#bodhi lives

[sassysnowperson]

Tell me some Stone and Sand secrets!

Part of the reason I wrote Stone and Sand was because as I was writing Bodhi Lives, I kept running into what I thought of privately as The Problem of Jedha. It's this huge gaping hole in Bodhi's life and his past, but there were so many complicated layers of it that I really didn't know how to get into it in the Bodhi Lives story. Stone and Sand gave me a chance to write an Alive Jedha. I got to go hard with the worldbuilding and figure out what my Jedha looked like. I also got to pick apart Bodhi's feelings of enlisting with the Empire without the additional trauma of being sort-of responsible for making his planet blow up.

Of course, writing it just made Bodhi Lives story even SADDER. He's very disconnected from his culture, and he hasn't had the chance to heal it yet.

I do want to write a story that's like, told from the perspective of a bunch of different Jedhan exiles about the sad/nice/handsome/competent/dangerous young man and his various droid companions who comes and visits their shop/market stall/etc... Buys a pound of candy and they swear he just started crying. But then when they invited him for dinner he didn't stay. Came to their little refugee camp temporary temple and made a big donation, slipped out long before anyone had realized what he'd done. Ideally, it's part smalltown gossip writ galactic, part comedy of these people trying to figure Bodhi out, and part abrasive pain of Bodhi reconnecting with the thing he's lost and actually needing to process his feelings about losing it.

I haven't written it yet because I still don't quite think I'm a good enough writer for it. But it's still on my mind.

[writinredhead]

You’re the Worst - By @sassysnowperson

Bodhi Rook and K-2SO are alive after the Battle of Scarif. 

Bodhi is determined to find his way back to the Rebellion and do what he can to crush the Empire. K-2SO is determined to find a body with legs. K-2SO is a bad therapist. Bodhi is a surprisingly good con artist. A story of space piracy, hard truths, and how friendship grows in unexpected places,

[sassysnowperson]

Bodhi Lives - Jedha Diaspora, and/or I Do Crime Now?

Hello!

(Sorry for the delay in getting to this, creative brain sort of shut off midway through the week. Not fun!)

Jedha Diaspora

So the Jedha Diaspora fic takes place in my Bodhi Lives universe - in that universe Bodhi and K-2SO live past Scarif, and wind up basically being vigilantes on the run from the Empire.

I haven’t taken a lot of time in that series to show that Bodhi’s relationship to the destroyed Jedha, and the Jedha Diaspora doc is brainstorming around that.

I think I saw it as an outsider POV fic for most of it, told from the POV of various Jedhans who survived the destruction of Jedha. Bodhi sort of becomes a cryptid in that community, the nice young man with a droid that shows up and does something nice, that buys traditional candies and starts crying when he thinks nobody is watching, that guides a lost child back home in rusty but still serviceable Jedhan (I’m less certain about Jedhan as a language - the city is such a crossroads, but there’s some sort of common language that isn’t Basic). There eventually becomes a gossip network around sighting him, and a sort of determination to see how much they can fold the lost lamb back into their community. Jedha has lost enough sons to the Empire in one way or another, it’d be nice to get one back.

I didn’t write it because at the time, I don’t think I had the chops to do it right. I’m still not sure I do. Bodhi’s feelings in this universe are so complicated - he’s absolutely feeling the guilt of being responsible for Jedha. He’s also feeling a lot of isolation from any community outside his duo of him and K-2. I think from Bodhi’s POV, he stopped being Jedhan when he signed up with the Empire, and it’d be a complicated thing, finding that part of himself again. I still think it’s a very important piece of his character, and I still turn the story over in my head, trying to figure out what I’d need in order to do it justice.

I Do Crime Now

I go into the basics of my ‘Poe was Undercover of Kijimi’ fic here - BUT, since there’s a lot on the doc, I’m going to use this as an excuse to share another snippit :D

Please enjoy Poe and Luke working together, in which Poe gets to be the sensible one for a change:

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Luke's map of Kijimi’s smuggling tunnels was woefully out of date. "You paid actual credits for this?" Poe laughed. "I've got a hyperspace lane I want to sell you."

Luke rolled his eyes and they got to work. Poe crossed out tunnels that were caved in and added in the newly carved ones. He knew the south of the city better than the north, but he felt it was reasonably accurate. Then they went through it again, and tried to figure out which of the still-existing routes would have been in use about twenty years ago. 

