8 Nov 2020 12:11 pm
Heart Attack Exchange 2020 Letter
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Dear Cardiologist,
This is probably a terrible idea for both of us. Let's do this thing!
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!"
Likes: 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, functional polyamory, canon divergence AUs such as what if they got there five minutes sooner*, dimension-hopping from/to canon divergent universes where they did get there five minutes sooner, porn, fluff, light angst, friends with benefits, FWB with feelings, kidfic, accidental baby acquisition**, parenting including quirky or atypical coparenting arrangements, pregnancy including mpreg and fpreg and weird "because aliens" preg, fix-its, time loops, road trips, trapped together, partner/child in jeopardy rescues, mixing and matching prompts
*You cannot go wrong with canon divergence AUs. I am here for them all, stretching back to one change in the PT having huge consequences by the time of the OT or Sequels. Maybe Vader found out about the twins and Luke and Leia got raised Dark Side. Maybe Anakin never fell and the twins were raised as royalty on Naboo. Maybe Bail and Breha kept them both, or switched them, and they were raised together or Leia wound up on Tatooine as the Jedi while Luke was the revolutionary Prince of Alderaan.
**You also cannot go wrong with variations on Accidental Baby Acquisition and or Temporary Baby Acquisition. This is doubly true if said baby is Baby Yoda, or a younger version of a known character. (Picture if you will Qi'ra accidentally acquiring baby Rey or baby Finn, or the Ghost crew having to babysit baby Poe or baby Ben, or Ezra and Luke having to deal with Baby Yoda or Baby Jacen. Or for a little more serious, one of said groups accidentally adopting baby Rose and Paige.)
Specific porn likes: failsex including being interrupted during or instead of sex, cunnilingus, both slash and het anal, admiring each other's scars, navigating sex with a disability, light bondage, vanilla object insertion (inventive space dildos that may or may not resemble lightsabers yes, porgs or actual lightsabers no), sex pollen, aliens make them do it, the Force or similar makes them do it, mental connections during sex, mental connections as a substitute for sex, using the Force during sex including light Force choking, Force ghost sex
My line for enjoying sex pollen/AMTDI/TFMTDI is based on how much trauma the characters feel. I prefer situations where they aren’t traumatized or upset and use the aliens/Force/pollen as an excuse for what they both/all wanted.
Do not want: noncon (as above, I am happy to receive dubcon and sex pollen), scat, watersports, omegaverse, sexual activity for anyone under 15 (kissing is fine) unrequested ships except as mentioned, non-canon AUs such as coffeeshops, DNW permanent character death of any canon characters except those who died in canon (ex: Kanan can stay dead or not, but please do not kill off Hera; Ben/Kylo can stay dead post-TROS or not, but please do not kill off Rey, etc.)
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: Rey/Kylo, Finn/Kylo, Finn/Rey/Kylo, Finn/Poe, Finn/Rose, Finn/Kaz, Han/Luke/Leia, Luke/Leia, Han/Luke, Han/Leia, Sabine/Ketsu, Zeb/Kallus, Sabine/Leia, Enfys/Qi'ra, Tam/Synara, Kaz/Norath, Flix/Orka, Yeager/Doza, Yeager/Doza/Venisa, Yrica/Chass, past Ahsoka/Anakin, past Ahsoka/Padmé, past Anakin/Padmé, past Rex/Ahsoka, past Han/Qi'ra, Din/Ezra and Din/Luke
Please note that I am okay with breakup fic for my selected pairings unless otherwise noted, as long as they are definitively still on good terms post-breakup. This can be due to irreconcilable differences or destiny pulling them in separate ways or similar. DNW one painted as the bad guy in the relationship, even if said character acts as a villain in all other capacities in the fic.
For this exchange, I want to make clear that I am very interested in plot. I don't care about how complex the plot is. The plot could be as simple as: "Luke Skywalker wants a banana. Luke goes to the kitchen, cannot find the bananas, has a moment of Sad thinking about his family, then finds the bananas and eats one." I am also happy with plot-what-plot. Ten thousand words of Luke finding interesting things to do with the banana and a willing second or third party is fine! A story where Luke spends five thousand words looking for his banana and five thousand words using his banana is great! (For "banana" you may substitute some Jedi/Sith whatsit or a person. I am always ready for a "child, friend, or love interest gets captured and needs rescued" story with a healthy dose of "meanwhile said child, friend, or love interest makes their captors' lives hell" thrown in. I am also here for Jedi/Sith whatsits with sexy side effects.)
