I wrote this back in 2018. It is Early Installment Weirdness for my multiverse - I had no idea when I wrote it that it would eventually spawn a sequel, then seemingly infinite AUs of the AU. It was just this self-indulgent little thing I wrote to comfort myself during a rough time.
Nicolae Dooku can either be read as an extremely AU, non-evil version of Count Dooku, or an OC inspired by Count Dooku. In 2018 I was inclined towards the former interpretation, since 2021 I have been inclined towards the latter interpretation.
There are guest appearances from either very AU Star Wars characters or OCs inspired by them: Han Solo aka Hans Sulu, and Joaquin Gonzalez aka "Qui-Gon".
There is also some fiddling with ages here. Dooku and Qui are still ten years apart, but the age difference between Qui and Obi is not as strong here (Obi is in his thirties). Time got messed with enough by the Force Powers That Be that in this universe Leja (Leia) is more of a contemporary with Qui, in her fifties, as opposed to being much younger than Obi in canon. If Leja's father was a special Chosen One we will never know because Anakin isn't in this fic, having died. Kylo Ren has a twin brother named Matt in this, obviously not in canon. (Again, more monkeying around from the Force Powers That Be.)
In sequels to this story, I eventually dropped the other SW characters, while keeping Dooku and the Force setting, and turned it into a Tolkien-adjacent universe.
Like I said, Early Installment Weirdness. If this is the only thing you ever read of mine then it might not be so weird but if you're planning on reading multiple fics of mine this will definitely not look like the others.
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