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* DarkerAndEdgier: Gambit!Amidala compared to Wake!Padme. Being head of the CIS after multiple battles with the Trade Federation may have something to do with it.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: DarkerAndEdgier:
** Gambit!Amidala compared to Wake!Padme. Being head of the CIS after multiple battles with the Trade Federation may have something to do with it.
** Gambit!Amidala compared to Wake!Padme. Being head of the CIS after multiple battles with the Trade Federation may have something to do with it.
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* DramaticIrony: Following the tradition of everything set in the prequel trilogy, Anakin makes comments about not being responsible for the various tragedies Vader caused.
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* DramaticIrony: DramaticIrony:
** Following the tradition of everything set in the prequel trilogy, Anakin makes comments about not being responsible for the various tragedies Vader caused.
** Following the tradition of everything set in the prequel trilogy, Anakin makes comments about not being responsible for the various tragedies Vader caused.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Obi-Wan from Luke's era is capable of shifting between the form of his 38-year-old self (from when Anakin was his friend) and his 57-year-old self (from when Luke knew him).
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* FriendsWithBenefits: In ''Sound The Bells'', Obi-Wan and Quinlan. WordOfGod is that this also exists between Obi-Wan and Luminara.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: FriendsWithBenefits:
** In ''Sound The Bells'', Obi-Wan and Quinlan. WordOfGod is that this also exists between Obi-Wan and Luminara.
** In ''Sound The Bells'', Obi-Wan and Quinlan. WordOfGod is that this also exists between Obi-Wan and Luminara.
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* FromACertainPointOfView: OT!Obi-Wan tells Anakin the same things he told Luke in ''Film/ANewHope''.
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* [[IHaveYourWife IfICantHaveYou: Palpatine, being [[TheSociopath Palpatine]], applies this line of thinking to [[spoiler:the entire galaxy. Command Word Retribution is a failsafe in the event of Palpatine dying before he can create his Sith Empire, and involves driving the GAR and the droid army insane to cause mindless chaos across the galaxy.]]
-->'''Palpatine:''' [[spoiler:If IHave Your Husband]]: – cannot – have empire – I will – have – ''chaos''. And we – will burn – ''together''.]]
* IHaveYourWife: Husband, in this case. Kenobi is kidnapped, and they threaten to kill him if Queen Amidala won't comply.
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* IHaveYourWife: Husband, in this case. Kenobi is kidnapped, and they threaten to kill him if Queen Amidala won't comply.
* IronicEcho: Probably not an intentional one in-universe, but [[spoiler:when Anakin and Obi-Wan prepare to fight Emperor Palpatine in 3ABY, Obi-Wan declares that "This time, if we burn we burn together." as a way of declaring his loyalty to his pre-corruption Padawan. Later, when Anakin assassinates Chancellor Palpatine in 19BBY, Palpatine orders the galaxy razed in retribution and declares that "we will burn together" as a way of declaring his intent to destroy everything out of spite.]]
* MetaphoricallyTrue: OT!Obi-Wan tells Anakin the same things he told Luke in ''Film/ANewHope''.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Palpatine's 'Command Word Retribution', a supersized version of Order 66 that he triggers when Anakin kills him in the Wake timeline. Only in addition to the Jedi, it targets the Galactic Senate, the CIS, and many, if not all, planetary leaders, effectively destroying every government in the galaxy and causing the two largest armies in the galaxy to go rogue and spread chaos.]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "This isn't the Mandalorian Wars, and Obi-Wan Kenobi is not Darth Revan."]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "This isn't the Mandalorian Wars, and Obi-Wan Kenobi is not Darth Revan."]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pretty much everyone's reaction when Anakin [[spoiler: kills Palpatine and sets off [[KillEmAll Command Code Retribution]]]]. Also, the Gambit!Jedi.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pretty much everyone's reaction when Anakin [[spoiler: kills Palpatine and sets off [[KillEmAll Command Code Retribution]]]].Retribution]]. Also, the Gambit!Jedi.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: "Stripping", or using the Force to rip out people's minds and destroy/brainwash them is treated as this. It is the only crime that the Jedi will execute people for - except when the Council decides to do it themselves, known as [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic "Revan's Cure"]]. It hasn't been used in thousands of years, [[spoiler: but the Gambit!Jedi Council narrowly decides to use it on Captain Kenobi.]] According to Ahsoka, most of the people it has been used on wound up killing themselves eventually.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: "Stripping", or using the Force to rip out people's minds and destroy/brainwash them is treated as this. It is the only crime that the Jedi will execute people for - except when the Council decides to do it themselves, known as [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic "Revan's Cure"]]. It hasn't been used in thousands of years, [[spoiler: but the Gambit!Jedi Council narrowly decides to use it on Captain Kenobi.]] According to Ahsoka, most of the people it has been used on wound up killing themselves eventually.
