my fave thing about rey is that a tiny droid she just met tells her ‘hey that dude stole my master dude’s jacket’ and she just fuckin wrecks him as if she’s not going to hijack an enormous ship like 5mins later
finnpoe fic recs
Stormpilot is my favorite ship at the moment and I’m so happy that there’s so many fics already, and look, I made a rec list of some of my favorites so far.
updated: 28.12
- how to fall in love with a fairytale by AndreaLyn | Except here he is, now, thirty-two years old and starting to believe in fairytales again and that’s all Finn’s fault. | 2.8k
- you don’t see what you possess by starstrung | Finn isn’t under any illusions. The only reason he’s made it this far is out of sheer dumb luck, and the skills of his friends. | 3.2k
- waking by kirargent | When she speaks, Poe’s heart sputters like a bot without quite enough power to fully function. “Finn is awake.” | 2.6k
- recovery begins by defira | In the aftermath of the assault on Starkiller base, Finn struggles with his recovery, and Poe struggles with his feelings. | 2.7k
- fill with fire, exhale desire by serenfyrr | Finn lives in the wake of his failures and losses. Poe helps. | 3.7k
- hyperspace by penthos | Finn has a tiny, tiny crush on Poe Dameron. Everything’s fine, situation normal. Except that Finn is overly dramatic, Rey is just trying to help, and BB-8 is the hero we all deserve. | 1.6k
- asterism 32 by black_nata | “Keep it,” he says. “It suits you,” and has to bite his lip to keep anything else from spilling out of his big mouth. | 4.6k
- just like it should by fabrega | “You’re the Resistance’s best pilot, and he’s wearing your jacket. Just go talk to him!” | 2.6k
- found solace in the strangest place by numenore | Finn remains unconscious, and Poe can’t seem to leave his side. | 3k
- maybe if our worlds collide by numenore | Some things are not better left unsaid. | 1.2k
- answers from jackets by dansunedisco | Finn wears Poe’s jacket, and people take notice. | 0.5k
- awakenings by beetle | Finn wakes up and the first thing he sees is Poe. | 5.2k
- I relied upon the moon by mnemosyne | tumblr prompt: How about the amazing trope of “you will recognize your soulmate by the first words they say to you (as it is tattooed on your skin)” but as finn was in the stormtrooper program his was removed. | 2.2k
- helping hands by isloremipsumafterall | Poe’s squadron catches on that Finn and Poe like each other and decide to try to help Finn out; it’s not really helpful at all. | 1.9k
- untitled soulmate au by poedameronfleek
- coming together by BlackRose2014 | I can fly anything. Are you Resistance? FN-2187 stared at the words scrawled in messy Standard on his forearm. He didn’t know what they meant. Well, he didn’t know what they were supposed to mean at least. What they meant for him, though, was extra protocol sessions and more scrutiny from his superiors. | 6k
- climb inside my body (captive in my skin) by ShowMeAHero | Poe’s parents took special care to explain soulmate marks to him, pointing to the blaster rifle fire on his left arm and explaining that, as he grew, so would the mark. It would become a whole picture, growing and developing as his soulmate grew and developed. Poe worshiped his mark, examining it every day for changes. | 2.7k
- it felt like burning by 13thdoctor, JHarkness | The five times Poe kisses Finn, and the one time Finn kisses him back. | 4.7k
- the defect of a defector by doctornemesis | The defect in the defector was not necessarily his moral sense of right and wrong, but his ability to love and be loved. The truest form of free will one could make. | 1.3k
- a stitch in time by moss28 | Finn and his jacket both make it off of Starkiller Base, though they’re in rough shape. Poe thinks he can fix at least one of those things. | 2.6k
- the end of the red thread by cloudnine101 | Poe is beautiful and funny and kind. Finn has no idea what to do with him. | 1.4k
(Source: johnohboyega-archive, via punkrockpatroclus)
ididthistoconfuseyouhahaha asked: if anyone ever writes that bb-8 as a puppy fic and links it to you can you please share it with the world. the world needs it.
I absolutely will, because you are absolutely right. The world needs it.
elenothar asked: Hi! I was wondering whether your awesome 'Poe is a space princess' trope/headcanon is something you're writing or a general prompt type thing because reading it kinda started an avalanche of plot ideas. Thank you! :)
Go for it! That was just an idea one of my friends had; I wrote her that story as a gift, but it’s certainly not my headcanon and it’s free to a good home. Write as many stories as you want about Princess Poe!
