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Dear Age Gap Ex Author,
Thank you so much for wanting to write these ships! I’ll be so happy with any of them. Feel free to ignore any of the prompts; they’re just for if you’d like something to look at to get the wheels going. Also, I want you to know that while some of them are longer and some shorter, I still want them all just the same!
Likes:
Parallels (and contrasts) between characters and their journeys are a thing for me.
I like characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially when women are the ones 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.
Here are some more things I enjoy: fusions, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, character focus in smut, 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—these fandoms do have a high drama quotient, psychological horror, cunnilingus, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love, politics, isolation, competitiveness, competitive smut, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming, ulterior motives for sex, 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, the divine as sex, using the Force for 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, 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, fucking in the same room as your enemies’ corpse, body heat sharing, loneliness, connecting to the force together mutual pining, dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters, us against the world, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, ghosts, ghost sex, feeling each others sensations during sex, IF/interactive fiction, poetry
DNWs:
permanently dead female characters (where she’s not even a ghost), the concept of Anakin and Ahsoka as a father/daugher relationship, mpreg, detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia, noncon (unless requested/prompted)—dubcon is fine, rape (except where specified below), 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 (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, humiliation (unless requested/prompted), bestiality, Jedi Order as evil/immoral (versus deeply flawed institution, which is is good), oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Fanfiction
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (TCW), Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (TCW),
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (TCW)
I really love these two, how they mirror each other and go such down 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. 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.”
Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (TCW)
They start out in one place and end up in quite another, betrayed and eventually losing all their kind to the war and the Sith. They both turn to the underworld to cope: Ahsoka goes a little more criminal as a smuggler, even if she still does good deeds, and Asajj is willing to show mercy instead of just ruthlessly going after the money as a bounty hunter. I love how Asajj sees herself in Ahsoka, despite their former status as enemies, and Ahsoka being willing to plead her case. Their partnership is one of convenience, but they’re open to the idea that there’s more going on with the other than they thought. What if for some reason Ahsoka did stay with the Jedi, at least long enough to try to help Asajj out with them, or one of them sought the other out after she left? Maybe they run into each other on separate missions, or team up for one, and it leads to more reevaluation of where they stand? I could see Asajj occasionally helping Ahsoka out when it comes to protecting children from the Sith.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Fanfiction
Darla/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Buffy Summers/Maggie Walsh (BtVS), Rupert Giles/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Drusilla/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Angel/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Darla/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
This is something I’d have loved to see more of in the show. They both captivated and kickstarted Angel into a new life, they both, in a way, killed him. Darla pretends to be Buffy’s student friend; what if she’d done more with that? What if she’d developed an interest in figuring out what made Buffy dangerous to them? Maybe Buffy gets a chance to investigate her in return, and develops a fascination, and/or dreams of her. Or what if she’d survived—if she’d ended up being chipped by the Initiative instead of Spike—it’d be fun to see her trying to play both sides, and Buffy reconciling her issues with her with the fact that she’s, in one way at least, helpless? Maybe she’s around in season six and sees potential in Buffy’s depressive state. Alternatively, Darla’s plans after becoming a vampire again involve handling Buffy so that she can’t be a threat again—except it goes differently than killing her. If inspiration strikes, feel free to use Drusilla with these prompts as well, or combine any of these with the Drusilla/Buffy prompts below.
Buffy Summers/Maggie Walsh (BtVS)
I really enjoyed how Buffy found a new mentor in Maggie, and seemed to really look up to her; I’d have loved to see that explored longer. Maybe a little more cat and mouse with regard to the Initiative and the Slayer, before they find out who they are; meanwhile Buffy keeps enrolling in Maggie’s other classes, or visits her during office hours anyway for advice. Alternatively, Maggie is less ready to dispose of Buffy than in canon, because she sees potential in the Initiative having control of her; maybe as Buffy herself grows less interested in Riley and more in Maggie. Or, tell me more about Maggie’s pov when she was watching Buffy and Riley have sex after a fight.
Rupert Giles/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
A loving yet tense relationship, as the personal and the professional blur; I love how they love each other and yet out loud they try to contain the relationship with the words of their titles, defining themselves as Watcher and Slayer when they mean so much more to each other. I love the mix of intimacy and duty. They try to take care of each other. They don’t always manage it, but they try. I’d love to see them dealing with the after-effects of “Helpless”; Buffy forgives him, but they don’t forget. What if we saw more of the scene where she’s letting him take care of her wound? Or something when they get to talk after the events of season six, without having to immediately worry about Willow or the First—perhaps phone calls to the other side of the world between seasons? Happy adventures in Europe post-series?
