Star Wars Rare Pairs 2022!

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Hello!! Thank you for agreeing to write something for me. <3 If you're writing me a treat, please gift it to facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf). Optional details are optional, of course, and I'd love to see whatever you come up with! Some of these ships have more stuff about them than others but that's not because I'm less enthusiastic about the others! My brain is just so very empty. (In particular, the Bail/Breha is much longer than the others because I've got all the canons in one request.)

In terms of what canon I've consumed, I'm familiar with the Original Trilogy, the Prequel Trilogy, The Clone Wars (2008) cartoon, Leia Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray, Queen's Shadow (but not the sequels yet), The High Republic: Light of the Jedi, The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor. If you want to play in those worlds with my nominated ships, go ahead!

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DNWs
General Likes
Prequel Trilogy + Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV) + Obi-Wan/Beru/Owen (Any)
The Clone Wars
Original Trilogy

Do Not Wants

• Unhappy endings
• Unhappy relationships
• Non-canonical Major Character Death
• Noncon
• Omegaverse
• Pregnancy
• Smut (fade to black totally fine)
• Humiliation
• Big age gap (7 years-ish? i'm not going to be a massive stickler on this, it's more a power imbalance that's a problem)
• Significant power imbalance or mentor/mentee romance/sexual relationship
• Unrequited love
• Incest
• Non-Star Wars settings
• Permanent amnesia
• Infidelity (polyam is fine with consent of all parties)
• Cancer/other terminal illness
• Suicide (suicide attempts, suicidal thoughts are both fine)
• Queer tragedy
• Painful breakups (reference to past breakups is fine)
• Portraying the jedi as Super Evil (them not being entirely good is fine! totally happy for an exploration of the ways in which the jedi have perhaps failed in some aspects)

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General Likes

• Worldbuilding
• Cultural differences
• Roleswaps
• Fix-its
• People finding something soft and/or something that makes them happy even when the world is going to shit
• Hurt/Comfort
• Fake Dating
• Humour
• Tenderness
• Politics
• Plottiness
• Mysteries
• Angst
• Fluff
• Mutual Pining (that gets resolved)
• Outsider POV
• Time travel, time loops
• Queer characters
• Missing scenes
• Found Family
• Unconventional formats (not chatfics)
• Comedy of errors
• Canon divergence
• Established relationship
• Getting together

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Prequel Trilogy + Obi-Wan Kenobi + Obi-Wan/Beru/Owen (Any)
Bail Organa/Breha Organa
I'm just going to roll all of the various Bail/Breha noms in here and mix up the source canons in my requests -- obviously feel free to just pay attention to the one you matched on. I just love them being in love!!! If you wanted to include anything from Leia Princess of Alderaan I would love that but I forgot to nom them in EU so that's optional. :P This pairing can have pregnancy as a plot point if you like. "Organa" is obviously Breha's family name because she's the queen regnant and the canon writers can fight me about it. Please don't make Organa Bail's family name.

• I would LOVE some alderaan worldbuilding if it strikes your fancy!
• Is their marriage arranged, or did they fall in love without any outside forces pushing them together? If it's arranged, is it awkward initially?
• What's raising Leia like?
• How do they decide to get involved with the Rebellion?
• What if Alderaan never got blown up? Or what if it did get blown up but they survived somehow? What does their role in the Rebellion look like?
• Politics!
• Do they have to have dinner with high-ranking imperials? How does that go? (Does Leia cause any shenanigans, accidentally or on purpose?)
• Bail probably has nightmares about the Jedi Purge, or before that, the war -- how do both of them cope with that? 
• What is it like waiting for Leia to return from her kidnapping in OWK, or what's it like dealing with the consequences of what happened afterwards?
• If you're into Leia, Princess of Alderaan, I am permanently haunted by that scene where Breha gets cross at Bail for talking about the dungeons:
  
  • “We can ask for her to stay out of harm’s way, and if she won’t, we can keep her out of it.” Bail stopped pacing and pointed downward, at the seldom-used lower areas of the palace. “There used to be dungeons down there, you know.”
    This time her mother’s voice was sharp. “Bail!”
    He held up one hand. “You know I wasn’t serious.”
    “Don’t even joke about that.”
  • What does this scene mean? Why is Breha cross about it? 
• In LPOA, Bail is super against the Rebellion getting violent, whereas Breha has already accepted that this will end up with them killing people at some point. Even if you're unfamiliar with the book, you could explore that dynamic -- or perhaps they disagree about some other aspect of the Rebellion?
• Stuff with disabled Breha (specifically, her having pulmonodes) would be fabulous!
• Pre-Clone Wars fic would also be a delight! 
• Please no fic about Alderaan's destruction UNLESS both of them survive

Obi-Wan Kenobi/Bail Organa/Breha Organa

• Pre-Order 66, post-Order 66, whatever takes your fancy!
• Do they ask him to stay on Alderaan after Order 66? How do they keep him safe?
• Do they woo him pre-Order 66? Is Obi-Wan on Alderaan for a mission or is he having a well-earned break?
• Or did Order 66 not happen at all?
• What if he stays on Alderaan after the events of Obi-Wan Kenobi? Were they together beforehand, or perhaps it was Obi-Wan/Bail during the war (with Breha's consent) and now in the wake of the kidnapping etc., Breha also falls in love with him?
• Please no fic about Alderaan's destruction UNLESS both Organas survive

 Depa Billaba/Mon Mothma

•  I just think it's neat when there's fic of two female characters who never meet in canon kissing.
• Perhaps Depa is assigned to her as a bodyguard or on some mission?
• Perhaps they realise something's fucked about the war and work together to prevent the Republic falling
• If you want to do the Mon Mothma in Andor who has that horrible husband, this is the exception to my infidelity DNW. Fuck that guy.
• Or perhaps this is post-Order 66 and Mon is sheltering her, or they're working together on Path stuff?

