Star Wars Rare Pair Letter 2017

[primeideal]

 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.

 

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* (except where as noted). 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.

 

Bail/Breha

-Alderaanian worldbuilding! How they fell in love in happier days before the empire.

-Fake-fake dating trope subversion; they're already married, but they still need to keep their rebellion affiliation undercover.

-Leia's Force powers manifest at an inconvenient time. The cover-up is awkward.

 

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.

 

Dice Ibegon/Lak Sivrak

-These two apparently were hanging out in the Mos Eisley Cantina the day Luke and the gang showed up. Are they regular customers? What does a day in the life at the cantina look like when protagonists aren't causing trouble?

-Alternatively, per Wookiepedia, Dice is an alliance loyalist who eventually convinces Lak (ex-Imperial) to join the Rebel cause. Tell me any part of that story!

-Years later, they realize what they saw and tell their grandchildren/passers-by "gosh, we met Ben Kenobi when he was still in exile..."

 

Lando Calrissian/Bor Gullet

-Lando chooses to make a very unusual deal to protect a friend.

-Nobody else can scratch the itch to sort through Lando's memories quite like the Bor Gullet, who seems to find it very pleasurable too.

-One of Lando's allies isn't able to trust him anymore. Lando offers to prove himself, but there are unintended consequences for everyone.

 

(My normal caveat about non-con doesn't really apply for this pairing; go as dark as you'd like, although I'd prefer something that's not unrelentingly bleak.)

 

Crossovers:

 

Maz Kanata/The Ellimist

-Long ago in a distant galaxy, both powerful creatures taught each other lessons about the ability to use their power for good.

-When the Ellimist needs a musical pick-me-up, he stops into Maz' bar just like everyone else.

-A single butterfly flaps its wings across the universe, and now Maz is in the wrong place and time, needing a shift in the cosmos to get home.

 

Maz Kanata/Visser Four

-Visser Four takes the Time Matrix back in time to Takodana, not knowing what he's gotten himself into.

-Maz the pirate has a time machine of her own, and stumbles into interfering with Visser Four's plans.

-They wind up creating a "pocket universe" where people and powers from various planets blend.

 

(For both crossover prompts, 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. Also, given the potential for magical-style possession and power differentials, I'd be okay with some non-con type elements if you think the story really calls for it. Definitely not necessary though.)

 

 

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! :)