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lucymonster) wrote2019-02-01 08:53 am
lucymonster) wrote2019-02-01 08:53 am
Space Swap 2019
Crossover: Star Wars/Doctor Who | Doctor Who | Guardians of the Galaxy | Star Wars New EU | Star Wars Sequel Trilogy | Thor
Dear author,
Dear author,
Thank you so much for writing for me! I love every fandom, character and ship I've requested and will be unreservedly thrilled to match on any of them.
Other than my handful of DNWs, I'm open to anything. I've written some prompts to get the ball rolling, but I'm honestly not married to anything and am totally happy for you to use as much or as little as you like: adapt or subvert or branch off with any of my ideas, or scrap them and use your own. Go where your heart tells you to go, and please feel free to include past/background ships, opt-in kinks, unhappy endings if that's how you roll - seriously, go wild!
I've requested some solo characters as well as both / and & pairings, and I have no strong views on the line between them, so please don't worry about being too shippy or not shippy enough. I love it all, from genfic to romance to darkfic to smut.
Pting
Words cannot express how much I loved The Tsuranga Conundrum. The blissful smile on that little Pting's face when it finally got its meal! I'm a sucker for critters at the best of times, but damn, that Pting really got me.
And maybe 'critter' is an unfair label, since they seem pretty intelligent - at least, the one we met was capable of enough stealth and strategy to keep the Doctor on her toes. I'd be over the moon to see more Pting worldbuilding: are they lone rangers, or do they have a culture and community of their own? What do they get up to when they're not busy snacking on spaceships?
Alternatively, I'd love to know more about their past interactions with other cultures, and the myth- and knowledge-base that has grown up around them. Is Tsuranga the only time the Doctor ever meets a Pting, or will they cross paths again? Has anyone ever tried to weaponise them? Are there any fringe eccentrics or tinhats out there who believe the Pting are the key to military supremacy, much to their peers' chagrin?
Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan
Some things I am desperately here for in this ship:
The dark side underneath the Doctor's bubbly charm, all the aeons she's lived and the things she's seen and the times she's been tempted to cut her emotions loose. Yaz as the humanising influence who anchors the Doctor to the world she loves.
The bittersweetness of incompatible lifespans: Yaz has another 60-odd years left in her, while the Doctor is already on her thirteenth regeneration. It's going to end in loss, one way or another.
(It's going to end in loss, sure - but it's worth it in the meanwhile.)
Awkward humour, alien cultural weirdness, and the Doctor's failboat attempts at flirting.
Mantis
Oh my god, Mantis is just so cute. Tough and smart and mind-blowingly powerful, but also straight up fucking adorable. The big eyes, the antennae, the absolute sincerity in everything she says and does - I love her.
Fish out of water is one of my favourite tropes: weird, naive characters with unique perspectives learning to get along in an unfamiliar world. After growing up inside Ego's claustrophobic bubble, how does she cope with getting out there in the wider galaxy? I'd love some missionfic about her exploits as one of the Guardians, or some slice-of-life as she settles in with the team.
Gamora/Nebula
Mantis/Nebula
Or maybe some telepathic hurt/comfort? Mantis's ability to work with people's feelings meets Nebula's bottomless well of trauma and rage?
Yes please to all the quirky dialogue, empathic whump and general xeno weirdness.
Cardinal/Finn
Cardinal was one of my highlights of the Phasma novel: he's so earnest and principled, a lone paragon of conviction in the self-serving wasteland of the First Order.
I'd love to know what kind of role Cardinal had in Finn's training, and if he saw a bit of himself in his young recruit. Or perhaps they meet later, after Finn and Cardinal have both defected - does Cardinal join the Resistance, and help Finn settle into his new life as a defector? Or is he a freelancer like Vi Moradi, and Finn has to leverage their shared past to get Cardinal's help against the Order?
Cardinal/Phasma
Brutality. Resentment. Hatesex. I love all the dark, twisted potential in this ship, with Cardinal's honour and duty pitted against Phasma's survivalist ruthlessness.
