Dear Yoda - May the 4th 2020 letter
Hello, dear author! LittleRaven on AO3 here. So glad to have you.
The following is intended to provide brain food for the creative process, if you like, but feel free not to use any prompts if you don’t find them nourishing or delicious. I will be so happy to receive something for any of these character and ship tags.
Likes
Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys.
Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones.
Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.
More things I enjoy: fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, poetry, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments, bittersweet endings, happy endings, open/ambiguous endings, quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance, psychological horror, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love, politics, isolation, competitiveness, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming, Force bonds, Force shenanigans, Force Ghosts, time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, scars, suspense, undercover, undercover as a couple, mission fic, teaching games, compromised sense of self, interpersonal tension, duty versus desire, love/hate, possessiveness, insecurity, secret relationships, secrets, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka’s fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, sitting/lying in laps, jumping people, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of the man/men’s characterization, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of each other’s characterization, characters gathering each other’s backstory a little at a time, investigating each other, spying, sex and violence paired together, body heat sharing, loneliness, connecting to the force together, mutual pining, dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters, us against the world, ghosts, rough kissing, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, sexy baths, sexy showers, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists, epistolary
Smut Likes
character focus in smut, cunnilingus, competitive smut, ulterior motives for sex, scars, possessiveness, love/hate, Force/magic shenanigans, using the Force for sex, the divine as sex, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka's fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, jumping people, sitting/lying in laps, sex and violence paired together, fucking in the same room as your enemies' corpse, body heat sharing, dreams, pining, mutual pining, ghost sex, feeling each others' sensations during sex, rough sex, rough kissing, lap sex, sex on furniture, sex against walls, slow sex, quick sex, gentle sex, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, underwater sex, sexy baths, sexy showers, desperate sex, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists
DNWs
bleak/hopeless endings, permanently dead female characters (where she’s not even a ghost), the concept of Anakin and Ahsoka as a father/daugher relationship, dead Ahsoka (unless it's older Force Ghost Ahsoka and/or Ahsoka and Anakin being Force Ghosts together), mpreg, detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia, noncon (unless requested/prompted)-dubcon is fine, rape (except where otherwise specified), a/b/o, rule 63’ing female characters, body horror, explicit torture, permanently damaging torture, maiming, mutilating, bashing of characters or ships, unrequited love (except if it's only unrequited in a characters' head), unrequested/unprompted ships unless otherwise specified in a request/prompt (though mentions are okay), stories where nobody really cares about the woman/women in the ship, m/m outside of m/m/f ships, focus only on m/m interactions, a story where the f/f or m/f is secondary to the m/m, AUs which don't use canon settings (unless prompted/requested), underage (17+ is fine, whether you change canon ages or set things when the characters would be 17+), ageplay/infantilization, unrequested/unprompted humiliation, bestiality, Jedi Order as evil/immoral (versus deeply flawed institution, which is good), oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex, flowery terms for body parts (love cave, love tunnel), sex without attraction, actually "mad" Daenerys, anal tearing, sexuality/gender headcanons
Any Era
Character: Ahsoka Tano (SW)
My favorite and forever girl. I love her curiosity, her ability to follow what she feels is right even when she’s full of uncertainty and her life is in shambles, her independence in that. She’s still kind, compassionate, and thoughtful. I’d love glimpses of her pre-Anakin life-what was life as a youngling like for her? Did she want to join the war? What did she think of it? I’d also love to see her getting her lightsabers. Or what she did after leaving the Jedi, trying to survive and not being able to help using her abilities to help people, but working without the resources and support she’s used to, trying to find her place in the galaxy. How did she work on keeping a sense of who she was, after leaving everything she’d used to define herself, her life’s dream and goal? And everything after that; I’d love the story of how she organized and ran the Rebellion’s intelligence network, her going on a spiritual pilgrimage on Malachor, her exploring ancient Jedi temples-she got her Rebels armor that way, if I remember my behind the scenes info right. I also loved the feeling of potential her brief sojourn to the World Between Worlds opened up for her-it felt like she could go anywhere, any time. So what if she did?
I’d also love something about her connections to her home culture-she and Shaak Ti have similar headdresses, after all, and other Jedi like Barriss and Luminara seem to have distinct aesthetics that could be related to their home planets-and what seems to be an affinity for languages. We don’t see too many non-Wookies who can understand Chewbacca, and she was able to translate the ancient obelisks on Malachor.
Worldbuilding is welcome! As are character studies, and plots, or casefic. Correspondence she sends, and some she doesn’t.
I would also welcome the inclusion of other characters, of course, and any gen relationships you want. If you would like some guidance as to that, you could look at any of the ship requests below and write them platonically for this request, if you like, or include them as ships but as a support element in a gen Ahsoka fic. But if you would like to include a gen dynamic which I didn’t request the ship version of, please know that I encourage you to follow your heart!