I am very much of the opinion that prompts/general ideas for stories are not something you can say ‘no this belongs to me’ anyway because there is no new idea under the sun but in case you were wondering please anyone who wants to write as many princess poe fics as your heart desires although tbh what *I* really want to read is Princess Finn THINK ABOUT IT TAKEN FROM A FAMILY HE’LL NEVER KNOW RAISED TO DO ONE THING but what if he was like taken from a ROYAL FAMILY as some kind of IDK punishment and then they see his face on holovids about the Heroes of the Resistance and are like OUR BABY IS ALIVE and descend on the resistance base with like tiaras and scepters and are like WHERE IS THE ONE THEY CALL meanwhile Poe and Rey are like saaaaaaaaaay what now? it’d be great (via leupagus)
Apparently I’m going to be a broken record in this fandom and it’s all your fault:
When Finn got back from his latest mission, the General was waiting for him.
“Finn, you have…an unusual visitor,” she said. Finn looked at Poe, who could usually translate for Finn in situations like this, but Poe looked just as lost.
“What kind of unusual visitor?”
“The kind with an official diplomatic brief from the Chanji system.”
“Wow,” Poe said. “You don’t see those types out here very often.”
“Chanji system?” Finn asked plaintively.
“Really, really disgustingly wealthy planetary system. They had exclusive gem trading rights with the Hapes Consortium for years. Famous for their artists. Not really the type of people who’d associate with guerilla scum like us,” Poe added with a grin.
“Sounds like a real party,” Finn said. “What do they want with me?”
“Their representative refused to discuss the matter with little old me,” the General drawled. “So I stuck him in the old pilot ready room to wait.”
Poe winced. “The one with the droch infestation?”
“What droch infestation?” The General said innocently.
Finn made a face. He couldn’t just abandon someone to that, no matter how rude they’d been to the General. “Yeah, okay, let’s get this over with. Find out what the guy wants.”
****
“Wait, you think I’m a <i>what</i>?”
“Prince Royal Teneveld IV, who went missing twenty years ago during a First Order attack on a planet that Queen Betham, who was then only Princess Royal, was visiting. No remains were ever found, and so the royal family has continued to search for their lost son in hopes of bringing him home.” The advocate took a moment away from looking primly disgusted by the ready room to look extremely skeptical instead.
“And you think Finn is this….Prince Teneveld?” Poe asked, a terrible, delighted grin spreading across his face. Finn elbowed him in the ribs, but Poe just winked at him.
“According to the terms of the trust left by Dowager Queen Maris, we are required to investigate all possible leads in this matter,” the advocate droned. “We received a communication that Mr….Finn here might be a candidate.”
Poe, who seemed to be following all this better than Finn, asked, “Wait, who tipped you off that Finn might be your guy?”
The advocate shuffled his datapads. “Ahem. Maz Kanata, of Takodana.” He pronounced it <i>Mazz</i>.
“Maz?” Finn said. “She didn’t even like me.” There had been that whole creepy staring-at-his-eyes thing, though. But that was ridiculous, you couldn’t recognize long lost royalty by looking at someone’s eyes. And Finn’s were just plain old brown, anyway. Nothing special.
The advocate blinked, slowly, and Finn got the impression he didn’t like Finn either. Finn crossed his arms defensively. “Fine, whatever. Just test my blood and get out of here.”
The advocate pricked Finn’s finger with a little device, then stood looking increasingly bored as it ticked away, processing the DNA scan. Poe nudged against Finn’s back with his shoulder, and Finn relaxed a little. He always felt better with someone at his back, even in stupid non-combat situations like this.
The little device finally trilled and stopped ticking, and the advocate turned it over to check the result. He stared at it for a long moment, expressionless, then blinked.
“Oh fuck,” the man said. “You’re actually him.”
SCREAMING
also fun fact: if you replace bb-8 with a puppy, the force awakens instantly becomes a rom-com about a tiny concerned dog going on a quest to find a date for its charming but lonely owner, and comes back with two excellent prospects in tow.
is this not what happened
Okay but someone write me this fic.
And link it to me.
Please.
I am very smol and have no money but please.
