#syndulla polycule

[nao-is-broke]

Day 1–Fulcrum (Polycules)

I saw @tyquu’s Kanera Yuri, and was inspired to make Kanerasoka Yuri for today’s prompt! Thanks to @sapphicahsokatanoweek for leading this all!

This took far too long and way too much effort… so no guarantees that the rest of my entires will be this finished haha.

Regardless, I hope you all enjoy this, and happy Sapphic Ahsoka Week!

Ezra: “Why do my parents call you baby girl?”

Ahsoka: “How about we stop talking for a little while :|”

[bluerhapsodist]

Star Wars Gender and Sexuality Headcanons

(I had waaay too much fun writing these, feel free to ask me about them!)

Luke Skywalker is an asexual panromantic cis man married to Mara Jade with children.

Leia Organa Solo is a pansexual demiromantic genderqueer woman married to Han Solo with children.

Han Solo is a bisexual demiromantic cis man who needs space, married to Leia Organa with children.

Lando Calrissian is a pansexual panromantic genderfluid man with a long list of partners.

Mara Jade is a bisexual demiromantic genderqueer person married to Luke Skywalker with children.

Jaina Solo is a pansexual alloromantic nonbinary tomboy woman dating Tenel Ka Djo.

Jacen Solo is a demisexual alloromantic transgender man with a crush on Danni Quee.

Anakin Solo is a bisexual aromantic agender person with a crush on their friend Tahiri Veila.

Tenel Ka Djo is a sapphic panromantic transgender woman dating her friend Jaina Solo.

Zekk is a bisexual heteroromantic bigender person looking to find their ideal partner.

Tahiri Veila is a bisexual demiromantic masc-leaning person with a crush on Anakin Solo.

Ahsoka Tano is a fluid sexual and romantic nonbinary person who rarely stays bonded.

Cal Kestis is a demisexual panromantic transfem nonbinary person married to Merrin.

Merrin is an asexual panromantic transmasc nonbinary person married to Cal Kestis.

Din Djarin is an asexual demiromantic cis man in a queerplatonic polycule with Luke and Bo-Katan.

Bo-Katan Kryze is a queer demiromantic masculine cis woman with multiple partners.

Sabine Wren is a sapphic aromantic genderqueer woman who sees Ezra as her queerplatonic partner.

Ezra Bridger is an asexual demiromantic agender man who sees Sabine as their queerplatonic partner.

Hera Syndulla and Kanan Jarrus are a bisexual couple with a shared attraction to masculinity.

Anakin Skywalker is a sexually fluid heteroromantic intersex transmasculine person married to Padmé Amidala.

Padmé Amidala is a pansexual demiromantic cis woman married to Anakin Skywalker.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is an asexual panromantic cis man who loved Duchess Satine Kryze.

Darth Vader is devoid of sexuality, romance, and gender, refusing to be humanized at all.

Darth Sidious is an asexual aromantic intersex man who only desires to manipulate others.

Ben Solo is an asexual panromantic transgender man who has mixed feelings for Rey.

Rey is a sexually fluid demiromantic nonbinary person dating Rose Tico and Jessika Pava.

Poe Dameron and Finn are two pansexual allromantic men in a committed relationship.

[rupalpspodrace]

have been listening to y'all's backlog while cross stitching and listened to the cham syndulla polycule episode and mapped it out. this meant that the next day when i decided to go back to the beginning of your episodes and heard you guys talk about Bolo my first thought was "the guy from the polycule???" and had to consult the chart.

literally the polycule chart has changed lives

[rupalpspodrace]

we've been thinking about doing a follow-up to the cham syndulla polycule episode for a while and we legit might use this as a reference holy shit

(here’s where y’all can listen to the original episode for reference)

I just remembered I tried to map out the Rupalp’s polycule on paper once

[fandumb-thoughts]

Star Wars Fic Masterpost

In-Progress Fics:

The CloneNet - media au, outside POV, clone-centric, jedi-centric, eventual fix-it, 14/33

Into the Endless Sky - ObiMaul raising Anakin and Feral post-Naboo Savage replaced Maul in the Phantom Menace events, 1/?