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->''Considering that he had picked up what was probably a Sith artifact, promptly passed out in the middle of a war zone, and apparently woken up twenty years in the future with Obi-Wan having taken up residence in his head, Anakin thought he was entitled to have a few questions.''
-->--Summary of ''Wake The Storm''
This is a series of ''Franchise/StarWars'' fanfictions by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/bedlamsbard/pseuds/bedlamsbard Bedlamsbard]]. They deal primarily with the Prequel Trilogy and the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. Also {{Alternate Universe}}s.
On an uneventful battle to recover some Sith artifacts during the Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker ends up passing out--and waking up in a Star Destroyer with someone on the comm link calling for Lord Vader. Guided by Obi-Wan's force ghost, Anakin tries to find out how he got there--and how to get home. Of course, nothing goes as planned, and chaos ensues.
Currently, the series consists of:
# ''Wake The Storm'' ([[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1080760/chapters/2172256 here]])
# ''Fanfic/QueensGambit'' ([[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1287526/chapters/2669221 here]])
# ''Tales from the Eye of the Storm'' ([[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2360390/chapters/5210243 here]])
# ''Sound The Bells'' ([[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2405450/chapters/5319737 here]])
Because of the multiple universes, things can get a bit confusing with multiple versions of the same character exist. Generally, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé refer to the ''Wake The Storm'' incarnations, while Ani, Captain Kenobi, and Amidala refer to the ''Queen's Gambit'' incarnations.
While the story of the ''Wake the Storm'' characters continues elsewhere, ''Queen's Gambit'' has been left on a SequelHook due to numerous plotholes being unanswered. [[LeftHanging However, the author has no intention on continuing the Gambitverse]] due to wanting to move onto the next universe and other new things, resolving plotlines from the Gambitverse via WordOfGod. The next universe is known as the Watchtower universe, and the something new she was working on ended up becoming ''[[FanFic/OnTheEdgeOfTheDevilsBackbone On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' fanfiction.
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!! ''Ouroboros'' contains examples of:
* AllThereInTheManual: Bedlamsbard's tumblr is full of writing updates/snippets, commentary, and meta.
* AlternateUniverse: Largely the premise of the story. There are ''several'' different timelines.
* AltumVidetur: Several of ''Gambit's'' chapter titles are Latin phrases.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Gambit!Barriss gets her left leg cut off by Palpatine.]]
* AwfulTruth: Anakin finding out who Vader is.
* BadFuture: The Original Trilogy timeline.
* BattleCouple: Gambit Verse Obi-Wan and Amidala got together during the year long Trade Federation occupation of Naboo.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Palpatine.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:''Wake The Storm''.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Poor Sabe.]]
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: [[spoiler: "Revan's Cure", the Jedi Council's plan for Gambit!Obi-Wan after he's been proven to have not fallen to the dark side. It's considered so horrific that Plo Koon, Quinlan Vos, and Ahsoka Tano rescue him from the Temple, and Shaak Ti lets them go.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Gambit!Barriss Offee is a lot less broken to start with than her canon counterpart. This doesn't last long. First she has to watch [[spoiler: Luminara get decapitated on the Holonet,]] then have everyone think she's in denial because she thinks [[spoiler: Luminara]] is still alive. Then once she finds out she's right, the Jedi aren't willing to rescue [[spoiler: Luminara]] from the Naboo. [[spoiler: So she joins team Kenobi in leaving the Jedi Order to rescue her,]] and on top of that Wake!Anakin rather bluntly tells her about what she did in his universe. She does ''not'' take it well.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Gambit!Amidala compared to Wake!Padme. Being head of the CIS after multiple battles with the Trade Federation may have something to do with it.