Also for this exchange, keep in mind that I am more than happy with crossover plots and appearances from other parts of the canon. If you matched on Solo, and want to explore a story set in the Resistance cartoon part of the canon, or have Qi'ra interact with Rey, Finn, or Kylo, that's great! If you matched on a Rebels tag and want to write about the characters interacting with Mando and Baby Yoda, cool, I love it. As long as the story is focused on the requested tag, I'm happy!
Third note for this exchange: I've given prompts because some writers prefer prompts to work with and other writers like to get a feel for the kinds of stories their recipient enjoys before launching into their own ideas. I am as happy with the prompts, something from my likes, random ideas you have, or ten thousand words of these particular characters alone in an empty room talking about chocolate chip cookies. Please don't feel limited to the prompts I've listed here. They're provided for inspiration. (Except for the banana. Kindly do not take the banana prompt literally. Thank you.)
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Qi'ra
This is my safety fandom. "Solo" is just over two hours long and gave me everything I never knew I needed about the criminal underworld in the galaxy far far away. I love the setting, I love the backstabbing and double-crossing, I love the glimpses of how this swathe of the galaxy is surviving under the Empire. Qi'ra is amazing. I love how damaged she is from everything she's been through. I love the pieces of the backstory we've seen for her, back on Corellia and with Vos. The only thing I need from her characterization is that she focuses on her own survival first, and maybe makes room for someone else she cares about. Maybe.
- I'd love to see an exploration of her life, preferably with an emphasis on where she goes from here. She's the puppet leader of Crimson Dawn, her strings pulled by a former Sith who intends to train her on Dathomir.
- What does the training look like?
- What does she do once Maul disappears on his two year summer vacation to Malachor, and how does she react when he comes back? Does she get dragged into his search for Obi-Wan? Does she find Obi-Wan herself and not tell him?
- After Maul's gone for good, what does she do next? How does she steer Crimson Dawn into the OT era, and past? I love the notion of Crimson Dawn occasionally helping the Rebellion (for a fee, of course) and trying to go legit after the Empire's fall.
- Are the Cloud Riders her main adversaries? Does she try to play them against the Pykes or Black Sun or even the rest of the Rebellion?
- How does the New Republic handle having former known criminal leaders at the table? How does she manage to interface with Leia, both in the Rebellion and after? What happens when her space chickens come home to roost?
- Have her be a shadow contributor to the Resistance, refusing to be involved officially in case the First Order wins.
- Have her make a deal with the First Order to stay alive, knowing or not knowing that the face under Kylo Ren's mask looks far too familiar.
- Have her play both sides, or turn both down, or pretend for one and spy for the other.
- Have Lando be her silent partner in all of this, and that's why he could rally the troops so quickly.
I ship Qi'ra with Enfys Nest (because they're hot and I'm shallow) as a cat and mouse thing, where they continue to get in each other's way, but also build up a huge mutual respect between them. I love playing with her past with Han. I would be amused by her trying to seduce Luke just to fuck with Han and Leia, because her own wounds run deep and sometimes you don't bandage them in a healthy way. Same with a much later affair with Ben: she might know it's a bad idea and she might not care. Or maybe she does, and pulls herself back from the edge at the last moment. Have her in a FWB arrangement with Lando; they've known each other too long and seen too much to believe in love, but that's fine with them. Hell, have her seduce someone on the Colossus. Kaz can be her post-war boytoy for a while, or Tam's trying to make up for her own past mistakes and falls into Qi'ra's orbit for good and bad.
Crossover Fandom
Poe Dameron/Jacen Syndulla
I am endlessly amused by the possibilities here. Technically they haven't met in canon yet. I am convinced they knew each other when they were younger. 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.
- 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?
- 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 fine with a Poe/Finn endgame if you want to go there as long as there's plenty of Poe/Jacen backstory.)
- Maybe Jacen shows up right after the Battle of Exegol and feelings come back hard while the rest of Team Sequels is dealing with the aftermath. (Ben can be alive or a snarky Force Ghost or absent.)
