The Night Market of Dathomir

Just a slvt for the Sith: a sideblog for all things too perverse to be put on main: Darth Maul, Feral, and Savage Opress too. 18+

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Masterlist & The Night Market of Dathomir

A smut blog dedicated to Darth Maul, Savage Opress, and Feral. All content is NSFW unless otherwise noted. Minors, ageless, and faceless blogs are blocked on sight.

When the ask is open, they will be answered at my discretion, and at my leisure for the near future or, until I decide to dim the lights.

With love,

Wishmonger

*Collected posts will appear under The Night Market of Dathomir tag, and all posts are mirrored at the collection on Ao3.

LATEST WORKS

Water of Life (Explicit) Opress Brothers x Reader (AFAB Cis)

Summary: A spiritual pilgrimage for Dathomir’s third moon festival requires little of its attendees: respect for the culture and respect for its rituals are paramount, and you must always do as the Nightbrothers say — but you know for certain, what is lost in the process never outweighs what’s gained…

Least of all when Lord Maul throws a party in honour of the old Gods.

Read it on Ao3>

MASTERLIST

Darth Maul x Reader

Brula Shampoo (AFAB: gn) The Collector Ao3 Drown me in you Ao3 This Fic is Cursed Ao3 The Perfect Pet - Part I (AFAB) The Perfect Pet - Part II (AFAB) The Ritual Ao3 This is not the Sundari throne (AFAB Cis) You think you're worthy? You're not. (AFAB) Post-Battle Canoodles (AFAB)

Savage Opress x Reader

Afterglow (AFAB Cis) But what's the lucky number? (AFAB) Dathomir's Champion (AFAB) Long Days, Pleasant Nights (AFAB) The Fanged God Walks (AFAB Cis) This Fic is Cursed Ao3 The Throne (ABAB) Make you smile (AFAB Cis) No Losers Here (AFAB) Paging Doctor Savage (AFAB Cis)

Feral Opress x Reader

Article 342: One locking door (AFAB) Ao3 First blush of dawn (AFAB) Little Hours Away (AFAB Cis) Ao3 Mazes (AFAB Cis) Rough Day Socks (GN) The Dominant Kind (AFAB Cis) Ao3 Three Princes: Part I - The Oldest Profession Ao3 This Fic is Cursed Ao3 You're cute for a fuck toy. (AFAB Cis) We're Feralfuckers in this house (AFAB)

Darth Maul X Reader x Savage Opress 🥪🥪

The Feast (AFAB: gn) Opress Bros x Reader 🥪🥪🥪 Somebody's gonna have a bad time Ao3 Tell that Zabrak he just made my list of things to do today Ao3 Nobody asks the pertinent question until the end Ao3 No Quarter Revenge The Monster of Blue Coral Cove The Cold Season The Whole Loaf

HEADCANONS & SHENANIGANS

After the War (The One Where Everyone Lives) All Dressed Up Back of the throat Bookshop Edition But I still feel the bright eyes Cantina Edition Collision Dynamics Collision Dynamics Vol. II Dirty Secrets Vol. I Dirty Secrets Vol. II Dominance Traditions of Dathomiri Zabrak Evidence in the Aftermath Feral gives you what you need too. Firsts First Date Fails Gentlemen Friends & Fuckboys Good Boys Grand Theft Autumn Helpful Tips for Busy Dark Siders Honour: A Maul Headcanon Honour: A Savage Opress Headcanon Hush It's a numbers game Last Call Lex Talionis Maul sometimes doesn't know what he needs Maul's cock has bluetooth enabled Piercings Prelude to a ____. Prep Headcanons: Savage Opress Primal Questions about Maul's Cock Red Threads Rough Night Savage gives you what you need. Small, Soft Things Sugar, Baby Take my hand The one where no one else knows Two more minutes Wayfinder Wedding/Mating Headcanons Welcome to New Dathomir - Vol.I

SUMMER LOVE SERIES

Pool Rules (Trio) Summer Anthems - Vol I: Feral Summer Anthems - Vol. II: Savage

EVERYDAY IS HALLOWEEN SERIES

Lunations (Werewolf AU) Swains Lane (Highgate Hauntings AU) Kindred (Vampire AU)

ONELINERS

Murmurings Vol. I (Savage Opress) Murmurings Vol. II (Darth Maul) Murmurings Vol. III (Feral Opress)

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[thenightmarketofdathomir]

For tonight, friends, the little magical ticky bar of engagement has descended. I bid you well, and thank you for participating.

Perhaps we shall see each other again, but until then:

Be well and treat each other with the respect that's warranted.

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

Oh, wonderful Wishmonger, I hope I’m doing this right. If not, I humbly beg your forgiveness! Inquiring minds would like to know how our boys would handle a curious and painfully clumsy reader stumbling upon *insert weird sex pollen thing here*. Would they jump into a pile of zabraks to help ease discomfort or would they tease her and make her wait in punishment?

I'm a very fickle creature, anon. You asked this of me four years ago, and it's taken me four years to come to the realization that my answer may never be something I can complete in its entirety.

