#antoc merric

[sassysnowperson]

Hi! I'm not sure if you're still doing the star wars crackship meme, but if you are : Antoc Merrick/Anakin Skywalker/Garven Dreis??

I AM still doing the crackship meme. Send me a pairing and I’ll tell you how I’d handle it!

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This ask gave me psychic damage because I had to do math. 

To explain! I think Anakin, I think the younger jedi. I think Merrick and Dreis, I think the middle-aged veteran starfighters. So it's Merrick and Dreis with a much younger guy! 

Nope. 

Because Anakin is young in the prequels, but by sequel trilogy time, he's actually just about the same age as Merrick and Dreis. Five years younger, precisely, according to wookiepedia. Merrick is the same age as Padmé.  

Madness. 

Anyway! I think for this one I probably would go more prequel-trilogy era. Merrick and Dreis are young hotshot pilots on their home planet. Distinguished lieutenants in the Virujansi Rarified Air Cavalry. (Which is. A name.)

As far as the fic goes, setup is pretty simple. Anakin goes that way at some point on Jedi Business. If I'm doing my timeline right 19/20 year old Anakin should be embroiled in the start of the Seperatist movement. Maybe there was a concern of some kind on Virujansi, and he and Obi-Wan are called out to negotiate. 

While they're there, Obi-Wan, in a nod to Anakin's growing adulthood, encourages him to spend a night out on the town, where he meets Merrick and Dreis, who are somewhat established couple already. They're all young, and charming, and Merrick and Dreis are willing to overlook Anakin's terrible hair for the sake of being able to say they had a one night stand with a Jedi. 

[johnhood]

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[sassysnowperson]

For the star wars ask: 6 (Yes, I know you have ships, but which ones are you particularly fond of), 28, 29, and 30. Love your content, keep up the good work!😊

D’awwwww, THANK YOU! 

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6. Do you have any ships?

Ships! You want some ships? Have I got some ships for you! Rare ships! Fresh ships! Timeless classics! 

Actually looking this up sent me down a rabbit hole of "How many ships have I actually written? Fifty-three. (Fifty-four, if you count the Cassian Andor/Elim Garak crossover I wrote.) 

ANYWAY, I'm not going to ramble about fifty-three different ships, don't worry! Let's keep it to...three? That seems reasonable:

Bodhi Rook/Luke Skywalker - the best ship that never met. I like them for a lot of reasons, there's a lot of compare and contrast between them. Death Star Plans and Death Star Shot. Ordinary human raised in mystical city and mystical human raised in ordinary farm. And, of course, pilots! 

Davits Draven/Antoc Merric - Look, I wouldn't fault you if you didn't remember the blink-and-miss-it interactions between the two of them in Rogue One, but I find their story space incredibly compelling. Personality wise: Rebellion's stoic, pragmatic spymaster running into the emotive, idealistic hotshot. But at the same time they are two middle-age men who have watch the world go to ruin and done their best to stop it, even if they have very different methods. They've both been with the Rebellion a long time, spent a lot of that time clashing, but at the same time, are each other's counterweights. The dynamics! I like them! 

Obi-Wan/Owen/Beru - We mostly know Owen and Beru from the fingerprints they left on Luke, and from what I'm seeing, they were very good people. Luke really seems like a kid that was loved well and felt safe enough with his parents (regardless of title, they were his parents) to be a little bit bratty. And Obi-Wan is someone who desperately needs good people. He's dealt with so much drama! I just really like the idea that he gets some happiness and sincere connection with other people. And I'm always a sucker for good polyamory negotiations.

28. If you could stop one character from doing one thing, who would it be and why?

I gave my prequel trilogy answer last time, lets try a sequel trilogy answer this time. I'd like to stop Luke from going to the Sadness Island, or at least from STAYING on the sadness island. I'm interested in a world where he's lost everything and NEARLY given into despair, but then gets a chance to rebuild and see how he can help put the world to right again. 

29. Which character doesn't get enough credit or screentime?

I think at this point I'm morally obligated to talk about Bodhi Rook. I feel like he's easy to dismiss as a twitchy, anxious plot point in Rogue One, but he is so, so important to me. Here's a guy with minimal real power, who is complicit in atrocities, yes, but also just trying to keep his head down and survive. He's not born to heroism, or nobility. It would be easy for him to say, “yeah, it sucks, but I have no choice, I’m not a bad guy.”

Instead, he sees a chance to make the world better and he takes it, at great personal cost. And he sees it through, fighting until the end. 

