#force bonds

Jedi Bat AU:

Knight Cassandra Cain!

A makashi fighter of remarkable precision and skill, she has a pale blue lightsaber with a purple tint, given her incredible levels of skill and self-control.

The daughter of David Cain, an assassin in the Al Ghul Force cult, Cassandra was raised as a weapon, trained to use her connection to the Force as a tool to allow her to kill more effectively. She spent years under her father's tutelage, honed into an unstoppable assassin.

And then she killed for the first time, and as she watched that first victim die, as she felt their life leave them in the Force, as the Force wailed over the death with a grief that shook her to her very bones, Cass realized that the Darksiders had lied to her. The Force was not her tool to use as she pleased, to hurt and kill at a whim. And she fled.

She was found by Master Barbara Gordan, a Jedi shadow who had risen rapidly through the ranks despite her young age. Barbara sensed the pain and fear and dedication in the young Force-sensitive and took Cass back to the Temple with her. She attempted to take Cass as her apprentice, briefly, but both of them could sense in the Force that they weren't bonded.

One of Lana’s letters says Arkous felt a connection form between her and the player upon the moment of their meeting. Lana confirms it in the optional Rishi romance scene; “It’s like when we first met. I knew our fates were going to be intertwined completely”. It is implied that a similar bond springs into being when Lana encounters a Pub-side player – though Lana is less candid about it as they are loyal to opposing factions – but also that the same thing happened to her with Theron, offscreen on Maanan.

It’s not like the Force says 💛One True Work Husband💛 upon meeting Theron any more than it says ❤️Great Love Of Your Life❤️ or 💙Captain My Captain💙 or 💚Tea Buddy💚 about the player character. It’s just … this one. This one is important, pay attention. A whisper of future knowing without whys or whens or hows.

Nothing that Lana couldn’t ignore, if she chose to, but Lana trusts in the feelings she gets from the Force. She’s the one who reaches out to Theron initially, on Maanan. (Theron tells a Pub-side player that he’s received a message; Lana says that she senses the presence of a potential ally.)

On Ziost, after their original alliance has ended and while Theron is still nursing sore feelings about being trustfall dropped on Rishi, Lana seeks him out again. When the Republic and Empire have both surrendered to Zakuul and everything has gone to hell, Lana calls Theron up to join her seedling rebellion.

Much later, during the mess with the Order of Zildrog, we get to see Lana in murderous overcorrection mode. Theron was maybe the only person other than the Commander and herself who she didn’t suspect of being the mole. Even after he shoots her, Lana’s traitorous instincts are still telling her that traitorous Theron isn’t a traitor and Lana is so angry about that.

(Theron’s optional death on Nathema is something I’m inclined to write off as an unrealistic product of KotFEET’s delusion that “meaningful player choice” is providing endless opportunities to kill companion characters. Lana is stubborn and self-assured and has repeatedly blown past the player character’s objections to take what she believes is the best course of action; investigating Arkous even if you tell her not to, continuing to work with Theron even if you say it’s a bad idea, putting you in charge of the Alliance even if you don’t want it. Dragging Theron back to the shuttle with her regardless of the Commander’s objections would have been more in keeping with her character than abandoning him to die solely on their say-so.)

From my understanding, a Force bond is the manifestation within the Force of a connection that exists independently of it. Even artificially constructed bonds rather than spontaneous natural ones; after all, you wouldn’t make the decision to intentionally tie yourself to a person you had no connection with. Where things get weird is when Force precognition is added into the mix. You’re not tied to this person yet but in the kaleidoscope of the future there are a thousand possibilities where you will be. When you meet, the presence of what might be is so overwhelming that in the Force it can almost feel like what is.

Which is kind of awkward when one of your destined people turns out to be from the Republic. And also Force-blind so he has no idea what’s happened. And you let him get captured by Revanites and he takes it as a betrayal even though you didn’t mean it as one because you were certain he would survive.

Force bonds and precinct awareness aren’t necessarily markers of a positive relationship. If a person is liable to become your great nemesis whose life you will destroy as you destroy theirs before you die together with your hands around each other’s throats on a crashing ship like you’re the deuteragonists of an opera, obviously they will ping as someone of significant future import.

Theron registers to Lana as an ally, though, before they’ve even met. How could that not influence her behaviour? Lana doesn’t tell him because not being able to feel their connection means that he’s not affected by it in the way she is and because the knowing is an edge she has over him. Even though they have their little personal alliance, they still try to score over each other when the opportunity to aid the Empire at the expense of the Republic or vice versa presents itself. It’s just jostling though. Lana knows that Theron is Special and Important (and Hers). Imperial values hold that you must never hesitate to sacrifice people for the greater good of the Empire but Theron is much too Special and Important to justify loosing for any short-term gain. Theron is Lana’s Force-marked ally which makes him more useful to the Empire alive than dead.

