The Rubaiyat of Obi-Wan Kenobi by Rachael Sabotini

[gloriana.livejournal.com]

Unlike Terri, I failed to find a computer connection at ConStrict. Here goes this entry for last Sunday; as per before, I will backdate once people have had a chance to read it.

Title: The Rubaiyat of Obi-Wan Kenobi
Author: Rachael Sabotini
Rating: PG to NC17
Pairing: Q/O
Warnings:
No warnings.



















Author's LJ id, e-mail, and/or website: lj id: wickedwords
email: rachael@mediafans.org
website: http://mediafans.org/rachael/
Link to story: The Rubaiyat is actually a collection of six short vignettes. They're all on M-A, but the order is clearer on Rache's own SW page: http://mediafans.org/rachael/other/oth_index.html#phantom_menace
Reasons for recommending: The series began with its own epilogue, Preferred Vintage, a hot enough little pwp - but where it caught my attention was with the next story, which actually begins the arc: Poet Laureate. This features the earthiest, most unabashedly young male voice for Obi-Wan I've ever come across in TPM. Then, as the series alternates between Obi and Qui, we're touched by Qui's more adult, more melancholic and restrained point of view, and by the small shifts through which Obi-Wan comes to some adult realisations, dragging his master with him.
Quote from story:

Tonight I felt like the rules had been changed, and I finally had a chance to win. Everything around me seemed in such disarray, the old order destroyed; yet I wanted to laugh, feeling the new order coalesce in the Force around me. From the looks I was getting, I think my emotions confused poor Obi-Wan. His Master tends to be a sober man.

Yet here I was -- without drink, without drug, without any added enhancement -- far from sober.

Obi-Wan levered himself up a bit to look at me, his feet still lying in my lap. "Master?"

Extra comments:
I tend to think of Mystique as the Queen of Voice in TPM fandom, but Rachael, while not perfectly canonical, gives both Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan such wonderfully consistent and rich inner voices that one cannot help but be seduced by them, no matter how uncanonical they are. Here's Obi-Wan, discussing the glories of poetic imagery:

Now, if Qui-Gon has assigned '100 of the Greatest Poems about Sex', that was something that we both would have done better on. Sex was a subject I'd always interested in, even after I'd passed through my 'hormone-obsessed puberty' stage.

'Budding flower' my arse. I'd enjoyed sex from the moment I stuck my hand down Jarik's pants.

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

This is a trick I've learned RPing, since often logs are completed long after they supposedly happened in game.

You can backdate an entry and still have it show on people's flists by posting normally and then going in and editing the entry immediately after. Change the date, but don't check the backdate button. Now it will show in the correct order on the journal page, but will still show as a new entry on flists.

[gloriana.livejournal.com]

Thanks, K - I'll remember that for the future :) I was never quite sure what impact that would have on the ordering...

[inyadreems.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting the link to this story. It has been in my "Incomplete" file for years and I've never found the whole thing before. No idea why. I think the last time I tried to look for it, bits were missing.

Trots off happily to read...