Prompts:
- First Order worldbuilding. Their daily lives on board a war machine together, fighting for the same cause but for very different reasons.
- Phasma takes advantage of her rank. Maybe Cardinal hates every second of it - or maybe he enjoys it just as much as she does, and hates himself a little for that.
- Phasma defects from the Order (probably for much more self-serving, less ideological reasons than Cardinal). The two of them cross paths somewhere in the civilian galaxy.
Qi'ra/Rey
Qi'ra/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
My favourite flavour of Kylo Ren is evil but sympathetic: I love seeing him at his worst. I love seeing him make awful decisions, I love seeing him suffer for his mistakes, I love the tease of how he could do so much better but somehow doesn't. I love his inner conflict and his lack of self-control. I also love awkward, painful redemption stories where his battered conscience finally asserts itself and forces him face-to-face with the worst parts of his personality.
Prompts:
- Ben's younger life, growing up on Chandrila as the son of two legendary Resistance heroes who (he feels) are more interested in their careers than in him. Conflict with his parents. Experiments with his powers. Early signs that he was going off the rails.
- What exactly is Kylo's role in the First Order? What does he do on a day-to-day basis?
- I'm very into the dangers of space travel, and would love any kind of story about Kylo Ren's adventures in a region so desolate and hazardous that no one's ever even bothered to map it. Has he come in contact with unknown civilisations in the course of his work with the Order? Has he encountered any strange species or unfamiliar Force phenomena? Weird alien planets, harsh environments and survival stories are forever my jam.
Armitage Hux/Phasma/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Phasma/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Finn/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Finn & Kylo Ren
I love every flavour of this ship, whether romantic or platonic: commander and subordinate, enemies with benefits, post-redemption, anything. I'm fascinated by Finn's stormtrooper background and love any fic that sheds light on their shared FO history / common ground as defectors / intensely personal baggage as enemies. I'd also be super into a captive scenario in either direction: one of them is taken prisoner by the other, and airing of grievances / heartfelt argument / sadistic revenge ensues.
Finn/Poe/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Leia Organa & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
So many possibilities! Supreme Leader Kylo Ren comes to the Resistance to try and broker their surrender so he doesn't have to kill his mother. General Leia, leader of the triumphant Resistance, talks to her captive son through the bars of his cell. At the eleventh hour, in the heat of battle, Kylo does something recklessly self-sacrificing to save Leia's life. One of them is horribly injured, and the other sets aside their enmity to visit their bedside. One of them reaches out to talk to the other through the Force. They work together on a mission, with redeemed Ben Solo leading the way to a First Order stronghold or asset.
Phasma/Rey
Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Banter. Love-hate. Competitive one-upmanship. I love how different and how alike these three are, how badly they've hurt each other and how much worse they still could. Does a freak incident force Finn and Rey to cooperate with their enemy? Does Ben Solo defect to the Resistance? Or maybe it's Finn who doesn't defect from the First Order, and Rey gets captured / turns dark and joins them / becomes an unlikely point of shared fixation that supersedes the wide gulf of rank between them?
Poe Dameron/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
I love the idea that there's more between these two than simple enemy combatants. Maybe Poe knew Ben Solo pre-fall, and despite the different paths they've taken, they can't let go of their feelings for each other. Maybe they meet after Kylo defects back to the light side, but he's still not good, exactly, and the relationship quickly takes a dangerous turn.
Or maybe Poe falls back into First Order captivity, and Kylo takes a very personal interest in interrogating the man who spent most of their last torture session calmly and defiantly sassing him.
Poe Dameron/Luke Skywalker/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
I absolutely love this ship when combined with the 'Ben and Poe as childhood friends' headcanon. They're on different paths now, with Ben's Jedi training and all, but I like to think they might have bonded over their shared love of fast ships and reckless piloting maneuvers. I imagine Luke would have his hands plenty full trying to manage both of them at once, if he was involved in their younger lives.