Republic Era
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano
I really love these two, how they mirror each other and go down such different paths, how first Anakin tries to hold onto Ahsoka and then Ahsoka tries to hold onto him, the tragedy of their failure to manage it and living with that. I’d love something sweet during any time period; what about one of the times he’s sharing his mechanical knowledge-which he got from his mother-with her? I like to think it’s his way of meditation, and that it’s how he trains her with regard to that aspect of Jedi life. Or what about after a battle, when they both need to talk or just be together? I really liked the point in her novel where she’s thinking about how he used to take care of her after battles, help her deal with the mental toll of the war. I love their banter and their pleasure in dangerous situations, so maybe a moment building on that. Or something leaning on the near-telepathic abilities the Force gives them, with regard to being able to sense each others' feelings--they might sense something and pursue the matter, or get distracted and lose control of their own feelings. Not to mention, the Force gives them more stamina, so they could last awhile. Maybe they could celebrate a victory, or just let out their mischievous/competitive side during sex/something romantic. Or they could have any of the conversations they might otherwise engage in, except during sex/something romantic. Or they could be fixing his prosthesis! While undercover in Zygerria, the queen or some other factor exposes them to sex pollen. The transference of life into Ahsoka on Mortis requires sex to seal the deal after the fact, whether once or on a regular basis. Ahsoka in that armor on Mandalore, seeming cool and collected, while Anakin’s whole soul is bared in how he looks at her...maybe he wants to take it off, or maybe he’s stripped down and she rides him while still wearing most of it, or they both just do it with their clothes on, urgent and intense.
How about an AU where one or both of them was never found by the Jedi: Anakin remains a slave, Ahsoka was successfully captured as a toddler and sold by the bounty hunter (I love that bit of her backstory for the what-if of how she nearly had another thing in common with Anakin), so they run into each other under those circumstances; only one of them goes through what’s described above, until they’re found by the Sith, while the other remains a Jedi. Or maybe he tries to reach her after he’s gone back to the Light Side; what do they say, and how do they begin to move on? Does she know it, with the mystical transformation she seems to have undergone by then? Or what if he actually survived-they thought their time to live was over, and now they have to deal with living in a galaxy they never expected, together. I’d also love a Regency AU (set in space or somewhere more historical) akin to Sorcerer of the Crown by Zen Cho, with Anakin in this unstable position in society due to his origins and Ahsoka, also with a less than respectable background, swooping into his life with all her confidence and talent. Or a fairytale AU! Some fairytales I can think of that might be relevant to this pairing are “The Snow Queen” and “East of the Sun, West of the Moon.”
Count Dooku/Ahsoka Tano
They both left the Jedi, disillusioned, and took very different paths. It’d be fun to give them a reason to talk to each other! If Ahsoka had been with Anakin in the rescue of the Chancellor, would she have stopped him? What if she had, and things turned out so that Dooku felt he had to run off with her as a hostage for safety? What if Ahsoka went into the past from Rebels and, trying to avoid meeting herself and anyone she was close to directly, fell into working with her old enemies by accident? Maybe she ends up working with Dooku instead; older Ahsoka gives him a shock, being wiser and more powerful, and he ends up reconsidering his allegiance to his master? Of course, eventually her Force presence and the shenanigans do bring her to the attention of her former self and her old master…Alternately, Dooku ends up going forward-perhaps in the World Between Worlds, Ahsoka looks on a scene with him and they can feel her gaze, so they investigate and she winds up pulling him through. They then find themselves adrift in a new galaxy, working with the last Jedi against the Empire they were all used to build, and more directly against an enemy Ahsoka once knew. I also like the idea of them being stuck in loops, but the Force-sensitives being able to feel impressions of all the previous loops, which affects their dynamics and feelings for each other throughout time.
Miraj Scintel/Ahsoka Tano
What if Ahsoka didn’t need to break her cover? What kind of interactions might they have had? Miraj found her attractive, but rebellious. Still, she seemed into strength. What arrangement would she try to make with Ahsoka, if Ahsoka proved her strength to her?
Or, you could go AU with it. The Zygerrians and the Togruta seem like they might’ve had an interesting history together. What if the Zygerrian empire, or its remnants, were still powerful, and Ahsoka was sent there by the Togrutas as a tribute, or a peace offering, and/or part of an arranged marriage to protect Shili from being enslaved? Or maybe Ahsoka really was taken by a slaver as a child instead of the real Jedi-the early designs for that impostor Jedi eventually became the Zygerrians-and ended up in Miraj’s court, a valuable slave and/or bodyguard thanks to her Force abilities?
