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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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[forcevisions]

[ Rey follows him out. Honestly the hallways kind of smell like puke in Falcon Hall, and some of the baseboards look water damaged. Luckily Poe is on a mission. Rey stops when the lights on the car flash. Stops breathing when he gets in. Just stands there, staring at him in the car. ]

What is that?

[ She starts walking around it like ?!?!?? This is ? ?? the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life ?? ? ? ]

Is this your car? [ Then, ] You put BeeBee-Ate in this?!

[followhim]

[ it's probably hard to see because it's dark, but this sports car has Seen Some Shit. not so much in the actual body but it has been keyed a few times. (kylo ren keyed it. obviously.) whatever it's still a sports car and it's still, also, the most beautiful thing he has ever seen in his own life. ]

Yeah! He likes to sit shotgun. [ like this is??? fucking normal???? ] It's — don't get me wrong, I saved up for this. I wanted this car. It's the most — it's awesome, isn't it? You gotta feel how it rides. It's so smooth.

[forcevisions]

[ She opens the passenger seat around that time and sees dog hair. Dog hair on the leather. Oh, Poe. Luckily, the poor care he has taken of his Ferrari does not mitigate the fact that it's a fucking Ferrari. ]

You have to let me take a look under the hood sometime.

[ She climbs into the passenger seat and opens the glovebox to start digging around in the manual and read up on its specs. ]

What do you mean you 'saved up for it'? Normal people can't save for something like this, Poe. You know that, right?

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I know! I know. [ he uses starting the car as a reason not to look at her while he digs into ] I had an inheritance, so. You know. I couldn't touch it until I was 18 anyway, but I still didn't until ... But my mom was really into cars too, so, I think she would have wanted it this way.

[ you can tell he's really trying to avoid small violin territory with ] You can totally look under the hood sometime. Are you — Finn didn't tell me that.

[forcevisions]

I lived in a group home. Working on cars at my guardian's shop was how I made rent.

[ She doesn't sound especially piteous of her situation, despite how pathetic it sounds. Like maybe someone should point out to her that most people don't … pay rent … by doing illegal slave labor for their foster parents' business … But nope. Here she is, resigned. ]

Wow. [ She keeps flipping through the manual, then sets it aside to look around the cabin. ] This has everything.

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[ he frowns to himself while he backs out and puts it in drive like oh. that is not normal. and also sad. everyone here has a sad backstory. ]

Oh. I'm sorry. I don't want you to get the wrong idea. Like, this is pretty much the only nice thing I have. And even — well, you'll see if you look under the hood. Parts are expensive, right? So when things give out, I've had to make ... some substitutions. Hasn't blown up on me yet, though.

[ THE MOST REASSURING WORDS as they are going on down the road. what a smooth ride that may also be a ticking timebomb. ]

[forcevisions]

[ She nods as he explains. Some part of her feels guilty because … she doesn't want him to feel bad for having nice things ??? She hadn't said it because of that. But she was just so caught off guard. She'd never known anyone who was on this level of wealth.

Even when she brushed shoulders with it, it was with the university staff and then they were always … Well, Ren. Or, just as often, her peers who dismissed her as a part of some scholarship quota and not as someone who deserved to be in their company or who had ideas and potential just as valid as theirs.

Wealthy nice people ?? ? Impossible. ]

I'm just surprised. That's all. [ She looks over at him finally. ] Sorry. I'm being weird.

[followhim]

No, it's okay. It's kind of weird I guess, right? I'm kind of weird.

[ he chuckles a little bit, trying to maintain his Cool Persona but almost sort of nervous because THIS IS FINN'S BEST FRIEND AND HE BETTER MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION because otherwise she might not let him sleep on their floor??? ]

Do you have a car?

[ nailed it. ]

[forcevisions]

No.

[ Rey admits this sheepishly. ]

Actually, when I told you to come by, I thought we'd be walking. [ She didn't even think about how a phD student probably has a car and an off-campus apartment and a parking lot permit and stuff. ] I did learn how to drive, though, on the cars I repaired.

[followhim]

Oh.

