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WISH LIST

★ my dark au kink:
+ being captured by the first order and subjected to reconditioning
+ trying to turn him back with the power of gay love and friendship (and possibly failing)
+ he was always a first order tie fighter pilot instead of winter soldiered
+ poe and finn first order murder squad (dynamics if they were both stormtroopers? running away together?)
+ ^ part b: the fam that gets captured and reconditioned together… stays…together…
+ Interesting Dynamics with kylo and hux from dark aus

★ finn stuff
+ what will they do after the war? romantic vacations? homesteading? sending finn's spit to space 23andme?
+ infinite escape reimagining/aus, stormpilot escape room reigning champions

★ rey stuff
+ relationship of convenience because they're both In Denial
+ sith princess rey aus where he tries to save her and/or she turns him

★ kylo stuff
+ infinite interrogating/torture room reimagining/aus
+ ^ part b: stockholm syndrome?
+ We Need to Talk about Leia

★ general
+ honestly anything regarding leia (esp processing grief post-tros)
+ talking about his sketchy spice runner past (possibly playing things taking place during that time in his life?)
+ ^ same for things taking place during academy/new republic tbh
+ i love aus. modern aus, vampire aus, a/b/o aus, let's au the entire world
+ i prefer m/m for poe but am good with most ships

kinks if ya nasty

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[ If Poe was going for 'emotionally supportive mentor figure,' he has not landed among the stars here. He's stuck in orbit like space debris that's destined to come plummeting down as a fake asteroid into the ocean and killing some reef or another. ]

Oh. [ She pulls her notebook back towards her. Oh. That's all she's got. Replacing the grade on her transcript won't keep her scholarship because it'll take too long, but there's no point to saying that, is there? He's failed people for stupid reasons, minor stuff, and he seems to entirely hate her. Even though she knows all the content, even though she works harder than everyone else in the section. She folds the notebook back up.

She's going to get kicked out and sent back to Jakku to wait tables at Cafe Niima for the rest of her life. And everyone there will make fun of her for ever thinking she could escape. ]

I see. [ She's clearly shellshocked by this news. Her mind has also cycled now to the fact that there's no way she can take another teacher's section because she couldn't get Skywalker's recommendation the first time, would he really give it to her after she'd failed Ren's??? And that's even assuming she could somehow sustain herself for the next semester without her scholarship money and while on academic probation for her degree program and— ] I'm sorry; I've wasted your time.

[ mmm that feeling when you hecked up. he's probably intimately familiar with that feeling. crouching nice helpful hot ta hidden actual human disaster. kylo ren fails everyone just because he doesn't like them but poe lost an entire section's coursework and grades after he fried his laptop one time 🙃 the hero, the legend. ]

No! C'mon. I didn't mean it that way. I'm sorry. I'm just — you gotta be realistic, you know? You can't leave any room for mistakes. I can help you more, if you want.

[ 'Be realistic.' That's what they'd said to her in Jakku too when she'd gone off to get her fancypants education. They'd thought she considered herself better than them, and … and maybe for a minute she'd dared to hope that she was.

Maybe that was it. Maybe that was what bothered Professor Ren so much about her.

It didn't matter now. Poe was right; she had to be realistic. Realistically, she wouldn't pass this class. That meant she needed a back-up plan for her scholarship money, not just for this midterm. She'd need to find a way to make up the money to cover tuition and her half of the rent. ]

It sounds like you can't help me at all. [ She holds up a hand. ] I don't mean that unkindly. But Professor Ren has already decided he hates me. If he's failing students for no reason, why does he even have that section? Why is he even here, and why hasn't the administration done something?

He's his department head's favorite. [ he makes a sour face like he just ate a lemon. (at my school, science i.e. physics and engineering weren't even the same "college" so that's what's happening here because i said so.) ] I think he's got him on a fast track. Any issues, his department head just smooths it over.

[ and then, he decides on a Plan because he's stupid. ] You're gonna pass, okay? No matter what. If we have to break in and steal his answer key, that's what we're gonna do.

[ Adds up tbh. ]

Isn't that cheating?

