Optimist Prime

Godspeed soldier 🫡

If you’re not from North America but still want to swap lmk! I love sending mail 😍

To all my USA/Canada peeps: I have a bunch of postage stamps that are going to be annoying to use in a week, anyone interested in doing a one stamp sticker/stationery swap?

It’s wild the hills some people decide to die on, but hey, at least they’re dying

(Also I hope you’ve been well! It’s been a hot minute!)

[[ another intermission to sleep, I’ll post more tomorrow. As always, comments are welcome! ]]

(He does wonder briefly about his family - he’s been gone for about a month at this point. Are they looking for him? Or are they just relieved that he’s finally not their problem anymore? At the very least, Luke probably is, given everything that happened in the future-past.) 13/?

she manages to steal his blaster in the scuffle. So, with not a small amount of resentment, he puts a pin in action item number one, part B. Short of Luke Skywalker turning up, no one is going to convince her to leave — kriff, he’s going to have to get his uncle involved, isn’t he? Urgh. 12/?

It’s at this point that Ben/Kylo realises that “finding Rey” and “getting Rey to come with me” are two completely different checklist items. He tries twice more, and earns himself five new bruises for his persistence. On his third and final try to talk sense into her 11/?

As someone who has been a teacher, that person needs to go touch some grass fr

[[ Brief ficlet interlude while I browse Wookiepedia for dates and timelines lmao ]]

Despite his best efforts to convince her that no, he isn’t a slaver, and yes, he does actually know Luke Skywalker, she still hits him square in the stomach with her oversized staff so hard he sees stars before she runs off into the sand dunes. 10/?

Rey, however, is at this point in the past-future a feral little gremlin (affectionate) of an 11 year-old who is way too street smart to get into a spacecraft with a random man. 9/?

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As a fellow data nerd

I’ll have to clean up the notes once I’m done with the time travel one hehehe

Noted!!! I think I originally started posting the marriage au on Twitter, I’ll have to dig it out!

So, alone, Ben/Kylo decides to check off the first (and so he thinks) easiest item on the list - find Rey. It’s not difficult to make his way to Jakku, and not that much harder to find Rey at Niima Outpost. 8/?

Any particular one???

Any preference for which one haha

The Force is, just so so tired 😆

(He also seems to have somehow retained his strength and power with the force - it’s a boon, not only because it’ll make the path ahead easier, but because he can finally silence that voice — Snoke — that’s been in his head for as long as he can remember.) 7/?

During his meditation, he also resigns to keep his knowledge about his future-past to himself. Partly because he’s not sure anyone will believe him, but also because he’s ashamed of so much he did. 6/?

[[ brief intermission while I go hit a ball with a stick in our sportsball league. Back with more soon! Love yall, comments keep me going ❤️ ]]

(I should take the time to mention that, the first time ‘round, Kylo and Hux were nothing to each other but the bitterest of rivals. Ben/Kylo has no hesitation whatsoever adding that little item to his ‘stopping the dark side’ list) 5/?

Realising that all of this is real, and he does want to help the resistance, Ben/Kylo makes himself a list of everything he needs to do to ensure that the dark side doesn’t rise:

[ ] Find Rey
[ ] Kill Palpatine
[ ] Kill Snoke
[ ] Kill Hux
Etc 4/?

By the end, Ben (Is he really Ben? He’s certainly not Kylo anymore but he still doesn’t feel like he’s Ben) realises that he still wants to return to the Light and stop Palpatine and the Order. 3/?

Confused, terrified, and not entirely convinced this isn’t some hallucination, he promptly fucks off without a word in the middle of the night. Hijacks a ship, and takes off to some distant planet. Meditates on all of it for a while 2/?

Okay so, it’s the end of TROS and Kylo has just followed the Jedi tradition and turned into a pile of laundry. But instead of joining the force, he wakes up back in his bed at Luke’s Jedi academy a full decade earlier. 1/?

Thank you for enabling me @cosleia.bsky.social ❤️ here are my notes for the #kyluxprompts “time travel”.

It is mostly just notes (if anyone wants me to flesh it out some more please lmk!)

Here we go: 1/?

I also found notes for a kylux body swap au, a marriage of (in)convenience au, and an underworld au, if anyone wants more of those

I need yall to know that it took me a whole day to find the notes for this - they were in my masters degree onenote, where I’d written them during a particularly boring yet compulsory seminar. Typical Jay behaviour tbh