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~~Ben Solo~~
Kylo Ren

The protein shakes, where are they?

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GENERAL PROMPTS

Redemption arc: Kylo leaving the First Order. Due to either slow burn reasons (Figuring out holy shit I don't want this) or Immediate Issues That Need Solving (Rey's kidnapped, Hux turns on him, etcetc)

Re-adjusting to life in the light/in the Resistance. Whether it goes smoothly or Rough is up to the situation

Early First Order Days. Especially when Snoke was breaking his Ben Solo identity

Ben Solo Pre-First Order

Ben Solo as the most obnoxious Resistance Member idek

Jedi Hippie camp with Luke

BEN AND HIS FAMILY

👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit go౦ԁ sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌shit right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good shit

Becoming king of Porgs and other cute creatures and he doesn't understand why

Becoming his father's son

Also being just like his mother

AND ALSO BEING JUST LIKE LUKE

Rey convinces Kylo to come with her and join the Resistance. The resulting tension and rebuilding of trust in him... As well as Jedi training with her

Interactions with his mother, whether it be from the above scenario, or even reaching out through the force

Poe, Finn and the rest of the Resistance reacting to kylo switching sides. Poe hitting on Kylo and having to give him tons of dumb nicknames because Ren only wants his mom and Rey to call him ben

Kylo being a weird Scary Older Brother to the entire Resistance.

Kylo and Anakin. KYLO AND KENOBI

Discussions/threads with Han Luke and Leia- discussion forgiveness and mistakes

Rebuilding the Jedi Order

Post War Threads

Kylo Ren disappears mysteriously from the war after major internal strife causes the downfall of the First Order. Someone comes across Ben Solo in hiding years later

Kylo on Jakku complaining its hot as balls. Look. I don't know. I'm just saying it would be hilarious

Drunk texts are the best don't tell me otherwise

SHIPPY PROMPTS
SHIPS I AM DOWN FOR
Kylo/Rey hands down

If ur sittin there readin this going "Oh no but so many Reys are bugging them I don't wanna be annoying" I don't fucking care TAG ME

Hand touching

I love you. I know.

Forcebond shenanigans. Kylo or Rey reaching out to touch the other while the other one is busy (GOOD SHIT. GOOD SHIT)

Rey getting seriously injured and separated from the Resistance. Her only option is to force time Kylo

Kylo finding Rey on Ahch'to and them fucking around under luke's nose (Forcebond in person who knows)~~SMUT HUT~~

FORCEFULLY GIVING REY A BIRTHDAY AND MAKING HER CELEBRATE IT

Snoke tries to kill kylo in front of rey and it doesn't go like he plans

REY IN A GODDAMN DRESS AND KYLO ACTUALLY NOT KNOWING HOW TO REACT AT ALL

CLEANING HER DUMB HOUSE

Forcebond dreaming shenanigans. Especially if Rey or Kylo are stuck in one anothers nightmares.

Rey finding out how bad Snoke really was.

Visiting Ahch'to together

Empress Rey

Empress Rey Working to secretly undermine the first order

Meeting before TFA/in different circumstances

Fighting/sexual tension/beating each other up. u kno

Just re-enact Pride and Prejudice with me

Either one suffering from insomnia and helping the other sleep

Public Sex

Weird DubCon Sex (Rey taking advantage of Kylo I'm freely admitting to my trash)

SHIPS I AM MAYBE ON
Kylo/Poe: I'm not of the fanon that Ben or Poe knew each other as kids. If you want to play that, talk with me first, we'll need to hash out details. If you wanna do hateship, that's fine too. Again. I'd like to be consulted first
Kylo/Hux: This is such a huge maybe it's almost a no. I am not down for fluffy Kylo/Hux. I don't think Kylo or Hux secretly love each other and that takes form in them wanting to murder each other when they walk into a room and see each other. I do not think Kylo wants anything to do with Hux's dick Ever. I only see this happening as Hux taking advantage of Kylo when he's emotionally compromised and unprotected without Snoke keeping Hux in line.
So Kylux is only a "cool lets do it" if you are willing to play out something unhealthy, toxic, with a huge dose of hate and manipulation. Kylo/ANYONE ELSE: Not against pretty much any other ship, but Kylo's a hard dude to ship with for. A lot of reasons. Talk with me first, and I'll see if we can work something out.

