#still loving Bodhi Rook 2k20

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For the star wars ask: 6 (Yes, I know you have ships, but which ones are you particularly fond of), 28, 29, and 30. Love your content, keep up the good work!😊

D’awwwww, THANK YOU! 

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6. Do you have any ships?

Ships! You want some ships? Have I got some ships for you! Rare ships! Fresh ships! Timeless classics! 

Actually looking this up sent me down a rabbit hole of "How many ships have I actually written? Fifty-three. (Fifty-four, if you count the Cassian Andor/Elim Garak crossover I wrote.) 

ANYWAY, I'm not going to ramble about fifty-three different ships, don't worry! Let's keep it to...three? That seems reasonable:

Bodhi Rook/Luke Skywalker - the best ship that never met. I like them for a lot of reasons, there's a lot of compare and contrast between them. Death Star Plans and Death Star Shot. Ordinary human raised in mystical city and mystical human raised in ordinary farm. And, of course, pilots! 

Davits Draven/Antoc Merric - Look, I wouldn't fault you if you didn't remember the blink-and-miss-it interactions between the two of them in Rogue One, but I find their story space incredibly compelling. Personality wise: Rebellion's stoic, pragmatic spymaster running into the emotive, idealistic hotshot. But at the same time they are two middle-age men who have watch the world go to ruin and done their best to stop it, even if they have very different methods. They've both been with the Rebellion a long time, spent a lot of that time clashing, but at the same time, are each other's counterweights. The dynamics! I like them! 

Obi-Wan/Owen/Beru - We mostly know Owen and Beru from the fingerprints they left on Luke, and from what I'm seeing, they were very good people. Luke really seems like a kid that was loved well and felt safe enough with his parents (regardless of title, they were his parents) to be a little bit bratty. And Obi-Wan is someone who desperately needs good people. He's dealt with so much drama! I just really like the idea that he gets some happiness and sincere connection with other people. And I'm always a sucker for good polyamory negotiations.

28. If you could stop one character from doing one thing, who would it be and why?

I gave my prequel trilogy answer last time, lets try a sequel trilogy answer this time. I'd like to stop Luke from going to the Sadness Island, or at least from STAYING on the sadness island. I'm interested in a world where he's lost everything and NEARLY given into despair, but then gets a chance to rebuild and see how he can help put the world to right again. 

29. Which character doesn't get enough credit or screentime?

I think at this point I'm morally obligated to talk about Bodhi Rook. I feel like he's easy to dismiss as a twitchy, anxious plot point in Rogue One, but he is so, so important to me. Here's a guy with minimal real power, who is complicit in atrocities, yes, but also just trying to keep his head down and survive. He's not born to heroism, or nobility. It would be easy for him to say, “yeah, it sucks, but I have no choice, I’m not a bad guy.”

Instead, he sees a chance to make the world better and he takes it, at great personal cost. And he sees it through, fighting until the end. 

Not to get too heavy into real life, but he's the character I needed in late 2016, and he's still the one I need now. 

30. Do you have any headcanons?

Am I a human, or am I just a collection of headcanons given mortal form? We may never know. 

One of the more...non-plotty ones? I have is that we are, essentially, receiving a censored version of the GFFA. In order to get that PG/PG-13 rating, some parts of the story just don't get to us. 

What I'm trying to get at, here, is that R2-D2 says fuck. 

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