May the 4th Be With You Exchange 2021

[lucymonster]

Note: purely to help navigation, I've grouped my requests loosely by common character or property. It's very inexact and reflects nothing about which characters I prefer or who should be the focus of a given ship!

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Armitage Hux (Hux & Kylo, Hux/Leia, Hux/Carise, Hux/Carise/Leia)
Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (Kylo/Terex, Poe/Kylo/Terex, Ransolm/Kylo, Grogu & Kylo, Grogu & Jacen & Kylo)
Hera Syndulla (Kallus/Hera, Hera/Yeager, Leia/Hera, Hera/Tolvan, Din/Hera)
Jacen Syndulla (Kylo/Jacen, Poe/Kylo/Jacen, Poe & Kylo & Jacen, Rey/Jacen)
Leia Organa (Leia/Carise, Leia/Fennec, Bo-Katan/Leia, Aphra/Leia)
Mandalorian (Din/Bo-Katan, Poe/Din, Cara/Fennec, Cara/Qi'ra, Cara/Sabine)
Qi'ra (Aphra/Qi'ra, Qi'ra/Kylo, Fennec/Qi'ra, Leia/Qi'ra)
Reylo and adjacent (Rey/Kylo, Poe/Finn/Rey/Ben, Rey/Kylo & Poe/Finn, Rey/Kylo & Poe & Finn, Poe/Rey/Kylo, Finn/Rey/Kylo, Leia/Luke/Han & Rey/Kylo)
Rise of Kylo Ren (Ben & Knights of Ren, Ben & Tai & Voe & Hennix, Ben/Tai, Ben/Voe)
Sequel era (Zorii/Rose, Zorii/Suralinda, Finn/Kylo, Finn/Kaz, Zorii/Kylo, Phasma/Kylo, Phasma/Rose, Kylo/Rose)

Dear Yoda,

Thanks so much for creating for me! I hope you'll find me an easy recipient: this letter includes a selection of my favourite things for inspiration, but I’m very open to anything you’d like to do.

I've requested fic and art for everything. Some sections of my letter are longer than others, but I’m equally excited for every request I’ve included, and for gifts of literally any size. If a prompt seems to suggest a longer story, I’d also be thrilled with a short scene or excerpt based on that concept. Feel free to get creative and go where inspiration takes you - I opt in to anything I haven't explicitly DNW'd, so please don't stress about whether your idea is too dark, too niche, not shippy enough, whatever. If you're looking at my letter thinking 'hmm, she hasn't mentioned [thing], but it doesn't seem wildly out of line with her tastes' - your instincts are good, you should include the thing, I bet I'll love it. :D

I'm lucymonster on ao3.

Thanks again, and happy creating!

General info

⛔ Do not want

• underage: explicit <18 sex, any <16 sex or any <13 romance
• parent/child incest, mommy or daddy kink, ageplay
• scat, vore, emetophilia, bestiality
• bimbofication, womb penetration, futa
• 'no-no-yes' type noncon
• extreme gore, graphic organ damage, genital bleeding/cutting/tearing
• unrequested AUs other than canon divergence (incl. trope AUs: please no a/b/o, soulmates etc)
• poetry
• unrequested trans or ace headcanons
• unwarned major character death (tag or author’s note appreciated!).

⭐ Story likes

In general, my favourite stories are the ones where the characters feel like real, live, messy and imperfect people. I love fics that are thought-provoking or uncomfortable to read. I love to relax into well-earned (or not-so-well-earned) moments of happiness for my otherwise beleaguered faves. I love to laugh. Favourite themes include:

• anything with a strong character focus
• characters who are flawed and abrasive and challenging to love; difficult or dysfunctional relationships
• dark/gritty/moody aesthetics
• imperfect happiness, bittersweet undertones, unfulfilled yearning
• ensemble casts, background characters, outsider POV
• mundane details, little moments of human vulnerability
• politics, bureaucracy, propaganda
• banter, snark, gallows humour, quippiness
• guilty pleasures: denying them, suppressing them, and finally giving into temptation
• tropes: hurt/comfort, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, huddling for warmth, fake relationships, bodyswap
• descriptions of food, characters eating or sharing food, food as comfort
• military kink: uniforms, weapons, ‘sir’
• harsh environments, brutal weather, survival/adventure stories
• redemption (or failed redemption)
• crack treated seriously
• non-standard formats: drabbles, non-linear, epistolary, social media, in-universe meta.

