Star Wars Heated Rivalry AU where Shane is a strict follower of the Jedi Code, constantly trying to prove himself to his Master, Theriault, who almost didn’t take him on as a padawan because he says Shane gets too emotionally attached to people. He constantly critiques Shane in front of his fellow padawans and Shane doesn’t have a lot of friends because of it (he has Hayden and J.J., but they are often busy with their own apprenticeships).
While out on a diplomatic mission, Theriault leaves Shane at a random Big Sleep Hotel, telling Shane he wasn’t equipped to help him with their current assignment. Shane, unfortunately, can sit still and do nothing all day and that does not stop him from somehow getting kidnapped by pirates. He ends up in a cell with a random (force sensitive) Mandalorian, which isn’t great considering the hostility between their two people. They have to work together regardless in order to escape and, once they’ve done so, they end up in bed together.
Shane justifies it because it’s not an attachment; the Jedi Code basically says they are allowed to have sex as long as it doesn’t become a relationship. So what if they keep running in to each other over the next decade and find themselves in bed each time.
Shane becomes a Jedi Knight and his first assignment is with a group of masters and knights to investigate the massacre of a village. Imagine Shane’s surprise when all clues point to Ilya and his clan. Shane thinks something is wrong with this, the force is screaming at him, but none of his fellow Jedi seem willing to listen to him. No matter what Shane does, they believe Ilya and his men are monsters.
Shane has to grapple with the Jedi Code, admit to himself that maybe he wasn’t that great at being casual, and try to solve this mystery before Ilya, the man he may be in love with, is found and killed for a crime Shane suspects he did not commit.
Mando Ilya calling Shane’s lightsaber a “laser sword” and laughing when Shane, who looks like an angry tooka, tells him to kark off.
Shane whose lightsaber has been blue throughout most of his apprenticeship, but has to return to the Crystal Caves when he no longer feels his saber will work for him (right after meeting Ilya the Mando for the first time), and coming out of it with a new green saber with a hilt containing beskar.
Shane who opts into taking Mando’a as his language requirement for no reason whatsoever, ne’johaa, Hayden!
Mando Ilya who quietly adds gray and gold to his armor when he thinks Shane has been killed, only to remove it soon after he learns Shane has survived the encounter.
Shane who sends Ilya non-Order related information about The Force, encouraging him to explore his own connection to the ka’ra.
Future married Hollanov where Shane has left the Order and wears the vambraces Ilya wore when they first met and his husband wears Shane’s first kyber crystal on his mother’s necklace, safety tucked in his armor.