What I've written for you is dear to my heart, though incomplete, and I might never finish it, but Force knows I tried. It's one of my favourite things to date, and I... don't know when the next time I may return here might be. (Nothing is guaranteed. Nothing at all -- not tomorrow, nor the next five minutes, so why save it?)

I want to offer you a piece of something dear to me, in the hope that you know you inspired something that shaped this blog and the way I see the worldbuilding that surrounds it (an ask that I tried to answer desperately: the second part of a trilogy called Three Princes.)

I've written several things I love very much since this piece, but I come back to it often out of fondness, in the hopes that I can complete it. I am invested elsewhere, at the moment, and struggling on that current work, and I wish writing was easier sometimes because even when we have the flavour, the plot, the themes, the characterization, the setting, the reason to write anything at all... it's still such a fucking struggle.

But this? This is special to me, even unfinished. So have a piece, and I'm sorry.

It’s like you’ve stumbled in mid-way through a conversation; half the meaning lost to the trails of laughter that twine through tinkling hammered chimes. The caw and trill of caged animals assails you, offset by music drifting from the misty upper levels, the sizzling fat from the food stalls, and the cries of children running around their parents’ legs. Merchants shout, selling their wares: potions mixed on premises, totems fashioned from fang and claw, and talismans imbued with the planet’s ichor. Some are real. Some are not. 

But one thing is certain: Dathomir is more alive here than it’s ever been.

The mountain teems.

It’s a sound that glitters, flickering like the spirit lanterns that line the avenues and alleyways, softened by cooking smoke and haze:

Red and gold and velvet dark, and far above you, over the layers of the market’s levels seem to spill, overwhelmed by those who’ve ventured to New Dathomir to cajole for a better price, to make an exchange, to find that one special thing that they crave —

Sex.

Magic.

Chaos.

And all of a sudden, as the beaded curtain falls behind you, the door that brought you here falls away. You turn on the spot, uncertain all of a sudden what bought your passage into the Night Market, though the new realization that you’re here is about as jarring as leaving the dripping stone pathway that opens onto Dathomir’s best kept secret. And:

You’re about to lose your mark if you don’t move your ass.

“Kriff,” you breathe, and crane your head as if the crowd might part for you to get a better look through the meandering bodies, preoccupied with the contents of the numerous shops, and there — yards away and passing a merchant’s table stacked with spare droid parts, you see him:

For a Zabrak with such an enormous carriage, it takes a moment to register the towering figure is crouched, exchanging words with someone over a small display. A patchwork awning drapes overhead, frayed from years in the market, but you know it’s him:

No one wears zeyd-cloth robes anymore. No one who doesn’t want to identify themselves as Sith, or would-be Sith, if Lord Maul had his way. Just another sign of changing times on Dathomir. Under the new regime, neither the Empire nor the pillars of that old religion the Opress brothers absconded hold court here anymore, but hell if Savage Opress can find something else as dramatic to conceal his identity. 

Zeyd-cloth just happens to be swishy.

There are certain exceptions, you think, your fingers ghosting over your blaster as the man straightens, bearing up to his full seven feet two inches in height, and it’s not that the hood really hides who he is — you picked him off on Koros Major before he even turned those burning eyes in your direction. 

It’s the horns:

Only a Nightbrother who’s been bested in battle would wear their shorn horns to demonstrate their defeat. It’s not shame; it’s an honour that they were wounded and fought their way out. And Savage has two of them lopped off mid-way up the cone thanks to a skirmish with a couple of Jedi from years back. Sure, his size is the first thing anyone would notice — but being honour-bound to wear the scar until the end of his days? That’s commitment to a code you can get behind.

Sure, he might be a possible Shadow Hand and the deadliest enforcer in Lord Maul’s emerging “alleged” criminal syndicate, but that’s for you to find out, intrepid little merc-for-hire that you are. There’s no bounty on his head, so no one’s running interference, and Savage is a guy who knows just how imposing he is… But that imperfection is like a badge. It makes him interesting. 

And you like interesting jobs: all muscle and burly sway over narrow hips, thick forearms and heavy hands. Big weapons. Wide thighs. Guys who take up space and swallow up all the light. 

You shiver.

The scrip is proportionate to the mark, you remind yourself, so you best keep your focus.

He’s moving, so you follow: becoming the shadow that clings to his heels, lightskipping across a handful of systems only to bring you back to his homeworld and to this place:

The fabled Night Market of Dathomir.

That it exists at all is part of the mystique. Between the rumours that it never reappears in the same place twice, and that it only admits those who truly need to find it, you understand now that the mystique isn’t half the appeal:

It’s a sprawling affair, multi-stories high and carved out of the rock like Gorgara Peak’s innards had been scooped out to accommodate it. Between the culinary spice merchants, the rancor hide tanners, the apothecaries offering everything from crushed gorpion pod powder for hair loss to birru wing shavings for impotence, there are permanent shops set up between the vendor tents, half-hidden behind awnings and fluttering flags advertising new miracle products. Merchant criers shout in your ear as you pass by, clamouring for your attention — Dathomiri remedies, handmade red stone pottery, Nightbrother-forged weapons enchanted with ichor whose potency fades the farther you get from the planet’s nexus. 