Or maybe Luke and Poe don't meet till much later, after Ben has become Kylo Ren, and they're two of the last people in the galaxy with the motive and determination to try and bring him back?
Snoke & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
My favourite take on this relationship is 'vulnerable asshole gets in way over his head with a much bigger, badder asshole'. I'm intrigued by Kylo's volatility towards Snoke: the brainwashed hero-worship, the seething resentment, the willingness to turn on a dime and gorily murder him.
I also have a weakness for cracky stories about big scary villains being secret failboats, so would welcome something darkly funny about their student/mentor relationship or the inner workings of the First Order bureaucracy.
Actor playing Loki/Actor playing Thor and Loki
Whoever nominated this, you have my sword. Please tell me more about the lives of these two great actors bringing the magic of theatre to the people of Asgard. How do they feel their big break on the king's stage is working out for them? Do they have any professional rivalries or artistic differences? How do they make time for romance in their lives, when they're both so clearly married to the craft?
Feel free to ham it up as much as you like - I'm here for high court drama, self-serious love affairs and all the intrigue in the world. Or maybe you'd rather go really cynical? They're just B-list actors who dreamed of greatness but couldn't make it to the top, and now they're grinding away to pay the bills?
Honestly, I'll love anything. I'm just so charmed by this whole concept.
AU-wise, anything on my AU likes list is blanket welcome, and I've included some specific AU prompts in the relevant fandom sections.
Thank you again, and happy writing!
Do Not Want
- underage smut (<18 - ageing up, tactful handwaving or fade-to-black is fine)
- parent-child incest
- extreme gore, graphic internal/organ/genital damage
- unrequested AUs (including trope AUs: a/b/o, soulmates etc)
- pure fluff
- scat, emetophilia, vore, bestiality, lactation kink
- issuefic, character/ship bashing
- unwarned major character death (if it's not a canon death, please flag it in tags or author's notes so I'm ready).
GENERAL LIKES
Story likes
- anything with a strong character focus
- characters who are flawed and abrasive and challenging to love
- worldbuilding, incidental details
- difficult or dysfunctional relationships
- dark/gritty/moody aesthetics
- romantic tension, unrequited feelings, love triangles
- ensemble casts, background characters
- outsider or observer POVs
- banter, snark, gallows humour
- descriptions of food, characters eating or sharing food, food as comfort
- military kink: uniforms, weapons, 'sir' (including and especially to address women)
- enemies to lovers
- stranded together, huddling for warmth
- harsh environments, survival/adventure stories
- redemption arcs (or failed redemption arcs)
- subversions, pastiches, crack treated seriously
- first times (sexual or non-sexual).
Smut likes
- character-driven smut
- orgasm delay/denial, sexual frustration
- coming too quickly, loss of control, getting overwhelmed
- crying after sex
- praise kink
- sex pollen, aphrodisiacs, drugged sex, fuck-or-die
- rough sex, hate sex, power imbalances
- humiliation, verbal insults, gendered slurs
- frottage, dry humping, clothed sex
- different erogenous zones, being sensitive in non-genital places
- anal sex (het or slash), double or multiple penetration
- sounding, watersports, forced wetting
- public use, gangbangs
- loss of virginity, inexperience, clumsy sex
- scar worship
- uncomfortable, consensual-but-unpleasant type sex
- under-negotiated kinks.
Darker likes
- creepy, uncomfortable, 'something's off here' vibes
- self-sacrifice, suicide for a good cause
- 'ugly' mental illness: violence, paranoia, warped thinking
- noncon/dubcon
- grey morality, antiheroes
- villain-centred morality
- coercion, blackmail, abuse of power
- victim-blaming
- mind rape, violation, psychological torture
- imprisonment
- physical or sexual torture.
AU likes
- canon-divergent AUs, especially when the change is to an on-screen canon event
- 'for want of a nail' AUs exploring the flow-on effects of a single small change
- bad guys win, good guys turn bad, good guys were really bad all along
- mirrorverse, including verse crossovers where characters get sucked into each other's worlds
- always a girl, especially if it turns a ship into femslash
- these weirdly specific modern AUs: pornstars, figure skating, metal (or heavy alternative) bands, pro gaming.
