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She could also big-sister him a bit; maybe there’s a ship or a route she knows cold and he needs a little help with…and maybe he finds that desperately attractive but lacks the self-esteem to actually pursue her… Or you could just write what you want and I could go the hell to bed like I should.
oh that’s intriguing.
Given my timeline, though, he’d be about five years older than she is, and I figured on about two-three years before the events of Rogue One for this little ficlet, so– he’d be about 25, she’s about 20 (if you assume Bodhi is younger than Ahmed)– and so I ruminated on it and impulse-generated myself a little prompt where he uses his slightly-protected status as a uniformed Imperial to save her from a scrape, and then they meet again later.
I want them to hook up because that’s always the easiest plot hook in fanfiction, and also because I’m still stinging over the Bad Demi Discourse I accidentally read and now I’m feeling all weird over putting sex in fic (and I just saw another post where someone was congratulating someone else on resisting the urge to put sex in fic and the other person was like oh yes sex is so lazy a trope and I was like– now I’m all messed-up over this, y’all, don’t let any other Fandom Olds tell you it gets easier, I’ve been writing fic since the 90s and this shit still knocks me for loops on the regular). And also, I mean, ace!Bodhi is a great headcanon I haven’t explored, and also Shara doesn’t need to bang everyone, but then, why would it be weird when there are so many crackfics that are just PWPs, why shouldn’t they, and clearly I’m overthinking it.
Anyway, I have 1500 words of Shara being clever and desperate and Bodhi being small and brave, and I don’t know yet where my heart will take me from there.
She could also big-sister him a bit; maybe there’s a ship or a route she knows cold and he needs a little help with…and maybe he finds that desperately attractive but lacks the self-esteem to actually pursue her… Or you could just write what you want and I could go the hell to bed like I should.
oh that’s intriguing.
Given my timeline, though, he’d be about five years older than she is, and I figured on about two-three years before the events of Rogue One for this little ficlet, so– he’d be about 25, she’s about 20 (if you assume Bodhi is younger than Ahmed)– and so I ruminated on it and impulse-generated myself a little prompt where he uses his slightly-protected status as a uniformed Imperial to save her from a scrape, and then they meet again later.
I want them to hook up because that’s always the easiest plot hook in fanfiction, and also because I’m still stinging over the Bad Demi Discourse I accidentally read and now I’m feeling all weird over putting sex in fic (and I just saw another post where someone was congratulating someone else on resisting the urge to put sex in fic and the other person was like oh yes sex is so lazy a trope and I was like– now I’m all messed-up over this, y’all, don’t let any other Fandom Olds tell you it gets easier, I’ve been writing fic since the 90s and this shit still knocks me for loops on the regular). And also, I mean, ace!Bodhi is a great headcanon I haven’t explored, and also Shara doesn’t need to bang everyone, but then, why would it be weird when there are so many crackfics that are just PWPs, why shouldn’t they, and clearly I’m overthinking it.
Anyway, I have 1500 words of Shara being clever and desperate and Bodhi being small and brave, and I don’t know yet where my heart will take me from there.