There’s a little bit of everything for everyone, if you know where to look, but all you need is dead-ahead: 

All seven feet and one inch of him.

You slip through and between, little more than a shadow, your quarry moving again as you pass by narrower alleys whose stone markings indicate what diversions you might find in the deeper arteries where the carved stone phallus and the markings in basic point the way to the Pleasure House, two stories up, and beyond it, up the Peak: Maul’s court and the Opress royal apartments. 

You expect that would be the direction Savage was headed, but to your surprise, he ducks through a collapsed portal, a ragged cloth barrier sagging back into place to conceal its purpose.

There’s no sign, and you hesitate.

What if it’s a trap?

Swallowing hard, you flip the safety catch on your blaster, hunch up your shoulders, and peek past the mottled fabric to find —

Nothing?

Straightening, you part the curtain and slip through after him onto a narrow, mud-stone cobbled alleyway whose walls ascend at a sheer rise. Nothing overhead save for balconies in the high, high distance — the drape of drying laundry over criss-crossing lines, desiccated vines and withered creeper spilling down the walls. Too high to climb.

It’s quiet here; like you’ve found a private alcove into a dead end, and Savage?

You shake your head, easing to the back of the hollow, your fingers brushing across red stone dust from the very solid walls: Savage is gone. 

“What the kark,” you breathe.

The air thickens, gathering into form just beyond your shoulder, and much in the way that human awareness sometimes needs a moment to catch up to manifesting magicks, the tension in the alley congeals into something hard and solid — something whose rising crown of horns casts a shadow across the wall before you, swallowing you in its penumbra.

It’s cold.

 “Lost, little one?”

You turn.

A fading doorway dissolves into the rock face behind him, taking with it a little sign that you misunderstand in your mounting panic:

Wishmonger, it reads.

You’re turned around so thoroughly, eyes lifting to the gleam of firelight eyes in a face backlit by the market lights that you react without thinking: you open your mouth to shout instead of going for your blaster. 

Not that anyone will hear you.

You blink, and in an instant, you’re level with that molten gaze, your shoulders tacked up against the wall, feet thrashing as you claw at the fist that has you pinned by the throat. The clawed tips of his fingers threaten to puncture flesh.

Savage leans in, a frown carving deeper furrows around his mouth. The strong jaw and thick neck notwithstanding, it’s a blip beyond disconnected terror that registers that the monster is handsome; that the teeth he reveals in a grimace are perfectly white and perfectly straight, because such a threat has no need for the poison lacquer. 

“Mercenary,” he rumbles. “You’re the one that’s haunted me across six systems.” 

He leans in, scenting you. You give him what he wants: a pulse of fear, and in your confusion, a plume of terrified heat —

You feel the curl of it as surely as you think your heart might explode at any moment: a choke of pressure between the legs, lit by a predator’s proximity and the way he so easily hefted you up.

“Go ahead,” you mouth at him, no air to add sound to the words, but that’s not what stalls him.

He cocks his head, gaze dropping to your grip on his fingers, and to the sleeves you wear pushed up to reveal the marks on your forearms: the tattoo on the inside of your wrist.

“Crymorah Syndicate,” he growls. 

You try for a grin that winds up more grimace.

“A spy. Foolish to risk war for a rumour.”

“But you’ve heard it,” you manage in half-mangled croaks. Somehow, he understands your meaning:

Maul’s building an empire.

“Crymorah declined an alliance,” he says. As if that’s it. 

Savage stops, his frown deepening into resolve, and withdraws — dropping you with a grunt like you were little more than a sack of meiloorun. Your soles connect with Dathomir stone, but your knees give out so you crumple, coughing. 

Even his booted feet are enormous. 

What the kark have they been feeding him?

Rubbing at your throat, you peer upwards with watering eyes, but the gleam of his gaze holds steady despite the blur of the world haloing him.

“You’re letting me go?” you rasp. 

The chill ebbs, his power withdrawing from the alley so that the only cold you feel is his indifference to an adversary who isn’t worth the trouble.

“You don’t belong here.”

“I don’t belong anywhere,” you croak, pulling your blaster. “But you do — in front of a tribunal. Someone needs to atone for the insult.”

They left your people out, and Dathomir flourished along with the syndicates that joined him: Black Sun, the Hutts, the Pykes — 

Everyone’s got deep pockets, but if Maul’s at the head of it like the whispers suggest, there will be blood to pay to alleviate inter-syndicate tensions. To say the Crymorah family heads are pissed would be an understatement. 

“What do you gain?” he asks you, all burning intensity. 

You’re risking inter-galactic incident coming here, and he knows it. 

Lips pressed together, you manage, “That’s none of your business.”

A small, barely-there smirk appears, twisting his features. Your heart kicks at your ribs at its appearance — he’s that arresting. 

