#ETA i didn't include any from legends or there would've been a fuckton more lol

[greyjedireylo]

I cannot wait for the next Lucasfilm enemies-to-lovers ship to come into existence. And let's be real, we all know there WILL be more 'people on opposite sides who should bang' dynamics somewhere in the trillion new books, shows, comics, and movies that they are making. Hopefully by then the fandom will have gotten used to the existence of these ships in the Star Wars universe, and we won't have such idiocy from antis prevailing again on a mass scale.

MY FRIEND, THEY ALREADY EXIST. lucasfilm has been slipping enemies-to-lovers ships into extended canon left and right since TFA came out, RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES:

Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos from Dark Disciple (she’s a dark side Force user who used to be Dooku’s apprentice and he’s a Jedi)

Ciena Ree and Thane Kyrell from Lost Stars (they both go to the Imperial Academy but he later joins the rebellion–this one’s more like friends to lovers to enemy-lovers)

Alexsandr Kallus and Zeb Orrelios from Rebels (Kallus is an Imperial operative who participated in the genocide of Zeb’s [who’s a Rebel] people–enemies to allies to friends to heavily implied lovers)

Imanuel Doza and his unnamed wife from Resistance (this is all offscreen/preceding the timeline of the show but he was an Imperial captain who defected around the Battle of Endor and she was a Rebel pilot and they have a daughter together)

Magna Tolvan and Chelli Lona Aphra from the Aphra comics (an Imperial officer trying to chase down a criminal archaelogist but they end up like-LIKING each other)

Vi Moradi and Cardinal from the Phasma novel (this isn’t romantically canon yet but she’s a Resistance spy and he’s a First Order stormtrooper captain who interrogates her, and she ends up escaping, saving his life, and taking him with her after a bunch of shit goes down between him and Phasma and Hux)

LONG STORY SHORT, the enemies-to-lovers trope is Peak Star WarsTM and reylo is in excellent company and is really only groundbreaking in that it’s the first one depicted in the films themselves. but yes, I completely agree that I think there will be many succeeding them as well–nothing fits an epic space opera like star-crossed lovers :’)

(shoutout to @smols-darklighter who helped me compile this list and who fills in the gaps in my SW knowledge with her encyclopedic extended canon knowledge ❤️)