Miraj Scintel/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano
Miraj Scintel found both Ahsoka and Anakin attractive and things could have gone differently for both of them. What if, when accepting Ahsoka as a slave, she wanted to seal the deal by enjoying them both-or she just wanted to watch-and Anakin broke their cover to protect Ahsoka, failed as in the show and things went south? Or what if Ahsoka convinced him not to break it? What if they try to pretend he’s had her for pleasure before? How long does it last before they can escape and free the other slaves? Or there’s a missing scene from the episodes where something like this happened before Ahsoka got put in the cage and they had to wait to see if the other was all right. Maybe Anakin tries to make her enjoy it, to make it less awful for her, and it only gives her-and him-more to process after it’s all done? Or Miraj makes Ahsoka ride him and he encourages her, trying to reassure her? I’m imagining a scenario where they were already attracted to each other (feel free to pretend Padmé never happened or not, as you wish.) Them both being Force-sensitive would make it even more intense-the sensations, their existing Force-bond connection, their feelings. Then there’s the part where in the show, Anakin seemed to develop sympathy for Miraj, despite his hatred of slavery and slavers-his past would seem to be relevant here, as well as perhaps the Jedi training on compassion and his ability to feel for people; how would he and Ahsoka handle that when they’re being forced into this situation and watching what’s happening to the other as well as themselves?
I’d also really love Anakin and Ahsoka trying to recover together, taking care of each other, trauma-bonding. Anakin tries to help Ahsoka through it, as he does after their usual battles and struggles, and Ahsoka tries to help him in turn; maybe sharing the experience brings him to talk about his past as a slave, and they become closer. What if they reclaim intimacy and the relationship and need to touch each other more in the aftermath? What if they end up feeling more comfortable being vulnerable physically and emotionally with each other as they recover?
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress
They both left the Jedi, disillusioned, and took very different paths. It’d be fun to give them a reason to talk to each other! If Ahsoka had been with Anakin in the rescue of the Chancellor, would she have stopped him? What if she had, and things turned out so that Dooku felt he had to run off with her as a hostage for safety? What if Ahsoka went into the past from Rebels and, trying to avoid meeting herself and anyone she was close to directly, fell into working with her old enemies by accident? Maybe she ends up working with Dooku instead; older Ahsoka gives him a shock, being wiser and more powerful, and he ends up reconsidering his allegiance to his master? Of course, eventually her Force presence and the shenanigans do bring her to the attention of her former self and her old master…Alternately, Dooku ends up going forward-perhaps in the World Between Worlds, Ahsoka looks on a scene with him and they can feel her gaze, so they investigate and she winds up pulling him through. They then find themselves adrift in a new galaxy, working with the last Jedi against the Empire they were all used to build, and more directly against an enemy Ahsoka once knew. I also like the idea of them being stuck in loops, but the Force-sensitives being able to feel impressions of all the previous loops, which affects their dynamics and feelings for each other throughout time.
Barriss Offee/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano
Much as with the above, I love the tensions here, and how when Ahsoka’s faith was shaken with even Anakin not living up to her expectations-in not being the one to break her out-she was still willing to risk talking to Barriss, and it hurt him to admit she wouldn’t talk to him; how Barriss knew Ahsoka would think Anakin had been the one to do it and would trust him only to feel disappointed; how when Anakin brings Barriss in and he’s happy, but Ahsoka is clearly distraught, and how all their hearts are broken by the end. Out of all of them, Barriss was the one to first express her dissatisfaction with the Jedi in a decisive and decidedly dramatic manner. She was also the first to choose to fall to the Dark Side in reaction to that, betraying Ahsoka and changing her world forever, just as Anakin would later do on a larger scale; meanwhile Ahsoka herself reacted to her dissatisfaction by staying with the Light Side. I’d love to see the fallout of the season five finale; perhaps Ahsoka tries to talk to Barriss before she goes and Anakin reacts, or he talks to Barriss himself, or Barriss somehow gets free and they all end up having a fraught reunion. Or as above, Anakin finds out the other two will encounter each other and tries to help, only to have things get more complicated than he expected.