💀 Dark likes

Honestly, go as brutal and fucked-up as you like. There's no such thing as too dark. I love my horror both overt and covert - if you're not feeling the in-your-face disasterfest, by all means creep me out with subtle insinuations or dark twists to sweet-seeming premises. Some favourite themes:

• noncon/dubcon (see my 2019 nonconathon letter for a still-current laundry list of kinks I love)
• bad guys win, good guys go bad
• grey morality, antiheroes, villain-centred morality
• extremist politics, callous bureaucracies, the mundane horrors of life under the jackboot
• 'ugly' mental illness: violence, paranoia, self-destructiveness, warped thinking
• self-harm, suicide attempts or ideation
• psychological horror
• coercion, blackmail, abuse of power
• victim blaming
• self-harm, self-destructiveness, suicide attempts
• physical torture: flogging, beating, burrning, bone-breaking, electrocuting
• psychological/'enhanced interrogation' style torture: sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, stress positions, extreme noise and temperature, deliberate humiliation.

🍑 Smut likes

Character-driven smut is my jam. I love sex that says something about the people involved, offbeat sex scenes, sex that's awkward and imperfect and humanising, unusual erogenous zones and intimate details about the characters' bodies. Favourite kinks include:

• orgasm delay/denial, sexual frustration, begging
• coming too quickly, loss of control, getting overwhelmed
• crying after sex
• rough sex, hate sex, power imbalances
• on the other hand: tender, adoring, needy sex with lavish attention to each other's pleasure
• humiliation, verbal insults, gendered slurs
• frottage, dry humping, clothed sex
• sex pollen, fuck-or-die
• 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
• praise kink
• scar worship
• uncomfortable, consensual-but-unpleasant type sex
• under-negotiated kinks
• any level of complex, problematic or questionable consent.

🎨 Art likes

Any of my fic likes that can translate visually are just as relevant to my taste in art. For any of my ficcier prompts or favourite tropes, I'd be over the moon to receive an illustration from the hypothetical fic that fills them. I love dark, shadowy colour palettes and goth/metal/industrial styles and an overall moody gloom. I love symbolism and meaningful visual motifs, and I'm open to oblique, metaphorical depictions of ships just as much as pictures of people kissing. (But I am also, to be clear, still very keen on pictures of people kissing.)

On a different note, fluffy art is also amazing. I love chibis, cuddle piles and all manner of sugary cuteness. Polka dots or rainbows in the background just because? You son of a bitch, I'm in. My ship holds hands in the background while their new pet hamster frolics across most of the canvas? Just make sure that little guy's cheeks are as chubby as they come! Throw my grumpy black-clad faves into a scene of lollipops and sparkles? I'll squeal so much that even my ship's new pet hamster will think I'm shrill. I also adore that trend of tiny chibi characters with food items larger than they are.

Porny art is another enthusiastic yes please. Breathless physical closeness, body hair, lean muscles, tangled limbs and pleasure-slack faces are all guaranteed to elicit lots of keysmash and blushing emojis.

Request details

Armitage Hux

❤️ Armitage Hux & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

I’m LIVING for the pettiness of Hux turning traitor to his whole life’s work because he hates Kylo Ren just that much. I love the overwhelming inequality of their enemy dynamic, how completely Hux has lost their power struggle from the earlier movies and how he’s left to stew in consuming hatred while Kylo barely bothers with him any more except to throw the occasional jab. But I also love that he clearly still has some kind of strategic or practical value, since Kylo hasn’t yet caved to the temptation of doing away with him completely.

I’d love to see more spiteful banter, cutthroat politics and one-sided scheming. Does Hux often get called on in Supreme Council meetings to account for the embarrassing private thoughts Kylo has sensed in him? When he’s not busy being a punching bag, how much leeway does he have left to actually do his job? Does he find any sympathy among his fellow councillors? (The new visual dictionary suggests that First Order command is fairly evenly split between admiring their new Supreme Leader and gritting their teeth to put up with him. It also suggests that Kylo has made criticising him an act of treason, so Hux will have to be careful if he wants to drum up support against the bullying.)

I’m also interested in any and all worldbuilding around the First Order’s political platform, military strategy and internal machinations. The whole thing veers so wildly between ruthless efficiency and disastrous incompetence – I can’t look away.

❤️ Armitage Hux/Leia Organa

This ship works because it doesn't: because there are hardly two people in the GFFA more ideologically opposed, and because Leia's courageous idealism is a world away from Hux's self-serving cowardice, and because an older woman who's seen the world has so little in common with a young man who's spent his whole life inside the bubble of a repressive hermit kingdom. Both of them have suffered horribly; Leia uses her suffering to fuel a commitment to galactic justice, while Hux has his mind made up to pass his suffering on to as many people as he can reach. I'm here for power games, mutual contempt and reluctant physical attraction.

