The Choosing | https://www.masterapprentice.com/

Obi-Wan, waiting with his friends to enter the dining hall, overheard some Masters talking about the legendary Jinn. “Too bad the man’s so gorgeous. Nice of him to grace us with his presence once in a while, eh?”

“Oh, don’t sell him short… I remember what he used to be like.”

“Yeah? Do tell…”

“He was warm, generous, a very loving man.” The speaker was a short woman of a furred species unknown to Obi-Wan.

“You’re kidding!”

“Not kidding,” the Master replied ruefully. “He used to spend a lot of time with the children, even. A large and open heart, that one had. But now he prefers the silence of his own pain. Too bad.”

“No Padawan would want him like this, I’m sure,” the other answered sadly. “Who would want a broken Master? He *is* completely luscious, though…”

The pair moved on then, and Obi-Wan went into lunch with his friends. But the conversation had given him much to think about.

Source: The Choosing | https://www.masterapprentice.com/

An alternate reality in which padawans take a more active role in choosing their masters – and in which the Master/Apprentice relationship is much more intimate. I adore young Obi and his determination to help a Qui-Gon who thinks he can never love again.

Riding the Wheel of If: Arc 1, by MrsHamill

“I have no idea how it works. Master Windu thought perhaps it has something to do with the crystals, but Master Yoda thought it might have been my mind-set when I built it. All I know is – I turn it on, and I’m gone. But I still have Qui-Gon’s ‘saber with me.“ He swallowed. “It’s all I have left of him, now. But I’m going to find him … I have to find him … I will find him …”

Adult, AU – so very AU… Different pairings, but Obi/Qui end goal. Also, warning for some pretty dark and messed up things that happen to poor Obi-Wan.

The Force keeps leading him to different realities, some close to the one we know, some very, very different. This is the ultimate AU fic, Obi-Wan encountering everything from gender swapped versions of familiar faces, words taken over by the Sith to actors playing Jedi in a tv show. After Very Bad Stuff happens, Obi’s pain causes the fic to drag at times (not that you can blame him), but I never stopped wishing for him to finally find a Qui-Gon to call his own. (Their continuing adventures can be found in the other 3 Arcs of this epic.)

The title link goes to Fanlore because Tumblr for some reason doesn’t accept the link for the author page.

Riding the Wheel of If: Arc 1, by MrsHamill

The Moonflower Festival, by Emma Grant

“Master, why did you request this… mission? Did you know in advance that our mission to Hildass would be so difficult?“ 

Qui-Gon smiled warmly. "Padawan, surely it cannot have escaped your attention that the third day of the Moonflower festival falls on your birthday.”

Adult, multiple partners, sex pollen. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan discover the joys of the Moonflower – with different partners, but somehow it always comes back to them…

The Moonflower Festival, by Emma Grant

Re-Entry, by flamethrower

He faced Qui-Gon a pensive expression on his face.  “Qui-Gon—wait.  That isn’t right.  Master,” he said, bowing with his eyes closed, as if fighting off the dizziness that Terza had warned him about.  “I owe you an explanation, yes, but I feel it is one that the Council should hear, as well.”

Qui-Gon realized he was staring at Obi-Wan.  Who was this ultra-polite, refined, bewildering man that had replaced his exuberant Padawan?  

Mature, AU, warnings for torture. After an injury put him into a strange coma, padawan Obi-Wan wakes remembering a whole history that now will never happen – at least not if he can help it. This is a mega-epic, spanning several novels – including a complete retelling of the canon as part of a vision in this awesome AU.

Re-Entry, by flamethrower

Vid: Starlight, by Sue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn5stA0D34M

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Oh, my Obi-Wan… This vid is full of his heartache and his realization that all he wants is hold Qui-Gon Jinn one more time. Music by Muse.

Two-Thirds God, by Tem-ve H’syan

Gilgamesh thought he could see the sun rising, for all that it might just have been a reflection of his own dishevelled hair in the rain-coloured eyes of his opponent.

How long had they fought? He had no way of measuring time, and no way to stop fighting. Nor, surprisingly so, did he have any wish to.

Teen. Written as a (strange and wonderful) Star Wars AU, to me this also reads like a stunning Gilgamesh/Enkidu fic, its language lyrical and very vivid.

Two-Thirds God, by Tem-ve H’syan

Bass by Tem-ve H’syan

His eyes are not on his hands, not where skilled blunt fingertips caress and pummel the cobalt blue custom Fender Jazz into sweet throbbing submission. His eyes are not anywhere on the trajectory of a small pale green item of feminine clothing about to flop down at his feet, missing its mark by a good six feet, he suspects. His eyes are not on the likely originator of said pale green item, frantically waving her arms in the air, her head thrown back in a scream of frenzied excitement as Ben-K goes down on one knee and wraps himself around the mike stand sinuously, crawling towards her while belting out the high notes like an angel in agony. The slack khaki pants that have threatened to fall off his hips all evening have slid a little lower. 

From where he is standing, the view is perfect.

Mature, band!AU. This really shouldn’t work, but it very much does. In few words the author paints a picture of our boys, different but recognizable. 

Bass by Tem-ve H’syan

Aurora, by M. Fae Glasgow

It’s not often we get a new face, after all, and two new faces, attached to bodies such as those… well, who could blame us for wanting them? 

Especially with the Force so strong in both of them. No aphrodisiac better than the tang and tingle of the Force, for us.

Adult, “fuck or die”, outside POV. This gives a very interesting perspective, since the group Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have infiltrated are Force-sensitive. Also, it’s smoking hot. 😉

Aurora, by M. Fae Glasgow

Vid: Moving Mountains, by 1jonde1

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A gorgeous, touching retelling of my favourite part of TPM – the relationship between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, and how they both have to face their destinies. Can be read as slash or gen, as you like. 🙂 Music: Moving Mountains (Invincible), by Two Steps From Hell.