#reylo coffee shop au

[cranberryorangejuice-ao3]

Work in progress 📑

[okapi-jones]

okapijones: master list of completed fics

✶ · ☆ · MASTER FIC THREAD · ☆ · ✶

Info about my completed work, links, related art, and more below!

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🌸 every version of me dead and buried 🌸

☕️ 24/24 chapters ☕️ 185k / E ☕️ Coffee shop AU ☕️ Artist Ben, recovering from trauma ☕️ Barista Rey, graduating from college ☕️ Strangers to lovers ☕️ Angst and romance and fluff and smut ☕️ HEA

Rey is a barista who never forgets a face. One day, a man walks into her café refusing to show his. A Reylo coffeehouse AU where a very sweet, very shy, but very physically and emotionally broken artist Ben meets a sunshiny but lonely barista/college student Rey - and they help heal one another.

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✨ a shade of night, a wound of light ✨

an original #reylo myth based on the art of @afterblossom

🌌 14 chapters / 98k words 🌌 Rated E 🌌 Original Myth / Fantasy AU 🌌 Primordial God Ren / Human Rey 🌌 Oceans of yearning 🌌 Magical sexy times 🌌 HEA

A lonely, forsaken god abandons the world, determined never to wake up from his slumber.

But when he closes his eyes, he dreams of a girl.

A girl who makes him wish he knew what it was to be human.

OR: What happens when you fall in love with the void - and the void loves you back?

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[olderthannetfic]

Nothing is more disappointing than clicking on a fic for your OTP and it turns out to have what I call OC Stand-In Syndrome, wherein Character A and Character B have had their backgrounds, personalities and motivations changed alongside plopping them in an AU setting to the point where their names are just about the only thing tying them to who they were originally.

To use an example from a fandom I am not in now but saw a lot of this in when I was, take literally any MCU ship. Stony, but Tony and Steve are in the 1950s and Tony is a shy emotionally damaged Omega uwu and Steve is just a nice guy but not the badass who canonically would fight you for more or less any injustice you committed in front of him. Were their names changed to Antonio and Stefan, you would not recognize that they were supposed to be Tony Stark and Steve Rogers at all. Or it's Stucky, but it's a modern day AU and Bucky is a banker who falls for barista Steve and neither have any personality traits in common with their original namesakes outside of being I guess nice and arguably friendly with each other, though of course in addition to their childhood friendship being erased, so has their poverty, plopping them both into comfortable middle class backgrounds often with supportive living families, making them unrecognizable as far as origins go. Clintasha but Clint is a CEO of a company and Nat is a secretary with no dark backstory and they've never met until one day their soul marks activate and they go on a series of dates where they reveal personalities, backstories, interests and desires that do not match canon Clint and Nat to the point where you don't know why these two were chosen as the named characters.

If you want to write original fiction, by all means, go for it. Write your 1950's A/B/O M/M romance with an emotionally broken, shy uwu boy and his skinny sexy chivalrous Alpha. Write that coffee shop M/M middle-class-without-the-uncertainty thing. Write your busy workaholic cutesy secretary who fate has wed to a CEO and aaaah she's so nervous aaah why is this so awkward. Those are things with audiences who will love them and were they not presented to me with the names of other characters on them, I might like them, too.

But when I go looking for A/B fic and I just find a fic with a character borrowing Character A's name and they're into a character borrowing Character B's name, my thought isn't, "Wow, what a great A/B fic!" it's "you must've accidentally used find-and-replace to put in the wrong names on your OCs".

I got out of Reylo for exactly this reason. I like Reylo. I don't like the latest Sad Girl OC with a different backstory and either much more wallflower or viciously snide personality (depending on what the author thinks is cute/cool) and Sad Boy OC who lacks the rage issues, familial issues and ongoing flaws that make Kylo interesting.

And now it's creeping into my latest fandom and I'm just so tired. Please, I just want to read fic of two characters, not two of your OCs who you haven't named yet.

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They probably find their portrayal IC, but yes, this often irritates me too.

[celartzee]

Coffee Shop AU // reylo

[pocketsofdaisy]

a masterlist of my fics [✨updated periodically✨]

Hello hi!!! I'm Mish and I write mainly for Reylo but occasionally have fics for other enemies to lovers pairings.

All are COMPLETE and range between M - E ratings. Always check the full list of tags.

This list does not include my current WIPs. Please refer to my AO3 dashboard for them. Also see my monthly schedule for WIPs.