CHARACTERS/CROSSOVERS

I'm fine with every and any star wars characters. If you are doing something from the EU I request that you just have enough info in your profile so I know what your character's deal is

AU characters are fine. I'm not really into Gender Bent characters (sorry y'all), again-- I just need info in your profile about the AU (Unless it's discussed w me before hand)

I Herald from disney princess beginnings. Give me all your princesses I think this combo is fucking hilarious

Brienne of Tarth because i'm still laughing about it

God I will add more later. Really just tag me.

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YES

text messages, actionspam, lengthy brackets, prose.

ous/ au/ all us tbh

previous meme or psl continuations / sequels / c&ping a starter i never replied to.

EMOTIONALLY HEAVY BULLSHIT

FLUFF

contact me if i drop a tag you want picked up

Angst

redemption arcs

intense emotionally heavy threads

Smut

general

hurt comfort

Kylo or Rey getting injured

Kylo being a huge fucking brat.

if there's anything you're not sure about, ask!

Rape.

Dull RP.

Taking this character WAY TOO SERIOUSLY.

Me doing the work of moving a scene along

rape/non-con. Especially with Kylo as the aggressor (This can be changed with prior discussion and prior threading)

scatophilia, emetophiloa, necrophilia.

gender/sexuality play.

degradation involving racism or ablism.

power-gaming and ooc dick-measuring contests.

AUs with no information

OCs with no information

Maybe

Dub con

torture

killing

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Mental health

I know everyone and their mom with an armchair psychologist degree wants to diagnose Kylo Ren/Ben Solo with whatever mental illness checks all the boxes. I know Bipolar and Borderline personality disorder are two popular illnesses to cite when it comes to his mental health. Along with a healthy dose of citing him as a sociopath/psychopath. However, I'm not going to be using those illnesses/personality disorders in how I play Kylo. While they fit on paper, I don't believe "what's wrong with him" presents in the correct fashion in canon for any one of the above listed issues.

I believe Kylo Ren/Ben Solo is suffering from: Recurring Chronic Major Depression it could be passed down through their family given what we know of Anakin and what happened with Luke; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder From his force powers manifesting with him having little control over it as a kid, from being sent away to Luke after his mother couldn't handle him on her own anymore, from his father leaving one day and never coming back, from having a voice whispering in his head his entire life, from that voice being a predator who preyed on his weaknesses and molded him into what he wanted Ben to be, from Luke Skywalker holding a lightsaber above his head, from abuse after abuse from Snoke, and probably a Ton more. Abandonment issues stemming first from his parents (And quite probably friends he had who left for whatever reason, or bridges he burned on his own) and then just. The entire force tbh. And abandonment issues is where he gets his unchecked rage, he, in canon, is quite literally triggered into a rage whenever he confronts someone who he felt abandoned him, or when he feels rejected or left behind. Finally he is a victim of Brainwashing and indoctrination from Snoke. Snoke is a narcissist who was using Kylo as a means to an end, it's been stated and shown that he was ready to kill Kylo after the Last Jedi since he had become unbalanced and unpredictable. If you don't agree with what I am saying here (Which is fine :) ), then I suggest you don't play with me. I am fairly confident in this being the way I see and play Kylo.

I play him as having triggers. I won't get into the reasoning behind each one, but i'll specify the specifics which come to mind: Abandonment (Perceived or real), his family, loss of control (Physically, emotionally, mentally, through the force)

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You say that now.

