I know this idea isn’t new, but it’s one that I get obsessed with every now and again: Finnastasia and Dimitrey. I love the idea of Finn being missing royalty and Rey being an orphan pressed into a life that’s not quite law-abiding, but who has a heart a gold and a memory of saving a young prince when his family’s palace was attacked …
Done by @nightfell, who was a delight to work with, on commission. Thank you!
The totally never gonna happen, non canon way I would do Star Wars Episode IX (part 1)
Opening Crawl
5 years after the battle on Crait, the galaxy has fallen into an all out war. New Republic’s galactic senate has split, the Centrists have deflected and allied their worlds with the First Order, while the Populist have remained loyal to the New Republic. Independent worlds that were once neutral, have now sworn their loyalty to the New Republic to combat the threat to the galaxy.
The last princess of Alderaan, leader of the Resistance, General Leia Organa, has been elected as Chancellor of the New Republic. The remnants of the Resistance now serve under the New Republic directly and are led by the Military Commander General Lando Calrissian.
Only the force knows who will win this war, and if there will be a galaxy left after it is over…
Battle on the Absolution
Onboard the First Order’s ship Absolution, commander Rey is held prisoner and restrained in a cell guarded by Stormtroopers. An officer, Dopheld Mitaka, tells the Stormtroopers guarding her that Supreme leader Kylo Ren and Grand Marshal Armitage Hux will be arriving soon and Rey is to be taken to them.
Upon overhearing this, Rey subtly activates the tracker implanted inside her revealed robotic prosthetic hand.
New Republic ships arrive out of light speed led by Admiral Poe Dameron and start attacking the ship immediately after the beacon is set off.
Officer Mitaka, noticing the treachery, goes to shot Rey while she is restrained, but one of the Stormtroopers Force pulls a lightsaber from across the room and slices it in half. The Stormtrooper removes their helmet and it’s revealed the trooper is Finn!
Officer Mitaka orders the other Stormtrooper to shoot Finn, but the other Stormtrooper tasers Mitaka. The other Stormtrooper takes off their helmet as well and it’s Rose Tico. She releases Rey from her restraints, and Finn tosses the Jedi her lightsaber.
Rey throws her arms around Finn and the two have a moment…at least until Rose reminds them they are on a mission. The two break apart.
Finn radios Poe and tells him the infiltration was a success.
Alarms begin to go off around the ship and Stormtroopers start attacking other Stormtroopers. The ship descends into anarchy.
Stormtroopers and cadets that Finn has managed to turn have marked their helmets with Red streaks to identify themselves as loyal to Finn.
It turns out that Rey’s capture was planned to lure the First Order into a surprise attack and neutralize the leaders of the FO while distrscting them at the same time as Finn turned some of the Stormtroopers in his favor as he went undercover with Rose to watch over Rey steal intelligence from the First Order.
As the war waged on, both sides gained more resources and numbers. Finn used this to his advantage and started to infiltrate First Order bases and start uprisings among their ranks. The Absolution was the longest and most difficult mission because of how many times he had been undercover. This was the last time he could do it. The security was getting too difficult.
After the events of the Supremacy 5 years ago, Rose had become Maz Kanata’s apprentice and learned hacking to the point of being near Maz’s level of skill. It was a great deal of helps on missions like these.
Rose hacks into the FO’s sever and downloads the intel they needed and the three go to join in the battle aboard the ship.
Outside of the Absolution Poe and the Black squadron are engaged in combat with Tie-Fighters as they try to sink the Absolution.
Inside the Absolution, Rose alerts Finn and Rey that the ship doesn’t have long left. It’s then that the knights of Ren appear and join the fray, cutting down every deflecting trooper.
Rey orders Rose to retreat with the cadets and Stormtroopers, her and Finn will handle the Knights of Ren.
Over the last few years Rey had grown in the force was now a Jedi Master. She had trained alongside Finn with her master, though Finn hadn’t been able to committ himself to the Jedi or helping the Order reform due to his duties helping the reformed Stormtroopers.
Finn and Rey engage in a 2 on 6 fight with the knights of Ren as the ship begins to burn around them. Finn displays a remarkable skill with his lightsaber using the Soresu fighting style of defense, while Rey’s mastery of the Vaapad fighting style is allowing her to dominate the knights.
Poe tells them that the ship is about to blow and for them to get back to the ship, which both do and escape the Knights of Ren.
The NR forces escape the explosion of the Absolution and jump into light speed.
Rey, Finn, Poe, and Rose arrive on Yavin IV and report to Military Commander Lando Calrissian. Lando congratulates then on another successful mission. The intel they gathered will help them with their next mission. Kes Dameron arrives to go over a briefing of the mission with Poe and Lando. After some final words of encouragement, Lando dismisses the others.
Finn goes to the barracks where the reformed Stormtroopers have been living since he started the Stormtrooper rebellion and he is welcomed warmly by the troopers. In the middle of the barracks is a young woman wearing Jedi robes, she notices Finn and the two share a warm embrace.
The woman’s name is Caro, Finn’s twin sister. A sister Finn didn’t even know he had till BB-8 had given him his First Order file after their infiltration on Snoke’s ship years ago. Caro had been taken alongside him when they were young and put into the Stormtrooper program. Finding her wasn’t the reason Finn started the Stormtrooper Rebellion, but she damn well was his incentive to making sure it didn’t fail. It took 2 years to find her, but he finally did it… thanks to an old friend. Turned out Caro had been force sensitive too, and Rey’s master had offered to train her as well. Said master was probably meeting with Rey at that moment if Caro was here.
Rey found her master calmly meditating with his hood up by an old, large Force tree. She greeted the older grey haired man warmly and he looked up at her with a kindness in his eyes. Luke lowered his hood and smiled at his student, offering her to join him in his meditation.
Dirty Dancing was one of my mother’s favorite movies when she was younger, and I watched it with her for the first time a few months ago. After watching it, I needed to see Baby and Johnny reimagined as Rey and Finn doing the famous lift (maybe with some help from the Force) for the @finnreyfridays dance theme!
Thank you so much to Harim for this great commissioned drawing!
Submission for the blog of this sweet, dreamy sleeping peanuts scene, drawn as a Patreon commission by the fabulous @inchells! Eve is amazing, and is also on Twitter (also @inchells!)
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