Some fics have commissioned art so check them out under #pocketsofdaisy art

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Reylo

CANONVERSE

breaker of chains (post-TLJ, multi-chap, 45k words) - where Rey has a premonition that Kylo won't survive the war and rekindles their force bond (and feelings for each other?!) | enemies to lovers, forbidden love, angst with HEA

i am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar (post-TLJ, one-shot, 14k words) - where the Supreme Leader's plans for a vacation cruise get shot to hell (but still gets the love of his life) | Halcyon Starcruiser, family secrets & mementos, secretly hooking up with the enemy to let off steam, hopeful ending

i can't get it right since i met you (post-TLJ, one-shot, 800 words) - where Supreme Leader Kylo Ren recklessly names a constellation after Rey and then some | pining, fantasising, hopeful ending

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

never surrender (dystopia AU, multi-chap, 43k words) - where the First Order rules the underworld and Resistance Officer Rey is the mole that Commander Kylo Ren is hunting down | childhood acquaintances to enemies to lovers, forbidden love, espionage, bittersweet ending but somewhat hopeful

but darling, you are the only exception (modern AU, one-shot, 17k words) - cross-country train vacation and there's only one bed (or cabin?!) | strangers to lovers, soft fluff with mild angst

when it's love, if it's not rough, it isn't fun (modern AU with Magic, multi-chap, 15k words) - where Rey and Ben had a "thing" in the past and their misunderstandings come to a head at a party | Vampire Ben Solo x Vampire Rey Johnson, strangers to lovers, soulmates, creatures of the night having a sexually tensed Halloween celebration

MICROFICS

Reylomicrofics collection (multi-chapter, 4k words) - a combination of canonverse and modern AUs microfics done for the @reylomicrofics prompts.

Reylo Hot Ones microfics collection (one-shot, 3k words) - canonverse microfics done for the #ReyloHot1s event.

Post-TLJ: forced proximity & soft hand kissing for Supreme Leader Kylo Ren x Resistance Jedi Rey.

Canon AU: spicy truth or dare with Galactic Republic Pilot Ben Solo x Pilot Rey Niima while on patrol duty.

Canon AU: Jedi Summer Camp shenanigans with camp counsellors Jedi Master Ben "I don't know how to flirt" Solo x Jedi Master Rey Niima.

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GingerRose

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

you're all that i want, all the love (modern AU, one-shot, 3k words) - a screwball comedy of Rose and Hux's double date with Ben and Rey (which becomes hate at first sight) | strangers to lovers, coffee shop, pub date, soft gingerrose

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Darklina

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

one (1) ongoing multi-chap WIP

no completed works at this time

[ceilidho]

how do you feel about coffee shop au’s…. And dirty talk 🤭 reader keeps spelling Johnny’s name wrong, which starts on accident ofc bc that’s totally normal…. but then on purpose as they get to know each other and starts writing silly nicknames on his order and in person calls him dirty petnames….

eheheh my only soap/reader fic IS a coffee shop au, so i do enjoy them. i also have an a/b/o reylo bakery/cafe au, but that's besides the point. hmmm i haven't really written bolder reader characters in my cod fics because i feel like that veers into original character territory (not AS many ppl are gonna be able to comfortably slip into the reader character if i give them too big a personality, so i try to put a slight flare, but keep it more subdued) but i do LOVE. a bold character.

trying to out-flirt soap is a tough move :\\\ ur gonna realize VERY quickly what ur up against and he's very hard to reign in once you've convinced him that you're interested.

[starsscarmyceiling]

WIP title game!

tagged by @ahsokastechie (thank you! 💕)

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it. Tag as many people as you have WIPs.

OOOh ho hooo AIGHT let me just blow up my own spot here...

Posted WIPs

1. Keep the Blinds Open 🏢 (Reylo Neighbors AU)

2. quiet when i'm coming home ☕ (Merrical Coffee Shop AU)

3. what's grown between (surgery scars) 💫 (Merrical Post Battle Scars Fixit Fic)

Unposted WIPs

4. because all things write their own story 🧟 (Reylo Zombie Apocalypse/The Last of Us Universe AU)

5. so close, in the personal quiet 🧟 (Merrical Zombie Apocalypse/The Last of Us Universe AU)

6. Stirring the Sky 🌌 (Merrical Clone Wars AU)

7. Homemade Dynamite 🏢 (Merrical Neighbors AU)

8. we're more ghosts than people 🤠 (Merrical Cowboy AU) (that I am co-writing with @myfaenwy 😏)

no pressure tags: @myfaenwy @galacticsirensong @believe-in-alderaan @namesonboats @wayfaringjedi @starryjediknight @jan-uarys @misfitz-7 @mistressorinoco