[ Should Poe be encouraging her to cheat? No. Probably not. But he is, and he seems so trustworthy, and he's gotten to be a TA in the engineering school somehow. (Nepotism. It's nepotism.) ]

Poe, if he catches me, I don't just lose my scholarship. I'm done. Kicked out done.

[ gets salty about kylo ren benefiting from nepotism ... is also benefiting from nepotism. it's the circle of life and it moves us all. ]

Then he won't. I'll take the fall for you. I won't name names. It's not like what he's doing is right, either.

[ poe elizabeth "i just met you but i'm ready to die (academically) for you" dameron. ]

[ She doesn't like this. Nope. Doesn't like this oNE BIT. Rey wants to earn what she's got. But that's the thing, right? She is earning it, and Professor bloody Ren is denying her it anyway. He's the one in the wrong.

Poe has convinced her of this. He's a menace. He has to be stopped. ]

If we were going to steal his answer key … how would we do it?

[ good. he needs everyone on his team of ren is literally a menace and needs to be stopped. ]

It'll be in his office. Just gotta wait for him to be gone, make a copy, then get out of there. You know how to pick locks?

Sure. I can get on his laptop too, if they're there, but ...

[ That's not a normal skill for people to have, but maybe Poe won't notice on account of being the one who … insinuated she should have it anyway. ]

When should we do it?

[ so smart. why isn't he that smart? don't answer that probably. he still thinks it's 1996. ]

It's impossible for the building to ever to be completely empty, because of night classes, but I don't think he stays that late. I bet we could do it tonight.

I'm free.

[ I mean, she's not. She has a work shift. But she's going to make herself free if it's to steal the answers to the midterm. Poe seems to eager and he might change his mind and —

Ugh, he probably should change his mind. She sighs. ]

Poe, you don't have to do this.

I'm going to. Anything I can do to make things just a little bit unpleasant for him, I'm gonna do. Even if it's something as small as forcing him to give someone a perfect score. [ realizing that maybe he seems a little TOO eager, he tries to provide context with ] It's — we go back. We have a history.

Maybe you can tell me about it tonight.

[ Is Finn going to be mad that she got a date with his hot TA to steal answers from her professor's office? Probably. This is like the worst wingmanship to date. ]

I'm interested.

[ he sort of squints like wait ... what? was that supposed to sound weirdly sexual? she knows that he's into finn, right? or at least that finn is into him? was there some kind of verbal or nonverbal communication happening there?

no, it's okay. maybe he's overthinking it. finn would be happy he helped rey and also he can get some sort of spiteful petty revenge on kylo ren. those are the important things. ]

Yeah, uh. Sure. Do you want to ... how late are you willing to meet up?

[ It's a Tifa tag it just comes out sounding sexual whether I mean it to or not. ]

The later the better, by the sound of it. [ She'd have to get her shift at the bar covered either way. ] Midnight? Everyone's probably cleared out by then, right? [ Even the janitorial staff probably. Finn didn't work that building, but he'd never worked later than ten in the Comms building. ]

[ yeah that checks out. ]

Yeah. I think that's good. We can meet at his office. [ he nods to himself. this is a good plan that he just came up with. yep. he's so smart and good at plans.

he wants to be like HEY MAYBE YOU COULD BRING FINN but adding more people seems like a good way to get caught. so maybe not that. but he will plan to be "really tired" and ask to crash at rey and finn's. get some of that finn going to use the bathroom in the middle of the night in his underwear action. the best reward. ]

Is that everything, or...?

Yeah.

[ She pulls off a corner of her notebook and scribbles something down on it. ]

Finn and I live on campus, so you can just come by and grab me when he's gone. Does that work? We're in Falcon Hall. [ The well-known shittiest fucking dorm on campus. Are you sure you want to crash there? (It's worth it for that booty.) ] There's the number.

[ Beat. ]

Unless — [ Beat 2: Electric Boogaloo. ] It won't be weird, will it? I know he's in your class.

Oh, uh, sure. No problem. I can come get you.

[ to be fair she could be like "so finn and i are living in my car" and he'd be like "make room in the backseat fam." that's the thirst levels here. he glances down at the paper and then pockets it. ]

Finn? [ i feel like he should be doing the thing where anime characters spaz out when someone mentions their crush. maybe he's doing it inside. ] No, no, it's great. I love — I'd love to see him. Around. [ in his underwear. ] We met before he was ever in my class, anyway. He kind of saved me.