** Also, the Gambit!Naboo in general. It kind of weirds Wake!Padme out.
* DefectingForLove: Most people think Kenobi left the Jedi for Amidala. He adamantly says no: He left the Jedi because they were complaisant and he stopped agreeing with their course of action.
-->'''Dooku''': Kenobi left for love--or political idealism, [[AmbiguousSituation it’s always been hard to tell which]].
* DefectorFromDecadence: In the Gambit verse, Obi-Wan Kenobi left the Jedi Order over the Council's handling of the Naboo Occupation. [[spoiler: Much later, Quinlan Vos and Ahsoka Tano leave over the Council's handling of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Both still consider themselves Jedi outside the Order.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the Jedi's morality, of the typical Star Wars FixFic, and of time travel fics.
* DramaticIrony: Following the tradition of everything set in the prequel trilogy, Anakin makes comments about not being responsible for the various tragedies Vader caused.
** Gambit!Ahsoka admires Captain Kenobi's composure when the Jedi have him on trial, and [[WesternAnimation/TheCloneWars hopes that she would act the same in the unlikely event she was in the same situation.]]
* {{Doorstopper}}: The series is 450k words in total. The longest installment is ''Queen's Gambit'', at 350k words.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The first indication of what the Gambitverse is like is a transmission by the Gambit!Separatists, in which Queen Amidala claims that Supreme Chancellor Dooku sent two Jedi Knights to assassinate her, and then has the Jedi executed by Obi-Wan Kenobi. [[spoiler: Or so we are led to believe on that last part.]]
* DoNotCallMePaul: Gambit!Anakin Skywalker prefers to go by Ani.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: After [[spoiler: Palpatine]] stabs [[spoiler: Sabe]] and realizes that [[spoiler: she isn't Amidala, Sabe says "Long live the Queen." and rakes his face with her remaining hand before he finishes her.]]
* FakeKillScare: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Luminara Undili and Eeth Koth weren't executed at all, but Palpatine hijacked the transmission to the Republic to make it appear that they were to escalate the conflict.]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler: All of the Naboo government members murdered by Palpatine, but Sabe (who was acting as Amidala's body double) got the worst of it, having a hand cut off and then being bisected.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: "Stripping", or using the Force to rip out people's minds and destroy/brainwash them is treated as this. It is the only crime that the Jedi will execute people for - except when the Council decides to do it themselves, known as [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic "Revan's Cure"]]. It hasn't been used in thousands of years, [[spoiler: but the Gambit!Jedi Council narrowly decides to use it on Captain Kenobi.]] According to Ahsoka, most of the people it has been used on wound up killing themselves eventually.
* ForWantOfANail: Everything from Anakin's disappearance in the past onward. Also, the Gambit Verse, in which the hyperdrive of the ship Queen Amidala was fleeing from Naboo on with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan never cracked. This meant that they never made their pitstop on Tatooine, and thus Anakin never blew up the droid control ship, which led to a series of events resulting in the current Gambit verse.
* FreakOut: An extension of the FutureMeScaresMe for Anakin. The lasting effects are shown while he's in the Gambit Verse, exacerbated by the fact that he doesn't know ''why'' Vader became dark and joined the Sith.
* FriendsWithBenefits: In ''Sound The Bells'', Obi-Wan and Quinlan. WordOfGod is that this also exists between Obi-Wan and Luminara.
** The Jedi as written by Bedlamsbard tend towards this interpretation of the "No Attachment" philosophy a lot more than in other works.
* FromACertainPointOfView: OT!Obi-Wan tells Anakin the same things he told Luke in ''Film/ANewHope''.
* FutureMeScaresMe: When Anakin realizes who Vader is.
