Light 'Em Up

I need no introduction, when you knock me down, I get the fuck back up again. [Indie Poe Dameron from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Selective, open to all fandoms.]

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// Not back but just wanted to share that I started writing an AU fic where Rey gets adopted by Din Djarin and I figured some of y’all might be into that.

Hope you had a good Christmas. <3

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((OH that said! I do have an idea for a Very Long Star Wars fic that I’m hoping to start soon (I have...four WIPs at the moment and I want to finish at least one of them before I start another new one) and two shorter ones that I wrote back before TLJ came out and was going to post since I rediscovered them, would anyone be interested in me reblogging the links over here? Poe Dameron is in all of them and so I figure this way you can still have my Poe writing even though I’ve peaced out.))

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((So I’m not back and I’m not sure if/when I ever will be, I just wanted to let everyone know I DID see the new Star War and uh...

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...well the Mandalorian was really good...))

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((So, I haven’t been around in a while.

Short version is that I haven’t had a lot of muse on here, and then not a lot of muse anywhere. Real life has been a bit crazy, I’m trying to be on tumblr less so I can focus on other things, and in light of all of that I figured it would be best if I officially went on hiatus–not just here, but everywhere.

Don’t worry, I’m okay and no one did anything! You’re all lovely. I just wanted to make it official so that people didn’t wonder if I’d fallen off the earth or died or something. I’ll still be poking my head in occasionally, but actual replies are officially at a halt.

Again, not dead, just hoping to focus on other things in life. I’ve been writing more and that feels good. HMU if you want to know where I am on AO3 and read my dumb schmoopy Apex Legends fics.))

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𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐃 /  𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠.

❛ What happened? ❜

❛ How are your injuries? ❜

❛ Just promise me you’ll stay here. ❜

❛ You can’t blame yourself. ❜

❛ You know I’m here for you, right? ❜

❛ I’ve never seen you like this before. ❜

❛ When I wake up, you won’t be there. ❜

❛ Okay. You get to leave now. ❜

❛ No. I don’t believe you. ❜

❛ Just.. put down the very sharp knife… ❜

❛ It wasn’t your fault. It hurts. ❜

❛ This isn’t you. ❜

❛ Stop it. ❜

❛ You should be resting. ❜

❛ Are you okay? Did they hurt you? ❜

❛ How can you act like that? ❜

❛ Then why are you still here? ❜

❛ Are you okay? ❜

❛ You can’t live in the past. You gotta move on. Let it go. ❜

❛ And when were you planning on telling me? ❜

❛ What are you, trying to give me a heart attack? ❜

❛ What’s wrong? What happened? ❜

❛ I thought we agreed that secrets are bad! ❜

❛ Sorry. Didn’t want to push any sore spots. ❜

❛ Everything okay? ❜

❛ Do you even know where you’re headed? ❜

❛ I can’t help you unless you talk to me. ❜

❛ Promise me you’re not gonna over-react. ❜

❛ It’s okay, it’s gonna be okay. ❜

❛ Whoa, what are you doing? ❜

❛ Why do you run from me? ❜

❛ You’re changing the subject. ❜

❛ It’s four o'clock in the morning, what are you doing? ❜

❛ You’re bleeding. ❜

❛ You gotta be more careful. ❜

❛ I meant… How are you holding up? ❜

❛ You’re avoiding my question. ❜

❛ I think the worst of it’s over now. ❜

❛ Don’t let fear keep you quiet. You have a voice so use it. ❜

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> Goes into the Star Wars tag

> Sees it’s mostly ship stuff and anxiety-inducing speculation

> Leaves the Star Wars tag

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Rey listened intently as she finished up on the last of BB-8′s updates. She shut the hatch she’d been working in and pressed the top of BB-8′s head. The droid whirred to life and beeped happily, twirling around in delight. “Why bombers?” She asked curiously. “What and we’d become three galactic nomads, floating from place to place?” She asked. 

“Why not? Could be tactically smart. We lead them on a wild goose chase while the General rallies the troops and finds out how to stop them.” Poe wasn’t comfortable with the thought of putting Rey or Finn in danger, but he’d be lying if he said he didn’t file the plan away as a potential last resort. The needed every option at this point. “We’re basically nomads now.”

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Every person who says something Stupid and Wrong about The Last Jedi personally owes me $5 for every word of their Stupid and Wrong comment.

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“Well, you have a family legacy too. Your parents were both legendary fighters, that must have come with some pressure.” She commented as she picked up a new tool and continued her work. She smiled softly when he told her he was glad she’d stayed. “I think if I tried, you and Finn would come and find me.” 