Obi-Wan Kenobi/Owen Lars/Beru Whitesun

• Local Moisture Farmers Get Visited By Jedi Master Who Is Clearly A Mess, Hands Them A Baby And Then Insists He Will Go Live In A Cave For Reasons, You Won't Believe What Happens Next
• I'm totally happy for Owen to be gruff and distrusting and not like him much at first... but then obviously he gets won over.
• "Look at him! He hasn't slept in about three years, he has the poshest fucking Core accent I've ever heard, those robes are clearly too heavy for Tatooine, and he thinks he can survive living alone in a cave? Not adopting him would be criminal! We'd be condemning him to death!" -- Beru, maybe
• Maybe instead of hating him, in this universe Owen allows him to visit Luke and Ben clearly loves Luke so so much that it seems mean to force him to live far away and only see him infrequently (there's no reason it has to be infrequent, it's just Obi-Wan being Obi-Wan).

 Padmé Amidala/Sabé (Prequels)

• Either this would be in a universe where she never gets with Anakin in Attack of the Clones (where the obvious friendzoning dialogue in that first scene in her receiving chambers is actually friendzoning) OR Sabe makes her see the error of her ways and she gently breaks up with Anakin.
• Exploration of handmaiden stuff would be excellent!
• Also politics
• Perhaps this is back when they're both teens! Teens in love!
• Desperate clutching at each other after the bombing in the opening of AotC? I am happy for this pairing to contain smut!
• Perhaps they work together on clones' rights stuff, or successfully rescue Shmi. And also they are in love.

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The Clone Wars
Jedi Whose Undercover Story Becomes Increasingly Bizarre/Concerned Pilot He Keeps Hiring (TCW)

• Please feel free to make the genders of these characters whatever you like!
• Does the pilot eventually find out their passenger is a Jedi? Are they afraid the Jedi will have to do something horrible when they accidentally discover the truth? (The Jedi doesn't seem like the sort to do something horrible, but clearly this is an important secret, so...)
• Perhaps when the pilot finds out, it becomes a bit of a running joke, asking after the jedi's bizarre cover story.
• Perhaps the pilot ends up fake dating the Jedi as part of a cover story!
• The possibilities are endless

 Original Injured Clone Trooper/Original Farmer Hiding Him From The Authorities (TCW)

• Please feel free to make the genders of these characters whatever you like!
• Did the clone desert, or were they accidentally left behind?
• Hurt/comfort is of course a delicious possibility here (not that it's not a possibility anywhere else, haha)
• How are they hiding them? Is there some way to disguise the clone?
• I can't think of anything else but I promise I am just as enthusiastic about this as any other request

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Original Trilogy
Original Downed Rebel Pilot (OT)/Original Farmer Hiding Them From The Authorities (OT)

•  How pro-alliance is the farmer at the beginning? Does the pilot convince them, or are they ride or die from the beginning?
• Gently tending to injuries......
• Is fake dating part of the plan to hide them from the authorities?
• Is the pilot a city slicker and the farmer laughs at them as they show them around the farm?

 Original Jedi Survivor Who Joins the Rebellion/Original Separatist Who Also Joins the Rebellion (OT)

•  How hardcore was the Separatist during the war? Do they still hate the Republic? Do they see the Empire as the logical extension of/fault of the Republic?
•  How much do they associate the Jedi with everything, given the Jedi Purge happened?
•  Is this enemies to lovers, or is the Separatist not hostile to the Jedi at all, to the Jedi's surprise?
•  Perhaps the Jedi helped the Separatist when they were little, long before the Separatist Crisis?
•  Is this a Han/Leia "loudly arguing all over the place in a way that all the spectators know they are definitely gonna kiss at some point" situation?

Original Imperial Architect/Original Imperial Safety Inspector (OT)

• Are they refusing to put safety railings in out of spite?
• Why DO they need so many bottomless pits?
• Is this an enemies to lovers situation?
• I would prefer if you didn't dwell on the fact that they are both space Nazis. Preferably they don't even really believe in the Empire, they just need to make money to eat. (That certainly doesn't mean they need to be secretly Rebels or anything... although they COULD be!)
• Are they maybe colluding to make these places as unsafe as possible?

Original Female Rebel Alliance Pilot/Original Female Rebel Alliance Mechanic

• I won't lie, I have no particular ideas for this either, but I just. ladies! kissing! 
• The mechanic accidentally getting grease on the pilot's face and then the pilot's friends tease them about it
• Perhaps the mechanic doesn't think the pilot pays any attention to them but surprise, the pilot was able to bring back the mechanic's favourite whatever from the latest mission because she her heard mentioned it once
• You could write smut for this if you wanted, though I'd prefer not PWP.
• Perhaps there's a dangerous mission and the pilot returns and the mechanic has been SO worried and the pilot is confused because she was pretty sure the mechanic hated her for fucking up her ship so often?

Overworked Rebellion Therapist/Overworked Rebellion Medic (OT)

• The Alderaanian Death Legion. Need I say more?
• Suicide of minor characters is alright here
• They probably consume a lot of alcohol, lbr.
• Does the therapist have to counsel the medic? Don't think about the ethics of this, we're so far past ethics, they died with thunderous applause.
• Is this a two desperate people find each other as something to cling to in the face of the horrifying existence they both live in, or are they genuinely in love? Did it start as one and become the other?
• How did they meet?
• I would love f/f for this but of course follow your heart.