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okay y’all, prepare for:

THE ORIGIN STORY OF THE FRANKENAU

ready? let’s go

look
listen
let me tell you
how long this asshole of an AU has been stewing
ok?
ok
probably over a year ago
lilyrose225 asked me for fluff
so I started writing fluff
but me
why ever do things by halves
no
let’s do a FLUFF EXTRAVAGANZA
ALLLLLL the fluffy tropes
bedsharing, cuddling for warmth, everything
—fakemarried
well, naturally. can’t not have fakemarried.
except it stalled out because plot needed to happen and all that.
then, completely independent of all this shit, someone dared me to write SifoDooku a few months later
so. okay. premise of fluff was that Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan finally get together sometimes during the clone wars. but that’s about 12 years after Obi-Wan’s knighting, and while it’s believable, it also raised the [un]reasonable worldbuilder’s (me) question of ‘what took you so long’
on the other side of it, you have this fledgling plot wherein Dooku realizes he done fucked up and needs to stop Sifo-Dyas from going to Kamino.
the sketch for that ficlet?
it was supposed to end with them going to sleep and Sifo deciding to table that decision for later
it was supposed to END THERE, RIGHT FUCKING THERE
then it would be hopeful angst, you know?
like, maybe he didn’t go to Kamino after all
then in comes the fluffy ficlet and says: look, I need plot, you need plot, how’s about we continue this little flashback and say that Sifo delayed, saved Qui-Gon’s ass by asking Healers to go to Naboo, and then we continue on to the war!?
me: brain no.
brain: BRAIN YES
okay then.
and then only a couple months ago I’m minding my very own damn business reading @aidava’s fic, A Patrician with Mud on his Boots—very good fic, has some utterly chilling Xanatos in it
and I think to myself, hell, this Xanatos would utterly destroy Sidious
Brain: hey this is a nice idea we should do that.
me: ‘kay
2 days later:
Brain: but what if we take THAT AU, and mash it with THIS AU
Me: Brain fucking nO
Brain: BRAIN FUCKING GODDAMN YES