Rebellion Era
Ahsoka Tano/Darth Vader
I really love these two, how they mirror each other and go down such different paths, how first Anakin tries to hold onto Ahsoka and then Ahsoka tries to hold onto him, the tragedy of their failure to manage it and living with that. It seems to me that trying to kill Ahsoka was not in Vader’s plan-he’d wanted her alive before, and he had opportunities he didn’t take-so what would he do if he ever did find out she survived him? Especially if she never came out to try and find him. Does he try to keep her a secret? Keep on going in the face of her not coming back? If set before their encounter on Malachor: Force-visions or dreams while they’re chasing each other. Or during; what if the Sith temple has a sex pollen trap and they spring it? Maybe he tries to reach her after he’s gone back to the Light Side; what do they say, and how do they begin to move on? Does she know it, with the mystical transformation she seems to have undergone by then? Maybe after Anakin dies, Ahsoka decides to save him like he once saved her; ghost sex ensues. Or the ghost sex comes first and they have no idea of the result until it happens. Or it’s just plain ghost sex without resurrection. Or what if he actually survived-they thought their time to live was over, and now they have to deal with living in a galaxy they never expected, together. Is he exiled or hidden in some distant world, or even in the Unknown Regions, and does she go with him or does she find him? Or a fairytale AU! Some fairytales I can think of that might be relevant to this pairing are “The Snow Queen” and “East of the Sun, West of the Moon.” I can also see a bit of a Hades/Persephone element.
Kaeden Larte/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano
Ahsoka loves them both a lot. I love her missing Anakin and I love how meeting Kaeden is part of her regaining the sense of purpose and belonging she lost when she left him. And Kaeden could have two awesome warrior lovers to protect her! I’d love some AU where Anakin is on the run too and they welcome him into their relationship, or perhaps Anakin was with Ahsoka when she hid on Raada. Or, what if Ahsoka and Kaeden wander the galaxy doing good, and then suddenly they need to rescue Anakin? Or what if Anakin joined up with the Rebellion and is the person who reaches out to recruit Ahsoka, having been searching for her the whole time? I love Kaeden’s respect of and interest in Ahsoka in the novel, as well as how they handle Ahsoka keeping things from her; what would it be like for her to have to deal with Anakin, who’s even more likely to do this?
Cassian Andor/Ahsoka Tano
They started out life on opposite sides during the Clone Wars, very young--although the difference of Ahsoka being fourteen and Cassian being six is significant--and end up being vital to the Rebellion: Ahsoka as an early leader who founded the spy network, Cassian as a leader who took the name she created and stole the Death Star plans. The other thing that interests me is that Ahsoka, while not Jyn, did need some convincing to join the Rebellion, after a year of just being on the run and doing disorganized good deeds that went against the Empire on the way. And that's after walking away from her position in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. Whereas Cassian got into this when he was a child and never looked back. He was certain of the cause and clung to that, where Ahsoka did not.
As the person who ran the spy network for most of the years between the rise of the empire and a New Hope, I like to think Ahsoka would have known of Cassian and perhaps even met him, before he adopted the name she created--Rogue One is only a few years after the events of Rebels, if I understand things right. Or just go AU with it. If Cassian was ten years older during the Clone Wars, might he have encountered Ahsoka directly, or indirectly? How would that work if they met again within the Rebellion? Or if he were an ISB agent and she were a Sith? what if she had been a Separatist too? If the CIS had won the war, could they both be high in the government? Or maybe just one of them, while the other is part of this AU’s Rebellion?
Resistance Era
Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Ahsoka Tano
One of the most intriguing get-togethers that hasn’t happened. In their own ways, they each represent Anakin’s legacy, and they have their own relationships to that and to him. Ahsoka is his path not taken, having faced her own capacity for darkness when she wanted vengeance and chose against it, and Kylo Ren believes he is continuing his work by choosing against his capacity for goodness; as they both turn away and leave him behind, they continue on their paths, one to remove herself from the galaxy at large until she is needed and the other to dominate it in an attempt to fulfill his own needs. Does Kylo Ren ever find out his grandfather had an apprentice? What if he met her on some pilgrimage to Malachor? Or, in a universe where Anakin survived and Ben Solo still became Kylo Ren, would Kylo Ren find them together, and perhaps come to a different choice? Or maybe he finds Ahsoka in a sleep-like trance in the ruins of Malachor, and waking her leads to her being able to ward off Snoke’s influence? Maybe she trains him instead of or in addition to Luke, or a repentant Ben finds her when he’s trying to put what’s left of his destruction into a new life.
Rey/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano
I love Rey and how she is much like Anakin and Ahsoka both, in different ways. Her desert upbringing, her loneliness, the way she stays for people who have done her wrong. Think of how she won’t leave Jakku until Finn comes back for her on Starkiller Base, and how Ahsoka promises Anakin she won’t leave him, and how Ezra comes back to save her from him; think of how they both see something in Anakin and Kylo Ren respectively, and are both betrayed by them. Ahsoka and Rey are the bright to Anakin and Kylo Ren. They’re also the light side of his legacy: the kindred spirit he trained, and the girl his weapon called to and awakened. Given Rey’s propensity to get into vision-triggering situations, what if she had one of Anakin and Ahsoka? What if she wound up in a timeless space like Mortis or The World Between Worlds, and had a chance to interact with them, or go back in time? Or maybe their ghosts come to visit her, perhaps as part of or the end result of a dream-quest.
