28 Feb 2021 09:28 pm
May the 4th 2021 Letter
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ambiguityisnoonesfriendDear Yoda,
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. Some of these ideas may lend themselves to longer fics or more complicated images than you have time for. I am 100% on board with a short scene or sketch that's part of the larger picture. I am requesting fanart and fanfic for all requests.
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: plot, PWP, 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 or Anakin never fell, 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 (DNW pregnancy for Rey/Ben unless Ben is the one who's pregnant), fix-its, time loops, road trips, trapped together, partner/child in jeopardy rescues, mixing and matching prompts
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, women with muscle definition, props, background animals, background plants, stained glass, marginalia in old books
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.), unrequested sexuality or gender headcanons, unrequested Force sensitivity headcanons
Background relationships: Anything listed in other prompts is fine in the background of another ship. Platonic relationships are fine. Brief mentions of canon ships or character/OC ships are fine. Additional background ships I like: Kaz/Norath, Han/Leia, Sabine/Ketsu, Zeb/Kallus
I am dividing up my letter by common character or common theme. There are additional prompts for most of these requests in my previous letters.
Hera Syndulla & Sabine Wren
I loved watching Hera and Sabine's relationship grow over the course of the show. Sabine has trust issues and Hera is the reigning queen of keeping secrets. I would love to see an early moment of their time together when Sabine first joined the crew, or a scene mid-way when she's learning to trust Hera. I'd also love to see something set post-canon. Maybe Sabine doesn't want kids of her own but is happy to be the Cool Aunt/Big Sis figure Hera can lean on when she needs help, and Hera can be Sabine's shoulder when things get hard for her.
Chopper & Hera Syndulla
Hera Syndulla & Jacen Syndulla
The little family that could! After the war, Hera's got her child and her droid at her side. What kinds of trouble do they get themselves into together? How terrible of a surrogate father figure for Jacen would Chopper be? (Obvious answer: Worst nurse droid ever. Less obvious answer: But what if he's surprisingly good with toddler tantrums?) Chopper was Hera's first project. How do her mistakes and triumphs with him shape how she deals with Jacen now?
It's strongly implied that Chopper was Hera's only friend before Kanan came along, and from the finale, it looks like he's the one friend who will never leave her. How did they grow together? How long did it take her to fix him up after she found him, and what kinds of trouble did the two of them get into along the way? What happened when she brought aboard an alcoholic drifter who is suddenly competing with Chopper for her attention?
Kids don't stay little forever. How does Hera's relationship with Jacen change as he grows up and starts asking questions? What kinds of compromises does she have to make to give him the best childhood possible, and what kinds of trouble does he get into despite her best efforts?
Grogu & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Jacen Syndulla
Ezra Bridger & Jacen Syndulla
Poe Dameron & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Jacen Syndulla
Speaking of various forms of trouble, what kinds of antics do these particular groups get themselves into, and how do they get themselves out of it again? Grogu and Ben were some of Luke's early students, did Jacen show up at Jedi school too? I am here for Ezra suddenly having to deal with a kid he's expected to train in the Force while muttering about how Jacen lacks all focus and discipline as everyone else laughs at him. I'd love an adventure where three of the Victory Babies got together when their parents met up, and got themselves into five different kinds of trouble before lunch.
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla & Jacen Syndulla
All of it and everything. Their first months working together. Missing scenes from the time of the show. 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. 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? Fix-its! 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!
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla & Sabine Wren
The crew had a different dynamic before they picked up Ezra, but Sabine already described them as a family. What were her early days aboard the Ghost like? Why and how did Kanan and Hera go to a more hands-off parenting style with her than they did with Ezra? They spent so much time putting in extra support for Ezra, but was there a mission the two of them took with just Sabine to give her that same kind of individual support?
Kanan Jarrus/Rex/Hera Syndulla
I love this quirky little possibility. Kanan and Rex's constant bickering resolving itself with some old fashion sex? I'm for it. Drunken one night stand or tenuous but long-lasting arrangement, it's all good.
