wildehacked asked: UH tell me everything about the star wars au immediately
So this is the OTHER Star Wars AU. It was the second variant I came up with and,
while it ruins fewer childhoods (this is the one with Prince Cesare of Alderaan and Lucrezia as the first of a new Jedi Order), I feel like it’s much truer to the characters. Plus Lucrezia still gets a lightsaber. This time with 2x the Dark Side! It’s been a million years because HA I forgot this was done and I didn’t want to work on it anymore.
Cesare, no last name because slaves don’t
have them, is a very small boy on Tatooine when a pair of Jedi Masters and their
padawans show up with a child-queen.
Cesare is only nine, but nine is already nearly an adult among the slave
quarters, and he brings the whole lot of them back to his mother before they
can get in trouble. Queen Bonadeo is
shy. She doesn’t matter in this
story. One of the padawans, a fierce
woman named Sforza, is almost through with her training, but the other is a
pretty girl like a shaft of sunlight, just a little younger than Cesare. The Jedi, Padawan Sforza’s Master and Master
Farnese, want Cesare to come with them, to be trained as one of them, and he
goes for the sake of the golden-haired girl who promises a better life.
When they return to the Core, they are
greeted by a man just beginning to pass middle age, steel-grey hair and a
steady, trustworthy voice, who is very interested in Cesare. Cesare has never been interesting to anyone
before. It is incredible. The man introduces himself as Senator Borgia,
and tells Cesare to keep in contact.
Cesare does.
Padawan Sforza becomes Cesare’s Master after
her own Master is murdered. She and
Master Farnese could not be more different—Caterina, which Cesare is forbidden
to call her, is fierce and military, while Giulia is gentle and fluid and
diplomatic—but their opposing styles are beautifully complementary, and they
are often put on missions together.
Cesare comes to know the golden girl as Lucrezia, and they are best friends, as like as two halves of a
coin, and as they grow up, they train together, fight together, live together,
until the entire Temple speaks of them in a single breath, as Cesare-and-Lucrezia.
Lucrezia is the only one who knows about how
often Cesare and Master Sforza clash, about the times that they shout at each
other until Cesare is screaming and Master Sforza is all but glowing with
rage. If Cesare cannot control his
emotions, cannot master this lightsaber form, cannot do this simple Force
trick, cannot be a Jedi, Caterina
shouts, then what did her master die for?
Lucrezia is furious—she is shaking
with it, she has never been so angry in her entire life. She destroys
Giulia in a sparring match and is advanced to her Knighthood trials at sixteen,
the youngest Knight in living memory.
And living memory stretches back quite far, with Master Innocent being
several centuries old.
That’s not quite true. One other person knows. Senator Borgia. He
does not think Cesare is a failure, he
does not think Cesare was an ill investment, he thinks Cesare is bright and clever and strong and full of
potential. Cesare tells him everything.
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