Dark is great for these two, including noncon: maybe Leia falls prisoner to the First Order and Hux takes cruel advantage of the situation? Maybe Hux falls prisoner to the Resistance, and Leia is horrified to find a darker side of herself emerging? I'd also be very interested in a truce, political relationship or other tense compromise; I'm not really into straightforward Hux redemption, but would be very into more of the spite-fueled, grudging defection from the First Order cause that we saw in TROS. Similarly, outright dark side Leia isn't my bag, but I'd love to see her morals starting to buckle under the weight of everything she's lost, or under compromises that help her save lives but never feel quite right.

❤️ Armitage Hux/Carise Sindian
❤️ Armitage Hux/Leia Organa/Carise Sindian

Carise was one of my favourite characters from Bloodline. I love how she managed to be both amoral and passionately self-righteous at the same time, and how she used her frivolous exterior to hide a cunning that got the better even of someone as smart and as jaded as Leia. I'd love to know how she fares under the First Order's regime - is she honoured for her role in supporting their ascent, or does she fall out of favour and find herself unceremoniously discarded? Do she and Hux have a use for each other as fellow connivers? Maybe Carise uses Hux's rank and access to strengthen her own position. Mabe Hux uses Carise's office to give his agenda an extra veneer of political legitimacy. Or maybe they both bond over their seething contempt (or "contempt") for Leia.

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Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

🧡 Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Terex
🧡 Poe Dameron/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Terex

I'm obsessed with Terex's see-saw morality - his devotion to the Empire and its vision of galactic order on the one hand, his chaotic and self-serving criminality on the other. His contempt for 'that freak Kylo Ren' is a thing of trashfire hateshippy beauty, and his unflinching self-harm to override those implants hits me right in the id every time. He wants to strip the galaxy of its freedom but he values his own so much he'd rather die without it. I'd love to see him and Kylo get in each other's way while they're both working for the First Order, and clash hard on their values despite being theoretically on the same side.

I'd also love to see Terex and Kylo as prickly, unpopular First Order defectors. Maybe they fall into Poe's reluctant care because no one else is willing to put up with them! Maybe they both defect completely separately and are dismayed to find themselves working together once again! Or maybe they stay First Order loyal but get tangled up with Poe when a mission goes wrong and strands all three of them together somewhere. Naturally, wherever it is, there's only one bed.

🧡 Ransolm Casterfo/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

There are so many exquisitely painful ways these two characters' paths have collided and could collide again. Leia's isnt the only life Ransolm upended when he revealed the truth of her parentage. Just imagine Ben off on some unreachably distant Jedi field trip, turning on the space TV and learning from the impersonal face of one of his mother's colleagues that he's descended from Vader. By the time he has taken the throne, Ransolm's been transferred from his homeworld prison to First Order custody and is back at the mercy of a masked dark Force user. His efforts to destroy Vader's legacy were a small but pivotal part of what helped resurrect it.

Some ideas:

• Ben and Ransolm have met before, on one of Ben's visits home from the temple. He was already showing an interest in the Empire, though he wasn't exactly forthcoming about his growing pull towards the dark side. Ransolm just thought he'd found a hot, likeminded friend to show off his collection of Imperial salvage to.
• Kylo Ren visits Ransolm's prison and is keen to meet the man who showed him the truth of his family.
• Post-canon, Ransolm and redeemed Ben find common ground in the mistakes they made by looking to the Empire for political inspiration.

🧡 Grogu & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

I still can't believe the Mandalorian S2 finale made my favourite crack prompt basically canon. Damn RIGHT Ben and Grogu were both taught by Luke Skywalker! There's no way the two most powerful baby Jedi of their generation never met. I bet they had playdates when Ben was little, and I bet he was expected to babysit when he was older and Grogu was still toddling. Please give me adorable babies, sullen teenagers, any and all training temple shenanigans. If you like ensemble casts, their fellow students and overwhelmed caretakers are also dearly wanted.

Also dearly wanted: dark side Kylo reuniting with the little green pest years later. He'd be the galaxy's honest to god worst babysitter.

🧡 Grogu & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Jacen Syndulla

I just really, really want all three of them to be students together at Luke's Jedi temple. Toddler shenanigans with Grogu! Petty schoolyard rivalry between Ben and Jacen! Adventures in the Force! Do they go on a class excursion together that ends in danger and disaster? Do their parents all know each other, and force them on extracurricular playdates? Do Ben and Jacen get stuck babysitting Grogu together? If it helps, please also feel free to draw from my prompts for Grogu & Ben above or Ben/Jacen below.