“You are not consequential enough for me to pull the truth from your mind.”

Savage stares a moment further, as if you’re not threatening his life and freedom. When your hand starts shaking, it’s not because you’re unsteady, or nervous — but squeezing the trigger at such close proximity to a Force user?

Ballsy. But you’re up for anything at this point. You’re not going back empty-handed.

The weapon crumples, folding in on itself as the shot fires wild — the bolt slicing over his left shoulder and punching a scorch mark into the stone wall far, far to Savage’s left. The hunk of gnarled metal flies from your hand, smacking into the farthest point of the alley, still smoking. Your fingers tremble, and as Savage descends to crouch before you, you let out a shaky breath.

The drape of his robes fall to either side of his tree trunk legs, and while that frown doesn’t abate, something glitters in that gaze that isn’t exactly irritation.

“Do not try my patience again,” he says, and the frisson that ripples through you at his tone leaves you breathing harder, gripping at the dirt. 

Gulping a breath, you manage, “I’m supposed to bring you in for questioning before the family heads — they want to know what he’s up to… to…” You press your lips together. 

“You seem uncertain.”

You curse. “Your brother insulted them.”

“And they sent you to claim their pound of flesh.”

His frown deepens, his slow, searching consideration a perusal and not the folding over you expected for someone rumoured to be as powerful as his brother.

Savage looks you over. He could pry open your mind and overturn your thoughts for himself, but instead he asks with ill-concealed amusement:

He smirks — and kark it all, it looks good on him.

“Is this insult intentional?”

You bristle, straightening. You kick out your legs, levelling with him as you struggle to standing, slapping the dust off your kneepads. 

“A practical joke?” he tries again.

You’re nearly at eye-level with him as you stand, and when you scowl the tattoos above his eyes arch upwards. It’s too innocent on his face, melting his seriousness into a dark sort of amusement. 

“Feral sent you.” 

Savage’s chuckle is a throaty, earth-rumbling sound that curls through you at a meander. It’s so decadent that for a moment, you forget that he thinks you’re a diversion sent by one of his siblings to amuse him. 

“I am very good at my job,” you insist.

One glance at the scatter of blaster bits says otherwise.

Savage’s amusement doesn’t fade, and it’s almost like he’s mocking you when he asks, “Is your life at risk if you return with nothing, little mercenary?” 

That cuts probably too close to the truth to leave you easy.

Your eyes narrow, the promise of venom pumping your blood for just a second, and then you realize your opportunity. It’s not ideal. Hell, it’s not even sanctioned — but no one is questioning how you get your quarry; your clients are only concerning themselves with the payback itself. 

Besides, you’ve read his data file; you know all about Savage’s brothers: 

The youngest, Feral, keeps apartments in the Pleasure House to distance himself from their court in a ruse to misdirect. You know he’s Maul’s chief informant, living in the heart of the action where all important figures gather at one point or another to trade gossip and find respite through theatre or gastronomic delight, and other, more diverting pastimes of a carnal persuasion. 

And the eldest, the man himself:

Maul, formerly Darth, alleged head of a conglomerate of criminal syndicates carefully tucked under the protection and care of his… Crimson Dawn.

No one can get close to Maul, least of all Crymorah syndicate. Hence... his Shadow Hand. Here. Now. Implacable and terrifying and steady: staring at you as your chest heaves and your legs jelly at the incisive attention that creeps beneath your clothes and peels back the skin. He could tear you limb from limb, pull every dark persuasion from your mind and then shatter the rest to pieces.

Power drips from him, and yet he does not use it.

“What do you want?” Savage asks you.

“You,” you bite out, which is A Truth. 

Savage slides into a particular sort of stillness that gives you pause. 

Maybe you should clarify, but the word hangs. 

Savage tips his massive head, and rising to hover over you, his gaze smoulders, his frown deepening.

“Not like that,” you hasten to clarify, though you can taste the lie on your tongue — where did that come from? 

“Your —“ You shake your head, trying again: “Your cooperation. Your time. To prove to the five families that they haven’t been slighted —”

Flustered, you dig yourself deeper, the confession complicating itself the more you try to separate your mission from what his attention’s done to mess up a perfectly clean rendezvous and retrieval. 

You were never going to win this one, you realize. Savage huffs his amusement: him, the big brute who could snap your back one-handed, and you, the overconfident freelancer who overestimated her bounty. 

“This isn’t funny.”

“No.” 

It’s a sound that comes from his chest, rippling through the entirety of the alley and curling around your bones. You shiver. 

“There is no joke.”

He glances over his shoulder at the door that is no longer a door: only the faint outline and impression of a place that was beneath a little black sign inscribed in Paecian.

“A portent, perhaps.”

Dathomiri magicks, you recall, are sometime so imbued into the world that it’s easy to forget that not everything is as it appears, at first glance.

“That wasn’t there a minute ago,” you observe.

Savage searches you, growing serious.

“You can see the door?”

It occurs to you that you shouldn’t.

You frown. “I’ve never heard of a ‘Wishmonger’ before either.”

