#v. modern. ☄️

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MODERN VERSE ( because i'm a sucker for it ) tw: grooming: it's not graphic, nor sexual, but I wanted to include the abuse storyline that is part of ben's canon somehow. furthermore, this is just a brief overview.

born and bred in new york city, ben is from a very liberal elite family with hundreds of years of history in the city and the state in general.

ben had a pretty good childhood. he got excellent grades, won many science awards, built cars with his dad on the weekends, and was semi-popular at school despite being a science nerd. but things changed when a teacher who led the chemistry club that ben attended befriended him when he was in 10th grade.

it seemed harmless enough at first, and ben had no reason to distrust the teacher named snoke. after all, he'd not once faced much threat throughout his privileged life. the two of them would talk about space, bens dreams to be an astronaut, and sometimes minor problems he had at home. for example, if he had an argument with one of his parents. nothing major. they discussed that because ben trusted snoke and thought he'd be potentially helpful. instead, snoke used his position to try and turn ben against his parents. it didn't work, at first. but the more snoke worked his magic words, it made ben begin to question things about his parents that simply weren't true, nor made sense.

concerned about whatever was going on with their son, the solo's started digging into ben's life only to discover from friends that he had a weird relationship with this much older teacher. that set off alarm bells immediately and they definitely feared the worst. leia reported snoke to the police and because of her name, the case was immediately looked into and snoke was swiftly uncovered for what he was.

this eventually culminated in ben starting fights with his parents over very little things, then turning to snoke during the fall out. as snoke sensed he had ben in his grasp, he began to convince the boy that he'd be better off with someone like him as a father. someone like him, who understood science etc. this was all a front to convince ben who was well on his way to getting into CIT to become part of snoke's drug ring as a chemist / cook because he could see the boy had talent in that area, as well as all areas of the sciences. snoke wanted to use him to produce a purer product so that he could gain a higher profit from it. * furthermore, as ben became more stressed out, which was heavily fuelled by Snoke's lies and manipulation. Snoke one day offered Ben a little bit of meth, saying it would calm him down. It did the exact opposite and Ben found himself quickly becoming addicted, so didn't question why Snoke had told him something entirely different.

safe to say ben did not take it well and ended up taking a year out homeschooling to deal with what had happened to him and repair the relationship with his family as well as recover from his addiction.

fortunately, ben did get into CIT and then went on to become a NASA pilot and engineer. snoke still tries to contact him from time to time, but ben has firmly shut him out. the damage is still there, though. he sees a regular therapist when earthbound and takes meds if his anxiety and depression levels wind up. but generally, he leads a pretty decent adult life. he lives close to han and leia and has a husky dog named pluto that he has deemed his child. modern ben also wears glasses / contacts.

* = content added at later date.

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painting or photography // dusk or dawn // spring or autumn // movies or tv shows // chocolate or nutella // audiobooks or podcasts // card games or board games // fiction or nonfiction // cookies or brownies // dragons or unicorns // bath or shower // blue or yellow // rollercoasters or bumper cars // iced tea or hot tea // left side of bed or right side of bed // zip-up hoodie or pullover hoodie // straight hair or curly hair // gummy worms or gummy bears // rain or snow // sneakers or flip-flops // bowling or mini-golf // pasta or pizza

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💭 + ben & his dog

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MODERN: Pluto was a college graduation gift from Ben's grandpa Anakin. But he wasn't any old simple gift, no, no. Pluto was the result of a bet Ben and Anakin made before Ben had even graduated highschool. The deal was that if Ben graduated from college as top of his class and with a perfect 4.0 gpa. Anakin would get him a dog. Ben, of course, saw this as a challenge and decided to meet it head on. Anakin later realised that in retrospect, the bet was a terrible idea because any of his descendants would seldom back down from a challenge.

Ben graduated top of his class with a perfect grade average, then asked his grandpa at graduation where his dog was. 🤡

Pluto's full official name is Pluto Ozymandias Solo.

