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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, 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, 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, ghosts, ghost sex, feeling each others sensations during sex, rough sex, rough kissing, lap sex, sex on furniture, sex against walls, 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, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists
Smut Likes
character focus in smut, cunnilingus, competitive smut, ulterior motives for sex, scars, possessiveness, love/hate, Force/magic shenanigans, 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, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists
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, 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
Crossover Fandom
Drusilla (BtVS)/India Stoker (Stoker 2013), Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)/Xena (XWP), Jasmine (Aladdin 2019)/Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones), Elsa (OUAT)/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Buffy Summers (BtVS)/Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars), Bo (Lost Girl)/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Harley Quinn (DCEU)/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)/Yvaine (Stardust 2007), Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)/Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones), Leia Organa (Star Wars)/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Medium: Fanfiction
Drusilla (BtVS)/India Stoker (Stoker 2013)
Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)/Xena (XWP)
Jasmine (Aladdin 2019)/Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Elsa (OUAT)/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Buffy Summers (BtVS)/Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)
They’re both so resilient and brave and snarky. They are both lost to themselves and to the world sometimes, but they persist in living and eventually finding meaning and purpose in their fight again. They’re unconventional and independent and caring and that’s what saves them, and what makes them good leaders who inspire others and connect to them in terrible circumstances. Fuse their universes, have one of them visit the other in a dream—they’re both psychic that way—or have some portal shenanigans with the Force/Hellmouth. Maybe one of them is stuck in a temple via cryogenics or a spell and the other finds them in the ruins. Or, they run into each other when Buffy’s in that trap that turns homeless Earth people into slave labor; maybe in this case it’s actually something like the hunting game Ahsoka got caught in during The Clone Wars, and this time they’re trapped together! Escaping and bonding ensues.
Bo (Lost Girl)/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Harley Quinn (DCEU)/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)/Yvaine (Stardust 2007)
Yvaine watches the world, and is not part of it; Ahsoka is part of it, but meant more to help here and there as a Jedi than to take a role in galactic affairs. They both love adventure and action, even if Yvaine has never known it before falling from the sky. They’re both wanderers, and mystical beings of a sort: Yvaine the star, Ahsoka what’s left of the Daughter, the embodiment of light. If you go with the book version of Stardust, they can never be among their kind again, and they continue after the people they love most are gone; there’s a breath of loneliness to them.
What if Stormhold is a planet, and Ahsoka comes to consult—and to grieve—with its ruler? Or maybe she just comes to investigate some strangeness associated with it. Or Ahsoka is an immortal being, coming to join the land of Faerie after the long ago events of her life, and meets Yvaine on an adventure there? Maybe Ahsoka is pulled in during her travels, or instead of going back to Malachor from the World Between Worlds? What if, when Ahsoka died on Mortis, she spent the moments she was dead somewhere else, with time working differently there?
Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)/Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Leia Organa (Star Wars)/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Game of Thrones (TV)
Arya Stark/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Olenna Tyrell/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Margaery Tyrell/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Daenerys Targaryen/Brienne of Tarth (GoT), Cersei Lannister/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Yara Greyjoy/Ellaria Sand/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Yara Greyjoy/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Ellaria Sand/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Medium: Fanfiction
Arya Stark/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
I like the parallels here—two girls with families overthrown/deemed enemies, traveling and learning how to survive in environments and situations their birth would’ve otherwise protected them from, able to connect and empathize with people from the lower classes. And, of course, there is the willingness to take vengeance. What if Arya had met her instead of staying in the cities?
Olenna Tyrell/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Margaery Tyrell/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
I keep wondering, what if Daenerys had been well-established enough earlier that the Tyrells might look to allying with her even before Cersei burned those bridges re:alliances with her family? It would be interesting: their methods for getting into power are different in that they’re physical violence versus manipulation, hard power versus soft, but each girl relies on making the people feel uplifted, like they would benefit from having her as queen. And we know with Daenerys there’s a real empathy and idealism mixed in with her seeking power—what kind of team might she and Margaery make?
Daenerys Targaryen/Brienne of Tarth (GoT)
Ever since reading Gwendoline Christie mention hoping they’d get together, I can’t stop thinking about them. I feel like Daenerys would respect an honorable woman doing her best to live up to the ideals of knighthood in the face of sexism and a world in which the institution can be corrupt. And I think Brienne would respect a queen enduring the hardship and odds Daenerys has faced, in her struggle to both lead and make the world a better place.
Cersei Lannister/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
The hate sex would be tremendous! What if Daenerys came back to Westeros sooner, and marriage was seen as a way to keep Cersei safe and in power? Or Cersei used Missandei as a hostage to lure Daenerys in close, hoping to kill her more subtly so as to have a better chance, but things develop differently from how they both intended? Assuming she didn’t kill Rhaegal as well. And I hear in the books that Cersei had wanted Daenerys’ brother Rhaegar; I’m show-only, but feel free to use that if you like.
