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21 for the Kylux ask meme!

21. What’s your favorite kylux-specific trope?

Thanks for the ask! Really hard to pick favorites so have a bulleted list :P

Kylo's mind-reading keeping Hux off-balance

Hux as an unreliable narrator who is so emotionally repressed that he willfully ignores/doesn't even consider the possibility of romantic attraction (until he's forced to face it :D)

When for either one the wait he's HOT realization is followed immediately by oh HECK NO and then he fights it with every fiber of his being

Petty bickering and UST! Honestly I will read and immensely enjoy a fic that is JUST that. Bickering kylux is 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

Kylo underestimating Hux and being proven wrong.

Hux being the dominant one in the relationship despite Kylo being so much stronger (but not taken to extremes. Kylo is not a doormat)

IMing: Hux is punctual with good grammer and Kylo is... not :)

Kylo being extra and making Hux uncomfortable (see also Kylo Amidala)

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i've been thinking abt how hux doesn't do things in normal ways

except it's not like he's a normal person, covered in trauma that makes him act messed up it's that he just functions weirdly at a basic level

like to him the way he's acting is actually totally normal and consistent with how the world works it's just that his normal is a really twisted version of everyone else's normal and if that doesn't SCREAM neurospicy I don't know what does

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okay so Erine is short, right? She's a dwarf, dwarves are short, she has to look up at everyone whenever she's talking to them, including all of the companions. It also means sometimes there'll be an interesting note or object or whatever on a shelf that she notices, but she can't just grab it herself she has to ask someone to grab it for her, or drag a crate over or something.

Which raises the question... what goes through her head when she can't reach something? Say, she sees a clue for a puzzle, or a valuable piece of loot and can't reach it because it's on a high shelf.

Great: Wyll

He'll never be annoyed about it. He'll grab the thing or pull the lever or whatever with a kind of chivalry, like a gentleman holding a door for a lady. Some might find it annoying, but Erine kinda likes it, I think, knowing that someone not only isn't inconvenienced by helping her, but is actually, genuinely happy to do it.

Good: Karlach, Shadowheart

Shadowheart is chill and practical 👌🏻 Karlach is tall and cheerful (pro) and also tends to set paper goods on fire (con)

Just grab a crate and do it yourself: Lae'zel, Astarion

Asking for help is probably an admission of cowardice to the Gith. Plus, Lae'zel scares her. No thanks.

Astarion would make a very unhelpful comment and then take whatever it is for himself. Thanks so much, buddy.

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ahhh grinch hux crack fic idea hit me in the face yesterday and there are thoughts (putting them here bc I don't write so it won't ever actually exist as a piece of writing)

like kylo ren with his savage New Republic culture has infected the FO with life day and Hux is dismayed. So he goes to Snoke and that goes about as well as expected so he resignedly decides that the only way to end this is to do it himself. So he recruits Phasma and they go steal all the decorations and the entire time he is just absolutely hating his existence (TROS!hux style) but blaming it all on Ren and he has to lie to avoid getting caught but it all spirals out of control and it's a huge mess and the Resistance is probably involved somehow at some point

Does his heart grow three sizes at the end? up to you ig I have no clue

Also:

phasma is the dog complete with reindeer antler headband

hologram of Snoke answering Hux's complaint call in a Santa costume complete with robe and hat

Ren pranks hux by putting smth in his shampoo that permanently turns his hair green

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This got started off by the aforementioned flashpoint I did but now my brainwheel is going and who know when it will end

Like I played through the whole Sith Warrior story from Ga'eon's point of view, and because he just takes all the awful things that happen for granted I somewhat did too, I guess? Just because he was conditioned to just move on and ignore that he feels awful about things and ignore when things don't feel quite right... and also, it's a video game, and the point of the game is to fight stuff so as a player I just take it for granted that we fight things and win...

But dang the process that makes people into Sith is seriously, seriously messed up. It's a process that somehow someone engineered to take normal people and produce unnatural abominations. You can't become a Sith and use the Dark Side without to some degree being insane!

(idk if anyone has read this book but this reminds me of the book A Face Like Glass, where the cave system is so incomprehensible that anyone who gets themselves to understand it has to go insane themselves... the Dark Side is like that. You have to twist your brain into an unrecognizable shape to even understand it, and then you're never really the same anymore)

I'm not talking about Sith that are just evil Force Users in the movies. I'm talking a galactic organization of many, many people who all somehow decide this is a good idea, and somehow have control over an entire society. It's like a society run by a caste of mad gods... and yet it's also a superpower in the galaxy with normal people living under it, and that's the tragedy of it is that all these people are living under a government filled with people for whom being insanely powerful Chaotic Evil and self-sabotaging is just an inherent part of their being.

This probably isn't canon and I'm not even sure if I believe this is the case for my headcanon, but it's a very interesting concept to me so there you have it.

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Well look at that it's Ga'eon's mom. For some reason instead of letting her be a normal happy person she ended up being a street urchin who was experimented on by a mob boss to be his cybernetically enhanced super soldier enforcer. So yeah she's just a little bit scarred for life and also she's probably the Bounty Hunter. Ask me about her I have thoughts :D

But also isn't it just hilarious (/s) how as soon as you make a concerted effort to try and come up with ideas for something, your brain just is immediately like but what about this other unrelated idea? sure thanks but I really just wanted a Jedi Knight.

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world building idea:

The origin story for a certain land involves siblings who founded the first kingdom together but then disagreed and broke up, and their descendants are separate peoples/kingdoms/factions now. Except there was another sibling who just wanted them to get along, and that sibling's descendants are forever recognized among both peoples as neutral. They have no place of their own but instead wander among the other kingdoms/factions. None are refused a safe place for the night or passage through a town, and though some take advantage of this or resent the loneliness that comes with not having a home of one's own, the majority continue their ancestor's legacy of peacekeeping and healing.