Rex/Hera Syndulla
Hera Syndulla/Jarek Yeager
Hera is heartbroken, not dead. There are times in a woman's life she needs to make a booty call. Maybe it's strictly a friends with benefits arrangement, or maybe feelings start to grow even if she's in deep denial. Maybe she has a series of FWBs she visits over the years, or maybe she sticks with one she trusts. Prefer Rebels canon events stay as written, and set fic/art after A New Hope up through the Sequels era.
Hera/Rex: I could see them forming a FWB arrangement sometime by Hoth. 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, which could be 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 he doesn't do relationships and his time is getting shorter by the minute and should he accept this little bit of happy? Maybe they end it after one time. Maybe they knock on each other's door every several months even after the war.
Hera/Yeager: Was she his CO during the war? Do they keep in touch? They both know what it's like to lose everything. Sometimes that's all you need. Or, sometimes you just need an old friend who comes into town every so often to bone.
Depa Billaba & Ezra Bridger & Kanan Jarrus & Mace Windu
Depa Billaba/Mace Windu
Depa Billaba & Kanan Jarrus & Mace Windu
Depa Billaba & Hera Syndulla
I've been on a major Depa kick lately, and what I want more than anything is to see her interacting with her Jedi Family. Maybe her ghost shows up, maybe she survived Order 66, maybe they're in an AU where the Empire never came and Caleb grows up with her, maybe she steps through a time portal and shows up on the Ghost. I'd love to see her interact with Hera because I believe they have a lot in common. I low-key ship her with Mace in a "this is a bad idea we will both have very conflicted feelings about going forward" way though I'm just as happy with an & dynamic as long as they maintain a strong "us against the world" dynamic.
Yrica Quell (SW)
Chass na Chadic/Yrica Quell
Yrica Quell & Hera Syndulla
Yrica is deeply flawed and I love her. I love that she was incapable of stopping herself from committing genocide until she was ordered to, and how deep her own self-loathing runs. I love that she tries her best over and over, no matter who she's working for, and runs herself to the bone as a result. I have low-key shipped her with Chass (who is another giant pile of damage, and whose rage against the galaxy is beautiful in the most metal way possible and also she should meet Sabine and Cara and the three of them can rage together) since the first novel and I may have screamed a bit when the second one acknowledged the chemistry. I would love to know more about her past. I'd love an AU where the end of the second book plays out differently. I'd love a full AU where she made one actual choice in her life, and followed the girl she loved into the Rebellion, and experienced the war from that POV. I love her hero-worship of Hera and how that translates into her trying so hard to please her CO, and I would love to see them interacting more.
I will have read the third book by the time of reveals. Incorporate it or don't as you wish.
Character: Qi'ra (SW)
Qi'ra & Katooni
Enfys Nest/Qi'ra
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.
- Qi'ra picks up a Jedi padawan survivor of Order 66. Now Katooni has a patron who might be strong and smart enough to protect her from the Empire, but is she willing to do the things Crimson Dawn is going to want from her in return? Does Maul find out about her or does Qi'ra keep her in the wings out of his view, and what's the price of that protection? (I am fine with the & becoming / if the story goes there but prefer everything to be on the consensual side.)
Character: Tamara Ryvora (SW)
Tamara Ryvora/Synara San
I have a type, and Tam is squarely in there as hard as Yrica and Qi'ra. I'm fascinated by her gradual fall into working for the First Order, and my deepest regret about the show ending was not getting to see her pick herself up after the dust settled, having to deal with the things she did and choosing to go on every day.
Tam and Synara had gorgeous chemistry together early on, and I remain sad that the show dropped the ball later. They bonded early, and Tam even consented to spend leisure time with Kaz to get to hang out with Synara. Synara fought against her own shipmates to save Tam! They are due a reckoning after the events of the show, forced missions together, or even a quest of their own post-TROS that brings them together. Maybe after the war, Tam strikes out on her own as a pilot for hire, or finds work as a mechanic on the racing circuit, and meets up with Synara again a few years down the road.
Tamara Ryvora & Qi'ra
Consider: an AU where instead of winding up on the Colossus trying to get back to racing, Tam wound up working for Crimson Dawn and its mysterious long-standing leader. Or after the Battle of Exegol, the galaxy is a mess and Tam goes off to find herself, attracting the attention of someone who sees a piece of her own lost self inside her.
Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker
Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo
Nothing beats the original trio in my heart. They've been ride or die for one another ever since Artoo showed Luke that hologram, even Han by the end of the first film. I can't get enough of their lives together, crashing into one another, refusing to give up on each other even against impossible odds and bitter foes. And one day they did give up, because of their child, and oh the angst with that. I'd love to see their time together in the Rebellion, as friends or lovers or moving back and forth across that line. (I ship the component parts of the trio, too, and I'm fine with any of them as an endgame, but would prefer not to focus solely on Han/Leia or Han/Luke.) I want to see them together after the war, trying to raise Ben together. Maybe an AU where nothing goes wrong, where they figure out what's going wrong with him early and help him through, or maybe the story about the slow crawl towards the canon events despite everything. I'm also fine with a rewrite of the Sequel era where they all live all the way through. I want all the happy times before the family reveal. I want all the angsty history post-ROTJ. Luke denying his feelings. Leia denying hers. The times denying those feelings failed. Han wanting the two people he loves most in the galaxy never ever to leave him. Accidental marriage via alien customs, with or without having to consummate it to the satisfaction of said aliens. Public poly marriage without telling anyone Luke and Leia are siblings. Secret poly marriage because the public knows they're twins. Han and Leia are married, but Luke spends every night in their bed.
Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Poe Dameron/Finn
Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
I am here for fix-its where Ben doesn't die. I am here for stories where he does and hangs out as a snotty Force ghost only Rey can see or only Rey and Finn can see. I am here for Force ghost sex, and Force ghost fucking back to life. I am here for canon-divergence AUs where nothing was the same except they are all themselves and Ben is still a disaster human. I am here for Ben Lives! AUs where things are hard when he goes back with Rey after the end of the movie, and Poe and Finn have no reason to trust him except for their trust in Rey. Adventures after the end, big and small. Maybe Kylo doesn't kill Han and he goes back home with him during TFA, and everything is still hard because of everything he did before then. Maybe the road back to becoming Ben is difficult but Rey and Finn drag him kicking and screaming the whole way. Functional polyamory! Amusingly dysfunctional polyamory! (Extra bonus points for throwing Jacen in, either as a fifth spoke in the polywheel because why not, or as Poe's overdramatic ex who shows up at the worst possible time.)
Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo & Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Poly family meets the next generation. Ben doesn't go dark, and brings the new girl home to meet his family, who has to decide how much to let her know at first. (A "Birdcage" riff would be welcome.) Ben comes home Han at the end of TFA and has to live with the fallout, especially when Han and Chewie bring Luke back, too.
Ezra Bridger/Luke Skywalker
Ezra Bridger/Leia Organa/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)? I'm here for it.
Force triplet pile (with or without Han)! AU where Ezra doesn't go off with Thrawn and the three of them are young, horny people in the Rebellion who do as young horny people often do. Getting together later, when they've all seen a little too much and it's nice to have somewhere there who really can read your mind.
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. 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.
Rey/Jacen Syndulla
I am amused by the idea that these two could meet post-TROS and start spending time together Because Jedi, and people make assumptions which may or may not be accurate, and Finn and Poe aren't jealous but are both "WTF?" about what they think is happening, and they're speculating she's having a rebound fling after Ben, and Ben's ghost may be hanging out with Opinions About This Situation, and Rose is no help because all she wants to do is ask Rey "Is ALL his hair green?" and some of the younger Resistance members like Kaydel and Kaz think Jacen's cool while the older Rebels like Lando and Wedge are happy to remind him they changed his diapers a lot, and Rey is fed up with her friends once again being a little too interested in her potential love life, and Jacen is always up for trolling his old friend (ex-bf?) Poe, and whether or not either one catches feelings is less important than how much fun they're having messing with everyone. (Outside POV would be wonderful here.)
Din Djarin/Luke Skywalker/Ezra Bridger & Grogu
I really want one thing from this tag, and that is the story of three men and a green baby. Could be an AU where they know each other before Grogu winds up with them, could be that Luke sets up the start of what will be his school, Din comes to visit regularly, and Ezra winds up there after his gets back from his summer vacation.
