To tell the truth, I'm actually kind of picky about kidfic. I work with kids in my day job, and it's hard to write kids that ring true in terms of realistic development and behavior, as well as being fully-fledged characters. Here are a few that nailed it.
Hush Little Darling by Moonprincess92 / @mooprincess92nz
Modern AU, 2.6k, one-shot
Featuring Jyn as a frazzled single parent with a very fussy baby and Cassian as her very hot neighbor who somehow manages to calm the wailing.
Babies are hard, yo. Yes, they're cute, but they're also totally helpless and can't communicate their many needs with anything but howls. Throw in a serious lack of sleep and it's a wonder any parent survives the first year. This fic recognizes that, and the inherent adorableness of a man who's willing to give a tired mama a break, even if it's just for a few minutes.
Anecdotes (miracles) by @theputterer
One-shot, canon-verse, 4.7k
On the days of his children's tenth birthdays, Cassian is haunted by memories of his own childhood and the fate of his family of origin. But even as the darkness tries to drag him down, love and light buoy him back up again.
This author builds off another fic of theirs about Cassian's fraught childhood, and shows how complex the feelings of parenthood are, especially as the children grow and hit milestones that looked very different in your own life. Sad and sweet and lovely, and Cassian is a wonderful dad even - maybe especially - because things are so hard.
Second Star to the Right and Straight On by spacenarwhal / @the-space-narwhal
5 connected one-shots and a 5 chapter WIP, currently 25k, canon-verse
When the war ends, Cassian and Jyn start their family. Kay, of course, is along for the ride, as well as everybody else they love, and as the years go by, that circle keeps expanding.
For the first time, we have a recommendation that someone sent in! A lovely nonny writes "The balance of anxiety and gentleness Jyn & Cassian experience as new parents, and the support from their friends is lovely. The voices are spot on, especially K2, and bonus points for thinking of unique Star Wars-esque names for the kids without naming after Jyn or Cassian's parents or another pre-existing character."
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As always, if you’re one of the authors featured and would like me to change anything about the way I’ve listed your story, please drop me a line via PM or ask and I would be pleased to edit.
With that, I'm ending the monthly recs series here on therebelcaptainnetwork. I've really enjoyed doing it, but life and work outside of fandom has been getting to me lately, and I haven't been reading much fanfiction. However, you're in luck, because there's a new blog focusing on rebelcaptain recs. Give @rebelcaptain-fanfic a read and a follow!
For the RebelCaptain Network fic rec day 6: Modern AU
A bad idea by @moonprincess92nz
The typical rom-com without drama about Jyn and Cassian who are roommate and decide to cross the line. But of course, to avoid drama they set some rules, because it would be so bad to catch feelings. Or not. It’s sweet, it’s fun and I love how social inept Jyn is here.
Thank you for the (optional) tag over on my Nancy Drew sideblog (@ghostdogsofwaverly), @hurricanesonny! :D (Hope you don’t mind that I decided to do it on my main blog instead)
1. The One That Got Away - RoadTrip
2. Amnesia - 5 Seconds of Summer
3. Therapist - Mae Muller
4. Can’t Have (Yoshy Wizer Remix) - EMMA WAHLIN
5. Like a Girl - Lizzo
6. Cola - Foley
7. lovely - Billie Eilish & Khalid
8. Bad Decisions - Bastille
9. Pageant Material - Kacey Musgraves
10. Here’s to Us - Halestorm
I’m tagging (though you don’t have to do it if you don’t want to): @mabelmcbae @shalebridgecradle @greenteaparadise @problemlikelauren @moonprincess92nz and @jerkstorecalling
Just posted chapter one of the Greek leg of the Food/Travel AU:
Epiphany and cake.
Cassian, Jyn and the team arrive in Athens for the next stage of their journey. At least in the daytime it’s rather less cold than it was in Germany, and our heroes are starting to spend more time together. Both pining and eating happen...
He had to ride 12 floors in an elevator with a hot girl and a goat.
Sure, he had no idea what he was getting into with this internship, but truth be told he really wasn’t expecting the goat. He’d squeezed onto the elevator on the ground floor of the Yavin Building with what felt like a billion other people and while not exactly comfortable, he’d figured that he’d been doing ok. Maybe even fairly well, considering it was his first day of this internship and all. It was somewhere around floor five, however, when she walked on dragging said goat behind her and literally no one batted an eye. Cassian stared at the goat, then at his phone open on the last email he’d been sent from his future supervisor, and back at the goat again.
This hadn’t been on the website.
Read it at @moonprincess92nz‘s AO3 here!
Ok, this The Office AU is absolutely hysterical. I cried! I cried laughing the whole way through. It was literally like reading an episode of the office come to life. The characters, situations, games, and surreal nature of this particular office is amazing. And the author stayed true to every single character in this AU. 11/10 *click images for full size
“I love you,” he slurs, hanging on her sleeve and smiling at her with galaxy’s dopiest eyes. “Darling. Daaaaaaarling, I, I,” he coughs, splattering her sleeve slightly with alcohol-saturated spit, and Jyn almost throws him into the nearest garbage bin right there but she’s better than that, she’s a professional, she’s on a very important mission and she’s under control here. Give her ten minutes and she’ll be somewhere she can dump McDrunk here without risking he will get picked up by Imperial patrols and questioned (it’s not likely he will be able to describe her with any accuracy, but she’s not going to take risks, not when there’s more than her own life on the line).
“Darling, I loooooove you,” the mark croons against her shoulder, and for a moment she almost reconsiders that risk thing.
