Star Wars Rare Pairs 2024!

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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 terms of what canon I've consumed, I'm familiar with the Original Trilogy, the Prequel Trilogy, all the tv shows (including the Acolyte) except The Bad Batch, the High Republic, Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor, Jedi Apprentice, Padawan by Kiersten White, Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray and Leia Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray. If you want to play in those worlds with my nominated ships, go ahead!

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General Likes
DNWs
Prompts

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, particularly queer female characters
• Missing scenes
• Found Family
• Unconventional formats (not chatfics please)
• Comedy of errors
• Canon divergence
• Established relationship
• Getting together

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Do Not Wants (unless waived in prompts)

• Unhappy endings
• Unhappy relationships
• Non-canonical Major Character Death
• Big focus on character death
• Noncon
• Omegaverse
• Pregnancy
• Smut (fade to black totally fine)
• Humiliation
• Watersports/scat
• 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)
• Love triangles that don't end in polyamory
• 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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Prompts for specific ships

A note for all of these ships: I've read all the THR (comics and books), including Tears of the Nameless. I've tried to make my prompts not spoilery but it's hard for some of them! Particularly, there are THRA spoilers for characters from there (Lula, Zeen) and Temptation of the Force spoilers for Xylan/Cair.

Elzar Mann/Cohmac Vitus

• I just think Cohmac could use someone who might get him to lighten up. Someone to have a little fun with, bring him out of his head.
• Perhaps Elzar goes to find him after Midnight Horizon? Perhaps something set when they're younger?
• Perhaps they bond over Orla Jareni, a good friend to both of them? (Perhaps something bringing them together after The Fallen Star?)
• What if Elzar somehow prevents what Cohmac does at the end of Midnight Horizon?

Obi-Wan Kenobi/Cohmac Vitus

• This would involve time travel, which is always fun!
• You could have Obi-Wan go to the High Republic, which is lighter than the PT but hmm if it's Phase III, I don't think the lack of Sith Vibes would really make much difference when everything is still Very Bad.
• Perhaps it's after Midnight Horizon, and Obi-Wan meets him as he's wandering and lost?
• Perhaps it's before the Nihil even emerge, and things are happier?
• Does Obi-Wan recognise him from the graffiti he found in Padawan? Does he ask about Orla?
• Or is it Cohmac who time travels? We know from Tears of the Nameless (and implied before that) that Cohmac would probably just collapse into a puddle of misery if he felt how rancid the vibes on Coruscant were during the PT. Though I guess at least they're not dealing with creatures that such the Force out of Jedi, giving them horrific hallucinations and terror just before they die! Honestly now that I think about it, is the PT more miserable than Phase III? I think maybe not! But an argument could be made either way.
• I just think these mentally ill men should meet and find solace in each other. I think it would be neat.

Cere Junda/Santari Khri

• I won't lie, I don't actually have any real thoughts on this one, I just saw it in the tagset and I was like I Would Like To See It.
• Does Cere do some time travel before Order 66, so she's slightly less broken by her experiences? (How much of a mess is it when she travels back to?)
• Does she land on Tanalorr before the Great Hyperspace Disaster? Help out with the temple there?
• What if Santari travels to when they're exploring the base? Does she help them against Dagan?

Kor Plouth/Yana Ro

• What's Yana's relationship with Kor's parents like? (If Path of Deceit answered this, I'm terribly sorry, haha, it's been a while!)
• How did they get together?
• You can write smut for this one if you like! Yana does canonically say the sex is great. (Do Nautolans have anything fun happening down there?)
• What if they hadn't gone on the mission to Thelj?
• What if they left the Path together?
• What if they were present together for the Night of Sorrow?

Nan/Lula Talisola
THE HIGH REPUBLIC ADVENTURES PHASE III SPOILERS!!!!!

• So the obvious time for this is before Phase III starts. Lula knows she's looking for something, but she doesn't know what. Or who?
• Maybe Nan found her after the crash?
• Perhaps they're together on Bracront?
• Is Nan still with her when our heroes find her? Does Lula still send the message that she has what the Mikkian wants?

Vildar Mac/Tey Sirrek
These prompts contain spoilers for a flashback in the THR comics in Phase III, but not Phase III itself.

• Please no talk about their radically different lifespans!
• How do they get together? Who makes the first move?
• What's Matty's reaction to them getting together? Or Oliviah's?
• Are there other moments like the Phase III flashback when Tey feels like he's failed Vildar?
• How do all their coworkers know they're together? I am obsessed with the "trouble at home?" comment one of their colleagues makes.
• Are there other Jedi who have Thoughts And Opinions about their relationship? Does Vildar keep it from other Jedi? If so, how does Tey feel about that?

Xylan Graf/Cair San Tekka
TEMPTATION OF THE FORCE SPOILERS!!!!

• I love their fucked up little marriage so much, it's so Problematic
• How does the blackmailing into marriage go?
• Defy the Storm made them look super cute and in love and then Temptation was like "lmao remember how one half of this marriage is Xylan Graf?". Is Cair also kind of lulled into forgetting that his husband is the kind of person who does lowkey horrible things until he gets kidnapped in Temptation?
• What's the aftermath of the kidnapping? Does Xylan manage to explain why he did it? Does Cair not need him to explain because he understands?
• What do they do after Temptation of the Force, now that they're this side of the Stormwall?
• How do Cair's uncles react when Cair tells him that he married a Graf?
• If Xylan hadn't had to hide assets from the government, would they still have got together? What about if the Nihil never happened?
• Spy thriller about Cair's corporate espionage??

Zeen Mrala/Lula Talisola
THE HIGH REPUBLIC ADVENTURES PHASE III SPOILERS!!!!!

• I am obsessed with Zeen's conviction that she needs to run away so she doesn't get in the way of Lula's destiny to become a Jedi. What if she did try to run away? Would Lula and co. go looking for her? Or just Lula?
• Does Lula talk to her fellow Jedi about her decision to leave for Zeen? How does that go?
• You can write smut for this one if you like! (Do Mikkians have anything fun happening down there?)
• Does Lula talk to people about proposing (other than what we see with her worrrying over the bracelet with Qort and Farzala)?
• What makes them decide to be the quintessential baby dykes uhauling across space? Is it because they know people could be killed by the Nihil or the Nameless at any opportunity? Or something else?
• What if they got together earlier?
• Does Kantam tell Lula about how they temporarily left the Jedi for love? What if Lula tries to make things work with Zeen without leaving the Order?