#just...jeez guys

Pellakythrux

(I am simultaneously pleased and terrified of you for asking for this for this pairing just AAAAAAH.)

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7)“What’s the thing that changes first when they realize their feelings for one another?”

(For those completely unfamiliar with this, the Pellaeon/Thrawn/Ren/Hux setup is sort of camped firmly in @sathinfection ’s senator AU and refuses to budge from it for me. My tag has the full blossoming of this and a few drabbles.)

…OH GOD THIS QUESTION FOR AN OT4 THOUGH

Let’s see…Uhhhh….So…

Thrawn and Pellaeon kind of get married after an assassination attempt on Thrawn.

I don’t know if it’s the first thing or not, but they definitely leave the Empire and that’s a huge change.

Especially for Captain Pellaeon, who’s got about fifty years of war experience five years after Return of the Jedi. That’s his life’s work.

Thrawn sort of just decides he can work better by pretending to be dead and lying low for a while, so even though he’s going through a transition, too, that’s not his big deal the way it is for Pellaeon.

Pellaeon deciding a man is more important than his life’s work for a system he (still) rather strongly believes in.

I also think that the cost of what Pellaeon gives up helps convince Thrawn that he’s utterly trustworthy, which is the thing that changes for Thrawn.

I mean…Thrawn’s a cool customer.

He spends the coin of loyalty readily and gives very little of it out himself without a set return. He rarely has to mean it.

So it’s only after that Pellaeon goes from being an attractive confidante he can turn the ear of and use to gauge the loyalty of his troops. It’s also the first time Thrawn is aware that he can gravely miscalculate when it comes to loyalty. So he doesn’t trust Pellaeon lightly, either.

That’s the old space gays taken care of…

Let’s see…later Thrawn hooks up with Ren (perks of an open marriage–it lends itself to the sort of dirty politics Thrawn excels at in this particular setting.)

Ren handling the reveal of “oh also this is my husband” by immediately turning around and basically inviting Pellaeon in also convinces Thrawn that Ren is, if not trustworthy, then at least quite interesting and worth investing in as a long-term pawn. (there’s a Drabble on this in my Pellaekythrux tag)

So. Hm. What changes…

Possibly a little more Thrawn trust, Pellaeon questions his previously safe identity of homoxenosexuality, and Ren has a job and a political sponsor?IDK.

Ren isn’t as changed by that more as he’s given an opportunity, and a way to re-create his image, not his inner person.

Basically everything is fine and good, Thrawn gets to mentor/corrupt young twinks with his husband’s acceptance, and all the nations lived in peace, then everything changed when the Kylux attacked.

The Kylux side of it really makes everything tremendously fun and complicated. XD

Because the problem is Kylo trusts Hux, and Hux is a gay dude with little to no empathy, living in a repressive society, suddenly dating a powerful celebrity.

Thrawn’s all oh, excellent, you’re bringing me a yokel general as an offering.

Ren is uncomfortable, because wait, no, that one’s mine, but if he says as much that can get very uncomfortable because Thrawn’s also under Snoke.

Hux is scathing because UGH. XENO. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I’M NOT THE FIRST ORDER’S POLITICAL WHORE.

And Thrawn peers at him a little because hm. You are exactly Ren’s type. Are you sure?

And poor Pellaeon is the first to realize Oh NO Ren’s in love with him- No, Thrawn, STAHP.

Thrawn reacts to this news by immediately contacting Snoke. (Just as Ren feared.)

Snoke refuses to see a problem.

Thrawn, with his typical acceptance of the wisdom of force users, takes matters into his own hands and starts putting together assassination plans for General Hux before that man can destroy Ren, because Thrawn is actually extremely fond of Ren in his own way, and believes in wrecking anything before it can attack first.Especially with a weapon like Starkiller.

Basically?

Things which happen after feelings:

–Pellaeon is a romantic and ships it, and Thrawn, No, stop, the boy said no, and *I* said no.

–Thrawn refuses to be told No, “Gilad, I will not become intimate with the General if that is your wish, but I will not relent. This is important.”And so he continues to attempt to distract and seduce Hux to test what his limits and motives are, and plots murder for the “good of the Galaxy”/protection of his twink protégé, and doubles the Ysalamari in his house so Ren gets no hide or hair of it.

–Ren and Hux get a little Genghis Khan about each other, while Ren tries to pretend he’s not, in front of Thrawn because Thrawn would judge him.

–Thrawn already knows and doesn’t let on to Genghis Khan pair.

–Ren stresses. A lot. He still has to get those plans out of Hux’s head.

–Hux pines and schemes and is otherwise brilliant, and definitely thinks about Ren. A Lot. He also starts formulating plans to deal with Thrawn, because Thrawn is terribly dangerous and he doesn’t like thinking about Ren with him OR his husband.He bristles every time Pellaeon calls him “son”.

…PROFIT?SCHEMING?IDK man.

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9)“Who worries the most?”

GAH.

They’re all worried.

All of them.

Pellaeon is buying bigger guns and a taser that’ll work on his husband if it comes down to that.Because we don’t do that Thrawn.We don’t do that to Ren.

Ren has so much pressure from all sides that Hux is basically his best and nicest outlet and things are really good between them, but AGH.

Hux is scheming and plotting and wondering exactly what he should do.

Thrawn is probably least visibly worried, and even he’s rearranging the art in the house a lot to all First Order Propaganda trying to crack Hux’s head open.