* GoodIsNotNice: The Jedi Order in the Gambit Verse, '''and how.''' So much so that [[spoiler: Plo Koon, Shaak Ti, Tholme, Cin Drallig, Quinlan Vos, Ahsoka Tano, and Barriss Offee]] begin actively defying the Jedi Council after they [[spoiler: plan to use Revan's Cure on Obi-Wan Kenobi despite it being proven that he hadn't fallen to the Dark Side.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Anakin Skywalker really is the last person with any right to judge someone by what an alternate universe counterpart of theirs did. Not that this stops him from being a jerk to Barriss Offee.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Husband]]: Kenobi is kidnapped, and they threaten to kill him if Queen Amidala won't comply.
* IncestYay: While unaware of his relationship to her, Leia thinks Anakin is attractive.
* InSpiteOfANail: Ani Skywalker's mother was still killed by Tusken Raiders and he still acquired the Twilight in the Gambit Verse. The difference is that he's a smuggler captain instead of a Jedi Knight. In addition, Qui-Gon Jinn was still killed on Naboo by Darth Maul, though Maul's death at Obi-Wan's hands seems to have stuck in that universe.
* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: The Ouroboros the series is named after. It's also a TimeMachine.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The ending of ''Wake The Storm'' is shocking and unique. This means that a lot of the much longer ''Queen's Gambit'' is a spoiler.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Some Gambit!verse Jedi make it quite clear why they think Gambit!Obi-Wan left the Order. [[spoiler: They also make it quite clear that they think he needs serious correction.]]
* LovableRogue: In the grand Star Wars tradition of lovable rogues, the Gambitverse's counterpart of Anakin Skywalker is this.
* MirrorUniverse: The Gambitverse appears to be this at first glance, what with Queen Amidala leading the Confederacy against Supreme Chancellor Dooku and Obi-Wan Kenobi [[spoiler: executing Jedi]], but it turns out that there's a specific point of divergence from canon and some characters are a lot closer to their canon counterparts than others.
* MythologyGag: Since he never became a Jedi, the Gambit version of Anakin Skywalker is a smuggler captain. You could say he's a navigator on a spice freighter.
* MindRape: Revan's Cure. Also attempted on [[spoiler: Wake!Padme by Gambit!Palpatine when he realizes something is off about her.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pretty much everyone's reaction when Anakin [[spoiler: kills Palpatine and sets off [[KillEmAll Command Code Retribution]]]]. Also, the Gambit!Jedi.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In ''Wake The Storm'', [[spoiler: Palpatine decides to thrust some memories into Anakin's head to try and turn him to the dark. The problem? He used Obi-Wan's memories.]]
* OffWithHisHead!: At the end of Wake the Storm/beginning of Queen's Gambit, the Gambitverse's versions of [[spoiler: Luminara Unduli and Eeth Koth]] are apparently executed on live Holonet by Gambit!Obi-Wan on the orders of Gambit!Amidala.
* {{Ouroboros}}: The object that names the series is designed to look like two snakes eating their own tails.
* {{Polyamory}}: [[spoiler: Queen's Gambit slowly builds it up between Anakin, Padme, and Obi-Wan.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Contrary to canon, Gambit Verse Count Dooku, who is Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic.
* SanitySlippage: Yoda in the OT timeline, implied to be happening to [[spoiler: Obi-Wan after Anakin's apparent death. Confirmed to be happening in Sound The Bells]]
* SpaceOpera: Thanks to the focus on galactic politics, the chapters set many years prior, and the shear length of the work, it captures the feel of scale and grandeur of a SpaceOpera in a way that most fanworks don't.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Amidala, as well as her handmaidens.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Palpatine's 'Command Code Retribution', a supersized version of Order 66 that he triggers when Anakin kills him in the Wake timeline. Only in addition to the Jedi, it targets the Galactic Senate, the CIS, and many, if not all, planetary leaders, effectively destroying every government in the galaxy and causing the two largest armies in the galaxy to go rogue and spread chaos.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "This isn't the Mandalorian Wars, and Obi-Wan Kenobi is not Darth Revan."]]
* WhatTheHellHero: A lot of this.
** Padme to Anakin after he [[spoiler: kills Palpatine, inadvertently ruining everything in the Wake universe.]]
** ''Everyone'' to the Gambit!Jedi Council after they decide to [[spoiler: use Revan's Cure on Captain Kenobi.]] Including several ''members'' of the Gambit!Jedi Council.