He goes rigid. Interesting.

“Far be it from me to decipher the currents of the Force, this meeting carries the weight of inevitability. One I will not indulge in.” 

“Look, big guy —“ you start.

But Savage interrupts, bowing down just enough so that you can see every carved mark on his face; every line and every weathered edge of his Nightbrother markings. 

“Do you know what transpires here, little one? Why people come to this place?”

You search him, intrigued. “To find things they need.”

A flicker of something in that burning gaze vanishes as quickly as it disappears. He corrects you:

“To find only the necessary directions when they are lost.”

It hangs in the density of the silence between you: a truth that shimmers at the edges a little with sincerity; something unsaid but fragile, yet. 

“All magic has a price to be paid and not all can afford it,” he tells you. “And the truest sort is rarely forgiving to those who stumble in. No tricks. No falsehoods.”

And if Maul controls the genuine article, it’s no wonder the Crymorah elders are so pissed off — 

“I haven’t stumbled,” you try to argue.

“No, you’ve fallen,” Savage says. “The Wishmonger is not one to trifle with when a request is made. I will negotiate the currency, but not the exchange. You are in the wrong place, at the wrong time, ” he tells you like it’s a warning. “Let us not tax fate.”

“I wasn’t planning on going in there —”

“You would have blundered in your effort to entrap me,” he rumbles.

“Hey, park yourself, big guy, I wasn’t —”

“You’ll find that to become indebted is a price that’s far too dear.” His frown deepens. “You are unfamiliar with the dark magicks here. Theirs is an old trade, human.”

Why your heart chooses that moment to start slamming against your ribcage, you have no idea: only the knowledge that something outside of your pay grade is transpiring right before your eyes.

Softer, he murmurs, more to himself than to you, “And I have paid the price for so long.”

His hand is enormous, and rather than choking you into oblivion like you’d expected, those massive fingers look strong enough to hang off open. He’s offers it to you like you’re somehow in need of his assistance.

Savage waits.

You don’t know what possesses you to ask, but you do: “What was the cost?”

He stares, the slightest flicker of his irises boring into you leaves you pressing backwards into the wall: trapped by a predator twice your size and ten times your ability. Your nipples pebble, heat unfurling in your belly at the myriad conclusions to a negotiation whose terms you don’t yet fully understand. 

“That is not for you,” he says.

You have one final blip of a rational thought:

What the kark.

And knowing you’ve lost, and that this is just a courtesy, you take his hand. Those heavy fingers fold around yours with a touch that’s entirely too gentle, the ease with which he pulls you to your feet sending you staggering into his robes. You bump him, but hovering over you as he is, Savage never lets go.

“If it’s information that you crave, then allow me to oblige you.” He leans in. “This is no place for your kind.”

You stiffen, the heat of his body so at odds with the ebb of cold that unfolds from him: raw power, unchecked and untethered, lifting the hair on the back of your neck.

His touch falls away, but the sensation lingers against your skin: burning.

“Leave now, while you still have the opportunity.”

He’s already at the mouth of the alleyway.

“What does that mean?” 

You can’t force your legs to move quickly enough, trotting after him, the bits of your weapon forgotten. You can’t lose him again. So you follow. 

“People disappear on New Dathomir all the time,” Savage says, returning his hood over his horns, the folds of fabric draping him as diaphanous as smoke. He looks like an enormous wraith: gleaming eyes alight in the shadow of his hood.

You can still feel what his proximity has done to you, pulsing between your legs, leaving you wanting to claw at your clothes. Raw power. Bestial ferocity contained by the will do control it. 

“Some people lose themselves deliberately, others… are perhaps less fortunate.”

Following the train of his gaze, you look over your shoulder one last time, finding the alley empty and the walls smooth: devoid of any suggestions that a shop had appeared at Savage’s will and disappeared as quickly. 

And when you turn back, pushing into the crowded thoroughfare, confused and heart thumping, you realize your failing:

A distraction. 

He’s gone.

—

How you end up lost in the Night Market of Dathomir is anyone’s guess, but you suspect that you can blame an encounter with Savage Opress for getting you all turned around. The entirety of the place soars: a netting of awnings stretched over narrow, twining alleys, shadowy alcoves with bright eyes winking open at your passage. There are trellised offerings of herbs and barrelled culinary spices, droid parts beside butchers; fortune tellers and seers, a magician pickpocketing credits from unsuspecting customers. 

A trio of witches ply their arts of divination over tiny, portable scrying pools whose mirrored surfaces are too thick and too dark to be water. You avert your gaze, uncertain what you might see in the reflection if you look too closely.

Stars overhead between the narrow crevices and cracks that show the sky — bruised — the moons’ light falling inward at a slant into the courtyards you pass. 

There’s a stall that sells teeth exclusively, and another whose carved bone flutes play no music you can hear. Another sells nothing at all, but sports a little sign that says, “Needful Things” in basic. You don’t question it. You keep moving, trying to find an exit, but uncertain how you’ll proceed when you do:

The Crymorah families are unforgiving — forget your credits, they will not accept your failure. You think of running, but where in the outer rim could you possibly go to hide?