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Hera Syndulla

💛 Alexsandr Kallus/Hera Syndulla

Hera is one of my favourite badasses in the GFFA. Kallus is one of my favourite redemption cases. Hera can offer Kallus comfort and reconnection after his defection from the Empire! Kallus can offer Hera comfort and reconnection after Kanan's death! If anything happens between them while Kanan is still alive, please don't have it happen behind Kanan's back or in a way that implies a major problem for Hera and Kanan's budding romance if he found out. Maybe sexual exclusivity isn't a thing in space, or Kanan isn't the jealous type, or you just don't mention him at all and I form my own conclusions. Basically complex relationships and offhand it's-all-fine-here nonmonogamy are :D :D :D, but malicious infidelity makes me :(.

I love the idea of the two of them finding peace in each other once the war is over. Maybe they settle down and raise Jacen together. Maybe there are some teething issues as two veterans who've seen hell and lost loved ones adjust to civilian life. Maybe something happens to drag them back into the mess, and they get to swing into action as a badass new power couple. Or maybe they're not a thing yet, and the sorely missed adrenaline is what tips them over.

💛 Hera Syndulla/Jarek Yeager

Surely these two hotshot pilots met during the civil war! Did they fly missions together? Race against each other? I'd love to know what a younger, less grief-stricken Yeager was like.Or later, long after the Empire's gone, maybe they cross paths and find comfort in each other from the lives and loves they've lost. Maybe Hera comes to lend a hand with one of Kaz's missions. (Maybe she brings Jacen with her, and the kids wreak havoc while their respective parental figures shake their heads.) Maybe the two of them join forces and fly together once more at the Battle of Exegol.

💛 Leia Organa/Hera Syndulla

They're hot and competent and ride-or-die for the Rebel cause, and I'd love to know about the daring missions they collaborated on for the Alliance. Maybe Leia, as a young mother, turned to Hera for guidance in Ben's early days? (Background Leia/Han and Hera/Kanan are completely chill.) I'd also really love to see them as older women coming out of combat retirement to deal with the First Order - maybe after the disaster on Crait, Hera is one of the people Leia calls on for help rebuilding the Resistance? Maybe Leia survives TROS, and the two of them come together once more over the monumental task of rebuilding the New Republic?

💛 Hera Syndulla/Magna Tolvan

Well, for starters, they both have ample reason to be furious with Aphra! If that doesn't break the ice, I don't know what will.

I love Tolvan's redemption arc and how fierce she is for the Rebels after devoting most of her life to the Empire. I'd love to see Hera take her under her wing a little, help her unpack that headful of Imperial thinking, find ways to make her as useful as possible to the new cause. I'd love to see them both being hyper-badass together. I'd love to see kinky powerplay - Tolvan being called sir in bed is insanely hot, and so is Tolvan kneeling down and calling someone else sir for a change!

💛 Din Djarin/Hera Syndulla

Badass single parents club! I'm afraid I'm very short on prompts for this ship - I just saw it in the tagset and absolutely couldn't resist. They're both such skilled, loving caretakers and so principled and so cool and I'm down for anything from missionfic (does a bounty hunter somehow end up working for the Rebels?) to playdates with their respective kids to shameless smut where we all admire how gorgeous Hera is and how gorgeous Mando totally would be if only he took off his helmet.

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Jacen Syndulla

💚 Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Jacen Syndulla
💚 Poe Dameron/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Jacen Syndulla
💚 Poe Dameron & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Jacen Syndulla

We all agree these guys have met, right? Jacen is a bit of a blank slate character, and I'm here for any interpretation of him, whether he takes after one or both of his parents or grows up to be a total "how did THAT happen". Some things I'd love to see:

• The smuggler AU where Jacen and Ben (and Poe) decide living up to their family legacies isn't really their thing after all, and fly off to pursue a life of highly profitable crime instead. Maybe they still do jobs for the Resistance sometimes when one of their parents calls in a favour.
• Ben and Jacen train as Jedi together.
• During the war, Poe and Jacen commiserate about their past with Ben while teaming up to fight Kylo Ren.
• After the war, both/all of them find their way back to each other.

For art, I love Jacen's green hair, and glimpses of his parents showing through in his adult appearance - tall and lean like his dad? Flight goggles on his head like his mother?

💚 Rey/Jacen Syndulla

The last Jedi meets the ... guy who totally could have been a Jedi if he wanted to? Son of a Jedi who never inherited much of his power? Jedi school dropout who still has awkward class holos of himself with Rey's dead Force-dyad ex? (I love the idea that Jacen and Ben Solo knew each other as kids, and will adore any reference to that headcanon.) Or maybe their connection has nothing to do with the Force at all. Maybe they meet because Jacen comes to throw in with the Resistance, and they grudgingly impress each other with their piloting skills and affinity for danger.

