I wrote a thing!
Yay, I got a bunch of prompts for my meme, repeatedly maxed out the comment boxes and had to cut them down. And of course just about all are untitled beginnings of the 'if I were going to write this fic, which I'm not, I'd begin it something like this...' type. For convenience's sake, I will title each fic with a random line from Handel's Messiah (
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I love these so much! There's a lot to like, but I find the pregnancy revelation particularly compelling, Obi-Wan's I-knew-but-I-didn't. In ROTS, it's never explained whether he realized that Anakin and Padmé were married in the traditional sense, and I think it matters; the universe of Star Wars appears to me the kind of society in which it makes a difference whether you're having children with your wife or knocking up random Senators you've had a crush on for years. (And a part of this may be also be my reading of Anakin: there is something almost painfully traditional about him, a wannabe wholesomeness that doesn't quite work out, a longing for the myth of the nuclear family that never really gets its actuations - Mommy/Daddy issues, maybe? That whole Shmi-and-the-Force thing must have been confusing.)
The fics look completely different from anything I was expecting, but I love them both, separately and together! :)
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Anyway, I'm glad you like it! The pregnancy reveal is the part I'd actually thought through before (if in a slightly different, alive!Anakin context), so that ... makes sense. I've honestly never been sure whether Obi-Wan knew for sure or not, but because his mind goes there so fast, I tend to think he had some idea. (Also because Anakin and Padmé have the most obvious secret life ever.)
I definitely get the impression that there's some distinctly traditional ideas--like, I think Padmé says something about the Queen recalling her once she finds out about P's pregnancy? Um, okay. And I definitely see Anakin as wanting to do everything 'properly' by his ideas of what constitutes 'proper.' Especially when he's so insistent that the baby is a blessing, not a problem, as if the two are mutually exclusive; he needs to define things that way. Babies are normal and good, so it's good that they're having one, regardless of the consequences to them.
He wants to be normal and ( ... )
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