** Quinlan Vos is '''not''' happy with Anakin after he very bluntly tells Barriss Offee that her counterpart in his universe is a traitor and mass murderer who framed her best friend for her crimes.
* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: Anakin thinks that once he gets to the past, he can fix everything. [[spoiler: [[YouCantFightFate It turns out that some things are always destined to happen.]] ]]
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-->--Summary of ''Wake The Storm''
This is a series of ''Franchise/StarWars'' fanfictions by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/bedlamsbard/pseuds/bedlamsbard Bedlamsbard]]. They deal primarily with the Prequel Trilogy and the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. Also {{Alternate Universe}}s.
On an uneventful battle to recover some Sith artifacts during the Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker ends up passing out--and waking up in a Star Destroyer with someone on the comm link calling for Lord Vader. Guided by Obi-Wan's force ghost, Anakin tries to find out how he got there--and how to get home. Of course, nothing goes as planned, and chaos ensues.
Currently, the series consists of:
# ''Wake The Storm'' ([[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1080760/chapters/2172256 here]])
# ''Fanfic/QueensGambit'' ([[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1287526/chapters/2669221 here]])
# ''Tales from the Eye of the Storm'' ([[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2360390/chapters/5210243 here]])
# ''Sound The Bells'' ([[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2405450/chapters/5319737 here]])
Because of the multiple universes, things can get a bit confusing with multiple versions of the same character exist. Generally, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé refer to the ''Wake The Storm'' incarnations, while Ani, Captain Kenobi, and Amidala refer to the ''Queen's Gambit'' incarnations.
While the story of the ''Wake the Storm'' characters continues elsewhere, ''Queen's Gambit'' has been left on a SequelHook due to numerous plotholes being unanswered. [[LeftHanging However, the author has no intention on continuing the Gambitverse]] due to wanting to move onto the next universe and other new things, resolving plotlines from the Gambitverse via WordOfGod. The next universe is known as the Watchtower universe, and the something new she was working on ended up becoming ''[[FanFic/OnTheEdgeOfTheDevilsBackbone On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' fanfiction.
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!! ''Ouroboros'' contains examples of:
* AllThereInTheManual: Bedlamsbard's tumblr is full of writing updates/snippets, commentary, and meta.
* AlternateUniverse: Largely the premise of the story. There are ''several'' different timelines.
* AltumVidetur: Several of ''Gambit's'' chapter titles are Latin phrases.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Gambit!Barriss gets her left leg cut off by Palpatine.]]
* AwfulTruth: Anakin finding out who Vader is.
* BadFuture: The Original Trilogy timeline.
* BattleCouple: Gambit Verse Obi-Wan and Amidala got together during the year long Trade Federation occupation of Naboo.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Palpatine.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:''Wake The Storm''.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Poor Sabe.]]
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: [[spoiler: "Revan's Cure", the Jedi Council's plan for Gambit!Obi-Wan after he's been proven to have not fallen to the dark side. It's considered so horrific that Plo Koon, Quinlan Vos, and Ahsoka Tano rescue him from the Temple, and Shaak Ti lets them go.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Gambit!Barriss Offee is a lot less broken to start with than her canon counterpart. This doesn't last long. First she has to watch [[spoiler: Luminara get decapitated on the Holonet,]] then have everyone think she's in denial because she thinks [[spoiler: Luminara]] is still alive. Then once she finds out she's right, the Jedi aren't willing to rescue [[spoiler: Luminara]] from the Naboo. [[spoiler: So she joins team Kenobi in leaving the Jedi Order to rescue her,]] and on top of that Wake!Anakin rather bluntly tells her about what she did in his universe. She does ''not'' take it well.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Gambit!Amidala compared to Wake!Padme. Being head of the CIS after multiple battles with the Trade Federation may have something to do with it.
** Also, the Gambit!Naboo in general. It kind of weirds Wake!Padme out.
* DefectingForLove: Most people think Kenobi left the Jedi for Amidala. He adamantly says no: He left the Jedi because they were complaisant and he stopped agreeing with their course of action.
