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[rosalinecapulet]

 To expand on the thought from this post, I guess it could be argued that an alternative ship to Kylux could be Kylo/Phasma, especially since the part of the fandom that objects so strongly to Kylux on the grounds of "they're fascists!!1!" doesn't seem to take the same issue with Phasma (or Anakin, for that matter, but that's its own rant). BUT the thing is that Phasma has even less of an established dynamic with Kylo than Hux does (which is frankly impressive tbh)

The only other Kylo ship that I could maybe see myself getting into is Darkpilot, since Poe's sass is always an enjoyable ingredient to any ship. I'm also hesitantly curious about Reylo, but mostly just as a spite-ship in response to all the pushback.

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[mossy_bench]

Darkpilot is interesting to explore, because Poe's family and the Skywalker/Organa family knew each other pre-TFA. So I've seen a lot of fic in which Kylo and Poe knew each other before Kylo turned to the Dark Side, and that adds a cool dimension to their relationship.

I admit I'm pretty fond of Finn/Kylo for the parallels and how they mirror each other and all that symbolic jazz. I know there are some great Tumblr posts that discuss their dynamic... now I'm tempted to dig them up.

I can't tell whether I genuinely ship Reylo or if it's just spite-shipping. I feel like I only like one specific interpretation of their relationship (the one where they're both disasters but Kylo is more of one). Otherwise my reaction ranges from 'meh' to 'NOO'.

I really think Kylux grew to prominence because 1) rival-shipping + slash are always popular, and 2) shipping in the Star Wars fandom is such a disaster that if you shipped Kylo with a 'good' character you got yelled it. So, like you said in your last post, kind of process of elimination.