Thank you so much for your efforts! I wish you a wonderful exchange experience!
The following is intended to provide brain food for the creative process, if you like, but feel free not to use any prompts if you don’t find them nourishing or delicious. I will be so happy to receive something for any of these character and ship tags.
Likes
Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys.
Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones.
Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.
More things I enjoy: fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, poetry, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments, bittersweet endings, happy endings, open/ambiguous endings, quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance, psychological horror, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love, politics, isolation, competitiveness, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming, Force bonds, Force shenanigans, Force Ghosts, time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, scars, suspense, undercover, undercover as a couple, mission fic, teaching games, compromised sense of self, interpersonal tension, duty versus desire, love/hate, possessiveness, insecurity, secret relationships, secrets, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka’s fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, sitting/lying in laps, jumping people, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of the man/men’s characterization, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of each other’s characterization, characters gathering each other’s backstory a little at a time, investigating each other, spying, sex and violence paired together, body heat sharing, loneliness, connecting to the force together, mutual pining, dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters, us against the world, ghosts, rough kissing, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, sexy baths, sexy showers, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists, epistolary
Smut Likes
character focus in smut, cunnilingus, competitive smut, ulterior motives for sex, scars, possessiveness, love/hate, Force/magic shenanigans, using the Force for sex, the divine as sex, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka's fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, jumping people, sitting/lying in laps, sex and violence paired together, fucking in the same room as your enemies' corpse, body heat sharing, dreams, pining, mutual pining, ghost sex, feeling each others' sensations during sex, rough sex, rough kissing, lap sex, sex on furniture, sex against walls, slow sex, quick sex, gentle sex, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, underwater sex, sexy baths, sexy showers, desperate sex, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists
DNWs
bleak/hopeless endings, permanently dead female characters (where she’s not even a ghost), the concept of Anakin and Ahsoka as a father/daugher relationship, dead Ahsoka (unless it's older Force Ghost Ahsoka and/or Ahsoka and Anakin being Force Ghosts together), mpreg, detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia, noncon (unless requested/prompted)-dubcon is fine, rape (except where otherwise specified), a/b/o, rule 63’ing female characters, body horror, explicit torture, permanently damaging torture, maiming, mutilating, bashing of characters or ships, unrequited love (except if it's only unrequited in a characters' head), unrequested/unprompted ships unless otherwise specified in a request/prompt (though mentions are okay), stories where nobody really cares about the woman/women in the ship, m/m outside of m/m/f ships, focus only on m/m interactions, a story where the f/f or m/f is secondary to the m/m, AUs which don't use canon settings (unless prompted/requested), underage (17+ is fine, whether you change canon ages or set things when the characters would be 17+), ageplay/infantilization, unrequested/unprompted humiliation, bestiality, Jedi Order as evil/immoral (versus deeply flawed institution, which is good), oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex, flowery terms for body parts (love cave, love tunnel), sex without attraction, actually "mad" Daenerys, anal tearing, sexuality/gender headcanons
Any Era
Character: Ahsoka Tano (SW)
My favorite and forever girl. I love her curiosity, her ability to follow what she feels is right even when she’s full of uncertainty and her life is in shambles, her independence in that. She’s still kind, compassionate, and thoughtful. I’d love glimpses of her pre-Anakin life-what was life as a youngling like for her? Did she want to join the war? What did she think of it? I’d also love to see her getting her lightsabers. Or what she did after leaving the Jedi, trying to survive and not being able to help using her abilities to help people, but working without the resources and support she’s used to, trying to find her place in the galaxy. How did she work on keeping a sense of who she was, after leaving everything she’d used to define herself, her life’s dream and goal? And everything after that; I’d love the story of how she organized and ran the Rebellion’s intelligence network, her going on a spiritual pilgrimage on Malachor, her exploring ancient Jedi temples-she got her Rebels armor that way, if I remember my behind the scenes info right. I also loved the feeling of potential her brief sojourn to the World Between Worlds opened up for her-it felt like she could go anywhere, any time. So what if she did?
I’d also love something about her connections to her home culture-she and Shaak Ti have similar headdresses, after all, and other Jedi like Barriss and Luminara seem to have distinct aesthetics that could be related to their home planets-and what seems to be an affinity for languages. We don’t see too many non-Wookies who can understand Chewbacca, and she was able to translate the ancient obelisks on Malachor.
Worldbuilding is welcome! As are character studies, and plots, or casefic. Correspondence she sends, and some she doesn’t.
I would also welcome the inclusion of other characters, of course, and any gen relationships you want. If you would like some guidance as to that, you could look at any of the ship requests below and write them platonically for this request, if you like, or include them as ships but as a support element in a gen Ahsoka fic. But if you would like to include a gen dynamic which I didn’t request the ship version of, please know that I encourage you to follow your heart!