-->'''Dooku''': Kenobi left for love--or political idealism, [[AmbiguousSituation it’s always been hard to tell which]].
* DefectorFromDecadence: In the Gambit verse, Obi-Wan Kenobi left the Jedi Order over the Council's handling of the Naboo Occupation. [[spoiler: Much later, Quinlan Vos and Ahsoka Tano leave over the Council's handling of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Both still consider themselves Jedi outside the Order.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the Jedi's morality, of the typical Star Wars FixFic, and of time travel fics.
* DramaticIrony: Following the tradition of everything set in the prequel trilogy, Anakin makes comments about not being responsible for the various tragedies Vader caused.
** Gambit!Ahsoka admires Captain Kenobi's composure when the Jedi have him on trial, and [[WesternAnimation/TheCloneWars hopes that she would act the same in the unlikely event she was in the same situation.]]
* {{Doorstopper}}: The series is 450k words in total. The longest installment is ''Queen's Gambit'', at 350k words.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The first indication of what the Gambitverse is like is a transmission by the Gambit!Separatists, in which Queen Amidala claims that Supreme Chancellor Dooku sent two Jedi Knights to assassinate her, and then has the Jedi executed by Obi-Wan Kenobi. [[spoiler: Or so we are led to believe on that last part.]]
* DoNotCallMePaul: Gambit!Anakin Skywalker prefers to go by Ani.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: After [[spoiler: Palpatine]] stabs [[spoiler: Sabe]] and realizes that [[spoiler: she isn't Amidala, Sabe says "Long live the Queen." and rakes his face with her remaining hand before he finishes her.]]
* FakeKillScare: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Luminara Undili and Eeth Koth weren't executed at all, but Palpatine hijacked the transmission to the Republic to make it appear that they were to escalate the conflict.]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler: All of the Naboo government members murdered by Palpatine, but Sabe (who was acting as Amidala's body double) got the worst of it, having a hand cut off and then being bisected.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: "Stripping", or using the Force to rip out people's minds and destroy/brainwash them is treated as this. It is the only crime that the Jedi will execute people for - except when the Council decides to do it themselves, known as [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic "Revan's Cure"]]. It hasn't been used in thousands of years, [[spoiler: but the Gambit!Jedi Council narrowly decides to use it on Captain Kenobi.]] According to Ahsoka, most of the people it has been used on wound up killing themselves eventually.
* ForWantOfANail: Everything from Anakin's disappearance in the past onward. Also, the Gambit Verse, in which the hyperdrive of the ship Queen Amidala was fleeing from Naboo on with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan never cracked. This meant that they never made their pitstop on Tatooine, and thus Anakin never blew up the droid control ship, which led to a series of events resulting in the current Gambit verse.
* FreakOut: An extension of the FutureMeScaresMe for Anakin. The lasting effects are shown while he's in the Gambit Verse, exacerbated by the fact that he doesn't know ''why'' Vader became dark and joined the Sith.
* FriendsWithBenefits: In ''Sound The Bells'', Obi-Wan and Quinlan. WordOfGod is that this also exists between Obi-Wan and Luminara.
** The Jedi as written by Bedlamsbard tend towards this interpretation of the "No Attachment" philosophy a lot more than in other works.
* FromACertainPointOfView: OT!Obi-Wan tells Anakin the same things he told Luke in ''Film/ANewHope''.
* FutureMeScaresMe: When Anakin realizes who Vader is.
* GoodIsNotNice: The Jedi Order in the Gambit Verse, '''and how.''' So much so that [[spoiler: Plo Koon, Shaak Ti, Tholme, Cin Drallig, Quinlan Vos, Ahsoka Tano, and Barriss Offee]] begin actively defying the Jedi Council after they [[spoiler: plan to use Revan's Cure on Obi-Wan Kenobi despite it being proven that he hadn't fallen to the Dark Side.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Anakin Skywalker really is the last person with any right to judge someone by what an alternate universe counterpart of theirs did. Not that this stops him from being a jerk to Barriss Offee.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Husband]]: Kenobi is kidnapped, and they threaten to kill him if Queen Amidala won't comply.
