#droidcaptain fanfic

[vvitchering]

Decided I'm tired of shipping these tiny little ships by myself so here is the first of a few fic recs for some of my favorite rare pairs. Starting off with my current obsession, droidcaptain (K-2SO / Cassian Andor from Rogue One)

These are in no particular order. As always, read the tags on each individual fic and curate your own experience. And I do recommend having seen Rogue One, obviously, but you do not have to have seen Andor to enjoy these! Happy reading!

while(true) by whalebone - Rated T+ Summary:

The truth was, Cassian didn’t know why he had kissed K-2SO the first time.  Five kisses.

Could've Been a Jedi by ambiguously - Rated T+ Summary:

They say the first Fulcrum was a Jedi.

404 by Bright_Thorn - Rated M Summary:

K-2SO reboots. He is an Imperial droid in an Imperial prison, but that's where things stop making sense: His base code has be re-worked into a mess of directories, subroutines, and patches. He has no memory of the last 2.82 years, but it's not a standard memory wipe because it left behind empty files where there should be clean storage space. Strangest of all, he has no loyalty to the Empire. If he can find the prisoner who somehow knows his designation, there's a small chance — very small — that K-2SO might also find answers.

Unorthodox Modifications by Bright_Thorn - Rated E Summary:

K-2SO finds out about hedonic processors by accident. What he ultimately does with that information is quite deliberate. Meanwhile, Cassian is maybe less than successful at controlling his emotions.

The Mechanics of Rest by Isagel - Rated E Summary:

After a mission, Cassian is too keyed up to rest. K-2 finds a way to help him unwind.

Cable Management by literal_garbage - Rated G Summary:

Cassian gives K-2SO the droid equivalent of a shoulder rub after a run-in with an incompetent technician.

Heart/Gear by whalebone - Rated E Summary:

They’ve both been gone, Cassian thought, each to their own emptiness. But now Kay was rebuilding Cassian as surely as Cassian had rebuilt him.  After Scarif, K-2SO is finally rebuilt.

Defect by robotboy - Rated E Summary:

Cassian Andor is on an undercover Imperial mission when he meets a mysterious friend known only as K.

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Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Characters: Cassian Andor, K-2SO (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Torture, Robot Sex, Intimacy, Triggers, Captivity, Robot/Human Relationships, Established Relationship

Summary: After Cassian was taken captive and tortured by Imperial KX droids, he and K-2SO have to patiently relearn intimacy.

[awacatin]

I just. Got very pumped after feeding myself w the scarce fanart of them lmao. Big shout-out to those fanfic authors that keep writing beautiful fics about these two :'v

[k2fast-k2furious]

Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Characters: K-2SO (Star Wars), Cassian Andor, Other Character Tags to Be Added Additional Tags: Robot/Human Relationships, Pining, Developing Relationship, Hanahaki Disease, Sort Of Summary:

The first time, K-2SO put it down to a glitch. 

Something weird is going on with K-2SO.

[cynical-harlequin]

Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Additional Tags: Robot/Human Relationships, Established Relationship, Robot Sex, Wire Play, Relationship Study, Sensuality, Tenderness, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot

Summary: Cassian is helping K-2SO out with repairs and things take a turn for the heated.

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Written for Day 2 “Digital Love” of Droid Appreciation Week

Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Additional Tags: Robot/Human Relationships, Established Relationship, Fade to Black, Robot Sex, Wire Play, Relationship Study, Sensuality, Tenderness

Summary: Cassian is helping K-2SO out with repairs and things take a turn for the heated.

[cynical-harlequin]

Chapters: 1/2 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Criminals, Crack, Fake Marriage, Robot/Human Relationships

Summary:

Lord of Vice K-2SO is arrogant – unapologetically so. When he’s asked to impersonate one half of a married couple to infiltrate Canto Bight society he relishes the challenge of being ‘married’ to the frustratingly wilful yet handsome Cassian Andor. Lord of Virtue? Cassian makes no bones about his fervent dislike of the dishonoured rake. He’s the last person on earth he can conceive of marrying – sham or otherwise. But being forced to play husband to the handsome-as-sin wastrel brings up very real feelings of desire…

Written for Unconventional Courtship 2018, a fake marriage adventure featuring Canto Bight, a droid crime boss and a very disgruntled spy.