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Leia Organa

💙 Leia Organa/Carise Sindian
💙 Leia Organa/Fennec Shand
💙 Bo-Katan Kryze/Leia Organa
💙 Chelli Lona Aphra/Leia Organa

This is the 'hook Leia up with various morally ambiguous hot women' section of my letter. I don't have much to offer in the way of ship-specific prompts, because I really, truly do want anything at all for any of these ships, but the thing that defines the chemistry between them for me is how like Leia they are in terms of competence while being utterly unlike her in their goals and methods. I'd love to see a fic that explores their philosophical differences, or subverts them - alignment-change AUs are great!

And yeah, okay, it also helps that they're all ridiculously good looking. If you want to skip the philosophy and just write or draw them being attractive together, I'm entirely here for that too!!

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Mandalorian

💜 Din Djarin/Bo-Katan Kryze

I've been lowkey obsessed with this ship since the moment Bo-Katan swaggered on screen and made cool, gunslinging Mando look suddenly dweebish and awkward by comparison. Now it looks like they're set for a major rivalry in season 3! I'm so very happy, but also impatient and greedy and want more of the two of them right!!! now!!!

So, Mando's been in an ultraconservative cult this whole time - bet the sex education sucked. Bo-Katan should gently dom him as he readjusts to normal human intimacies, like exposing his face. Or she should not-so-gently dom him as they brawl-fuck their way across the rift the darksaber has inadvertently cut between them. I'd love to see them get into the weeds about What It Means To Be Mandalorian, or spar together and learn from each other's fighting styles, or spar together a little too seriously because, you know, rivals for the throne.

💜 Poe Dameron/Din Djarin

I've been thinking about this ship ever since I watched this fanvid, and I'm open to any way you can think of to make it happen! Maybe Poe crosses paths with a mysterious fellow outlaw while he's running spice? Maybe he's heard rumours on the underworld grapevine, and looks Mando up for help against the First Order? Maybe in this AU, Poe never joined the Resistance but ended up working as a Bounty Hunter, and an older, wiser Mando has come back to the fold? Whatever happens, massive bonus points if Grogu is there and Poe has no clue what to do with him.

💜 Cara Dune/Fennec Shand

Cara and Fennec are like for-want-of-a-nail copies of each other: tough and ruthless and competent, deeply loyal, in it for the thrill. I loved seeing them team up and I'd really, really love to see more of it. Shoot-em-up missions together! Battlefield oneupmanship! Prickly moral arguments over a late night bottle of hard liquor! Competence porn! Cara struggling to reconcile her new government job with her feelings for a deadly assassin, and Fennec getting inadvertently softened up by Cara's commitment to peace and freedom!

💜 Cara Dune/Qi'ra

They're both hot, they're both neck-deep in the underworld, and their personalities are a potentially explosive clash: Cara is forthright and speaks with her fists a lot, while Qi'ra prefers to work subtly. Maybe Cara takes a job for Crimson Dawn? Maybe Qi'ra has a longstanding relationship with the Guild? Maybe they know each other from Cara's merc past, and now that Moff Gideon's on the loose chasing Force-sensitive babies with a laser sword, Cara decides it's time to cash in a favour from someone who knows a little something about the Force?

💜 Cara Dune/Sabine Wren

Two Rebel badasses, both with great hair and both with some hefty family baggage. Maybe they meet during the war and go on high-stakes crazy missions together! Or maybe they cross paths afterwards, while Sabine is on clean-up and Cara is drifting away into the underworld. Does Sabine help anchor Cara to the cause, or does Cara lure Sabine away with her? (They'd make unbelievably cool mercenaries.) I'd also love to see them bond over the weight of disappointed parental expectations - Cara too much of a warrior, Sabine not enough of one.

For art, I love Sabine's bold, bright-coloured aesthetic sense and Cara's built physique. Those BICEPS.

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Qi'ra

🖤 Chelli Lona Aphra/Qi'ra

They have so much in common, I hardly even know where to START. They're both criminals with flawed but deeply feeling hearts who fucked over everyone who loved them to survive. They've both brushed shoulders with elite dark side Force users. They've both paid a terrible price for the lifestyles they lead, but they keep paying it willingly day after day. I'm sure at some point in her Crimson Dawn dealings, Qi'ra will require an archaeologist's service. Do they recognise their kindred spirits? Collaborate uneasily for mutual gain? Double-cross the hell out of each other?

🖤 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.

🖤 Fennec Shand/Qi'ra

If anyone can win the star wars, it's this terrifyingly hot power couple. Fennec has worked for "all the top crime syndicates" - that includes Crimson Dawn, right? If Qi'ra hasn't personally hired her services before, then she's certainly at least heard of her. I want all the (literally or metaphorically) cutthroat underworld politics, tense business dealings and flexible moral codes.

