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She was pathetic, this desert scavenger girl. Even her daemon was an ugly little scurrier – a species widely regarded as vermin. For all Elennia’s faults, at least she was a noble and powerful raquor'daan. Not a single officer on the Starkiller had a daemon as large or impressive looking as her.

Kylo raged at the way Rey had entered his mind and the way she didn’t seem to fear him at all. And now Elennia was defying him once again and standing so far behind him that every time he lunged at Rey, a wave of separation pain washed over him.

‘You were perfectly happy to fight against the traitor! So stop sulking and subdue the girl’s daemon!’ Kylo yelled.

Elennia got to her feet and wandered over to the combat, every step full of studied insolence. Kylo ground his teeth, but used the extra range to hammer his lightsaber against Rey’s defences. The blue light of his grandfather’s weapon seemed to mock him with every clumsy strike.

Finally Elennia arrived at his side. Her attention was entirely focused on the scurrier daemon that darted toward her paws and backed off before she could swipe at him. Then the unthinkable happened. Elennia crouched down with her ears pricked up and her vicious tail laying flat. Her tongue lolled out of her jaws. The scurrier stopped darting and tilted his head so his horns jutted forward. The tip of his tail twitched slowly back and forth.

‘What are you doing?’ Kylo hissed at his daemon. The last time Elennia had done that was a lifetime ago, back when she had play-fought with other daemons. This was before she’d even settled. Now every fight was an opportunity for her to paralyze a foe’s daemon while he closed in for the kill. This was unacceptable.

Rey wasn’t nearly as distracted by their daemons. She clearly trusted her little desert pest and she pushed her attack. Much to his shame, Kylo couldn’t concentrate. The two daemons seemed to be having a conversation. Kylo circled to the right so he could keep them in his field of view. This was why he hadn’t let Elennia inside the interrogation cell with Rey. His daemon had been acting strange around the scavenger from the beginning. Now Elennia was letting the scurrier touch her face. Those grabbing paws were way too close to her eyes. Kylo struggled to remember the last time another daemon had touched Elennia outside of combat. No one on the Starkiller Base would dare.

Then Rey got past his defences and he was forced to dodge wildly to the left or risk losing his arm. With a flurry of blows, he managed to fend her off long enough to disengage. She didn’t push forward into his space and also backed off warily. In her place, he would have pressed the advantage. That’s what you did when an opponent showed a moment of weakness.

‘You need training! Let me teach you,’ Kylo said.

Rey simply stared at him. Then she turned her head to look over at their daemons. Elennia was standing up. Her tail was still down and now her ears were back and her whole body was lowered. She walked toward Rey. The scurrier kept pace, looking unconcerned. Kylo frowned. Surely Elennia wasn’t going to attack. In life or death situations, her venom worked just as well against a person, but the feel of any part of his daemon touching someone, even to attack, was nearly unbearable. It was even worse then the separation pain.

‘What—,’ Kylo had just enough time to say before Elennia sidled up to Rey and put her head under the scavenger’s hand. The daemon-touch sensation slammed into Kylo and he whimpered.

‘Stop,’ he protested weakly, unsure if he was imploring Rey or his traitorous daemon. Rey turned her head to look back at Kylo and deliberately ran her hand through the fur between Elennia’s ears. Kylo’s lightsaber disengaged and dropped from his suddenly numb fingers. He was breathing heavily and using every last piece of control not to utter the noises that rose in the back of his throat. Pain he could deal with, the slippery-wrong feeling of daemon touching was something he could use to fuel his hate, but not this, not this other feeling.

Elennia had that squinty-eyed look of satisfaction and her tail was utterly relaxed in the snow behind her. Rey seemed a little off-balance, but had no compunctions about using what Elennia was offering. ‘You can’t do that,’ Kylo said.

Elennia shifted forward so that Rey could trail her fingers down the leathery hide of her spine. Kylo fell to his knees in the snow. He tried to beat against his wound, but he barely had the strength to make it hurt properly.

Then the ground began to break up between them. A chasm opened before him and he could only look helplessly toward Elennia as the distance grew. In the next heartbeat separation pain washed over him, though it wasn’t quite enough to drown out the feeling of Rey, who was still touching his daemon.

‘Elennia!’ he called out.