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. Some of these ideas may lend themselves to longer fics or more complicated images than you have time for. I am 100% on board with a short scene or sketch that's part of the larger picture. I am requesting fanart and fanfic for all requests.
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: plot, PWP, 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 or Anakin never fell, 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 (DNW pregnancy for Rey/Ben unless Ben is the one who's pregnant), fix-its, time loops, road trips, trapped together, partner/child in jeopardy rescues, mixing and matching prompts
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, women with muscle definition, props, background animals, background plants, stained glass, marginalia in old books
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.), unrequested sexuality or gender headcanons, unrequested Force sensitivity headcanons
Background relationships: Anything listed in other prompts is fine in the background of another ship. Platonic relationships are fine. Brief mentions of canon ships or character/OC ships are fine. Additional background ships I like: Kaz/Norath, Han/Leia, Sabine/Ketsu, Zeb/Kallus
I am dividing up my letter by common character or common theme. There are additional prompts for most of these requests in my previous letters.
Hera Syndulla & Sabine Wren
I loved watching Hera and Sabine's relationship grow over the course of the show. Sabine has trust issues and Hera is the reigning queen of keeping secrets. I would love to see an early moment of their time together when Sabine first joined the crew, or a scene mid-way when she's learning to trust Hera. I'd also love to see something set post-canon. Maybe Sabine doesn't want kids of her own but is happy to be the Cool Aunt/Big Sis figure Hera can lean on when she needs help, and Hera can be Sabine's shoulder when things get hard for her.
Chopper & Hera Syndulla
Hera Syndulla & Jacen Syndulla
The little family that could! After the war, Hera's got her child and her droid at her side. What kinds of trouble do they get themselves into together? How terrible of a surrogate father figure for Jacen would Chopper be? (Obvious answer: Worst nurse droid ever. Less obvious answer: But what if he's surprisingly good with toddler tantrums?) Chopper was Hera's first project. How do her mistakes and triumphs with him shape how she deals with Jacen now?
It's strongly implied that Chopper was Hera's only friend before Kanan came along, and from the finale, it looks like he's the one friend who will never leave her. How did they grow together? How long did it take her to fix him up after she found him, and what kinds of trouble did the two of them get into along the way? What happened when she brought aboard an alcoholic drifter who is suddenly competing with Chopper for her attention?
Kids don't stay little forever. How does Hera's relationship with Jacen change as he grows up and starts asking questions? What kinds of compromises does she have to make to give him the best childhood possible, and what kinds of trouble does he get into despite her best efforts?
Grogu & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Jacen Syndulla
Ezra Bridger & Jacen Syndulla
Poe Dameron & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Jacen Syndulla
Speaking of various forms of trouble, what kinds of antics do these particular groups get themselves into, and how do they get themselves out of it again? Grogu and Ben were some of Luke's early students, did Jacen show up at Jedi school too? I am here for Ezra suddenly having to deal with a kid he's expected to train in the Force while muttering about how Jacen lacks all focus and discipline as everyone else laughs at him. I'd love an adventure where three of the Victory Babies got together when their parents met up, and got themselves into five different kinds of trouble before lunch.
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla & Jacen Syndulla
All of it and everything. Their first months working together. Missing scenes from the time of the show. 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. 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? Fix-its! 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!
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla & Sabine Wren
The crew had a different dynamic before they picked up Ezra, but Sabine already described them as a family. What were her early days aboard the Ghost like? Why and how did Kanan and Hera go to a more hands-off parenting style with her than they did with Ezra? They spent so much time putting in extra support for Ezra, but was there a mission the two of them took with just Sabine to give her that same kind of individual support?
Kanan Jarrus/Rex/Hera Syndulla
I love this quirky little possibility. Kanan and Rex's constant bickering resolving itself with some old fashion sex? I'm for it. Drunken one night stand or tenuous but long-lasting arrangement, it's all good.