But holding back to allow the Revanite’s to capture Theron isn’t sacrificing him because Theron will survive. Lana knows he’s been trained to resist integration, knows he’s been caught before and managed to turn the tables on those holding him. Either Theron will escape or Lana and their other allies will come for him. Lana would never truly abandon Theron unless forced to choose between him and the Empire; this is just her seizing the opportunity that has presented itself to them.

Theron doesn’t understand that though. Theron can’t feel the connection that marks him as Special and Important. He doesn’t know about the bond because Lana very intentionally failed to tell him, so he assumes that Lana was fully prepared to let him die. That Lana would be prepared to allow someone who was Special and Important (and Hers) to be tortured on short notice isn’t something that occurs to him. And that realisation is distressing for Lana because, even though she’s too proud and wary to admit it to Theron, she misjudged the consequences of her actions. She didn’t intend to break his trust in her. It’s important to Lana that Theron trust her because she trusts Theron.

Yeah, that’s what we’re calling this. Give me a second:

Ahsoka, in the middle of the fight with Vader on Malachor, gets dumped Back In Time, right into the TPM battle between Maul, Qui-Gon, and Obi-Wan. She takes about two seconds to clock what’s going on, most of that delay being recovery from dealing with Vader. She doesn’t recognize Qui-Gon or Obi-Wan, because one died when she was four and the other currently looks Very Baby, but she does recognize Maul, and lbr there’s very little that would stop Ahsoka from taking initiative to beat Maul’s ass on sight.

So that’s handled in trope-typical manner, all is well, they run into Baby Anakin who just won a battle for them despite being too short to see over the countertop, and Ahsoka’s like “Aw, a small child, he’s adorable,” and trying very hard not think about the last time she saw Anakin and how he was trying very hard to unalive her, AND THEN her bond with him snaps back into being.

It’s a weird Force Bullshit thing. The training bond never actually got cut, it just went numb and dead and, from her perspective, it was a free-floating tattered thing that no longer connected to anything.

Except the person it connects to is right there and, without her control, the bond latches on... in reverse. So now she’s the master and he’s the padawan.

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are both very ????? about that but a ‘spontaneous’ training bond that pops up with a stranger (who fought down a darksider with a concerning level of knowledge regarding how the specific individual fights) and the Chosen One (who just saved a planet and has said planet’s leader’s fondness) is uhhhhhhhhhhh concerning.

But also like. The Force approves so what can they even do about it?

ANYWAY Ahsoka takes on Anakin as Padawan and nobody trusts her.

This little bit of madness was written based on a headcanon of mine, on whether Maul and Savage shared a Force Bond, and if Maul could achieve release through Savage.

Maul and Savage x GN!reader.

Rating: E minors DNI

Contains: unprotected sex, standing sex, oral (reader receiving), possessive marking, slight bit of mind sex, choking and Maul being Maul.

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A/N:

so. This was done awhile ago, but I forgot to post it. Here it is. Good news is Part 3 is finished, and is only waiting for my Beta. Part 4 is also mostly done. Part 5...is outlined.

I don't think there's anything that needs warning in here, beyond my best attempts at grammar, but let me know if that is not the case. Enjoy!

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As it turns out, bonding with six people, however extraordinary, was not enough to relieve the pressure of being Extra Force Sensitive. As such, Anakin still could not safely leave his tiny little room without his brain trying to eject itself through his nostrils.

Not that he had actually tested that—contrary to popular healer-medic belief, Anakin did prefer life, thank you—but he could feel his hypersensitivity to even the searing hissing contempt of the padawan meal bringer, and the sharp swirling of his men's emotions.

Naturally, this did not mean Anakin couldn't feel the walls closing in on him, inch by excruciating inch. Because of course, he was Anakin Skywalker and nothing went well for him.

After he had made all of the arrangements he could, he had spent the night in deep conversation with no less than seven different holocrons. It had been fascinating, but he really needed to talk about...all of it with Rex. Talking to Kix probably wouldn't be a bad idea either, for that matter. Specifically, he wanted to talk to them about the...boost he wanted to give to them. They would be able to tell him if what he had in mind was welcome. Or insulting. The—his?— men could view it as insulting, as Anakin was insinuating they, as they were, were not enough. From a certain point of view.

Anakin curled his fingers in the hem of his Healing Hall robes, trying to squeeze the shaking out of his extremities by sheer force of will. It only worked a little, as the jitters moved from his extremities, both flesh and durasteel, all the way up to his shoulders to shutter down his spine.

He could really use a long session of moving meditation. Or a spar. A spar would be nice. Something, anything, burn off even a tiny bit of this excess energy humming through his veins would be welcome. But Anakin didn't have his 'sabers, or even a stick to do his katas with, and while he could do them open handed, he also still had to think about the many IV needles in his elbow keeping him sufficiently fed and hydrated. Exercising when attached to sharp thing inside your veins was never a smart idea.