[ She doesn't believe it. It doesn't take a Force bond to see that. This is the way of things on Jakku; even when people say there won't be a price, you later learn precisely what they'd been expecting. And for a moment, her eyes drift to the liquor bottle like she's realizing maybe … his dad … is onto something … and she should get herself out of this situation with this 25-year-old sexual predator.

How do you say 'I'm not going to suck you off to get my parents back' without sounding presumptuous?

She gets up off the bench with that, at least. ]

I don't even know where to start looking. I don't know where they went, or their names, or — I don't know anything about them. You can't sign up for that and tell me you don't want anything for it.

[ ~~Also enjoy ur fave icon~~

???????????????????????????????? He misses the sexual predator angle like. For a second there. Like. What the--

Oh

oh no.

He wonders if he can find more clothes to put on or

Go bury himself in sand right now. He's trying to scoot away from her just like "no. Plz no." ]

No-- It's not-- [ Rey you do not realize you are dealing with a huge hunk of virgin here. A Huge Slice of virgin pie. ] I can help you find them yourself.

[ And granted he's tripping over his words, but he's tripping over them because of her implication and the way she started looking at the situation. ANd just. So many things.

Also I mean. Not touching how you literally do not know Anything about your family whatsoever like. Rey. THe first warning sign that your family is gone is that YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEM. A good family who mysteriously abandoned you would at least leave you with a locket. Gosh. Watch some holos. ]

The power, inside of you. You can sense people your close with or related to.

[ ~~Or the Force decided to marry you to~~ Sometimes one in the same, other times just Ehhhhhhh. ] You just have to train it, so it's under your control.

[ NO DICK SUCKING REQUIRED. HE WISHES HE HAD LIKE.

A PILLOW OR A POT TO JUST SHOVE OVER HIS CROTCH LIKE "THIS IS A NO GO AREA" ]

Then why can I sense you?

[ Now that she's standing, this sounds even more teenage rebuttal. In fact her hip is a little cocked out and her hand is thrown out to her side like come on, Ben.

Except then it's out there in the world and she realizes that … she doesn't know anything about her family and she just feels really weird about that implication. She straightens her back a little bit. Like. Is Han Solo also accidentally encouraging long lost cousin incest maybe. She seems to deflate a little, realizing she doesn't actually want a direct answer to that question. Or that she's not sure if she wants it. Or—

It's complicated, okay ??? ]

[ ---

Shit. He was hoping she wouldn't make that connection yet. Like. Duh, she's young, that doesn't make her an idiot.

He-- really doesn't have a good response. ] I don't know.

[ At least it's honest. ]

I don't know and I'm not sure that this-- [ he gestures between the both of them ]-- will be cut when I fly away.

[ In fact, he's pretty sure it won't, given how Intensely it seems to be pushing them together. ]

[ Cool. Coolcool. Just processing that they might be related. It's a good thing she hasn't thought about him naked yet. Just that he wanted her to suck him off in payment for favors. Cool. This will make the next few days and their mounting sexual tension not at all awkward.

Rey looks away from him. She doesn't know how she feels about any of this. On the one hand, she's grateful that she isn't going through it alone. On the other hand, if she'd stayed alone, she wouldn't be going through it. Was it worth that?

She waffles for a moment, then climbs back up onto her bunk. ]

I'm going back to sleep. [ This can wait until omrning. By which she means, by morning she will have an excuse not to talk about it. ]

[ Is Ben Solo the only one here who is completely missing the sexual tension?

Well I guess tradition is continued. Luke will wonder how Ben is not actually His Son, but then that brings up even more awkward incest. Like. The Most Awkward incest.

And at this moment in time when he is not thinking about getting into Rey's pants, he's not concerned about whether they are related or not.

Probably.

I mean, she woulda felt something with his dad... and Luke wouldn't abandon a kid, right?

What ever, he's thinking too hard. ]

Will you be okay?