She seemed to wait until the absolute last moment before turning to leap over the chasm. Kylo let out a sharp cry as she landed on the very edge of the widening gap. Her powerful claws dug into the snow and rock and she propelled herself forward. Her paws kicked up ice crystals as she bounded away from the edge. Rey and her daemon had already fled, but Elennia turned to stare after them with her ears pricked forward. She finally turned around and padded up to Kylo. He sank a hand into the fur of her ruff and heaved himself to his feet. His legs wouldn’t stop shaking. ‘I hate you,’ he said.

‘I know,’ Elennia replied.

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‘Finn!’ Rey called. She couldn’t see his daemon, but that was normal. Little Poe was small and could have been anywhere. It didn’t mean that Finn was dead.

‘Bracca, can you see Little Poe? I don’t know where she landed.’ The flame beetle daemon had been diving at Ren’s daemon and even managed to bite the raquor'daan.

‘On it,’ Bracca said as he hunted through the snow. He darted in widening circles, looking for the telltale shine of Little Poe’s carapace.

Rey knelt in the snow and felt for Finn’s pulse. It was slow, but there. ‘He’s alive,’ she called out.

‘I found her,’ Bracca yelled back a moment later. ‘Come over here!’ Rey felt a tug at their bond and looked up. Her eyes widened. Bracca was straining at the limits of their bond. She hurried over and he shot forward as fast as their link would allow. Bracca stopped at a worrying distance from Finn and reached into the snow. His head and tail were lowered as he raced back with the beetle daemon cradled in his paws. Rey ran alongside him. ‘I don’t think that was a normal distance,’ he said.

‘It’ll be fine. We never asked about his range.’

Bracca didn’t say anything.

When the Millennium Falcon appeared overhead, Rey couldn’t hold back a shout. Despite everything that had happened on the base, she suddenly felt a lot lighter. While she was now trapped in something bigger than she had ever imagined, she knew she wouldn’t have to face it alone.

This was really good. Kylo's relationship with his daemon is perfect.

Thank you! I’m glad you liked the portrayal of that relationship.

This was amazing!!! Will you be writing more in this universe? You should! This was exacly what a Dark Materials AU should be, it gives us a lot of insight into the characters.

Thanks heaps! I’m absolutely delighted that you enjoyed this interpretation and found it insightful. As for writing more, probably not, but I originally intended to just do the snow battle… then world-building happened, so who knows?

Though Kylo's relationship with his daemon was perfect I don't get why you bothered tagging it as Reylo when it's obviously a Finn/Rey fic in disguise. Why, writer, to ruin Reylo like that?

Sorry you feel that way, anon. With the daemon-touching, I definitely consider this Reylo, though I suspect I ship it angrier and more adversarial than some. I’m glad you liked the daemon relationship.

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Oh I do like the way you've done Kylo's relationship with his daemon! Speaks well to his inner turmoil.

I’m glad you liked it! I think having a daemon would mean inner turmoil is constantly manifest.

This was amazing! All of the daemons' various forms and their relationships with their people were perfect. Finn naming his Poe gave me so many feels.

Thanks a lot! I looked up a bunch of EU animals for daemons. Yeah, in this AU no one named Finn’s daemon, so he panicked and improvised.

Phas...oe
"Poe?"
"Poe..."

Do all of the Stormtroopers have flame beetle daemons?

The dangerous potential of these creatures came not from their bite though, but their ability to spontaneously combust. This event normally occurs throughout a whole swarm of over 100 beetles; each beetle exploding with the effect of a fragmentation grenade.

- wookiepedia

Will Finn's go through another "settling" phase to a new form now that everything has changed?

A!A here:

I’m glad you asked! I have lots headcanons for this ‘verse.

The First Order stormtroopers do not have daemons, as part of their “training”. Finn was special (not quite sure how yet, species thing?) and had enough range so that he managed to keep his daemon. She needed to be small because he needed to keep her secret from everyone. So I went with an insect daemon, and Wookiepedia doesn’t have many comprehensive entries for insects, so I picked something cool that tended to flame out dramatically. However she is definitely settled. Also I have no idea what would happen if she combusted because, on one hand flame beetle, and on the other magical daemon. So…

Finally, if Finn is the only stormtrooper with a daemon that explains both why he’s the only ‘trooper affected by all the murder and also why he’s weirdly okay with shooting other stormtroopers on his way out.

I... I wasn't sure about the idea of this crossover, but you've turned it into something excellent, and I really like the extra worldbuilding you've added in the review responses.

I swear this was going to be an excuse to write dub-con daemon touching, but then I got ambushed by worldbuilding. So I am delighted that you enjoyed the ideas.

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