HAEX 2025 Letter

[ambiguityisnoonesfriend]

Dear Cardiologist,

Some of this is copied from previous letters, and I am also happy with what I asked for in my previous letters. I am very easy to please. Think of the prompts as vague suggestions to get your ideas flowing. As a rule, as long as the relationships I request are the focus, I’m going to be thrilled with whatever you come up with. I have received some wonderful gifts for many of these requests in the past. If I am requesting them again, it only means I am greedy and want more! (Seriously, go see my Gifts page. I have been spoiled rotten!) Don't read into some requests being longer than others. For some things, my entire request can be boiled down to, "Pretty! Want!"



General likes:
- plot, casefic, mission fic, plotless fluff
- toppy women and partners who are turned on by toppy women
- humor, endings with hope intact
- functional relationships, dysfunctional relationships, secret relationships that aren’t really a secret, established relationships, get-togethers, healthy communicative polyamory where everyone's on the same page
- canon divergence AUs such as what if they got there five minutes sooner or Anakin never fell. dimension-hopping from/to canon divergent universes where they did get there five minutes sooner
- fluff, light angst, whump with happy endings
- friends with benefits, FWB with feelings, FWB denying they are FWB with feelings
- kidfic, accidental baby/toddler acquisition, awkward dorky teenagers, parenting including quirky or atypical co-parenting arrangements, pregnancy including mpreg and fpreg and weird "because aliens" preg
- fix-its, time loops, road trips, trapped together, partner/child in jeopardy rescues
- body swap
- mixing and matching prompts

Additional Like note: I don't care if you're familiar with the entire universe of things I've requested (I'm not) or if you're only familiar with the five minutes you watched on Youtube that one time. I like when people make things up about the storyverse then run with them.

You can add Grogu to any prompt I've requested. You can add Qi'ra to any prompt I've requested as a morally gray semi-friendly antagonist (think Hondo).

Art likes:
- bright colors with clear lines, black and white
- heavily stylized such as Art Deco or playing cards
- complex backgrounds, blank backgrounds
- unusual page structure
- shadows and shading
- photorealistic, chibis, stick figures
- women with muscle definition
- props
- background animals, background plants
- stained glass, marginalia in old books
- character portraits
- Rule 63 takes on requested characters (this is an art-only like, please no unrequested Rule 63 for fic)
- I love art. I don't always have a lot to say about what I like about art but I always love art.


Do not want:
- porn, PWP, anything rated Explicit (do not be concerned about the line between "Mature" and "Explicit" -- it's not a squick, it's that I'm not interested in reading smut currently)
- noncon (dubcon ok)
- scat, watersports
- omegaverse
- sexual activity for anyone under 15 (kissing is fine)
- unrequested ships except as mentioned
- focus on unrequested characters
- non-canon AUs such as coffeeshops or Modern/non-powered AUs
- permanent character death of any requested characters unless dead in canon
- unrequested sexuality or gender headcanons, unrequested genderswap or sexswap (body swap trope into differently sexed body ok)
- unrequested Force sensitivity headcanons
- non-canon nicknames, including pet names
- any parent character thinking or saying they wish they'd never had their child / they hate their child / they no longer love their child
- frame stories unless both parts involve groups of my requested characters
- stories where half the requested relationship (platonic or romantic) only shows up at the very end
- erasure of canon disabilities (canon divergence AUs ok but AUs solely there to avoid disabilities very much not ok)
- character or relationship bashing
- first person or second person POV
- epistolary format
- Interactive Fiction/Choose Your Own Adventure
- Sabine Wren with long hair (art or fic); Sabine Wren being interested romantically or sexually in men

Additional note about character bashing: I'm perfectly fine with canon opinions about other characters and relatable extrapolations from same. General Hux thinks Kylo Ren is an asshole in canon and he can call Kylo Ren an asshole here. Hera hates the Empire and would personally set the Emperor on fire herself given a chance. That attitude is fine to keep in a story.

Do not like:

These are things I'm not fond of but don't mind appearing in a story/artwork in small amounts to move the characters or plot along. Please do not use this list as some kind of checklist challenge to use one each. My likes are at the top of this letter and I love when creators use those instead!

