fic: "That Middle Watch" (T) Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[tiamatschild]

Title: That Middle Watch
Author: Tiamat’s Child
Fandom: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Word Count: 1150
Rating: T
Characters/Pairing: Rey, Luke Skywalker
Summary: Rey doesn't sleep. Finding Luke Skywalker doesn't in itself change that.
Warnings: Discussion of non-sexual coercion, canon typical violence.
Notes: I wanted to write this thing

Comments

[playswithworms]

Oh, this was perfect, your Rey is just right! <3 and I can so empathize the not being able to sleep and your mind just not letting you unclench all the time. I do hope Luke is exactly the way you wrote him here in the next movie - gravely attentive, present without being pressing, steady and kind, I could just see him ^_^

[tiamatschild]

yaaaaay I'm so glad you liked it! and YAY thank you, that's a huge compliment. I hope we get Luke's kindness and how hard he works to be good to people in the next film, too.

[tainry]

Ooooooh! Agh poor Rey but that makes so much sense and her reaction feels so true and yes I do so hope we get this Luke...and it seems like there's a good chance, though Luke did have to wrangle two Jedi master trolls before he got to the gentler bits. Oh, no, Obi Wan was p good before going ghosty.

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[tiamatschild]

I'm so glad you like it! <3333

I think Obi Wan was pretty much always more of an endless deadpan snarker with a fathomless capacity for self deception than a troll. ...which might actually hurt Luke's feelings more, really. But Luke's always so kind - that first extended scene he has with Artoo and Threepio where he's interested in their stories and making sure Artoo knows what he's doing!

[rose0mary]

Not being able to sleep? That explains so much about Rey

[tiamatschild]

Thank you! Glad it worked for you. I got the insomnia impression partly from something Kylo Ren says when he's digging through her head - he says she thinks of the ocean when she's "desperate to sleep" and since the implication is that happens a lot...

Yeeeeaaah I think Rey's various problems, especially the sleep ones (and I bet food is going to be an issue too), are all rooted in things that kept her alive once. It's just that once circumstances change those things pretty quickly become maladaptive.

The opening crawl calls her General Organa! And so does Poe, in the command center scene where he introduces her to Finn. A few other people do too, I'm pretty sure. Which makes sense: I'm pretty sure she wouldn't give up anything of her adoptive parents if she could help it.

(Rey being weirded out by being around people who aren't hostile is one of my favorite things.)