Poe shrugged. “I guess? Not until I went to Academy, and it was mostly with my professors. Mostly people thought I’d fly bombers.” He could’ve--it was where he’d gotten his start flying--but he’d always loved X-Wings, ever since he was a little kid.

“Probably. We wouldn’t want you to be alone. And...honestly, the First Order would probably be looking for you too, so it’d be better if you had backup.”

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“Clearly.” Rey joked as she looked up at the sky. Despite it being night, it was still hot but the stars above were as beautiful as ever. She smiled as Poe recounted his time in the academy. “I used to dream about getting to go to a real flight academy. The closest I ever got was when Unkar Plutt made me test fly the ships he thought were most likely to explode or stop working in the sky.” 

He was about to ask if she was at least paid for that, but based on what she’d told him about Jakku...probably not.

“I’ll have to get the guys together once this is over. You can meet them. They’ll like you.” The ones who were left, anyway; he hadn’t had time lately to check in with everyone, see who was still alive.

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Rey looked up, pausing in her work for a moment. “Of course there is. You’ve been in this fight for years, you must have some thoughts and feelings about it or what’s the point.” She muttered when he said there was nothing to talk about. She sighed softly and nodded. “I get that. Sometimes I feel like I have to be here, that it’s my family’s legacy to be in the fight. Every time I think about disappearing on everyone and just going back to being nobody, I can’t imagine it past getting into the cockpit of a ship.” 

Poe grimaced sympathetically. “Yeah, that sounds rough. I can’t imagine what that’d feel like.” And he really couldn’t; as famous as his mother apparently, was, he hadn’t been Shara Bey’s son or Kes Dameron’s son. Even as an adult, the weight of legacy didn’t hang over him like that. And she was a Skywalker. That was something else entirely. “For what it’s worth...I’m glad you’ve decided to stay with us.”

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“So, they took the risk of being poisoned for money?” She asked. Even now, Rey didn’t get the concept of money. She’d dealt in portions of food her entire life and there was never enough to go around. The idea of paying someone to eat something was foreign to her. “What was flight academy like?”

“I didn’t say we were smart.”

Poe paused as he gathered his memories. “Exhausting,” he said finally, “but...amazing. It was the first time I was away from home for a long time, so I had to learn how to manage myself. And it was my first time in a city. The noise took some getting used to. But I made a lot of really good friends and I was doing what I’d always wanted to do.”

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“They ate a scorpion?” She asked curiously. She wondered how you would even prepare such a thing, roast it? Rey finished wiping away the sweat from her brow and sighed heavily, desperate for a long drink of water. “The ones on Jakku would definitely poison you if you ate them.” 

“Yeah. It was flight academy. We all thought we were invincible.” He smiled fondly. He had known some idiots back then, but they’d been nice idiots. Trustworthy idiots, too. Poe would’ve liked to see them again. They probably would’ve jumped at the chance to help. “I think there was money involved.”

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Rey fiddled with the internal wirings of the droid. It was nothing big, just a firmware update to keep him running. She listened to Poe against that he was a little overwhelmed by everything that had been happening over the past few months. She nodded in agreement. “If you want to talk about it, we can.” She added softly. 

If he was silent, it wasn’t because he was trying to dodge the question. More that he was trying to gather his thoughts.

“...don’t know if there’s much to talk about,” he said finally. “We’re in a bad situation, it’s...tiring. We’ll get out, I know it...” And he did, most of the time. “...but that doesn’t make it less hard being here. You know what I mean?”

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((Happy Star Wars Day, I went to see Endgame and cried while watching the Star Wars trailer.))

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“Naboo…” Phasma considered a moment. The planet name was familiar, and it was only a moment before she remembered scrubbing through the archives on Brendol Hux’s ship, learning the intimate details of the culture she’d been thrown into the mix with.

“Wasn’t that Emperor Palpatine’s home planet? I’d be curious to see them both. I was never dispatched on missions to either location.”

“I was...more thinking Senator Amidala’s home planet, but yeah, I guess he’s from there, too.” Said something about how different their upbringings were. “I’m not surprised you didn’t end up on Cloud City. I heard Calrissian guards that place pretty well. Especially after what happened with Vader the first time.”

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“I will?” Rey answered, semi confused. She was a little befuddled as to why anyone wouldn’t look where they were going whilst going through a forest. She chuckled and shook her head when he apologised for talking too long. “Don’t, I like someone talking to fill the silences, reminds me that I’m not alone. But you sound tired, are you okay?” She asked as she continued to work on BB-8, doing some maintenance on the droid. 

“Yeah, I’m all right. There’s just been a lot happening.” I miss my family, he wanted to say, but there were some things you kept to yourself, and she had enough on her plate as it was. “Trying to keep my head on straight so we can get through this in one piece.”