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Dear author,
Hello, and many thanks for choosing one of my ships! In the event that you’d like one, here is a letter for them. These are just a few thoughts in case you’d like some—I’d be happy with pretty much anything that doesn’t hit my DNWs. Please disregard the amount of verbiage in any given prompt, and feel free to ignore anything you don’t find useful in your creative endeavors.
Likes
Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys.
Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones.
Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.
More things I enjoy: fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, poetry, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, 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
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Barriss Offee/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Barriss Offee & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (SW:TCW), Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano & Asajj Ventress (SW:TCW), Dooku/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Dooku & Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Daughter | The Winged Goddess/Anakin Skywalker/Son | The Fanged God/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW)
Fanfiction
Barriss Offee/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Barriss Offee & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW)
Much as with the above, I love the tensions here, and how when Ahsoka’s faith was shaken with even Anakin not living up to her expectations—in not being the one to break her out—she was still willing to risk talking to Barriss, and it hurt him to admit she wouldn’t talk to him; how Barriss knew Ahsoka would think Anakin had been the one to do it and would trust him only to feel disappointed; how when Anakin brings Barriss in and he’s happy, but Ahsoka is clearly distraught, and how all their hearts are broken by the end. Out of all of them, Barriss was the one to first express her dissatisfaction with the Jedi in a decisive and decidedly dramatic manner. She was also the first to choose to fall to the Dark Side in reaction to that, betraying Ahsoka and changing her world forever, just as Anakin would later do on a larger scale; meanwhile Ahsoka herself reacted to her dissatisfaction by staying with the Light Side. I’d love to see the fallout of the season five finale; perhaps Ahsoka tries to talk to Barriss before she goes and Anakin reacts, or he talks to Barriss himself, or Barriss somehow gets free and they all end up having a fraught reunion. Or as above, Anakin finds out the other two will encounter each other and tries to help, only to have things get more complicated than he expected.
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (SW:TCW), Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano & Asajj Ventress (SW:TCW)
I love the potential for tension here, especially given their dynamic in the season five finale episodes. Ahsoka warily depending on Ventress, Anakin being very unhappy as he told Asajj she was the only one Ahsoka had talked to and depending on her nevertheless, Asajj identifying with Ahsoka to Anakin’s shock. It’d be really fun to see this followed through as part of the arc’s impact, with Ahsoka perhaps meeting up with Ventress again and them running into Anakin in Coruscant’s underworld, or as part of a mission he ends up involved in without their knowledge—or maybe he finds out they’re working together and in his determination to meddle, gets more than he bargained for.
Dooku/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Dooku & Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW)
They both left the Jedi, disillusioned, and took very different paths. It’d be fun to give them a reason to talk to each other! If Ahsoka had been with Anakin in the rescue of the Chancellor, would she have stopped him? What if she had, and things turned out so that Dooku felt he had to run off with her as a hostage for safety? What if Ahsoka went into the past from Rebels and, trying to avoid meeting herself and anyone she was close to directly, fell into working with her old enemies by accident? Maybe she ends up working with Dooku instead; older Ahsoka gives him a shock, being wiser and more powerful, and he ends up reconsidering his allegiance to his master? Of course, eventually her Force presence and the shenanigans do bring her to the attention of her former self and her old master…Alternately, Dooku ends up going forward—perhaps in the World Between Worlds, Ahsoka looks on a scene with him and they can feel her gaze, so they investigate and she winds up pulling him through. They then find themselves adrift in a new galaxy, working with the last Jedi against the Empire they were all used to build, and more directly against an enemy Ahsoka once knew. I also like the idea of them being stuck in loops, but the Force-sensitives being able to feel impressions of all the previous loops, which affects their dynamics and feelings for each other throughout time.
Daughter | The Winged Goddess/Anakin Skywalker/Son | The Fanged God/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW)
I love the Mortis arc for how the gods play with these two, and how they both foreshadow and ensure their future. Ahsoka is influenced by the darkness, but ends in the light. Anakin is pulled by both, but chooses the darkness for the last half of his life until it’s time for his death. The Son never wanted to hurt The Daughter, but he kills her, though part of her survives; Anakin never wanted to hurt Ahsoka and even as Vader did not move to do it at first, but his rage spurred him into trying and she continues to live. Then there’s how each pair is a set of counterparts, dark and light, light and dark; the difference only in how the mortals can both choose, where the gods are bound to their nature as avatars of The Force. I’d love to see more time spent with them all aware and sentient beings together; perhaps when Ahsoka is taken by The Son, The Daughter tries to help Anakin get her back. Or they all leave Mortis together, fighting and loving each other all the way.