Republic Era
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano
I really love these two, how they mirror each other and go down such different paths, how first Anakin tries to hold onto Ahsoka and then Ahsoka tries to hold onto him, the tragedy of their failure to manage it and living with that. I’d love something sweet during any time period; what about one of the times he’s sharing his mechanical knowledge-which he got from his mother-with her? I like to think it’s his way of meditation, and that it’s how he trains her with regard to that aspect of Jedi life. Or what about after a battle, when they both need to talk or just be together? I really liked the point in her novel where she’s thinking about how he used to take care of her after battles, help her deal with the mental toll of the war. I love their banter and their pleasure in dangerous situations, so maybe a moment building on that. Or something leaning on the near-telepathic abilities the Force gives them, with regard to being able to sense each others' feelings--they might sense something and pursue the matter, or get distracted and lose control of their own feelings. Not to mention, the Force gives them more stamina, so they could last awhile. Maybe they could celebrate a victory, or just let out their mischievous/competitive side during sex/something romantic. Or they could have any of the conversations they might otherwise engage in, except during sex/something romantic. Or they could be fixing his prosthesis! While undercover in Zygerria, the queen or some other factor exposes them to sex pollen. The transference of life into Ahsoka on Mortis requires sex to seal the deal after the fact, whether once or on a regular basis. Ahsoka in that armor on Mandalore, seeming cool and collected, while Anakin’s whole soul is bared in how he looks at her...maybe he wants to take it off, or maybe he’s stripped down and she rides him while still wearing most of it, or they both just do it with their clothes on, urgent and intense.
How about an AU where one or both of them was never found by the Jedi: Anakin remains a slave, Ahsoka was successfully captured as a toddler and sold by the bounty hunter (I love that bit of her backstory for the what-if of how she nearly had another thing in common with Anakin), so they run into each other under those circumstances; only one of them goes through what’s described above, until they’re found by the Sith, while the other remains a Jedi. Or maybe he tries to reach her after he’s gone back to the Light Side; what do they say, and how do they begin to move on? Does she know it, with the mystical transformation she seems to have undergone by then? Or what if he actually survived-they thought their time to live was over, and now they have to deal with living in a galaxy they never expected, together. I’d also love a Regency AU (set in space or somewhere more historical) akin to Sorcerer of the Crown by Zen Cho, with Anakin in this unstable position in society due to his origins and Ahsoka, also with a less than respectable background, swooping into his life with all her confidence and talent. Or a fairytale AU! Some fairytales I can think of that might be relevant to this pairing are “The Snow Queen” and “East of the Sun, West of the Moon.”
Count Dooku/Ahsoka Tano
They both left the Jedi, disillusioned, and took very different paths. It’d be fun to give them a reason to talk to each other! If Ahsoka had been with Anakin in the rescue of the Chancellor, would she have stopped him? What if she had, and things turned out so that Dooku felt he had to run off with her as a hostage for safety? What if Ahsoka went into the past from Rebels and, trying to avoid meeting herself and anyone she was close to directly, fell into working with her old enemies by accident? Maybe she ends up working with Dooku instead; older Ahsoka gives him a shock, being wiser and more powerful, and he ends up reconsidering his allegiance to his master? Of course, eventually her Force presence and the shenanigans do bring her to the attention of her former self and her old master…Alternately, Dooku ends up going forward-perhaps in the World Between Worlds, Ahsoka looks on a scene with him and they can feel her gaze, so they investigate and she winds up pulling him through. They then find themselves adrift in a new galaxy, working with the last Jedi against the Empire they were all used to build, and more directly against an enemy Ahsoka once knew. I also like the idea of them being stuck in loops, but the Force-sensitives being able to feel impressions of all the previous loops, which affects their dynamics and feelings for each other throughout time.
Miraj Scintel/Ahsoka Tano
What if Ahsoka didn’t need to break her cover? What kind of interactions might they have had? Miraj found her attractive, but rebellious. Still, she seemed into strength. What arrangement would she try to make with Ahsoka, if Ahsoka proved her strength to her?
Or, you could go AU with it. The Zygerrians and the Togruta seem like they might’ve had an interesting history together. What if the Zygerrian empire, or its remnants, were still powerful, and Ahsoka was sent there by the Togrutas as a tribute, or a peace offering, and/or part of an arranged marriage to protect Shili from being enslaved? Or maybe Ahsoka really was taken by a slaver as a child instead of the real Jedi-the early designs for that impostor Jedi eventually became the Zygerrians-and ended up in Miraj’s court, a valuable slave and/or bodyguard thanks to her Force abilities?
