#rose tico x dj

[wordsmithie]

"We had our meet-cute.” “It was not a meet-cute. It was a meet-a-dick.”  He chortled. “Which turned out to be to your immense satisfaction.” 

Rose receives an unexpected visitor after the turn of the new year.

an unexpected visitor

part ii of a waltz for christmas and new year

[ewa-jednak-chce-spac]

[haysianrose]

JOHN BOYEGA, KELLY MARIE TRAN and BENICIO DEL TORO in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).

[fangirlart5]

Two moodboard requests: DJ/Rose and Jyn/Bodhi

Hope you like these!

[gretagarbosdirtysocks]

We Met In A Jail Cell: Part 1

This was supposed to be a oneshot for DJ and then I went buckwild as the thirst increased.  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7

Character Pairing: DJ and OC from the Last Jedi.

Summary: DJ meets a woman in the jail cell before Rose and Finn arrive. He frees her, and stows her on board The Libertine.

Her nails were filthy, as was the rest of her. The dirt her last cellmate flung at her was still sticking, and of course the guards wouldn’t let her wash it off. It had been a week. Her life had turned from blind rage to quiet introspection in this cell. Now, she had nothing else to do but train, and exercise. Every day she thought of how to murder the casino guards and finally escape, but that dream seemed more and more hopeless with each passing day.

Then, something interesting happened…something that would change her life for the better. The guards brought someone else into her cell.

A man staggered in beside the guards. From the brief look she got at him, he looked worse for wear, which was the way most casino patrons looked. He stumbled in and fell immediately on the cot next to hers. He smelled like liquor. She assumed he was just another drunk that needed to cool off from the casino upstairs. But after the guards left, he sat upright in bed rather abruptly.

“This place smells awful,” he said looking around. She couldn’t see his face very well, just the outline of it. His voice was low, but not sluggish in the way a drunk normally speaks.

“We’re near the stables,” she piped up from the darkness across from him.

He turned his head in her direction. “Oh, well hello t-t-there.”

“Hello,” she answered.

“I didn’t notice you there in the darkness.” He said, pointing a finger in her direction.  She instinctively put her long cloak over her arms, making sure he couldn’t really see her.

“Didn’t know if you were like my last cellmate, who was… rude,” she said.

“Ah, and w-w-what happened to this cellmate?” He said, taking his long boots off. He had holes in his socks. He probably hadn’t been a patron of the casino.

“Oh, he’s very dead,” she explained calmly. Her cellmate had been a nuisance. She didn’t regret killing him.

“Well, that’s good at least,” he said.

She heard footsteps approaching. The guards called out, “You put the drunk in the cell with her!” The ‘drunk’ went back to pretending to sleep, as the guards came to carry him out. Not before stunning her a few times to make sure she didn’t try anything. She took the hits and stayed down, not wanting to cause more trouble.

They moved him to the cell across from hers. After the guards left, he waited and then came up to the bars. She was still laying on the ground, but her cloak was covering her face. When she pulled herself up, she saw him staring at her dirty arms. She felt an intense amount of shame and quickly hid in the back of the cell.

He stared at her into the darkness for a moment, and then his attitude changed as he relaxed against the bars, inspecting the lock to the door.

She thought he must have been a smuggler or thief; he certainly looked the part. He still didn’t have his boots on, so his toes stuck out touching the cold floor, which made him look ridiculous. She thought about telling him how disgusting the floor had been, but decided to stay silent and watch him. His rough appearance conveyed poverty, though she told herself it could have been an act. He wasn’t as dirty as her, but he was maybe a little greasy. She couldn’t tell from this far away. She enjoyed watching him inspect the lock, though. He seemed to be playing with it. She couldn’t make out his face well from so far away, but she could tell his features were dark and perhaps even handsome. It threw her off a bit.

“Ya know, shadow-lady, I’ve been thinking,” he wondered, pointing a silver pick in her direction. “Why haven’t they killed you yet? I mean if you’re going around murdering people...what are you doing a-a-alive?” Maybe it was his strange way of speaking or the relaxed humor behind his eyes, but she found herself warming up to him very fast.

She chucked softly at his strange candor. “I wasn’t going to kill you.”

“Oh, I have no doubt in my mind, I would have been safe sleeping across from you, but it is a bit-t-t strange don’t you think?” He said while fiddling with the lock. He had an odd sort of stutter. It didn’t seem like one based on nervousness, or however stutters work. It was more like a tick, or like he was doing it for fun. Either way, for her it only added to his character.

“Not strange for Canto Bight,” she replied, “Murder isn’t exactly unheard of here, and they’re used to seeing me.”

“Well, I’m not going anywhere while this door is closed. You s-s-say they’re used to seeing you here? Are you a trouble maker, shadow-lady?” He picked something from his hat, and continued to fiddle with the lock. It didn’t look like he was trying to unlock it, more study it, as though he needed to understand it first.

She didn’t answer. Something about him relaxed her, which made her a bit wary of him. He looked up briefly into the darkness towards her.

“I like your voice shadow-lady. Can’t remember the last time I heard a thing so pleasant,” he said. She thought she saw him wink, but couldn’t be sure.

He had tried to reassure her, which she didn’t expect. It worked. She responded, “On Canto Bight if you don’t have the money, then you serve the money. I serve. His name means something. So, here I am… left to rot, until he picks me up.”

“And I was hoping you were single,” he said sardonically.

She shook her head even though he couldn’t see it. “It isn’t like that. I guard and kill people for him.” The words felt like poison on her lips.

