#the rebelcaptain hadestown au

[rebelrainfall]

rebelcaptain hadestown AU for the ask game 🫶

AAAAhhhhhhh ok I'll warn you I am NOT normal about this 💀 I've posted about a Hadestown au before here and a little snippet here a couple years ago, and I think I've posted the moodboard before as well but I'm putting it here anyway

But ok yes five things that happen:

Cassian was almost an optimist, once. He earnestly, deeply believed everything that he would finish his song and make everything right again. But that was years ago. Far too many years have passed without a spring or fall and now what Cassian is is desperate. Desperate and exhausted and angry, and barely holding on to hope by a thread.

With every year that passes Cassian grows more resentful of the gods, of their selfishness and power and apathy. His resentment is most directed toward Hades and Persephone, of course, and he gives a bitterly sarcastic toast to Persephone, but he's growing more and more angry even with Hermes, who took him in and gives him work but who also barely seems to care about the humans dying around him.

All Jyn has ever wanted is to be a priority to someone. She wants attention, warmth, someone she can trust. And for the summer, Cassian gives her that. But as the cold comes on, as Cassian spends more and more of his time holed up in his room composing and discarding line after line, Jyn finds herself feeling just as discarded, cold and hungry as ever.

Jyn is Cassian's priority. She's the renewal of his failing hope, the reason he finds himself dreaming of spring and strawberries again. If only he could have realized that, before it was too late.

Because I am a ridiculous sucker when it comes to these two, Doubt Comes In gets replaced as the ending by a reprise of All I've Ever known. Take from that what you will 😏

[quarantineddreamer]

20 questions for fic writers

tagged by @fulcrumstardust and @astromechs 💕

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

14 (will be 15 on the 23rd!)

2.  What's your total AO3 word count?

223,989 (lol over half of that is ONE FIC)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I've written for Rogue One and Andor (so, star wars) as well as Avatar the Last Airbender

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The Element of Change (837)

Of Lanterns and Turtleducks (189)

Synchronous Scars (164)

Stars May Collide (92)

I'll Save You (90)

(ty zk fandom <3 and aww look at scars go that makes me so happy)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! I try to as often as possible, but sometimes I get overwhelmed thinking how to reply because they just mean SO MUCH and internally I'm just like me? my fic?? really???? ahhhhhhh you have no idea ilysm so much for this thankyouthankyouthankyou

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Hmmm. I've written a lot of angst. But I'm gonna go with Ulaf because well...the canon itself is sad and I feel like it somehow got sadder with what I wrote.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

A Winter's Night on Yavin 4 gives me the warm and fuzzies and makes me smile

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I have, yeah

9. Do you write smut. If so, what kind?

I have only written smut once and it was for As a Shadow lmao. I'll probably be trying it again in the near future for a different fic.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I've written AUs but not crossovers. In the ATLA fandom I started an Aladdin!AU for ZK and a Hadestown!AU for Taang

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I fucking hope not.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope (but I'd be open to it!)

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Yes! Once! (Hi, Brit w/the hadestown!au <3)

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Rebelcaptain. I can't get enough of these two. The brainrot is real.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

No. I'm ridiculously stubborn. I'm finishing them.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Uhhhhhhh idk depicting emotion maybe?

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I overthink. Constantly. It is crippling, it is awful/painful, and I hate it so much.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I haven't done it! It makes me very nervous (see answer to previous question).

19. First Fandom you wrote for?

Lol I outed myself on this earlier in the week and I don't feel like doing it again

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

uhhhhhhh I'm feeling proud of Umbra Memoriae at the moment so let's go with that

Tagging (no pressure): @frostbitepandaaaaa @jack-whiskey-daniels @gaygingersnaps @youhavereachedtheendofpie @andorology and @dilf-din

[rebelrainfall]

hard times and hope and stuff 👀

Hey you found the Hadestown AU 10 points to Moira! I'm always excited to talk about this one!

I already made this post recently about roles and character changes, so I have a way too long snippet!

(For setting, in trying to translate a mostly-empty stage into prose the best I could come up with is an inn owned by Hermes, where Cassian works in exchange for a small room where he works on his song. Jyn is new in town and she and Cassian are attracted to each other, but hesitant to do anything about it because circumstances)

There’s a storm brewing outside, the wind banging the upstairs shutters against the window frame. Hermes doesn’t have the fuel to keep a fire running in the kitchen once dinner is over, but Cassian still stays close to the stove long into the night for what warmth remains in the embers, staring at the pages of an eons-old book like they’ll tell him something he hasn’t read a hundred times before. 

He should get up, go to bed and wish he could believe tomorrow will be better, but thinking of the walk up the rickety stairs to his likely even-colder room makes him want to collapse.

Despite the late hour - or maybe because of it - it isn’t a surprise when Jyn settles beside him on the cold floor, her shoulder brushing his in the near-darkness.

“Any progress?” She murmurs, gesturing to the book. She isn’t mocking him, not anymore.

Cassian can only shake his head, suddenly so tired he can hardly think. They’re both silent for a long moment, staring into the dying embers.

“When you finish it,” Jyn starts, stops. Charitable of her, to use when. When you finish it, when she doesn’t believe he will. Cassian’s not sure even if he does anymore.

“When you finish it. In the spring. What will you do then?”

“Sleep,” Cassian says without thinking, a humourless laugh in his voice. A moment passes, and he adds: “Find a warm bed somewhere. Fresh fruit, maybe.”

“That sounds nice,” Jyn says, wistful. Then, “Maybe I could come with you?”