[ Ben Solo stop, this girl is CLEARLY HAVING SOME WEIRD PERVERTED THOUGHTS ABOUT YOU. YOU ARE 25, GIRLS DO NOT BRING UP WEIRD SEXUAL THOUGHTS AROUND EVERY DUDE THEY MEET. YOU SHOULD LEAVE HER ALONE TO LUST QUIETLY. ]

[ She looks … confused? When he asks that. Turning to stare at him a moment as though she has to parse the action. This is the weirdest series of events she has ever been through. Ben's life may be uncomfortable, but at least he isn't surprised that people actually care about his basic wellbeing like Rey is after a decade of soulless individualistic survival in Mad Max.

Slowly, she nods. ]

Yeah. [ And then she settles down on her bunk, rolling over to stare at the cramped ceiling of it.

Alright. So this has been a thing. That just happened. She shifts like she can't get comfortable. There's layers of confusion spinning in her head, things that she wasn't really equipped to deal with. Like … large attractive man shared cramped quarters with her in the maintenance hatch, but that was just necessity. Held her while she cried, but was that something or was that called being a decent human being? Was it because he thought they might be related to have this connection between them?

She rolls over to face the wall of the bunk so that she doesn't have to see him out of her periphery. She's not ready for it. ]

[ ~~I'M SORRY YOU EVEN HAD TO READ THE ROUGH RUN DOWN I AM SORRY. WE ARE GARBAGE. THIS MUSEBOX HAS CREATED SIN. I'M SORRY.~~

ALso in apology. I am

Just gonna have Ben Solo do the most Dumb Clueless Virgin shit ever, esp Re: A girl who is Most Definitely having some weird thoughts about you.

Thoughts he can... kinda key in on?? But he's missing the female gaze aspect right now. It's not as if he's got his titties out or Really Good Arms exposed (Or like he has them in spades yet. Still needs a few more protein shakes). He just knows she's confused and scared of the darkness and-- he hasn't really been helping. And it just feels like a shitty place to leave her at.

So he sighs and listens to her rustle around for a bit before... he spots the thing.

The blanket. Chewbacca gave to her and that Tifa forgot to explicitly mention in her tags so I get to do whatever the fuck I want with it. There it is. On the floor. He'll just shift over to grab it and then stand up on the bench and

You better believe

This Practically a Prince motherfucker (but not THAT kind of motherfucker)

Is putting that blanket over Rey.

At least he isn't like kissing her forehead or rubbing at her shoulder or some shit (Or just peeling off your clothes or KISSING YOUR MOUTH HUH REY? HUH????? I CAN SEE INTO YOUR MIND) ]

Night.

[ He'll just murmur that more to the air than anything else before he settles back on to the couch and...

You know. Maybe he'll stay awake this time around. She seems Super Jumpy and he can't figure out a reason beyond that he is probably scaring the shit out of her. And maybe it's better if he just kinda. Stood watch over their thoughts.

Yeah. He's gonna do that. Just get his mind on Channel Chandrila inner peace and hope that's enough to keep her Not Freaking Out.

Luke is gonna love this shit. ]

[ She bristles when he settles the blanket over her, as though she expects an attack, and she turns slightly to look at him, catching his eye just as he turns away. No. Not an attack. Just … He cares. For whatever reason, he gives a shit, and Rey can hardly grasp that. No one on Jakku gives a shit about anybody — barely even themselves. They're all so dead inside; they've given up.

She looks away from him again. His calm radiates outward, so though she doesn't consciously tap into it, she can feel tension leaving her body as he just … rubs off on her. Non-sexually.

It's the best night of sleep she's ever gotten. No nightmares of her parents, no tossing and turning, no restless anxiety as she waits for someone to come at her with a knife. She feels safe here, on the Falcon. It's the only time in her life she remembers feeling safe.