Not to get too heavy into real life, but he's the character I needed in late 2016, and he's still the one I need now. 

30. Do you have any headcanons?

Am I a human, or am I just a collection of headcanons given mortal form? We may never know. 

One of the more...non-plotty ones? I have is that we are, essentially, receiving a censored version of the GFFA. In order to get that PG/PG-13 rating, some parts of the story just don't get to us. 

What I'm trying to get at, here, is that R2-D2 says fuck. 

[sassysnowperson]

Star Wars Rare Pairs Exchange Roundup

(A little late, because I was TAKEN OUT by a cold, but finally, a summary of my gifts and fics written for the @swrarepairs exchange - I tried to tag the relevant people, but I don’t know everyone’s tumblr handle, I substituted for their Ao3 name, when relevant)

The stuff I wrote:

Trade - Obi-Wan Kenobi/Owen Lars/Beru Whitesun - Rated T - 5839 words: A mishap with the Force draws Obi-Wan back to the Lars homestead for a few days, and they find they have some stories to share… Written for @gabriel4sam

Insult and Intimacy - Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron - Rated E - 9365 words: Star Wars meets Space!Regency as the Baron Calrissian finds himself inconvenienced by a slight kidnapping, and Commander Dameron of the Exiled Queen's Black Fleet mounts a rescue. Written for thedevilchicken.

Instinct and a Winning Smile - Davits Draven/Antoc Merrick/Mon Mothma - Rated M - 5208 words: Antoc Merric finds himself right in the middle of Chancellor Mothma's ill-advised fling with her spymaster, Davits Draven. Written for @incognitajones

Eight at the Most - K-2SO/Luke Skywalker - Rated E - 8332 words: K-2SO has questions he wants answered and no concept of social niceties. Luke Skywalker, honestly, finds this a refreshing change from gentle respect everyone treats him with these days. Written for @bright-elen

Truce - Wedge Antilles/Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker - Rated T - 15038 words: When Luke Skywalker winds up in trouble, Wedge Antilles and Mara Jade team up to try to save him. They don't trust each other and they don't like each other, but they're both willing to do what's needed to save Luke. Written for @drinkupthesunrise

Flustered - Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker - Rated T - 5500 words: Padmé never should have told Anakin about her newfound and very embarrassing crush. Written for @reena-jenkins

The Face Underneath - Cassian Andor/Elim Garak - Rated M - 300 words: Cassian Andor is injured, and unfortunately for Elim Garak's silks, winds up on Garak's doorstep. Written for Artemis1000 

Knight Amidala - Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi - Rated T - 18865 words: At the end of Revenge of the Sith Anakin skywalker dies and Padmé Amidala wakes up with all his power. Written for @wrennette

Poet with a Problem - Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso/Bodhi Rook - Rated G - 2774 words: Bodhi Rook is a poet with a problem, and for once in his life, the problem isn't employment. Written for Iamprongsie

The Amazing Stuff Written For Me!

Inhuman Intelligence by @primeideal​ - Original Imperial Engineer Furious the Empire Destroyed Scarif Archive/Original Rebel Recruiter - Rated T - 1880 words: Feeling betrayed and restless, Engineer Ruo Div-lar goes to have a drink after a long day. He meets some interesting company

A fun, noir-feeling take on the prompt inherent in the pairing, a lot of fun to read, with some very poignant moments of what it means to be a part of an Empire that disregards you.

Surround by @ysalmari-queen - Wedge Antilles/Luke Skywalker - Rated T - 1045 words: Reunited with the Rebel fleet after confronting his in Cloud City, Luke realizes he has someone else he has to face- his boyfriend.

Very sweet fluff in a very hard moment, this is a really charming take on Wedge and Luke in the aftermath of Empire Strikes Back. 

Ring the Sky Like a Bell by @effieago​ - Original Idealistic Resistance Pilot/Original Jaded former-Rebellion Pilot - Rated T - 5105 words: Vero Andellon served as a Rebellion pilot in the Galactic Civil War, but that was all over now and he wanted nothing more than to live out his life in peace. And that's exactly what he was doing until Oren Barik showed up.

Friends this made me FEEL THINGS. This author had a lot of feelings about what it's like to be a part of the generation that fights and watches their friends die and gets some peace...only to watch the galaxy fall apart all over again. It turns out, I have the same feelings, and really fell in love with this story. Vero is tired and worn-down, but very good-hearted, and Oren is a charming, bright-eyed, also very good-hearted pain in his neck. Go read it, and have EMOTIONS with me.