Legends of a Fall: Introduction to the Museum Studies Edition. PG: Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padmé, others

[wyncatastrophe]

Disclaimer: George Lucas owns Star Wars.  This story is purely a work of fan fiction, and I am not making any profit from it.

Author's note: Written as a congratulatory gift!fic for attanagra, who totally deserved it!!!!! [/wild cheering] This particular (re)introduction won't appear in the "framing" effort; but since it is fairly common for chapters of

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I love it! I love it! I love it!

[attanagra]

I love it. I've been fascinated for awhile by the way the Empire destroyed and transformed pre-Imperial history. And it's an interesting way in which we, the fans, were in the same boat as the characters for a long time. We didn't know any more about their past than they did. And then we got the prequels and now we know so much more, and are left amazed that they knew so little. It's as if we thought we knew what that loss of the past was like for the characters, because we had the same lack of knowledge, but we (maybe I should be saying "I") weren't really conscious of it as a loss, just as an absence. Only when we learned about the past did we become aware of what a gaping wound the Imperial era really was, that so much could have been lost or suppressed so completely

And I meant to use THIS icon, dang it.

[attanagra]

Also, I was not language-triggered at all. This is so good on multiple levels. :)

Re: And I meant to use THIS icon, dang it.

[wyncatastrophe]

Yay! That is also very good news! *happy dance*

ZOMG YAY YOU LIKED IT

[wyncatastrophe]

I'm so excited that you liked it! I was kind of worried, writing it - I don't usually try that hard to write for an audience, but because this was a gift fic I was working really hard to keep your preferences in mind as I wrote it … which was really funny because in practice meant that I ended up doing the same thing as the anonymous academic writing this: keeping a lot of different readings in mind, trying to derive some sort of overarching theme from the available materials. That's how the Altisian stuff ended up there, too: you have "altisian jedi" listed on your profile under "interests." I had a great deal of fun wrangling with previous conversations and trying to develop a sense of what you as a reader might enjoy, plus working in the museum stuff that was just obvious - but I was never sure that I was really getting it, of course: the only test of that would be when you read it, and I've been biting my nails in case I had Done It All Wrong. But I'm so psyched that you did like it! Yay

The academic's name is Fred.

[pronker]

This fits well with the 'special edition' sense; that the established story is so gosh-darn well known that any more writings on the subject must delve deeper to be interesting to the cognoscenti who would not only buy the 'special edition'/visit the Skywalker Museum BUT visit the Orun Annex. I liked this part:

" ... Darra Antilles, a lateral descendant of Roan Lands, whose part in the saga is minor, but controversial: he is twice described as Ferus Olin’s “partner,” but the meaning of this designation is not clear; and in Luke Skywalker’s account (but not in most of the oral narratives I have encountered), Olin is romantically linked with Ryn Orun during at least part of the Imperial era. If the connection is granted - and there seems little reason to doubt it, apart from an aesthetic preference for the narrative elegance of an Orun who pines eternally for one man, Anakin Skywalker - then it raises important questions about the Olin-Lands relationship and how significant Orun’s involvement with the Lands family may have been (or

Fred? Or FREUD …?

[wyncatastrophe]

Cognoscenti? Heh, I like that.

There are threesome possibilities? pronker, whatever can you be saying …

I was trying to construct Orun as sort of the "lost voice" of the saga, not sure how well it worked. Maybe it will play out in further writing.

Yeah, but I think I figured it out … you have to make clicky on the ellipses at the bottom of the email window …

Thank you for commenting! :)

Welllll, there /is/ this comm called 'olinslashlands' that has need of a 3sum story IMHO ...

[pronker]

I just like the name Fred.

Yeah, cognoscenti in that the way people are organized: a/the types that never visit museums because they're full of musty historical things, b/some visit museums only because their schools or families make them and they bring nothing away from the experience, c/those whose tradition is to visit museums as a family, any old museum, and d/those who home in on specialized museums, such as the Museum of MODERN Art, the Gene Autry Museum of the AMERICAN WEST, stuff like that. Can't be just any old museum.

If 'Chorus Line' can have a director, unseen by the playgoing audience, interview hopefuls for the chorus line of a new play, and he's eventually seen as an important part of the group's history, then Orun can be the 'lost' voice of SW. It's just a wacky parallel that seems to fit the storyline or maybe the story's structure, to me.

I haven't been to that comm in ages! Are they still posting new stuff over there?

[wyncatastrophe]

I wonder what types visit the Skywalker Museum and its Orun Annex? Must ponder further. Hmm…

What I got from this was that I need to see "Chorus Line."

The plot bunnies are nibbling my toes …

[pronker]

Reenactors! Great! The GFFA's 501st, maybe, only the mind-bending reenactor group not the original Vader's Fist group, which is where it originated ... babbles on ...

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5760569/1/Heart_Already_Won

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6599182/1/Rising_Phoenix

Yeah, not much Ferus around ... there was a kinda cute Anakin/Ferus slash story a while back which had the feelings written okay but the author skewed so young ... and the above links: the first is flighty and the second a bit better. Anyway, I enjoy your take on Ferus greatly.

[wyncatastrophe]

The 501st is a terrific thing; I am putting off watching the rest of the Umbara arc because I am Scared To Watch Alone.

Links! Yay, links! Linkity links! Thank you!

This … makes me want to write more Ferus fic. Hm. But Ryn always ends up in my Ferus fics, and this is a problem because it cuts the readership twice: first because Ferus is not a terribly popular character himself, and second because, of course, many people who might potentially read a Ferus fic will not like OCs in it. It's a conundrum. (There's an element here which wants to go rogue and just write to please myself … but then, if I'm going to post it … anyway.) Ferus fic makes me happy. I enjoyed your Fess Ilee.

[pronker]

You're welcome. The Umbara stories are fantastic! I'm riffing on the animation and the fact that an unpleasant Jedi is just allowed to be written into a story -- if there can be pleasant and unpleasant Separatists 88Bonteri and Dooku88, there ought to be Jedi balanced in portrayals, too.

There's the thing about posting -- it's fulfilling to write and invite comment. And thank you for mentioning Fess Ilee -- he is a favorite to write.

[wyncatastrophe]

Sometime I hope you get around to posting a bit more of him. Some of his downtime in the early years, maybe - were the women on Alderaan all agog, or he did he melt into his intentionally off-putting persona all too quickly? Any discreet rendezvous (veaux? what's the plural?) in Ilee's past? Or hidden pictures of his lost love? Or maybe a selection of texts on botany, which he has to (re)read more often than he'd like … the possibilities of his backstory leave the reader agog.