Drusilla/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
These two get paralleled quite a bit! Both fixations of Angel, both psychic and isolated from society in their power. Buffy dreams of Drusilla around Angel, and Drusilla sees her around Spike. Drusilla is delighted at the thought that Angel will to do Buffy what he did to her—and I understood that to be both breaking and turning her. What if she’d played a more active role in bringing that about? Does she want a new pet? Or perhaps later, when she and Darla are trying to get Angel, then Spike back; maybe this time she wants to get Buffy too, finds it fitting after Buffy had so much to do with what happened to the other vampires in her family. On Buffy’s side, she’s disturbed to hear what Angel did to Drusilla—she must think of it afterwards when he’s torturing her. What’s going through her mind then? Does she dream of Drusilla, past and present—and possibly future? What if Drusilla came back when Buffy was hitting her lows in season six? If inspiration strikes, feel free to add Darla to these prompts, or combine them with the Darla/Buffy prompts above.
Angel/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
I love these two and how much they mean to each other, from the early seasons to the last. I enjoy all the scenes when they’re taking care of each other, whether it’s Buffy trying to nurse Angel back to health and sanity or Angel helping Buffy through a difficult moment. I’d be happy with some cuddling in her room or the mansion in the early seasons, a quick visit during the later seasons, the classic “what happened when they met in early BTVS season six/ATS season three” story, a bittersweet moment where one needs the other’s help on a mission during the years they spend apart, or a happy ending after all. Or maybe what happens in a Wishverse where Buffy and Angel survive the fight at the Bronze, or don’t go at all—what if Angel hadn’t gone to wait for her in Sunnydale, but had followed her to Cleveland? In both universes, they’re lonely souls stuck in-between worlds; how does their relationship work out with a Buffy who’s a little more jaded?
Crossover Fandom
Fanfiction
Rey (SW ST)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Leia Organa (SW ST)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Leia Organa (SW OT)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Jyn Erso (SW R1)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Cassian Andor (SW R1)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Ares (Xena)/Cara Mason (Legend of the Seeker), James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean)/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Aragorn | Estel (Lord of the Rings Movies)/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Rey (SW ST)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels)
The concept of these two meeting is great! Ahsoka is touched by the light side, both in her choice to live in it and in how its very essence gave her back her life. Rey awoke to her power as the dark side rose. They both try to reach a dark-side user they see more in, and succeed, only to be betrayed by him, and they both face the hard choice of letting him go and coming in to their potential themselves, without any help. What if Ahsoka walked through another portal, when she knew it was time? Or perhaps she learned how to become a Force Ghost and that is the version Rey meets on a dream quest? Or maybe Ahsoka has become ageless, in a sleep-like trance under Malachor’s ruined Temple, until Rey goes there and wakes her up?
Leia Organa (SW ST)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Leia Organa (SW OT)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels)
A founder of the Rebellion with one of its daughters. They both deal with such massive loss, largely alone. Leia had more of a support system, but we don’t see her availing herself of it. Ahsoka had no one; it seems even when she did meet with friends, if was brief and often work-related, as being a spymaster is a lonely job. Maybe Ahsoka comes back to see Leia when she’s grown, and teaches her a little of the Force. Maybe they both have to deal with the realities of Anakin/Vader together. What if Leia dreams of Ahsoka? What if they stay together throughout the OT and the ST? I don’t hate Han; handle him however you like. Maybe Leia has separate relationships with both of them, or they’re all together? Or they get back together after Han has been killed, and Ahsoka helps Leia through her grief as they both grapple with Anakin’s legacy.
Jyn Erso (SW R1)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels)
They know what it’s like to have to put survival first, before finding purpose again with the Rebellion. It’s something they might recognize in each other. What if the place Saw takes Jyn’s family to is Ahsoka, and she hides them? Or Jyn meets Ahsoka while Ahsoka is dealing with the Partisan cell of the Rebellion, and leaves with her instead of being alone? Maybe Ahsoka joins Jyn when she’s taken to get to Saw, in hopes of increasing the chances that he’ll see them, and that’s how they meet? Or it’s Ahsoka who picks Jyn up from the Imperial prison. What if Ahsoka was part of the Partisans, and they had a bittersweet relationship? Maybe Jyn is Force-sensitive and Ahsoka teaches her how to make a lightsaber out of that kyber crystal.