[cynical-harlequin]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Role Reversal, Robot/Human Relationships, Robot Sex, Xeno, Crack Treated Seriously, Painplay, Mentions of Bloodplay, Fear Play, Foreplay

Summary: Captain Kay Esso had suffered many annoyances since leaving the Empire for the Rebel Alliance, most of them involving his new Rebel allies and the word “no.” There was a lot of “no” involved in being a Rebel.

Yet there was one thing he could never regret: his partner, the custom-built interrogator droid his creators had wittily nicknamed Cassian.

Or rather, what he could never regret, for he regretted knowing Cassian every time he was annoyed with him: the day he had first said “yes” to Cassian and every “yes” that followed.

[cynical-harlequin]

Written for Day 5 “Favorite Relationship” of Cassian Appreciation Week @thefulcrumcaptain

Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Additional Tags: Morning After, Character Study, Relationship Study, Robot/Human Relationships

Summary: It's their first morning after and Cassian finds himself strangely at peace.

[cynical-harlequin]

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Additional Tags: Robot Sex, Established Relationship, Robot/Human Relationships, Military Kink, Bad Sex, Playful Sex, this has a lot of sex tags for nobody getting laid in chapter 1, Wire Play, Sexual Roleplay, Undernegotiated roleplay, Fluff and Humor, Military Ranks, Hand Jobs, Anal Fingering, Wet & Messy, Table Sex, Sensuality

Summary: Cassian's not a Loth-cat in heat, thank you very much, but K-2 is making it very hard to keep his hands to himself today. K-2 is also pretty awful at roleplay. Oh well.

Chapter 3:  The night before the mission, they find a more exciting use for the dejarik table.

[cynical-harlequin]

Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Banter, Pining, Robot/Human Relationships, Undercover as a Couple, Mission Fic, human/non-human - Freeform, Fluff, Treat

Summary: An undercover assignment requires Cassian and K-2 to pose as a couple.

Or: that one time K-2SO looked very dashing wearing a bow tie.

[cynical-harlequin]

Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Additional Tags: Robot/Human Relationships, Robot Sex, Angst and Feels, human/non-human - Freeform, Sex, Dark, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Pre-Rogue One, Rough Sex

Summary: It's just sex, Cassian is still telling himself, it's not like K-2 and he are lovers. Getting attached would be unprofessional and he's anything but. He's just slipping, walls crumbling. But as long as he tells himself it means nothing it will be fine, right?

[cynical-harlequin]

"Why can't you just tell me the truth?" For droidcaptain please!

Oh wow so today I remembered I had a typo-riddled draft written on my phone at 3 am, so I went and polished it and hopefully turned it into something that doesn’t sound like written at 3 am (though it was edited at 1 am.) 

Or read it here on AO3

Impossible Truths

He had known the day would come.

He had just hoped he would be given a little longer, yet as he stepped out of the U-Wing K-2 was waiting for him, his usual slouch replaced by an Imperial straightness to his stance which immediately told Cassian that he was in trouble.

He barely took the time to lead Cassian to a quieter part of the hangar, where they would have as much privacy as you could find anywhere on Yavin’s Massassi Base.

Then he rounded on him, optics too bright, his stance still too stiff for comfort.

“Why couldn’t you just tell me the truth, Cassian?”

Cassian opened his mouth, he waited for the words to come because they had never failed him before, because he had been trained to think of all the right things to say to talk himself out of trouble and he was far too desperate today not to use all the skills at his disposal.

And yet when it mattered most he couldn’t think of a single pleasant lie.

He snapped his mouth shut, staggered back half a step as if distance could buy him time. K-2’s optics still burned into him. “I…”

There should have been encouragement, he thought with almost hysterical desperation. Why wasn’t K-2 encouraging him? He was always so tender with Cassian when he couldn’t find the right words to voice his fears or his desires. He was so sweet. He was petty, at times downright mean to everyone else but he was so unbelievably sweet and tender with Cassian.

Now his optics just burned into him and he didn’t even try to bridge the distance between them.