- Rey is working out a way to bring Ben back while everyone else thinks this is a terrible plan, but Finn and Poe won't let her go it alone, and Jacen is like, "Ten thousand dead Jedi and you want to bring back this jerk?" Extra bonus points for Jacen and Ben having known each other forever and hating each other's guts. Even more points for them having to set that aside to help the people they care about.
Ezra Bridger/Luke Skywalker
I love the idea of Luke and Ezra running into each other after the war, both of them equally messed up from their experiences and finding a kindred spirit. If they bicker constantly due to conflicting world views while growing to respect each other's POV, this is a bonus.
- Does Ezra help Luke set up the new Jedi school, or does he think it's a terrible idea because Jedi should be taught 1:1 the way he was?
- Do they take a while to meet, each getting sick of hearing about the other's exploits until they're finally in the same room and decide 'Hey, he's not so bad and he's kind of cute, too.'?
- Do they go on Jedi-adjacent missions together (with or without Ahsoka)?
- Do they run into Mando and Baby Yoda for an adventure, and neither party figures out who the other is (or maybe they do, Mando tries to hand over the baby and they're having none of that)?
- What about an AU where Ezra never disappeared? Everybody lives, and these two meet on Yavin 4 instead. Does Ezra train Luke? Are they instant besties or do they argue until they wind up screwing on Hoth?
SW: Rebels
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla
Kanan Jarrus & Jacen 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 team is welcome to play significant roles in the story.
- 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 and how much time they spent having sex.
- 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.
- That time they banged in Ezra's old comm tower while everyone else was busy during "Flight of the Defender."
- Those times they banged in the various rooms of the ship.
- Their first time post-Malachor.
- 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?
- Sabine was the first kid they tried to raise before they picked up Ezra. What kinds of growing pains did they go through together, considering how hands-off they needed to be with her?
- 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?
- Post-canon angst!
- 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.
- Jacen accidentally time-travels (because the Force) to when Kanan is still an alcoholic loser, and has to hide who he is while making sure his father gets to Gorse on time.
- Jacen accidentally time-travels to when Kanan is fifteen and in desperate need of a caring adult in his life, and Jacen is stuck between wanting to take him in and care for him and knowing what his dad has to go through to get to be the person he will end up becoming.
- I nominated but have not specifically requested the tag "Baze/Chirrut & Kanan/Hera" because I didn't want to have to come up with multiple 10k prompts BUT I am here for that as an everybody lives scenario, and the two Space Married couples go on a mission together or in parts. Maybe Jacen gets kidnapped and Kanan and Chirrut instantly go after him without consulting anyone, and Hera and Baze have to go after them and the kid both, or a similar setup
CT-7567 | Rex/Hera Syndulla
Ten thousand words of these two working past their own emotionally-stunted issues into a real, functional relationship? Sign me up! Hera doesn't want to get feelings involved ever again because she doesn't want another broken heart. That doesn't mean she won't get feelings anyway but they're not in her plan. Rex has admired her for years but there are chain of command issues. Maybe that's why he's on the Endor strike team and not directly under her command circa RotJ. They both can have angst because of the dead guy in the room, real ghost or imagined. She can have angst out of wonder if this is the best thing for her heart or her child. He can have angst because clones aren't supposed to do relationships any more than Jedi are, and his time is getting shorter by the minute, and both of them know if they commit to this, she's going to be widowed again far too soon. (I am fine with past Rex/Kanan/Hera or past Ahsoka/Kanan/Hera for this request. I am okay with Rex/Hera/Ghost Kanan as long as the focus is on the requested relationship.) The rest of the team is more than welcome to play significant roles in the fic.
In an exception to my character death DNW, I am fine with a story that includes Rex dying of old age if you want to go there.
- Forming a FWB arrangement circa Hoth.
- They get together but end it after one time.
- They get together and knock on each other's door every several months throughout and after the war.
- They don't get together until after the war, when Hera can relax enough to accept a little bit of something happy for herself. Work in something from Alphabet Squadron if you want.
- They help on the quest for Ezra, either as an established couple or as a get-together.
- They run into the Imperial remnant who are trying to clone Baby Yoda and find a cure to the clone rapid aging problem.
- Jacen gets taken by said Imperial remnant who want to clone him too, and they go on a mission to rescue him.
