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This is an excellent question! I’m going to answer with a quick: sort of, and explain briefly by saying that I actually don’t have a Happily Ever After sort of dynamic to the ending. It ends, as much as anything ever does, happily enough, but I’m not doing the thing where the three of them link fingers and ride off into the sunset together either. They’re all resolved, sure, but the situation is such that I wouldn’t say anyone’s in a place to promise Ever After anything.
Longer answer:
I was originally inspired to write Star Wars stuff at all because I am sort of notorious for getting characters into threesomes. So I did come at this with some pretty strong JediStormPilot intentions.
But I also have from the beginning had a strong feeling like… Poe is 32 and Rey is a teenager. It was already a stretch with Finn but at least Finn was the in-universe equivalent of out of college. (I feel like stages of life is a more useful separator than years lived, strictly speaking, because it takes into account how years are less important as you age.) So the age gap is largely transcendable by circumstances and attraction. Whereas those couple extra years to Rey are just– especially since she’s a feral desert child who has never known, like, hand-holding– I’m thinking that a straightforward Poe/Rey pairing is not going to work out for me well at all.
So here’s the thing, I’m doing a kind of semi-asexual characterization with Rey because #1 that’s how the character suggested herself to me, and #2 it’s kind of self-insert-y. At her age I had no idea how on earth I was meant to be involved in sex; I was interested in it, but I didn’t actually– want to– you know– the squishy parts seemed kind of– uh– are you sure?
So I’m not meaning to tell yet another awful cliche story about An Asexual Who Grows Out Of It. (I sort of ID as demisexual now even though that series of syllables is bafflingly unrelatable. Whether that’s what Rey is or not, I’m not sure. I don’t totally understand it myself.) And Rey is trying to figure out what that means and balance it with a Jedi not getting super attached and also they’re at war and she has some kind of Destiny, and– Anyway. Given that characterization, any threesomes are not really going to be three equal parts of a triangle, y’dig me?
Although, as a human woman with working eyes (I’m being facetious), Rey is not totally immune to Poe Dameron, especially when he hurts so pretty.
My advice is to decide if you can trust me, and if not, no hard feelings, and if you can, I bet it’s not going to be like you’re afraid it will be.
This is an excellent question! I’m going to answer with a quick: sort of, and explain briefly by saying that I actually don’t have a Happily Ever After sort of dynamic to the ending. It ends, as much as anything ever does, happily enough, but I’m not doing the thing where the three of them link fingers and ride off into the sunset together either. They’re all resolved, sure, but the situation is such that I wouldn’t say anyone’s in a place to promise Ever After anything.
Longer answer:
I was originally inspired to write Star Wars stuff at all because I am sort of notorious for getting characters into threesomes. So I did come at this with some pretty strong JediStormPilot intentions.
But I also have from the beginning had a strong feeling like… Poe is 32 and Rey is a teenager. It was already a stretch with Finn but at least Finn was the in-universe equivalent of out of college. (I feel like stages of life is a more useful separator than years lived, strictly speaking, because it takes into account how years are less important as you age.) So the age gap is largely transcendable by circumstances and attraction. Whereas those couple extra years to Rey are just– especially since she’s a feral desert child who has never known, like, hand-holding– I’m thinking that a straightforward Poe/Rey pairing is not going to work out for me well at all.
So here’s the thing, I’m doing a kind of semi-asexual characterization with Rey because #1 that’s how the character suggested herself to me, and #2 it’s kind of self-insert-y. At her age I had no idea how on earth I was meant to be involved in sex; I was interested in it, but I didn’t actually– want to– you know– the squishy parts seemed kind of– uh– are you sure?
So I’m not meaning to tell yet another awful cliche story about An Asexual Who Grows Out Of It. (I sort of ID as demisexual now even though that series of syllables is bafflingly unrelatable. Whether that’s what Rey is or not, I’m not sure. I don’t totally understand it myself.) And Rey is trying to figure out what that means and balance it with a Jedi not getting super attached and also they’re at war and she has some kind of Destiny, and– Anyway. Given that characterization, any threesomes are not really going to be three equal parts of a triangle, y’dig me?
Although, as a human woman with working eyes (I’m being facetious), Rey is not totally immune to Poe Dameron, especially when he hurts so pretty.
My advice is to decide if you can trust me, and if not, no hard feelings, and if you can, I bet it’s not going to be like you’re afraid it will be.