* IncestYay: While unaware of his relationship to her, Leia thinks Anakin is attractive.
* InSpiteOfANail: Ani Skywalker's mother was still killed by Tusken Raiders and he still acquired the Twilight in the Gambit Verse. The difference is that he's a smuggler captain instead of a Jedi Knight. In addition, Qui-Gon Jinn was still killed on Naboo by Darth Maul, though Maul's death at Obi-Wan's hands seems to have stuck in that universe.
* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: The Ouroboros the series is named after. It's also a TimeMachine.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The ending of ''Wake The Storm'' is shocking and unique. This means that a lot of the much longer ''Queen's Gambit'' is a spoiler.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Some Gambit!verse Jedi make it quite clear why they think Gambit!Obi-Wan left the Order. [[spoiler: They also make it quite clear that they think he needs serious correction.]]
* LovableRogue: In the grand Star Wars tradition of lovable rogues, the Gambitverse's counterpart of Anakin Skywalker is this.
* MirrorUniverse: The Gambitverse appears to be this at first glance, what with Queen Amidala leading the Confederacy against Supreme Chancellor Dooku and Obi-Wan Kenobi [[spoiler: executing Jedi]], but it turns out that there's a specific point of divergence from canon and some characters are a lot closer to their canon counterparts than others.
* MythologyGag: Since he never became a Jedi, the Gambit version of Anakin Skywalker is a smuggler captain. You could say he's a navigator on a spice freighter.
* MindRape: Revan's Cure. Also attempted on [[spoiler: Wake!Padme by Gambit!Palpatine when he realizes something is off about her.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pretty much everyone's reaction when Anakin [[spoiler: kills Palpatine and sets off [[KillEmAll Command Code Retribution]]]]. Also, the Gambit!Jedi.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In ''Wake The Storm'', [[spoiler: Palpatine decides to thrust some memories into Anakin's head to try and turn him to the dark. The problem? He used Obi-Wan's memories.]]
* OffWithHisHead!: At the end of Wake the Storm/beginning of Queen's Gambit, the Gambitverse's versions of [[spoiler: Luminara Unduli and Eeth Koth]] are apparently executed on live Holonet by Gambit!Obi-Wan on the orders of Gambit!Amidala.
* {{Ouroboros}}: The object that names the series is designed to look like two snakes eating their own tails.
* {{Polyamory}}: [[spoiler: Queen's Gambit slowly builds it up between Anakin, Padme, and Obi-Wan.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Contrary to canon, Gambit Verse Count Dooku, who is Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic.
* SanitySlippage: Yoda in the OT timeline, implied to be happening to [[spoiler: Obi-Wan after Anakin's apparent death. Confirmed to be happening in Sound The Bells]]
* SpaceOpera: Thanks to the focus on galactic politics, the chapters set many years prior, and the shear length of the work, it captures the feel of scale and grandeur of a SpaceOpera in a way that most fanworks don't.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Amidala, as well as her handmaidens.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Palpatine's 'Command Code Retribution', a supersized version of Order 66 that he triggers when Anakin kills him in the Wake timeline. Only in addition to the Jedi, it targets the Galactic Senate, the CIS, and many, if not all, planetary leaders, effectively destroying every government in the galaxy and causing the two largest armies in the galaxy to go rogue and spread chaos.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "This isn't the Mandalorian Wars, and Obi-Wan Kenobi is not Darth Revan."]]
* WhatTheHellHero: A lot of this.
** Padme to Anakin after he [[spoiler: kills Palpatine, inadvertently ruining everything in the Wake universe.]]
** ''Everyone'' to the Gambit!Jedi Council after they decide to [[spoiler: use Revan's Cure on Captain Kenobi.]] Including several ''members'' of the Gambit!Jedi Council.
** Quinlan Vos is '''not''' happy with Anakin after he very bluntly tells Barriss Offee that her counterpart in his universe is a traitor and mass murderer who framed her best friend for her crimes.
* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: Anakin thinks that once he gets to the past, he can fix everything. [[spoiler: [[YouCantFightFate It turns out that some things are always destined to happen.]] ]]
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