Of Beroyas and Pacifists, the Children of Mandalore - Boba/Korkie fic, alternating POVs, the rarest of rare pairs this is literally the first and only fic, 3/?

Our Paths They Will Converge - roleswap senator skywalker/jedi padme au, alternating POVs, heavy tatooine slave culture, 7/?

Rebels In Our Imagination - kylux, essentially the only way my brain likes seeing the sequels, 1/?

where there are almosts, there are things that just were - Obi-Wan was never saved from the slavers on Bandomeer and ends up on Tatooine w/ the Skywalkers and his many children, 3/?

Complete Fics:

cold nights and warm beds - Syndulla polycule E-rated fic, 1/1

I Am Not A Prophet - Luke Skywalker-centric, Tatooine Slave Culture, 1/1

secret spouses and child - Clone Wars era chat fic between (predominantly) clones, essentially the revealling of the Syndulla polycule to the other CC clones, 1/1

Today is the Day Nobody Dies - a one-shot centered around an alternate scene in a fic that I really like, Qui-Gon POV, time travel where Maul and Obi-Wan have a shared vision of their future while fighting in Phantom Menace, 1/1

trouble comes in pairs - the non omegaverse version of “Trouble Comes in Pairs, and it’s Not Always Bad”, no babies were born, 1/1

Trouble Comes in Pairs, and it’s Not Always Bad - leia/han, luke/han, alternating POV, omegaverse, the most melodramatic thing like two babies are born in a broom closet it’s a lot, Vader redemption, 2/2

Series:

A Crinkle in the Void - think of it as a spiderverse type au, only the alternate selves only cross over one at a time and sometimes with a few guests

Only A Baby - essentially canon 5yo Obi-Wan, 5/5

One Girl Didn't Die - Cerasi didn't die so Obi-Wan never left Melidaan 1/?

If Only We Listened - alternate version of canon where Ahsoka listens to Maul’s warning before Order 66 is given, although Anakin still falls and the order still goes through

Dearly do I sorrow for you. - space travel takes time and Obi-Wan and Padme don’t have much of it after leaving Mustafar, 1/5

Concern - Obi-Wan and Ahsoka have a chat about Obi-Wan’s bad decisions, 1/1

Companion of the Ancestors - time travel au, 19-20yo lineage members meet each other plus baby Luke and Leia because alternate future timeline, 10/?

Prisms - soulmate au where most people have multiple soulmates, determined by gaining a color in black-and-white vision

Mosaic (Obi-Wan) - 4/7

[space-girl-and-droids-art]

The Syndulla Polycule.

[countessofbiscuit]

3, 4, 6, 7, 11 and 13 for Permissive Environment? sorry i really like this story! 😳

Haha, thank you so much! I like it too and am happy to talk about it, though I'll only be talking below about the first chapter, which is the original fic (as apposed to the addendum drabbles).

Link to Permissive Environment

 3. What’s your favorite line of narration?

This is tough! Not sure if it was playing in a different story ‘environment’ or working with totally new characters, but the prose in this one is some of my strongest, I think. I'll pick three lines:

Desert glass had nothing on the penetration of Eleni Syndulla’s eyes, Howzer decided, though it had bored through earth and sky.

Like the scent between his lekku under the midday sun, the shape of Cham’s cock was embedded in Howzer’s mind.

When it came time for drawdown, Howzer was determined to be on the last larty out of Lessu.

4. What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

Eleni chuckled and tutted. “Don’t flatter him, Howzer — or any Rylman. It will go straight to his lek and make him dangerous.”

