Dear Yoda: May the Fourth Be With You
My Dear Yoda Letter for the 2109 May the Fourth Be With You 2019 Exchange
General Thoughts, mostly repeated below
I love hurt/comfort. I love bonding under pressure. I love tropes. I love characters coping with trauma and helping others cope with trauma. I am a canon-based life form and love things immersed and embedded deeply and carefully in canon.
Leia Organa/Han Solo OR Character: Leia Organa
I love Leia. I love Han and Leia. But I want LEIA, even if you don't use Han. I am interested in them pre-ESB; there are two years of open canon there. I am really interested in the post-Death Star to Hoth period, as the most-explored time is when they're dancing in earnest around their attraction. I'm also thrilled with anything in the OT period. Or in the early days of the New Republic. Or during her pregnancy with Ben or just after Ben's birth. Or their reaction to Ben's massacre of Luke's school. Or them in the intervening years as they run into each other on occasion. Or just LEIA...dealing and pushing forward and suppressing her own needs and fears and trauma and despair.
I prefer canon-adherent stories (and I default to FILMED canon as my preference for my own consumption). And...I want to see Leia with a lightsaber SO. Damned. BADLY. So......my AU preferences involve Leia training *somehow*, using the Force. I mean, "You have that power too. Someday you will learn to use it as I have."
I love tropes.
Trapped in a cave-in (where it is, of course, damp and cold).
Chained/cuffed together and running for their lives.
Hurt/comfort.
Aftermath of torture/trauma.
Leia using the Force. Gods, PLEASE, Leia using the Force.
I don't need smut; I'm happy with Han and Leia interacting (in a romantic way or not). I am fine with smut, though I prefer it as a catalyst to story or character rather than a means to an end or as a gratuitous wish-fulfillment way.
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla
I love these two. I love them so much.
I prefer canon-adherent stories (and I default to FILMED canon as my preference for my own consumption). I get that it means there is tragedy built in...but isn't that the way of things with Star Wars?
I have a slight preference for S3 and S4 Kanan & Hera because I think Kanan's blindness adds a wrinkle of complexity that I think is interesting (although that's only the case if it's handled as *blindness* rather than ignored as "got that totally covered with the Force without effort or anything, yo").
I love tropes.
Trapped in a cave-in (where it is, of course, damp and cold).
Chained/cuffed together and running for their lives.
Hurt/comfort.
"Pretending" to be married.
Spycraft.
Aftermath of torture/trauma.
I don't need smut; I'm happy with Kanan and Hera interacting (in a romantic way or not). I am fine with smut, though I prefer it as a catalyst to story or character rather than a means to an end or as a gratuitous wish-fulfillment way.
Leia Organa & Hera Syndulla
These two amazing women met in "A Princess on Lothal," but Hera had to have been aware of Leia even before that, and certainly knew who Bail Organa was. I don't personally believe that Hera and Bail were close, but they WERE both on Yavin. They WERE known to one another. They WERE part of shared briefings. And, no matter how close they weren't, the loss of Alderaan was a huge loss for the Rebellion (not anything like the same as its loss for Leia, to be sure). Hera's losses, though, are ones that would make her more able to relate to Leia. More able to relate to Luke, for that matter. And Hera and Leia are both women who have lived their whole lives at war, whose fathers' entire adult lives were lived fighting for freedom, who have both lost their mothers to this war, and, each in her way, lost her father to the war.
I want to see them interact. Better yet? I want to see them on a mission on the Ghost together, between Yavin and Hoth. Gimme badass women in jeopardy. Gimme badass women having each other's backs (literal back-to-back fighting is TOTALLY something I'm down for). Gimme piecemeal opening up of the strongly compartmentalized emotional depths of either or both of them with the other. It doesn't have to be a deep heart-to-heart...but to come to an accord, an understanding that they each DO really understand more than either ought to have to...yeah.
I love tropes.
Trapped in a cave-in.
Chained/cuffed together and running for their lives.
Hurt/comfort.
Pretending to be married for the mission.
Undercover spycraft.
Aftermath of torture/trauma.
Chopper interacting with Leia in a way that either embarrasses or totaly surprises Hera.
My lovely ladies, working together, admiring and respecting one another, and supporting each other. I'm THERE for this.
Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Han Solo
For this one, what I really want is snarky, teamy goodness sometime between Yavin and Hoth. Early days. Luke can't even telekinetic well.
I prefer canon-adherent stories (and I default to FILMED canon as my preference for my own consumption). I'm not interested in smut for this trio.
I've suggested this one entirely because THESE story ideas CALL to me:
1. I'd love to see these three, escaped from near ruinous capture by some Imperial something and chained or cuffed together and running for their lives....and ALL THREE furious at the others for messing things up. Bonus points for hurt/comfort because at least one *cough*Leia*cough* (if not all three) is/are injured and hiding it from the others.
2. I'd really love an early mission--maybe setting up base just after the evacuation of Yavin?--where they learn things that the others know how to do that they've never thought of; early days, when they just don't KNOW each other, even though they're bound together by trauma and loss and the adrenaline of fighting together. EVERYTHING is new for Luke. Everything is bittersweet for Leia. EVERYTHING is, "Why the hell am I even HERE?" for Han, who doesn't WANT to care about these people as much as he already does. How does that dynamic work as they settle into this forged-in-battle pattern?
Bonus points for inclusion of:
-Undertones and highlights that include aftermath of torture/trauma and/or acknowledgement of the MASSIVE losses that Luke & Leia experienced in that one 24 hour period where they both lost EVERYTHING...and met each other.
-Leia inadvertently using the Force but everyone either not noticing or just shrugging it off as "that's a bit odd...whatever..."
-Luke trying to use the Force and finding that it doesn't work as he *expected*...but that it still helps.