[ trying to think of words to say. things that aren't dramatic gestures but that's really the only language he knows how to communicate in. look at them, sitting here about to commit a heist. he set the tone of their friendship right away. no, it's okay. he can veer away from that. and not ... fucking offer to find a car for her or something. ]

Huh. My mom taught me how to drive. I mean, way before I was even close to old enough. Like, I couldn't even reach anything, but she'd put me in her lap and let me put my hands on the wheel.

[forcevisions]

[ Rey laughs at that, trying to picture it. Poe has one of those faces that you can't ever imagine being a little kid, though. He's the perpetual chiseled man-face. So the mental picture winds up being really strange and she laughs harder, waving him off because she can't explain why she finds this so funny ???

Anyway, at least she's not focusing on her own miserable lack of family. ]

She sounds like the life of the party. No wonder you're so ready to break and enter and steal test answers.

[followhim]

[ he laughs, too, in that way where someone else laughs so you laugh too even though you're not really sure why they're laughing??? that's fun. maybe it distracts him from how kind of sad he feels after taking this moment to remember. ]

Yeah, that's her. She was always — she was a lot, you know? Just kind of did whatever she wanted. So, yeah, she'd probably be in support of this whole thing. She'd probably actually say it serves Ren right.

[ since they're just driving across campus and not across ... the entire earth, they make it to the proper end of campus. does he have a parking lot permit that's next to the building where they're going??? of course not. and that would be suspicious anyway. just cut to somebody rolling through that security footage like i wonder what poe dameron's highly recognizable car is doing next to this building where he doesn't hold classes in the middle of the night. nothing weird or suspicious there. ]

[forcevisions]

[ Rey leans against the window to look up at the physics building where Ren's office resides. It was newly renovated this year into a gleaming monolith of steel and glass. It's a frightening looking building, frankly, not the kind you'd want to spend a lot of time.

Or, from a certain point of view, an architectural marvel that the engineering department is very proud of.

In a scramble, Rey unbuckles her seatbelt and gets out of the car, ducking under the scissor door and pulling the drawstring bag back up onto her shoulder. ]

Do you have an RFID to access the building with? [ Not to say she can't hack those, but it's harder and she might set off an alarm or something. ]

[followhim]

[ AND ANOTHER THING: maybe the engineering department helped in the construction, but it's hard not to feel some salt looking at this nonsense when he gets to work and learn for the most part out of a building that was last renovated some time before he was even born and looks more like a horror movie set than a place for teaching. fuckin bullshit.

anyway, he's getting out of the car. it's fine. everything is fine. ]

Yeah, but do you think I should use it? I know I said I'd take the fall, but ...

[ but he doesn't want to take the fall making a dumb chump move, which he thinks is valid. ]

[forcevisions]

I can try to make due without.

[ Rey heads towards the front door of the building with the sort of ceaseless confidence of someone who doesn't think there are cameras or that they're going to be stopped along the way by any inconveniences. The lights upstairs aren't even on, except for those which stay on all night just in case. ]

But if I mess up, it'll likely call campus security.

[followhim]

[ he follows behind her like wow i thought i was confident and self-assured but i certainly have met my match here. ]

We can cross that bridge when we get to it. Make up some excuse, I don't know. You left something in the building, I wanted to help you but didn't have my badge. Something.

[forcevisions]

While you work on that, [ the excuse, of course, ] I'm gonna work on this.

[ She stops in front of the large glass doors of the building and steps to the side, looking over the small plastic scanner box for the RFID chips. She pops the cover off and pulls something out of her backpack. It has a little microUSB attachment. She plugs it from the box to her cell phone.

I'm 100% making this shit up as I go, on the record.

Anyway, Rey's got some app pulled up on her phone that looks like it's specifically for this kind of shit and it seems to have pulled up the programming of the RFID scanner. ]

[followhim]

[ he frowns because, first of all, that was his excuse??? that's the whole thing. he doesn't need to think about it anymore, the thought is complete.

which leaves even more time for him to watch her with his head tilted in vague awe. he didn't know finn's roommate was mr. robot. ]

You know how to — ? Wow.