6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

I don’t normally write such detailed stories for new ships on the back of an unexpected prompt. How quickly this fic flowed out really impressed me. I remember needing a good project at the time and immersing myself in the worldbuilding — watching obscure videos on mosaics and Greco-Roman architecture and ancient cosmetics and and and (you get the idea) — brought maximum escapism. 

It’s also dear to me for the hotwifing element … my favorite kink and one I should write more of. 

7: Where did the title come from?

The DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms (Jan, 2021) :p

permissive environment — Operational environment in which host nation military and law enforcement agencies have control, as well as the intent and capability to assist operations that a unit intends to conduct.

Obviously, there’s a double-meaning in there about the Syndullas as very permissive hosts; but the fic was just as much about what might have brought Howzer's unit to Ryloth and what the aftermath of a successful GAR operation on friendly soil would have looked like. So, the military pun.

11: What do you like best about this fic?

It’s a well-textured story, studded with detail and sensory notes. If that reads like a wine bottle label, well this is one of the few fics I like better with age :p

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

The soundtrack to Black Hawk Down — the instrumentation and often plaintive melodies work for the vibe — and "Gortoz a Ran" especially, which is weirdly perfect because it’s a song in Breton about waiting for a storm. Given the whole twi’leks-as-space!French-Resistance thing, it was easy to imagine the song belonging to twi’leks who speak an ancient tongue that's quite different from modern Ryl.

And also Oh What A Mess I’m In by Hayden Calnin 

I know this might seem a little less alright / But here I find a little place to hide / Oh, what a mess I'm in

Thanks for the ask!

Fic Questions

[pretchatta]

post-war traditions

a @starwarsfandomfests valentine's day gift for @arcjesse

it's always a joy to write these three, I hope you enjoy Howzer getting to dress up nice!

rating: teen || howzer/cham/eleni || 1k words || AO3

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It was mid-morning when the news reached Ryloth.

General Grievous is dead. The Separatist leadership is in disarray. The war is over.

Even out in the Outer Rim they noticed the change within hours. The droids stopped coming, both on the ground and in the air, and the respite from the fighting was a welcome one. There were even reports of retreats, of leaders fleeing their armies sure that retribution for their actions was coming.

In the Tann Province, the atmosphere was one of celebration. No-one had foreseen such a quick end to the war but everyone was embracing it. By early evening, plans had been made and the city was a hive of activity. The past three years had not been the longest war their people had suffered but it had been one of the harshest.

The air was alive with excited voices. The Jedi had done it! The Republic had won! True, it had been expected that Dooku and Grievous would be arrested and tried for their crimes before the Senate, but any end to the conflict was a good one. It would only be a matter of time before the other Separatist leaders were rounded up and put in front of a court.

From his position at one of the many windows of his home, Cham Syndulla watched his people thronging the streets, seeing how they walked lighter than they had in years. He understood that sometimes distasteful actions were necessary in warfare. He knew there were Jedi politics involved, given Dooku's history and Grievous' weapon collection, but it was something he put from his mind.

Tonight was a night for joy .

The sound of a door opening caused him to turn from the window. Before him stepped his wife, looking radiant as ever, but tonight even more so. Like him, she was dressed in the traditional brightly coloured stripes of celebration. Her dress was long and figure-hugging, and the colours made the jade of her skin even more vibrant than it was normally.

"You look beautiful," he told her.

She smiled, and somehow shone even brighter in his eyes. "As do you, love."

His own attire was just as multicoloured as hers, and in a palette specifically chosen to compliment that of his wife. The Twi'leks were a colourful people and that was how they liked to celebrate: washing off the dust of their desert world to shine and dance under the stars.

"Shall we?"

He offered her his arm and they descended to the atrium of their house. Hera was already outside, watching the aerial displays from overjoyed combat pilots. Cham could picture exactly the excited, longing look she would have on her face. If he didn't keep an eye on her there was a good chance she'd try to sneak off for some celebratory flying by the end of the night.

