I'd love to see a fic exploring Force Bonds as a way to keep Kylo/Ben from going full Sith/falling further into the Dark Side.
Perhaps during the interrogation scene Rey accidentally creates a Force Bond with Kylo, and he later finds out he can't access some of the darker Force aspects that Snoke says he should. Maybe it's what tips him off to the fact that he and Rey got Bonded (wait you mean galaxy-spanning shared dreams aren't something a Force user has with their equally Force using antagonist?). How does he react? Angry because now he really can't follow in Vader's footsteps? Secretly relieved that there's someone pulling him back to the Light?)
Cut to later and Finn's also training to be a Jedi. One night Rey confesses about the Force Bond to him as a way of explaining that yes, she likes him but she also has this weird dream thing going on with Kylo and is that okay? Finn's accepting and kind of curious and decides if they're being perfectly honest with each other now, then she should know about his massive crush on Poe (which he's surprised Rey has too). They both commiserate with each other, because how is this their lives? ...maybe we should Do something about it...
So Poe has to wonder the next time they get together why Rey and Finn are furtively whispering to each other and giving each other Significant Looks. Eventually it all comes spilling out, and there is probably much rejoicing.
Cue Rey and Finn's next fight with Kylo, Finn (accidentally? On purpose? Accidentally on purpose?) creates his own Bond with Kylo. Leaving and angry and confused Kylo, who realizes that he's got to run from Snoke and the FO (because he might have been able to mostly hide his Bond w/ Rey, but two Force Bonds? None doing.) Also now he's got to deal with two people in his dreams, and how is this his life?
Anndd some Other Stuff, ending in OT4.
(You can make Poe normal or slightly Force sensitive, up to you.)
OT4, Force bonds as anchors for Kylo/Ben
Perhaps during the interrogation scene Rey accidentally creates a Force Bond with Kylo, and he later finds out he can't access some of the darker Force aspects that Snoke says he should. Maybe it's what tips him off to the fact that he and Rey got Bonded (wait you mean galaxy-spanning shared dreams aren't something a Force user has with their equally Force using antagonist?). How does he react? Angry because now he really can't follow in Vader's footsteps? Secretly relieved that there's someone pulling him back to the Light?)
Cut to later and Finn's also training to be a Jedi. One night Rey confesses about the Force Bond to him as a way of explaining that yes, she likes him but she also has this weird dream thing going on with Kylo and is that okay? Finn's accepting and kind of curious and decides if they're being perfectly honest with each other now, then she should know about his massive crush on Poe (which he's surprised Rey has too). They both commiserate with each other, because how is this their lives? ...maybe we should Do something about it...
So Poe has to wonder the next time they get together why Rey and Finn are furtively whispering to each other and giving each other Significant Looks. Eventually it all comes spilling out, and there is probably much rejoicing.
Cue Rey and Finn's next fight with Kylo, Finn (accidentally? On purpose? Accidentally on purpose?) creates his own Bond with Kylo. Leaving and angry and confused Kylo, who realizes that he's got to run from Snoke and the FO (because he might have been able to mostly hide his Bond w/ Rey, but two Force Bonds? None doing.) Also now he's got to deal with two people in his dreams, and how is this his life?
Anndd some Other Stuff, ending in OT4.
(You can make Poe normal or slightly Force sensitive, up to you.)