#temple guard

Could make a hell of a lot of difference by just... forewarning them a bit.

Like? Imagine your a Guard. Faceless, Silent, one of the ELITE. Traine by THE battle master himself, to defend your literal HOME. THE home. Where all of Jedi knowledge and every sort of thing worth protecting, is. Both great and terrible. From the innocence of the Crechelings to the horrors in the Sith Vaults. ALL of it.

Lot of people would give a LOT of lives to get their hands on some of those.

Be it children or artifacts.

So you stand. Day in and day out. Deadly but Calm, Peaceful but Ready. You train. You chat over the comms. Maybe make observations on passing objects of interest. Covertly feed the tooka that likes to come by some times. When??

....is that an Initiate?

Smol but serious child. Pat pat pat, right on up to you. Clearly not lost. You SAW them look around, clock you as the nearest guard.

They pull out a holopad.

Pull up some notes. Study you, briefly. Then go back to their lil notes. This.... okay, this is kinda hilarious. What even...? Your fellow guards are amused. Look at the Serious Little Inspector! Doing rounds, huh? What'cha got there? They all wonder.

Then she opens her mouth.

"Have you memorized all temple escape routes, and are they up to date?"

Like fuckin ICE WATER down your back. Why do you need to know that, small child? Are you being threatened? Is there a Problem we should be aware off? Something you would like to inform you Friendly Temple Guard Buddy off? They promise not to be mad... (just let them murder deal with it, for you.)

But, no. Off she goes to the NEXT guard.

"If defending the Temple no longer remains tenable, do you know the quickest route to the Creche, and what is the maximum number of children you KNOW you can move quickly?"

"Do you know what parts of the Temple are and are not load bearing; and where would you most effectively place structured collapses to buy your fellow Jedi time?"

"What is the maximum number of opponents you can currently face and how can you protect vulnerable parties if faced with a lethal incursion larger then that?"

On and on and on. Specific yet not SPECIFIC. She clearly doesn't know who each of them are... but she clearly is referencing SOMETHING. Maybe a lesson on the Sith Wars spooked her? They call one of their own who's currently out of uniform. To casually ask what's up. Class work?

The child pauses.... clearly thinking over their answer.

"Sure."

That was blatantly a lie. Kid, you didn't even vaguely try. So... Okay™. Creche Master time! We have no idea how to handle Disturbing Younglings. Maybe get Cin Dralig involved? If only Sifo-Dyas hadn't fucked off to who knows where. Cause like? Maybe it's a vision?

Kid is obstinate. Refuses to hand over the holopad to their Creche Master. Something CLEARLY wrong. Cause the more their Master tries to sooth them, the LESS calm they become.

Luckily? The Battle Master gets arrives.

Weirdly... she calms down? Huh. Normally he makes kids nervous. He's Not Great with tiny people. Never knows how to handle them, you know? But like... she looks at him like he's the answer to all her problems? Just toddles over and respectfully offers her lil holopad? Asking him to read.

He does.

Oooooh, that's his "someone's fucked up and I'm mad about it" face. What did she FIND?! Do??? Kid?????

He just... picks her up like a training weight, tucks her under one arm, and walks off. Still reading. Wait... wait, sir, NO. You can't do that! That's not how you-! CIN, that's not how you get a PADAWN! Put her DOWN!! We don't DO that! Oh Force, the Creche Master's already running after him. OH GODS. THEIR GONNA KILL HIM.

Creche Master NO!

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temple guard + fencing ref = yippie

okay so it WAS a little ambitious to think I could finish this in a day. two will do 😖

I was rewatching Fire Across The Galaxy and wanted to join in on the Kanan whump.

This can be both a canon compliant missing scene from the ep and part of the Inquisitor!Kanan AU, fits right in in both <3 interpret as you wish!

Jedis in blue

The Silly AU - I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me

Quinlan's near-death experience with the Temple Guard, who are very overprotective of their sweet and innocent little sister.

Duckie: "When female Obi-Wan becomes Cin's padawan, do all of the Temple Guards just consider this tiny child their newest, littlest sister? Or are they all pretty detached?"

Artemis: "They're relatively detached when there are other people around, but they always encourage her to go to them if she needs something or if she just wants some space because they'll show her the best places to hide. They adore their new baby sister."

Duckie: "Obi-Wan and Quinlan must've had a hard time sneaking around the Temple since the Temple Guards know the best hiding spots. I'm sure it made Quinlan a better Shadow."

Artemis: "They managed to find a few good spots deeper in the Temple and it absolutely made Quinlan better at sneaking. It made Obi really good too though, she ended up pretty good at a lot of shadow techniques. Quin got given the shovel talk a few times anyway by various guards. Cin does not discourage the guard. But he doesn't encourage it either. His padawan is safer from teenage stupidity and that's enough for him. Things kick off again once the war starts and Cody enters the picture."

Hope you like the drawing! Posting is going to be kind of sporadic. Lots going on IRL.