His attention was brought back to his surroundings by the presence of someone waiting just inside the front door. The man was dressed in neat GAR-issue formalwear and standing to attention for his general.

"Captain Howzer," Cham greeted him, "at ease. I thought we had dispensed with formalities when you are in this house?"

"I'm sorry, sir," Howzer replied, relaxing. "I've been making sure everything's running on schedule. Today's a big one for all the boys."

"It is important for everyone," Eleni agreed. "Fortunately there is still time for you to change, dear."

"Change?" Howzer gave her a confused look.

Cham chuckled. "You are about to attend a party, not a court martial!"

"Come." Eleni beckoned and led the way into the next room. "We'll start by removing this grey, boring thing."

She gave a faintly distasteful look to his dress uniform as she started unbuttoning the tunic. Howzer's brain was still catching up to what was happening and he only belatedly realised he should help her. The stiff material was sent tumbling to the floor along with the hat and gloves as Cham fetched the hangar that had been set out with Howzer's new outfit.

First, there was the long, sleeveless tunic that Eleni helped him into like a coat. Like what she and Cham wore it was multicoloured, and the stripes matched those on both of their  outfits so that the three of them were a beautifully balanced masterpiece. It went over his vest and slacks much like his dress uniform had, but it felt much more flexible and breathable.

Eleni cinched the tunic at his waist with a braided belt as Cham slid the matching lekku bands over his wrists. They were just as important, and neither of them had wanted to let a simple thing like anatomy get in the way of including Howzer in their traditions. Cham secured them around the thick muscles of the man's arms.

There was a mirror leaning against one wall that had been brought in specifically. The Syndullas led Howzer in front of it so that he could get a good look at himself.

"Gener– Cham… Eleni…" Howzer started. "I – I've never –"

I've never worn anything that wasn't standard issue.

I've never had something with any significance beyond the military.

I've never felt like I belonged somewhere that wasn't a facility.

He choked off what sounded like a sob. Cham merely waited for the emotions to pass through him, a tender look in his eyes.

"You are a part of this family, Howzer. What you have done for us, what you are to us – that will never change. You will always belong here."

"We love you," Eleni added softly.

Howzer took a deep breath, centering himself. He looked away from the mirror and took each of their hands in both of his own, loving the contrasts of green and orange skin against brown.

"I love you too," he told them, his voice only a little shaky.

Eleni cupped his cheek in her palm and leaned in to press her softly smiling lips against his. She drew back to allow Cham to do the same, and Howzer accepted their kisses with tears in his eyes. The three of them pressed their foreheads together, a silent expression of the strength and depth of their feelings.

"Come now," Cham murmured. "We have a victory to celebrate and a freedom to enjoy."

With his wife on one arm and his captain on the other, General Cham Syndulla strode from his residence towards the festivities, calling for his daughter to join them. Ryloth was safe, his family was together, and all was well.

[hashtagloveloses]

can i please get some syndulla polycule content

[ostensiblyarticulate]

Edit August 2023

Today on stuff I keep meaning to do, an updated writing post to pin, now with added Actually Everything. My intent is just to edit this for updates instead of making new posts; we’ll see how that goes.

Things I Have Written:

She-Ra (my beloved)

Catradora & Best Friends Squad hijinks, front to finish. Including 100+k words of post-canon stories focusing on the Best Friends Squad as they have space adventures (The Squad Goes Intergalactic), the super short one about predestination (Remade all the time), the also super short one where catradora doesn’t get married (Only Constant), the much longer one I wrote with @fuhadeza​ where catradora gets married a lot (The Thing About Forever), the self-indulgent one about fiber art (Twist; talk to me about spinning!), and the one where they’re Arthurian Knights that’s secretly an ode to the whole thing Tristram/Lamorak have going on (I will do you gentleness).

