20 Works in Mon Mothma/Erskin Semaj
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taking what's not yours by hobbes for rnenageries, nightingalesighs
Fandoms: Andor (TV), Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types
03 Jan 2026
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Ever loyal. Ever the acolyte.
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He leans in close to whisper before she can say anything obvious aloud. “You were followed here. They’re watching you now.”
She registers that without any dramatic sign of surprise. You’d have to know her well, as well as he does, to recognise the way her breath grows thinner and her folded hands tense.
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feed me your love by nightingalesighs for hobbes
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV)
29 Dec 2025
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Mon can’t ask for what she really wants to hear but Erskin manages to say it nonetheless.
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- Part 9 of Tumblr prompt fills - Mon Mothma edition
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i could be a fact, i could be a liar by nightingalesighs for eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV)
17 Dec 2025
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Mon and Erskin are left alone at the safe-house, waiting for the transport that will take her to Yavin. Erskin gets her to sleep and while she sleeps, he notices her scraped knuckles, bringing back memories of his past and how it became their past.
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- Part 6 of Tumblr prompt fills - Mon Mothma edition
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The music buried beneath all that noise by eye_of_a_cat for dappledleaves
Fandoms: Andor (TV)
06 Dec 2025
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And what is it Erskin wants, anyway? Does he even know? Chandrilan society shouldn't be much more appealing to him than Mon and Perrin’s marriage is, he's seen both of them at their cruellest and coldest; but part of him’s still yearning. At least with Chandrila he has Mon to bring him into it and lift and support and shield him and make it something that feels worth belonging to. She’s always at her least scathing and critical of Chandrila’s traditions and customs when she’s explaining some part of them to Erskin, as if knowing how much Erskin longs for Chandrila despite all its flaws makes her view it more kindly herself.
There’s the grain of a thought there. Something to come back to, perhaps.
An unexpected visit from ISB leads to a few revealing conversations.
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He won’t have to do anything like that again, she thinks but doesn’t say. She can’t promise him that. And perhaps that isn’t why he’s telling her anyway; she can’t determine how much it’s absolution he wants and how much it’s approval. She remembers Luthen telling her he’s protected you in ways you’ll never know and wonders what else Erskin would tell her if she asked.
On Yavin, in the aftermath of betrayal.
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Carved Into (My) Marble by nightingalesighs for eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV)
06 Dec 2025
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Having won her re-election, Mon is dedicated as a vessel of Chandrila; Erskin, always on the outside but pulled in by his proximity to Mon, learns what it means to serve Chandrila in the Senate with a little guidance from Perrin.
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She can’t seem to look away from the statue; it compels her. “There’s a legend that these are the priestesses themselves, you know. They gave up everything that made them living beings so that Chandrila could be guarded by metal and stone.”
“Quite a sacrifice.” Not that it had helped: the Rakatan Empire gnawed through the planet all the same. He doesn’t say this part out loud, but she looks at him as though she knows it anyway and has resigned herself to facing it.
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Gorge Yourself On the Flesh of the Forbidden Fruit by nightingalesighs for eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV)
17 Sep 2025
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Is it worth it? To take your fill and more when the famine finally ends?
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- Part 4 of Tumblr prompt fills - Mon Mothma edition
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Warm as a glass of brandy, sweet as strawberry wine by eye_of_a_cat for nightingalesighs
Fandoms: Andor (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
12 Sep 2025
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Erskin watches him for a while from the comfort of a too-deep armchair that he’s possibly a little too drunk to get out of with dignity. Perrin’s relating some anecdote about an inauguration banquet thrown by a long-gone senator, expertly spinning out the saga to a growing and enraptured audience. You could drift away like this, carried off by the warm, heady currents of Perrin on form.
It’s late by the time they leave. Perrin hauls him up to his feet, laughing - “Can’t stay out all night or she’ll think I’m leading you astray” - and Erskin looks down at the hand wrapped around his own forearm and feels somehow favoured, a curl of smug pride and satisfaction he shouldn’t know.