Yara Greyjoy/Ellaria Sand/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Yara Greyjoy/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
I really enjoyed Yara’s flirting and Daenerys not seeming to mind. And Yara fits with Daenerys’ history of love interests—Drogo leading their Dothraki, who are raiders—but she’s different, and they’re meeting in different circumstances. They also both know what it’s like to be the more worthy ruler in the family while dealing with the threat of a relative who isn’t. What if they had just gone ahead and attacked King’s Landing? What kind of relationship could happen in the fallout?
Ellaria Sand/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
They’re ambitious, they’re determined, and they know what it’s like to start from a difficult place, though their lives have been quite different. Vengeance against a ruling family is difficult, but they’re up for it to take what’s theirs. In a world in which Ellaria doesn’t get captured, what happens once they take King’s Landing together?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Darla/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Tara Maclay/Buffy Summers, Buffy Summers/Kendra Young, Jenny Calendar/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Wishverse Tara Maclay/Wishverse Buffy Summers, Buffy Summers/Maggie Walsh, Kennedy/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Drusilla/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Vampire Willow Rosenberg/Wishverse Buffy Summers (BtVS), Vampire Willow Rosenberg/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Medium: Fanfiction
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.
Tara Maclay/Buffy Summers
I’ve had a soft spot for them ever since Tara held a crying Buffy on her lap in “Dead Things.” I love Buffy’s accidental slipups—she doesn’t set out to confide in her or open herself up, mired as she is by then in feeling she has to be strong alone, but she responds to Tara and feels safe talking to her. You can see it even before that, as early as “The Body” when they talk about their mothers’ deaths. I also love the moment when Buffy takes the lead and stands up for Tara in front of her relatives, when Tara is feeling vulnerable and terrified of rejection. And then Tara seems to echo that chivalry later, when Buffy is uncomfortable with Spike but can’t fend him off herself because she’s distraught. I’d love to get a missing scene from season six after Buffy had that breakthrough, when it seemed they were getting closer. Or an alternate universe where Tara lives, but Willow still goes dark for a bit, and they need to recover. What if Willow manages to bring her back, and Buffy helps her cope?
Buffy Summers/Kendra Young
I so wanted to get more of them. They’re wary and competitive, but they respect each other; Kendra can appreciate Buffy’s different take on things and Buffy’s sense of duty grows as the season goes on. I like to think her later reaction to Faith’s loose canon quality is because of all the deaths she couldn’t prevent in season two, and especially to honor Kendra’s sense of responsibility and the stake she now carries in her memory. Maybe Buffy gets Kendra that stuffed animal after all—does she do it in person or does she mail it over with a note? What if Kendra returned to Sunnydale much earlier, like around the time the Judge was being put together? That seems worthy of a visit—what would have changed if she had? Or if she’d survived Drusilla?
Jenny Calendar/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Wishverse Tara Maclay/Wishverse Buffy Summers
Buffy Summers/Maggie Walsh
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.
Kennedy/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
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.
Vampire Willow Rosenberg/Wishverse Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Vampire Willow Rosenberg/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Miraj Scintel/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW), Barriss Offee/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW), Kalifa/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW), The Daughter | Winged Goddess/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW), Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (SW: TCW)
Medium: Fanfiction
Miraj Scintel/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)
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?
Barriss Offee/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)
Kalifa/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)
They got so little time together, but it was so sweet. Kalifa felt hopeless, but Ahsoka helped her find herself again, to be able to imagine and try for more than survival. What if it had worked? I’d love to see Ahsoka reuniting with her while Kalifa is recovering from her long captivity, or them recovering together. Or maybe they’re both in battle together. Or they both survive Order 66, Kalifa finds Ahsoka when she’s running and hiding and pretending not to be who she is—just as Kalifa once did—and now it’s her turn to do the comforting and inspiring.
The Daughter | Winged Goddess/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)
The transfusion of life from The Daughter could be fun to play with. Maybe Ahsoka becomes immortal. Maybe she has to outlive everyone she ever comes to know, and not just because they all got killed in the various wars going on. Or she ascends into godhood the more enlightened she becomes, with her own power and experience melded with The Daughter’s, and there comes to be a temple with her image somewhere. What if she sees her in dreams? Maybe The Daughter becomes another teacher to her alongside Anakin. Or she watches her, always connected, but Ahsoka isn’t wholly aware of it until later—maybe in Malachor, when she seems to stop participating in worldly matters and instead delve into the mystical side of the Force more deeply.
Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (SW: 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.