In the morning, she picks herself up with practiced speed. There's not much for her to collect. She pulls her hair back again, secures it back into its usual style, and pulls her boots back on. She folds the blanket up. She's awake before everyone else on the ship, and quiet in what she does. She's never really had any ambient sound, so she's sensitive to her own rustling. ]

[ He'd only fallen asleep an hour or so earlier sitting upright at the table with his arms crossed, head tilted to the side a bit and-- seems fairly dead to the world until Rey has to step over him. It jostles him enough that he jolts upright and thank god this isn't an anime or he'd probably accidentally grab her or some shit like that. But No. This is just "Hi the Force has decided we are married and you being awake and aware means I am more likely to wake up when you are near me"-- ]

'Morning.

[ He looks terrible. Probably because he's a dick who stayed up most of the night meditating on Jedi.

But he's like. Not making any moves to stop her. Again. She seems Jumpy.

Just throw the blanket over his head and command him to go back to sleep. It'd probably work, he's your slave already and he doesn't know it yet. ]

[ Jumpy indeed. She flinches a little when he speaks, surprised by the fact that he's awake, albeit not very alert. Mostly she's just not used to other people being around in general. It wasn't that she had forgotten his presence, exactly, but rather that she had side-stepped it. Now he's a living, breathing person again and she's not used to being in other people's company. Still. Ever.

When her pulse has calmed a little, she finds it in her to speak. ]

I'm heading down to the wreck. I should be back with the parts later in the day.

[ Obviously, she isn't expecting the Brady Bunch to assist her. It's … not unreasonable tbh. She's the expert here. ]

If you want to tell Han and Chewie when they wake up.

[ Blinking and-- oh right.

She's doing the thing???

ANd wow brace yourself Rey, because Ben Solo is gonna be a decent human being here: ]

D'y'need help?

[ He says. Sound like a Hutt. Or you know. Maybe sexy morning voice for young girls who got their sandy panties in a bunch over him. ]

No.

[ That's honest and blunt, not meant to be a refusal of the help, but a straight answer as to whether or not she needs it. It's not trying to dismiss his kindness. It just … doesn't know what to do with it. She'd done this literally yesterday at another freighter. That she knew where this one was only meant she could do it again.

But she realizes that he's … trying to be a kind and decent human being and help out even though she doesn't need it. Some part of her, looking him over, feels like he's only going to slow her down and get in the way.

Yet when she goes to follow-up, she says— ] You can come along if you want.

[ -----?!?!?!?

He's not awake enough to actually think this through properly. He actually thought she'd flat out refuse him because-- again. She's ~edgy~.

Actually, what the hell would his father and Chewbacca think if he just suddenly disappeared with Rey. Like, it'd be obvious what they were doing?? But given the fact that he seems to be on trial AND convicted for molesting a child he just met he knows how this is going to end up.

And she still hasn't agreed to come along with him.

So like. I'm glad we are all in agreement. He should politely say no and put an end to this nonsens-- ]

Do you want me to come?

[ He says through a yawn, covering his mouth with a gloved hand.

To the distant sound of Naima throwing her keyboard out the window. ]

[ What the fuck kind of weird passive aggressive —

Rey doesn't even know how to engage that question. Why is he even asking? Either he wants to come or he doesn't, and she'd invited him. Does he not want to unless she wants him to? That's stupid, she decides quickly.

She's not your typical teenager, as you might be realizing.

It feels like he's playing mind games with her and she DOES NOT appreciate that one bit. She grapples with it, looking vaguely panicked about what kind of answer he's looking for. ]

It doesn't make a difference to me.

[ Which is the truth ? ? ? Force knows if it's the right answer or not. She turns on her heel then and heads for the cargo ramp because fuck that entire interaction. Just. Fuck it. ]

[ ????? HE FEELS... HER ANNOYANCE AND

HE'S JUST???

TEENAGERS??????

This further proves his Edgy assessment. Like yeah wow he still had issues but at least he had passed That stage of his life. Wooo what a trip that was. I am honestly surprised no one sent him away to Pray Away The Force camp earlier tbh.