This entry was cross-posted at https://amilyn.dreamwidth.org/848314.html.
General Thoughts, mostly repeated below
I love hurt/comfort. I love bonding under pressure. I love tropes. I love characters coping with trauma and helping others cope with trauma. I am a canon-based life form and love things immersed and embedded deeply and carefully in canon.
Leia Organa/Han Solo OR Character: Leia Organa
I love Leia. I love Han and Leia. But I want LEIA, even if you don't use Han. I am interested in them pre-ESB; there are two years of open canon there. I am really interested in the post-Death Star to Hoth period, as the most-explored time is when they're dancing in earnest around their attraction. I'm also thrilled with anything in the OT period. Or in the early days of the New Republic. Or during her pregnancy with Ben or just after Ben's birth. Or their reaction to Ben's massacre of Luke's school. Or them in the intervening years as they run into each other on occasion. Or just LEIA...dealing and pushing forward and suppressing her own needs and fears and trauma and despair.
I prefer canon-adherent stories (and I default to FILMED canon as my preference for my own consumption). And...I want to see Leia with a lightsaber SO. Damned. BADLY. So......my AU preferences involve Leia training *somehow*, using the Force. I mean, "You have that power too. Someday you will learn to use it as I have."
I love tropes.
Trapped in a cave-in (where it is, of course, damp and cold).
Chained/cuffed together and running for their lives.
Hurt/comfort.
Aftermath of torture/trauma.
Leia using the Force. Gods, PLEASE, Leia using the Force.
I don't need smut; I'm happy with Han and Leia interacting (in a romantic way or not). I am fine with smut, though I prefer it as a catalyst to story or character rather than a means to an end or as a gratuitous wish-fulfillment way.
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla
I love these two. I love them so much.
I prefer canon-adherent stories (and I default to FILMED canon as my preference for my own consumption). I get that it means there is tragedy built in...but isn't that the way of things with Star Wars?
I have a slight preference for S3 and S4 Kanan & Hera because I think Kanan's blindness adds a wrinkle of complexity that I think is interesting (although that's only the case if it's handled as *blindness* rather than ignored as "got that totally covered with the Force without effort or anything, yo").
I love tropes.
Trapped in a cave-in (where it is, of course, damp and cold).
Chained/cuffed together and running for their lives.
Hurt/comfort.
"Pretending" to be married.
Spycraft.
Aftermath of torture/trauma.
I don't need smut; I'm happy with Kanan and Hera interacting (in a romantic way or not). I am fine with smut, though I prefer it as a catalyst to story or character rather than a means to an end or as a gratuitous wish-fulfillment way.
Leia Organa & Hera Syndulla
These two amazing women met in "A Princess on Lothal," but Hera had to have been aware of Leia even before that, and certainly knew who Bail Organa was. I don't personally believe that Hera and Bail were close, but they WERE both on Yavin. They WERE known to one another. They WERE part of shared briefings. And, no matter how close they weren't, the loss of Alderaan was a huge loss for the Rebellion (not anything like the same as its loss for Leia, to be sure). Hera's losses, though, are ones that would make her more able to relate to Leia. More able to relate to Luke, for that matter. And Hera and Leia are both women who have lived their whole lives at war, whose fathers' entire adult lives were lived fighting for freedom, who have both lost their mothers to this war, and, each in her way, lost her father to the war.
I want to see them interact. Better yet? I want to see them on a mission on the Ghost together, between Yavin and Hoth. Gimme badass women in jeopardy. Gimme badass women having each other's backs (literal back-to-back fighting is TOTALLY something I'm down for). Gimme piecemeal opening up of the strongly compartmentalized emotional depths of either or both of them with the other. It doesn't have to be a deep heart-to-heart...but to come to an accord, an understanding that they each DO really understand more than either ought to have to...yeah.
I love tropes.
Trapped in a cave-in.
Chained/cuffed together and running for their lives.
Hurt/comfort.
Pretending to be married for the mission.
Undercover spycraft.
Aftermath of torture/trauma.
Chopper interacting with Leia in a way that either embarrasses or totaly surprises Hera.
My lovely ladies, working together, admiring and respecting one another, and supporting each other. I'm THERE for this.
Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Han Solo
For this one, what I really want is snarky, teamy goodness sometime between Yavin and Hoth. Early days. Luke can't even telekinetic well.
I prefer canon-adherent stories (and I default to FILMED canon as my preference for my own consumption). I'm not interested in smut for this trio.
I've suggested this one entirely because THESE story ideas CALL to me:
1. I'd love to see these three, escaped from near ruinous capture by some Imperial something and chained or cuffed together and running for their lives....and ALL THREE furious at the others for messing things up. Bonus points for hurt/comfort because at least one *cough*Leia*cough* (if not all three) is/are injured and hiding it from the others.
2. I'd really love an early mission--maybe setting up base just after the evacuation of Yavin?--where they learn things that the others know how to do that they've never thought of; early days, when they just don't KNOW each other, even though they're bound together by trauma and loss and the adrenaline of fighting together. EVERYTHING is new for Luke. Everything is bittersweet for Leia. EVERYTHING is, "Why the hell am I even HERE?" for Han, who doesn't WANT to care about these people as much as he already does. How does that dynamic work as they settle into this forged-in-battle pattern?
Bonus points for inclusion of:
-Undertones and highlights that include aftermath of torture/trauma and/or acknowledgement of the MASSIVE losses that Luke & Leia experienced in that one 24 hour period where they both lost EVERYTHING...and met each other.
-Leia inadvertently using the Force but everyone either not noticing or just shrugging it off as "that's a bit odd...whatever..."
-Luke trying to use the Force and finding that it doesn't work as he *expected*...but that it still helps.
This entry was cross-posted at https://amilyn.dreamwidth.org/848314.html.