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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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[ leia is proud of her somewhere across the base, probably.

he was not expecting that. should he have? definitely. but it didn't register to him somehow. he was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn't stop to think if he should. he practically feels his neck snap with that one. ouch. he rubs at his face while replying ]

I was showing you it'd work!!

[ isn't that what she meant?? as a man thinking like a man that's definitely how his math checked out. ]

If that's how you act with the people you're attracted to, it's no wonder you're the Resistance's most eligible choice to marry me.

[ She sounds (and looks) disgusted. Rey is not here to explicitly list out the rules of consent. She's clinging onto anger in place of the acute disappointment that she'd managed to spend her first kiss on Poe Dameron proving he had the huevos to kiss a woman.

And he didn't even know. He didn't even care. Of course he didn't: he didn't know how to slow down on anything. He just pushed right through. It was everything that itched her nerves about him. ]

[ he doesn't know how to respond to that. he opens and closes his mouth a couple times trying to come up with that personal attack. he was just out here trying his best. he did not draw out the schematics for faking an entire relationship. ]

That's not — I mean, not right away! Most of them like it!

[ you would think the "not right away" would make him self-reflect. but it needs a minute to sink in, at least unassisted. ]

Well, I didn't.

[ Shouted a little higher than it ought to be, really. ]

I didn't even want it!

[ Has he considered that ??? At all?? ? Sources say "no." This is it. She's beginning to think so, anyway. Relationships are just an endless saga of other people trying to make decisions for you. No wonder Jedi were like nope relationships are bullshit. ]

I'm sorry!

[ it comes back shouted in the same angry tone, so it doesn't sound like much of an apology.

but the "not right away" idea finished downloading. it also occurs to him that while he's had at least a week or two to marinate in this idea (even if he doesn't like it), rey has not. this is brand new information for her. and he just yeeted on in without a second thought. as usual. ]

I'm sorry. [ there. the second apology is softer, more sincere. ] I just wanna do what's best for the Resistance. But even if that's what I want, it's not gonna work without you. We need to be together on this. So ... can you? Please?

[ It's only the apology that brings her off her high horse. Because yes, let's not forget that Poe Dameron is Not the real villain of TLJ. He has it in him to apologize and modify his behavior.

Unlike some people.

Rey softens against it, though skepticism keeps her brow furrowed, and after a moment of studying she settles on: ] I can. For the Resistance.

[ Let's make it clear who this is for (hint: not Poe). ]

But you're not touching me again until you can act like you're interested in me. Do you understand? I'm not going to just let you grab me. I don't— [ She flushes. ] I won't let it be like that.

Yeah. No, that's... yeah. [ he nods emphatically. ] That was on me. I read the situation wrong.

[ and then a moment passes when it occurs to him that ]

It'd probably help if we got to know each other a little better. That's a good place to start. Y'know. We could grab lunch. Talk.

[ in public, obviously. might as well start performing for an audience asap. ]

So people can see us?

[ It seems unkind to presume the primary motivator is this ruse, but she can't help it. This is the framework she has. Poe Dameron is just Cassian Andor to her, but not because he's space latino, just because he'd do anything for the rebellion. And it's for the best, really. He should do anything for the rebellion. She's just nervous and cagey because, well.

She's having skype dates with the Supreme Leader and probably her new fiancé will decide that's not best for the rebellion. At a certain point, it feels like starting this up with Poe is putting herself in hot water drawing attention to her weird lapses into hallucinating Kylo Ren. ]

Sure. Now?

[ it's mostly for the ruse, but ... now he feels a little badly about treating her as a simple means to an end. rey is a person and should be treated like one. even if they don't agree on everything, maybe they could at least try to agree on a couple things? they both like finn. and piloting. maybe they have the same favorite color.

maybe if he got close enough to her he could discover The Truth 👀 he's not shrewd enough for that to be his first thought, but it did occur to him once he worked down his list as a sort of afterthought. he will get the truth about kylo ren one way or another. ]

Makes sense, doesn't it? But, yeah. Now. If you want. I could eat.

[ Wow. 'I could eat.' He says it so casually, as if he doesn't even recognize that for some people, they literally can't. It's not a matter of 'I'm in the mood to.' It leaves her sort of sullen and disconnected for a moment. Culture shock.

Then she nods. ]

Yeah. Me too.

[ She turns to open the door, peeking out both ways up and down the hallway. From behind some corner, Rose appears.

'What were you two doing in there?' ]

[ god rey they just have portions that are basically lunchables. it's not a three-course meal.

anyway, he's taken out of whatever thought he may have been having (i.e., i wonder if there will be pizza lunchables or nacho lunchables today) by rose zooming in on both of them. hoo boy. this ... is not what he wanted, but it does give them a chance to corroborate their love affair. ]

Uh, you know. Just talking. [ he says it in a clumsy Hiding a Secret voice. perfect. he can use that voice because they kind of are. ] Right, Rey?

[ When Rey looks at him like ? ? ?? it looks like she's doubting that they were just talking but really she's doubting that ?? he means to say that's all it was?? Like, no, dumbass, we're supposed to own up to being on each other all the time. Stuffing tongues down throats and all that.

And there was the kissing. That was real. ]

Yeah. Talking.

[ She rubs her mouth with the heel of her hand. ]

You wanna get food? We were going to eat.

[ THAT'S NOT WHAT THEY DO IN ROMCOMS REY. rose probably gets it. she loves romcoms. her favorite holo is you've got holos.

just watch him keep this romcom ball rolling as he turns to rey and raises his eyebrows to innocuously reply with ] Oh … I thought we were gonna be alone.

Did you ...

[ She looks between them suddenly. It's painfully genuine when she asks: ] Do you want to be alone?

[ Rose's eyebrows are steadily climbing up her forehead like they're ready to break into orbit any minute now. ]

[ now that this is an actual performance they're putting on, he's getting a little into it. ]

Well … I thought it was gonna just be us.

[ he says it so delicately that rose is gonna shit herself tbh. ]

[ Oh. She figures it out then, and Rose leaps to intercede, sparing Rey a bad lie: 'I'm actually not hungry at all! You two go. Have fun! Be safe.'

And then she disappears around the corner. Rey looks back at Poe after she's gone. ]

I thought the point was to be seen together.

If we're together, we'd wanna be alone.

[ he says it to the tone of "duh." he's not a professional con man; he has this knowledge on the basis of he sure as hell wishes he was alone with finn right now. ]

Oh.

[ Rey glances away from him. ]

I guess I wouldn't know. I haven't done this before.

[ That surely goes without stating doesn't it?? It's not like there's fucking okcupid on Jakku. Or, like, high school. ]

[ he wasn't drawing any wild assumptions that rey had been hitting up okcupid on jakku, he just hadn't ... taken that information completely in to think about what it meant. ]

Oh. Look, hey. It's okay. I just figure ... if we want to get to know each other, it's better to spend some time alone together, huh? So it's just about us.

But you don't actually want to get to know me.

[ At least she doesn't think that he does. It's all for the ruse ...

Right?

Now she's losing track of what teen comedy fake dating trope this is. Is he actually going to fall in love with her? ]

[ on an incredibly unromantic note, he replies with ]

If we're gonna pull this off, we gotta at least know some stuff about each other.

[ "maybe we could be friends." he almost says it. but it feels like too much of an olive branch extended towards someone who definitely ?probably? doesn't want to be his friend. ]

What we want to do something actually factor much into any of this. I — if we have to do this, I wanna make it work. I want to get to know you.

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