[shinkaplant]

Modern!AU Ben Solo announces that he works at a coffee shop, same one that Rey works at! (Yep, I did a Reylo AU tweet)

[cherienymphe]

As an OG reylo the super soft fanon version of reylo that ended up taking over makes me so sad lol. Man is a literal dark side prince/Emperor of the entire galaxy but it's all coffee shop AUs 😭

But I even find OG reylo fairly tame. Isn't it like a war going on and he and Rey are just on opposing sides? Is that not the general checklist of how enemies to lovers work? I just never got the backlash and hate bc as a ship it's just so run of the mill to me. Like with dramione... Draco belonged to a family that wanted to eradicate Hermione's existence 🧍🏾‍♀️

[sillywoman01]

Chapter 9 of 'Tell Me Sweet Little Lies' now posted on A03

Rating: Explicit

Fandom: Reylo Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Tropes: Modern Au, Coffee shop AU, Sharing One Bed

Story Summary:

Rey Niima falls into a state of deep despair and loneliness after her fiancee dies in a tragic car accident. She has a hard time sleeping at night because of constant nightmares about the accident. Her best friend, Rose suggests that she hire a professional cuddler to help her sleep. Her ‘Cuddle Buddy’, Kylo Ren seems to be just what she needs in her life. He’s handsome and charming. He provides her with comfort and companionship.

One night after the pangs of loneliness hit her especially hard, she begs him to lie to her and tell her that he loves her and wants her to be his. He does and from then on, she asks him to continue to lie to her as it brings her solace.

After running out of money to pay Kylo for his services, Rey lets Kylo go from her life. She comes to the conclusion that she is in love with him. She fears that Kylo only told her that he loved her because she paid him to but still has some hope that he really does love her.

Chapter Summary: Rey has what she thinks is the last, ‘Cuddle Night’ with Kylo and she asks him to lie to her again and tell her that he will stay the night with her.

[rey-jake-therapist]

Encroaching on your asks with the most important questions of them all:

Why do you write OCs, and what is your process of creating/developing them like?

Any fandom, because it’s probably not fandom-specific.

Thank you for this ask! I love talking about my OCs ♥

Why do you write OCs?

There are two reasons.

The first is the most obvious reason: I want to write fan fiction with romance in it but none of the "official" ships works for me, so I create an OC to pair them with the character I like, most of the time the protagonist though I sometimes do it for secondary characters as well.

The other reason is that I love creating characters. I came to fanfiction very late in my life, for years I only wrote original stories, though I must say I rarely finished them, *facepalms*. I love writing fanfiction, but whenever I tried to work with an "official ship" I found myself frustrated because I didn't feel free to characterize them the way I wanted, since as you know, I respect the canon material I inspire myself from. For a year I threw a attempt at Reylo fanfiction but I quickly realised that like... 90% of the Reylo writers I think, I had to not only write AUs (NOT coffee shops AUs or other overused tropes like that) because canon sucks, but also completely change the personality of both characters for my romance to work. I ended up taking off all my Reylo fics from AO3 because if I want to play dolls, I'd rather play dolls with my own characters. Maybe one day I'll go back to these fics, change the names of the characters and publish them ;)

What is your process of creating/developing them like?

If I create them with the purpose of pairing them with a canon character, I think of a personality that could work with the character in question. Then I take much time thinking of a backstory, and of a reason why they come in the canon character's life. They have their own personality, struggles, desires and needs. They can't just pop up out of nowhere with no history of their own for the sole sake of making the canon character happy. Actually, most of the time they rather tend to complicate the character's life at first :p My favorite characters always being complex and broody characters with complicated lives, my reasoning will be like... "What can I do to mess them up even more and push them towards the edges of their sanity?" :D

All my main OCs are female characters. Again two reasons: I love writing women, much more than writing men, and I think there are already too many male characters who take the spotlight at the expense of female characters who are generally relegated to the background. So far the canon characters who inspired me to write them happened to be male so my romances are all m/f, but I don't desperate for the muse to inspire me a f/f romance involving a female blorbo ;) Of course I do it only if I think the canon character is straight or bi in the canon material: I still have in mind to respect the canon material so I'll never force a m/f relationship on a character who I see as gay in canon.

I can write male OCs but they will always be secondary characters; since my main OCs has a past and a life that doesn't involve the canon character, it would be way too weird for them not to have any friends or family. I don't spend as much as time on these OCs as I do on my main, but I still regularly remind myself that they need to be a bit fleshed out as well. Sometimes I also write secondary OCs to pair them with secondary canon characters; that's what I did recently I wrote a male OC to pair him with Mycroft, Sherlock's sibling.