He stopped again to look at the darkness where she hid, “And this killing, do you enjoy it?”

“Not particularly,” she admitted, “I’m sure I could find better people to kill.”

She saw him shrug his shoulders in agreement. “Then why not one day when someone g-g-goes to stab him, you just step aside and…let him get stabbed?” he asked. The man left the lock alone and went back to his cot.

Her hand went to her wrist. “He can kill me at any moment. If he died, his daughter would activate this wristband and kill me. I’m beginning to think he forgot about me.”

“Hmm…” the man said. Suddenly, the guards bring in what look like two very rowdy children. The man falls silent, and she assumes, goes back to pretending to be an asleep drunk. They place the two people in the cell with the thief. They’re a very talkative pair, and from what the woman can gather, members of the resistance. They make a deal with the smuggler, it sounds like…or maybe not. It’s hard to hear the conversation. Suddenly, his cell door opens, and he briskly walks out. The two resistance fighters leave in the opposite direction. The woman sighs, disappointed with the way this has turned out for her. If she had kept her mouth shut then the man wouldn’t have been moved and she could have escaped when he did.

“You know…” The man says as he briskly strolls back to her cell. “I’ve seen those devices before.” He opens her cell, walking toward her confidently. She’s still hidden in the darkness, but he can make an outline of her. He points to her left arm. She realizes he must have seen it when she was stunned on the ground.

A bunch of crashing sounds down the hallway. The woman is still hesitant as the man ignores the noise and continues to stare at her. She steps forward, extending her arm, but trying to cover her face with the cowl of her cloak. Before she covers her face, she sees him glance at her. Her cheeks turn red with embarrassment.

“I’m not actually this filthy.” She says, slowly extending her arm.

He takes her wrist in his hand, and pulls something out of his hat. He doesn’t seem bothered by her mud-covered arms, just focused on the device around her wrist.

“I didn’t believe you were,” he said. Suddenly a jolt of electricity goes through her arm, and the device powers down. He places a hand on her shoulder.

“Let’s get a ship with a good bath, eh?” He leaves the cell but doesn’t let go of her wrist, pulling her alongside him. Her heart racing, she follows the man. She wonders what is happening, as she has a short out of body experience. She looks at herself, following a stranger who’s just released her from this burden on her arm. She wonders if she’s allowing herself to be kidnapped. If he’s someone that works for her boss or one of his boss’s enemies and wants to take her to them. She stares at the device on her arm, still bewildered that it’s powered off. She lets go of his hand trying to slip it off, but finds though it’s loosened it still too tight to fit over her hand. He glances back to her. He pauses, waiting to see if she’s still following. When he notices she’s just trying to slip the wristband off, he rounds the corner.

After a stalemate battle with the wristband, she follows him around the corner and see’s he and a small droid. The droid was apparently responsible for the noise they heard earlier. She notices the guards have been tied up, or knocked out on the ground. The woman kicks a couple of them in the head, untying one who’d been particularly cruel, to fight him. The droid beeps at her, but the man shushes it. She quickly dispatches of the guard, spitting on his face. She turns back to them, to find the man looking nonplussed and the droid beeping angrily. She realizes fast, that the droid is very bossy. It seems the smuggler and the resistance fighters did make a deal, and the droid is with them. She didn’t know what she’d gotten herself into, but she didn’t have many more options now. If they were planning on leaving this planet, she wanted to be with them.

“Let’s take my boss’s ship.” She suggests as they argue about where the two fighters have gone. That seems to shut them up. They make way to the docking bay, with her leading the way, clearing out anyone in their path.

The guards outside the ship recognize her. They have wristbands on their arms like hers. She knocks them out, deciding not to kill them. She knows they don’t have much choice in the matter. Though their fate may be worse when her boss realizes his ship is gone.

The man looks impressed with her fighting skills. She’s familiar with the kind of look he gives her. Many of her boss’s partners offered to buy her from him, but he insisted she was indispensable. That had always given her a sense of pride. She knew it was a warped way to view herself, but she relied on any positivity in her life to survive…even if that was praise from her tyrannical boss. The way the man looked at her was different though. Not just entertained, but extremely impressed. There was a respect behind his eyes, and something else. She couldn’t place it yet.

Part 2

[thefudge]

omg, i love u, anon!

all these headcanons!

THE LAST ONE IN PARTICULAR. IM BROKE.

it’s like that slytherin/hufflepuff meme I ADORE IT

also it’s so believable and in character that he’d be standing behind her, warning people off. i mean, rose can totally handle herself too but this is so cute! and then when she’s the one defending him with the taser? YES

also rose wearing his jacket!!!! *my wig’s gone*

JUST ALL OF THEEESE

[amazing-tozier]

Rey and Ben are going to get married on ahch-to because that was where their relationship bloomed into something more.

[myriadimagines]

Misjudged

Star Wars (Sequels) One Shot

Pairing: Reader x Finn

Other Characters: Poe Dameron, Rose Tico, DJ, Phasma, Armitage Hux, BB-8

Warnings: violence, mentions of death

Requester: anonymous

Request: “One-shot request for Finn (sw), where reader is part of the resistence, when Finn is joining and first reader is really wary of him, don't trust him, but Finn saves them on a mission and after that they are drifting closer and closer and it turns out they both have feelings for each other. Maybe they confess their feelings during a no more hope situation, but in the end it turns out just right? Thank you very much!! You are an amazing writer!!”

