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"Lost in Translation" by Helen (R)
Fandom: STAR WARS: TPM
Pairing: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, references to Bruck/Bant
Author on LJ: helenish
Author Website: http://www.helenish.net
Why this must be read:
Hi, folks. I'm laughingacademy, and I'll be your pilot for the duration of August. Welcome aboard.
Our trip begin with one of the first stories I read in this fandom. I found it through fearlessdiva, who cites it as the inspiration for her take on Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon in her multi-part story, "The Language of Baked Goods" (which I would be pimping like mad if it weren’t for crack_van's no-WIP policy).
Pleasure-slave stories and mind-wipe stories run through this fandom like kudzu, and it didn't take writers long to realize that these are two great tastes that taste great together. Helen's story (her only foray into TPM fic to date, alas) is a sweet, sexy, lighthearted take on this hybrid plot. At the end of a diplomatic mission, Obi-Wan, "instead of having a intractable, insubordinate Master, now had an intractable, insubordinate pleasure slave." The boys' awkwardness as they try to come to terms with the episode is both realistic and touching, and the dialogue is a delight:
Lost in Translation
Pairing: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, references to Bruck/Bant
Author on LJ: helenish
Author Website: http://www.helenish.net
Why this must be read:
Hi, folks. I'm laughingacademy, and I'll be your pilot for the duration of August. Welcome aboard.
Our trip begin with one of the first stories I read in this fandom. I found it through fearlessdiva, who cites it as the inspiration for her take on Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon in her multi-part story, "The Language of Baked Goods" (which I would be pimping like mad if it weren’t for crack_van's no-WIP policy).
Pleasure-slave stories and mind-wipe stories run through this fandom like kudzu, and it didn't take writers long to realize that these are two great tastes that taste great together. Helen's story (her only foray into TPM fic to date, alas) is a sweet, sexy, lighthearted take on this hybrid plot. At the end of a diplomatic mission, Obi-Wan, "instead of having a intractable, insubordinate Master, now had an intractable, insubordinate pleasure slave." The boys' awkwardness as they try to come to terms with the episode is both realistic and touching, and the dialogue is a delight:
"Heard you were in a compromising position with your Master," Bruck said, sitting down across from him. Obi-Wan poked studiously at his dinner and said,
"Who isn't, at some point?"
"True enough," Bruck shrugged.
"What'd you hear?"
"Nothing really; all very vague, Kenobi and Jinn up to their usual hijinks."
"What's that? We're never up to any hijinks."
"Who knows how these rumors get started? Cruzo was doing offload on that ship you came in on and he said one of the crew claimed you were hauling some hot pleasure slave around and that you threatened to cut off his hands if he came near him."
"Ah, yet another blow struck for the public image of the Jedi," Bant said, joining them, stealing a piece of bread off Bruck's plate.
"Yup. All a lot of insane violent whoring nutjobs," Bruck grinned.
Lost in Translation
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That was different. Qui-Gon usually isn't the one in the role of the pleasure slave.