Rex/Hera Syndulla
Hera Syndulla/Jarek Yeager
Hera is heartbroken, not dead. There are times in a woman's life she needs to make a booty call. Maybe it's strictly a friends with benefits arrangement, or maybe feelings start to grow even if she's in deep denial. Maybe she has a series of FWBs she visits over the years, or maybe she sticks with one she trusts. Prefer Rebels canon events stay as written, and set fic/art after A New Hope up through the Sequels era.
Hera/Rex: I could see them forming a FWB arrangement sometime by Hoth. 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, which could be 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 he doesn't do relationships and his time is getting shorter by the minute and should he accept this little bit of happy? Maybe they end it after one time. Maybe they knock on each other's door every several months even after the war.
Hera/Yeager: Was she his CO during the war? Do they keep in touch? They both know what it's like to lose everything. Sometimes that's all you need. Or, sometimes you just need an old friend who comes into town every so often to bone.
Depa Billaba & Ezra Bridger & Kanan Jarrus & Mace Windu
Depa Billaba/Mace Windu
Depa Billaba & Kanan Jarrus & Mace Windu
Depa Billaba & Hera Syndulla
I've been on a major Depa kick lately, and what I want more than anything is to see her interacting with her Jedi Family. Maybe her ghost shows up, maybe she survived Order 66, maybe they're in an AU where the Empire never came and Caleb grows up with her, maybe she steps through a time portal and shows up on the Ghost. I'd love to see her interact with Hera because I believe they have a lot in common. I low-key ship her with Mace in a "this is a bad idea we will both have very conflicted feelings about going forward" way though I'm just as happy with an & dynamic as long as they maintain a strong "us against the world" dynamic.
Yrica Quell (SW)
Chass na Chadic/Yrica Quell
Yrica Quell & Hera Syndulla
Yrica is deeply flawed and I love her. I love that she was incapable of stopping herself from committing genocide until she was ordered to, and how deep her own self-loathing runs. I love that she tries her best over and over, no matter who she's working for, and runs herself to the bone as a result. I have low-key shipped her with Chass (who is another giant pile of damage, and whose rage against the galaxy is beautiful in the most metal way possible and also she should meet Sabine and Cara and the three of them can rage together) since the first novel and I may have screamed a bit when the second one acknowledged the chemistry. I would love to know more about her past. I'd love an AU where the end of the second book plays out differently. I'd love a full AU where she made one actual choice in her life, and followed the girl she loved into the Rebellion, and experienced the war from that POV. I love her hero-worship of Hera and how that translates into her trying so hard to please her CO, and I would love to see them interacting more.
I will have read the third book by the time of reveals. Incorporate it or don't as you wish.
Character: Qi'ra (SW)
Qi'ra & Katooni
Enfys Nest/Qi'ra
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.
- Qi'ra picks up a Jedi padawan survivor of Order 66. Now Katooni has a patron who might be strong and smart enough to protect her from the Empire, but is she willing to do the things Crimson Dawn is going to want from her in return? Does Maul find out about her or does Qi'ra keep her in the wings out of his view, and what's the price of that protection? (I am fine with the & becoming / if the story goes there but prefer everything to be on the consensual side.)
Character: Tamara Ryvora (SW)
Tamara Ryvora/Synara San
I have a type, and Tam is squarely in there as hard as Yrica and Qi'ra. I'm fascinated by her gradual fall into working for the First Order, and my deepest regret about the show ending was not getting to see her pick herself up after the dust settled, having to deal with the things she did and choosing to go on every day.
Tam and Synara had gorgeous chemistry together early on, and I remain sad that the show dropped the ball later. They bonded early, and Tam even consented to spend leisure time with Kaz to get to hang out with Synara. Synara fought against her own shipmates to save Tam! They are due a reckoning after the events of the show, forced missions together, or even a quest of their own post-TROS that brings them together. Maybe after the war, Tam strikes out on her own as a pilot for hire, or finds work as a mechanic on the racing circuit, and meets up with Synara again a few years down the road.
Tamara Ryvora & Qi'ra
Consider: an AU where instead of winding up on the Colossus trying to get back to racing, Tam wound up working for Crimson Dawn and its mysterious long-standing leader. Or after the Battle of Exegol, the galaxy is a mess and Tam goes off to find herself, attracting the attention of someone who sees a piece of her own lost self inside her.
Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker
Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo
Nothing beats the original trio in my heart. They've been ride or die for one another ever since Artoo showed Luke that hologram, even Han by the end of the first film. I can't get enough of their lives together, crashing into one another, refusing to give up on each other even against impossible odds and bitter foes. And one day they did give up, because of their child, and oh the angst with that. I'd love to see their time together in the Rebellion, as friends or lovers or moving back and forth across that line. (I ship the component parts of the trio, too, and I'm fine with any of them as an endgame, but would prefer not to focus solely on Han/Leia or Han/Luke.) I want to see them together after the war, trying to raise Ben together. Maybe an AU where nothing goes wrong, where they figure out what's going wrong with him early and help him through, or maybe the story about the slow crawl towards the canon events despite everything. I'm also fine with a rewrite of the Sequel era where they all live all the way through. I want all the happy times before the family reveal. I want all the angsty history post-ROTJ. Luke denying his feelings. Leia denying hers. The times denying those feelings failed. Han wanting the two people he loves most in the galaxy never ever to leave him. Accidental marriage via alien customs, with or without having to consummate it to the satisfaction of said aliens. Public poly marriage without telling anyone Luke and Leia are siblings. Secret poly marriage because the public knows they're twins. Han and Leia are married, but Luke spends every night in their bed.
Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Poe Dameron/Finn
Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
I am here for fix-its where Ben doesn't die. I am here for stories where he does and hangs out as a snotty Force ghost only Rey can see or only Rey and Finn can see. I am here for Force ghost sex, and Force ghost fucking back to life. I am here for canon-divergence AUs where nothing was the same except they are all themselves and Ben is still a disaster human. I am here for Ben Lives! AUs where things are hard when he goes back with Rey after the end of the movie, and Poe and Finn have no reason to trust him except for their trust in Rey. Adventures after the end, big and small. Maybe Kylo doesn't kill Han and he goes back home with him during TFA, and everything is still hard because of everything he did before then. Maybe the road back to becoming Ben is difficult but Rey and Finn drag him kicking and screaming the whole way. Functional polyamory! Amusingly dysfunctional polyamory! (Extra bonus points for throwing Jacen in, either as a fifth spoke in the polywheel because why not, or as Poe's overdramatic ex who shows up at the worst possible time.)
Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo & Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Poly family meets the next generation. Ben doesn't go dark, and brings the new girl home to meet his family, who has to decide how much to let her know at first. (A "Birdcage" riff would be welcome.) Ben comes home Han at the end of TFA and has to live with the fallout, especially when Han and Chewie bring Luke back, too.
Ezra Bridger/Luke Skywalker
Ezra Bridger/Leia Organa/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)? I'm here for it.
Force triplet pile (with or without Han)! AU where Ezra doesn't go off with Thrawn and the three of them are young, horny people in the Rebellion who do as young horny people often do. Getting together later, when they've all seen a little too much and it's nice to have somewhere there who really can read your mind.
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. 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.
Rey/Jacen Syndulla
I am amused by the idea that these two could meet post-TROS and start spending time together Because Jedi, and people make assumptions which may or may not be accurate, and Finn and Poe aren't jealous but are both "WTF?" about what they think is happening, and they're speculating she's having a rebound fling after Ben, and Ben's ghost may be hanging out with Opinions About This Situation, and Rose is no help because all she wants to do is ask Rey "Is ALL his hair green?" and some of the younger Resistance members like Kaydel and Kaz think Jacen's cool while the older Rebels like Lando and Wedge are happy to remind him they changed his diapers a lot, and Rey is fed up with her friends once again being a little too interested in her potential love life, and Jacen is always up for trolling his old friend (ex-bf?) Poe, and whether or not either one catches feelings is less important than how much fun they're having messing with everyone. (Outside POV would be wonderful here.)
Din Djarin/Luke Skywalker/Ezra Bridger & Grogu
I really want one thing from this tag, and that is the story of three men and a green baby. Could be an AU where they know each other before Grogu winds up with them, could be that Luke sets up the start of what will be his school, Din comes to visit regularly, and Ezra winds up there after his gets back from his summer vacation.
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