Gods. He lets himself imagine it, just this once. Spring, and strawberries, and a hand to hold. He’s never seen Jyn in the sun but she would shine, he’s sure of it. 

“I’d like that,” he whispers, and barely stops himself from startling when her head falls onto his shoulder. Her next words are even more of a shock.

“Sing it to me?”

“It isn’t finished.”

“I know. Please, sing the song.”

[rebelrainfall]

I would love to here more about your Rebelcaptain Hadestown au 👀 if you’re looking to answers asks.

Oh my gosh YES I always want to talk about the Hadestown AU like I literally have an 11-page doc explaining my changes/reasonings and that's SEPARATE from the actual outline (I also have a moodboard somewhere I keep meaning to post but I can't find it at the moment)

So my starting point for this is Jyn as Eurydice, because it just makes sense, you know? I mean, a runaway from everywhere she’d ever been/she was no stranger to the world/no stranger to the wind, or people turn on you just like the wind… in the end you’re better off alone, I mean??? Everyone Jyn's ever loved has left her, whether of their own accord or taken by the underworld. The world has only ever hurt her. She’s tired and hungry and so sick of being helpless and hopeless. Of course she wants things to get better, but why would she believe the world could get better because of anything, much less a stupid song?

And then Jyn meets Cassian.

Initially I kinda thought Cassian couldn't work as Orpheus but I was SO WRONG, OK. No, Cassian doesn't have bw Orpheus' naive earnestness or off-bw Orpheus' cockiness, he may have lost the optimism he once had, but he does believe there's a better world possible. What other choice does he have? Cassian as Orpheus doesn’t work on the song because he’s an optimist, or because he’s confident it will work, but because he’s desperate. He’s angry, and exhausted, and holding so tightly to the last scraps of hope he has left even as they slip through his fingers. He wants things to get better, and he’s fighting so hard to believe that they can but the longer it takes and the more he gives to that fight the harder it is to hold onto hope.

I don't see them having quite the love-at-first-sight moment they do in the show. They've both been burned too badly for that. But there's something there, right from the start, something that makes Jyn stick around, something that renews Cassian's dedication to his song. As summer comes they grow closer and closer, and for just a few, precious days at the end of the summer, they're together and happy and nothing can hurt them.

(I dare y'all to try to tell me All I've Ever Known isn't PEAK rebelcaptain)

But then the winter comes on again.

Persephone stolen away earlier even than ever before, the seasons and hunger and poverty harder are harder to cope with with every passing day. The cracks start to appear.

There's a long, hard year ahead, more trials than they ever could have imagined. But at the end of the day, Jyn and Cassian would do anything for each other.

Maybe it will turn out this time.

[rebelrainfall]

for the ask tag, 24 if you have any? :)

I don't have any I haven't posted already but I won't say no to a chance to post stuff again lol

So first. the ever-present and never-finished Hadestown AU, also the only fic I have a moodboard for at all

And second this isn't rebelcaptain but I wanted to post it again anyway, this is the moodboard for the protagonist of my theoretical sci-fi tragedy, her name is Marissa and I'm obsessed with her

[quarantineddreamer]

Thanks for the tag @gaygingersnaps 🥰💚

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPS.

Oh boy.... Here goes nothing, I’ll mark the ships/fandom at least 😅:

Darkly inspd (aka as a shadow), Rebelcaptain

RC/AN AU (aka Synchronous Scars), Rebelcaptain

The Element of Change, Zutara

Prompt write, Rebelcaptain

B2 (aka B2EMO’s Core Function), Andor

Untitled V2, original work

Untitled V3, original work

Sprint, Rebelcaptain

Hadestown AU, Taang 

Childhood AU, Zutara

i can show you, Zutara

Finally // Beautiful Stranger, Rebelcaptain 

Tagging: @youhavereachedtheendofpie @gemgirl28 and @delphiniumblooms / whoever wants to participate!! 

[rebelrainfall]

You kept talking about Hadestown and so I was like, fuck it, it’s a musical or something and I need background noise so I went to see if it was on Spotify, and it is. Ouch. Oucccch. Ouch? How dare you? OUCH.

*Super villain cackling* YES. GOOD. You will get no apologies, the absolutely evil delight I got from this ask you don't understand

Genuinely though I've been listening to Hadestown obsessively since like, August I think? And it has ruined my life and I love it soooo much it's insane. Like. I know all of the words. If you put me in front of a crowd I could give at least six different TED talks. I have like 12 pages of outlines and concepts for a rebelcaptain AU (I say this at least once a week but All I've Ever Known has become my #1 rebelcaptain song ever). I may or may not have an immense crush on Eva Noblezada.

[rebelrainfall]

hey, it's your Secret Santa sending you love & strength ❤️ I'm always interested in people's musical tastes - do you have any favourite songs for Rebelcaptain? or, just tell me about your favourite performers!

Hi <33! Thank you for this and for your last message, sorry I didn't answer it yet, there's been a lot going on and I've been behind with about everything.

But. Rebelcaptain songs! I have two for you:

One - All I've Ever Known, from Hadestown. I think I've said this before and I'm not the first one to say it but I don't think I'll ever shut up about it, I mean the progression from

to

Like?????? It makes me insane???? This song is like 80% of the reasons I started working on my Hadestown AU.

Two - Back to Back, by Dustin Kensrue. I have a bit of a complicated relationship with this artist and this song BUT

Aside from that some of my favourite music right now is Conan Gray, Loveless, and the soundtracks from Hadestown and Come From Away. Thank you for the ask, and sorry I got so long-winded with it lol