For those who have read "Sun Kissed":

[aislinn_veedor]

I have a detail I need help with:


[Poll #1770716]



I was up a few times during the night and at 4:30am I had this sudden brainwave for the next SK chapter. Why do I have my best ideas in the wee hours of morning?!

Comments

[temple-mistress.livejournal.com]

Hey, bb!

Here's my thoughts on this, FWIW. I think how you've already established Obi-Wan's character in SK points towards a perhaps celibate life, but I wouldn't say virginal. He knows what Anakin is/was, and while he's been uncomfortable with Anakin's clumsy attempts over the chapters to, uh, show his gratitude?, Obi-Wan didn't seem freaked out at the thought of sex with Anakin as much as he felt a more moral distaste for what Anakin had had to learn to do/be in order to survive.

I think, having been 'rejected' of sorts by the Jedi and working on Bandomeer may have also 'freed' Obi-Wan to relax any kind of iron grip he might have grown to have on following the Code to the letter (provided chastity was expected/proscribed in the Code, etc.). Like I said, I can see his circumstances on Bandomeer leading to some kind of situational or self-imposed celibacy, but I think that at some point in his youth he may have had a couple of rebellious encounters, but perhaps felt deterred by a lingering sense of duty to the Code, etc.

Also...Virginal Obi-Wan is a lot to take on, especially in a story where Anakin's been living--and was purchased--as a pleasure slave. It could be more trouble than it's worth to have to combine those two very disparate lives and experiences. Especially when you've done this beautiful job so far of having them connect on such a deep emotional level, so slowly, so carefully, neither sure of what the other is to them, just that there's...something...and it's new and unnerving and yet already so...necessary. *sighhh* I really love this story. :)

Anyway, that's my reasoning. If you go the other way, you know I'll just as happily read it and squee and faint, lolol. After all, it's YOU! ♥

[aislinn-tredor.livejournal.com]

*clings*

Celibate! That would be a better word than virgin I think. I've spent the evening going through every chapter of SK and making notes on how I've written Obi-Wan and his experiences.

And just like the poll I seem to be split 50/50!

I think maybe he might be virginal in body but definitely not in mind. He's had some dirty thoughts then chastizes the hell out of himself for.

I just...can't seem to see him in any sort of casual sex situation. BUT, as you pointed out he might have had some rebellion, the anger at the rejection may have prompted him to defy everything in the Code and go a bit wild on away missions as some sort of self-punishment/self-destruction for not being good enough, and then the guilt of his "unworthiness" might have pushed into a completely celibate life...

There's so much to play with here!

And you're also right about having two extremes. Anakin all sexed out, and Obi-Wan having none. That could be trouble.

Ahaha. I deleted everything I had written for Chapter 14 to make way for what I developed at 0430 this morning. It is SO much better than what I had been leaning towards before. And it makes more sense concerning future chapters and character development