Fic: Changelings/Writing Rainbow

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...or, Gafinilan/Mertil are weird even when they're not Gafinilan and Mertil.

For the flash exchange:

Red Letter News (695 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad/Mertil-Iscar-Elmand
Characters: Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill
Additional Tags: Advice Columns, Character Writes Advice Column Despite Being Ludicrously Unqualified To Dispense Advice
Summary: The anonymous aristh can't tell you his name. Or where he lives. But he can tell you how to live your life.
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I used that exact same freeform when it was nominated in Galavant, no regrets at being slightly identifiable. (It's a good tag.)

Mark As Red (354 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassian Andor/Lando Calrissian
Characters: Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Cassian Andor, Lando Calrissian
Additional Tags: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Chatting & Messaging, Cast Has Groupchat For Complimenting Each Other's Attractiveness in Increasingly Aggressive Ways, Post-Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Extra Treat
Summary: Even my autocorrect doesn't think ur dustball is a real planet lol

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Okay, so Cassian survives Rogue One, and then Leia adopts him into the Falcon's groupchat because, uh, he needs a social life. I don't know. Then ESB happens.

The Guide (7013 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chirrut Îmwe/Baze Malbus
Characters: Baze Malbus, Chirrut Îmwe, Wicket (Star Wars), Yoda (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Book 13: The Change, Animorphs-typical speciesism, Animorphs-typical weirdness about disability, Ensemble Cast
Series: Part 3 of Changelings
Summary: With his health fading and his shorm annoyingly faithful to the Force, the last thing Baze needs is to be saddled with a pair of fugitive Hork-Bajir. The galaxy, or at least Yoda, has a weird sense of humor.

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As with my Les Mis/Animorphs crossover, the characters aren't completely one-to-one. Like, Leia is kind of Jake, but she's also a little Rachel at times. Both Han and Lando take on the Marco role. Etc.

Baze/Chirrut aren't identically Gafinilan/Mertil, but they're pretty darn close--in particular, I've co-opted the latter's disability/stigmatized statuses, rather than Chirrut's blindness.

I kind of understand why book 40 had to end how it did from the perspective of "you can't disturb the status quo;" if you suddenly introduce two new Andalites who survived the Dome Ship and have never been heard from until now, they can't actually join the long-term fight. But from an in-universe perspective, the taboos around the morphing technology don't make a lot of sense--we see in book 8 that Andalites are shocked by the scale of human technology progression. The Escafil device shouldn't have even been around long enough to have taboos!

(Of course, with that kind of slow-timeframe in mind, the real tragedy of the series is that morphing technology it came just a blink after Seerow's Kindness, albeit precipitated by the war. If Seerow had just shown up with an Escafil device we could have saved a whole lot of trouble.)

Anyway, that's why I had Baze monologue to Lando in the previous installment about where his aversions might have come from, and why I took the route I did here. (Which is also kind of paralleled with Mertil's "come onnnnn" attitude in the flash fic.)