ALEXIS I: THE GARDEN OF EDEN
Disclaimer: As always, everything belongs to the sublime George, and I am making no money.
Rating: R
Word Count: Approx. 7,000
Warnings: Adult concepts and themes, slash, the Emperor in sexual situations, relationship between a twenty year-old and a septuagenarian.
Summary: A tale about a young man called Alexis and how he gets caught up in things beyond his control. For those of you who read the first version, there should be enough new material to keep you interested.
Characters: Palpatine and pretty much everyone you’d expect to see at the Imperial Court circa A New Hope, plus some OCs.
Genre(s): Romance, tragedy, drama.
Pairing(s): Palpatine/male!OC and Moteé/Pestage.
Looong Author's Note: I started writing this story in 2006, a few months after finishing Room with a View. Back then, I started writing it to fill the ... ten years pass... moment in that story. It was very much tied to that story, plot-wise. The problem was that when I revisited it this year (because I found half a chapter on my laptop), I found I'd completely forgotten the quite complex plot that lay behind everything. Then
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It should also be noted that I don't subscribe to the notion that the Empire was as humano-centric as its made out to be in the EU; I see the Imperial Military as being a Core human institution and having those biases, but as none of Palpatine's advisors in the Revenge of the Sith film were human (sorry Sate) I'm sceptical that he would implement such a policy. In another canon note, though I like having some EU flavour, Palpatine will not have a legion of concubines! I mean, honestly! He’s in his seventies for god’s sake! And despite this story’s premise I am not going to let the old guy get away with more than he’s capable of (emotionally or physically), even if he’s just desperate to go OOC on me. ;) Also, I must acknowledge that I "liberated" Palpatine's liking for tisane from the wonderful works of
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