saltylikecrait:

Happy 100th Finnrey Friday! I was a quiet observer from its start and now am happy to say that I try to regularly contribute. This week, I have a post-TLJ, Force-sensitive Finn one-shot that was inspired by the theme: treasure. Warning that this week’s fic features Finn and Rey acting like dumb kids falling in love for the first time.

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After weeks of mulling over what to do about lightsabers, Rey finally admitted that she and Finn would have to go find kyber crystals themselves. The crystal in the old Skywalker lightsaber was miraculously still intact and could be used in a new hilt, but that was only one crystal and they needed two.

That crystal seemed to have selected Rey as its master and Finn was fine with that. The lightsaber had called to her from the start, after all. To be honest, Finn liked the idea of creating something himself with a crystal that chose him and no one else.

But that was the first big hurdle. Finding kyber crystals was no easy task. The Empire had ransacked temples and mined crystal worlds to the core. The First Order, likewise, had done something similar. Starkiller was fueled by kyber and a sun, but the world’s core had been filled with untouched kyber deposits. The weapons of their Star Destroyers also used kyber.

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