Star Wars: Ahsoka - E. K. Johnston
Kaeden Larte/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Ahsoka)
Fanfiction
Ahsoka loves them both a lot. I love her missing Anakin and I love how meeting Kaeden is part of her regaining the sense of purpose and belonging she lost when she left him. And Kaeden could have two awesome warrior lovers to protect her! I’d love some AU where Anakin is on the run too and they welcome him into their relationship, or perhaps Anakin was with Ahsoka when she hid on Raada. Or, what if Ahsoka and Kaeden wander the galaxy doing good, and then suddenly they need to rescue Anakin? Or what if Anakin joined up with the Rebellion and is the person who reaches out to recruit Ahsoka, having been searching for her the whole time?
Darth Vader comes to Raada instead of an Inquisitor. Ahsoka has to worry about her old master, her new (not)girlfriend and family, and possibly a new pupil in Hedala while dealing with the attentions of the Sith and the Empire. Kaeden has to deal with her (not)girlfriend’s past coming back to haunt them both. Ahsoka is the’s the first (not)Jedi Vader sees after Mustafar; he didn’t know but he’s not surprised.
Or Vader goes there knowing he’ll find Ahsoka, and Ahsoka has to juggle the safety of Kaeden and her newfound friends with the need to go see him and figure things out; she’s already the mystery woman who’s friendly but keeps at a certain distance due to her past, and such a situation would only amplify that. What about an AU in which Sith Ahsoka comes by Raada and picks up a girlfriend? She spares Miara out of mercy/for points with Kaeden.
Star Wars - All Media Types
Qi'ra/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Rey/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Poe Dameron/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Cassian Andor/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Cassian Andor & Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
Fanfiction
Qi'ra/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
Both of these women are forced to make difficult choices: Ahsoka despairs but finds hope and purpose again, while Q’ira believes her life is the only one there can be for her. I’d love to see them clash; maybe Ahsoka gives Q’ira hope, whether or not she chooses to treat it as real or as a fairytale. Or Ahsoka accepts Q’ira’s choices but still tries to reach out and support her when they cross paths during their adventures, even if they’re on opposite sides. Q’ira thinks the only way to come out on top is to advance in her organization. To that end, when she hears of a Force user fighting for the Rebellion/doing good deeds, she investigates and tries to pit her against Maul. Alternately, Ahsoka picks her up/has the Rebellion pick her up when she’s younger, and they meet again later, with Q’ira being a Rebel contact buried in the criminal world. Or maybe she winds up back with them for real, making her next meeting with Ahsoka fraught.
Rey/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
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?
Poe Dameron/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
Ahsoka would be a legend by now, and I really like the idea of her having authority over Poe—or sway if she’s not an official part of the Resistance for whatever reason. What if she’s one of his heroes? Meanwhile, his being a hotshot pilot could give her a little nostalgia. She could keep an eye on him, but not really mind. Maybe she’s just come back from Malachor, and it’s the future, and she’s willing to help the Resistance once they’ve all confirmed who they are (perhaps with some help from Leia or Chewie). Or she’s one of the allies in the Outer Rim, having returned from the Unknown Regions, and he might’ve been sent to her; alternately, she saves them at the eleventh hour and they have an encounter in a brief moment of downtime.
Cassian Andor/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Cassian Andor & Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
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?
Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
One of the most intriguing get-togethers that hasn’t happened. In their own ways, they each represent Anakin’s legacy, and they have their own relationships to that and to him. Ahsoka is his path not taken, having faced her own capacity for darkness when she wanted vengeance and chose against it, and Kylo Ren believes he is continuing his work by choosing against his capacity for goodness; as they both turn away and leave him behind, they continue on their paths, one to remove herself from the galaxy at large until she is needed and the other to dominate it in an attempt to fulfill his own needs. Does Kylo Ren ever find out his grandfather had an apprentice? What if he met her on some pilgrimage to Malachor? Or, in a universe where Anakin survived and Ben Solo still became Kylo Ren, would Kylo Ren find them together, and perhaps come to a different choice? Or maybe he finds Ahsoka in a sleep-like trance in the ruins of Malachor, and waking her leads to her being able to ward off Snoke’s influence? Maybe she trains him instead of or in addition to Luke, or a repentant Ben finds her when he’s trying to put what’s left of his destruction into a new life.
