Witness me definitely has literally all of those things; near-canon divergence. Fluff, angst, h/c (and how, sometimes), you name it. LOL! It's got everything, plus eventually the Blackbirds, who I love ridiculous amounts. XD And their perpetually-learning Lieutenant. It's certainly the kind of relationship I was thinking of when I drew those pictures, anyway, though I haven't defined any universe for those (yet).
For TMP AUs (most ObiMaul is necessarily so, though these are all very canon flavored):
The Lost & The Forgotten, by shadowmaat: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16731900 - Qui-Gon gets Anakin but leaves Obi behind in his place; in the meantime, Maul failed one too many times to kill Jedi. It's a short little piece, but I love it.
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Links by Sereq_ieh_Dashret: https://archiveofourown.org/works/6677377 - The author's ESL and the story could use a beta and editor, but it's good for about five tons of whump and h/c and some fluff and a steadily moving plot. Unfinished as yet, but certainly worth a look, and it seems to be aiming for a happy ending.
Imprisoned by DarthOmicron: https://archiveofourown.org/works/6084411 - A more antogonistic look at one way things coulda gone if Maul had been captured rather than killed at Theed. As a bonus, it's finished, too! The ending being-- optimistic, in a way, I think.
Those are a few. XD There's a rec on all_maul already for Knight Moves by JayKay, too, which was written literally back towards the very beginning in terms of Maul.
Hope these work! ETA: And if you do end up tackling WM, let me know what you think when you have time or want to? I'm crazy proud of it.
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For TMP AUs (most ObiMaul is necessarily so, though these are all very canon flavored):
The Lost & The Forgotten, by shadowmaat: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16731900 - Qui-Gon gets Anakin but leaves Obi behind in his place; in the meantime, Maul failed one too many times to kill Jedi. It's a short little piece, but I love it.
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Links by Sereq_ieh_Dashret: https://archiveofourown.org/works/6677377 - The author's ESL and the story could use a beta and editor, but it's good for about five tons of whump and h/c and some fluff and a steadily moving plot. Unfinished as yet, but certainly worth a look, and it seems to be aiming for a happy ending.
Imprisoned by DarthOmicron: https://archiveofourown.org/works/6084411 - A more antogonistic look at one way things coulda gone if Maul had been captured rather than killed at Theed. As a bonus, it's finished, too! The ending being-- optimistic, in a way, I think.
Those are a few. XD There's a rec on all_maul already for Knight Moves by JayKay, too, which was written literally back towards the very beginning in terms of Maul.
Hope these work! ETA: And if you do end up tackling WM, let me know what you think when you have time or want to? I'm crazy proud of it.