"What are you going to do with this?" Poe finally thought to ask, about two hours into their work.

"I figured I'd go down there and see if I got a sense of anything," Luke responded.

So then Poe had to go over the map again, pointing out all the areas that Luke seriously could not go, because there were fucking criminal gangs everywhere, and while yes he probably could stab them all, it would be very suspicious, now wouldn't it?

Luke finally agreed to stay out of the currently used tunnels, and Poe breathed a sigh of relief.

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Poe, dealing with Jedi bumbling through things, threatening to blow the whole operation. Poor guy.

[sassysnowperson]

I have read about two-and-a-half of your ao3 stories/series, and i definitely love Bodhi Lives the most. If you Were to write some more bodhi-and-k2-in-the-rebellion or bodhi/Luke sometimesonn, I would be incredibly pleased.

Hello hello! 

If I remember right, this ask came in fairly recently, when I asked about peoples fave universes of mine. I was asking in to help figure out what to do for fic number 100! 

I wound up doing something I called Remixed: 100th Fic Fest. It’s a series of drabbles, and Bodhi Lives is the very first. 

I recognize that you were probably hoping for more than 100 words. :) But what I can offer is this: Bodhi Lives is my first fic series, probably my most original fic series, and very close to my heart. I’d like to write more - so far my muse has provided more appealing targets. 

I think part of whats going on is that when I initially plotted out where Bodhi could go during the OT and after, it was like...two years ago. I’m not as excited about that plotline anymore. I need to spend some more time thinking about things - figure out what the future holds. :) 

[sassysnowperson]

EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS!!!

The idea of Pirate Bodhi Rook (from the ficlet No Better Plan, now on Ao3) really stuck in my brain...so I commissioned it from the incomparable @sator-the-wanderess. 

LOOK AT WHAT A GOOD JOB SHE DID!!!

His hair! His coat! His FERAL LITTLE GRIN. 

Sator was a dream to work with, she listened to what I wanted and DELIVERED  (fast and BEAUTIFUL) (her commisions are open, last time I checked) (HINT)

I just HAD to share this with all of you.

[writinredhead]

I can’t. I have to. - By @sassysnowperson

Bodhi Rook lives. The why and the how of it.

“Just before the ‘fresher was turned off, Galen whispered in his ear again. “Love, this is worth dying for. But if you can, live.” Galen’s voice turned harsh on that last word, demanding.

—

‘Live.’ Bodhi remembered. He looked down at the grenade.

‘I can’t. I have to.’”

“This is for you, Galen.”

[sassysnowperson]

HI I JUST FINISHED A CERTAIN SERIES AND I'VE COME TO YELL AT YOU ABOUT THE LOVELY DEATH STAR BOYS I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE SERIES TOTALLY WORTH LOSING SLEEP OVER THEY WERE ADORABLE AND K2 AND R2 ARE AWESOME

HI!!!!!

I received this and made excited noises and promised myself I would respond just as SOON as I got off of work. 

You can see how well that went. :D 

I’M SO GLAD YOU’VE ENJOYED IT! Slightly less glad that I made you loose sleep, but STILL GLAD! It’s been a very fun series to write, Bodhi and K-2SO together are my favorite, and I’m glad you think I even came close to representing the majesty that is R2-D2. 

[sassysnowperson]

Careful Truths

Careful Truths is now Live! The next installment of Bodhi Lives.

Rated E.

Bodhi Rook is a hero now and he hates it. Awe is exhausting and fame is worse. Every single person in his life is burdened by some strange belief that Bodhi is, in one way or another, extraordinary.

Well, except K-2SO. And thank the Force for that. Still, it’s lonely, having exactly one friendship untinged by awe.

Which is why when Luke—a cheerful X-Wing pilot and the only person on Hoth who doesn’t immediately recognize Bodhi—starts coming around the shuttle bay, Bodhi does his best to keep his identity a secret. It’s great, because Luke is fun and easy to be around. It’s terrible, because sooner or later Luke is going to figure out what Bodhi was hiding.

Bodhi doesn’t stop to think that it might not be his secret that ruins things.

Ten thousand thanks to @misskatieleigh for the beta, and to @attackedastoria for having a birthday and requesting more RogueJedi stuff. This is what I pulled out of the drafts in your name. Happy birthday!