Anakin just wanted to think again.

Which may or may not explain why the next morning Kix and Rex, having come to his tiny room for seemingly the sole purpose of fussing at him, caught Anakin staring contemplatingly at the wall separating his room from the shielded hall at oh-excruciating-hundred in the morning.

How they had gotten past all of the Healers out in the Halls, Anakin didn't know, but he wasn't about to question the competency of Captain Rex and CMO Kix of Torrent for all the Sunbeetles on Tatooine when they were glaring at him like that.

Kix took one look at him, and demanded, "Just what do you think you're doing, General?"

Anakin's eyes widen on their own accord, and his mouth dropped open. "Uh—"

This was how Jesse and the squad of nine following him found General Skywalker eating his breakfast meekly while CMO Kix watched over him like he was a particularly foolish Shiny, and Captain Rex looked on with faint amusement.

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Over the next couple of days, Torrent didn't sit idle, even as most of them waited for their turns to bond with Anakin.

They had discovered, through one very bad no good downright horrible instance they will likely never talk about again, it took a few hours for the new bonds to settle before the bonds were ready to withstand the strain of being stretched by both distance and artificial shields, as if they were hot sufficiently settled, it could snap. Thankfully, no one had died so they could learn that particular lesson, but they would definitely not be repeating that mistake any time soon.

This meant he got a solid four hours with each squad of Vod'e.

Anakin, when he paused long enough to get his bearings, spent most of his time carefully not questioning why so many people were so willing to bond with him. He didn't understand, but he was also beyond the point of caring.

He was in their heads. Not a single one of them meant him any harm. They were even happy, that he wanted to bond with them. He was still awed, every time he reached for them, only to find they had already initiated a bond.

In the mean time, he was learning a great deal about his men as they went about their business.

Nausea and his three fellows, who were almost as vicious at cards as he was, had been unleashed on the various underground sabacc rings in the lower levels. All four of the card nexu had been part of the squad Anakin had bonded with after the Command Staff in a blatant display of Rex's frankly terrifying planning skills. Jesse may have helped, but Anakin had no doubt Rex was making most of the decisions.

Guide had needed to give the four a rather intense crash course on Gambler Etiquette, like the necessity of loosing every so often, even if on purpose, so one is not blacklisted from that particular gambling ring. They had taken the lessons well, if not gracefully. The four of them were making a killing, as expected.

Coric and Jaded, also part of the squad with the card nexu, had joined Kix in his quest to gleefully wringing the best deals from Anakin's connections in the medical side of the Black Market, and other, more legal acquaintances, using the credits the nexu were collecting in frankly awe inspiring speeds.

Some of the Vode from the other squads help the medics and first aid specialist by collecting tradable goods the three could then use to get what they otherwise couldn't extract with credits and determination. Slip and Fase assisted them in this endeavor.

Ridge and some other Vod'e had begun making progress on contacting various people who'd arrange for the delivery of the food. They succeeded, even though elite soldier training did not include how to order supplies from civilian businesses. Shocker. Needless to say, as each squad rotated through his room to accept his bonds, there were many troopers who got a crash course on professional comm etiquette.

Hardcase and Denal had decided to divide and conquer, last Anakin had heard.

Hardcase had gone to one of the weapons dealers Anakin 'did not know' and who definitely did not owe him a favor or ten. The last time he had commed Jesse with an update, Anakin had taken one look at his grinning face, and decided he did not want or need to know what made the gunner grin like that, and left Jesse to it.

Denal had gone to Padmè's handmaidens for advice as Anakin had suggested. When Anakin had heard from him, well...he had looked down right gleeful, talking about knives that could be hidden in hair, and such. Anakin decided the biliyan-like vod could keep the knives the handmaidens had no doubt actually given him, so long as Anakin didn't have to know anything more.

CHAPTER 7 “And I’ll Follow the Light in You”

Obi-Wan settles carefully near Cody’s head, staring down at his slack face. The curious scar that curls around his left eye stands out against the pallor of his skin. Slasher reaches out and presses his palm against Cody’s head, just a point of contact and Obi-Wan lifts his shields enough to feel the desperation pouring off the big clone. 

Thank you as always to @cacodaemonia for the beta and to @anstarwar for the FABULOUS chapter art!

  Mhi solus dar’tome

  Mhi me’dinui an

  We are one when together

  We are one when we are parted

  .

  Ret’urcye mhi

  Perhaps we will meet again

They’re both force-sensitive.

Finn was able to sense Rey’s death 

Rey is described as “thinking of the way his presence had become so bright in her mind”

In the Star Wars Adventures comics, Finn is able to sense that Rey is in trouble