Word Count: 2,872

A/N: finn and john boyega deserve so much better. anyway i hope you like it and thank you so much for your kind message!!!! this is basically situated in the last jedi plot since i didn’t know where else in the timeline to put this, and i felt like i started off okay then just.......... went downhill

please reblog/leave comments, they’re very much appreciated!

Your name: submit What is this?

You became familiar with Finn’s name and story long before you ever met him, his controversial switching of allegiance a popular story within the Resistance. You’d hear his name in passing, while mechanics passed tools to each other over battered droids they were repairing, over tables in the cafeteria during lunch, between squads of pilots as they jogged towards the hanger with their helmets tucked under their arms. He had quickly garnered quite the reputation, a Resistance hero, his inside knowledge of the First Order making him a valuable asset.

It was Finn’s knowledge, after all, that helped the Resistance to destroy the Starkiller Base before the First Order could use it to destroy you all. Without him, you have no doubts that D’Qar, alongst with the entire Resistance, would’ve been blasted into pieces, nothing but debris floating amongst the galaxy. 

And yet, you still can’t seem to trust him.

You try and ignore your suspicions as your gaze fixates on Finn, who explains to Poe logistics of the tracker the First Order is using to follow the Resistance fleet, Rose interjecting into every other sentence with additional details. You perch on the edge of Leia’s bed, the leather of your jacket creaking ever so slightly as you fold your arms across your chest, watching as Poe slowly nods, absorbing the new information Finn rapidly throws at him. Poe gets up, walking over to you and Leia, raising his eyebrows at you as he asks, “What do you think?” 

You let out a heavy sigh, shaking your head as you cast a glance at Finn. He stares at you, his eyes desperate, and you turn your attention back to Poe as you say, “It’s not like we have any better ideas.”

Poe nods, tenderly placing his hand over Leia’s as C-3PO pipes up, “If I must be the sole voice of reason, Admiral Holdo will never agree to this plan.” 

“Yeah, you’re right, Threepio.” Poe nods, before turning around to look at Poe and Rose. “It’s a need-to-know plan, and she doesn’t.” 

Ignoring C-3PO’s stammering, Poe waves you over as he orders, “Alright, you guys shut down that tracker, I’ll be here to jump us to lightspeed. The question is… how do we sneak the two of you onto Snoke’s Destroyer?” 

After a heated discussion with Maz, who insists the only way you can get onboard is by finding the Master Codebreaker on Canto Bight, the plan seems cemented in place. You watch as Finn and Rose quickly make their way to the main hangar to find a ship, and you frown as Poe shoots you a look before nodding in their direction, “You go with them.”

“They’re fine on their own.” you insist, shaking your head. “You need as much help as you can get here—”

“y/n, I know what this is really about.” Poe interrupts, and your lips flatten into a line as Poe takes a step towards you. His tone softens as he continues, “Finn is a good man, y/n, I swear on it, and I need you out there, helping him. You’re one of the best spies in the Resistance — him and Rose could use your help on this.”

“Fine.” you grit your teeth. Poe nods at you, and you head for the door as you add, “I’ll let you know when we get to Canto Bight. You better hope this plan works, Poe, for the sake of the Resistance.”

—

It seems no mission is complete without something going terribly wrong, you think, frustratedly pacing up and down the cell you, Finn and Rose have been thrown into simply because you parked in the wrong place. Despite its glittering, glamorous appearance, Canto Bight is anything but, rotting with corruption and ugliness below the surface. 

You step aside as the disheveled stranger you’re sharing the cell with leisurely walks up to the gate, and you frown as you watch him slip a card through the bars, somehow deactivating the lock as the bars slide open. You jolt just as Finn and Rose sit up from the bunk beds, and the stranger pushes the doors open before stalking off, offering you one last wave. You turn to Finn, eyes wide, and he looks back at you with a similar shock as he stammers, “Did he just…?”

You’re already running out into the hallway, and Finn and Rose quickly follow suit. Rose sprints ahead, urging, “We’ve got to get out of here, this way!” 

You and Finn run after her, ignoring the outstretched hands from other prisoners who shout at you as you pass. The three of you turn a corner, screeching to a halt as you’re confronted with a group of guards who stare at you in shock. Everyone freezes, before the guards quickly piece together the situation, aiming their blasters at you as they chorus, “Freeze!”

On instinct, Finn grabs your arm, dragging you in the opposite direction as the three of you run, desperately looking down every corridor for an exit. You come to a split in the corridor, and you jump down the right hallway as another group of guards confront you, dividing the three of you as Finn and Rose run down the left corridor. You hear Finn call out your name, but you don’t turn around, too focused on losing the guards closing in on you. 

Your heart drops as you duck into another hallway only to find yourself at a dead end. Before you can turn around to retrace your steps, you’re suddenly blinded by a flurry of flashlights, and you see the faint shadows of two guards as they instruct, “Hands above your head, and get down on your knees!”

You grit your teeth, desperately trying to look around for anything you can use for a weapon, but to no avail. Begrudgingly, you sink down to your knees, trying to plan a course of attack, and  you flinch as you hear the loud sound of a blaster being fired. One of the guards fall, crying out in pain as he clutches his leg, and you scramble to grab his fallen blaster just as someone knocks out the other guard. His unconscious body falls, and you look up to see Finn hovering above you, clutching a blaster he must’ve fought off another guard.

“You came back for me.” you stammer, and Finn blinks at you, as if confused by your surprise. “Th- thank you.”

“You would’ve done the same.” Finn responds, offering you his hand, and you can’t help but feel a wave of guilt wash over you. You take his hand, ignoring how your heart skips a beat as his hand squeezes yours, and he pulls you to your feet as he urges, “Come on, we’ve got to find Rose — she found a way out of here.” 

