▲ Rogue One as even more of a Tragedy!au } jynleia edition
(aka, the one where Jyn and Leia meet a few years before the events of the movie, Jyn joins the rebellion and fights with them this time too and as they’re just about reaching adulthood they’re realising their feelings for each other.
Bodhi’s defection comes just as their relationship is getting started, the two of them separated by duty and promising to return to one another so they can seriously try out being together as more than friends, only for Jyn to die on Scarif just as Leia receives her transmission and the new hope for the rebellion).
“What is it they’ve sent us?”
Leia takes it from him. Such a small thing. How many have died for this? For one lump of metal smaller than her palm. How many were left behind to suffer the loss of those sacrificed? Who else had felt that inexplicable closeness, who else had felt as if they could see their loved one right before their eyes, moments before being overwhelmed by the striking horror of loss? One moment closer than thought possible, the next nothingness?
As though Jyn had cried out with all she had and then been suddenly silenced. Jyn hadn’t even been with her. How can she know the precise moment the wave hit her?
Leia dismisses it. She can’t know such a thing
Her head is burning and her fingers probably wrap around the disc tighter than is strictly necessary, but she musters up a smile.
She turns away from the man who’d brought the transmission, stares out into space through the ship’s window. What had they sent them? What was Jyn leaving behind?
Her smile softens into something genuine as she states simply;
“Hope.”