He did?

[ Finn is in so much trouble now for leaving this part out. ]

What happened?

So, this is actually — [ it's a whole story. rey thought she was going to get it later but she's getting the whole story now. ]

I was doing my thesis defense. It was open to the public, right, so anyone could ask questions. And Ren was there, and he just starting grilling me. Which is the point, I know, but it was the way he did it. You know how he is. And he wouldn't stop. I was kind of losing my temper. I dunno what would've happened if Finn hadn't pulled the fire alarm. Not because — he was trying to get out of something else, but we ran into each other in the hallway. Like destiny or something.

[ A charmed, dreamy sort of smile spreads across Rey's face as she imagines this because it's just like a romance novel ? ?? ? Not that she reads that kind of garbage because that would be ridiculous but if she did (she does) this would definitely be straight out of the beginning of Bridget Jones' Diary and she's eating that shit up.

That's right. Rey "I traded food for stories about Luke Skywalker" of Jakku in this AU is a closet romance novel enthusiast because you can't tell me that her romantic fairytale-loving ass wouldn't be. Dropping my unpopular hot takes into this thread hard. ]

Ugh, he's the worst. [ She says this compassionately, then — ] Ren, obviously. Not Finn. Finn's … fantastic. You know our dorm's actually a single? [ A beat for effect, then Rey nods. ] I met Finn at freshman orientation. He was lost — he did the military first, you know, so he was crazy overwhelmed to be back at school. And when he found out I hadn't figured out housing yet, he invited me to stay with him.

[ it's all good i love it. the anime college au contains multitudes. ]

Oh, yeah. We talked about that, a little bit. The military thing. It's funny because I was actually in ROTC, you know? Before -- some stuff happened at my last school. It's not important.

[ he kind of pauses for a minute like should i keep going? maybe finn already told her about this??? nah he's gonna keep going. they have weird dramatic lives. this is anime, nothing is too ridiculous. ]

So, he wanted to leave campus, right, so we were driving away ... but then I had to go back to get something. I told him to wait in the car with my dog, and, uh ... you probably know how this part goes, huh.

That was your dog? [ Rey laughs as she puts her notebook away in her backpack. ] He's cute. Too clever for his own good, but cute.

[ It's an even better romance novel now. This is Must Love Dogs level shit. Rey is absolutely 100% definitely positively going to get them together. Which, as Emma has taught her, will not go poorly at all. ]

Yeah, that's him. Can't leave him alone for a second, he's always getting into everything.

[ he got real Soft for a minute there talking about finn, but now he's like "oh yeah. reality. reality is happening." he stands up from his lil table in the stacks because office hours are officially over now. no one else was coming anyway. he needs that spare time to doodle hearts in his diary probably. ]

Right. So ... I guess that's that. I'll see you in a little bit?

I'll change into something stealthy.

[ She pulls her bag onto her shoulder and excuses herself then, feeling a little odd about the interaction. Somehow she'd come here for study advice and walked away with … a heist plan. Poe Dameron was quite the character. Maybe not the best influence for her dear Finn, but … certainly charming despite it.

She picked up food for them both on the way back to the dorm. It was a cramped thing — two single beds shoved into a single bedroom designed for one, but at least it was one of the nicer single rooms in the dorm thanks to Finn's G.I. bill paying for it. (Nicer for Falcon Hall was still quite grungy.) It had its own bathroom and everything, but no privacy, and the paint was peeling off the walls.

Over dinner, she tells Finn that Poe's coming by later to help her with something, but not the particulars. He'd probably be morally obligated to tell someone about something like that. Finn has brought her a new romance novel from the bookstore-coffee shop where he was studying. It's cute.

They cuddle on his bunk and watch Netflix until midnight, at which point Finn has fallen asleep on his bunk with his laptop in his lap and Rey has to crawl away without waking him. That's when there's a knock at the door.

She's changed into all black — okay, all light gray because she didn't own anything black — when she opens it. The lights in the room are out. ]

Hey. Keep your voice down. [ She glances back to where the laptop light shows Finn's adorable sleepy face. ] Come on in.

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