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☒ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴsᴘᴀᴍ ☒ ᴘʀᴏsᴇ ☒ ᴘɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛs ☒ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴡᴏʀᴅʟʏ ☒ ᴏᴠᴇʀғʟᴏᴡ
☒ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴsᴘᴀᴍ ☒ ᴘʀᴏsᴇ ☒ ᴘɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛs ☒ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴡᴏʀᴅʟʏ ☒ ᴏᴠᴇʀғʟᴏᴡ
☒ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴsᴘᴀᴍ ☒ ᴘʀᴏsᴇ ☒ ᴘɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛs ☒ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴡᴏʀᴅʟʏ ☒ ᴏᴠᴇʀғʟᴏᴡ
☒ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴsᴘᴀᴍ ☒ ᴘʀᴏsᴇ ☒ ᴘɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛs ☒ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴡᴏʀᴅʟʏ ☒ ᴏᴠᴇʀғʟᴏᴡ
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So they assign Jyn to Alderaan, under Bail Organa. It goes about as well as can be expected, but he is used to willful young women and as long as she doesn't insult someone to their faces, it works out reasonably well. She's got a lot of anger and even more grief, but she also has her father's captivating charisma.
She's ferrying information back to Yavin when she hears about the destruction of Alderaan, mentally adding another name to the list in her mind.
It's not until after the Death Star has been destroyed by that Skywalker boy, leader of the Rogue Squadron, a fact that makes her chest ache for Bodhi, that Jyn even meets the princess. (Former princess? Does one retain a title when the planet has been destroyed?) Introduced as the heroes of Scarif, titles that Jyn and Cassian obviously despise, Jyn finds herself being thanked. She can't bring herself to express her condolences for Alderaan, but the haunted look in her eyes does enough and Cassian offers his sympathy for both of them.
When Yavin is compromised, the rebels move to Hoth -- a move that displeases the children born on ice planets, but it's not like Jyn and Cassian have a real say -- and Jyn's new duties include beating up rebel soldiers to prove they don't know anything about combat and how to better themselves to they won't get beat up by a girl the size of an Ewok. She approaches this job with gusto and finds herself circling the periphery of Leia Organa without even realizing. She is very much like her father.
Circling turns to the pathetic approximation of social niceties that Jyn weakly manages, which turns to talking properly, which turns to something like friendship. There aren't a lack of women on the base, but Jyn has always found herself something of a novelty and she hates it. Leia treats her like a person.
Friendship turns to... well, she doesn't know. It's a strange nebulous thing, like her strange nebulous thing with Cassian, except newer and stranger.
She's slouched on a bench seat in the empty communications tower, one of Cassian's blankets wrapped around her as she readies a supply ship for departure, when she hears the door open and sees Leia walk in. "You're back." A beat, her attention drawn back to the ship with a crackle over the radio. "Not you, you moron, you're leaving. Now get off my landing pad."
A+ work there. She is really the most serious about keeping to proper radio protocol. She shoves the radio away and turns in her seat to look at the princess. "When did you get back?"
rambles back pls tell me ignore there are weird typos it's my rude ass phone
( Tragedy never seemed an adequate word to describe the destruction of her people, and curiously there was only one person who never seemed to try to put the heartache into words, and maybe that's why her eyes haunt Leia so. )
Along comes Hoth, and Leia hates it almost as much as she does her duty, almost as much as she hates her titles. People still use princess to mock her - not when Leia is around, of course, but she hears about it all the same. The base isn't that big, and honestly there's no right way of dealing with this. Call the behaviour out, she's behaving right in line with expectations, can't take a joke, such a princess. Ignore it and she doesn't know what's going on in her own base, doesn't know how people see her, what kind of leader misunderstands their troops this much? It's the kind of thing that keeps her up at night, looking for third options that probably don't exist.
So when Jyn starts beating rebels up for a living it actually helps. She starts observing their sessions, and it's easy to see the same patterns repeating. 'Princess' thrown poisonously at Leia becomes 'criminal' muttered spitefully as men stroke bruised egos, and she strikes. She can't dismiss these men, there aren't enough heads to begin with, but they are dealt duties fitting their behaviour. The problem dries up in a matter of days, and the time spent watching Jyn fight seems to have earned her a new friend, too. Leia doesn't trust very many people these days. It's a nice change.
She doesn't have to leave Hoth as much as she did Yavin, but it still has to happen sometimes. This time she's meeting with a leader that had, until now, pledged himself to neither the Empire or the Republic. She comes back to base giddy with success, with new allies, new funding, and most importantly new soldiers. It's the resources they've desperately needed for a while now, and actually securing them gives Leia a rush she hasn't experienced since being an active part of the battle. For the first time since the destruction of Alderaan she has real, tangible hope -- and good news, which obviously has to be shared.
"I should really give you a warning for that," she says seriously as she gestures to the communications desk that Jyn is tending to, but the smile cracks in moments and instead Leia just rushes into the room. She can't contain herself, it's entirely unlike her, and she likes it. "I just walked in. Who left you in charge of departure comms?"
Not that Jyn wasn't perfectly capable of manning communications, clearly, it's just that she wouldn't exactly have been Leia's first choice. No offence or anything.
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That last part is a joke, tone wry, eyes amused. Nothing will be good for her people skills but the tower is empty and quiet and it gives Jyn a lot of space to be alone and she appreciates that tremendously. Besides the fact that the outgoing ships are fairly infrequent so when he comes to keep her company under her blanket, there is nothing to interrupt their lazy kisses or Jyn falling asleep on his shoulder. It's positive reinforcement, he'd told her once, in between kisses, for only fighting people as part of her job.
Regardless, she shifts the blanket to make room for Leia to join her this time. The view from the huge window of the tower isn't that bad, snow swirling around cheerfully under the blue grey sky.
"What has you so happy?"