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, 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, 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, ghosts, ghost sex, feeling each others sensations during sex, rough sex, rough kissing, lap sex, sex on furniture, sex against walls, 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, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists
Smut Likes
character focus in smut, cunnilingus, competitive smut, ulterior motives for sex, scars, possessiveness, love/hate, Force/magic shenanigans, 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, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists
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, 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
Crossover Fandom
Drusilla (BtVS)/India Stoker (Stoker 2013), Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)/Xena (XWP), Jasmine (Aladdin 2019)/Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones), Elsa (OUAT)/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Buffy Summers (BtVS)/Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars), Bo (Lost Girl)/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Harley Quinn (DCEU)/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)/Yvaine (Stardust 2007), Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)/Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones), Leia Organa (Star Wars)/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Medium: Fanfiction
Drusilla (BtVS)/India Stoker (Stoker 2013)
Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)/Xena (XWP)
Jasmine (Aladdin 2019)/Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Elsa (OUAT)/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Buffy Summers (BtVS)/Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)
They’re both so resilient and brave and snarky. They are both lost to themselves and to the world sometimes, but they persist in living and eventually finding meaning and purpose in their fight again. They’re unconventional and independent and caring and that’s what saves them, and what makes them good leaders who inspire others and connect to them in terrible circumstances. Fuse their universes, have one of them visit the other in a dream—they’re both psychic that way—or have some portal shenanigans with the Force/Hellmouth. Maybe one of them is stuck in a temple via cryogenics or a spell and the other finds them in the ruins. Or, they run into each other when Buffy’s in that trap that turns homeless Earth people into slave labor; maybe in this case it’s actually something like the hunting game Ahsoka got caught in during The Clone Wars, and this time they’re trapped together! Escaping and bonding ensues.
Bo (Lost Girl)/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Harley Quinn (DCEU)/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)/Yvaine (Stardust 2007)
Yvaine watches the world, and is not part of it; Ahsoka is part of it, but meant more to help here and there as a Jedi than to take a role in galactic affairs. They both love adventure and action, even if Yvaine has never known it before falling from the sky. They’re both wanderers, and mystical beings of a sort: Yvaine the star, Ahsoka what’s left of the Daughter, the embodiment of light. If you go with the book version of Stardust, they can never be among their kind again, and they continue after the people they love most are gone; there’s a breath of loneliness to them.
What if Stormhold is a planet, and Ahsoka comes to consult—and to grieve—with its ruler? Or maybe she just comes to investigate some strangeness associated with it. Or Ahsoka is an immortal being, coming to join the land of Faerie after the long ago events of her life, and meets Yvaine on an adventure there? Maybe Ahsoka is pulled in during her travels, or instead of going back to Malachor from the World Between Worlds? What if, when Ahsoka died on Mortis, she spent the moments she was dead somewhere else, with time working differently there?
Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)/Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Leia Organa (Star Wars)/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Game of Thrones (TV)
Arya Stark/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Olenna Tyrell/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Margaery Tyrell/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Daenerys Targaryen/Brienne of Tarth (GoT), Cersei Lannister/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Yara Greyjoy/Ellaria Sand/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Yara Greyjoy/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT), Ellaria Sand/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Medium: Fanfiction
Arya Stark/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
I like the parallels here—two girls with families overthrown/deemed enemies, traveling and learning how to survive in environments and situations their birth would’ve otherwise protected them from, able to connect and empathize with people from the lower classes. And, of course, there is the willingness to take vengeance. What if Arya had met her instead of staying in the cities?
Olenna Tyrell/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Margaery Tyrell/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
I keep wondering, what if Daenerys had been well-established enough earlier that the Tyrells might look to allying with her even before Cersei burned those bridges re:alliances with her family? It would be interesting: their methods for getting into power are different in that they’re physical violence versus manipulation, hard power versus soft, but each girl relies on making the people feel uplifted, like they would benefit from having her as queen. And we know with Daenerys there’s a real empathy and idealism mixed in with her seeking power—what kind of team might she and Margaery make?
Daenerys Targaryen/Brienne of Tarth (GoT)
Ever since reading Gwendoline Christie mention hoping they’d get together, I can’t stop thinking about them. I feel like Daenerys would respect an honorable woman doing her best to live up to the ideals of knighthood in the face of sexism and a world in which the institution can be corrupt. And I think Brienne would respect a queen enduring the hardship and odds Daenerys has faced, in her struggle to both lead and make the world a better place.
Cersei Lannister/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
The hate sex would be tremendous! What if Daenerys came back to Westeros sooner, and marriage was seen as a way to keep Cersei safe and in power? Or Cersei used Missandei as a hostage to lure Daenerys in close, hoping to kill her more subtly so as to have a better chance, but things develop differently from how they both intended? Assuming she didn’t kill Rhaegal as well. And I hear in the books that Cersei had wanted Daenerys’ brother Rhaegar; I’m show-only, but feel free to use that if you like.