—

“Do you think this is going to work?”

Finn flinches at your question, looking up at you with surprise as you lean back in your seat. Rose is in the cockpit, monitoring the course towards Snoke’s Destroyer, while DJ, your unexpected savior, the stuttering stranger from Canto Bight, rummages around the back of the ship he and BB-8 commandeered for anything he can steal. 

“It has to.” Finn simply replies, and you slowly nod, running a hand through your hair as you let out a distressed sigh. Finn moves to sit closer to you, giving you a small nudge, his eyes full of earnest as he reassures you, “We’ll make it work.”

You chuckle slightly, finally looking up to meet Finn’s gaze. You’ve always acknowledged Finn to be handsome, but he’s even more handsome up close, and the thought startles you as you quickly look away, embarrassed. He’s sitting so close to you, arm ever so slightly grazing yours, and you suddenly blurt, “I was wrong about you.”

Finn blinks at you as you finally muster up the courage to look up at him again. You gulp, feeling flustered as you continue, “You… you confused me, and you don’t trust people easily when you’re a spy. But… I misjudged you, and I’m sorry.”

“Hey, I get it.” Finn grins, shrugging slightly. “It’s not like you’ve got a lot of stormtroopers joining the Resistance, right? But I promise you, I’m done with the First Order. You can trust me on that.”

You nod, smiling at him. Your heart flutters in your chest as you begin to wonder if your suspicions of Finn stemmed from something else besides his past, perhaps a coping mechanism for others feelings you’re unprepared for. Pushing the thought out of your head, you respond, “I trust you.” 

Relief seems to spread through Finn’s expression, and the two of you beam at each other before a newfound awkwardness seems to descend upon the two of you. Clearing his throat, Finn confesses, “I’m glad you’re here with us. Poe’s told me a lot about you. Good things, of course.”

You feel your cheeks heat up as you attempt to be nonchalant. “Oh, thank you—”

You’re interrupted as Rose suddenly steps into the room, eyes full of determination as she looks between you and Finn. She pauses, sensing she’s disturbed something between the two of you, but she promptly ignores it as she says, “We’re almost here. We should get ready.”

You turn to Finn, and he nods at you as the two of you get to your feet. Squaring your shoulders, you say, “Alright, let’s do this.” 

—

You nervously watch as DJ fiddles with the wires of the control panel, and you almost crush the communications device in your hand out of anxiousness as you feel your time running out. Sneaking onto the Destroyer seemed almost too easy, and now it’s only a matter of disabling the tracker for the Resistance to escape. You and Finn lean up against the wall as a group of stormtroopers marches down the corridor, and you bow your head as to not draw attention to yourself.

“y/n?” you hear Poe’s panicked voice through the device, and you and Rose exchange an alarmed glance before you turn to DJ. “We’re ready to make the jump!”

Finn comes up behind you, urgently looking at DJ as he insists, “Now or never.”

DJ startles, looking up at Finn as if momentarily forgetting what he’s doing, before he suddenly says, “Now.” 

The doors slide open, and everyone peers inside, the tracker almost blindingly bright. Turning to Rose, you offer her an encouraging smile as Finn says, “You’re up.”

Rose takes the lead, jogging ahead while you and Finn trail behind her. Your eyebrows furrow upon hearing a low buzzing sound, and a black droid rolls in front of you, and you stagger back as you’re suddenly surrounded by stormtroopers, ordering you to put your hands up. Finn stiffens upon hearing heavy footsteps approaching, a sound he’s all too familiar with, and all three of you turn around to come face to face with Phasma, who taunts in her metallic voice, “FN-2187, so good to have you back.” 

You let out a low growl as a stormtrooper roughly grabs your arms, and you attempt to fight back before one kicks you at the back of your knees, and you cry out in pain as you collapse to the floor. Finn lunges to help you before he’s held back, his wrists shoved into handcuffs as you and Rose are quickly restrained, too. You’re yanked to your feet, and you’re defeatedly forced to walk forward, the three of you being lead to the main hangar, where squadrons after squadrons of stormtroopers line up. 

You’re shoved to your knees in between Finn and Rose, before General Hux, who’s irritatingly satisfied smug makes you want to burn the whole Destroyer down. He marches towards Finn, jaw clenched, and he reaches out to slap him. Finn flinches, and you snap, “Don’t touch him!”

Hux chuckles, shooting you a dismissive look before he says, “Well done, Phasma.” 

In response, she looks over her shoulder, remarking, “Your ship and payment, as we agreed.” 

To your horror, DJ appears, and your heart plummets to the floor as you realise you’ve been betrayed. Rose’s voice trembles as she tries to jump forward to attack him, spitting, “You lying snake!”

She struggles against the stormtrooper holding her down, and your gaze falls to the floor, a feeling of helplessness swallowing you whole. This is it, you think, the end of the Resistance. This mission was the last hope, and you’ve failed, and the overwhelming burden of the whole situation crushes down on your chest. You can barely breathe, can barely process everything around you, and you barely muster out the conversation on how DJ cut a deal by revealing the Resistance’s plan to the First Order. 

“No!” Rose shrieks as Hux orders to open fire on the fleeing Resistance ships, and you almost collapse into the floor, tears stinging your eyes as your breaths become ragged. The stormtrooper behind you yanks you upright by the back of your collar, forcing you to look up at Phasma, who condescending looks down upon the three of you.

“Execution by blaster is too good for them.” she sneers. “Let’s make this hurt.”