[ the fuck? ]

[forcevisions]

[ Looking back at the look on his face, she just sort of laughs. ]

I've always had a knack for systems. Digital, mechanical. I told you: I'm not worried about the midterm because I can't do the work.

[ Rey knows she's clever and has no reservations in declaring it. That's how she'd gotten her scholarship. ]

Some of these new ones have been designed to resist being hijacked, though. [ She shows him the phone screen, which just shows a sort of control panel. She hits the button that promises to unlock it and looks around like maybe she expects to hear an alarm.

But if it were silent, then—

Nope. The locks on the doors audibly, mechanically churn. ]

Hey! We're in! Open one of those up. [ She points for the door and hastily disconnects her phone. ]

[followhim]

[ he hastily moves to open the door. ] No, no, I believe you. I never didn't believe you.

[ "i never didn't believe you." - poe dameron, ph.d. scholar.

anyway, he hasn't spent much time in the building since the renovation, but being there very quickly reminds him that ... he hates it. 🙃 it's so clean and sterile it may as well be a hospital. gross. ]

His office hasn't moved or anything, right?

[ i told u, he spent more time picking out what leather jacket he was going to wear just in case finn's eyeballs gazed upon him than he did planning out this heist. ]

[forcevisions]

Depends where you remember it. I went to his office hours earlier this semester; I know the way.

[ Surprise: Rey tried to solve her own problems in all the normal ways first. She leads Poe to the elevator, which fortunately does not need an RFID even after hours because it's like … if you can get in the building … you obviously belong here. Yo. ]

Uh, thanks for doing this. [ She looks over at him. ] For coming with me. I know we don't really know each other …

[followhim]

[ he shrugs his shoulders, glancing at her for a moment before returning his attention to staring at the closed elevator door. a smooth boy. ]

Any friend of Finn's is a friend of mine. I wanna help. It's the right thing to do. [ and since he can't stare at himself and call himself out on his own bullshit, he just goes for that creamy nougat of truth in the center and adds ] I really hate Ren.

[forcevisions]

You mentioned that.

[ She looks over at him more fully, disregarding the blinking light of the elevator that signals which floor the elevator is on as it descends. ]

What happened between you two?

[ Saved by the bell a little. Or trapped by it. Ding! The doors slide open. ]

[followhim]

[ he makes a sour expression. not like he's reluctant to talk about ren, but. you know. as he stated. really hates that guy. ]

I told you about the thing at my defense, right? It was so bad. I swear, it's like — he can see where your weaknesses are and just rip into them. You know, one time he keyed my car? I caught him. He kept doing it while I was watching. But it's not that, I guess. Not really.

[ he chews at the inside of his mouth while trying to figure out how to word ] I think he just kind of hates me. As a person. You know the engineering college dean? Leia Organa? He's her son. They've always kind of had a rough relationship. It's ... I dunno, that's a whole other story. But, uh, she was friends with my parents, and after my mom died ... I dunno. We're close. And he's ... jealous? I guess that's what's happening there.

[ he sighs. like. this whole thing is so stupid??? if he wants to his mother's son maybe he should try actually being a better son????? at least he has a mother who is alive??????? there's a lot there, most of it too frustrating for him to find the words to voice. ]

[forcevisions]

[ Wow. Mommy Issues. Both of them. Rey steps into the elevator beside him and punches the button for the right floor and takes a moment of silence to mull that over because her first three ideas for what to say are bad ideas related to mommy issues. You can't be direct with people's parent issues. How would she feel ?? ? Ok. Empathy unlocked. Here we go. ]

It sounds complicated.

[ That's some Prince fucking Zuko "that's rough buddy" level lame-ass response to a big clusterfuck of level 4 family drama bullshit. That is what she has. She's not good enough at people for this. ]

Wait. If he's Organa's son, do you really think she'd support either one of us over him? [ Rey looks suddenly panicked. ] I can't take answers from his office! He'll crucify me if this goes to a hearing, and she'll let him! [ Obviously good parents would always support their children no matter what. ]