Anywho. He's gonna make a quick judgement call here. Weighing several different key factor. He stays here he gets to Not Relax with Chewbacca and Han Solo. They're probably going to be working on the ship all day and bitching about all the adjustments Unkar Plutt did. At best, he can hope to stay in his corner and dodge most of the complaining until he's dragged into it to figure out what the fuck was his deal with the girl. The transmissions aren't even working, he's not even sure if he could get a good connection to the holonet from here.

So wow. Not ideal.

Then there's Rey.

She's grumpy and frustrated with him. And will probably decidedly Not Want his help. She's been doing this her entire life after all. BUT-- he doesn't have to deal with the interrogation immediately and she will, presumably, not mob him with dumb questions about his supposed desire to molest her. He also may get enough space to try and do some like. Jedi meditation or some shit.

Also the Mun is sitting here like "GET HIM TO SWEAT A TON SO WE CAN GET HIM INTO A REFRESHER AND SHIRTLESS"

So I get final call.

This is a terrible choice to be made but he's making it.

She's already walking down the ramp by the time he pokes his head through the crew quarters to say he's making sure no one fucks with Rey (Which is a semi-legit excuse now that Unkar Plutt's face was broken by her) and grabbing a few rations and

Hey Rey.

It's your dopey big eared not monster boyfriend.

Don't worry, he's not one for making idle chit chat, he'll just come astride in a few large steps and: ]

Hey.

[ Why is snoke trying to shape these two into his apprentices they are the worst. ]

[ She looks up at him, gives him a wary nod, and then proceeds down the ramp into the sand. One hand reaches up to pull her scarf around her face again in a makeshift mask. Thick, wound muslin protects her from the sun, and the goggles keep sand out of her eyes. The look she casts his way is, as a result, inscrutable. But intuition can probably relay that she's judging him for being underdressed for Jakku.

Then she starts off to the half-sunk freighter in the valley below, staff strapped across her chest. As she slides down the dune, her boots kick up sand like waves in an ocean. She jogs to catch herself at the bottom, and climbs up on top of the freighter.

No one has cracked this one yet. She'd found it two weeks ago and been scoping it for parts for the Falcon, but ultimately decided it was too far away when she'd found the other closer and still sufficiently intact. She bangs on the empty hull with her staff once, twice, and then knocks out a panel. Closing her fist around a fistful of wiring, she rips it free. Hoses and clamps and wires alike litter the ground at Ben's feet while he approaches, and she continues her work as though she means to drill straight through the hull.

On closer inspection, it's easy to see why: the ramp is buried along with two thirds of the rest of the ship. ]

[ I mean. I'm just gonna go ahead and say Ben has slathered on some Super Star Wars Sun Screen because otherwise his ass would burn Hard. It's got Nanobites and shit in it.

But otherwise, yeah. He is woefully under-dressed. Which he realizes and like. Maybe he should have gone off to get a nathan drake outfit, but whatever. He's not going to be doing the climbing, he's Elena Fischer today. Rey gets to make the quips and get the artifacts.

And Wow. Sand is Everywhere. So is sweat. He's gonna be finding sand in places for Days. This is just not the Best decision, but he was stuck with no Best decisions today. What ever. It's fine.

He catches up to her and dodges that clump of wiring, dumping sand out of a shoe thats just gonna get filled with sand again and-- honestly. He's not about to go up there and Mansplain to her how to do her job. But you know. While she looks like she is cool with ripping through a hull with her staff and practically bare fists-- ]

Rey-- [ Once she looks up at him, she'll notice a slight movement at his hip as he just throws something to her--

His lightsaber. Of course.

Just trusting young hormonal teenagers with your phallus metaphor, huh ben? ]

[ There's something surprisingly streamlined about the way she catches in the same moment she looks, as though she had felt his intent and the item in him well before it had ever made its way to her. She looks surprised by it, at least, looking at the hilt in her hand and — oh. Duh. Lightsaber.

She looks back down at him, wide-eyed behind her goggles but, of course, unreadable to him now. She holds out her staff and lets it thud down in the sand, dropped off the side of the ship. Then she holds the lightsaber up and sort of … leans away from it as she presses the button to ignite it.