I adore Jodie Whittaker's doctor: her balance of self-important bombast and deep compassion for everyone around her, and the way she brings humour and levity to the most ridiculous situations. I also love how personally invested she is in everything, and how she's willing to admit her mistakes but never lets them hold her back. What if she stops by a galaxy far, far away to stick her nose into the war that's raging between the First Order and the Resistance?
Thirteenth Doctor & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
It would probably take the Doctor all of five seconds to dismantle Kylo's Big Bad Scary Grr act and get at the insecure trainwreck underneath. I wonder how her ability to find good in everyone would play off his 'yes I am a monster' issues - and if you want to go there, I'm partial to the idea that pre-fall Ben Solo had serious hangups about his family all seeing him as monstrous and damaged and incurably contaminated by the dark side. Could the Doctor, as a neutral outside party, get through to him in a way that no one else has been able to?
Thirteenth Doctor & Rey
Rey, on the other hand, would probably be an instant hit with the Doctor. I can see them clicking really well - they have a similar ingrained sense of justice and respect for life. Rey is choosing to forge a new destiny for herself out of the nothingness of her family origins, and I'm sure the Doctor has a lot that she could tell her about destiny and choices.
Thirteenth Doctor & Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
I'd dearly love to see the Doctor play matchmaker between these two. Maybe it's part of the war effort - to save the galaxy, Kylo needs to fall in love with Rey? Or maybe she's arrived in the war's aftermath, to find a redeemed Ben Solo and romantically hapless Rey making eyes at each other while the newly victorious Resistance scrambles to re-establish some form of functional government. Or has the war gone badly for the Resistance, and it falls to the Doctor to help what's left of the galaxy's freedom fighters in the wake of a First Order triumph?
Pting
Words cannot express how much I loved The Tsuranga Conundrum. The blissful smile on that little Pting's face when it finally got its meal! I'm a sucker for critters at the best of times, but damn, that Pting really got me.
And maybe 'critter' is an unfair label, since they seem pretty intelligent - at least, the one we met was capable of enough stealth and strategy to keep the Doctor on her toes. I'd be over the moon to see more Pting worldbuilding: are they lone rangers, or do they have a culture and community of their own? What do they get up to when they're not busy snacking on spaceships?
Alternatively, I'd love to know more about their past interactions with other cultures, and the myth- and knowledge-base that has grown up around them. Is Tsuranga the only time the Doctor ever meets a Pting, or will they cross paths again? Has anyone ever tried to weaponise them? Are there any fringe eccentrics or tinhats out there who believe the Pting are the key to military supremacy, much to their peers' chagrin?
Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan
Some things I am desperately here for in this ship:
The dark side underneath the Doctor's bubbly charm, all the aeons she's lived and the things she's seen and the times she's been tempted to cut her emotions loose. Yaz as the humanising influence who anchors the Doctor to the world she loves.
The bittersweetness of incompatible lifespans: Yaz has another 60-odd years left in her, while the Doctor is already on her thirteenth regeneration. It's going to end in loss, one way or another.
(It's going to end in loss, sure - but it's worth it in the meanwhile.)
Awkward humour, alien cultural weirdness, and the Doctor's failboat attempts at flirting.
Mantis
Oh my god, Mantis is just so cute. Tough and smart and mind-blowingly powerful, but also straight up fucking adorable. The big eyes, the antennae, the absolute sincerity in everything she says and does - I love her.
Fish out of water is one of my favourite tropes: weird, naive characters with unique perspectives learning to get along in an unfamiliar world. After growing up inside Ego's claustrophobic bubble, how does she cope with getting out there in the wider galaxy? I'd love some missionfic about her exploits as one of the Guardians, or some slice-of-life as she settles in with the team.