Erskin goes out to a party with Perrin, and learns that the dynamics of Mon and Perrin's marriage do not get any clearer when you can view them from both sides.
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Mon makes her annual trip to Naboo to mourn and honor Padmé. Erskin hasn’t returned since he and his mother left.
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silver, sugar, salt, stone by nightingalesighs for eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV)
09 Sep 2025
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Mon always has the answers. (She has to have the answers.)
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- Part 3 of Tumblr prompt fills - Mon Mothma edition
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by the light of a single flame by nightingalesighs for eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types
02 Sep 2025
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Erskin learns that Mon doesn't hate every traditional custom.
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- Part 2 of Tumblr prompt fills - Mon Mothma edition
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the lies we live they're dreadful line to where we're blind by nightingalesighs
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV), Star Wars: Reign of the Empire - Alexander Freed & Rebecca Roanhorse & Fran Wilde
28 Aug 2025
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Sequel to 'what happens when you can't run any longer', Perrin walks up the stairs just as Erskin is leaving Mon's room
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- Part 2 of a change in the water
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“Being Chandrilan is really more of a state of mind,” Perrin says. “It’s not about memorising all these days and these ceremonies and these histories, who cares, it’s learning to live in the spaces between them.” He shifts himself around so he’s almost lying beside the two of them, his blue robes pooled on the bed the brightest colours in the room.
“Perrin,” she says. A warning, a request - she can’t even tell herself.
A Chandrilan cultural festival, and Mon has had enough.
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what happens when you can't run any longer by nightingalesighs
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV)
13 Aug 2025
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Once, Mon stepped in and thus, Erskin will always do the same.
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- Part 1 of a change in the water
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Erskin watches Mon from afar, a memory dredged up from the abyss of childhood.
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Raise a glass to the awful truth (which you can't reveal to the ears of youth) by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: Andor (TV)
28 May 2025
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Her office is the exception, though only in slight and small ways. No words spoken aloud there and no touch beyond the briefest and lightest in passing: her palm curved around the shape of his hip, or the way he’ll catch her arm at the elbow when she passes him something and trace a slow line down her forearm to her hand before taking it. There are a hundred ways to touch someone, a hundred ways to promise in silence: later.
A little after s2e03, with Tay Kolma gone in one sense and Leida gone in another, Mon Mothma reflects on what she still has.
(or: what if your work husband was the illegitimate son of your actual husband and you were also dealing with the emotional fallout of marrying your child bride daughter to a mobster family to fund a rebellion and now Luthen's asking a few too many questions about whether your aide can be trusted.)
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The Spaces Between Speeches by Morrigan_Z
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars Original Trilogy
20 May 2025
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From the shadows of the Imperial Senate to the dawn of the New Republic, Mon Mothma has carried the weight of rebellion. Through eleven encounters spanning a decade of war, she finds brief moments of connection amid sacrifice and duty. A character study told through intimate moments with those who shaped her journey from senator to revolutionary to chancellor.
"We carry our ghosts not as burdens, but as truths."
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Your father’s variety of betrayal once seemed to you rather romantic. To break from the constraints of an arranged Chandrilan marriage, to conceive a child for love alone - such a wonderful story that brought you into existence, wasn't it? Surely one worth at least some of the weight you’d had to drag around of its consequences. It was only in later years that you came to see the tarnished and tawdry reality of it all, the disappointment that your father really was.
It’s not, of course, that you fear you carry some taint of his betrayal with you as if such things can be inherited. Nobody believes that - certainly not on civilised Chandrila. Perhaps you are simply more attuned to your own weakness. Perhaps, through the result of your own heritage, you have been given a conveniently sharp reminder to dig into you like your nails into the meat of your palm: don’t romanticise this. Don’t be stupid. There are no grand love stories here - you’re a starstruck boy with a crush. You’re thankful she was kind to you, that’s all of it. You respect her. It will pass.