🖤 Leia Organa/Qi'ra

Leia was raised as royalty and lost all of it; Qi'ra was born in the gutters and clawed her way up from nothing. Both of them are deeply driven, albeit by clashing goals. Both of them are whip-smart and pragmatic and capable of immense political subtlety. And of course, both of them have loved and lost Han.

(Quick note on that: Leia and Qi'ra's shared history with the same man is a big part of what makes this ship interesting me, so I'd prefer a fic that doesn't retcon out either pairing. I'm also not keen on out-and-out infidelity, ie 'I'm doing this in secret and I know you'd feel betrayed if you found out'. But I'm fine with any level of agreed or incidental non-monogamy, timeline changes, breakups/divorces, or however else you prefer to handle their tangled history.)

I love the idea of the two of them first meeting as older women, linked by grief and shared regrets that evolve into something deeper between them. Perhaps Qi'ra has had enough of living in the shadows, and joins forces with the Resistance against the First Order threat?

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Reylo and adjacent

💗 Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

I don't think I'm ever going to be over the beautiful mess that is Rey and Kylo's relationship. It's been more than a year since TROS and I'm still blown away that my ship actually went canon. What I love most about them are their sharp edges: the baggage, the damage they've done to each other, the inescapable intensity of the Force bond, the fact that Ben's an utter disaster human and Rey has no tolerance at all for his bullshit (but keeps getting drawn in anyway, because Force bond + irresistible chemistry).

I'm here for every version of them building a life together after canon - Ben can be a ghost, or he can be alive, or he can be a ghost who gets brought back to life or reincarnated in another body or jammed inside Rey's head as an extra passenger or whatever other Force weirdness tickles your fancy. I'm here for every AU in which he stops being a dickhead earlier in canon, but is still kind of a dickhead anyway even if he's a loyal Jedi / willing FO defector / grey-moral smuggler / whatever. I'm here for inappropriate uses of the Force in smut, and flimsy uses of the Force as a plot device to make time travel or fuck-or-die or medically improbable hurt/comfort or your choice of trope possible. Honestly, go wild.

💗 Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
💗 Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Poe Dameron/Finn
💗 Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Poe Dameron & Finn

I will never, ever get tired of Ben surviving TROS and having to integrate into Rey's life with her friends/lovers who he variously tortured and brutalised. I'll take literally any spin on this scenario. Slightly prickly but ultimately healthy and uplifting poly? Toxic disaster foursome held together by nothing but lust and sheer stubbornness? Group adventures taking down what's left of the First Order? Team visits to the max sec prison Ben gets locked in after the war?

I love AUs where Ben defects earlier in canon, or where he never goes dark in the first place and instead shows up as the bad-tempered, difficult son of General Leia. Does he fight for the cause voluntarily, or show up now and then to lend a grudging helping hand? How differently does the war with the First Order go without him there to act as Snoke's enforcer?

Or, if Ben is still Kylo, I also love forced-to-work-together and redemption-by-seduction tropes.

💗 Poe Dameron/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

I love that they're all three fairly quick-tempered, adrenaline-wired personalities with wicked pilot skills and a penchant for reckless do-or-die maneuvers.

Maybe Rey and Poe have a bantery, mostly friendly rivals-with-benefits arrangement that gets upset by a much less friendly rivalry with Ben. Maybe Ben and Rey are already together, and a threesome with Poe is the quickest way to get him on board with an alliance that he's otherwise deeply suspicious of. Maybe Ben and Poe have history from having both grown up in Core World-based, Alliance-loyal circles. Maybe they all bond over their love of very spaceships (maybe it's an AU where the war never happened and they're all racers or smugglers or New Republic navy fighter pilots or something). The possibilities are endless! I just want the pretty people to kiss and snark at each other a lot.

💗 Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

All of them have the Force now! Let's see Ben, alive or as a Force ghost, helping train Finn in the use of his powers while introducing him to all the weird bits of life with the Force that the books and old masters don't tell you about. Let's see Finn coming to terms with this new part of his identity - maybe he doesn't even want to be a Jedi! Maybe he's seen enough of where that path leads, and is content to live his life as a normal guy who just has flashes of intuition now and then. Let's see Rey explore two completely different kinds of connection: the togetherness-whether-you-like-it-or-not of her Force bond with Ben, verses her voluntary kindred-spirit intimacy with Finn.

Or, pre-Bendemption, drag Finn into the weird spooky sort-of relationship Rey and Kylo have going.

💗 Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo & Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

In a kinder AU, let the original OT3 skip all that pesky dying business so they can watch from this side of the veil as the new generation of Force users figures out space wizardry and romance. Or keep the dying business and have them watch from the other side! Either way, I'd love to know all about Ben's feelings on incestuous polyamory, Han's pearls of romantic wisdom, Luke's struggles to reconcile his Jedi practice with his attachments, and Leia's gracious iron fist that holds the whole mess together. Rey probably thinks it's all perfectly normal. It's not like she has any other reference for how families are supposed to work.

