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Kenobi Kafé Service Animal Boga AU Anthology by CallToMuster, calika, catboydogma, Artherra, hellowkatey, RovingRanger, stolen_pen_name23, lux_arcana
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice Series - Jude Watson & Dave Wolverton, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types
13 Jul 2022
Summary
An AU where Obi-Wan receives a varactyl hatchling named Boga to act as his service animal for post-traumatic stress caused by the Melida/Daan war. Boga remains at Obi-Wan's side throughout his lifetime.
Anthology containing:
grief is its own beast by CallToMuster
The creature comes to a screeching halt right in front of them – right in front of Obi-Wan, whose face seems to crumple a bit.
“Boga,” he chokes out, and then his hands are buried in its crests and his face is tucked into the side of its neck. The creature trills again, a lower-pitched cry of mourning, and cuddles closer to the man who is clutching it like it is his lifeline.
[Or: in the wake of Qui-Gon's death on Naboo, Obi-Wan's service animal Boga provides some much-needed comfort.]
Angel of Music by calika
He finds her curled up in Qui-Gon’s favourite blanket on the couch, head stretched to the sky and swaying as she happily creates the most joyful sonic torture to ever exist.
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Boga sings her heart out at every opportunity.Inseparable by calika
Obi-Wan is torn from Boga’s side, his grip on her feathers failing as his captors drag him away and he screams, feeling like it’s his heart they’ve torn from him instead.
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Obi-Wan and Boga are captured on the warfrontlove like a roar by catboydogma
“I don’t—I, uh. I don’t know what a varactyl is, Master,” Obi-Wan said, cradling the egg gingerly.
“Find out soon, you will!” Yoda cackled, rapping the end of his gimer stick against Qui-Gon’s kitchen tile.
If it were any other master, Qui-Gon might have protested giving the egg of a live creature to his very young, very tired padawan.
But it was Yoda, and Yoda did what he liked. Qui-Gon supposed there had to be some advantages to being shin-high and over 500 years.Not everything feels like something else by Artherra
One by one, we each stay alive.Qui-Gon voices the: “Oh!” for him.
The lizard that stands at her feet; roughly tall enough for its head to be level with Obi-Wan’s chest; turns its head to them as soon as they enter and fixes its stare straight at him, those yellow, burning, intelligent eyes cutting through his soul. The crown of purple-blue-jade feathers on the back of its head lifts as it considers him like an equal, like a challenger, and he straightens without thinking. A sort of harness wraps around its body along with a vest; it says on the side, SERVICE ANIMAL IN TRAINING, and DO NOT DISTRACT, black font on bright orange.
“Obi-Wan,” the lady tries to get his attention but he’s too busy having a staring contest with the animal that reminds him so closely, so terribly of some half-forgotten idea of home.
“I want you to meet Boga.”war is a looming specter by CallToMuster
“Hey,” Anakin said softly, kneeling down. “Are you alright, Master?”
Obi-Wan raised his head and revealed his pale, blotchy face and red-rimmed eyes. “I – I can’t – I can’t do it again, I can’t–”
At his side, Boga let out a soft trill and raised her head to swipe her tongue down the side of Obi-Wan’s face.
[Or: in the shadow of the first battle of Geonosis, Anakin learns the Jedi are going to war. His first thought is of Obi-Wan.]
i'll help you carry on by hellowkatey
"I've done lots of research, Master. Varactyls are very smart and loyal. Plus, I've always been good at connecting with animals through the Force."
"Indeed you have," the Jedi Master says with a tinge of defeat. "Though I worry about taking on the responsibility of training Boga on top of your padawan studies. You already have much to catch up on."
[or, 5 glimpses into Obi-Wan training Boga to be his service animal, and 1 time that training pays off]
every possible way by catboydogma
“Oh, hello there,” Obi-Wan said, turning and raising an arm. Boga had her little paws hooked into his tunics, beak open wide and tail lashing behind her. “What are you doing here, darling?”