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👫 + lil brother mattie

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Ben used to have sleepovers when he was a kid with his little nerd friends. Matt wasn't allowed to attend because the older boys would tell spooky stories that Leia thought might frighten her younger son. But that didn't stop Matt, who would sneak into Ben's room in the middle of the night and demand to be told one of Ben's stories cus if Ben was doing it, Matt wanted to be included. Ben managed to shake his brother a few times, but eventually relented if only to get to sleep normally again lmao. Matt promised not to get scared. So, of course, he was terrified after hearing one of Ben's stories, and it was Ben that got into trouble for it hehehe.

Once Ben left home for college/university, communication between Matt and Ben became less frequent. Matt was very displeased about this and one day took it upon himself to go and visit Ben at MIT. Unfortunately , Matt didn't arrive until late and Ben happened to be at a party. So he didn't discover his younger brother until finding him asleep outside his dorm room in the morning. Ben let him stay the weekend after they called mum and dad.

They will fight for control over the remote even if it's not their own TV. There is often biting involved much to their parents embarrassment at having these two for grown ass men children. Han usually comes at them with a rolled up newspaper.

Ben was suspended from school twice for defending Matt from bullies. He wasn't particularly bothered about it. Honestly, Matt seemed more bothered than him. When questioned about the first incident he simply said he'd do it again if he had to since the school can't be fucked to do anything about it...and he did do it again. Needless to say that Han and Leia weren't unimpressed that Ben basically stuck it to the man at like 12.

In addition because this is important. At Ben's 8th birthday party, Leia made him a funfetti cake aka his favourite. But Matt accidentally knocked the cake out a window while it was cooling. Both siblings cried for a long time after having an argument. Ben holds a grudge about this way into adulthood.

In addition addition...once upon a time, two boys running around the house broke an antique vase. They hid upstairs where Ben decided they had to move to Mexico to escape their parents wrath. So a 6 year old and a 3 year old packed up their supplies, which wasn't much other than snacks and toys. They got a few houses down the street before stopping to bicker over which way it was to Mexico via one of their dads maps. Leia caught up to them and has never let them live down their great escape attempt.

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in modern, ben is literally the classic definition of nerd. he's extremely smart. he's into science. he wears glasses. he read comics as a kid. BUT he has that mixture of Organa-Solo big mouth, big headed and stubborn attitude that pretty much kept bullies away from him at school...and actually made him pretty popular, especially if he stuck up for other kids. he somehow managed the perfect balance of cool and nerd.

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Ben @techniiciian

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“You asleep?”

meme / accepting / @techniiciian

Lightning crackled through the tumultuous sky high above his apartment followed by a rumble that rattled the windows, pictures on the walls, cups, doors, anything that could be shaken from such a force. Then during the brief lull before the next strike, every car alarm in the neighborhood went off from the shock. Fanfuckingtastic.

Ben sighed loudly when Matt suddenly questioned him from the other side of the bed. What had supposed to be a night of Mario Kart and take out, quickly divulged into chaos with the power going out all over the city. The siblings cut their losses and turned in early for the evening. Unfortunately, the storm had other ideas for them. "No, man. I am not asleep." Grumbling into the dark, Ben sat up and removed his sleep mask, tossing it aside and then rubbing his eyes furiously.

"What the fuck is this storms problem?" He gestured to the space beyond the ceiling

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@techniiciian liked THIS for a STARTER.

Almost a year had passed since he last saw his younger brother in person. They talked via satellite video when permitted by the chaos of cosmic signalling, but it wasn't the same as touching someone, smelling their scent or hearing one another in real life. Ben had probably missed out on plenty in Matt's life, but he knew the cons of becoming an astronaut long before NASA had ever handed him a letter of acceptance.

They were meeting at some semi-trendy burger bar in downtown Manhattan. It'd become some sort of tradition that whenever Ben came back down to earth, they ate burgers. He didn't know when or how it had started, but it was great after months of eating freeze-dried food, and Ben intended to eat and drink as a hedonist would for the evening.

He pushed the bridge of his glasses up where they had slipped. And he probably needed new glasses after a year of wearing almost exclusively contacts. Tapping his foot idly on the wooden floor, Ben scanned the growing crowd from his booth, waiting for a familiar face to appear from within. Matt wasn't late; Ben just wanted to see his overly sunny sibling. What had changed? What was different? Was Matt going to cry this time? He hoped not.