“Love you sooo much, darling, so pretty, so, so, good. Oh, darlin’ darlin’ daaarlin’, I’m so happy we met, you know,” And then he reaches up to pet her hair, and Jyn grits her teeth and braces for it. She can shower the grease and the booze and the vomit out of her hair later -
The touch never comes, which seems to surprise the mark just as much as it does Jyn. They both turn to look behind them, and then Jyn has to struggle to control her face for a much different reason. Cassian is holding the mark’s wrist over her head like he’s stopping a hammer blow, a dark scowl on his face, and his other hand holding a...oh seriously? A wicked, ten-centimeter long jagged-edged vibroblade that wouldn’t be out of place in a gritty action holo about gangsters who butchered their victims or something. Jyn rolls her eyes, but the mark buys the whole “dark stranger with a scary knife and a scarier face,” and he practically pisses himself as he clings to Jyn’s arm and shakes.
“Who the fuck?” he babbles, wrenching pitifully at his trapped wrist. “Who the fuck? Who the - wha’d’you want, man? Lemme go, let - who the fuck?” His wild eyes swing back to Jyn at the last question, and she adopts a worried expression and stage-whispers, “boyfriend.” The mark’s pale face turns positively green around the edges, and he all but lunges away from her, which leaves him dangling a little from Cassian’s grip like a hooked fish.
“I didn’t know, man, didn’t know! Swear on my mum’s grave, I mean, when she’s dead and all, I didn’t know, she was just, she um, she came on to me, man!” and he jabs a wavering finger at Jyn, who narrows her eyes and reminds herself, once again, that killing him might draw ‘troopers to the area and also signal a loss of control on her part. Maybe a good sucker punch to the mouth, though, that might be okay.
“Get,” Cassian says in a low, terrible voice that makes Jyn shiver slightly in her heavy jacket, and turns the mark positively incoherent with babbling terror, “out.”
He drops the mark, who abandons dignity to scrabble on all fours towards the alley entrance and then shoots to his feet and bolts off into the night like his ass is on fire. Jyn listens to his footsteps fade, and then turns to glower at her partner. She finds him leaning casually against the wall, the ridiculous knife already out of sight and a mild expression on his face as he looks up at the distant lights of the upper city. “You finished early,” he says peacefully, as if they have just run into each other by coincidence while out for a pleasant stroll. “Well done.”
“I had that under control.”
Cassian nods without even glancing at her. “Yes.”
“I was handling him.”
“I know.”
“You interfered,” Jyn starts, but before she can really get going, Cassian shoves himself off the wall and strides into her space, traces one hand down her cheek and around the back of her neck, which short-circuits her long enough that when he leans down and pauses, his lips a breath away from hers, she sighs and tilts her face up to kiss him instead of giving him the tongue lashing he probably deserves. Well, the mark will definitely remember that there were two people instead of just one, and he might even be able to give reasonably accurate descriptions - but on the other hand, residual terror will just as likely keep his big mouth shut, and they’ll be off this rock in a couple hours anyway.
And in the meantime, Cassian’s mouth is soft against hers, his hands warm against her neck and cheek where he holds her close, and he smells like leather and the smoke of the bar where he’d been watching her work over their mark for the last three hours, apparently getting progressively more irritated as the idiot pawed and groped and slobbered at her. He kisses her for several long, sweet minutes, which tells her that he was really not happy, but when he finally lets her breathe again, the calm on his face looks genuine instead of fake like it had a moment ago. She’s feeling a bit more chipper herself, come to think of it.
Still, Jyn’s not about to let him off that easy. “Nice knife,” she says dryly, falling into step beside him as they head back to the space port.
“Found it on a guy in the bar,” he says lightly. “Thought it could be useful.”
“For what, carving a skal-pig?”
Cassian shrugs, his hands deep in his pockets as they hit the main road, pushing their way through the thin nighttime crowds. “If necessary.”
She blinks at that, because he says it so seriously, then she shakes her head. “And the scary voice?”
“What scary voice?” He gives her a look so innocent it could burnish rust off metal, and Jyn jabs her finger hard into his ribs in response. “Hey!”
“If there’s any terrorizing of marks to be done,” Jyn tells him firmly, “I get to be part of it.”
Cassian smiles. “I apologize for leaving you out of the fun.”
“Good,” Jyn scowls once more, just to bring the point home, and then steps close and slips her hand into his pocket, curling her cold fingers around his much warmer hand. “And thanks.” She glances up in time to catch him wiping the startled smile off his face and settling back to his neutral mask, “for the good timing.”
“Anytime,” he says quietly, and grips her hand tight in his. “Anytime.”
sold to the highest bidder (a rebelcaptain modern au, 4.4k)
i was honoured to gift the lovely and wonderful @moonprincess92nz for valentine’s day, so here goes a modern au with roommates jyn and cassian slowly realising that there could be more between them then they’re willing to admit. (yes, the classic. ;))
part of this was inspired by the news story of charlize theron raising money by offering to kiss the person with the highest bid… so when jordan requested a college/roommates!modern au i took the idea and basically ran with it. hope you like it! i loved being your secret valentine! ♥
“I might not be interested in this sort of human contact but I do recognise people being in love. It’s actually quite easy to tell.”
Jyn takes a deep breath. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“I find this vague and unconvincing.”
Now she’s back to being infuriated by him.
“I am not in love with Cassian.” Her heart makes a little leap at the thought. Saying it out loud sounds… weird and she somewhat agrees with Kay about it sounding vague and, well, unconvincing.
Kay doesn’t say anything to that. “Also, we’re roommates,” she continues. “And he’s one of my best friends.”
“These things are not mutually exclusive.”
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Jyn thinks it’s a good idea to offer a kiss on the lips for an auction - she doesn’t realise it’s a problem until Cassian places the highest bid.