Miraj Scintel/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano
Miraj Scintel found both Ahsoka and Anakin attractive and things could have gone differently for both of them. What if, when accepting Ahsoka as a slave, she wanted to seal the deal by enjoying them both-or she just wanted to watch-and Anakin broke their cover to protect Ahsoka, failed as in the show and things went south? Or what if Ahsoka convinced him not to break it? What if they try to pretend he’s had her for pleasure before? How long does it last before they can escape and free the other slaves? Or there’s a missing scene from the episodes where something like this happened before Ahsoka got put in the cage and they had to wait to see if the other was all right. Maybe Anakin tries to make her enjoy it, to make it less awful for her, and it only gives her-and him-more to process after it’s all done? Or Miraj makes Ahsoka ride him and he encourages her, trying to reassure her? I’m imagining a scenario where they were already attracted to each other (feel free to pretend Padmé never happened or not, as you wish.) Them both being Force-sensitive would make it even more intense-the sensations, their existing Force-bond connection, their feelings. Then there’s the part where in the show, Anakin seemed to develop sympathy for Miraj, despite his hatred of slavery and slavers-his past would seem to be relevant here, as well as perhaps the Jedi training on compassion and his ability to feel for people; how would he and Ahsoka handle that when they’re being forced into this situation and watching what’s happening to the other as well as themselves?
I’d also really love Anakin and Ahsoka trying to recover together, taking care of each other, trauma-bonding. Anakin tries to help Ahsoka through it, as he does after their usual battles and struggles, and Ahsoka tries to help him in turn; maybe sharing the experience brings him to talk about his past as a slave, and they become closer. What if they reclaim intimacy and the relationship and need to touch each other more in the aftermath? What if they end up feeling more comfortable being vulnerable physically and emotionally with each other as they recover?
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress
They both left the Jedi, disillusioned, and took very different paths. It’d be fun to give them a reason to talk to each other! If Ahsoka had been with Anakin in the rescue of the Chancellor, would she have stopped him? What if she had, and things turned out so that Dooku felt he had to run off with her as a hostage for safety? What if Ahsoka went into the past from Rebels and, trying to avoid meeting herself and anyone she was close to directly, fell into working with her old enemies by accident? Maybe she ends up working with Dooku instead; older Ahsoka gives him a shock, being wiser and more powerful, and he ends up reconsidering his allegiance to his master? Of course, eventually her Force presence and the shenanigans do bring her to the attention of her former self and her old master…Alternately, Dooku ends up going forward-perhaps in the World Between Worlds, Ahsoka looks on a scene with him and they can feel her gaze, so they investigate and she winds up pulling him through. They then find themselves adrift in a new galaxy, working with the last Jedi against the Empire they were all used to build, and more directly against an enemy Ahsoka once knew. I also like the idea of them being stuck in loops, but the Force-sensitives being able to feel impressions of all the previous loops, which affects their dynamics and feelings for each other throughout time.
Barriss Offee/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano
Much as with the above, I love the tensions here, and how when Ahsoka’s faith was shaken with even Anakin not living up to her expectations-in not being the one to break her out-she was still willing to risk talking to Barriss, and it hurt him to admit she wouldn’t talk to him; how Barriss knew Ahsoka would think Anakin had been the one to do it and would trust him only to feel disappointed; how when Anakin brings Barriss in and he’s happy, but Ahsoka is clearly distraught, and how all their hearts are broken by the end. Out of all of them, Barriss was the one to first express her dissatisfaction with the Jedi in a decisive and decidedly dramatic manner. She was also the first to choose to fall to the Dark Side in reaction to that, betraying Ahsoka and changing her world forever, just as Anakin would later do on a larger scale; meanwhile Ahsoka herself reacted to her dissatisfaction by staying with the Light Side. I’d love to see the fallout of the season five finale; perhaps Ahsoka tries to talk to Barriss before she goes and Anakin reacts, or he talks to Barriss himself, or Barriss somehow gets free and they all end up having a fraught reunion. Or as above, Anakin finds out the other two will encounter each other and tries to help, only to have things get more complicated than he expected.