I think it's also worth adding that like you, I'm one of this minority who doesn't say "fuck canon" when I create a story, but on the contrary I want it to be canon compliant. That's the real fun I find in writing fanfiction: find ways for my fic AND my OCs to work in the limits of the canon material. It means that if the main canon character dies in the canon material, he won't miraculously live in my fic lol If he ends up single at 60 in the canon books, obviously my romance will have a tragic or at best bittersweet ending. Happy endings aren't derogatory as far as I'm concerned ;)

One last thing: regarding their appearance, I tend to look for a real life model for my OCs. It helps me a lot to flesh them out in my mind.

[busdriver-55]

Queer head-canon

Making this list was/is a very self indulgent activity for me. I came out fairly recently and this us kinda my fun passion project atm as far as rec lists go. I wanted to put together a list of all the queer reylo fics I've read (am reading atm) - I know there's the "Queerly Beloved Reylo" collection on Ao3, which has WAY MORE fics on there, but like I said I'm basically making this list for myself first and I'm gonna be updating it as often as possible. I really don't care if no one likes this list since it's something I'm making for myself. Buuut hopefully people can get some great fics off here!! 😌💖🏳️‍🌈

If you lead me from the shore by @howls-immobile-bungalow: The seas run rampant with pirates. Islanders live in fear of the sight of the Jolly Roger. To escape an arranged marriage, Rebecca Palpatine, also known as ‘Rey’, disguises as a man and enlists on a ship, which leads to being under command of the dreaded and fearsome pirate, Captain Kylo Ren. Through living under disguise, and getting dangerously close to the Captain, Rey will explore and discover his identity as a trans man, and his understanding of his place in the world will change forever.

How to Be a Heartbreaker by @littlestarlost: Rey is a black widow. Ben is her new husband. Things aren't quite going to plan.

Thanks for the feedback by antlersantlers: Name? Age? Is this the first time you fucked Ben? Did you cum? Would you fuck Ben again? Are you a… top / switch / bottom? What is your gender identity? What is your sexual orientation? Please rate your overall satisfaction 1-10. Please write any additional feedback on the opposite side.

Hold Me Up (In The Palm Of Your Hand) by violethoure666 -> @multishiptrashh: Rey is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at eleven after the unexpected death of her father Luke. Thank god for her cousin Ben. A slow burn, no age gap, coming of age story following Ben and Rey from eleven to nineteen.

You're Not Alone by @howls-immobile-bungalow: Not your everyday College/Coffee Shop AU. Ben Solo is a creative writing major (stage name Kylo Ren), has a rock band called the Knights of Ren, and he's a trans guy out and proud since childhood. Rey Jakku is a mechanical engineering major and a trans girl still in the closet. But that's about to change for her when she meets a hot barista attending the same school as her.

The Villain I Appear to Be by Leo_Rosa: When the young idealist Sociology major Rey Johnson and the jaded and cynical Political Sciences postdoctoral fellow Ben Solo met, it was hate at first sight. But grief and desire connect them in a twisted, powerful, and secret bond, showing them just how much two lonely souls have in common, in spite of all differences that divide them. When Professor Snoke, Ben's mentor, decides to ruin Rey's life and her career, their relationship is tested – as well as their beliefs.

meet me in the aftergloom by @diesirate: Weddings are supposed to be beginnings. But not to Rey. They're endings. This one is, anyway. Or, one winter night that changes Rey Niima's life. And Ben Solo's too.

To Love Shadows and Marvels by midwinterspring: A modern startup AU with Lovecraftian elements.

Lots More by MissCoppelia: Rey and Ben are ready for another year of sexy fun at their famous annual Purim party. This year they've been planning for an orgy, which Ben is looking forward to, but does Rey feel the same?

The Dinner Party by DarkKnightDarkSide: It's Rey's 30th birthday, and her husband Ben wants to give her the most unforgettable evening. All she wants, though, is a low key night in with some good friends. Some very good friends.

the eye has to travel by @secretreylotrash: Kylo Ren is the head of the Costume Department for the Star Alliance Opera. Rey is his beleaguered assistant. It’s hell. She’s slowly crumbling under endless hours of work and impossible standards. Being a broke post-grad, their most recent argument is fought over the condition of Rey’s personal wardrobe and her inability to find anything appropriate for the Opening Night Gala this season. Kylo insists he’s handled the problem by making her dress himself, but has he? It just seems like he's making Rey stay late after work out of spite, for hours of fittings, alone with him.