Boga opened her beak even wider, somehow, and screeched at him. He’d never heard her so loud or so shrill. The rush of the fountains and streams in the Room filled the air between them.OR: 5 times Boga screamed to be silly + 1 time Boga screamed to be serious
well and far behind by catboydogma
It will be easy, the Senate had said. Just yourself and perhaps a few others, they’d said. Quick in and out, they had told him.
Well, this was most definitely not a “quick in and out” sort of mission.healing takes its own path by CallToMuster
Obi-Wan looked back down at Boga. He stretched out his hand a bit, and this time Boga was the one who leaned forward into his touch. He began scratching dutifully, clearly understanding the implicit instruction, and immediately the low rumbling began again.
A slow, small smile crept across his face.
“G-good girl, Boga,” Obi-Wan whispered, so softly that it could barely be heard.
[Or: three scenes in the early life of Obi-Wan and Boga's partnership.]
Feathers, facades, and other fashions of the coruscant elite by calika
Forwarded from Galactic Republic Senate Administration Office:
High General Obi-Wan Kenobi, you are invited to attend the 3rd Peace Gala to benefit the republic planets most impacted by the war.Reply to Galactic Republic Senate Administration Office:
I am honoured to accept the invitation on the condition my service animal may accompany me.
May the force be with you.easy now / now alone by catboydogma
There was nothing else in the world that felt like Boga. Her scales were smooth but not slick, pebbled but not raised. Her beak was always warm, somehow, despite the fact that it was bone and keratin. Her tongue laved over the inside of his wrist and then she nudged forward, thumping the side of her head against his chest. His arm automatically went around her neck and she set a leg delicately over his lap. The warm weight of it felt real like nothing else.
Head in the Sand by RovingRanger
Then the sweet sound of a gunship directly overhead filtered through the dust. Whoops and fresh cheers from the troops made Obi-wan’s knees weak again.
“Reinforcements! The reinforcements have arrived!”
There were already clones running past them. Obi-wan turned off his lightsaber. The plasma melted away, and so did Obi-wan’s strength. He and Boga sank to the ground together.
I'll Love You Forever (Let Me Be Your Shelter) by RovingRanger
The training simulations on Kamino had never included a 60-foot feathered lizard. Cody had to admit the veractyl was endearing, though, in her own way. The creature—Boga—did a considerable job of being in the background, despite her large size. Cody knew how much she helped his General, so he couldn’t help but be grateful to her. Normally, she was vigilant, perceptive, and calm.
She certainly wasn’t calm at the moment. It was the first time that Cody found himself wishing the veractyl were a little less perceptive.
General Kenobi hadn’t come back from the latest mission.
our teeth to break by catboydogma
Obi-Wan woke to a raging headache, searing pain in his shoulders, and a dull throbbing at the back of his skull. He was strung up by his wrists, Force-suppressing cuffs digging into the soft insides of his arms, feet barely brushing the cold durasteel floor under him. He noticed, with a sinking feeling, a circular drain set in the middle of the floor just under his toes.
a love that won't sit still by catboydogma
Obi-Wan sang to Boga when he fed her. Qui-Gon had no idea why or when this had started. It just was. Obi-Wan crooned nonsensical melodies to Boga when he brushed through her crest and checked her toe pads, he sang snatches of Qui-Gon’s rowdiest drinking songs when he fed her, and when she curled up on his chest to sleep he hummed a sleepy three-note song of satisfaction before dropping off to sleep.
instead i took care of you by CallToMuster
When Obi-Wan opened his eyes again, he was on the ground and he couldn’t remember how he got there.
[Or: many decades after the successful ending of the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan is still struggling, in ways both old and new.]
numbness spreading across your chest like frost by CallToMuster
It was stupid, Obi-Wan knew it was stupid, but he hadn’t been able to help clinging to the thought during the war that once it was over, everything would be better.