The uncertainty leaves you unfocused, and Savage, in some respect, was right: the Night Market is a maze, and there is no wayfinder that would help you here. 

Weaponless and wide-eyed, you wander until your feet get sore — until the stalls all begin to blur, the streets look the same, and the way out never appears for you once more. 

The Market around you teems, and only your chrono tells you it’s well into the nighttime. The crowd around you may change, but the Market never closes. It only grows a little more wild, and a little more dangerous as the daytime wanes.

Your stomach rumbles.

Tired, frustrated, you find a little food stall, and using the scant credits in your belt pack, buy a slab of some grilled vegetable whose smell leaves your toes curling and your mouth wet. 

It’s some sort of mushroom steak, you think — spiced, and marinaded in something aromatic, and the vendor — who has too many teeth stuffed into his mouth — hands it to you wrapped in a little flap of waxed flimsy. 

Finding a little bench beneath a darkened alcove, the shadows accommodating as you crouch down, you bite down on the juicy red flesh of the thing, and the instant the aromatics hit your tongue, the world around you slows to a languid, stuttering crawl. A pattern on the stone floor brightens, colours swirling together. The walls begin to breathe — elongating and distending as you stare — and then start to melt in smears.

“Oh,” you say to yourself in surprise, your tongue thickening in your mouth. When you giggle, the sound comes from far away, and when you blink down at yourself, everything slows and stretches, sweet as taffy, pins-and-needles warm and pooling.

You take a deep breath, your lungs expanding, and the air is sweet. Lights sparkle, and when you roll your head back, everything feels so good that you turn on the spot, indifferent to who you brush with your fingertips when you stretch your arms out wide to the sides of your body —

The hand that catches your wrist is so big it encompasses half your forearm, and not even the sandpaper-rough fingers are off-putting: it’s just a different texture; one that slides along your arm to grasp your shoulder, and even the heavy weight that rests there is delicious. 

You sag, wanting to pour yourself into that touch.

“Hi,” you say, too bright for the darksome look that Savage wears. It pulls all his features down, smearing into swirls. Bright eyes. Strong chin. Looming shadows rising up behind him that disappear when you blink. “You’re pretty.”

When he bows down to collect the fallen meal from your feet — not stomped on, miraculously — you find yourself pressing your face into a wall of zeyd cloth and warmth, burbling happily about how he smells like fighting leathers and armour polish and amber accord and those little flowers that sometimes spurt through the cracks in the red stone. 

“Mushling —” Savage mutters, sniffing your half-discarded meal.

“Force bless you,” you tell him.

 “— is a low-grade psychoactive plant that causes prolonged euphoria when ingested by species other than my own.”

He doubles in your vision. 

“It’s tasty,” you inform him.

You blink, and the two Savages appear to frown even deeper at you. Lifting an arm that floats upwards as if on a cloud, you trace the curve lining his mouth with one of your fingertips. His skin is smooth. 

“It won’t kill you,” he mutters. “If any harm befalls you, it will likely be because you invited trouble yourself. Unwary travellers often have a knack for it.”

“But you’re here now,” you counter, rolling across the width of him, your chin lifted as you sag into his chest, wriggling a little bit to indulge in a little more of his warmth. 

He doesn’t budge, so you lift your arms and reach for his thick neck. Savage stiffens. You miss the look he gives the food stall vendor, who’s now shovelling his belongings into his cart. 

His earlobes are squishy, and you run a finger along the fleshy part where it’s as soft as the rest of him is hard.

Savage catches your wrist, swallowing your hand in his. 

Callouses create nice texture, you think from a distance. 

He mutters, “There’s no antidote. It will be worked out of the system on its own in several hours.”

“Well you’re just gonna have to look after me, aren’t ya, big guy? The whoooole time.”

The rumble of his discontent is easily misread, and your, “You purr like a kitty!” probably doesn’t land as well as you’d like, because the next thing you know, those big hands are wrapped around your waist and he’s slung you over a shoulder, leaving you dangling upside down with a great view of his ass.

It’s perfection: each mound is so round and firm-looking that you don’t stop yourself from reaching for one of them, poking him in the butt cheek with a giggle and a kick of your feet that earns a heavy hand clapping to the back of your thigh so hard that you jerk from the force of it. The bloom of pain that follows spreads from the spot and into your groin, and it might echo soreness later, but for the moment, all you’ve got is the melty throb of feeling between your legs to contend with.

And that’s nice.

“Don’t squirm,” Savage warns as he stalks off, leaving you swinging, watching, mesmerized, as the globes of his ass shuck from side to side with heavy, rigid precision as he stalks off through the Night Market.

(tbc, I hope.)

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

It is said, on Dathomir, there's a tradition where, if a Nightbrother breaks the skin of a bruula fruit while thinking of their lover, the juice splatters will foretell the number of children they will bear for them.

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

I'm deep down in The Sads today. How would the Opress brothers reclaim a devoted lover after time apart?