- They run into Mando and Baby Yoda, and there's a heap of Jedi bullshit and Mandalorian bullshit involved
This is probably a terrible idea for both of us. Let's do this thing!
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!"
Likes: 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, functional polyamory, canon divergence AUs such as what if they got there five minutes sooner*, dimension-hopping from/to canon divergent universes where they did get there five minutes sooner, porn, fluff, light angst, friends with benefits, FWB with feelings, kidfic, accidental baby acquisition**, parenting including quirky or atypical coparenting arrangements, pregnancy including mpreg and fpreg and weird "because aliens" preg, fix-its, time loops, road trips, trapped together, partner/child in jeopardy rescues, mixing and matching prompts
*You cannot go wrong with canon divergence AUs. I am here for them all, stretching back to one change in the PT having huge consequences by the time of the OT or Sequels. Maybe Vader found out about the twins and Luke and Leia got raised Dark Side. Maybe Anakin never fell and the twins were raised as royalty on Naboo. Maybe Bail and Breha kept them both, or switched them, and they were raised together or Leia wound up on Tatooine as the Jedi while Luke was the revolutionary Prince of Alderaan.
**You also cannot go wrong with variations on Accidental Baby Acquisition and or Temporary Baby Acquisition. This is doubly true if said baby is Baby Yoda, or a younger version of a known character. (Picture if you will Qi'ra accidentally acquiring baby Rey or baby Finn, or the Ghost crew having to babysit baby Poe or baby Ben, or Ezra and Luke having to deal with Baby Yoda or Baby Jacen. Or for a little more serious, one of said groups accidentally adopting baby Rose and Paige.)
Specific porn likes: failsex including being interrupted during or instead of sex, cunnilingus, both slash and het anal, admiring each other's scars, navigating sex with a disability, light bondage, vanilla object insertion (inventive space dildos that may or may not resemble lightsabers yes, porgs or actual lightsabers no), sex pollen, aliens make them do it, the Force or similar makes them do it, mental connections during sex, mental connections as a substitute for sex, using the Force during sex including light Force choking, Force ghost sex
My line for enjoying sex pollen/AMTDI/TFMTDI is based on how much trauma the characters feel. I prefer situations where they aren’t traumatized or upset and use the aliens/Force/pollen as an excuse for what they both/all wanted.
Do not want: noncon (as above, I am happy to receive dubcon and sex pollen), scat, watersports, omegaverse, sexual activity for anyone under 15 (kissing is fine) unrequested ships except as mentioned, non-canon AUs such as coffeeshops, DNW permanent character death of any canon characters except those who died in canon (ex: Kanan can stay dead or not, but please do not kill off Hera; Ben/Kylo can stay dead post-TROS or not, but please do not kill off Rey, etc.)
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: Rey/Kylo, Finn/Kylo, Finn/Rey/Kylo, Finn/Poe, Finn/Rose, Finn/Kaz, Han/Luke/Leia, Luke/Leia, Han/Luke, Han/Leia, Sabine/Ketsu, Zeb/Kallus, Sabine/Leia, Enfys/Qi'ra, Tam/Synara, Kaz/Norath, Flix/Orka, Yeager/Doza, Yeager/Doza/Venisa, Yrica/Chass, past Ahsoka/Anakin, past Ahsoka/Padmé, past Anakin/Padmé, past Rex/Ahsoka, past Han/Qi'ra, Din/Ezra and Din/Luke
Please note that I am okay with breakup fic for my selected pairings unless otherwise noted, as long as they are definitively still on good terms post-breakup. This can be due to irreconcilable differences or destiny pulling them in separate ways or similar. DNW one painted as the bad guy in the relationship, even if said character acts as a villain in all other capacities in the fic.
For this exchange, I want to make clear that I am very interested in plot. I don't care about how complex the plot is. The plot could be as simple as: "Luke Skywalker wants a banana. Luke goes to the kitchen, cannot find the bananas, has a moment of Sad thinking about his family, then finds the bananas and eats one." I am also happy with plot-what-plot. Ten thousand words of Luke finding interesting things to do with the banana and a willing second or third party is fine! A story where Luke spends five thousand words looking for his banana and five thousand words using his banana is great! (For "banana" you may substitute some Jedi/Sith whatsit or a person. I am always ready for a "child, friend, or love interest gets captured and needs rescued" story with a healthy dose of "meanwhile said child, friend, or love interest makes their captors' lives hell" thrown in. I am also here for Jedi/Sith whatsits with sexy side effects.)
