Series Masterpost: Teeth of the Desert

[terresdebrume]

[Star Wars, AU, Potential Luke/Han, In progress]
TW: Slavery

In which the homestead doesn't burn but Luke is orphaned anyway.
In which he never leaves Tatooine, but learns to know Han and Leia anyway.
In which Luke never becomes a Jedi, but he saves a world anyway.

[Read on AO3]

✗ SANDSTORM [Read]

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER: Second
RATING: Teen & Up
WORDCOUNT: 1 662
PAIRING(S): -
CHARACTER(S): Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca
GENRE: Turning points
TRIGGER WARNING(S): Slavery is a theme throughout the series. No story-specific warning.
SUMMARY: Luke, at this point, has been a slave for over half of his life, and should know better than to forget it. Usually it works well enough–but then usually, there’s no Ben Kenobi to try and take him to Alderaan.

✗ FREEFALL

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER: Third
RATING: All audiences
WORDCOUNT: 213
PAIRING(S): Skysolo
CHARACTER(S): Luke Skywalker, Han Solo
GENRE: Flash ficlet
TRIGGER WARNING(S): Slavery is a theme throughout the series. No story-specific warning.
SUMMARY: Sometimes, Luke just feels like being a little shit.
NOTE(S): I made this TOD verse because I can, but honestly it works with a post canon-ish capacity too.



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“Get off of there!” Han bellows, voice echoing louder than the bells of Corellia in the empty hull of the Star Destroyer, “You’ll break your neck!”

Later, Han will think he should have anticipated Luke’s reaction–he always was fond of saying no–but as he watches the brown silhouette simply jump off the decayed railings, the only thing Han anticipates is how much he’s going to throw up in sheer terror.

Luke, meanwhile, plummets toward the ground at an astonishing speed, shouting and laughing in delight until two long waves of sand rise from the ground and catch him like a sac of potatoes. Han curses in several languages before he goes to dig his nutcase of a lover out of a gigantic pile of sand, rivers of yellow running off Luke’s clothes as he stands.

“I told you,” Luke says as he shakes his Tusken mask clean, “The desert won’t let me die.”

And Han should protest–should remind Luke that this isn’t Tatooine and there are no Stormwalkers here–but then Luke’s cheeks are still flushed with the rush of the fall and Han’s heart beats so loud he’s not quite sure what’s real and what isn’t right now…so he goes for the quickest way to check and kisses Luke.

✗ FROM THE FIRST GRAIN OF SAND [Read]

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER: Second
RATING: Teen & Up
WORDCOUNT: 3 846
PAIRING(S): -
CHARACTER(S): Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca
GENRE: Storytelling
TRIGGER WARNING(S): Slavery is a theme throughout the series. No story-specific warning.
SUMMARY: Of course Luke is afraid of sandstorms–he’d be a fool otherwise. But, contrary to Han and Chewbacca, he also knows how to appreciate them.
NOTE(S): Many thanks to @soleriane for her betaing work, and to @kavkakat for being a great brainstorming partner. The opening of Luke’ story, particularly “and so it has passed down to us from the first grain of sand in the desert” exists thanks to her!

✗ LUKE [Read]

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER: Third
RATING: Teen & Up
WORDCOUNT: 3 749
PAIRING(S): -
CHARACTER(S): Luke Skywalker, Original non-human characters
GENRE: Rebirth
TRIGGER WARNING(S): Slavery is a theme throughout the series. Mild gore, amputation.
SUMMARY: Luke isn’t the first to be sent North, and he won’t be the last. His master, however, probably never suspected what Luke would find in the desert.