Gamora/Nebula
I found that scene in the second movie where Gamora had Nebula chained up deeply inspiring! I’d love any whumpy, angsty badwrong where they work out their family issues through some good old-fashioned hatesex. How does sex work for Nebula, after everything Thanos has done to her body? Can she still feel pleasure in that way? I’d also adore any sisterly(ish) hurt/comfort, or maybe something where Gamora takes pity and finally feeds Nebula a nice ripe yaro root.
I'm always down for ignoring Infinity War, but I'd also love to see Nebula's grief and vengeful rage in a post-snap world.
Mantis/Nebula
I'm thinking of maybe a forced-cooperation scenario where a mission or adventure brings these two together? Mantis isn't exactly Nebula's idea of a 'proper' warrior, but her psychic skills are undeniably powerful and she has a knack for getting past other people's stoic bullshit to what's really going on inside their heads.
Or maybe some telepathic hurt/comfort? Mantis's ability to work with people's feelings meets Nebula's bottomless well of trauma and rage?
Yes please to all the quirky dialogue, empathic whump and general xeno weirdness.
Cardinal/Finn
Cardinal was one of my highlights of the Phasma novel: he's so earnest and principled, a lone paragon of conviction in the self-serving wasteland of the First Order.
I'd love to know what kind of role Cardinal had in Finn's training, and if he saw a bit of himself in his young recruit. Or perhaps they meet later, after Finn and Cardinal have both defected - does Cardinal join the Resistance, and help Finn settle into his new life as a defector? Or is he a freelancer like Vi Moradi, and Finn has to leverage their shared past to get Cardinal's help against the Order?
Cardinal/Phasma
Brutality. Resentment. Hatesex. I love all the dark, twisted potential in this ship, with Cardinal's honour and duty pitted against Phasma's survivalist ruthlessness.
Prompts:
- First Order worldbuilding. Their daily lives on board a war machine together, fighting for the same cause but for very different reasons.
- Phasma takes advantage of her rank. Maybe Cardinal hates every second of it - or maybe he enjoys it just as much as she does, and hates himself a little for that.
- Phasma defects from the Order (probably for much more self-serving, less ideological reasons than Cardinal). The two of them cross paths somewhere in the civilian galaxy.
Qi'ra/Rey
I'd love to see inexperienced, rough-and-ready young Rey with a smart, ruthless, manipulative older woman. I can picture Qi'ra as a freewheeling criminal agent in a post-First Order takeover world, playing both sides and keeping channels open with the Resistance for shady reasons of her own. I'd especially love anything that touches on her history with Han, or anything that plays up the age gap and Rey's desperate need for a parental/mentor figure.
Prompts:
- Dark!Rey took Kylo's offer and joined the First Order. She meets Qi'ra through their shared dark side allegiance.
- Qi'ra hates the First Order as much as anyone, whether for conscience reasons or because they interfere in her business. She's willing to help the Resistance, but there's too much baggage for her and Leia to ever really work together. Rey becomes the go-between.
- Qi'ra sees a lot of herself in this hungry spitfire from bumfuck, Jakku. She courts her to join Crimson Dawn.
Qi'ra/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Qi'ra is a smart, ambitious survivor who's willing to use sex and intimacy to get what she wants. Kylo is a handy source of power and also a bottomless pit of easy-to-manipulate emotional needs. I'd love to see virgin Kylo with older woman Qi'ra, or maybe Qi'ra indulging her nurturing side with a younger and more energetic toyboy. Maybe she's using him to get to Snoke, or to keep the First Order out of her private cartel business. Or maybe she sees herself as a mentor figure of sorts, an early exponent of letting the past die and becoming who you were meant to be.
I'm heavily into the Oedipal potential here: is Kylo hyper-aware that he's fucking his dad's ex? Is Qi'ra nostalgic for Han? Does it bother either of them that she's old enough to be his mother? Please feel free to lean into the age gap and keep-it-in-the-family vibe as hard as you like.