Riverdale (Rest In Chaos) 

Join me in the descent from Jughead’s impenetrably pretentious s5 polyam-subtext-but-textually-bughead-because-Jughead’s-unreliable introspection that you should skip unless you’re up for an endurance challenge (Another Love Song for Betty Cooper) to Betty’s much more succinct and readable adventures in being aromantic but cool to make out with him (An Antonym for Serenade) to wait actually I think I’m going all in on the Betty/Archie/Veronica/Jughead polyamory (alternative solutions for gordian knots) to cool they have superpowers but only Betty/Veronica/Archie get to quite literally come (In then out, and other ways to breathe) to POP THE CHAMPAGNE THE OT4 IS CANON let’s get Jughead back in there, yeah he’s confused about it too (In which Reggie Mantle is not invited to the polycule). Somewhere in there I also wrote a completely canon compliant character study of the Biblical Angel Raphael (Shall the water not remember).

Star Wars (is a fun time)

Weird little philosophical things about Count Dooku’s Qui-Gon Jinn guilt (this thing of darkness), Ezra Bridger & Leia Organa almost hooking up as reckless teens in the least sexy encounter ever and never talking about it ever again (Requiem for a Misspent Youth), Hera Syndulla & Luke Skywalker talking because I think they should talk (They talk about Jedi), and the uncomfortable generational angst that just kind of lives between Luke Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (Chiasmus).

Stranger Things (is also here)

Gets its own section because I have two more I’ll be super sad if I never finish. Currently two Steve fics (the king is dead, Steve Harrington is Having a Crisis Today) and one Robin fic (Party Plan) in which everyone assumes everyone else is straight, everyone is wrong, and it leads to silliness with a side of feelings. Very, very robust drafts of the Nancy and Eddie fic very much continue to exist in my drafts and oh boy would I love to ffs finish them.

Other

Midsummer Night’s Dream ot4 shenanigans (four bosoms and one troth), a non-linear Arcane fic about CaitVi (Pins & String), a more important Arcane fic about spotlights ([that one saying about a nail]), the one about the fairy tale you’re more likely to know (about 12 Princesses, Dancing), the one about the fairy tale you’re less likely to know (Jorinde & Joringel; Fraxinella), concerning changelings (original work), concerning dragons (Game of Thrones/Harry Potter xover), concerning witches (The Squire’s Tales by Gerald Morris; the company of witches), concerning punching god(s) in the face (RWBY; if it had to perish twice), Harry Potter house sorting meta (Out of Sorts), a very silly Destiel fix-it fic (how soon unaccountable), an even sillier Teen Wolf fic ft. none of the characters anyone cares about (Brett Talbot’s Last Week in Beacon Hills), a character study of Mulan from the Once Upon A Time TV show (Tactical Advantage), gay shit about the Enchanted sequel for some reason (Some Enchanted Evening), and now there’s a HSMTMTS one about the inherent homoeroticism of being romantic rivals in two different sequential love triangles ([line from I Don’t Dance here])

And of course all of it is on ao3 here. 

I could totally end the post here, in which case it would be reasonably sized, very informative, and in no way make any promises I cannot keep. But where’s the fun in that, so...

...Things In My Drafts Folder (She-Ra, unless indicated otherwise):

I have a lot of drafts, and I’m writing them very slowly. Turns out, it takes longer to write things when you are (a) busy and (b) hopping between ten drafts at the whim of your brain instead of focusing on just one. The good news is that, historically speaking, when I stick with a hobby for a full year it tends to mean it’s not going anywhere. So while I can’t promise I’ll end up finishing all of these, the highest chance is that I’ll finish a bunch. Just...slowly.

(Edit 4/16/22: just...SO slowly. And I’m gonna run ttrpg again now so like...the slowest. But the drafts all DO still exist.)(Edit to add 8/31/23: I still really do want to finish these bc I am extremely proud of them but like idk who knows when. Ttrpg is going great tho so like hmu to talk about arthurian roleplay I guess)

Most of these fics have titles already, but I’m vaguely and nonsensically superstitious about announcing them so formally so early. So I...won’t.

