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Jun. 26th, 2025 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedarlingonei am alive. i have been writing. we're working on a longfic of which the first draft seven years ago was 25k, the current draft is 149k, and my math estimates that if we start the finale right now we might come in under 190k if we don't add any more subplots.
we have, sort of, an outline for how the finale will go. the story is a fusion universe canon divergence au of "star wars: the force awakens" and star wars legendsverse, both of them slow roasted for juicy bits, with a heavy focus on x-wing pilots. the premise is... well, honestly i think the summary i've written for it works well:
"Cadet officer Poe Dameron went missing, presumed dead, before his graduation from the New Republic Flight Academy. Years later, the rising First Order sends a mysterious lone X-wing pilot to raid unaligned planets. Resistance General Leia Organa recruits General Wedge Antilles and Colonel Wes Janson to investigate."
we recapture poe and the second half of the story is basically him slowly relearning how to be a person. there's torture, there's found family, there's regular family (fuck you disney kes dameron is a good dad and we're stealing him), han and leia didn't get divorced, luke disappeared without a word as he does after his jedi academy experiment went wrong so now nobody's entirely sure if it was him or his nephew or both who went darkside and carved up all the other students... we're actually not resolving that part in this one, we have plans for a whole-ass sequel, but that's later.
in order to figure out who does what where when in "the force awakens", i had to rewatch the whole movie very slowly and pause to take a bunch of notes. i hadn't watched it since "the last jedi" came out because the fan behavior around that movie soured me on everything new canon so badly. tfa is a solid standalone movie, excellent nostalgia bait, it's just... covered in the fucking ooze, as the tumblr post says.
zero technobabble though. just making things happen because they look cool and who cares if they'll make sense later. which means i had to make up all the technobabble about starkiller base from scratch. mostly based on a childhood astronomy hyperfixation from the '90s in which most of my books were from the '50s and '60s. maybe it'll feel more authentically star wars or something. (i'm being self-deprecating, i actually am a bit proud of what i came up with, even though i have no idea how much is gonna make it into the briefing because nobody on this cast is a damn engineer.)
anyway we do have an outline but then we wrote six thousand words that weren't strictly in the outline and now we need to write people quarrelling over theories of the force so who knows when we'll actually get to the finale. i think i'm having fun though?
we have, sort of, an outline for how the finale will go. the story is a fusion universe canon divergence au of "star wars: the force awakens" and star wars legendsverse, both of them slow roasted for juicy bits, with a heavy focus on x-wing pilots. the premise is... well, honestly i think the summary i've written for it works well:
"Cadet officer Poe Dameron went missing, presumed dead, before his graduation from the New Republic Flight Academy. Years later, the rising First Order sends a mysterious lone X-wing pilot to raid unaligned planets. Resistance General Leia Organa recruits General Wedge Antilles and Colonel Wes Janson to investigate."
we recapture poe and the second half of the story is basically him slowly relearning how to be a person. there's torture, there's found family, there's regular family (fuck you disney kes dameron is a good dad and we're stealing him), han and leia didn't get divorced, luke disappeared without a word as he does after his jedi academy experiment went wrong so now nobody's entirely sure if it was him or his nephew or both who went darkside and carved up all the other students... we're actually not resolving that part in this one, we have plans for a whole-ass sequel, but that's later.
in order to figure out who does what where when in "the force awakens", i had to rewatch the whole movie very slowly and pause to take a bunch of notes. i hadn't watched it since "the last jedi" came out because the fan behavior around that movie soured me on everything new canon so badly. tfa is a solid standalone movie, excellent nostalgia bait, it's just... covered in the fucking ooze, as the tumblr post says.
zero technobabble though. just making things happen because they look cool and who cares if they'll make sense later. which means i had to make up all the technobabble about starkiller base from scratch. mostly based on a childhood astronomy hyperfixation from the '90s in which most of my books were from the '50s and '60s. maybe it'll feel more authentically star wars or something. (i'm being self-deprecating, i actually am a bit proud of what i came up with, even though i have no idea how much is gonna make it into the briefing because nobody on this cast is a damn engineer.)
anyway we do have an outline but then we wrote six thousand words that weren't strictly in the outline and now we need to write people quarrelling over theories of the force so who knows when we'll actually get to the finale. i think i'm having fun though?