Alternatively: redeemed (ish) Ben Solo walks away from the Order but isn't quite ready to join the Fight Against Evil. Working for Qi'ra is a decent morally grey option.
Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
My favourite flavour of Kylo Ren is evil but sympathetic: I love seeing him at his worst. I love seeing him make awful decisions, I love seeing him suffer for his mistakes, I love the tease of how he could do so much better but somehow doesn't. I love his inner conflict and his lack of self-control. I also love awkward, painful redemption stories where his battered conscience finally asserts itself and forces him face-to-face with the worst parts of his personality.
Prompts:
- Ben's younger life, growing up on Chandrila as the son of two legendary Resistance heroes who (he feels) are more interested in their careers than in him. Conflict with his parents. Experiments with his powers. Early signs that he was going off the rails.
- What exactly is Kylo's role in the First Order? What does he do on a day-to-day basis?
- I'm very into the dangers of space travel, and would love any kind of story about Kylo Ren's adventures in a region so desolate and hazardous that no one's ever even bothered to map it. Has he come in contact with unknown civilisations in the course of his work with the Order? Has he encountered any strange species or unfamiliar Force phenomena? Weird alien planets, harsh environments and survival stories are forever my jam.
Armitage Hux/Phasma/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Phasma/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Here for this equally as a pairing or an OT3. All three of them are difficult, damaged people with competing professional agendas and very different views of what it means to be part of the First Order. I'd love a fic that explores the power struggles between them, and the clash between their need for human intimacy and their need to get one over each other at all times.
I'd be really into Phasma Doing What Must Be Done to secure her position. What does she think of Kylo and Hux - does she respect them as allies, or look down on them as sheltered brats who've been handed power they don't deserve? Does she grit her teeth when she takes them to bed? Is she using them, or are they using her?
Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Rose TicoI'm really into the ethical clash between these two: Kylo with his love of power and his violent authoritarian leanings, Rose with her sense of justice and compassion for the underdog. I'd love to see the two of them build a relationship of some kind, either with Kylo in full First Order meltdown mode or redeemed Ben Solo cooperating with the Resistance afterwards.
Prompts:
- Kylo thinks Rose's morals are naive. She's too young and idealistic to correctly process the trauma of her upbringing and embrace totalitarianism as the natural solution to all the galaxy's problems.
- Redeemed, conflicted Ben needs someone to lean on as he sorts out what the hell he's doing in a post-Evil Meltdown world. Rose is there - to listen? To argue political philosophy? To smack him back into shape?
- Neither of them can stand each other, but somehow they keep ending up in bed when the beers and bad decisions come out.
- A stray plot device strands the two of them on a hostile planet where they're forced to work together for survival.
Finn/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Finn & Kylo Ren
I love every flavour of this ship, whether romantic or platonic: commander and subordinate, enemies with benefits, post-redemption, anything. I'm fascinated by Finn's stormtrooper background and love any fic that sheds light on their shared FO history / common ground as defectors / intensely personal baggage as enemies. I'd also be super into a captive scenario in either direction: one of them is taken prisoner by the other, and airing of grievances / heartfelt argument / sadistic revenge ensues.
Finn/Poe/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
I love the idea of Finn and Poe as an established couple, and Kylo (redeemed Ben Solo?) looking on with longing and self-loathing. Maybe they team up on purpose to seduce him. Maybe they're his reluctant orientation buddies after he surrenders and joins the Resistance, and they end up getting more involved than they mean to.
Alternatively: maybe Finn and Kylo have some FO-era history, and it's Poe who's on the outside pining to join them. Or maybe there's a tug-of-war between Kylo (who has known Finn for years, thank you) and Poe (who saved him from the First Order, thank you) with Finn caught awkwardly in the middle. Threesome, triangle, mutual ill-defined clusterfuck - I'm into whatever direction you take this.