- use of italics or bold (reading them gives me headaches, please limit use to where strictly necessary)
- focus on unrequested characters
- non-canon swearing
- worldbuilding
- Mando'a
- excessive military details
- focus on grief/mourning
- sexually submissive women (including femslash - top4top is my jam)
- implication that the Rebellion went directly from Yavin 4 to Hoth when it took them years to get there in canon (I love Hoth huddling-for-warmth fic. Hoth fic is great.)
- extensive references to or crossovers with Legends/video games/unrequested EU novels (Small references and Easter Eggs are great! Love them! A gift that hinges on knowing Character/Plotline X from Novel Y will make a better gift for someone else.)
- overuse of epithets (I don't mind stories referring to someone as "the blonde," "the tall man," or "the Jedi" if the character is a stranger to the POV character or it's relevant to the specific conversation about tall, blonde Jedi. Please use the characters' names otherwise.)

Background relationships: Anything listed in other prompts is fine in the background of another ship. Platonic relationships are fine. Mentions of canon ships or character/OC ships are fine. Additional background ships I like: Luke/Leia/Han, Luke/Leia, Luke/Ezra, Sabine/Ahsoka, Sabine/Ketsu, Zeb/Kallus, post-ANH Omega/Hera, post-ANH Hera/Rex, Omega/Lyanna, past Ahsoka/Rex, Yrica/Chass


SW: The Bad Batch

Crosshair/Mayday

I ship these two like it's my job. Any AU where Mayday isn't dead by the end of his first episode would be great. Any AU where it turns out they knew each other back on Kamino would also be great. Maybe a tell-all tabloid article from the underground holo news outlet where Crosshair goes to share his story after everything, and it keeps going back to this great guy he met. Fanart about their contrasts, given how different Crosshair is from Regs, and how Mayday has grown into his own person despite being a Reg (from Crosshair's POV this is weird).

Follow up or coda to "The Return" where Crosshair goes into a little more depth about what happened. Mayday can stay dead but I wish for tasty, tasty angst about it.


Crosshair & Omega

I could have spent an entire season on these two palling around trying to find Hunter and Wrecker again. Maybe their journey took them to a few other places before they found their brothers where they spent their time bickering about who Crosshair was allowed to shoot. Or, after the series, the two of them spending time together on Pabu or taking small missions together would be great. Shep needs them to pick up a case of meilooruns and they wind up playing the "trade a favor game" with half the known galaxy (pirates, smugglers, show up on Alderaan, whatever -- let the cameos go wild or not) to get the macguffin and get home again. Mainly what I want from this prompt is to watch these two interact because they are the pinnacle of Sunshine and Grumpy, and I love them.


SW: Skeleton Crew

Jod Na Nawood & Jod Na Nawood's Master

Okay first, I love the entire cast, so if you want to have this as a story where Jod has reconciled with the kids and is telling them (or just Wim or Fern if he runs into one of them down the line) fine, cool, love it. So the thing about Jod is how many of us thought he might be what Kanan or Cal would turn out to be in a different life, but the reality was he's what Ezra would have been if Kanan had been killed sooner and he hadn't had the Ghost family for his support after and had been picked up by Hondo.

There's a little information we have about Jod's master: https://www.instagram.com/p/DE5Y_b5tgqE/?img_index=1 (non-Instagram article summarizing: https://gizmodo.com/skeleton-crew-jedi-flashback-jod-master-2000552287) What I find most interesting is that she still has her Padawan braid. She wouldn't be much older than Ahsoka and not much younger than Anakin. Did she know them or were they Jedi she only heard about in dispatches from the other parts of the war? She was young and probably terrified and she still saw something in this starving kid that she felt compelled to risk exposure to teach him. I want to know about her, about the story of how the two of them met, what their training looked like so close to Order 66, and even the bad parts for how it ended. I want her story. I want their story.


SW: Rebels

Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla

DNW breakup fic for Kanan/Hera. I am fine with fics set after he died and told in flashback, or with him as a Force ghost, or fix-its where he didn't die and/or they find a way to being him back. The rest of the cast is welcome to play significant roles in the story. I'm not super into angst for this pairing. A little is fine but I'd rather aim for something on the "sweet" end of "bittersweet" when possible.