Cassian felt his breath come harder, he had to fight to take sharp raspy breaths which were starting to feel suspiciously wet. “I didn’t lie. I…“ He struggled for excuses still and felt self-loathing choke him as he realized what he was doing. K-2 deserved so much better. “It isn’t what you think it is.”

That at least was true. K-2 would, as would any partner, suspect the conspicuous absences to be Cassian cheating on him, once he figured out that he had been lying about being sent on solo missions. Cassian had always known that would happen and that when it happened, he would have to keep up this new pretense to replace the old one.

It was better K-2 thought him unfaithful than the truth. He might hate him for the lie, but the truth would be so much worse.

“I guess I’m just not used to telling the truth,“ he forced out weakly.

There was a long, pointed silence, before K-2 said, “You promised you would.”

The wetness threatened to choke him. There was a coldness to K-2’s voice now. No. Not coldness. A bone-deep hurt – betrayal – which amounted to the same thing.

He didn’t need to run any strategical analyses to know how this would end. He knew. This was the price he had been willing to pay. He just didn’t know how to divert the path without diverting it onto a worse one. He barely felt his fingers anymore. He felt numb and breathing was becoming so hard.

He couldn’t stand to look at K-2 any longer.

“I did.“

He had. They had. It had been the one golden rule Cassian had sworn to honor the day he permitted himself to love K-2. He had truly believed he could. Just one rule. Don’t deceive him. Have one single thing in your life that was real. Just one. No lies, no half-truths,  just all the frightening brutal honesty they were capable of. It has been so frightening.

They had been so happy.

He inhaled shakily. The wetness had crept up to his nose.

He held his breath for a moment. He knew he wouldn’t shatter in front of K-2. He was too good at deception. It was what he counted on today.

“I will always lie, Kay. It’s who I am.“

K-2 remained perfectly still, even his fans barely hummed anymore. “You are a terrible liar.“ He sounded so distant. As if he were berating someone he didn’t even like.

K-2 turned around walked away.

I know. You deserve better.

He didn’t say it out loud. If he did K-2 would stay. If he did, he would soften and eventually forgive him, and then he would start asking questions again. Questions which Cassian couldn’t afford to answer.

He watched K-2 leave and kept telling himself that the kindest thing he could do for him was to let him walk away.

With K-2 gone the hangar was deserted. Cassian remained rooted to the spot until bright dayshift illumination gave way to the dimmer light that indicated night cycles.

In the dim light, the hangar was full of shadows.

Cassian sank to the ground hidden in the shadows behind a stack of boxes, a little world separated from the rest of the hangar. He curled up, knees tucked close to his chest, head buried in his arms. Small shudders ran through his body, even now subtle so as not to give away more than need be.

The last time he had been curled up like this K-2 had found him with the blaster still in his hands and tears running down his face. It was the day Cassian had thrown caution to the wind and permitted himself to love.

The tears came slowly, it had been so long that he had almost forgotten how to let himself cry. They flowed faster after a while but still noiselessly. He had indeed forgotten how to cry without hiding his tears.

K-2 didn’t come.

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K-2 understood the mortality of organic lifeforms. He knew they were fragile, some more so than others but even the sturdiest among them had nothing on the hardiness of droids who could be uploaded into new frames or kept in storage for hundreds of years till someone bothered to repair them.

He had always known this and been bothered by it.

Yet somehow K-2 had assumed he would be able to protect Cassian from the worst of his own organic fallibility.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Characters: K-2SO (Star Wars), Cassian Andor Additional Tags: Character Death, Terminal Illnesses, Robot/Human Relationships, Mortality, Heavy Angst, Spook Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon, Community: spook_me Summary: When their outpost is struck by a quickly spreading disease, K-2SO is confronted with the creeping horror of organic mortality.

[cynical-harlequin]

Chapters: 3/3 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO Additional Tags: Bad Matchmaking, Robot/Human Relationships, Fluff and Crack, Matchmaker Threepio, Star Wars Rare Pairs Exchange 2017, Star Wars: Rebels References

Summary: “Sir, I have strong reason to suspect we are being sabotaged.”

Little do Cassian and K-2SO know that they are the unlucky victims lucky benefactors of a matchmaking competition by a quartet of troublesome droid friends.

[awacatin]

Some sketches of them as well bc why not