FFFX author reveals
14 Mar 2022 18:22I wrote a thing for
fffx (the Five Figure Fic Exchange):
Daybreak (10444 words) by ExtraPenguin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katooni & Mace Windu
Characters: Mace Windu, Katooni (Star Wars), Anakin Skywalker, Original Clone Character(s)
Additional Tags: Order 66 Happened Differently (Star Wars), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, POV Mace Windu
Summary:
The title was originally something different, then I decided that I'd swap it for Daybreak – a placeholder, I thought, but a better one – and spent 10 minutes explaining to my rubber duck just why Daybreak was the best title and better than the alternatives I'd come up with. Oops? (Order 66 is codenamed Operation Knightfall, and while I couldn't get anything as nice as the night/(Jedi) knight pun, I could flip nightfall on its head and get daybreak.)
This was not my original idea! I originally planned to do a different canon divergence AU, where the events of RotS happen as shown but Mace lives. I made roughly 900 words into my draft before I stopped and ignored it for months. When the deadline breathed down my neck, I realized I couldn't finish that – I needed Sidious to get rekt – and canon diverged two minutes earlier. (Also,
ambiguously had, in the meantime, written a much better post-Order 66 Mace and Katooni fic in You'll find that the world has changed forever, and I'd used the concept of the second half of my originally outlined work – Mace teaming up with Maul – to much better effect in Undertow.) Nonetheless, I did do some outlining, even if I didn't mark off a wrap-up point, and write a few hundred words, so here's the entirety of take #1 for posterity:
( needless to say, this will never be finished )
Daybreak (10444 words) by ExtraPenguin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katooni & Mace Windu
Characters: Mace Windu, Katooni (Star Wars), Anakin Skywalker, Original Clone Character(s)
Additional Tags: Order 66 Happened Differently (Star Wars), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, POV Mace Windu
Summary:
Palpatine is dead, but then the Coruscant Guard turns up in his office and starts shooting. Mace discovers that Sidious has left a final trap for the Jedi, and now it's a race against time to dismantle it and free the clone troopers before they break through the Temple doors.
The title was originally something different, then I decided that I'd swap it for Daybreak – a placeholder, I thought, but a better one – and spent 10 minutes explaining to my rubber duck just why Daybreak was the best title and better than the alternatives I'd come up with. Oops? (Order 66 is codenamed Operation Knightfall, and while I couldn't get anything as nice as the night/(Jedi) knight pun, I could flip nightfall on its head and get daybreak.)
This was not my original idea! I originally planned to do a different canon divergence AU, where the events of RotS happen as shown but Mace lives. I made roughly 900 words into my draft before I stopped and ignored it for months. When the deadline breathed down my neck, I realized I couldn't finish that – I needed Sidious to get rekt – and canon diverged two minutes earlier. (Also,
( needless to say, this will never be finished )