- Their first months working together.
- Missing scenes from the time of the show.
- That time they got stuck in a Groundhog Day time loop for three days that lasted six months, and how they got out.
- That one job that started out simple and wound up them wheeling and dealing with half the criminals in the underworld, including Qi'ra, for the sake of getting a Jedi artifact or something.
- Kanan figuring out this Force Ghost business after the fact the way Qui-Gon did, and hanging out to watch and guide.
- Were Zeb and Sabine their first attempt at building a crew, or were there others around before, and what happened?
- He's been smitten with her since the beginning, and she didn't say she loved him until the end, so how did they work around feelings, and not admitting to those feelings despite the fact that everyone around them knew?
- What was he about to tell her when Rukh attacked?
- Comedy capers where they're just hanging out having fun!
- Fix-its in which she's running the Rebellion and he's changing diapers and trying to keep Chopper from tossing the baby out through the airlock.
- Non-fix-its where his ghost is hanging out with them, making bad jokes and attempting to parent from beyond the grave.
- A Kanan (or Caleb) from another timeline shows up post-ROTJ, and the resulting angst of dealing with someone who looks like your dead ex and trying to explain it to your kid.


Hera Syndulla & Chopper

Kanan might be the great love of Hera's life but Chopper is her life partner. They've been friends since she was a kid. How much did they change each other over the years? Does Chopper ever worry she's going to abandon him? Does Hera ever consider her bestie might also be the galaxy's worst nanny droid? What was their time together like before she picked up the alcoholic drifter? How do they bounce off each other during the war when Zeb and Kallus are babysitting Jacen on another planet and it's just the two of them again?


Crossover Fandom

Poe Dameron/Jacen Syndulla

I am convinced these two knew each other when they were younger. Competing aces in the New Republic Academy who occasionally settled their constant oneupsmanship in bed? Long-term boyfriends driven apart by destiny? Occasional fuckbuddies who are on-board with the other seeing other people as long as he's up for some fun when they're both in town? The sky's the limit. Or, canon AU where they saw where things were headed and fucked off to run their own cargo business together while the events of the rest of the galaxy play on without them. I am also interested in them as snippy exes, and maybe Jacen comes back into Poe's life right as he's finally getting things worked out with Finn. (I'm okay with a Poe/Finn endgame if you want to go there as long as there's plenty of Poe/Jacen backstory.) Preference for Jacen to be Force sensitive but not a Jedi, though I could be amenable to him deciding if all the other Jedi he knows are going to have sex, he's not sticking to that rule either. (I haven't read the Poe backstory novel and I don't care to. Incorporate or ignore what you want.)


Luke Skywalker & Ben Solo & Tai & Voe & Hennix & Grogu & Jacen Syndulla

All I want from my life is various iterations of Luke Skywalker having to deal with a pile of grody superpowered teenagers (and whatever life stage Grogu is, could be Yoda-version of a teen, could still be a toddler, run with whatever you want - Grogu or Jacen or both can be the kid who shows up for two weeks every year for Jedi Summer Camp). There will be arguments and power struggles and first crushes and jealousy (go wild for the pairings in this one but please do not involve Grogu in any sexual situations regardless of his age). I love it all. If you want to go AU and put Rey and/or Finn and/or Jannah in there as students too, that's fine; I don't care much about the timeline and do abide by the Rule of Funny. Also Luke can be off-screen for the entire work or can be heavily involved playing both teacher and referee, either's fine. Maybe he has to leave the students alone for a few days while he's off on another quest with Lor San Tekka or he's acting as Leia's bodyguard for a particularly difficult situation and Ben can deal with the angst that he's not there with his mom and is stuck here with the other kids. The kids get stuck in a time loop. The kids are learning meditation and one of them accidentally unleashes a Dark Being From Beyond Time and they know Luke is going to be really mad if they tell him so they agree to the terrible idea of not telling him and dealing with it themselves. Luke decides the Jedi are supposed to be graceful diplomats and takes them on a mission to some posh get-together and this turns out exactly as badly as you would expect. Bringing in other characters like Han, Leia, Din, Ezra, Hera, or Poe would be very welcome. (Please no Force-sensitive Din, Poe, or Hera. I love them the way they are.)