Three more stormtroopers march forward from behind her, and you’re shoved to the ground on your stomachs as they activate their laser axes. You turn your head to face Finn right before the lasers hover right by your cheek, the loud buzzing of electricity ringing by your ear.

“On my command.” Phasma instructs, and you gulp, mouth parted as if you want to say something. 

There’s too many words, and not nearly enough time to string them together, let alone say them all.

All you can manage to whisper to Finn is, “I’m sorry. I wish we had more time together.” 

Melancholy flashes through Finn’s expression, and he mouths back, “Me too.” 

It’s okay, you try to reassure yourself as Finn’s eyes search your own, you’re okay with this. There’s nothing you can do, and you’re glad Finn’s face will be the last thing you see, and Finn softens slightly upon seeing your sad smile. He wishes the two of you had a chance to be together, wishes this could all be different—

It’s the last thought that runs through Finn’s mind before the entire world goes white.

—

“Finn!” 

Finn startles awake, vision blurred before it finally comes into focus, and he can see your relieved smile as you cling to him, your face hovering over his. Finn can feel an unbearable heat on his skin, which is sticky with sweat, and he looks around to see his surroundings engulfed by flames. Your own face is dirty with soot, hair disheveled, and his ears are ringing from an explosion he didn’t even realise occured, and you help him sit up, clutching his arms as you say, “Oh, thank God. Come on, we’ve got to go! Rose found a shuttle back this way!” 

He staggers to his feet, your arm looped through his for support, and his head pounds with a disorienting headache. He has so many questions, mainly about how the three of you are somehow all still alive, but he’s forced to push them aside as the two of you start running after Rose, who heads towards the shuttle ahead of her. Your breath hitches as you see shadows through the smoke in front of you, and the three of you stop as you see Phasma and a group of stormtroopers appear. She aims her blaster, exclaiming, “Traitor!”

Before any of you can duck, a blast suddenly explodes behind her, and you look up to see an AT-ST firing at the stormtroopers. It goes rogue, firing relentlessly, and your eyes widen in surprise as it steps forward, ripping the top off to reveal BB-8 inside. Finn grabs your hand, pulling you to the ground, the both of you narrowly missing a blaster bolt as Rose slides you a weapon before loading her own. You grab it just as Finn grabs a Z6 baton strewn across the floor, the both of you feeling instantly more prepared to deal with whatever fight lies before you. You can hear Rose call out your names in alarm, and you slowly turn to see Phasma standing behind you. Finn gets to his feet, the baton sparkling with electricity, and he turns to you as he says, “Cover me!” 

Before he can lunge into action, you grab him, all your words jumbled on your tongue as you struggle to elaborate yourself again. You know now’s not the time, but it’s now or never as you start, “Finn, I—”

Finn places his hand over yours, stopping you. You trail off, smiling at him as he already knows everything you want to tell him, all the feelings and emotions you want to express, and from his smile, you know he feels the same way. “Don’t worry. I know.” 

You have to stop yourself from grabbing his face in your hands, from kissing him right in the middle of the battle, so you instead reach out to squeeze his hand before letting go. Raising your blaster bolt, you nod at him, “Let’s end this.”

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[pileofsith]

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GENERAL STUFF

Stuff I like: hurt/comfort, mutual pining, black comedy/dark humour, focus on emotional connections and what the characters are as personalities/as a contrast/similarity to each other, character evolution, fluff/cosy moments mixed with darker settings, alternate timeline (what would happen if a character had made x choice instead of y), smut with a big basis on emotional connection, enemies-(to friends)-to lovers, gothic novel/victorian/edwardian au...

For Star Wars specifically, I adore when a little bit of world-building elements are added, like some local meal or street scene or silly alien critter, the kind of thing that has that ‘star warsy’ vibe of slightly dusty and quirky worlds or opulent space opera campiness. If that makes any sense?

Stuff I don’t mind: character death or explicit violence/gore, if angst-relevant and done in a morbidly interesting/artsy/dramatic way.

Stuff I don’t like: character bashing, noncon, everyday-type coffee shop or high school AUs (but good if combined with say a different genre plot, say a coffee shop AU that turns into a murder mystery or something like that IDK?), very very sweet fluff, cheating, focus on other pairings than main pairing, suave seducing or ‘cool’ romance stuff like that, tropes I don’t usually find interesting are porn-without-plot, soulmate au, sex pollen or similar tropes.

THE SHIPS

Rae Sloane/Gallius Rax

Link to my letter:

http://magisterhego.tumblr.com/post/178549146310/star-wars-rairpairs-exchange-letter-ship-rae

Hera Syndulla/Valen Rudor

http://magisterhego.tumblr.com/post/178549507245/star-wars-rairpairs-exchange-letter-hera

Maketh Tua/Grand Inquisitor

http://magisterhego.tumblr.com/post/178550346175/star-wars-rarepair-exchange-letter-maketh

Rose Tico/Finn/DJ - Rose Tico/Finn - Rose Tico/DJ

http://magisterhego.tumblr.com/post/178552159190/star-wars-rarepair-exchange-letter-rose

Padmé Amidala/Palpatine

http://magisterhego.tumblr.com/post/178553076100/star-wars-rarepair-exchange-letter-padm%C3%A9

[wordsmithie]

“D-d-don’t tell me you’re scared. Miss Tico can face the big, scary First Order but is scared of a little kiss?”

She just stares at him with narrowed eyes. 

“Too afraid to go after what you want? Or too afraid to admit what you want?” An eyebrow lifts. 

She swallows. 

