Jyn Erso/Cassian Andor

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Pairing
Pairing: Jyn Erso/Cassian Andor
Alternative name(s): RebelCaptain
Gender category: Het, M/F
Fandom: Star Wars
Canonical?: Implied Canon
Prevalence: High
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Jyn/Cassian is the het pairing of Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor in the Rogue One fandom. It is often called RebelCaptain (many Rogue One ships were not portmanteaus, but instead a combination of occupations).

Canon

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Movie)

Rogue One: A Star Ways Story (Book)

Fandom

Jyn/Cassian started showing up after the release of the Rogue One teaser trailer. After the theatrical release of Rogue One, its popularity increased. Most of the activity was happening on tumblr and the Archive of Our Own.

With the release of Andor, the prequel show to Rogue One chronicling Cassian's eventual position with the Rebellion, more fics have been posted integrating Jyn into that canon. Rebelcaptain is the top ship under the Andor tag on AO3.

Statistics

As of December 7, 2022, there are 4444 works tagged Jyn/Cassian on the AO3.

Common Tropes & Fanon in Fanworks

  • Everybody Lives: The Rogue One Team makes it off-planet before the Death Star destroys Scarif
  • Modern AU: modern setting, where they meet and begin a relationship under more conventional circumstances
  • College AU: common perhaps because of their relative ages
  • Friends to Lovers: their fledgling friendship deepening into a romantic relationship
  • Hurt/Comfort: often with Cassian being hurt and Jyn providing the comfort

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Fanfic

  • let's give 'em something to talk about by ginnyweasleys. Whoever keeps spreading rumors of him and Jyn sleeping together every time she so much as stops by his room is going to get decked if Cassian ever finds them. (or, everyone thinks cassian and jyn are dating, and they're only half-wrong.) (29 December 2016)
  • Somewhere Slowly by noelia_g. Cassian Andor before Rogue One, during, and after. The long way to finding home. (28 December 2016)
  • floating, sinking by shuofthewind. Somewhere in her is the sinking feeling that they weren't supposed to survive. (Everyone Lives)
  • Sergeant Erso's Lonely Hearts Club Band by FrostyEmma, In which not dying turns out to be the easiest part. [Or how Jyn lives to tell the tale and becomes drinking buddies with Princess Leia (formerly of Alderaan), Baze and Chirrut celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary, Bodhi thirsts after a certain Tatooine farm boy, and Cassian learns what it means to have hope.]
  • people think the strangest things by slugmutt, “He thought we were married??” Jyn says, rubbing bacta along the knife wound on her leg. “Why would he think that?” Cassian wipes the blood off his forehead and shrugs. “No idea.” (or: six times people assume Jyn and Cassian are married)
  • you were my new home by katsumi, She surprises herself with the force of the want in her. She’s only known him a few weeks—and he’s gruff, and secretive, and single-minded to a dangerous degree—but he’s the first person in a long time she’s had any real ties to. And yes, his loyalty is not to her so much as it is to the cause she’s now a part of. But for now, he’s just a little bit hers in a way that no one else has been for a very, very long time. [Before they can meet with Saw Gerrera, they have to find Saw Gerrera, and that takes time. On the search, Jyn and Cassian grow closer.]
  • What Stays and What Fades by ivyspinners, There is no room for her. There is barely room for him. She tugs her mother's kyber crystal from around her neck and tucks into into his hand. "Go," she tells the pilot. [Cassian and Jyn both survive Scarif. Each thinks the other is dead.]
  • For A Good Time Call by marsxecholls, While drunk one night, Jyn Erso gets dared to write her phone number on a wall in a campus bar. Later that same week, Cassian Andor gets dared to text that number. [Based off "867-5309" by Tommy Tutone]
  • death trembles to take us by theputterer, Jyn has walked the Earth for over four thousand years, leading a team of warriors. They’ve fought in hundreds of battles, and died hundreds of times, returning to take up their weapons and fight again. They choose to fight for what they believe in, as the world turns and changes around them. (the Old Guard AU)
  • Field Medicine Series by incognitajones, A canonverse AU in which Cassian is an intergalactic medical aid worker who keeps crossing paths with Jyn Erso, freelance war reporter.
  • Won't You Let Us Wander by angel_deux, Cassian came back for her. Again and again. After Scarif, that complicates things for Jyn, who's used to running.
  • now you're the future by Elizabeth, After Scarif, Jyn finds herself nearly as alone in the Rebellion as when she arrived.

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