Dear Yoda (May the 4th Exchange 2020)

[shesasurvivor]

Dear Yoda,

Hello, and thank you for writing/drawing for me! I'm shesasurvivor on Tumblr, AO3, and FFN (and here, duh). I've been on the fringes of the Star Wars fandom for a very long time (over twenty years), and have dabbled in things here and there. I'm excited to start writing more for the fandom!!

I don't know if I'll be terribly specific in this letter, because honestly, I love to give out ideas, and then see what someone does with it! But I'll try to provide some guidance! But I'm very open to innovation, and if you want to interpret something loosely, or have an awesome idea to mix prompts, please feel free to do so!

In general, these are my favorite things to explore in Star Wars:

• The OG Skywalker family (Anakin, Padmé, Luke, and Leia): They have been my SW jam since I was a little girl. I'm particularly fascinated with Leia's connection to the family, since it was so downplayed in the OT, and because she's inherited a lot her traits from Anakin, but has every reason to despise him. But anything exploring the dynamics of this family that we didn't get in the films or EU material (including TCW) would be excellent. Also, Padmé is an underappreciated badass, and please feel free to use her liberally as well.
• Skywalker family: The Next Generation. My first foray with the Star Wars EU in the 90's was with the Young Jedi Knights books, and they still hold a very special place in my heart to this day. I love all the characters from these books. That said, I also like the characters from the Disney sequel trilogy. Please feel free to use any of these characters, whether you want to sample from each canon, or use strictly from one or the other.
• Rogue One: Lord, do I love this movie! It's my favorite thing to come out of Disney so far. RebelCaptain (Jyn/Cassian) are my main Star Wars OTP. I also adore Bodhi, Baze, Chirrut, and K-2SO. You could probably flesh out these characters in any way (but please keep it in-unverse), and I would be happy.
• Star Wars: Rebels: Similar to Rogue One, I'm honestly a sucker for anything that takes place during the rebellion era. This show satisfied my appetite for rebellion material in a big way. What I would especially love is to see these characters work together with the Rogue One characters, the OT characters, or all of the above.

Bonus if you manage to somehow work in the following planets:

• Bespin
• Naboo
• Scarif
• Jedha

Additionally, I love:

• Canon compliant
• Canon divergent
• Historica AUs
• Character/relationship explorations

And finally, below are my DNWs:

• Rape/Noncon/Dubcon
• Torture
• Racism/sexism/homophobia, etc. Anything that needlessly hates on groups of people.
• Incest 
• Abuse
• Modern day AUs
• Luke/Mara Jade 
• Luke/Callista
• Ben Solo/Rey | Reylo (I guess I'm okay with it in certain situations, but I tend to be a FinnRey more than anything.)
• Hopeless endings. 
• Han and Leia not together *cough*theST*cough* However, if they're not together at the start, but end up (back?) together, that's fine.
• I wasn't a huge fan or either Jacen or Ben Solo having to die, tbh. What does it look like when someone who has turned to the Dark Side turns back, and gets to live?

I think that's all! Please note, a lot of these are ideas/tropees I'm planning to explore in my own fanfic down the road, so please don't be surprised if you see me work any of these ideas into my work after you turn out something for the exchange. I love the tropes enough to see multiple verisions of them! And I'm sure that whatever you come up with will be amazing.

Thank you again, and may the Force be with you!


shesasurvivor


starkist (shesasurvivor pseud)


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