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[bythehand]

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[bythehand]

[ from here ]

I won't say you're not a fun person. If you're trying to get settled, you could always just ask.

[followhim]

settle me

[ was that weirdly sexual??? probably ]

[bythehand]

[ a poe dameron lifestyle. it works for him. ]

Okay. I can start on officially that once you're sober.

[ finn will throw the domestic spaghetti at the walls. and the sex. both. all. ]

[followhim]

what if you did it nowwwwww

[ poe dameron, professional messy drunk. ]

i put that officially in a weird place shoutout to half asleep me

[bythehand]

And let you decide to get sick on me? I don't think so.

i read it the right way and didn't notice 😂

[followhim]

i won't get sick

bb-8 got me wathrr

water

💦💦💦💦

such is the raw power of tfln

[bythehand]

He can carry water?

[ he's gotta take the side road for a second here. there's obviously a lot happening messy-drunkly with the bae, but this is important. ]

[followhim]

[ poe doesn't even notice because, you know, being drunk makes him pretty easy to detour. ]

yeah! he's got

you know the apps that sticks out

for grabbing stuff???

apparauts

arm

[bythehand]

Right.

I don't see him use those a lot. Mostly just the one that zaps.

[ finn thinks that's the same one bb-8 uses to steal ships and stuff, too. he assumes. step 2 that he just came up with on the spot: put some bubble wrap around drunk poe. slightly self-motivated, because he likes potential cuddling. he's a star war, not a saint. ]

Think he'd walk you over? Make sure you don't get turned around on your way?

[followhim]

yeah! yeah

ok

i'm going to find you

[ he does not have a single idea where finn is. bb-8 may be knocking him back into his time out corner until there is further information. ]

bb-8 says i can't go find you

[bythehand]

[ that does sound like bb-8 being bb-8. finn is pretty sure he considers everyone in the resistance some kind of baby to take care of. cute, but sometimes unfortunate. ]

I might have an easier time finding you. Have any coordinates to work with?

[ there are only so many places for a drunk poe to be corraled into a corner with a juicebox. realistically. ]

[followhim]

[ look, he's just a droid son protecting his father from himself. ]

i was gonna wait for the cops to leave to hiajck the street sweeper agian

but bb8s making me wwait inside at the front of the base

are u sure you don't want ot hiacjk it with me
itll be like the old times

[bythehand]

I'll be there in a minute.

Between you and me, I like the new times better. Save the hijacking for something bigger.

[followhim]

we're gonna hijack something bigger????

[bythehand]

That should DEFINITELY wait until you're sober.

[ but like... if something turned up in town that they could nab to be dicks to the first order, finn could probably let rey have the brain cell for a while.

how did richard siken put it? "you're stealing cases of medical supplies with a beautiful boy"? ]

[followhim]

i'd hijack anything with you

[ because they did such a good job before, and also w o w it's gay in this chili's tonight. catch him hugging bb-8 right now. crying on him because he's ??so happy?? someone help poe dameron. ]

[bythehand]

[ that's probably the most romantic thing he's ever heard. he treasures it as he finishes his journey to find poe hugging bb-8 and crying at the front of the base.

finn, at all opportunities, stops to think "yep. that's the one i'm picking." out of all the disasters in the resistance orbit, this is the cute one of preference. he pulls up into a Mildly Concerned crouch. ]

Thanks for waiting. You, uh. Doing okay?

[ he doesn't have a hankie, how can he possibly expect to perfect the art of wooing. ]

[followhim]

[ bb-8 beeps loudly at the appearance of finn, the gist being something like OH THANK MAKER PLEASE BABYSIT HIM IT'S YOUR TURN. bb-8 can only handle so much ok. he's been babysitting poe for 84 years.

for the drama of it all, i guess, he rolls away from poe to circle behind finn. it's the changing of the guard.

meanwhile, poe is left in a mess on the ground. he looks up to see finn crouching next to him and does a wobbly job of sitting up and wiping his face off with his hand. this... sure is the one finn chose. ]

Hey Finn! Yeah, yeah, I'm okay. I just got... I was really thinking about everything.

[bythehand]

[ bb-8 and r2 must do a lot of looking at each other like they're the camera in the office tbh. finn makes an executive decision to stay worried until further notice. there's a lot of everything to think about in this particular lifestyle. ]

I guess there are worse places for thinking. [ could be thinking and crying on a stolen street sweeper, for example. that's easily two times worse. finn reaches over to give poe a quick wrist squeeze. it's about the moral support. he assumes any crying is a bad thing on principle. ] Pretty sure we could find you somewhere more comfortable to do it, though.

[followhim]

[ man, that wrist squeeze though. did you know that finn put all the stars in the sky? ] No, no, I was thinking about... [ he trails off, his actual thoughts scattered to the wind. they were positive though. something like "thinking about how much i love my friends and my droid and also this beautiful man." ] never mind.

[ he lunges in to hug him. will finn be taken down by this sudden gesture? who can say where the road goes, etc. ]

Where're we going?

[bythehand]

[ he is emotionally k.o.-ed and that's for sure. finn is easy. he's been building his hug collection and that collection is hugely populated by poe.

physically, he ends up falling backwards onto his butt. a thing he should have anticipated, maybe. poe is the affectionate type. finn hugs back because he is no fool and he is filled with yearning. ]

I think if you go anywhere but a bunk, I might lose you to another hijacking. So how about we head further in and you keep me company?

[followhim]

[ his eyes light up at the thought of getting to "keep finn company," like a small child with no emotional control. not that it's incredibly visible, given the way poe is still awkwardly plastered on top of him. ]

You gonna try that settling thing out?

[ still trying s-so hard to quench that thirst. ]

[bythehand]

[ poe dameron is a gambler at heart. he'll play his odds. he believes in the heart of the cards. ]

Frankly, I don't know if you can handle getting settled right now.

[ finn is down to clown broadly speaking. he knows poe to be a person who is usually down to clown when they have time to kill that isn't full of near-death or immediately after a person dies. the post-bang cuddles would be legit.

it's about... the drunkenness percentage. finn has a litmus test on when poe pops but the fun does stop. or he has a weird multiversal reverb of that time in zhautas when poe gave him a bj and then immediately upchucked flower petals. ]

Come on. Let's get up.

[ PAT PAT. his best patting. only the good shit for poe. ]

[followhim]

[ poe is possibly too drunk to accomplish anything in pleasure town anyway, especially when he's protesting with ]

But I'm a scoundrel! [ laughter... ] You can take me to a farm... with fruit...

[ ask him what that means later, there is a 100% chance he'll have no idea. maybe he was thinking about "settling down" on a farm? with fruit? maybe this is a creative date idea?

nobody will ever know because his next decisive action is to pull himself up all the way....... to lick finn's face. his cheek. the intent to makeout was there in that action. ]

[bythehand]

[ now THIS is mr. toad's wild ride. finn was gonna just stick to laughing at poe, in the way that a person laughs when they weren't expecting to hear something funny. like a regular person. a farm with fruit...

your brackets preempted the "what the fuck does that even MEAN" and that's worthy of great respect.

anyway then poe licks him on the face and finn experiences the cataclysm of humor vs deep personal offense. poe really is a scoundrel. what does he do with that? he doesn't know. this is the worst romance novel ever. bless the intent. part of finn is still like wtf is this because he was thinking about fruit why is the drunk brain a labyrinth. ]

-- don't lick me.

[ in this specific context.

ykw he's going for it. hell or high water, finn will stand again. if the sober one is standing the drunk one has 50% more chance of also ending up standing, even if he has to be de-throned from his finn in the process. ]