“I’m right, aren’t I?” he asks with a crooked smile. 

She’s not one to rise to taunting. She’s usually much more cautious. 

But above the crooked smile sits a gaze that’s watchful and calculating. He’s thrown out a casual question that hides serious accusations.

won't go seek you, won't let you go

[ewa-jednak-chce-spac]

Congratulations to Clannibal shippers

Clannibal won with DJ x Rose in my one true ultimate shipping tournament and advanced to round two!    

DJ/Rose fans, don’t weep, because your ship remains awesome!

[magisterhego]

Star Wars Rarepair Exchange Letter

Rose Tico/Finn/DJ - Rose Tico/Finn - Rose Tico/DJ

About the characters as I see ‘em

I’m not going to go on about Finn and Rose too much since they’re key characters.

I love Finn because he’s a big ole hero without being macho at all. He’s loyal and kind, a sort of occasionally-goofy heartiness and good cheer to him, but a slightly haunted and cautious side too.

I love Rose because she’s also a big ole hero without being a typical action heroine. I like her practicality, emotional largeness, impulsive big decisions when it comes to concepts that matter to her, a kind of deeply-set anger at how things are, a kind of equally deeply-set softness that she sometimes lets out.

DJ is a untrustworthy, street-smart, level-headed opportunist, but pretty sloppy and has a bit of a downer of a personality. A grimy little side product of Canto Bight, great minor semi-villain. I liked that he seemed to have a few moments of genuine rapport with Rose and Finn, in his own way, but with survival being first he dropped what fragile trust they’d created - and I’d like to imagine some deeper regret about that because I feel he knew they were a cut above him when it came to character.

About the ships

I’m fond of all the combinations: Rose x Finn, Rose x Finn x DJ, Rose x DJ... But currently pretty interested in a OT3 sort of deal.

Rose/Finn is the sweetest version, but as both Rose and Finn have their personal suffering and insecurities, it’s interesting to see how they interact and find ideology conflicts or similarities due to their different sources of fears and pain.

Rose/Finn/DJ or Rose/DJ is... the Canto Bight shipping special offer I guess! I enjoyed the way they worked together, because the element of DJ’s matter-of-fact opportunism and self-aware greasiness just adds interesting spice to character interactions and reactions and discussions on morals.

Oddly specific stuff I’d like to see exist

(No particular nudging towards actually picking any of these topics, but they might serve as an idea jump point or a general sense of what I ‘imagine’ when I think of the pairing).

AU where Rose and Finn get stuck on Canto Bight for a longer amount of time and sort of end up tagging along with DJ and surviving day-to-day in Canto Bight’s bleak underbelly. Mutual pining maybe, becoming emotionally dependent on each other’s presence.

18th/19th century historic AU

Any kind of hurt/comfort, complex interpersonal evolution going on, perhaps where one of them feels inadequate somehow to their team, or feels the other two have a bigger chance together and thus feels yearning/jealousy/loneliness etc., but with ultimately a happy ending for the emotional woes.

Do not wants: no rape/non-con themes please + if DJ/Finn/Rose Tico is picked, to keep it in a polyamourous sense (so not a love triangle or cheating thing)*

*Only meaning, I’m not very interested in cheating topics or ‘will X character choose A or B person’ type of things. It’s totally fine if they’re all three of them figuring out their feelings

[thefudge]

please consider: DJ/Rose

GRL I HAVE

I WROTE FIC 

[spacebearviii]

The Last Jedi Act 1 Outline

Written on November 15, 2017.

We open on Ahch-To. Rey finally does what we’ve been waiting two years for: she gives Luke the lightsaber.

But Luke is afraid. He doesn’t want more powerful Force users, as he’s seen what it did to the galaxy when Kylo Ren was turned to the dark side. We see a further flashback of Luke watching his temple burn down.

This opening scene lasts for about 10 minutes.

D’Qar

After the destruction of Starkiller base, the First Order takes to locating the Resistance’s base on D’Qar and ambushing it. They send three warships, including at least one Dreadnought - a new terrifying class of Star Destroyer.

The Raddus is the Resistance’s main ship, and it’s fleeing the planet. On it now, Poe asks his commander to retaliate against this surprise attack.

Poe: Permission to jump in an X-wing and blow something up?

Leia: Permission granted.

Poe does just that.

The Resistance deploys bombers to attack the onslaught from the First Order’s fleet. They take heavy damage, but at least all the main characters have escaped.

The Supremacy

The Supremacy is Snoke’s personal ship, and it’s the only ship of the “mega-destroyer” class.

On it, Supreme Leader Snoke, clad in his gold robe, gives Kylo Ren his villainous pep talk: “When I found you, I saw raw, untamed power. And beyond that, something truly special.”

We are also shown that Captain Phasma did not die in the trash compactor - rather, she is alive, and out for revenge. There’s a special class of First Order Stormtrooper: the Executioners, which are tasked with killing any Trooper that shows signs of dissent. These special forces are Phasma’s posse throughout the movie.

The Raddus - Deep Space

Finn finally awakes from his space coma, and he’s healthier than ever. He reunites with his fellow Resistance members - Leia, Poe, BB-8 and several new people, the sisters Paige and Rose Tico.

Rose is no hero as of yet - she’s just a mechanic. She idolizes Finn because of how much she’s heard of his exploits on Starkiller base. When she meets him, though, he’s more concerned with running from the First Order than being a hero. This is a little disappointing for Rose to hear.

We also see Leia speak with one of her underlings in the Resistance: Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo.

