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Silent Smiles, Lilting Laughs by Halvwyn
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
24 Feb 2020
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Summary
They say that when you’re born, the first sound you hear is your soulmate’s laugh, and that you’ll carry that sound with you the rest of your life. When Ben Solo was young, his Uncle described his late wife’s as a flowing brook, smooth and low; his friend described his own as a trumpet, brassy and loud. These descriptions became his obsession. He wrote them down in books, painted pictures of how he imagined their matching smiles would look, and threw himself into other people’s destinies to forget that he was born into a world of silence.
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Ben Solo was born profoundly Deaf in a world where you find your soulmate by recognizing their laugh. Turning to art to cope, he found himself working as comic book artist Kylo Ren for First Order publishing co. Rey Sanders is a very stressed senior studio art major who happens to frequent the same coffee shop. When Rey recognizes Ben’s laugh, she finds herself in over her head in worksite hell, family drama, and facing the struggles of finding her soulmate