Star Wars: Rebels
Aleksandr Kallus/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels), Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo & Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels), Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels), Aleksandr Kallus & Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels)
Fanfiction
Aleksandr Kallus/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels), Aleksandr Kallus & Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels)
Sometime after Endor and before the epilogue, Kallus meets the first Fulcrum. Alternately, she makes it out of Malachor and takes him under her wing. Or she’s on the Empire’s side, and he’s her contact. Or she’s on the Empire’s side, he’s a Rebel, and she’s onto him. I enjoy that they came at this from different sides. Ahsoka was a supporter of the Republic, until it turned against her shortly before becoming the Empire; Aleksandr was an imperial, lately disillusioned. There could be wariness, but also respect, and admiration for the others’ skills and efforts. I really like the idea of Ahsoka being in charge here.
Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo & Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels), Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels)
Ahsoka as Fulcrum plays cat and mouse games with Thrawn. Ahsoka has to have fucked up Thrawn’s plans during her decade and a half time as the Rebellion’s spymaster. They wouldn’t have met face to face then in canon, but what if they had? Maybe for a brief moment, they are trapped together and have something almost resembling a civil conversation. Or what if she’d been on the Empire’s side, and he had to deal with her (plus Vader?) when trying to deal with Kanan and Ezra? What I like best about Thrawn in Rebels is his villain’s admiration for Hera and Sabine over Ezra and Kanan; might be in part because they’re not Jedi, but I enjoy him being drawn to the women, and I think it was a shame he only appeared after Ahsoka was gone. So if you want to play with that!
Game of Thrones (TV)
Daenerys Targaryen/Brienne of Tarth (GoT)
Fanfiction
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.
W.I.T.C.H.
Phobos Escanor/Cornelia Hale
Fanfiction
A pairing from my teen years! I saw the fandom had been nominated and had to try nominating/requesting this one. Cornelia is my favorite in both show and comics, stubborn and practical and proud. Phobos is one in a line of white-haired, arrogant, antagonistic pretty boys I’ve ended up liking. And they both have plant associations! I liked the bit in the cartoon where he’s got her captive in a bubble, and when he tried to have the Guardians replaced while controlling Endarno’s body. Canon divergence in which he’s got additional, or different interests? Or she has to deal with him after he’s been imprisoned—comics or cartoons—or he pops out of Kandrakar’s void somehow, not exactly the better for it.
Thank you again, and I hope you have a pleasant exchange experience!
Hello, and many thanks for choosing one of my ships! In the event that you’d like one, here is a letter for them. These are just a few thoughts in case you’d like some—I’d be happy with pretty much anything that doesn’t hit my DNWs. Please disregard the amount of verbiage in any given prompt, and feel free to ignore anything you don’t find useful in your creative endeavors.
Likes
Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys.
Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones.
Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.
More things I enjoy: fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, poetry, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, 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
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Barriss Offee/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Barriss Offee & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (SW:TCW), Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano & Asajj Ventress (SW:TCW), Dooku/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Dooku & Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Daughter | The Winged Goddess/Anakin Skywalker/Son | The Fanged God/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW)
Fanfiction
Barriss Offee/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Barriss Offee & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW)
Much as with the above, I love the tensions here, and how when Ahsoka’s faith was shaken with even Anakin not living up to her expectations—in not being the one to break her out—she was still willing to risk talking to Barriss, and it hurt him to admit she wouldn’t talk to him; how Barriss knew Ahsoka would think Anakin had been the one to do it and would trust him only to feel disappointed; how when Anakin brings Barriss in and he’s happy, but Ahsoka is clearly distraught, and how all their hearts are broken by the end. Out of all of them, Barriss was the one to first express her dissatisfaction with the Jedi in a decisive and decidedly dramatic manner. She was also the first to choose to fall to the Dark Side in reaction to that, betraying Ahsoka and changing her world forever, just as Anakin would later do on a larger scale; meanwhile Ahsoka herself reacted to her dissatisfaction by staying with the Light Side. I’d love to see the fallout of the season five finale; perhaps Ahsoka tries to talk to Barriss before she goes and Anakin reacts, or he talks to Barriss himself, or Barriss somehow gets free and they all end up having a fraught reunion. Or as above, Anakin finds out the other two will encounter each other and tries to help, only to have things get more complicated than he expected.
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (SW:TCW), Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano & Asajj Ventress (SW:TCW)
I love the potential for tension here, especially given their dynamic in the season five finale episodes. Ahsoka warily depending on Ventress, Anakin being very unhappy as he told Asajj she was the only one Ahsoka had talked to and depending on her nevertheless, Asajj identifying with Ahsoka to Anakin’s shock. It’d be really fun to see this followed through as part of the arc’s impact, with Ahsoka perhaps meeting up with Ventress again and them running into Anakin in Coruscant’s underworld, or as part of a mission he ends up involved in without their knowledge—or maybe he finds out they’re working together and in his determination to meddle, gets more than he bargained for.
