Hi and thanks so much for asking! 🙂 There isn’t really any deeper significance behind their costumes at the ball (Jyn as the Queen of Air and Darkness sabacc card, Cassian as a racing fathier) other than that they fit the “games and sports” theme of the ball (which I chose just because it seemed like an easy theme for which to come up with fun costumes). That, and it was an excuse to put Jyn in a glamorous, flashy outfit of the sort she probably doesn’t get to wear often, and to give Cassian the challenge of carrying out a (mostly) serious mission while wearing something goofy.

Tagged by @jedi-valjean. Thanks so much! 🙂

Silence again. His eyes are fixed on her, while hers are turned downward and to the side. They are back to where they started. Her mind wanders back to the time she first planned this journey to Naboo, when she made a mental list of all the things she wanted to say to him upon seeing him through the Rift. She can remember none of them now except for one simple question:

“Why?”

“Loveliest, you know why.”

Hi again! Sorry to be late in replying to this. I had started a reply, but it got eaten somehow and I had to start over.

There was at least some research involved, mostly on in-universe lore. First, there was the matter of finding a Star Wars world that would be likely to throw a fancy masquerade ball, and since that felt like a royal court sort of thing, I looked into worlds that had royal courts and eventually settled on Eiattu, which I remembered being the setting of the Rogue Squadron comic The Warrior Princess back in the day. (Which of course I reread, and I highly recommend it if you can find it!)

Then, because the theme of the ball was sports and games, I had to look into sports and games in the SW universe in order to come up with some of the other costumes. That was easy and fun to do, thanks to the relevant Wookieepedia list page, and that’s how I came up with, for example, the one noblewoman and her family dressing as a Theed quoits set (I hadn’t previously known about that game).

These are from the 2024 Kessel Run Challenge I participated in at the beginning of this year at TheForce.net. All have the fandom tag “Star Wars (All Media Types),” with other specific properties noted as relevant. All rated G unless specified otherwise, and all have been very kindly beta-read by @spacemomcreations.

Useless Bay (Rogue One, Jyn survival introspection, prelude to to The Rains of Scarif)

In That Big Somewhere (Squib OCs)

Knight and Survivor (Rebels; Kanan and Zeb drabble group)

I Only Play (Gand music box; inanimate object viewpoint)

Higher and Drier on the Endar Spire (KOTOR AU; Female Revan, her OC dad, Carth Onasi, Trask Ulgo)

The Reflecting Pool (pre-Rebels; Zeb and OCs on Lasan; rated T)

Dreams, Lies, and More Befoggèd Lies (Zuckuss, 4-LOM, dream scene)

Will of Kyber (Rogue One maybe-AU; Chirrut Îmwe vs. Imperials)

There Was One in the Bed (and the Cupcake Said) (KOTOR; Female Revan, Carth Onasi, only one bed)

From a Message Found in a Uniform Pocket on Eadu (Rogue One; Galen Erso’s last message to Orson Krennic; rated T)

A few more recently posted Star Wars stories by myself, all rated G.

So Long Lives This (Post-Rebels; adult Jacen and elderly Hera; Jacen tidies up the Ghost and finds his mom’s old love poetry to his dad; inspired by Shakepeare’s Sonnet 18)

The Bearer of This Pass (Pompous Imperial OC is taken down several notches by Rebels we know)

Topatoes (My Heart Is Not Here) (Pre-Rebels; Zeb introspection while peeling topatoes in the Ghost galley; music prompt)

(Star Wars—All Media Types; puffer pig OC, ice spider OC, Azmorigan; friendship, fluff, talking animals; content warning for minor animal cruelty)