word Count: 331
Characters: Fa'ale Leh
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Fa'ale Leh is the exception to all the rules.
Author's Notes: It's probably worth pointing out, for anyone who doesn't know, that Fa'ale Leh is a character from James Luceno's Labyrinth of Evil. This is a slightly sketchy look at her backstory, not completely congruent with what Wookieepedia had to say on the matter because, um, I liked my version better? Obi-Wan and Anakin have a little cameo at the end.
raise a child up
It’s rare for a female Twi’lek to come as far as Aayla Secura has, or someone like Vokara Che. Most of them, of course, aren’t Force-sensitive - at least, not enough to be trained - and so they never get taken, rescued, kidnapped by the Jedi. They grow up and become ... servants, if they are no better than average-looking, some rich male’s playthings if they can show a better face to the galaxy, but slaves in either case.
Fa’ale Leh is the exception to all those rules. A Lethan Twi’lek - born with the rare and therefore highly-coveted red skin that for no obvious reason seems to drive males across the galaxy wild with the desire for absolute possession - she is auctioned away very early in her life (fourteen; Fa’ale Leh remembers because the handler said, “old enough to practice on, young enough to break”) and gets away. Really away; she escapes her new master’s home in the dead of night and makes a run for the nearest spaceport, where she trades her own flesh for passage offworld and never regrets it. She spends the next ten years piloting various kinds of marginally legal junk around the Outer Rim for whatever she can get out of it.
She hasn’t even seen the brother who taught her to fly since she was auctioned, but Fa’ale Leh figures ... maybe he’d be proud of her.
She should have known better than to take the Sienar job, even when she really needed it. She tells herself the money’s too good ... but deep down, she knows it’s because she’s really just the wrong kind of stupid, and she can’t resist the urge to satisfy her curiosity.
Those old, bad habits were always going to kill her sooner or later, but Fa’ale Leh figures it might as well be “later,” so in addition to piloting her now mostly-illegal cargo, she goes on the run - for the next ten years, until she meets the Jedi.
They change everything.
Title: incorruptible youth
Challenge: SWMININANO2
Prompt: seraglio
Word Count: 154
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A diplomatic mission leads to some unexpected revelations.
Author's Notes: Yeah, I did this. Go 'head, mock away …
incorruptible youth
“A seraglio?” Obi-Wan blinks, taking a minute to absorb this new information. “I ... uh ... was not aware that your people still practiced that particular ... uh, practice.”
“Oh, yes,” the minister assures him, smiling with urbane confidence. “The Petrarch is quite the traditionalist, you know .. although I believe most of the time it’s just a formality. The ladies are quite free, you will see ... they were chosen very carefully, of course, but each of them consented to her own contract. All very progressive, in a manner of speaking. It’s our way of honoring our fathers’ past, even as we look toward our children’s future.”
Yes, but it’s what my Padawan will be looking toward that worries me ...
“Of course,” says Obi-Wan, smiling determinedly as he settles one hand on Anakin’s shoulder in what he hopes is a grounding gesture, squeezing just a little. “We ourselves look forward to getting to know ... your customs.”
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Author: wyncatastrophe
Title: raise a child up
Challenge: SWMININANO2
Prompt: Twi'lek
Word Count: 331
Characters: Fa'ale Leh
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Fa'ale Leh is the exception to all the rules.
Author's Notes: It's probably worth pointing out, for anyone who doesn't know, that Fa'ale Leh is a character from James Luceno's Labyrinth of Evil. This is a slightly sketchy look at her backstory, not completely congruent with what Wookieepedia had to say on the matter because, um, I liked my version better? Obi-Wan and Anakin have a little cameo at the end.
raise a child up
It’s rare for a female Twi’lek to come as far as Aayla Secura has, or someone like Vokara Che. Most of them, of course, aren’t Force-sensitive - at least, not enough to be trained - and so they never get taken, rescued, kidnapped by the Jedi. They grow up and become ... servants, if they are no better than average-looking, some rich male’s playthings if they can show a better face to the galaxy, but slaves in either case.
Fa’ale Leh is the exception to all those rules. A Lethan Twi’lek - born with the rare and therefore highly-coveted red skin that for no obvious reason seems to drive males across the galaxy wild with the desire for absolute possession - she is auctioned away very early in her life (fourteen; Fa’ale Leh remembers because the handler said, “old enough to practice on, young enough to break”) and gets away. Really away; she escapes her new master’s home in the dead of night and makes a run for the nearest spaceport, where she trades her own flesh for passage offworld and never regrets it. She spends the next ten years piloting various kinds of marginally legal junk around the Outer Rim for whatever she can get out of it.
She hasn’t even seen the brother who taught her to fly since she was auctioned, but Fa’ale Leh figures ... maybe he’d be proud of her.
She should have known better than to take the Sienar job, even when she really needed it. She tells herself the money’s too good ... but deep down, she knows it’s because she’s really just the wrong kind of stupid, and she can’t resist the urge to satisfy her curiosity.
Those old, bad habits were always going to kill her sooner or later, but Fa’ale Leh figures it might as well be “later,” so in addition to piloting her now mostly-illegal cargo, she goes on the run - for the next ten years, until she meets the Jedi.
They change everything.