Dooku/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW), Dooku & Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW)
They both left the Jedi, disillusioned, and took very different paths. It’d be fun to give them a reason to talk to each other! If Ahsoka had been with Anakin in the rescue of the Chancellor, would she have stopped him? What if she had, and things turned out so that Dooku felt he had to run off with her as a hostage for safety? What if Ahsoka went into the past from Rebels and, trying to avoid meeting herself and anyone she was close to directly, fell into working with her old enemies by accident? Maybe she ends up working with Dooku instead; older Ahsoka gives him a shock, being wiser and more powerful, and he ends up reconsidering his allegiance to his master? Of course, eventually her Force presence and the shenanigans do bring her to the attention of her former self and her old master…Alternately, Dooku ends up going forward—perhaps in the World Between Worlds, Ahsoka looks on a scene with him and they can feel her gaze, so they investigate and she winds up pulling him through. They then find themselves adrift in a new galaxy, working with the last Jedi against the Empire they were all used to build, and more directly against an enemy Ahsoka once knew. I also like the idea of them being stuck in loops, but the Force-sensitives being able to feel impressions of all the previous loops, which affects their dynamics and feelings for each other throughout time.
Daughter | The Winged Goddess/Anakin Skywalker/Son | The Fanged God/Ahsoka Tano (SW:TCW)
I love the Mortis arc for how the gods play with these two, and how they both foreshadow and ensure their future. Ahsoka is influenced by the darkness, but ends in the light. Anakin is pulled by both, but chooses the darkness for the last half of his life until it’s time for his death. The Son never wanted to hurt The Daughter, but he kills her, though part of her survives; Anakin never wanted to hurt Ahsoka and even as Vader did not move to do it at first, but his rage spurred him into trying and she continues to live. Then there’s how each pair is a set of counterparts, dark and light, light and dark; the difference only in how the mortals can both choose, where the gods are bound to their nature as avatars of The Force. I’d love to see more time spent with them all aware and sentient beings together; perhaps when Ahsoka is taken by The Son, The Daughter tries to help Anakin get her back. Or they all leave Mortis together, fighting and loving each other all the way.
Star Wars: Ahsoka - E. K. Johnston
Kaeden Larte/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Ahsoka)
Fanfiction
Ahsoka loves them both a lot. I love her missing Anakin and I love how meeting Kaeden is part of her regaining the sense of purpose and belonging she lost when she left him. And Kaeden could have two awesome warrior lovers to protect her! I’d love some AU where Anakin is on the run too and they welcome him into their relationship, or perhaps Anakin was with Ahsoka when she hid on Raada. Or, what if Ahsoka and Kaeden wander the galaxy doing good, and then suddenly they need to rescue Anakin? Or what if Anakin joined up with the Rebellion and is the person who reaches out to recruit Ahsoka, having been searching for her the whole time?
Darth Vader comes to Raada instead of an Inquisitor. Ahsoka has to worry about her old master, her new (not)girlfriend and family, and possibly a new pupil in Hedala while dealing with the attentions of the Sith and the Empire. Kaeden has to deal with her (not)girlfriend’s past coming back to haunt them both. Ahsoka is the’s the first (not)Jedi Vader sees after Mustafar; he didn’t know but he’s not surprised.
Or Vader goes there knowing he’ll find Ahsoka, and Ahsoka has to juggle the safety of Kaeden and her newfound friends with the need to go see him and figure things out; she’s already the mystery woman who’s friendly but keeps at a certain distance due to her past, and such a situation would only amplify that. What about an AU in which Sith Ahsoka comes by Raada and picks up a girlfriend? She spares Miara out of mercy/for points with Kaeden.
Star Wars - All Media Types
Qi'ra/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Rey/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Poe Dameron/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Cassian Andor/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Cassian Andor & Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
Fanfiction
Qi'ra/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
Both of these women are forced to make difficult choices: Ahsoka despairs but finds hope and purpose again, while Q’ira believes her life is the only one there can be for her. I’d love to see them clash; maybe Ahsoka gives Q’ira hope, whether or not she chooses to treat it as real or as a fairytale. Or Ahsoka accepts Q’ira’s choices but still tries to reach out and support her when they cross paths during their adventures, even if they’re on opposite sides. Q’ira thinks the only way to come out on top is to advance in her organization. To that end, when she hears of a Force user fighting for the Rebellion/doing good deeds, she investigates and tries to pit her against Maul. Alternately, Ahsoka picks her up/has the Rebellion pick her up when she’s younger, and they meet again later, with Q’ira being a Rebel contact buried in the criminal world. Or maybe she winds up back with them for real, making her next meeting with Ahsoka fraught.
