Finnrey Royal AU and Dystopia AU.
Ooooh you made it tough for my Nonny because I never do dystopias. I never saw the point in making a world more depressing than the one we live in when I have free reign to do what I want.
But here’s how I could see this work.
Imagine a galaxy where the Empire wasn’t defeated. Oh the first Death Star was blown up and for a while many thought that many it could be defeated. At Endor it proved these naive fools wrong.
The Emperor died but Vader, the fist of the Empire, survived and assumed the throne. Some said he’d done it alone, others that he had betrayed the Emperor to his enemies only to kill those enemies once they’d served their purpose. And still others that he had found someone versed in the same mysterious arts as he to stand by his side.
All anyone really knows for sure is that Vader took the throne after Endor and build around him an order of people – all cloaked and hooded – who possessed skills that none in the galaxy could match.
This has been the way of the galaxy for thirty years.
On Artorias the young prince of the planet Finn Galfridian, has assumed power after this parents untimely deaths. He more than suspect Vader’s cloaked order to have something to do with it, but he dares not act openly. He and his family possess a mysterious power that hasn’t been seen openly in the galaxy for over half a century and Finn’s parents impressed on him from an early age to keep his skills hidden, or he would end up dead or in Vader’s hands.
Instead of open defiance Finn has taken to travelling the galaxy, every bit the bored and air headed socialite to all that observe him, constantly chasing what is new and fantastic. But the part he plays is a carefully constructed illusion allowing him to chase rumors of ancient and hidden legacies, such as the whispered ‘Jedi’. It is his hope that he can use such knowledge as he can gain to at one point oppose and defeat Vader.
Along on his travels he comes across a young woman by the name of Rey, a scavenger living on a backwater planet.
In every way his opposite, outspoken where Finn is diplomatic, direct where he is circumspect, brash where he relies on carefully constructed plans, he is drawn to her. Even more so when he discovers that she possess the same power that he does and like him has managed to elude Vader and the Empire’s notice.
He knows the attraction is dangerous. Not only could Rey betray him to the very people he seeks to destroy, the two of them together, both their powers so strong cannot help but draw notice sooner or later.
But he’s been alone too long and he knows that in Rey he has found someone who’s either his doom or a person who can help him save his people and the galaxy.