Cassian Andor (SW R1)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels)
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?
Ares (Xena)/Cara Mason (Legend of the Seeker)
It feels like these two would get along like a house on fire, with all the heat and destruction that implies. Cara seemed to have a little ambition beyond serving Rahl in the brief period she was still leading the Mord’Sith after his death and before they turned on her. She wanted to lead in the chaos of that moment; what if she did, and Ares took an interest? Or he coopted the Mord’Sith before that, undermining the Rahls as their patron, and he and Cara got rid of Rahl together? Or, I like their moments of not getting/not liking ordinary life—perhaps they meet while Ares is a mortal and Cara is on her new path, and there’s some bonding over their not quite fitting into their lives quite as smoothly; that could be funny or sweet, or both.
James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean)/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
I think they’d be really fun, what with how James is kind of but not really like Giles, and how Buffy is a bit but not really like Elizabeth. She’s bold and breaks the rules as it suits her; he’s got a bit of scruffiness potential under his formality and social awkwardness when it comes to romance. Maybe Buffy is sent back in time through a curse and has to rough it in the Caribbean...or James is cursed—perhaps in an AU where he’s the one to stab Davy Jones’ heart—and lives until Buffy’s time. Or he’s trapped in some kind of artifact Buffy encounters in her travels post-canon: that seems like the kind of thing which might’ve happened to him if he’d lived.
Aragorn | Estel (Lord of the Rings Movies)/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
There’s potential to be had in their being descedants of ancient lines, in two opposite directions: one lived in the light, as kings, and one lived in darkness, as secret protectors who die for the world—and the interesting bit of him being a Ranger, who serves the world in a more anonymous capacity than a king. They both feel their responsibility keenly, and they’re willing to shoulder it even though it hurts. Also, I think it’d be hot! I specified movie-verse, but I’m familiar with the books as well, so feel free to draw on them! Maybe they have a brief encounter across time while Aragorn is a Ranger, through psychic dreams, if Buffy touches a certain artifact. Or straightforward adventure with Buffy getting plopped into Middle-Earth after her second death, or other dimensional shenanigans the Buffyverse has to deal with.
Again, I am so happy you are writing for me! Thank you!
Thank you so much for wanting to write these ships! I’ll be so happy with any of them. Feel free to ignore any of the prompts; they’re just for if you’d like something to look at to get the wheels going. Also, I want you to know that while some of them are longer and some shorter, I still want them all just the same!
Likes:
Parallels (and contrasts) between characters and their journeys are a thing for me.
I like characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially when women are the ones 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.
Here are some more things I enjoy: fusions, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, character focus in smut, 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—these fandoms do have a high drama quotient, psychological horror, cunnilingus, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love, politics, isolation, competitiveness, competitive smut, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming, ulterior motives for sex, 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, the divine as sex, using the Force for 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, 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, fucking in the same room as your enemies’ corpse, body heat sharing, loneliness, connecting to the force together mutual pining, dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters, us against the world, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, ghosts, ghost sex, feeling each others sensations during sex, IF/interactive fiction, poetry
DNWs:
permanently dead female characters (where she’s not even a ghost), the concept of Anakin and Ahsoka as a father/daugher relationship, mpreg, detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia, noncon (unless requested/prompted)—dubcon is fine, rape (except where specified below), 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 (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, humiliation (unless requested/prompted), bestiality, Jedi Order as evil/immoral (versus deeply flawed institution, which is is good), oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Fanfiction
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (TCW), Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (TCW),
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (TCW)
I really love these two, how they mirror each other and go such down 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. 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.”
Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (TCW)
They start out in one place and end up in quite another, betrayed and eventually losing all their kind to the war and the Sith. They both turn to the underworld to cope: Ahsoka goes a little more criminal as a smuggler, even if she still does good deeds, and Asajj is willing to show mercy instead of just ruthlessly going after the money as a bounty hunter. I love how Asajj sees herself in Ahsoka, despite their former status as enemies, and Ahsoka being willing to plead her case. Their partnership is one of convenience, but they’re open to the idea that there’s more going on with the other than they thought. What if for some reason Ahsoka did stay with the Jedi, at least long enough to try to help Asajj out with them, or one of them sought the other out after she left? Maybe they run into each other on separate missions, or team up for one, and it leads to more reevaluation of where they stand? I could see Asajj occasionally helping Ahsoka out when it comes to protecting children from the Sith.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Fanfiction
Darla/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Buffy Summers/Maggie Walsh (BtVS), Rupert Giles/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Drusilla/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Angel/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Darla/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
This is something I’d have loved to see more of in the show. They both captivated and kickstarted Angel into a new life, they both, in a way, killed him. Darla pretends to be Buffy’s student friend; what if she’d done more with that? What if she’d developed an interest in figuring out what made Buffy dangerous to them? Maybe Buffy gets a chance to investigate her in return, and develops a fascination, and/or dreams of her. Or what if she’d survived—if she’d ended up being chipped by the Initiative instead of Spike—it’d be fun to see her trying to play both sides, and Buffy reconciling her issues with her with the fact that she’s, in one way at least, helpless? Maybe she’s around in season six and sees potential in Buffy’s depressive state. Alternatively, Darla’s plans after becoming a vampire again involve handling Buffy so that she can’t be a threat again—except it goes differently than killing her. If inspiration strikes, feel free to use Drusilla with these prompts as well, or combine any of these with the Drusilla/Buffy prompts below.
Buffy Summers/Maggie Walsh (BtVS)
I really enjoyed how Buffy found a new mentor in Maggie, and seemed to really look up to her; I’d have loved to see that explored longer. Maybe a little more cat and mouse with regard to the Initiative and the Slayer, before they find out who they are; meanwhile Buffy keeps enrolling in Maggie’s other classes, or visits her during office hours anyway for advice. Alternatively, Maggie is less ready to dispose of Buffy than in canon, because she sees potential in the Initiative having control of her; maybe as Buffy herself grows less interested in Riley and more in Maggie. Or, tell me more about Maggie’s pov when she was watching Buffy and Riley have sex after a fight.
Rupert Giles/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
A loving yet tense relationship, as the personal and the professional blur; I love how they love each other and yet out loud they try to contain the relationship with the words of their titles, defining themselves as Watcher and Slayer when they mean so much more to each other. I love the mix of intimacy and duty. They try to take care of each other. They don’t always manage it, but they try. I’d love to see them dealing with the after-effects of “Helpless”; Buffy forgives him, but they don’t forget. What if we saw more of the scene where she’s letting him take care of her wound? Or something when they get to talk after the events of season six, without having to immediately worry about Willow or the First—perhaps phone calls to the other side of the world between seasons? Happy adventures in Europe post-series?
Drusilla/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
These two get paralleled quite a bit! Both fixations of Angel, both psychic and isolated from society in their power. Buffy dreams of Drusilla around Angel, and Drusilla sees her around Spike. Drusilla is delighted at the thought that Angel will to do Buffy what he did to her—and I understood that to be both breaking and turning her. What if she’d played a more active role in bringing that about? Does she want a new pet? Or perhaps later, when she and Darla are trying to get Angel, then Spike back; maybe this time she wants to get Buffy too, finds it fitting after Buffy had so much to do with what happened to the other vampires in her family. On Buffy’s side, she’s disturbed to hear what Angel did to Drusilla—she must think of it afterwards when he’s torturing her. What’s going through her mind then? Does she dream of Drusilla, past and present—and possibly future? What if Drusilla came back when Buffy was hitting her lows in season six? If inspiration strikes, feel free to add Darla to these prompts, or combine them with the Darla/Buffy prompts above.
Angel/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
I love these two and how much they mean to each other, from the early seasons to the last. I enjoy all the scenes when they’re taking care of each other, whether it’s Buffy trying to nurse Angel back to health and sanity or Angel helping Buffy through a difficult moment. I’d be happy with some cuddling in her room or the mansion in the early seasons, a quick visit during the later seasons, the classic “what happened when they met in early BTVS season six/ATS season three” story, a bittersweet moment where one needs the other’s help on a mission during the years they spend apart, or a happy ending after all. Or maybe what happens in a Wishverse where Buffy and Angel survive the fight at the Bronze, or don’t go at all—what if Angel hadn’t gone to wait for her in Sunnydale, but had followed her to Cleveland? In both universes, they’re lonely souls stuck in-between worlds; how does their relationship work out with a Buffy who’s a little more jaded?