Rebellion Era
Ahsoka Tano/Darth Vader
I really love these two, how they mirror each other and go down such different paths, how first Anakin tries to hold onto Ahsoka and then Ahsoka tries to hold onto him, the tragedy of their failure to manage it and living with that. It seems to me that trying to kill Ahsoka was not in Vader’s plan-he’d wanted her alive before, and he had opportunities he didn’t take-so what would he do if he ever did find out she survived him? Especially if she never came out to try and find him. Does he try to keep her a secret? Keep on going in the face of her not coming back? If set before their encounter on Malachor: Force-visions or dreams while they’re chasing each other. Or during; what if the Sith temple has a sex pollen trap and they spring it? Maybe he tries to reach her after he’s gone back to the Light Side; what do they say, and how do they begin to move on? Does she know it, with the mystical transformation she seems to have undergone by then? Maybe after Anakin dies, Ahsoka decides to save him like he once saved her; ghost sex ensues. Or the ghost sex comes first and they have no idea of the result until it happens. Or it’s just plain ghost sex without resurrection. Or what if he actually survived-they thought their time to live was over, and now they have to deal with living in a galaxy they never expected, together. Is he exiled or hidden in some distant world, or even in the Unknown Regions, and does she go with him or does she find him? Or a fairytale AU! Some fairytales I can think of that might be relevant to this pairing are “The Snow Queen” and “East of the Sun, West of the Moon.” I can also see a bit of a Hades/Persephone element.
Kaeden Larte/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano
Ahsoka loves them both a lot. I love her missing Anakin and I love how meeting Kaeden is part of her regaining the sense of purpose and belonging she lost when she left him. And Kaeden could have two awesome warrior lovers to protect her! I’d love some AU where Anakin is on the run too and they welcome him into their relationship, or perhaps Anakin was with Ahsoka when she hid on Raada. Or, what if Ahsoka and Kaeden wander the galaxy doing good, and then suddenly they need to rescue Anakin? Or what if Anakin joined up with the Rebellion and is the person who reaches out to recruit Ahsoka, having been searching for her the whole time? I love Kaeden’s respect of and interest in Ahsoka in the novel, as well as how they handle Ahsoka keeping things from her; what would it be like for her to have to deal with Anakin, who’s even more likely to do this?
Cassian Andor/Ahsoka Tano
They started out life on opposite sides during the Clone Wars, very young--although the difference of Ahsoka being fourteen and Cassian being six is significant--and end up being vital to the Rebellion: Ahsoka as an early leader who founded the spy network, Cassian as a leader who took the name she created and stole the Death Star plans. The other thing that interests me is that Ahsoka, while not Jyn, did need some convincing to join the Rebellion, after a year of just being on the run and doing disorganized good deeds that went against the Empire on the way. And that's after walking away from her position in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. Whereas Cassian got into this when he was a child and never looked back. He was certain of the cause and clung to that, where Ahsoka did not.
As the person who ran the spy network for most of the years between the rise of the empire and a New Hope, I like to think Ahsoka would have known of Cassian and perhaps even met him, before he adopted the name she created--Rogue One is only a few years after the events of Rebels, if I understand things right. Or just go AU with it. If Cassian was ten years older during the Clone Wars, might he have encountered Ahsoka directly, or indirectly? How would that work if they met again within the Rebellion? Or if he were an ISB agent and she were a Sith? what if she had been a Separatist too? If the CIS had won the war, could they both be high in the government? Or maybe just one of them, while the other is part of this AU’s Rebellion?
Resistance Era
Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Ahsoka Tano
One of the most intriguing get-togethers that hasn’t happened. In their own ways, they each represent Anakin’s legacy, and they have their own relationships to that and to him. Ahsoka is his path not taken, having faced her own capacity for darkness when she wanted vengeance and chose against it, and Kylo Ren believes he is continuing his work by choosing against his capacity for goodness; as they both turn away and leave him behind, they continue on their paths, one to remove herself from the galaxy at large until she is needed and the other to dominate it in an attempt to fulfill his own needs. Does Kylo Ren ever find out his grandfather had an apprentice? What if he met her on some pilgrimage to Malachor? Or, in a universe where Anakin survived and Ben Solo still became Kylo Ren, would Kylo Ren find them together, and perhaps come to a different choice? Or maybe he finds Ahsoka in a sleep-like trance in the ruins of Malachor, and waking her leads to her being able to ward off Snoke’s influence? Maybe she trains him instead of or in addition to Luke, or a repentant Ben finds her when he’s trying to put what’s left of his destruction into a new life.
Rey/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano
I love Rey and how she is much like Anakin and Ahsoka both, in different ways. Her desert upbringing, her loneliness, the way she stays for people who have done her wrong. Think of how she won’t leave Jakku until Finn comes back for her on Starkiller Base, and how Ahsoka promises Anakin she won’t leave him, and how Ezra comes back to save her from him; think of how they both see something in Anakin and Kylo Ren respectively, and are both betrayed by them. Ahsoka and Rey are the bright to Anakin and Kylo Ren. They’re also the light side of his legacy: the kindred spirit he trained, and the girl his weapon called to and awakened. Given Rey’s propensity to get into vision-triggering situations, what if she had one of Anakin and Ahsoka? What if she wound up in a timeless space like Mortis or The World Between Worlds, and had a chance to interact with them, or go back in time? Or maybe their ghosts come to visit her, perhaps as part of or the end result of a dream-quest.
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