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When Obi-wan Kenobi decided to remain on Coruscant, to protect and support the transfer of the most vulnerable out of the Empire's grasp, he never thought it would be permanent. He expected to be dead within the year. He's still not sure whether or not his luck has been a gift, or a sign that somehow the Force has something worse planned for him.
A quiet child and diligent padawan, Obi-wan suspects the remnants of the Council appointed him to be an experienced nodding head for younger survivors to follow. What they didn't know was of all of his regrets, none run deeper than the orders he followed in the war. When Yoda tried to close the curtain around the vestiges of the Order and draw them deeper into insularity, it was Obi-wan who suggested Bail Organa and later Padme Amidala. It was Obi-wan who created the system to find gifted children - of any age - before they could be taken into the Inquisitorius or the Hands.
He tries to keep mindful of the present, of padawans without masters, younglings who have known only threat of extermination their whole lives. The children who need instruction in how to trick a Stormtrooper more than they need to know the proper forms. But in the under-levels of the glittering, decaying megalopolis, sometimes it is his ghosts that feel like his only company.
I tried to make this happier but then the trio were involved and that was the end of that. (I keep trying not to make the text so long ah whoops).I think what I like so much about AUs is that somewhere in the twisted reflection of what might have happened you get to hint at the parts you liked best in the first place, in a context that strips away what that grew dull with familiarity.
Might take a break from this after the next one to do the color palette suggestions I've got in my inbox that I promise I didn't forget about. It's still open if anyone wants to put more in there, too.