The one where Catra & Glimmer have a space adventure ft. all of Catra’s shitty bosses. (I started this draft last summer, forgot about it for most of the year, and then proceeded to write a ton for it two nights ago. So: case in point about this stuff getting written just slowly.)

Adora And Her Spaceship.

The highkey catradora romance amnesia fic where I name the chapters after poems because sometimes I get to be pretentious, as a treat.

The catradora au that’s mostly about dragons and a little about a bad pun.

The star trek voyager au. Yes, also catradora, it’s all catradora.

Possibly a seamista fic??

An arranged marriage au that’s so deeply and totally backburnered that I’m not even bolding it but which I want to mention here on the off chance that if I ever get around to finishing it I can look back from a decade in the future and tell my past self I told you so.

(not She-Ra) Another Supernatural fic - aka the one where I rewrite plots for a bunch of female characters, because that’s what I did while I binged that show but also dear goodness it needs so much editing

(not She-Ra) The one where Anakin Skywalker is a shitty teen force ghost.

(not She-Ra) I would like to finish the Stranger Things drafts a lot yeah. Same with a bunch of Arcane stuff.

In conclusion: sorry for the long post. Extra sorry if you are someone who follows me for non-writing/non-She-Ra reasons. If it helps, it’ll probably be a long time until I make another one. In the meantime, my writing tag continues to be #forsythiarising, and if I remember to I may make a series of posts about the titles of my existing fics bc I have a lot of meta and love titles a lot. As with most of all this: we shall see.

[kenobussy]

syndulla polycule supremacy

[space-girl-and-droids-art]

I used to be Kylo Ren on the inside. Now I'm the syndulla polycule.

your icon shows who you are inside

[tauremornalome]

💔 and 💣 controversial star wars ship opinion mayhaps?

💔 - a ship that makes you sad

haha what do you mean makes me sad, everything is FINE i am NOT crying about kanan and hera or bly and aayla or padme and sabe or the syndulla polycule and DEFINITELY not about CODYWAN. all is fine. speaking of codywan @disney if cody is not alive and well in the kenobi show i'll kill everyone in this room and then myself

*slaps the roof of the galaxy far far away* this bad boy can fit so many sad ships in it

💣- a ship that pisses you off

I am not really bothered by any of the ships? If I don't ship something, I just mind my own business. Reylo or rexsoka or whatever might not be my thing but meh, you do you?

The only way a ship can piss me off is when a) i like it but the characters are fucking insufferable and thinkig about them deals me psychic damage or b) i like it but it's such a rare pair that there is hardly any content and i have to daydream on my own, at which point i get pissed off at myself for not being able to create the content i want to see

ok i lied, padme/rush clovis and ahsoka/lux bonteri are annoying. but like, noone ships it anyway.

[shipping ask game]

[fandumb-thoughts]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34650463

“Cold, tonight,” Cham said.

“Yes,” Howzer agreed, leaving out the one crucial word that fell out of his mouth so frequently it was almost a challenge to bite it back. But Cham wasn’t a superior on the nights that they spent together. Howzer didn't need to call him sir.

[halepo]

These three are just so lovely together 😍

That hand on Hera's 🍑! 🫠

Day 1–Fulcrum (Polycules)

I saw @tyquu’s Kanera Yuri, and was inspired to make Kanerasoka Yuri for today’s prompt! Thanks to @sapphicahsokatanoweek for leading this all!

This took far too long and way too much effort… so no guarantees that the rest of my entires will be this finished haha.

Regardless, I hope you all enjoy this, and happy Sapphic Ahsoka Week!

Ezra: “Why do my parents call you baby girl?”

Ahsoka: “How about we stop talking for a little while :|”

[space-girl-and-droids-art]

Saw my own art on the fyp and I’m so happyyyy like ,it gave me a lot of serotonin 💕✨

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdvdosX4/

Anyways ,Syndulla polycule supremacy 👑

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