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Some *Different* Kylux Recs

xanthippe-in-the-snow:

I ADORE most of the famous recs going round on the lists (no shade here!), but I have also read other works and series on AO3 that deserve love and, following up on @generallyhuxurious‘s post, have put together a list. I haven’t included anything with
1000+ kudos on AO3 (most of these have far less), because I figure you all know those ones. I have only included completed works that I consider well-written (I am very First-Order about grammar). I have a taste for slow-burn, angst, and fluff. You have been warned. 

None of
these feature the death of Kylo or Hux, underage, or non-con between Kylo Ren and Hux. (There are mentions of past non-con in one and another features dub-con. Read your tags!)

Please share if you like and also add your own recs/fics (I love getting new things to read!).

MODERN AUs 

Ground Rule by mythbusterposey. I don’t even get baseball, but this AU is incredible. Slow burn and much angst and fluff. Hux is 34 and Ben is 19. The characterization is beautiful.

Anchors by
HandsAcrossTheSea. Part of a series. Hux is a CEO (with the best car ever) and Kylo is his former-porn-star, tattoo artist husband. Ridiculously hot (and the porniest on this list by a long way).

Act of Violence and
Consequence by hedgerowhag. Lawyer Hux and former criminal Kylo grudgingly admitting their feelings for one another.  Another with wonderful characterization.

Beauty
Beneath by dallystrings (@r2dameron​). Hux and Ben have been friends for a decade. When Hux accompanies Ben home for Leia’s birthday
and pretends to be his boyfriend, angst,
pining, and feelings ensue. Featuring adorably oblivious Hux.

SW-VERSE AUs

Silence of the Room
by hedgerowhag. This one is different – Snoke has imprisoned Hux and light-side Ben Solo. Torture, angst, mostly pre-slash.  

To The Pure by
K_dAzrael (@kdazrael​) This one has a lot of kudos (and it is actually on one of the lists I read), but I haven’t seen people talking about it enough, because I want us all to talk about it! It is NOT what you expect from a
Hux/Knights of Ren orgy. The depiction
of the knights is strange and mystical and entirely compelling (it has become my new head canon for them).

Ex Machina by sual. Hux is a droid here and his motivations are completely
plausible. Ben Solo never went dark, but
he’s not quite right either – he is a social outcast and he has a thing for robots. Unexpectedly, this a very sweet love story. (And now I have a kink for droid!Hux.) There is past non-con between Hux/others.

Shadows and Stained Glass by Hollo (@itsdetachable).  I never thought “tentacle fluff” would be a tag. Kylo goes deep into the dark side and becomes a Lovecraftian Eldritch horror and it’s … super sweet?  Really.  It’s gorgeously descriptive and there is some beautiful imagery of Kylo with stars in his hair.

Caviar and Cigarettes by ravaged_by_fandom.  Because we all need some Kylo Amidala in our lives! Sweet and hot! Almost-public sex plus outfits! What’s not to love?

CRACK

Veridis Quo by
neon_bible (@a-sweater-poorly-knit​).  I used to write crack before neon_bible out-cracked me for all time and murdered my muse with this masterpiece (may you rest in eternal depravity, space babies). Ren is a complete slob of a manchild who subsists on protein powder and sour patch kids and Hux
is, well, Hux (with a trapper keeper!). Hux accompanies Ren to a First
Order weapons convention and all hell (and smut) breaks loose. I can’t even do this justice – just
go read it.  (There is also a sequel, because crack this good just won’t die.)

The Handler by imperatrixxx (@xanthippe-in-the-snow​). OK, putting one of my own on here, because I am shameless. It begins with Hux and Kylo in a competition to decide who gets to tie up whom and just goes downhill from there. It is ridiculous Mikylux crack-fluff featuring frat-boy knights of Ren and Space Princess Mitaka, and I should be ashamed (but I am not). 

CANON-COMPLIANT-ISH (what
is the name for this?)

You Can’t Blame
Gravity  by Gigi_Sinclair. Hux
has been sentenced to death, but Kylo has other ideas.  I love this most of all for Chewbacca’s
response to Ben (post-TFA). I will never write that scene, because this author did it so perfectly.

The Cold Feeling by neon_bible (@a-sweater-poorly-knit​). Kylo Ren returns home and begins to fall in love with Poe Dameron, but is haunted by his past and in particular his relationship with Hux. There is SO MUCH ANGST. The psychology is fully explored and beautifully written. (There is some dub-con between Poe and Ren in one chapter.)

 Things you Don’t do at
Home Come Naturally on the Floor by AetherBunny. Hux
gives Ren dance lessons. The author is a dance instructor, so the descriptions are fantastic. The series is hot and
fluffy and gorgeous.  Someone do some fan art of this already!

 Don’t Fade Away by MargaretKire. Fluffy
slow burn with plot. Hux is cold and Snoke is even more sinister than usual. The plot is original and compelling and there is lots of angsty goodness.  

nebulash:

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. ❤

solohux:

okay so we all know the Soulmate AU where you see everything in perfect colour but when your soulmate dies, your world gets turned into black and white

now imagine this with Hux/Ben Solo

  • little Hux seeing everything in such vivid colours and his mother telling him that it means he has a soulmate somewhere in the universe who’s waiting for him
  • despite his father calling it ‘nonsense’, Hux is happy that his soulmate is seeing things in the same amazing colour that he is
  • but Hux starts to notice that things are very slowly turning darker, greyer, the colour is being sucked out of everything…the sky isn’t as bright, the trees aren’t as green.
  • His mother tells him that it’s alright and that she is sure his soulmate is fine but Hux knows that his soulmate is slowly dying
  • so as Ben falls further to the Dark Side and comes closer to becoming Kylo Ren, Hux’s colourful world loses its colour until, one day when he’s in his late teens, he stands and watches as the last of the blue fades from the sky
  • with his world now black and white, Hux himself grows colder, jealous of those who still have their soulmate and see in colour
  • he meets Kylo Ren when he’s assigned to Hux’s Finalizer and Hux thinks nothing of it
  • Hux is in his quarters one evening when he looks up from his datapad and sees a red mug next to him and he stares at it before he rushes to the mirror and sees his green eyes and red hair
  • he hears Ren yelling in agony down the corridor, slashing the walls with his lighhtsaber and when he’s calmed down, Hux’s world is abruptly plunged back into black and white
  • so everytime Kylo feels the call to the light, Hux sees colour

generallyhuxurious:

Loyalty by KaiLeng / @brenhux

Peering around the corner, Ren blinked as he saw Hux sitting on his bed, a cello between his knees. His side was to Ren, but his eyes were closed as he leaned into the instrument, long pale fingers playing over the neck, the other hand drawing the bow over the strings. His face was utterly content, a small smile curling his mouth as he played. The way the general cradled the instrument in his hold was oddly intimate, and Ren almost considered leaving, but he stood, transfixed.

I’ve wanted to draw some art for Loyalty for ages. It’s by far my favourite canon universe stand-alone fic, I highly recommend you read it!

fraxinus:

God I have so much to write and I need to work on my kbb fic but all I can think about are those situations where Kylo goes to the light and leaves the Order and Hux’s reaction to it. Because I so often see the sad, devastated Hux who won’t follow but doesn’t stop loving Kylo and either tries to get him back or eventually goes with him, but nah. Nah son.

I want a Hux who had never let anyone close to him before and the one time he does, the one time he lets himself have something despite his upbringing and culture and everything telling him no, it turns out to be the ruin of him and he’s fucking furious. I want a Hux who is so angry at himself for being weak and even entertaining the notion of love that he spends months on end with barely any sleep or food restructuring everything about the Finalizer aside from it’s bare bones, so Kylo can’t use any of the knowledge he left with to stage an attack. I want a Hux who’s not sure who he wants to burn alive more, Kylo for leaving him or himself for letting him stay in the first place, but all that’s left of his soul is white hot rage that threatens to eat him from the inside out. I want a Hux who defies the gods and the fates and can not, will not let this his unfortunate infatuation with a Skywalker be the ruin of him. He refuses to be Padme, or Han.

But of course he will be, because that’s how it is with the Skywalkers. It’s not a curse so much as their family has been so intertwined with the fate of the universe that anyone they loved would be bound to eventually fall. War is hard enough to survive when you put everything into it, but when you’re in love with the eye of the storm you’ll certainly be swept away to the winds. Hux hates Kylo, but Kylo could never hate him, and that’s why nothing Hux could do would ever really save himself. So when the Finalizer is burning around him, the rest of the bridge evacuated, he isn’t surprised when Kylo walks through the door to finish the job.

And of course Kylo still tries to save him, he never stopped loving Hux or longing for him even after he defected, even after they met again in battle and Hux swore he would kill him personally, even after Kylo reached into his mind to find their memories but instead found them locked away and surrounded by the deep-seeded fear and pain that fueled his new rage. So he yells for Hux to move, that he’ll die here, but Hux is in front of the viewport watching everything he tried to save burn to ashes and Kylo feels more like death coming for him than a savior, and Hux had never planned to go with death in peace. He fights with everything he has but Hux is no jedi, and injured with only a blaster he doesn’t last long. He dies in Kylo’s arms (Kylo is crying for him, of course he is) with his mind swimming in memories he tried years to forget, of soft nights and hushed whispers and his beautiful knight in on black satin sheets outlined by the light of the universe outside, and for once Hux stops fighting because only on his deathbed would he allow himself to finally accept that he died to have those memories, he may as well enjoy them one last time.

Kylo never loves anyone again after that, every time he tried he could never shake from his mind two images of Hux, one of him bleeding out in his arms, the other of him curled around Kylo in bed, whispering ‘you’ll be the death of me, I know it’ before he drifts off to sleep.

gay-space-fascist:

I’ve been thinking about the Kylux fake relationship AU all morning.

Consider:

The Orgelench ruling family have an artist-in-residence who, amazed by Kylo’s beauty and grace (and very obvious homage to his Nabooian heritage in his appearance) composes a ballad to honor and mourn the life of Padme Amidala, Naboo’s most famous queen, “whose spirit so clearly lives on in the life of our esteemed guest.”

And it’s beautiful. It’s inspiring and heart-wrenchingly sad. Hux sits next to Kylo as the ballad is performed and feels Kylo’s arm pressed next to his trembling. And he is…overcome, somewhat, by the sentiments that he’s been developing over the past few days, finding out what a warm and devious and charming companion Kylo can be.

How Kylo laughed when Hux fell off his mount in the kybuck hunt, not cruelly but kindly, so that Hux did not look foolish in front of the gathered dignitaries, but approachable, human. Loved.

How Kylo guided him through those seemingly endless dances, never once wincing when Hux accidentally crushed a toe or kicked a heel. Always smiling, appearing only delighted to be in his arms.

How Kylo was so cunning when intercepting the Resistance spy, navigating the tricky social mores and niceties with ruthless charm while also ensuring the spy’s discreet removal and, later, brutal interrogation.

And Hux sees, in that moment, how Kylo needs him, if only briefly. And so he reaches out, with no political motive or machination, to take his hand. He offers up a handkerchief and sits, quietly, the rock upon which the storm of Kylo’s welling emotions may break.

@reserve @griesly @boredbyreality @dcdreamer23