Leia Organa & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
So many possibilities! Supreme Leader Kylo Ren comes to the Resistance to try and broker their surrender so he doesn't have to kill his mother. General Leia, leader of the triumphant Resistance, talks to her captive son through the bars of his cell. At the eleventh hour, in the heat of battle, Kylo does something recklessly self-sacrificing to save Leia's life. One of them is horribly injured, and the other sets aside their enmity to visit their bedside. One of them reaches out to talk to the other through the Force. They work together on a mission, with redeemed Ben Solo leading the way to a First Order stronghold or asset.
Phasma/Rey
Phasma and Rey had similar nightmare childhoods that they've dealt with in totally opposing ways: Phasma has turned out ruthless and power-hungry, while Rey has escaped Jakku full of justice and compassion and the will to make the world a better place. I love this ship in all its dark and conflict-fueled glory, but I'd also melt for Rey showing Phasma some unexpected kindness. I love the vibe of corrupted, cynical darkside warrior and vibrant young optimist who can't help seeing the best in people.
Prompts:
- Forced to work together! A journey gone wrong ends with the two of them stranded in some hostile place together, huddling for warmth and sharing whatever food they can scrounge.
- Rey takes mercy on Phasma in the heat of battle.
- Phasma gets captured by the Resistance, and Rey takes charge of interrogating her.
- Rey gets captured by the First Order, and Phasma takes charge of interrogating her.
- Rey takes Kylo's offer and joins the First Order. How does Phasma, who totally survived the Supremacy thanks to reasons, feel about her new Supreme Leader?
Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Banter. Love-hate. Competitive one-upmanship. I love how different and how alike these three are, how badly they've hurt each other and how much worse they still could. Does a freak incident force Finn and Rey to cooperate with their enemy? Does Ben Solo defect to the Resistance? Or maybe it's Finn who doesn't defect from the First Order, and Rey gets captured / turns dark and joins them / becomes an unlikely point of shared fixation that supersedes the wide gulf of rank between them?
Poe Dameron/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
I love the idea that there's more between these two than simple enemy combatants. Maybe Poe knew Ben Solo pre-fall, and despite the different paths they've taken, they can't let go of their feelings for each other. Maybe they meet after Kylo defects back to the light side, but he's still not good, exactly, and the relationship quickly takes a dangerous turn.
Or maybe Poe falls back into First Order captivity, and Kylo takes a very personal interest in interrogating the man who spent most of their last torture session calmly and defiantly sassing him.
Poe Dameron/Luke Skywalker/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
I absolutely love this ship when combined with the 'Ben and Poe as childhood friends' headcanon. They're on different paths now, with Ben's Jedi training and all, but I like to think they might have bonded over their shared love of fast ships and reckless piloting maneuvers. I imagine Luke would have his hands plenty full trying to manage both of them at once, if he was involved in their younger lives.
Or maybe Luke and Poe don't meet till much later, after Ben has become Kylo Ren, and they're two of the last people in the galaxy with the motive and determination to try and bring him back?
Snoke & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
My favourite take on this relationship is 'vulnerable asshole gets in way over his head with a much bigger, badder asshole'. I'm intrigued by Kylo's volatility towards Snoke: the brainwashed hero-worship, the seething resentment, the willingness to turn on a dime and gorily murder him.
I also have a weakness for cracky stories about big scary villains being secret failboats, so would welcome something darkly funny about their student/mentor relationship or the inner workings of the First Order bureaucracy.
Actor playing Loki/Actor playing Thor and Loki
Whoever nominated this, you have my sword. Please tell me more about the lives of these two great actors bringing the magic of theatre to the people of Asgard. How do they feel their big break on the king's stage is working out for them? Do they have any professional rivalries or artistic differences? How do they make time for romance in their lives, when they're both so clearly married to the craft?
Feel free to ham it up as much as you like - I'm here for high court drama, self-serious love affairs and all the intrigue in the world. Or maybe you'd rather go really cynical? They're just B-list actors who dreamed of greatness but couldn't make it to the top, and now they're grinding away to pay the bills?
Honestly, I'll love anything. I'm just so charmed by this whole concept.