Snap-hiss. It purrs to life, humming in her hand. And it feels right, somehow. Steals her breath. She examines the hilt and blade in her hand for a minute, scoping it out, then braces the hilt with both hands and turns it upside down, slowly driving it down into the paneling in front of her.

Plasma cleaves clear through the metal, melting it into something molten and lava-like. It drips down away from her and she wedges it to the side, cutting open a circular hatch for them to drop through before she shuts it off and, inside the hull, pulls down her scarf-mask to whiff the smell of burnt steel and ozone.

Weird.

She pulls the nose cover back up and climbs back out of the hull, throwing the hilt back down to him. ]

We've got a path through. Follow me.

[ And then she's gone again like a prairie dog. She drops down through the hole — which will be barely wide enough for his shoulders because he's huge and she hasn't got a good measure of him yet — and her boots thud on the side wall of the freighter because it's tipped that way from when it crashed. Go figure. She starts the trek down the hall towards engineering. ]

[ Once she's got a hang of it-- there's a grin that touches his mouth. One could say it looks like Han's, but do not tell him that. He will never grin again out of spite. But she looks good cutting through the hull of a ship with a lightsaber.

And Ben Solo has not realized how his thoughts may be going in a problematic direction That Every One Else Sees Coming. (Okay to be fair tho, making jokes about it is Not Helping Dad)

He catches his saber and hooks it back on to his belt, making his move to follow her and-- Jesus Rey. Ben Solos are larger than they appear in your mirror okay? It takes a moment to crouch down and make sure the edges aren't still molten hot before he just slides in.

And you know. This is probably the moment some dumbass screen writer or Asshole character would have Ben comment "Wow, so you do this often?"

But thank god for characters who hate small talk.

He just quietly follows her, kinda taking the entire thing in. He'd been around a decent number of ships his entire life, but never like this. It was honestly interesting to see her work. Like. Interesting, but also horrifying in a Child Slavery is TERRIBLE sort of way. ]

[ The engineering bay is cramped much like the one on the Falcon. There's room for them both, but they're breathing each other's stale air, and the already oven-baked space — made tolerable only by the sand covering it has had to keep the sun's rays from beating directly on this part of the ship — grows even hotter with the body heat they're putting off.

Rey doesn't waste time. She pries open the hyperdrive and gets her hands in its guts, crouching down, stuffing her whole arm up to the shoulder. Anyone who knows their way around a ship knows that no one should ever, Ever, put their whole arm into a hyperdrive. Especially one they aren't familiar with when they don't know who's in the cockpit. It's a stupid and risky.

Speaking of Child Slavery is Terrible. Rey doesn't look concerned, like maybe she's used to taking these sorts of risks in her life. ]

[ Cool. Keep your cool, Ben Solo. Like-- he's coaching himself from being worried because despite the fact that Han Solo has definitely had his son doing some non OSHA compliant shit on the Falcon both at this height and when he was actually Smol, he's never had him do anything like THIS. Actually did scream his head off about something like this once.

Probably told him something along the lines of "you wanna be like one of those scavenger kids from Jakku who lose an arm doin' that sorta thing???"

But Again. She knows what she's doing and he's not gonna mansplain to her because he is Very Sure she knows.

He hopes she does.

---- Also he's distracted slightly now because he's feeling a knocking at the Force door of his head. Not his mother, not Rey, and not the darkness. ~~Song Linked because now its stuck in my head SO IT SHOULD BE STUCK IN YOURS TOO~~

Luke.

Huh.

He presses his lips together wondering if he should wave it away because it seems.... Kinda weird??? Also how the hell is this going to work, it's not like he has a working comm on him or something.

Well... He'll just back out slowly to try and figure this shit out- ] Rey, I'll be right outside the bay. Got something I need to deal with.

[ Mysterious Jedi Business.

-- He doesn't realize he's about to get a full frontal Force Time assault for the first time and it's not gonna be Rey. ]

Sure, sure, Master Jedi.