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Rise of Kylo Ren

🤎 Ap'lek & Cardo & Kuruk & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Trudgen & Ushar & Vicrul

I just really want Kylo Ren to have some evil bros who he can be his worst self with. I love how wildly different the Knights of Ren are from the First Order proper, and I’d love to see Kylo balance the tension between his obligations to two different groups: on one hand he’s the leader of a slick technocratic military with rigidly enforced conformist values, and on the other hand he’s the leader of a rough-and-tumble space outlaw bikie gang who wear dodgy handmade gear and tread dirt all over the polished floors. I’d love to know more about how the Knights see him, why they follow him, whether their loyalty is pure ‘strongest guy’s in charge’ or whether there’s also genuine respect and camaraderie baked into their dynamic. I’d love a missing/expanded scene of their fight on Exegol, if any of them have time to exchange words or feel any hesitation about hacking into each other like lifelong enemies. I’d love to see some of their brutal adventures together in Kylo’s pre-Supreme Leader days, and the crimes that made them so notorious and feared.

I’d also just in general love to know more about the individual knights. Even after the comics series, they’re still all pretty much blank-slate characters and I’ll be thrilled with anything that fleshes them out a bit.

🤎 Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Tai & Voe & Hennix

I love all the potential for petty highschool/college drama made more volatile by the fact that every single student in their tiny school has superpowers. Bring me gossip, top secret diary entries and all permutations of young Jedi taking themselves far too seriously. Bring me angst and doomed hope as Ben's classmates watch him circle the dark side drain, not knowing that in a matter of years they're going to die by his hands. Did they ever go on group adventures like Ben, Luke and Lor's excursion to that old temple? How full are Luke's hands dealing with his brood of headstrong young adults who he swears were biddable children five minutes ago?

🤎 Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Tai

So: that 'special bond', right??? I renounce everything I've ever said about Ben the Kissless Virgin, because clearly he and Tai spent many a recess hooking up under the bleachers at Jedi school. Tai is the only person in the galaxy Ben trusts to see him as a person instead of a legacy. And now Tai is gone and there's nothing for it but to renounce his entire past self and become evil. I knew Ben's turn was going to be tragic but I'm still reeling that it turned out so goddamn romantic.

(I also like the precedent it sets of Ben being prone to turning on a dime and changing personalities like clothes for love. He definitely has a little bit of that Rebecca Bunch, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend vibe going on.)

I'd love to know about their temple adventures together and the bond they built along the way! Group assignment where their task is to fly offworld together and find some ancient Jedi treasure? Sparring sessions? Late night conversations and telepathic bby!Jedi intimacy? (Please do make them 18+ if you go the explicit smut route, but I have no objection to T-rated teenage fumbling.) Or, how about their bond after Ben leaves to join the Knights of Ren - is Mimban the first time they've spoken since Ben's flight, or has the Force connected them before and shown Tai flashes of who Ben is becoming? What about the aftermath of Tai's death? Grief, ghosts, spooky darkside resurrection attempts?

🤎 Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Voe

I love Voe's quick temper and determination, her competitive streak and her bitter struggle to fit herself into the serene Jedi mould. I love how her own insecurities cause her to uncritically buy into the Ben Solo, Super Special Skywalker Descendant mythos, and how it's her need to prove herself against him that puts them on uneven footing as much as any innate gift on his part. And Ben's so casually dismissive about 'her place in the way of things'. It makes me MAD for her but in a way I enjoy being mad, if that makes sense, lol.

I'd love to see more of her and Ben's one-sided rivalry during their temple days. Maybe, as they get older, their raging hormones and limited social circle make a bad idea look more like a good one. Maybe Voe's drive to match Ben's power morphs into a more general (albeit resentful) admiration - we know Ben's a flaming human trashfire, but she doesn't. Or maybe she does. Maybe she senses the darkness brewing in Ben, but her foresight gets mistaken for jealousy. Maybe sex is the only arena where she feels like she can get the upper hand (sub Ben is good!) or maybe even there she ends up feeling less than (failboaty wannabe-Dom Ben who's clearly driving without a licence is also good!).

Or later, once everything's gone to hell, let Voe survive. Let her claw her way off Mimban somehow and come back as Kylo's first failed attempt to kill his past. Does she make her way to the Resistance and devote herself to bringing him down? Does the rage and trauma turn her to the dark side? Or does she strike out on her own, grey-dark and driven by a need for revenge? Maybe she becomes a thorn in Kylo's side as he tries to establish himself with the Knights of Ren and the First Order. Or maybe she comes back years later, post-TROS, forcing redeemed and still-alive Ben to confront the first act of true senseless evil he ever committed.