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trying to find that one post where y’all speculate about Finn realizing he needs to provide a surname, and he just goes with “Dameron” because that’s the first one which comes to mind (none of his old friends had surnames or even names beyond their official designations, and he can’t remember that much of his family)
and Rey is like “yeah solid choice, makes sense, I like the sound of it” because Rey is a feral desert child and doesn’t know any better
and of course Poe is charmed, and is like “sure I am happy to provide jackets, surnames, my elite piloting skills,
my hand in marriage: anything for my friends”and idk at some point, someone is like “okay Rey do you have any other name, what’s with the mononym shit” and she’s like “uhhhhh DAMERON” because really if it works for Finn, it can work for her
and the long and short of it is: they see nothing unusual in this and completely miss any implications, and eventually this nonsense gets back to the Resistance fighters and Poe’s entire squadron smirks at him for days
#bonus points if when rey figures out she’s a skywalker (SURELY SHE IS) #she tells finn and they’re both really into this whole FAMILY AND FRIENDSHIP AND SURNAMES thing #so she’s like ‘you are my people; do you want to be a skywalker too’ #and of course finn says yes!!! #so they are now rey & finn dameron skywalker #extra bonus points if they unilaterally decide to extend this to poe #who only finds out three months later because of some stupid admin thing #that he is now officially Poe Dameron Skywalker #and he can’t look the general in the face #‘welcome to the family’ she tells him; absolutely deadpan. #people are sending PRESENTS.
Are Poe’s parents still alive? Because he’d be getting messages asking for an explanation why they had to find out third hand that he got bonded, at the very least?
I have been thinking about this and I have decided that I was completely wrong: this entire mess is Poe’s fault, he totally started it.
accidentally! and with the best of intentions! he woke up in the desert with the ship and Finn both missing, and while he feared the worst, he still had hope. when he made contact with the Resistance, he tells them about Finn and has him listed as MIA; he felt responsible for the kid, he felt awful that this boy took a courageous leap with a total stranger & got smashed to bits in the desert for his trouble.
Poe has some vague notion that if Finn was ever found, he’d ask him to join the Resistance, or help him get settled in a new quiet life somewhere safe. He knows Finn doesn’t have anyone else, so he writes “Finn Dameron” and lists himself as next of kin.
when they reconnect, he’s so happy that Finn is okay (a bit distracted by how gorgeous the kid is, he hadn’t had time to notice before), and genuinely touched that Finn kept his jacket, that Finn was equally worried and upset over him. it occurs to him that the name thing could be awkward, so he explains his concerns, he explains next-of-kin notifications, and “you didn’t have anyone else that I knew of, so I wanted to make sure you’d at least have me.”
after that, Poe doesn’t think anything of it.
…but Finn! Finn is like, COMPLETELY VERKLEMPT, that this cool dashing hero person was looking out for him! Finn has people now - he has Rey and Poe, and the entire rest of the Resistance have embraced him wholeheartedly. also!!! next-of-kin, that’s SO NICE, he has kin now, he’s not just cannon fodder whose passing won’t matter to anyone but his squadmates. he’s a person, he has kin, he has people, he belongs. it’s so great.
he tells Rey all about it and she gets why he’s excited; it IS awesome. he signs everything “Finn Dameron” and she addresses her messages to “Finn Dameron,” it’s all very exciting. and she thinks about it, too, she thinks about next-of-kin, about Finn coming back for her, Finn choosing her.
when she rejoins the Resistance, she asks Finn if she can be “Rey Dameron” so that they can have next-of-kin too. (it simply doesn’t occur to either of them that they can get next-of-kin notifications without exchanging surnames; Poe did it that way, and it made sense to them, and they never thought about it beyond that.) and of course Finn agrees!
he forgets to tell Poe for another five weeks, and then mentions it in passing. Poe is like, professionally unfazed, so he just finds the whole thing charming. they are so cute and he can’t stop smiling over them; they are the best. and again, Poe moves on & doesn’t think anything of it.
…..and then. AND THEN, eventually, Rey finds out that she’s a Skywalker. [This was foreshadowed so heavily in the movie, I’m 99.999% certain they’re gonna go there.] and obviously there’s a lot of feelings and drama, but when it dies down a bit, she’s hanging out with Finn and they’re drowsily curled up together on his bunk because they want to talk FOREVER but they’re so tired but the have SO MUCH TO SAY.
Rey doesn’t totally understand what all of this means for her, what it means to have that family and their legacy. but she does know what it means to have THIS family, the one she has with Finn. so it makes perfect sense to make him part of her new family, to mesh the identity she’s inherited with the identity she’s made, so she asks him, “you are my people, you are my next-of-kin. do you want to be a Skywalker too?” and of course he’s like “YEAH!”
and like. throughout all of this, Poe is their buddy and means a lot to them, and they think of him as their people. (the entire Resistance has noticed how much the kids adore him & hero worship him, it’s hard to miss; they would tease Poe more about it, but he clings grimly to his virtue and hisses “CRADLE ROBBING” every time it comes up, so they mostly let it go.)
so when there’s some Big Dramatic Space Mission, and his squadron goes missing briefly, Finn & Rey are both really messed up about it. and then one of them is like, “…you know what we forgot to do?” and the other one is like “OH OF COURSE.” as his next-of-kin, they have the right to get his records updated, so that’s what happens while Poe spends several miserable weeks fleeing across the muddiest, swampiest continent in the galaxy. when he finally makes contact with the Resistance, he has acquired (1) space cholera, (2) space ticks, and (3) a new surname, though he doesn’t learn about that last one for a while.
