The Warrior's Heart (Star Wars TPM series)

The Warrior's Heart is a Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan series by Writestuff. 
The stories were originally posted to the Master & Apprentice mailing list and archived at the Master & Apprentice archive. 
The author also had a website where these stories, as well as other stories, were posted. See The Warrior's Heart.
It was also published as a series of print zines by Two Vixens Press between 2002 and 2005. See The Warrior's Heart. The author wrote in the first issue of the zine that the online stories were edited, sometimes heavily, before being included in print: 
All are now available, presumably in the print zine versions, on AO3. 
==Regarding the Title==
The order of the stories changed several times as they were written out of order and the series originally didn't have a title. When Ecstasies was posted, the author was still looking for a title, when "Give and Take" was posted a month later, the series was officially called "The Warrior's Heart." This final title was a suggestion by Devo.
==Author's Description==
Early Days won the TPM Best Zine Sizzler award at ConneXions. Trials and Errors won the TPM Best Novel Sizzler at ConneXions as well as a Mediawest 2003 Fan Q Award. "Masquerade" won a Sizzler award for TPM Best Story, and the story "Master Class" won for Best Short Story, in What Was Old Is New Again. The standalone TPM story "Creature Comforts" also appears in the Two Vixens multimedia zine La Chair.
The Warrior's Heart series, like most of Writestuff's stories, deviates drastically from canon, both Legends and EU (her tagline for the original fic website was "Fixing George's Mistakes"). 
The major deviation is #Qui-GonLives, and from there it veers wildly into original fic with somebody else's characters. 
The first three volumes of The Warrior's Heart are mostly concerned with the power differential between Master and Padawan and how that shifts when the two become lovers. The theme is explored explicitly in the two stories "The Anger Exercises" and "The Fear Exercises" where both apprentice and master are challenged to face their own shortcomings as Jedi in the face of the shifts in their relationship. Some of this power differential is further explored in the introduction of BDSM elements into the characters' relationship, and the introduction of Bruck Chun's non-Jedi dominatrix friend into the mix as another sort of training master. From almost the beginning, the lovers' relationship becomes an open one, including Bruck Chun who has helped precipitate Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan's new relationship. The open nature is entirely one-sided, with Obi-Wan free to explore relationships with others, while Qui-Gon is more than content with his new lover. This becomes an off and on source of friction from Obi-Wan's point of view. Once Obi-Wan is "emancipated" after his knighting, the relationship shifts yet again, and Obi-Wan tries to find his place outside his master's "Long Shadow." 
The fourth volume, The Long Shadow, explores Obi-Wan's development as an independent knight, and a special project that Qui-Gon has been given in secret by the Council. Obi-Wan's career is nearly derailed in "Auto da Fé" when a mission goes badly wrong and results in possibly permanently crippling injuries. But it also brings Obi-Wan a padawan of his own who is not Anakin, meaning that Anakin will clearly be Qui-Gon's padawan. That also sets the stage for the culmination of Qui-Gon's mission. At the end of the volume, Obi-Wan finds himself forced out of Qui-Gon's shadow the hard way.
The fifth Volume, The New Temple, is only four stories long at this writing (6/15/2022). Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have been separated for seven years when it opens, and Obi-Wan is not the man Qui-Gon knew.
There is a sixth volume planned, covering the Clone Wars years.
==Series==
Volume I: Early Days
* Rightful Owner - Qui-Gon and his apprentice go undercover to investigate slave trading in the Outer Rim Territories. Their roles fit them both a little too well. R - 64 k - 22-Aug-1999
* Crime and Punishment - Prequel to "Master & Apprentice" and an expansion of a briefly described scene in it. NC-17 - 75 k - 19-Jul-1999
* Ecstasies - Qui-Gon learns to receive and not just take. Author's notes: "This is now officially a series, though with no formal title to it (suggestions welcome). Qui-Gon's failed apprentice, Xanatos, from the YA Jedi Apprentice series is mentioned here." NC-17 - 32 k - 31-Aug-1999
* The Anger Exercises - Obi-Wan takes his punishment like a Jedi—up to a point. NC-17 - 58 k - 26-Jul-1999
* The Geometry of Desire - Qui-Gon wonders what the heck hit him. PG - 18 k - 10-Aug-1999
* Close Shave - Qui-Gon snaps his apprentice out of his funk. With a razor. 5210 words. Published:2001-12-17 on AO3
* But For Grace - Qui-Gon's & Obi-Wan's relationship sets a bad example at the Temple. NC-17 - 88 k - 6-Oct-1999
* Give and Take - Our Boyz wake in the Temple gardens with very different takes on how they spent the night. NC-17 - 22 k - 24-Sep-1999 Bruck Chun, a character from the YA Jedi Apprentice series (great stuff!) is mentioned here."
* Meditations - Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan contemplate a sudden change in their relationship. NC-17 - 34 k - 23-Nov-1999
* Master and Apprentice AO3 link - Angst, POV, a little very mild S&M. NC-17 - 56 k - 22-Nov-1999
* Nomenclature - Obi-Wan contemplates the meaning of the word "master. NC-17 - 16 k - 21-Aug-1999
Vol. II: Trials and Errors
* The Fear Exercises - Qui-Gon gets a little too possessive and sets out to teach himself and his padawan a lesson. NC-17 - 366 k - 18-Jul-2000
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* Being Obi Wan (Fic by Master Ruth)
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* A Simple Twist of Fate (Not a Songfic) - Naboo. A little swashbuckling gone horribly wrong. Heroism. Consequences. PG-13 - 55 k - 02-Jan-2001
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* Emancipation - After five years of waiting to do It right, the Boyz get their chance when Obi-Wan is finally knighted. Or do they? Obi-Wan's knighted, Bruck's slighted. Somebody else picks up the slack. NC-17 - 205 k - 11-Jul-2001
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==Recs and Reviews==
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==References==
Category:Star Wars TPM Q/O Fanfiction
Category:1999 Fanfiction‎
Category:2000 Fanfiction‎
Category:2001 Fanfiction‎