Also for this exchange, keep in mind that I am more than happy with crossover plots and appearances from other parts of the canon. If you matched on Solo, and want to explore a story set in the Resistance cartoon part of the canon, or have Qi'ra interact with Rey, Finn, or Kylo, that's great! If you matched on a Rebels tag and want to write about the characters interacting with Mando and Baby Yoda, cool, I love it. As long as the story is focused on the requested tag, I'm happy!
Third note for this exchange: I've given prompts because some writers prefer prompts to work with and other writers like to get a feel for the kinds of stories their recipient enjoys before launching into their own ideas. I am as happy with the prompts, something from my likes, random ideas you have, or ten thousand words of these particular characters alone in an empty room talking about chocolate chip cookies. Please don't feel limited to the prompts I've listed here. They're provided for inspiration. (Except for the banana. Kindly do not take the banana prompt literally. Thank you.)
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Qi'ra
This is my safety fandom. "Solo" is just over two hours long and gave me everything I never knew I needed about the criminal underworld in the galaxy far far away. I love the setting, I love the backstabbing and double-crossing, I love the glimpses of how this swathe of the galaxy is surviving under the Empire. Qi'ra is amazing. I love how damaged she is from everything she's been through. I love the pieces of the backstory we've seen for her, back on Corellia and with Vos. The only thing I need from her characterization is that she focuses on her own survival first, and maybe makes room for someone else she cares about. Maybe.
- I'd love to see an exploration of her life, preferably with an emphasis on where she goes from here. She's the puppet leader of Crimson Dawn, her strings pulled by a former Sith who intends to train her on Dathomir.
- What does the training look like?
- What does she do once Maul disappears on his two year summer vacation to Malachor, and how does she react when he comes back? Does she get dragged into his search for Obi-Wan? Does she find Obi-Wan herself and not tell him?
- After Maul's gone for good, what does she do next? How does she steer Crimson Dawn into the OT era, and past? I love the notion of Crimson Dawn occasionally helping the Rebellion (for a fee, of course) and trying to go legit after the Empire's fall.
- Are the Cloud Riders her main adversaries? Does she try to play them against the Pykes or Black Sun or even the rest of the Rebellion?
- How does the New Republic handle having former known criminal leaders at the table? How does she manage to interface with Leia, both in the Rebellion and after? What happens when her space chickens come home to roost?
- Have her be a shadow contributor to the Resistance, refusing to be involved officially in case the First Order wins.
- Have her make a deal with the First Order to stay alive, knowing or not knowing that the face under Kylo Ren's mask looks far too familiar.
- Have her play both sides, or turn both down, or pretend for one and spy for the other.
- Have Lando be her silent partner in all of this, and that's why he could rally the troops so quickly.
I ship Qi'ra with Enfys Nest (because they're hot and I'm shallow) as a cat and mouse thing, where they continue to get in each other's way, but also build up a huge mutual respect between them. I love playing with her past with Han. I would be amused by her trying to seduce Luke just to fuck with Han and Leia, because her own wounds run deep and sometimes you don't bandage them in a healthy way. Same with a much later affair with Ben: she might know it's a bad idea and she might not care. Or maybe she does, and pulls herself back from the edge at the last moment. Have her in a FWB arrangement with Lando; they've known each other too long and seen too much to believe in love, but that's fine with them. Hell, have her seduce someone on the Colossus. Kaz can be her post-war boytoy for a while, or Tam's trying to make up for her own past mistakes and falls into Qi'ra's orbit for good and bad.
Crossover Fandom
Poe Dameron/Jacen Syndulla
I am endlessly amused by the possibilities here. Technically they haven't met in canon yet. I am convinced they knew each other when they were younger. 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.
- 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?
- 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 fine with a Poe/Finn endgame if you want to go there as long as there's plenty of Poe/Jacen backstory.)
- Maybe Jacen shows up right after the Battle of Exegol and feelings come back hard while the rest of Team Sequels is dealing with the aftermath. (Ben can be alive or a snarky Force Ghost or absent.)