Crossover Fandom
Fanfiction
Rey (SW ST)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Leia Organa (SW ST)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Leia Organa (SW OT)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Jyn Erso (SW R1)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Cassian Andor (SW R1)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Ares (Xena)/Cara Mason (Legend of the Seeker), James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean)/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Aragorn | Estel (Lord of the Rings Movies)/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Rey (SW ST)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels)
The concept of these two meeting is great! Ahsoka is touched by the light side, both in her choice to live in it and in how its very essence gave her back her life. Rey awoke to her power as the dark side rose. They both try to reach a dark-side user they see more in, and succeed, only to be betrayed by him, and they both face the hard choice of letting him go and coming in to their potential themselves, without any help. What if Ahsoka walked through another portal, when she knew it was time? Or perhaps she learned how to become a Force Ghost and that is the version Rey meets on a dream quest? Or maybe Ahsoka has become ageless, in a sleep-like trance under Malachor’s ruined Temple, until Rey goes there and wakes her up?
Leia Organa (SW ST)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels), Leia Organa (SW OT)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels)
A founder of the Rebellion with one of its daughters. They both deal with such massive loss, largely alone. Leia had more of a support system, but we don’t see her availing herself of it. Ahsoka had no one; it seems even when she did meet with friends, if was brief and often work-related, as being a spymaster is a lonely job. Maybe Ahsoka comes back to see Leia when she’s grown, and teaches her a little of the Force. Maybe they both have to deal with the realities of Anakin/Vader together. What if Leia dreams of Ahsoka? What if they stay together throughout the OT and the ST? I don’t hate Han; handle him however you like. Maybe Leia has separate relationships with both of them, or they’re all together? Or they get back together after Han has been killed, and Ahsoka helps Leia through her grief as they both grapple with Anakin’s legacy.
Jyn Erso (SW R1)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels)
They know what it’s like to have to put survival first, before finding purpose again with the Rebellion. It’s something they might recognize in each other. What if the place Saw takes Jyn’s family to is Ahsoka, and she hides them? Or Jyn meets Ahsoka while Ahsoka is dealing with the Partisan cell of the Rebellion, and leaves with her instead of being alone? Maybe Ahsoka joins Jyn when she’s taken to get to Saw, in hopes of increasing the chances that he’ll see them, and that’s how they meet? Or it’s Ahsoka who picks Jyn up from the Imperial prison. What if Ahsoka was part of the Partisans, and they had a bittersweet relationship? Maybe Jyn is Force-sensitive and Ahsoka teaches her how to make a lightsaber out of that kyber crystal.
Cassian Andor (SW R1)/Ahsoka Tano (SW Rebels)
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?
Ares (Xena)/Cara Mason (Legend of the Seeker)
It feels like these two would get along like a house on fire, with all the heat and destruction that implies. Cara seemed to have a little ambition beyond serving Rahl in the brief period she was still leading the Mord’Sith after his death and before they turned on her. She wanted to lead in the chaos of that moment; what if she did, and Ares took an interest? Or he coopted the Mord’Sith before that, undermining the Rahls as their patron, and he and Cara got rid of Rahl together? Or, I like their moments of not getting/not liking ordinary life—perhaps they meet while Ares is a mortal and Cara is on her new path, and there’s some bonding over their not quite fitting into their lives quite as smoothly; that could be funny or sweet, or both.
James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean)/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
I think they’d be really fun, what with how James is kind of but not really like Giles, and how Buffy is a bit but not really like Elizabeth. She’s bold and breaks the rules as it suits her; he’s got a bit of scruffiness potential under his formality and social awkwardness when it comes to romance. Maybe Buffy is sent back in time through a curse and has to rough it in the Caribbean...or James is cursed—perhaps in an AU where he’s the one to stab Davy Jones’ heart—and lives until Buffy’s time. Or he’s trapped in some kind of artifact Buffy encounters in her travels post-canon: that seems like the kind of thing which might’ve happened to him if he’d lived.
Aragorn | Estel (Lord of the Rings Movies)/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
There’s potential to be had in their being descedants of ancient lines, in two opposite directions: one lived in the light, as kings, and one lived in darkness, as secret protectors who die for the world—and the interesting bit of him being a Ranger, who serves the world in a more anonymous capacity than a king. They both feel their responsibility keenly, and they’re willing to shoulder it even though it hurts. Also, I think it’d be hot! I specified movie-verse, but I’m familiar with the books as well, so feel free to draw on them! Maybe they have a brief encounter across time while Aragorn is a Ranger, through psychic dreams, if Buffy touches a certain artifact. Or straightforward adventure with Buffy getting plopped into Middle-Earth after her second death, or other dimensional shenanigans the Buffyverse has to deal with.
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