History Fanfic / TheDesertStorm

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34655980/chapters/86280274 Deception]]'': Completed; Obi-Wan must rely on his guile when he is accidentally kidnapped while protecting an actor with a bounty on his head.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35335237/chapters/88068013 Aliit]]'': Ongoing; Obi-Wan returns to the Temple as a Jedi Master.

* AlternateUniverse: Aside from changes caused by time travel, there are several alterations from both Canon and ''Legends''.

* DeconReconSwitch: The fic starts out by deconstructing TrainingFromHell by showing how the grueling training that Ben puts his Padawan through regularly leaves Obi-Wan exhausted to the point where he falls asleep during his classes, worrying his friends. This leads to Ben getting a bad rep as a mentor with many Jedi viewing his training to be a form a child abuse and some even going as far as to demand that Obi-Wan be removed from Ben's tutelage entirely. This then gets reconstructed as people realize that Ben is pushing Obi-Wan as far as he can go and no further, that the training is actually working spectacularly well, and that there's a ''reason'' he's pushing Obi-Wan.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34655980/chapters/86280274 Deception]]'': Completed; A WholePlotReference to [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E15Deception a certain arc]] from ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34934215 Gauntlet]]'': Ongoing; Obi-Wan and his Padawans are sent on a spiritual journey.

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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34920823 Rebirth]]'': One-shot; Ben wakes up in a bad way and makes a choice.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34934215 Gauntlet]]'': Ongoing.

* InvincibleVillain: As always, the Sith are one throughout the series. Despite Ben's best efforts and his knowledge of the future, he's only inconvenienced the Sith's Grand Plan. Even with the knowledge that Palpatine is a Sith Lord, Ben is unable to do anything about him and can't even warn the other Jedi without risking the Senate turning against them.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33420925/chapters/83019424 Haunting]]'': Completed; Still reeling from Ben's disappearance, Obi-Wan starts training Anakin and Jax as his Padawans.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** While visiting the Jedi temple on Lothal, Obi-Wan learns of the temple's supernatural properties following an incident where the building swallowed up Anakin and Ji-Kest after luring them away from their chaperone with auditory hallucinations. Since no sane adult would knowingly allow children to roam the place after finding this out, Obi-Wan files an official recommendation that juniors and younglings should not be housed within the temple.
** It's mentioned that the Galactic Senate is seeking to prosecute Ben for murdering Palpatine. While Padmé may have dropped all charges related to Palpatine's death, it doesn't change the fact that Ben killed a sitting senator while ignoring his attempts to surrender. Palpatine was also a popular politician widely beloved even amongst the Jedi, and had made many friends in high places over the course of his long political career. Even though Naboo's courts are willing to rule in Ben's favor, the galactic courts (which Palpatine almost certainly held influence over) are decidedly ''not''. The fact that Ben conveniently disappeared only further convinces the courts that he was guilty and went on the run to avoid facing charges.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34655980/chapters/86280274 Deception]]'': A WholePlotReference to [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E15Deception a certain arc]] from ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''.

** Played with. Prior to joining Jango's army in ''Sa Sarad'', Ben tries to avert this by leaving behind notes for Windu which inform him about how the Yinchorri attacked the Jedi Temple in Ben's timeline. However, Ben disguised his warnings as vague historical reports and was counting on Mace to be able to decipher them. Although Mace does figure out what the true meaning behind his notes, Ben failed to include ''how'' and ''when'' the Yinchorri would attack. Thus the only thing Windu can really do with this information is have security at the Temple tightened, something he was going to do anyway. [[spoiler:Because of this, the Yinchorri successfully plant a bomb in the Temple which causes catastrophic damage.]]

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Quinlan's investigation of a drug ring in the lower levels of Coruscant uncovers the existence of a Dark Side cult carrying out contract killings and eventually discover that the Sith had infiltrated the Jedi Temple using one of their reclaimed Padawans.

** During the two year time skip between ''Coronation'' and ''Haunting'', the Jedi Council finally made it public that the Sith were alive and likely behind Ben's disappearance. This gets a mixed response from the rest of the Order. Half of them cautiously accepted the claims but remain skeptical since they had grown up being taught that the Sith were extinct. The other half (mostly those who've always distrusted or disliked Ben) sided with the Senate and assume that the Council is merely trying to cover up the fact that Ben murdered an innocent senator, fell to the Dark Side, and went on the run to avoid facing justice.

* {{Matriarchy}}: Eshan, the Echani homeworld, is run by one. Families are headed by matriarchs, women typically inherit everything, and it's said that you need a woman's favor if you want to succeed at anything on Eshan. When Yurik inherits a antique weapon from one of the Echani women he used to act as arm candy for, it becomes a scandal on Eshan and leads to him becoming the target of a dozen bounties.

* NonActionGuy: Despite having some training in martial arts, Vas Yurik insists that he is no combatant and his true passion instead lies in acting. This earned him much disdain from his family since Echani culture values combat to the point where it's said to be their primary form of communication.

* AloneWithThePsycho: The first half of Chapter 21 sees Aayla in this situation with [[spoiler:Komari Vosa]] after catching the latter trying to kill [[spoiler:a comatose Quinlan]]. Aayla is a fourteen-year-old Padawan facing off against a full-grown adult who has just revealed herself to be a darksider that outclasses her completely. She's alone and no one else knows where she is since she snuck out of her quarters in the middle of the night. [[spoiler:Komari]] is also holding her lightsaber directly over [[spoiler:Quinlan's]] body, the unspoken threat being that she will kill him if Aayla tries to fight or scream for help. Aayla is told that if she hands over her lightsaber and allows herself to be "[[DeadlyEuphemism put to sleep]]", then [[BlatantLies no one will be harmed]]. [[spoiler:Aayla pretends to comply with Komari's demands and tricks her into leaving Quinlan's side. Once Quinlan is no longer in range of Komari's lightsaber, Aayla proceeds to grab Quinlan's lightsaber and immediately attacks Komari while screaming into the Force, alerting Bant and Che to what's happening.]]

* OhCrap: Rako Hardeen has this reaction in the first chapter of ''Deception'' when he realizes that person he just shot with his sniper rifle was Obi-Wan Kenobi. Being a Mandalorian from Concord Dawn, he knows how much Jango cares about Obi-Wan and is terrified that Jango might come after him for killing him.

* {{Foil}}: [[spoiler:Komari Vosa]] is one to Bruck Chun. Both infiltrated the Jedi Order for the Sith by taking advantage of the Jedi's recent reclamation program. However, Bruck was working for an intermediary and had no idea that he was spying for the Sith. On the other hand, [[spoiler:Komari]] was a willing ally for the Sith from day one and had been personally selected for the task by Darth Plagueis himself. Bruck was horrified when the data he gave Xanatos led to the Temple being bombed and joined the Temple Guard as a way to atone for his actions. [[spoiler:Komari]] expresses no such guilt in her actions and instead fled the Temple to officially rejoin the Sith.