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[bythehand]

who: finn and OPEN
what: tdm prompts (dreamshare, big robits)! canon updates! and a general february catchall.
when: backdated late january through all of february. various.
where: idk, dreams. big robits. generally around.
warnings: violence towards Big Beetles, nightmare content (which includes death, more violence, and maybe vague body horror idk). spoilers for the last jedi. will add as things crop up.

[ splitting starters off into the comments below to save on wall-of-text properties! can be reached by PM or at comatoseroses for plotting! ]

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[bythehand]

[ Best news in front. It's a bold strategy.

When he woke up after Starkiller, both here and there, the first and highest point of concern he'd had was Rey. If she was safe, if she was alive. It's not the same situation, but the closest feeling he has to draw on. They get to tell Paige her sister is alive. Numerically speaking-- well, numerically speaking it's a miracle anybody back home got left alive at all, really. And there's so much bad news still coming, and well-earned heaviness in the air already.

At least they have this much on their side. ]

She's also either crazy or too brave for her own good. Maybe both.

[ Finn, who is definitely not a pot calling the kettle black, loves her. The shades of resigned fondness in his tone are already absolute. ]

But that's just my opinion. Not really part of the official record.

[starfortress]

[ Paige feels foolish when her knees start to buckle with relief upon hearing the words. Rose is alive. Tears immediately well up in her eyes but she doesn't let them fall, she pushes them back even if she has no qualms with letting herself smile.

Her hand lifts to touch her necklace, clutching it for a moment as she smiles: ] Thank the Force.

[ However, there's still tension in them both. She can see it in their shoulders and even as she laughs at what Finn says, she finds she's nervous about what's coming next.]

I would have ever called her crazy but she is brave, even if she doesn't think she is.

[volitaunt]

She is. She saved Finn's life.

[ Which earns Finn a light punch to the shoulder, because he hasn't forgiven that suicide run yet, sir. ]

She ran an op with Finn for me.

[ Which almost got Finn and Rose killed, almost got even more people killed, but that doesn't make the efforts of either participant less brave. ]

The two of them came up with the plan, even.

[bythehand]

[ It's probably not the done thing to go "believe me she is absolutely a little nuts". Not necessarily bad as a trait, but rude to insist on having out there. He's got different standards anyway. Finn reaches out to smack Poe on the arm in retaliation without even looking, which means he sort of misses and has to give it another half try. ]

Mostly her. I wouldn't have thought about it on my own; I just had good intel once she started talking it out. [ He can admit that much. The scope on his priorities was narrower for a while. ] Didn't pan out too well, long-term. And there might be a standing order on Canto Bight to shoot us if we set foot there again.

[ M... might. The First Order would do the same thing anyway and they're gonna see a lot more of them. It's hardly a drop in the bucket. ]

That was just other variables getting out of hand, though. Nothing wrong with the strategy. Rose probably saved my life more than once.

[starfortress]

Canto Bight? [ Paige's mind gets sidetracked by the thought of fathier races, considering they were the one animal she'd always wanted to see. And suddenly the idea of her sister getting to go there, her sister doing something brave and bold on her own, that she concocted a plan and everything... it makes Paige swell with pride.

She feels tears well up in her eyes, a small smile playing on her lips despite the fact that Finn is saying their mission was dangerous. ]

Tell me everything. [ And this is where the mun gives the other muns a huge hint that they can just bracket AND THEN THEY TOLD HER EVERYTHING, if they want to save their minds/time/whatever.]

with permission 2 pass over poe for this round

[bythehand]

[ Finn is gonna take the lead on this retelling, since he was kinda at the Rose level for the whole op.

ONCE UPON A TIME ROSE CAME UP WITH A COOL PLAN AND WE TRIED TO DO THE PLAN for most of a movie. the stuff about hyperspace tracking and doing the thing on the big ship to save the resistance, and having to go to casinoville for that codebreaker guy.

and honestly, poe and paige missed... the craziest of crazies. highlights, in enough detail to make sense but perhaps lacking some of the finer emotional struggles, include:

illegal public parking, casinos, searching for the master codebreaker. WAR PROFITEERS, RED PLOM BLOOM?!

police. jailbreak (thanks to some sleazeball codebreaker that wasn't the one they wanted). fleeing the scene. hiding in the sewers. causing massive amounts of property damage on their way back to the beach. hopping into a stolen ship with bb-8 and the sleazeball from jail, because the police blew up their shuttle before they could reach it and ♫ technically they were homeless ♫

idk if he gets into "then we got on board and got sold out and were within half an inch of being painfully beheaded" tbh, that's still a lot to unpack. ]

[starfortress]

[ Paige listens, completely enthralled. Her eyes widen and she laughs when she should, she gasps and clutches at her own arms when the story gets tense even though she knows that her sister and Finn survive this. And when he slows down, when he stops, she moves to hug him.]

Thank you.

[volitaunt]

[ Poe can't help it--he joins in the hug. He hadn't heard everything (still hasn't), but he's heard enough. He squeezes them both tight, then says to Finn: ]

You parked on the beach.

[ There's something ridiculous and hilarious in that, a bright spot of humor in days that had nothing else to smile about. ]

On Canto Bight.

[bythehand]

[ Finn hugs them back as best as he can, because he's not a jerk. Group hugs are wild. In a good way. He likes a group hug.

Besides, if Rose knew he were here, or if she showed up tomorrow and somehow got wind that Paige hugged him and he didn't hug back half in Rose's honor, he is almost positive she'd have choice words for him. Don't need to know someone for more than a day to pick that much up.

Also, rude? Why does he feel like this is "yeah I met Rey when she hit me with a stick" all over again. ]

-- look, it's not like anyone was using it.

[ He doesn't actually sound that offended. Their beach was dumb and they were dumb. At the time he didn't know that about Canto Bight yet, but maybe that's how the Force works. Mysteriously. ]

[starfortress]

[ Paige laughs at Poe's question and then again at what Poe says, giving him another squeeze.] They probably don't use their beach anyway, not the way it should be used. It probably looks better with a rebel ship crashed on it.

[volitaunt]

I hope they spend the next five years digging ship bits out of it.

[ He gives them both an extra squeeze and lets go. ]

You guys want to... I don't know, you want to go get some dinner? Ever tried dim sum? John introduced me to it.

[bythehand]

[ That is the ideal thing to hope for. Life is going to keep going on in Canto Bight. They'll fix up their buildings and their streets, they'll clean up their beach, they'll catch new fathiers and more kids with no way of getting out. But at least they could make things a little less terrible there for the bottom rung, for a little bit.

Anyway, Finn's learned the valuable lesson to park illegally.

Not really, the facts are if they'd been able to park somewhere hidden they might just have managed to reach their codebreaker. There also weren't really a lot of options on the time crunch.

The real lesson is that almost everything is so much more complicated than it might seem at first, and sometimes all you can do is all you can do. ]

Never heard of it. But I could eat.