[ This she says not in reverence, but with every patronizing quality it could possibly possess. She doesn't even look back at him. She assumes he's too squeamish to deal with the guts of a ship and something looking unsafe.

And anyway, she doesn't mind. It's going to take her some considerable time to get all the pieces she needs removed from this hyperdrive so she can get a the part she needs for the Falcon. There's a reason scavenging takes all day. ]

[ Pfft- Teenagers. He's just gonna get used to Ms Sass, because this is the life he's choosing. BUt for now, finding a relatively stable place in the wreck to sort of-- try and pull at that string in his head? Honestly it's weird. He and Luke never really used the Force to communicate like this and--

'Lookin' for me, Mr. Ben?'

The fuck?

It was as if he blinked and Luke was there. No sock-slipping through hallways this time, or inquiring about surroundings. He's squinting because there's no way his Uncle is actually--

'It's a Force projection, kid. Not somethin' I taught you... Yet.'

He's a little speechless-- honestly. ]

Last night, I tried to reach you--

[ Luke sighs, seemingly perturbed, but not with Ben-- himself it appears. At least if the placating hand he holds up is any measure.

'Yeah, I know. I needed some space and-- I think I pushed too hard.'

Which-- THis would be all well and good if this was the point in the AU where the Skywalkers Finally Talked Out Their Issues. But we aren't there yet. Not quite. Whoops. Especially because Luke sort of looks over Ben's shoulder. As if he could see R--

'You gonna keep pretending you can't hear me, kid? Just wanna be on the same page.'

MORE CONFUSION FROM BEN. TONS OF IT. Like looking over to Rey in Alarm MAYBE HIS UNCLE REALLY IS HERE.

At the very least, Luke Skywalker isn't actually trying to harass Rey of Jakku in leaving her work right now. But he has started to suss out this situation. No smut hut involved yet. ]

[ Is he talking? Rey's banging around in the hyperdrive, so for a moment, she thinks he's saying something to her. She decides resolutely to ignore it. She'd told him she could handle this. If he was trying to give her instructions on how a hyperdrive worked, she might just kill him. Better that she didn't hear that. But then she's able to sit back and start pulling a casing off of the hyperdrive and she feels Ben's anxiety.

So she turns to look at him and arches her eyebrows. ]

What were you saying? [ Wow. He looks really spooked. Rey furrows her brow. She doesn't know what to do with this.

Beyond him, and beyond her view, Luke is looking a little satisfied with himself.

'She can't see me.' ]

i'm sorry for this tag

Oh. Don't worry. Today you do not need to apologize for any tag. Trust me.

are you sure because

I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO BRING ELLIE IN HERE TO BE LIKE "DO NOT OPEN PANDORAS BOX"

OPENS IT

IT HAS CW: everything tbh. I"M NOT KIDDING

? ?? WHAT IS IT

oh my god. It involves your NOtp, Non-con, & Rey witnessing it and going to cut of some ginger nuts

oh my god bye

IM SORRY. IM SORRY. IM SORRRRYYY COME BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

why did i go read it ? ? ? after i knew ? ? ?? idk but i did

AT LEAST YOU CANT READ OUR DISCORD CONVO??? AND THAT ICON IS APPROPRIATE......

you did this specifically to hurt me

Lets be honest. I did this to hurt myself. Just kno. U have no tag u can give me to apologize for rn

that's fair. and also the only compelling proof thus far that ellie and i are not infact one person

Honestly. Still not convinced. I'm betting you took that "No tag to apologize for" As a challenge

i mean, you're right

I await horrifying apology worthy tag with anticipation.

i don't know if we have any appropriate threads right now for horrifying apology worthy tag

"Right now". I have faith in probable Tifellie. Ellifa????

Ellifa definitely sounds better

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HAHA COOL. I say. LETS GET LUKE IN HERE. HAHA-- shit now i gotta write Luke.

good news i've decided i'm qualified