Ficathon: Jawaswag

[joysweeper]

Title: Jawaswag
Author: Joysweeper
Rating: G
Word Count: 1,449
Prompt: A ficathon piece for ladielazarus.  She wanted some combination of Wes Janson, Wedge Antilles, Mirax Terrik, Corran Horn, Hobbie Klivian, Tycho Celchu, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa, Winter Celchu and/or Gavin Darklighter.  Keywords are "Maintenance", "Delinquent", and "Caveat".

Comments

[otahyoni]

Oh, wonderful! I admit I don't know Gavin that well, so getting to see inside his head a bit in fics like this is always good.

And droids! It's about droids! Awesome. :)

LOVED this line: [Tycho] had a way of projecting limitless patience in the face of wasted time that made Gavin feel like he was about five years old.

[joysweeper]

Thanks! Gavin's underrepresented, I think. But then, I like newbies. And... droids. And patient!noble!Tycho.

[san_valentine]

That's an interesting story - it puts a new line on the droids and the fact that they might not all develop helpful personalities, like Whistler. It's not something I'd considered before.

It's a nice, thoughtful little story, that.

[joysweeper]

I was thinking about why when Mynock got wiped and turned into Gate no one thought of it as a big deal. Decided that part of it's because droids aren't accorded rights, but also because it had to happen fairly often.

...What is your icon from?

[san_valentine]

It's from Wedge's story in the Chewbacca comic book. The comic book is set during the vong War, shortly after Chewbacca's death. C-3PO is helping to organize a memorial service and visits people who knew Chewie to collect stories about him, and Wedge makes a contribution about the time he accidently flew into battle with Chewie still hanging from the underside of his airspeeder. The pic in the icon is from the end of the story, when Wedge is trying to hide from a very annoyed Wookiee :)

[ladielazarus]

I have such love for this. :)

Thank you so much. It's a delightful look at the lives of some of our favorite droids, and the pilots, as well.

I love Corran falling off of his fighter. That's hilarious. Of course, it's always hilarious when Corran looks like a doofus. That's why I love him. haha

[joysweeper]

You're welcome! It was fun to write. Prompts are good for me, apparently.

I get why a lot of people don't like Corran, but I do love that Stackpole does have him fail and put his foot in his mouth and look like a doofus from time to time.

[izzybeth]

this is lovely! aw, little Jawaswag. and i love patient, mentor-y Wedge in this.

[joysweeper]

Thank you! I had to rewrite several times, but I'm not unhappy with the end result.