- Rey is working out a way to bring Ben back while everyone else thinks this is a terrible plan, but Finn and Poe won't let her go it alone, and Jacen is like, "Ten thousand dead Jedi and you want to bring back this jerk?" Extra bonus points for Jacen and Ben having known each other forever and hating each other's guts. Even more points for them having to set that aside to help the people they care about.
Ezra Bridger/Luke Skywalker
I love the idea of Luke and Ezra running into each other after the war, both of them equally messed up from their experiences and finding a kindred spirit. If they bicker constantly due to conflicting world views while growing to respect each other's POV, this is a bonus.
- Does Ezra help Luke set up the new Jedi school, or does he think it's a terrible idea because Jedi should be taught 1:1 the way he was?
- Do they take a while to meet, each getting sick of hearing about the other's exploits until they're finally in the same room and decide 'Hey, he's not so bad and he's kind of cute, too.'?
- Do they go on Jedi-adjacent missions together (with or without Ahsoka)?
- Do they run into Mando and Baby Yoda for an adventure, and neither party figures out who the other is (or maybe they do, Mando tries to hand over the baby and they're having none of that)?
- What about an AU where Ezra never disappeared? Everybody lives, and these two meet on Yavin 4 instead. Does Ezra train Luke? Are they instant besties or do they argue until they wind up screwing on Hoth?
SW: Rebels
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla
Kanan Jarrus & Jacen 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 team is welcome to play significant roles in the story.
- 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 and how much time they spent having sex.
- 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.
- That time they banged in Ezra's old comm tower while everyone else was busy during "Flight of the Defender."
- Those times they banged in the various rooms of the ship.
- Their first time post-Malachor.
- 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?
- Sabine was the first kid they tried to raise before they picked up Ezra. What kinds of growing pains did they go through together, considering how hands-off they needed to be with her?
- 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?
- Post-canon angst!
- 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.
- Jacen accidentally time-travels (because the Force) to when Kanan is still an alcoholic loser, and has to hide who he is while making sure his father gets to Gorse on time.
- Jacen accidentally time-travels to when Kanan is fifteen and in desperate need of a caring adult in his life, and Jacen is stuck between wanting to take him in and care for him and knowing what his dad has to go through to get to be the person he will end up becoming.
- I nominated but have not specifically requested the tag "Baze/Chirrut & Kanan/Hera" because I didn't want to have to come up with multiple 10k prompts BUT I am here for that as an everybody lives scenario, and the two Space Married couples go on a mission together or in parts. Maybe Jacen gets kidnapped and Kanan and Chirrut instantly go after him without consulting anyone, and Hera and Baze have to go after them and the kid both, or a similar setup
CT-7567 | Rex/Hera Syndulla
Ten thousand words of these two working past their own emotionally-stunted issues into a real, functional relationship? Sign me up! Hera doesn't want to get feelings involved ever again because she doesn't want another broken heart. That doesn't mean she won't get feelings anyway but they're not in her plan. Rex has admired her for years but there are chain of command issues. Maybe that's why he's on the Endor strike team and not directly under her command circa RotJ. They both can have angst because of the dead guy in the room, real ghost or imagined. She can have angst out of wonder if this is the best thing for her heart or her child. He can have angst because clones aren't supposed to do relationships any more than Jedi are, and his time is getting shorter by the minute, and both of them know if they commit to this, she's going to be widowed again far too soon. (I am fine with past Rex/Kanan/Hera or past Ahsoka/Kanan/Hera for this request. I am okay with Rex/Hera/Ghost Kanan as long as the focus is on the requested relationship.) The rest of the team is more than welcome to play significant roles in the fic.
In an exception to my character death DNW, I am fine with a story that includes Rex dying of old age if you want to go there.
- Forming a FWB arrangement circa Hoth.
- They get together but end it after one time.
- They get together and knock on each other's door every several months throughout and after the war.
- They don't get together until after the war, when Hera can relax enough to accept a little bit of something happy for herself. Work in something from Alphabet Squadron if you want.
- They help on the quest for Ezra, either as an established couple or as a get-together.
- They run into the Imperial remnant who are trying to clone Baby Yoda and find a cure to the clone rapid aging problem.
- Jacen gets taken by said Imperial remnant who want to clone him too, and they go on a mission to rescue him.
- They run into Mando and Baby Yoda, and there's a heap of Jedi bullshit and Mandalorian bullshit involved
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