Played by Laura Dern, Holdo is aristocratic and fancy, but she’s got ambitions of ranking higher in the Resistance. These ambitions will make her an enemy in the future.

Ahch-To

Luke and Rey walk to this mysterious object - known by fans as the Force Tree.

In it is a small library of ancient books (paper hasn’t existed in the Star Wars universe for hundreds of years, which means these are really old). Rey reads one of them - maybe it’s the Journal of the Whills - and Luke tells her more of his beaten down worldview. He says these now famous words:

“I only know one truth. It’s time for the Jedi to end.”

Unknown Location

Rose and Finn meet with Maz Kanata for information. The Resistance needs a splicer (basically a Star Wars hacker), and Maz knows just the guy and where he is. Be warned, though, he’s a good hacker, not necessarily a good person.

Canto Bight

Finn and Rose come to this heavily policed casino city in search of DJ, the splicer that Maz told them about. BB-8 comes along on the mission. They learn that this city is proud of its Fathier races - Fathiers are space horses, and the citizens of Canto Bight bet on which horse will win the race.

Finn and Rose eventually find the jail where DJ is detained, and they bring a splicer of their own to help them break him out.

But the police catch them in the act! Rose, Finn, and DJ flee through the city as the cops chase them on their speeders. Finn and Rose get on one of these Fathiers:

Possibly to outrun the cops. It’s a tense chase full of crashes and explosions, but they get safely back to DJ’s ship.

DJ really is a shady character. He profits off of this civil war, sometimes working for the Resistance, sometimes the First Order. But somehow Finn and Rose convince him to help on their mission.

Their mission? Infiltrating the Supremacy: Supreme Leader Snoke’s personal Star Destroyer.

[kantobite]

“A shock to rival all shocks! Good? Or evil?” (South Korean marketing post 2)

@sleemo

Link to the post, on the official Star Wars Korea blog here.

[Watch the TV spot embedded at the top of the page before proceeding; it’s not very different from another one we got so far, and there’s no new footage, but the text below describes and analyzes the spot in some detail.]

The TV spot opens with the Millennium Falcon. This lil guy is the poster child for the original trilogy, and also the symbol for the sequel trilogy’s theme, “the collaboration between the past and the present”. Come to think of it, in “The Force Awakens”, Rey’s primary role was to assemble the main players of the past: she met Han and Chewie aboard the Millennium Falcon, found Luke’s lightsaber, and reunited with Princess Leia, C3PO, and R2-D2. Only Luke himself wasn’t present. But Rey set out to find the owner of the lightsaber, and Luke made his grand appearance in the finale. In the trailer for “The Last Jedi”, we see her handing the saber to its original owner.

In this TV spot, Luke meets yet another old friend, the Falcon. Unlike in the trailer for TFA, however, when Han was laughing aboard the Falcon, the setting feels much more somber. Luke seems to be mourning the loss of his friend, while also seemingly blaming the one responsible for the family’s tragedy.

Let’s look back on who Luke Skywalker is. Luke is the son of Anakin Skywalker, the main character of the prequel trilogy, and in the OT, he prevails over his father, who is now Darth Vader, and even beats the Emperor himself, ending the war. If Luke were to step up now, the conflict between the First Order and the Resistance might be solved.

He is a great Jedi, who defeated the Dark Force with his own Light Force. But he is also the child of Anakin, who fell to the Dark Side and became Vader. Even his nephew, Ben Solo (Kylo Ren) is succumbing to the Dark Side. Luke himself was not immune to the waves of hate and anger he felt as he battled his father. At the time, he managed to keep his integrity as a Jedi, but he must have felt the temptation of the Dark Side his whole life. Maybe that temptation isn’t over yet. That the lightsaber Rey delivers to Luke originally belonged to Anakin is a reminder of the family’s destiny.

“Let the past die. It’s the only to become what you were meant to be.” Kylo Ren’s words. We can’t be sure if they’re addressed to Rey, or to himself. He wields a great Force but is not quite a skilled villain, nor is he completely good. In this sequel trilogy, Kylo Ren’s growth story will take center stage. His back-and-forth interactions with Rey will make the two of them grow into their rivalry.

Snoke, the pinnacle of evil, said “Darkness rises, and light to meet it.” This is of course also about Rey and Kylo, but whether it is of their apparent good and evil, or their inner struggles, will determine the course of the rest of the series. And Rey finds herself struggling with her identity. We, the audience, are very curious about her identity as well. Did she hear something from Luke that she didn’t understand, or something she didn’t want to hear? Will Rey take Kylo’s outstretched hand and look into the Dark Side?

Kylo Ren is from a blessed heritage, one that descended from the past trilogies, but is destroying his own roots. Rey, on the other hand, is bringing the past to the present. So we might predict that Rey is descended from someone who was the main player in a past tragedy, or someone who was cast out [/isolated, the meaning is a bit vague here].

The final scenes from our TV spot foreshadow a shocking scene. Luke is on the ground, shouting, “This is not going to go the way you think!” Then, Rey seemingly raises her saber at Luke. Is this real? Rey, attacking Luke? Is our last Jedi going to be betrayed by both Rey and Kylo Ren? Is she being controlled by Snoke?

The main poster for TLJ arranges the cast of characters in differing sizes and in a symmetrical shape. It looks a bit like the one for Thor: Ragnarok, but this feels more classic and melancholic.

The biggest character in the poster is, of course, Luke Skywalker, the titular Last Jedi. He stands at the apex of all the other conflicting characters. Everyone is under his influence. Rey and Kylo Ren are two of his apprentices, but in the poster they stand back to back, and as enemies.