Checklists and Promises by @crossingwinter: Rey's new to being a Domme, and when she comes across Kylo's sub profile, she worries she doesn't have enough experience for him. Kylo has ten years of experience subbing, after all. Soon enough, though, it's clear that even if she's something Kylo wants, she might also be someone that he needs.

(this will definitely be updated so stay tuned)

[ao3feed--reylo]

Family Rituals Tipped in Dingleberry Blue

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/6czrUHP

by Dr_Roslin

After Rey signs on to the Falcon, Han convinces her 'his guy' can help her master the forces within. Meeting his family, she finds surprises and unexpected joys. - The Canonverse nail salon AU.

Words: 4022, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Rey (Star Wars), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Han Solo, Leia Organa, Chewbacca (Star Wars)

Relationships: Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Leia Organa & Ben Solo & Han Solo, Rey & Han Solo, Chewbacca & Rey & Han Solo, Chewbacca & Leia Organa & Ben Solo & Han Solo

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Nail Polish, Beauty Salon AU, Coruscant, force users, Solo Family Feelings (Star Wars), soft and sweet, Found Family, Specifically Rey finds a family, Rey as crew to the Falcon, Meets the Solos, Finds a home, Coffee shop AU but in a canonverse nail salon, No Pregnancy, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Reylo endgame, HEA

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/6czrUHP

[saveourskinship]

AO3/tumblr fic!

Please excuse this madness. 

Obviously the fic is under the keep reading. I’m not *that* diabolical.

Happy Holidays!

(Image has nothing to do with fic and is related to completely separate fic but I don’t care)

AO3 sat down and swiped tumblr’s iced pumpkin spice boba latte.

“OMFG, today was just…” AO3 took another hefty sip and gazed into the distance with a look of annoyance bordering on awe. “I mean, people are just–”

“Yeah,” tumblr said, retying their shoelaces on the spare third chair. “People are so just. Like, they’ll say one thing and subtext another.”

AO3 blinked and handed the coffee back to tumblr. tumblr took a sip and let AO3’s blood-red (always blood-red) lipstick paint their own.

“People should just say what they mean. I like to know about it all upfront. Like, take your baggage out, cinnamon rolls! Let me see that laundry, you know?” AO3 slumped back in defeat.

“Mm, yeah, but sometimes I like being surprised by the weird.” tumblr swirled the metal enviro-friendly straw, the ice clinked merrily and their cottagecore apron fluttered in the spring-autumn lavender breeze. “But then sometimes it gives me maj plinko.”

AO3 narrowed their glistening orbs. “Maj? Like, major? Is that a new thing? Are you trying a new thing?”

tumblr shrugged, “It could catch on. It might catch. Crabs did.”

“Don’t. It’s, like, trigger warning level.” AO3 sighed, shaking their hair in the sun and rolling the sleeves of the man’s oxford short they were wearing—mostly because it looked good no matter what gender they were.

“Really?” tumblr nibbled their lip with more anxiety than usual. “Like ABO bad? Reylo bad?”

“On a scale of Teen to Explicit? Like, dead dove. I just cannot with maj.” AO3 slinked a tentacle out and snagged a neighbouring table’s croissant taking a delicate bite. They swiped a flake from the corner of their mouth and licked it. 

tumblr shifted, tapping an anime nail on the table to the BTS-ITZY-Stray Kids mashup playing in the Destiel coffee shop AU they and AO3 were patronising.

“Mm,” tumblr bouquet’d because hedges weren’t aesthetic enough. “But dead doves have so many poor little meow meows and you know I can’t help myself around that energy.”

AO3 rest their head in a palm and smiled, eyes doing things like dancing and sparkling to indicate affection. “I know. You’re such a blorbo.”

tumblr inhaled. Did AO3 mean that the way tumblr meant that?

While tumblr recovered, AO3 tossed a fry in their mouth. “So, what’s this movie we’re going to see?”

tumblr swallowed. “It’s um, it’s called Goncharov.”

“Cool.” AO3 stood and held out a hand, “Wanna go?”

“Does reblogging a potato bring you luck??” tumblr replied.

And together they walked into the sunset of an Avengers/Harry Potter crossover.

[impossiblefangirl0632]

Closing Time

Rated T, Coffee shop AU, mostly fluff, written for Reylo Writing Den's Anniversary Exchange

Summary:

At the start of a new semester, Rey has to switch her shift at the Chandrila Museum's coffee shop from opening to closing shift.

Ben, the museum's night guard, always comes in for a cup of coffee right before close.