espressotrashcan-of-rivendell:

Please give me a fem!Hux with the exact same backstory as canon!Hux. 

Armité Hux, the illegitimate child of Brendol and a cook, obsessed with discipline and control. Organized. Vicious and sharp. Deadly like a gun, as little and smart as a whip. 

She is also absolutely terrorized of getting into a relationship – she she saw her birth mother ridiculed for having her, her father’s wife betrayed, and her father in the middle, hurting all of them. Marriage isn’t about love, she figures, and real love ends in tragedy.

And then Lady Ren gets assigned to the Finalizer. 

She flirts. Shamelessly. Destroys things. She’s volatile. She’s madness incarnate. And Armité, for some reason, can’t resist her. She’s been able to resist everyone else, her underlings, her superiors, even Phasma (who made a pass at her once or twice before finding a longterm girlfriend). 

At first, Armité lets herself respond in kind to the attraction, but not to the affection. Affection has ulterior motives, she doesn’t trust it. Affection is a bribe, used by men and women alike to get what they want. She won’t put up with it. Brendol always told her that she’d need more focus than love to succeed, and Maratelle resented her for being illegitimate, and her birth mother–well, she was kept well away from her birth mother. 

Her only frame of reference for what Lady Ren is doing is her own parents, and there’s no damn way she’s going to end up like them. She will not give in.  

Until she does. Until ridiculous things like wildflowers from worldside missions and cups of coffee and cheek kisses and weird gallant knight behavior pile up and she realizes nobody smart enough to work alongside her is going to try to deceive her like this. 

So she accepts.