Carrie Fisher, whose role as Leia in this film is her last, is at the very center. A fitting placement to honor one who has passed. She is, after all, also the general of the Resistance. There is a strong light cast upon Leia’s face--the left is the side of the Light, and the right, the Dark.

Around Leia, the 4 younger main characters of the ST are placed in an X formation. At first glance, it seems the left is the good side, and the right is the bad side. It’s quite worrying that Poe Dameron is placed just under Kylo Ren. You might interpret that as Rey, Finn and Poe closing in around Kylo Ren, but that seems like a bit of a stretch. Perhaps we might have to steel ourselves for a betrayal from Poe.

[some more description of the Praetorian Guards and Phasma]

Under Chewbacca, we see Rose Tico. She’s played by an Asian actress named Kelly Marie Tran, and is a mechanic for the Resistance. With the main character Rey as a woman and Finn as a black man, we saw some diversity among the cast. Now, there’s an Asian woman added to the mix. She features quite prominently in various TLJ promo material, so she must be quite important.

But we don’t see Snoke, leader of the FO, on this poster. Maybe it’s a marketing strategy to not show us the Big Bad so soon, but we could also interpret it as Snoke not being the main villain.

Then who will replace Snoke as the face of evil? Is it a new character? Benicio del Toro will appear as a mysterious character called DJ; will he make a surprise entrance at the theatre after months of being under wraps? Or is it someone already on the poster? Whoever it is, they must be skilled in the Force, and should be in an important position on the poster. Perhaps the identity of the villain might be the movie’s big plot twist.

[thispatternismine]

Kylo Ren, (Accidental) Resistance Hero [12/X]

-DISCONTINUED-

Fandom: Star Wars

Relationship(s): Reylo, platonic Roselo

Summary: Kylo Ren is forced to flee the First Order when Hux stages a coup, but any hope he might have had of reconciling with Rey is dashed when his former troops move on the Resistance, wiping them out. Unable to sense Rey in the Force (& so believing her dead), he vows revenge & declares war on the whole First Order, with the help of only a very confused Resistance technician, a couple of droids, & some porgs.

OR: Kylo Ren goes on a rollicking revenge rampage against a whole army & somehow becomes the new face of the Resistance as a result. BB-8 is so done. R2-D2 is even more done. Rose Tico isn't sure she signed up for this shit. But at least the porgs are happy.

Chapter 1:  In Which Insomnia Can Save A Life Chapter 2:  In Which Rey Ponders Her Love Life Chapter 3:  In Which Kylo Ren is Late to A Party Chapter 4:  In Which Rose Goes On A Shopping Trip Chapter 5:  In Which Kylo Ren Has to Return Some Library Books Chapter 6:  In Which Lost Property is Returned Chapter 7:  In Which Ben Solo Goes For A Walk Chapter 8:  In Which Engineering Happens, & An Execution Takes Place Chapter 9:  In Which Hux Receives An Uninvited Guest Chapter 10:  In Which Rose Gets A Makeover Chapter 11:  In Which Kylo Ren Gets A Hug & is Confused by the Concept Chapter 12:  In Which DJ Gets Force Choked (& the author gives up)

Explanation for abandonment:

So yeah I'll be upfront about this: I can't continue this fic, at least not right now, & not any time soon, if ever.

I was blocked on it for a while even before TROS came out & caused the fandom to implode (chapter 11 had actually been done since March 2019 & I'd been saving it until I'd written the next chapter, but I ended up posting it in December in a state of pre-TROS euphoria & 'fuck it why not?'). Then JB opened his mouth & I felt that Rose could do way better than Finn, but I wasn't sure what direction to go in with her & wanted to rethink her story.

Even after TROS I still intended to continue, but opted to work on finishing Something Changed as that was much smaller in scope & it was fairly easy to get it done & out the way, as well as writing a oneshot for another fandom because the idea had been in my head for a while, so that way I wouldn't be juggling multiple fics... Only to start working on Kidnapped. Because of course.

Even after I got back to working on this, progress was slow. I'd come up with (& deleted) several different half-written versions of the chapter & nothing seemed to work. Eventually I sat down & worked out properly what I wanted to happen, coming up with a nice bullet point chapter outline. At last! I knew how the chapter needed to go!

And that was the point my enthusiasm for Star Wars, which had been coasting by on pure spite at that point, ran out.

The closest I've come to abandoning a fic before now was with Marry in Haste, where I'd bailed on the fic for so long my motivation for it had deserted me, & I figured I'd come to resent it if I forced myself to keep working on it. But... I was still at least interested in that fic, & I didn't fall out of love with the characters, or the fandom, & also it was based around a trope that I could wrap up super quick if I wanted to ('marriage of convenience becomes real when the characters realise they have feelings for each other') so readers got some closure.

But this is just... Ugh. TROS wasn't just terrible. It made the whole saga a depressing meaningless mess by how it tied everything up. It's particularly hard to care about reylo after seeing one half the pairing as a bland husk of a character who ended up usurping the other half's place & nobody caring. (It didn't help that the trilogy had been so concerned with having her be some kind of paragon that they never gave her much of a personality to start with - Rian tried, bless him, but it wasn't enough.)

I don't want to entirely rule out continuing this in the future, but that's only because theoretically anything is possible & I hate saying never. But possible doesn't mean likely.

For now though, I have put something together as a final update. I had a bunch of small sections of the intended chapter written left over from the various versions I attempted to write, & I figured I might as well post something to show for months of work, so I forced myself to smash them together & work them into something hopefully coherent.