Yara Greyjoy/Ellaria Sand/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Yara Greyjoy/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
I really enjoyed Yara’s flirting and Daenerys not seeming to mind. And Yara fits with Daenerys’ history of love interests—Drogo leading their Dothraki, who are raiders—but she’s different, and they’re meeting in different circumstances. They also both know what it’s like to be the more worthy ruler in the family while dealing with the threat of a relative who isn’t. What if they had just gone ahead and attacked King’s Landing? What kind of relationship could happen in the fallout?
Ellaria Sand/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
They’re ambitious, they’re determined, and they know what it’s like to start from a difficult place, though their lives have been quite different. Vengeance against a ruling family is difficult, but they’re up for it to take what’s theirs. In a world in which Ellaria doesn’t get captured, what happens once they take King’s Landing together?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Darla/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Tara Maclay/Buffy Summers, Buffy Summers/Kendra Young, Jenny Calendar/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Wishverse Tara Maclay/Wishverse Buffy Summers, Buffy Summers/Maggie Walsh, Kennedy/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Drusilla/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Vampire Willow Rosenberg/Wishverse Buffy Summers (BtVS), Vampire Willow Rosenberg/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Medium: Fanfiction
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.
Tara Maclay/Buffy Summers
I’ve had a soft spot for them ever since Tara held a crying Buffy on her lap in “Dead Things.” I love Buffy’s accidental slipups—she doesn’t set out to confide in her or open herself up, mired as she is by then in feeling she has to be strong alone, but she responds to Tara and feels safe talking to her. You can see it even before that, as early as “The Body” when they talk about their mothers’ deaths. I also love the moment when Buffy takes the lead and stands up for Tara in front of her relatives, when Tara is feeling vulnerable and terrified of rejection. And then Tara seems to echo that chivalry later, when Buffy is uncomfortable with Spike but can’t fend him off herself because she’s distraught. I’d love to get a missing scene from season six after Buffy had that breakthrough, when it seemed they were getting closer. Or an alternate universe where Tara lives, but Willow still goes dark for a bit, and they need to recover. What if Willow manages to bring her back, and Buffy helps her cope?
Buffy Summers/Kendra Young
I so wanted to get more of them. They’re wary and competitive, but they respect each other; Kendra can appreciate Buffy’s different take on things and Buffy’s sense of duty grows as the season goes on. I like to think her later reaction to Faith’s loose canon quality is because of all the deaths she couldn’t prevent in season two, and especially to honor Kendra’s sense of responsibility and the stake she now carries in her memory. Maybe Buffy gets Kendra that stuffed animal after all—does she do it in person or does she mail it over with a note? What if Kendra returned to Sunnydale much earlier, like around the time the Judge was being put together? That seems worthy of a visit—what would have changed if she had? Or if she’d survived Drusilla?
Jenny Calendar/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Wishverse Tara Maclay/Wishverse Buffy Summers
Buffy Summers/Maggie Walsh
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.
Kennedy/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
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.
Vampire Willow Rosenberg/Wishverse Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Vampire Willow Rosenberg/Buffy Summers (BtVS)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Miraj Scintel/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW), Barriss Offee/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW), Kalifa/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW), The Daughter | Winged Goddess/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW), Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (SW: TCW)
Medium: Fanfiction
Miraj Scintel/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)
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?
Barriss Offee/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)
Kalifa/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)
They got so little time together, but it was so sweet. Kalifa felt hopeless, but Ahsoka helped her find herself again, to be able to imagine and try for more than survival. What if it had worked? I’d love to see Ahsoka reuniting with her while Kalifa is recovering from her long captivity, or them recovering together. Or maybe they’re both in battle together. Or they both survive Order 66, Kalifa finds Ahsoka when she’s running and hiding and pretending not to be who she is—just as Kalifa once did—and now it’s her turn to do the comforting and inspiring.
The Daughter | Winged Goddess/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)
The transfusion of life from The Daughter could be fun to play with. Maybe Ahsoka becomes immortal. Maybe she has to outlive everyone she ever comes to know, and not just because they all got killed in the various wars going on. Or she ascends into godhood the more enlightened she becomes, with her own power and experience melded with The Daughter’s, and there comes to be a temple with her image somewhere. What if she sees her in dreams? Maybe The Daughter becomes another teacher to her alongside Anakin. Or she watches her, always connected, but Ahsoka isn’t wholly aware of it until later—maybe in Malachor, when she seems to stop participating in worldly matters and instead delve into the mystical side of the Force more deeply.
Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (SW: 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.
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