Don't you know, anon?

There's no "reclaiming" necessary. They can scent... every shift in mood, every change in temperament, where you've been, who you've been with...

But you were always theirs.

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

Wishmonger, your return brings me great joy after a draining week!

My ask involves a topic that may be upsetting to some. If you feel this topic is too troubling to speak of in this space, please feel free to cast this ask into the fire, and let the ashes blow away on the winds.

Say Maul were to take a lover. And say this lover has faced abuse and harm in their past, much like Maul. And they are each aware of this part of each other’s past.

How might they heal each other? How could they find much-needed solace, comfort, peace, and relief in the other’s presence and love? Would Maul be able to trust his paramour to be such a balm to his wounded, weary soul? Can he, in turn, provide the same to others while grappling with his own tumultuous past?

There are only two reasonable conclusions to what's required here, my dear:

Tea.

Revenge.

But wouldn't it be poetic if the two were intertwined, together?

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

Oh great Wishmonger, could you grant me a fever dream vision of Savage with a pregnancy kink? My heart's most hopeful thanks <3

.

Everything's tender, and over-full, his hands cradling your stretched stomach, filled already, he pushes into you again to paint your body with the promise of dreams he's only uttered when you were already spent.

It hurts, a little: not the slow way that he fucks you, gentle because you're growing his babies, and not because he's filling you slow with the wet heat of promise, but the words that burn into your neck:

Carry my legacy, lover, so that you might never forget me.

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

The night market is open again! Forgive, forgive for I have missed!

I offer a humble basket of fruits for the ever-bewitching Wishmonger!!! It can be any kind of fruit but very juicy and messy to eat! A special basket enchanted that would make anyone's appetite so ravenous, they would not stop to eat until the basket is empty.

May I request for how the boys to make a mess of themselves? I would love your take on juice-covered fingers that demand to be licked and the maiden (reader) who brings them be rewarded — or not.

Signed, a slave to your writing prowess and elegance ♥ - Duchii

Oh, Duchii, to break character for a moment... there's the lovely masc dancer whose insta I follow and she does things with citrus fruit that will make you question your purpose on this sphere, and I cannot put into words what it might be like to be on the receiving end of her stare as she... juices... the grapefruit.

It's... If I wasn't already bi I'd be questioning my orientation seriously.

The fuck do I have to work with, now? Bruula fruit?

Alas. I will do my best.

Feral Opress: Overachiever. Whole face between the legs. Stylistically: 4/10. Enthusiasm: 50/10. Makes a mess and doesn't bother cleaning things up.

Savage Opress: Doesn't eat so much as tries to stuff you with his tongue; which, granted, is a viable option given that his stature is proportionate to his girth is proportionate to his tongue thickness (is there a ratio? Who's really counting?) Right: you are, using slaps to the mattress as a tally for the number of times you come on that fucking banana.

Darth Maul: Let's put the bluetooth devices aside for a second, and consider what he's really working with for a moment: a puddle on the mattress, two fingers curled to the knuckle, and a sobbing mess of a partner who's not allowed gripping his horns while he goes to town. Yes, he'll leave you twitching. Yes, you might be over-sensitized. No, if you've not stained the sheets, the mattress, the covers, his chin, and aren't bleeding just a little bit, then you're probably not "done" to his satisfaction.

...

Oh, I see you weren't meaning a fruit basket as a euphemism... oops. You get what you get, fren.

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

What are the brothers mentorship styles?

Anon, I'm going to need further specificity if you want a direct answer.

Is this kinky, or did you want something directed at Apprenticeship?

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

No need to post this just felt like saying I love your blog endlessly I've been following you for years and there's nothing quite like what you offer thank you

It's getting posted. It's been long enough.

Thank you, dear. That's very kind: I'm a whoreish wretch and I love to hear this shit, especially on the bad days, of which there have been many as of late.

Many, many thanks. You, too, are appreciated. This place would not exist without audience participation.

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

Oh Wishmonger, greatest scribe! In your observances, what is the favored way our brothers three show non-spicy affection in those rare, quiet moments? I'm feeling soft and must know 💙

*a kiss to your forehead*

Feral Opress: A tug to your hair, if you wear it to length. A brush of your sleeve, even if he's far because he will cross to you from wherever. A touch of fingers to your palm, to light the darkness because the nights are long, and that's always how it starts...

Savage Opress: Thought you never asked for it, a shorn horn will eventually appear in your apartments. It's of importance: a trophy for others, but for you: a sign of devotion. In Nightbrother culture, to lose a horn to a worthy opponent is a great honour; but to give it to their intended is a sign of absolute commitment.

Darth Maul: Does as you ask and doesn't slaughter your enemies as he intended. Once. Twice might be pushing it, but you can try.

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

Hello lovely wishmonger! You’ve written about the boys and a reader with insecurities over big boobs - so what about insecurity over small boobs? I’m in the itty bitty titty committee and it’s not my favorite.

