Star Wars Rare Pairs 2018

Thank you very much for writing for me! I'm also primeideal on ao3. I love all these ships and am excited for whatever you write (requesting fic for all), feel free to use as little or as much as this as is helpful, and/or mix and match prompts.

 

Things that would be fun to see for any ship: happy endings, sad endings (when providing some measure of closure or melodrama--I'm fine with character death), nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, "Backstroke of the West," "William Shakespeare's Star Wars" verse), time travel, five things, canon-divergence AUs

 

General dislikes: ambiguous endings, issue-fic, explicit sex, underage sex, rape/non-con. If something relies on knowledge of secondary canon (except the Rogue One novelization), I'm afraid I probably won't understand the allusions. I prefer no AUs that are mundane in the sense of humdrum, but if you have an idea for these ships that brings out the fantastic and hopeful themes of Star Wars in somewhere equally dramatic but a different setting, feel free to go crazy. And while I like most unconventional fic formats I'm not a big fan of plain second-person prose.

 

Cassian/Tivik

-They had a long and complicated history together that came to a head on Kafrene.

-Tivik joins the organized rebellion (or Cassian joins the Partisans?) so they can be together, but their conflicting ideologies take a toll.

-Tivik survives but is captured by the Imperials, and thinks back on his relationship with Cassian.

 

Lando/Poe

-They don't understand how each other could be so incredibly wrong about some subjective point of spacecraft comparison and get into stupidly petty arguments about it.

-BB-8 decides that if Poe keeps losing terribly at sabacc, it's time to take matters into its own digits and find an algorithm to help turn the tables.

-Lando plays a Lor San Tekka-type role, having some clue that could help lead to Luke at the beginning of The Force Awakens, and Poe tries tracking him down then. What changes, what doesn't? (Please no past Lando/Luke.)

 

Bodhi/Misurno

-Misurno calls Bodhi his best, and only, friend after a couple drinks. One thing leads to another, and they realize they're more than friends. (In vino veritas revelations are great! I'd prefer not "too drunk to consent" though!)

-Misurno and Bodhi get lost on their hyperspace route and are stranded on an alien planet, needing to trust in each other to survive.

-Bodhi survives Scarif only to encounter Misurno on the opposite side of the war.

Lando/Master Codebreaker

-A high-stakes game of chance.

-Lando doesn't even like cryptography, but he can't resist the chance to beat the Codebreaker at his own game.

-When one of them owes the other a favor, they expected to be pay in credits--not secret missions for the Resistance.

Maz Kanata/Master Codebreaker

-What made Maz so confident that the Codebreaker could help Finn and Rose out?

-Maz has outlived a lot of people. Is this just a short-term fling for her? How does she cope with human lifespans?

-I think outsider POV could be very amusing; they're both notorious creatures across the galaxy, so when they get together, do gossipers completely misunderstand the circumstances?

 

Jyn Erso/Paige Tico

Finn/Bodhi Rook

 

So for both of these, I'd be interested in something building from this alternate ending to Rogue One where some of the protagonists carbon-freeze themselves to escape the Empire...and don't get thawed out till decades later. Are they relieved at the success of the rebellion? Disappointed it's all starting over? How (if at all?) do their new friends/lovers help them get adjusted into the new world?

 

I'd also be happy with any kind of time travel/Force ghost shenanigans!

 

-Bodhi meets FN-2187 before his defection and tries to convince him there's another way.

-Jyn and Paige both struggle with the balance between protecting the people closest to them and the big picture.

 

Toryn Farr/Leia Organa

 

-Bonding over being some of the few military women in the rebellion. (Feel free to make this cracky/self-aware, but I'd prefer not too "issueficcy.")

-Leia appreciates having someone who treats her as an equal, not a princess.

-How would Bespin or Endor have been different if Toryn was there?
 

Cassian Andor/Enfys Next

-Child soldiers who both gave their lives to the rebellion.

-When they try to spend time with the other's faction, small differences prove to be annoying.

-Swoop bikes make for very dangerous, if exciting, date nights. 
 

Kaydel Ko Connix/Tallissan Lintra

Tallissan Lintra/Paige Tico

 

Tallie was one of my favorite parts of a TLJ rewatch. Feel free to bring the angst!

 

-Legends of the Alliance made civil war sound a lot more glorious than it really is.

-Survivor's guilt, over the short or long term.

-If Paige and/or Tallie had lived, would they have supported the coup?

 

Lando Calrissian/L3-37

K-2SO/L3-37

 

*For L3 fic set post-Solo, I'd prefer that if you have her conscious mind in the Falcon, that she's okay with it and able to communicate somehow. Pre-Solo fic and/or actual death are also welcome, of course!

Lando/L3

-One of them changes the other's mind about some controversial issue. Lando taking a stand for droid rights? L3 seeing things his way?

-If L3 had lived, how would that impact the OT era?

-Heist shenanigans!

K-2/L3

-They disagree, loudly, about how or if droid rebellion should fit into the wider rebellion.

-One or both was surprised to find *that* model of droid acting like they did.

-Awkward double-dates with Cassian and Lando.

 

Organic Droid Rights Activist/Droid Who Doesn't Trust Their Intentions

Space Hippie/Trigger-Happy Assassin Droid

 

I think these should be both fairly self-explanatory. Go nuts.

 

Rey/Aaron Burr (Hamilton)

 

*I don't care when or where this is set; the Star Wars galaxy would be great, but if you have something in mind featuring Rey in the musical era, feel free!

 

-Broody, introspective Burr and Rey who has no time for his angst

-What does legacy mean to both of them? Rey comes from nothing, and Aaron has his parents' reputations to uphold.

-They're trapped in some kind of transportation, and one of their companions is murdered! ;)

 

Feel free to bring in any other characters you'd like from both canons, particularly ones you think could work well in a crossover-style setting.

 

Again, no obligation to use any of this, just on the chance it sparks your interest. Anything about these ships would be cool to see. May the force be with you! :)