I want…an AU where teen Hux is really smart but super lonely and distant from his family so he invents himself an AI called R.E.N.
and R.E.N (or just Ren as Hux would refer to him as lol) is just a hologram in reality but Hux is able to join him sometimes in the “internet” where they can both interact in virtual reality.
Snoke, a famous software and tech developer overhears of this remarkable AI invented by a kid and wants it for himself. So he strings Hux along with false hope that he can actually make R.E.N a reality by creating a body for him if Hux explains the secrets behind making him so well.
When Hux is betrayed by Snoke and R.E.N. is “captured”, only Hux is capable of hacking through the system of difficult security barriers to save him.
dear god where am I going with this.
EDIT: I added more omg
SO Hux makes it all the way through Snoke’s puzzles and barriers that are guarding R.E.N., but just as he’s close enough to safe R.E.N. Snoke deletes him. Hux is booted out of the system completely and is left completely heartbroken and alone.
For years and years Hux tries to recreate R.E.N. but fails every time, unable to manufacture whatever magic had existed in him. He’s lost in thought and distraught, and runs into someone in the street without looking. This man looks, sounds, and acts just like Ren. His name is Ben.
It’s uncanny, but Hux tries not to let superstition get the best of him. They go out for coffee a few times and WHOOPS fall madly in love. Everything is fine and dandy until one night, Ben just mysteriously gets up out of bed and exits the apartment. Hux follows him all the way to wherever it is he’s heading, trying to wake him up to no avail.
They get all the way inside Snoke’s building which terrifies Hux to no end. He’s still holding Ben’s hand and pleading for him to wake up when a voice cuts through the darkness
“Welcome home R.E.N.”
Ren’s eyes light up right as stops in his tracks and replies, to Hux’s horror “Thank you Master.”
Ben is actually R.E.N. in a body created for him by Snoke back when Snoke had fooled Hux into thinking R.E.N. had been deleted.
R.E.N. follows Snoke’s orders to attack Hux, and fights him only until Hux’s pleas start to ache through his artificial heart. He stops, brought back to himself by his creator.
R.E.N. and Hux escape Snoke, fleeing the city entirely to live a peaceful life somewhere together. ❤
Tag: best thing or BEST THING?
There’s a small shop in Brighton that basically only sells stuffed animals, in tons of varieties, and it’s really crammed full. And it’s where Kylo works, he’s ended up in Brighton, because it’s got sea and sand and a very vibrant gay scene and he figures it’s the last place his Father is going to track him down, because of all the hills. And he’s working in this little shop, he has to duck to get through the door, and he always hits his head on the stuffed animals that hang from the ceiling.
Hux comes in to buy a present for a godchild he’s ‘obtained’ from ‘an old friend’ and he recognises Kylo from one of the clubs, they’d ended up snogging at 4am in a dark corner, both absolutely wrecked on ridiculous drinks served by bartenders in very small shorts. And they’re dripping with sweat from the hot club and the lights and the music is swelling through the floor.
dispatches from the dumpster 