Feral: Zero fucks given titties are for licking. You have nipples? He's interested. Not a handful. Doesn't care. Feral's hungry for everything between your chin to your toes and has never once questioned the validity of your assets based on their size. He'd prefer if you went braless, because when you get cold, aroused, interested... he's delighted. It's an advantage: more opportunities to appreciate every reaction.

Savage Opress: He's never held you face down by your tits anyway. Respectfully: Savage is more interested in splitting you open.

Darth Maul: He's seen the way you look at yourself; heard the way you talk about yourself; seen the way you try to fit some ideal that exists outside the boundaries of a reality that could be adjusted through augmentations, surgeries, modifications... the Dark Side, if you were truly determined. He admires your desire to achieve things outside of obvious possibilities... and he remembers what Obi-Wan took from him. And that's sobering, isn't it? Maul would never look at what you see in deficit as something lacking: you've never lost your legs, have you? More: when Maul places his hand on your chest, your little heart fluttering under his fingers, frantic at the threat of obvious danger, he's never gained satisfaction from how big they are: it's what hammers beneath them at his touch that counts.

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

Lovelorn, heartbroken, ribs pulled wide, I awake.

Have you been waiting long? Do you remember me... at all?

I light the lamps tonight in honour of an ancient tradition, near-lost to time: if you remember, and would partake again, then accept the humble offerings of a soul broken, battered, but resilient.

Let's remember once again the old dances: bare feet on red sand, naked under the Twins again, hungering for freedoms long forgotten...

Gods, it's been forever:

The Night Market is open.

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

A friendly reminder as I crack open the inbox tonight: we do not fuck with ageless, faceless blogs at the Nightmarket.

This space is 18+. If you're not: get out.

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

Dearest Wishmonger, after enjoying your work for many moons, I shall finally come forth with a request of my own. How would drinking with the brothers play out? What, if their SO was bad at handling alcohol?

CW: alcohol, drinking to excess, taking advantage of an inebriated person (implied dubious consent), power dynamics (kink)

Feral: Likely responsible for your state of intoxication to begin with. He'll go measure for measure -- putting down two spotchka tonic for every one that you partake of. Zabrak are a highly competitive species, after all. Recommendation: find a comfortable bush to crash into because neither of you are making it home from the cantina. But who doesn't love a drunken fumble with an affectionate Nightbrother after you've both had a few too many?

Savage: Throws you over his shoulder to carry you home and doesn't ask questions if you make a messy pass at him. He'd prefer if you remembered, so I regret, the most you'll get out of him his a glass of water, a stim, and a heavy, hot hand massaging your aches later. Don't forget to demonstrate your gratitude for his care later, Reader. I'm sure Savage would appreciate a gesture of your kindness, when you're sober.

Maul: He's partaken once or twice, but as a rule, his training under Sidious made consuming substances to excess prohibitive, though certainly, some Dark Siders of old likely had a trick or two to mitigate the effects of alcohol. I'm not suggesting he'd use that to his advantage, but as someone who's studied the Old Masters... well. I'm sure Maul knows a thing or two about controlling his body when you may find yourself a little more susceptive to its effects. Not that he would take advantage, no -- Maul appreciates a willing participant. But that wouldn't stop him from placing you in bed, making you more comfortable, perhaps, by divesting you of your clothing, and watching you sleep off the effects while contemplating the oh-so vulnerable position you've put yourself in around him. In fact, I think he'd quite like it.

[monstermag]

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[thenightmarketofdathomir]

Hello, friends.

I’m pleased to inform you that an oldie (but a goodie) from the Night Market will be featured in the forthcoming autumn issue of Monster Magazine.

Thank you for your continued support, and do subscribe to @monstermag for updates.

Yours eternally,

Wishmonger

[thenightmarketofdathomir]

Fic: Three Princes - Part I: The Oldest Profession [Feral Opress x Reader]

Title: Three Princes - Part I: The Oldest Profession Pairing: Feral Opress x Reader / Feral Opress x You (AFAB Cis) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 9484

Summary: Three brothers. Three readers. Three chapters. One new world to explore. Welcome to New Dathomir.

Warnings: Predator/prey tropes, sex work, p in v, vaginal fingering, oral sex, alien physiology (Zabrak cock)

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(Excerpt below the cut.)

Excerpt from PART I: The Oldest Profession (Feral x Reader)

There are many quiet corridors in the Pleasure House on Dathomir; little inlets bathed in gloom and limned with mist that trail off into the underground labyrinth of chambers that make it seem like the arteries of a heart. In a manner of speaking, that’s exactly what the Pleasure House is: a vital component of society that beats and thrums with the lives of those who work there, and who spend their time in the semi-dark, voices muffled by old stone. One thing is certain: you shouldn’t be here. And you shouldn’t be waiting for the wink of eyes in the gloom — following them deeper into the mountain where the corridors veer off and turn back on themselves, leaving you to the dim glow of the spirit lanterns and the knowledge that this is a path that not many would walk. Not your kind: You’ve never paid for sex. And you’ve definitely never gotten lost looking for it.

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