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Sequel era

🤍 Zorii Bliss/Rose Tico

Rebellious cool girl sweeps nerdy shy girl off her feet! After being sidelined in TROS, I'd dearly love to see Rose have some adventures of her own - adventures that may or may not involve getting roped into chaotic underworld hijinks. Bonus points for Rose trying to talk up her criminal past by way of that illegal parking incident on Canto Bight.

Or on a more sombre note: god, they've both lost a lot. Maybe they connect over the grief and rage of having watched the First Order destroy their home planets, or the bittersweetness of finding a new home for themselves once the fighting is over.

🤍 Zorii Bliss/Suralinda Javos

I want this because 1) it would be hot, 2) they have the exact same fucking energy, and 3) it would be HOT. Maybe Poe introduces them (as an ex, or just a friend) and regrets it once the two craziest women in his life merge into an unstoppable whirlwind. Maybe one of them needs the other one's help with a spice deal or shady underworld scoop. Maybe neither of them are really sure what to do with their lives once the war's over - they both threw in for the cause, but they were never exactly career freedom fighters. They can figure it out together!

🤍 Finn/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

I love these two as enemies drawn together by circumstance, as foils to each other's best and worst traits, as lost soul with a shared background in evil doing their best to leave the First Order's influence behind. I love pre-canon stories where stormtrooper!Finn stumbles into his scariest commander's orbit (only to find that maybe he isn't so scary after all?). I love post-canon or divergent stories where Ben defects to the Resistance and Finn helps him find his footing on the new terrain. I love happy endings and bleak disasters and bittersweet could-have-beens. Honestly, if these two are interacting, I'm happy.

Some ideas:

• Ben survives Exegol and helps clean up what’s left of his First Order mess. Finn agrees to work with him for Rey’s sake, but his own feelings about his former commander are a lot more complicated than just ‘yay he’s good now’.
• Ben (alive or as a Force Ghost) takes an unexpected interest in Finn’s Jedi training.
• Pre-TROS or in a First Order wins AU, Finn gets captured and Kylo Ren takes a keen personal interest in his interrogation. (Torture and noncon are good; Finn’s awakening Force powers are good; Kylo’s immense frustration that all his Resistance captives keep manifesting unexpected powers and resisting him is good.)

🤍 Finn/Kazuda Xiono

Finn and Kaz have a certain sense of overwhelmed-ness in common: they abandoned the strictures of their respective upbringings, they fell into their Resistance roles more or less by accident, they have a tendency to talk talk themselves up and then come unstuck when it's time to deliver, and they're both starry-eyed about Poe Dameron but not quite able to live up to his level of effortless heroic strut. They're both adorable failboats who nonetheless make themselves indispensable to the Resistance cause, and I'd love to see what would happen if a shared mission or a coincidence ever caused them to meet.

🤍 Zorii Bliss/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

Hear me out: Ben survives TROS but doesn't exactly find it easy to slot back into good guy life with Rey and her Resistance pals. Zorii has no room in her heart for First Order Sky Trash but needs new crew after what happened to Kijimi. I'd love to see Ben tapping back into his Legendary Smuggler Han Solo roots, Zorii taking life one step at a time, and two attractive, damaged people with nothing in common finding a way to make it work together anyway.

Alternatively: in a happier AU, Ben never fell to the dark side but instead ran off to join the Crew, who found a use or two for his Force sensitivity. Poe is very welcome to join in here, either as a romantic complicating factor or as the snarky friend/colleague who clashes with both of them.

🤍 Phasma/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

I love the idea of these two having a relationship of convenience while they're both working for the First Order. Because deployments get boring, and there's no one else around to fuck, and it's not like they have to cuddle afterwards.

I'd also love it if somehow Phasma survived TLJ, and then Ben survived TROS, and their paths cross again after all the fighting's over. Both as Kylo and as his redeemd self, Ben has always had a head full of destiny and religious convictions; Phasma has never been out for anything but her own survival. I'd love to see them coming to terms with each other outside the forced collegiate setting of the First Order.

🤍 Phasma/Rose Tico

I'd love this dark and twisted: Rose falls into First Order captivity? AU where Rose joins the First Order after being radicalised in the other direction by her childhood on Hosnian Prime? Survival story where the two of them get stranded together and are forced to work together?

I also love the idea of Phasma getting out of the Order and having to find a new cause to keep herself afloat. Maybe it ends up being in her interests to defect to the Resistance. Or maybe she survives the war and they run into each other somewhere down the line, once old hostilities have had time to cool and all that's left are half-healed scars.

🤍 Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Rose Tico

I'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.

Some 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.

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