But now the war was over, and Obi-Wan felt worse than he had in a long, long time.
dogfish by catboydogma
This was a beautiful planet. The name escaped him at the moment, but it had three moons and a single young blue sun. The atmosphere was a stunning deep cobalt in the evenings as the sun set and the first moon rose, but in the day—as it was now—the sky was a delicate shade of lavender. It was almost entirely rock and natural springs, with volatile volcanoes at each pole. Not two yards from Obi-Wan, a waterfall of glass-green water fountained down a rocky cliff to the riverbed. The rock here was every shade imaginable, though it tended to settle in deep violets and indigos.
All it meant now was that Obi-Wan was covered in violet rock dust and his blood turned the rock beneath him almost black.Boga and the Human Called Anakin by stolen_pen_name23
Boga is distrustful of the human called Anakin, but due to his relationship with her Master, she is forced to get along with him. Now that her Master is missing and presumed dead, Boga has to trust Anakin and work with him if there’s any hope of saving Obi-Wan.
Dark Seas by stolen_pen_name23
A sick Obi-Wan has trouble distinguishing the past (and possibly the future) from the present. Boga and Anakin are there to help him find his way back.
Breaking and Entering by stolen_pen_name23
When Boga is injured in battle, Obi-Wan panics over the state of his loyal service animal. With some calming words from Anakin and a little light breaking and entering, he might be able to get back to her.
Part of the Service Animal Boga AU and a Bad Things Happen Prompt Fill
when everything else is trying to hurt you by CallToMuster
One moment Obi-Wan was curled in the space between the couch and wall in his quarters, holding desperately onto the soft feathers of Boga’s crest, and the next he was sitting in the middle of an open dirt field as men shouted and blasters fired overhead.
[or: in the months post-Melida/Daan, Obi-Wan is transported to the middle of the Clone Wars.]
take a step back and find solid ground by CallToMuster
One moment Obi-Wan was running through a battle, lightsaber brandished in front of him like a shield as his feet pounded the earth in rhythm with the thousands of other GAR soldiers on-planet, and then he was crammed into a tight, tiny, quiet space on a different planet entirely.
[or: as his younger self takes his place, Obi-Wan is transported from the Clone Wars to the Temple in the months post-Melida/Daan.]
through the smoke; you arrive by lux_arcana
An expedition to the Coruscant Experimental Physics Labs goes horribly, horribly wrong, and only Boga can save the day.
(you know the end of Bolt? like the disney movie? where bolt saves penny from a burning building? yeah this is that.)
watcher; avert your gaze by lux_arcana
He didn’t remember a lot of things. He didn’t remember how he got here, or where he was, or what he was doing before this. All there is was this, the silent and dark room, Boga between him and the door. There was nothing else but screaming in his mind.
Well - that was a lie. There was something else, but Obi-Wan knew it wasn’t real, and he wasn’t supposed to focus on things that weren’t real. But the room was so dark and so quiet that it was the only thing he could focus on, and so while Boga purred beneath him, trying desperately to keep him calm, his eyes remained locked on the far corner of the room.
In that corner - existing heedless of the fact that there was no light to see by - was a monster. Obi-Wan had no other word for it. It was a mass of cloaks and black and red and hatred, and it wanted to kill him. If he moved or made a noise, it would kill him. It was there, and Obi-Wan was trapped, and he didn’t know where he was.
The monster wasn’t real. It didn’t feel real, not really. But Obi-Wan also knew that if he moved he would die, and he did not want to die like this.
muffled heart by CallToMuster
The anxiety started early. Perhaps that was why he reacted so strongly when a noise suddenly rang out across the atrium of the Senate lobby. It wasn’t the thunder of an explosion, or the whine of a blastershot, or the crack of a slugthrower firing. But it was close enough, and like a switch had been flipped, Obi-Wan felt a great weight descend over him, muffling everything.
[or: a trip to the Senate goes wrong.]
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