Rey/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
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?
Poe Dameron/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
Ahsoka would be a legend by now, and I really like the idea of her having authority over Poe—or sway if she’s not an official part of the Resistance for whatever reason. What if she’s one of his heroes? Meanwhile, his being a hotshot pilot could give her a little nostalgia. She could keep an eye on him, but not really mind. Maybe she’s just come back from Malachor, and it’s the future, and she’s willing to help the Resistance once they’ve all confirmed who they are (perhaps with some help from Leia or Chewie). Or she’s one of the allies in the Outer Rim, having returned from the Unknown Regions, and he might’ve been sent to her; alternately, she saves them at the eleventh hour and they have an encounter in a brief moment of downtime.
Cassian Andor/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Cassian Andor & Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
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?
Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Ahsoka Tano (SW:AMT)
One of the most intriguing get-togethers that hasn’t happened. In their own ways, they each represent Anakin’s legacy, and they have their own relationships to that and to him. Ahsoka is his path not taken, having faced her own capacity for darkness when she wanted vengeance and chose against it, and Kylo Ren believes he is continuing his work by choosing against his capacity for goodness; as they both turn away and leave him behind, they continue on their paths, one to remove herself from the galaxy at large until she is needed and the other to dominate it in an attempt to fulfill his own needs. Does Kylo Ren ever find out his grandfather had an apprentice? What if he met her on some pilgrimage to Malachor? Or, in a universe where Anakin survived and Ben Solo still became Kylo Ren, would Kylo Ren find them together, and perhaps come to a different choice? Or maybe he finds Ahsoka in a sleep-like trance in the ruins of Malachor, and waking her leads to her being able to ward off Snoke’s influence? Maybe she trains him instead of or in addition to Luke, or a repentant Ben finds her when he’s trying to put what’s left of his destruction into a new life.
Star Wars: Rebels
Aleksandr Kallus/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels), Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo & Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels), Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels), Aleksandr Kallus & Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels)
Fanfiction
Aleksandr Kallus/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels), Aleksandr Kallus & Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels)
Sometime after Endor and before the epilogue, Kallus meets the first Fulcrum. Alternately, she makes it out of Malachor and takes him under her wing. Or she’s on the Empire’s side, and he’s her contact. Or she’s on the Empire’s side, he’s a Rebel, and she’s onto him. I enjoy that they came at this from different sides. Ahsoka was a supporter of the Republic, until it turned against her shortly before becoming the Empire; Aleksandr was an imperial, lately disillusioned. There could be wariness, but also respect, and admiration for the others’ skills and efforts. I really like the idea of Ahsoka being in charge here.
Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo & Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels), Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels)
Ahsoka as Fulcrum plays cat and mouse games with Thrawn. Ahsoka has to have fucked up Thrawn’s plans during her decade and a half time as the Rebellion’s spymaster. They wouldn’t have met face to face then in canon, but what if they had? Maybe for a brief moment, they are trapped together and have something almost resembling a civil conversation. Or what if she’d been on the Empire’s side, and he had to deal with her (plus Vader?) when trying to deal with Kanan and Ezra? What I like best about Thrawn in Rebels is his villain’s admiration for Hera and Sabine over Ezra and Kanan; might be in part because they’re not Jedi, but I enjoy him being drawn to the women, and I think it was a shame he only appeared after Ahsoka was gone. So if you want to play with that!
Game of Thrones (TV)
Daenerys Targaryen/Brienne of Tarth (GoT)
Fanfiction
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.
W.I.T.C.H.
Phobos Escanor/Cornelia Hale
Fanfiction
A pairing from my teen years! I saw the fandom had been nominated and had to try nominating/requesting this one. Cornelia is my favorite in both show and comics, stubborn and practical and proud. Phobos is one in a line of white-haired, arrogant, antagonistic pretty boys I’ve ended up liking. And they both have plant associations! I liked the bit in the cartoon where he’s got her captive in a bubble, and when he tried to have the Guardians replaced while controlling Endarno’s body. Canon divergence in which he’s got additional, or different interests? Or she has to deal with him after he’s been imprisoned—comics or cartoons—or he pops out of Kandrakar’s void somehow, not exactly the better for it.
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