screw it [crystals your ball]
As always, take what you like and leave the rest. Sorry for being unhinged in your ask box. It will happen again.
I was. Very compelled. By the vision you shared for armalia in which the nasty piece of work (read: terrified young man raised in a cult) that is Armitage Hux inspires an inexplicable gentleness in Amalia. (I don’t know how familiar you are with Millicent, but the popular notion of Hux having a beloved pet cat and Hux behaving like a cornered animal when threatened are, in my opinion, closely intertwined.)
You know what time it is. It’s two profoundly lonely people finding comfort and mutual understanding in each other time. (They’re both outsiders, they both fail to conform to so-called “ideal” standards of masculinity and femininity, and they’re both resigned to their feelings of alienation.)
They both have complicated relationships with their parents. (Armitage never knew his mother, Amalia never knew her father, and as for their other parents…the less said about them, the better.)
Back to the gender thing: Once again reminding everyone that Hux was raised in an egalitarian military cult and would therefore have none of the stereotypical hangups about being in a relationship with a woman who is both taller and stronger than him. (He’s got other problems. Namely the First Order’s implicit xenophobia. Though there are non-humans in the First Order, funnily enough, they’re just not the norm.)
Amalia deserves something good/meaningful in her life that is neither dependent on nor impaired by her friendship with Ben. (I’m not opposed to a tender slow burn for our girl after a lifetime of worrying she’s too much or too unusual to be loved.)
Material for the Sideblog.
They both have horrible, horrible fathers. And given your response to this ask, it’s possible that Pennie has seen and/or met Brendol at one of Ruut’s “parties.” I feel I also have an obligation to comment on the combined factors of (1) humans being a rarity on Ryloth and (2) red hair being rarer still. It’s a…recognizable trait, I’d say. (Is there a red-haired human/Lethan Twi’lek association to be had here?)
Again: They both have horrible, horrible fathers. And Pennie happens to have a child out of wedlock…by her father. You know the drill. (Armitage calling “Lo’ruhamah” by the nickname “Ruhamah” or “Ru” after learning what her name means despite exclusively using full Twi’leki names for the rest of the Pentarra clan is something that can be so personal.)
Technically, if we want to get down to brass tacks, they’re both refugees—and both very, very lost as they try to piece together the rubble of their lives after they’ve been taken from or forced to flee their cultures of origin. (And again, the First Order, for all its many, many faults, is a gender-egalitarian society, whereas Ryloth is…very much not. Lots to play with there.)
Armitage and Pennie can snark with the best of them. (Look. We all know that part of the Bennie appeal was the fact that they both could dish it out and take it.)
Reiterating the “two profoundly lonely people” point from the armalia list above. But like. Tenfold.
Material for the Sideblog.
#mynarrative #playingbothsides
It’s deeply terrifying to have someone as Intelligent and Good at Comprehending Media and Remembering Details as you reading my stuff. In a good way.
(Yes I know about Millicent LOL I was there in 2016 when the deep magic was written. Orange intensifies. However all of the people whose only exposure to the sequels fandom is Me may not know HAHA)
“Ah yes, an Amalia dating arc would provide more content for Amalia’s blog—wait…Pennie doesn’t have a blog and will never have a blog…what does K mean by this—…oh. She means the marital issues blog” *sweats*
The Armalia parents thing and gender thing and the Armitennie red hair thing and—no. If I went on I’d just be listing every single bullet point you made. I’m floored you’re so much better at thinking than I am. All of these have me stunned.
…Man. All of this. ALL OF THIS. Well now I DON’T know which one I like more because THEY’RE BOTH SO GOOD the things you’ve uncovered… Oh man… YEAH I CAN’T DECIDE
Either way we win because we make Ben upset which is ALWAYS THE GOAL
@snips-fics POEMALIA PROPAGANDA. ON MY DESK IN TWELVE HOURS. (not really. no deadline. I do want it though)
We could always go the Bennie way and have BOTH!! by having one end in disaster!! 😌 teehee!!