His mothers find out around the same time he does, and they are Not Amused. “Why wouldn’t you TELL US,” they ask, and “it’s hardly classified, apparently your whole base knows,” and “we had to hear about it from your commanding officer, young man,” and “were you ever planning to introduce us, what do you have to say for yourself”
and like, there’s a totally reasonable and rational explanation for all of this - “it’s not what you think,” he says feebly, and his moms huff, unimpressed - but he’s still shaken up from the influx of engagement/wedding presents and General Princess Leia herself visiting his bedside to fix him with a gimlet stare and a completely deadpan, “Welcome to the family.” He’s had a long day, he might be married, and he’s not sure how but it’s at least 30% his own fault.
OKAY I LIKE THIS ONE
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So I went into TFA with no expectations, no real idea about the cast except the old-timers, and no strong feelings one way or the other. I really liked the original episodes, watched them a lot growing up, and hadn’t watched the prequels because everyone said they sucked. (I will be rectifying this over the long weekend, no worries.)
And the movie was so, so good.
But the moment that got me was Kylo Ren taking off his mask for Rey. Not in a shipper sense, not romantically, but just that moment. I had no idea who was cast as Ren, and the first time I saw his face felt like hearing that Darth Vader was Luke’s father. I knew what DV looked like under his mask, and I knew what villains were supposed to look like.
And he doesn’t look like a villain.
He has a soft face, a full mouth. He looks young, feminine. Villains are sharp boned and thin lipped (lookin’ at you, Loki) and Ren did not look like a villain.
He was beautiful. And I’m not saying this in a “Adam Driver is so hot” kind of way. I’m saying that he was beautiful, and that made everything worse.
Darth Vader wore his mask because of his injuries. Ren wears his mask because he doesn’t look like a villain without it.
He looks young. He looks soft. He looks *good.* He doesn’t look like the Dark Side.
And he knows it. He knows he has his father’s Aquiline nose and his mother’s eyes. He’s tall like Anakin, but not sharp and angular. He chews that full bottom lip that Han so graciously cursed him with. He knows he doesn’t look the part.
So why did he take off the mask for her? Why, when he wants something from her? Why show her his greatest flaw:
His kind face.
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THIS IS THE TIGHTEST SHIT IVE EVER SEEN
(Source: fuckyeahoscarisaac, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
guys someone talk to me about poe dameron - best pilot in the resistance, top dog, guns-blazing male protagonist - and how he was so kind. how he took an ex storm trooper at face value and with unconditional, immediate trust and even a fierce kind of joy- yeah, you go buddy! fight the darkness. i’m here to help you. i’m here to work with you. i’m not here to take control- we won’t get out of this unless we work together.
how he didn’t treat him with suspicion or macho posturing despite the fact that he’s a top tier pilot and has probably been at war with people like FN 2187 for years. how the first thing he does once they’re out of immediate danger is give him a name, treating him like a person worthy of respect and not like another faceless white mask. how he is patient with a panicking Finn even under the incredible stress of a life or death situation, ensuring he knows what to do and being endlessly positive and encouraging instead of berating him when he falls short.
how he gets out of his jet at the end of the big firefight and sees BB8 and his whole face just lights up. how he unselfconsciously runs to BB8 like a kid, automatically lowering himself to BB8′s level.
how he doesn’t need to be the spotlight, the center of attention. when they gather around the hologram to strategize, star pilot and battle veteran poe dameron shuts up and listens.
how he never has a Trek-reboot Jim Kirk-style playboy sequence, no endless string of girls. not even a hint, and you know they could have stuck it in there if they wanted to. how we never see him treat another being, human or otherwise, with anything less than respect, optimism and good nature. i’m just. i mean. do you realize how significant this is?
you guys, if poe dameron is the future of male protagonists in big action movies, sign me the fuck up.
I WAS ALREADY IN LOVE WITH HIM I DIDN’T NEED THIS POST TO REMIND ME
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