Finn Appreciation Week – Day 3
Favorite Relationships: Finn & Han Solo
Tag: finn
kylo ren is the prime example of white male villains whose awful actions are excused by white fangirls in order to faun over him because he’s “tragic” and “tortured”, instead of focusing on the black character (finn) who is actually tragic and tortured, and instead of becoming a monster, went against everything that he ws programmed to be and became a good guy
he’s also the prime example of an abusive white man who the fans would rather ship with the white female lead instead of a variety of other, less abusive potential partners, but are not accepted as valid options by them because they’re not white men
Finn Appreciation Week » Day One → Favorite Scene
“It wasn’t until the civilians began to enter the scenario that he ran into trouble. At first they appeared only as random by standers, obstacles to be avoided. Then there were more of them, and more, and more. Men and women and children, and suddently FN-2187 could see only them and not the enemy hiding among them.” – Before The Awakening by Greg Rucka
After the disaster at Crait the Resistance is in dire straits with no fighters and no resources, up against the mastodon that is the First Order. It is Finn who through s chance encounter with newly minted Resistance operative Zay Versio finds a path. Her knowledge of the First Order’s Project Resurrection – the code word for the Stormtrooper program – gives Finn the information to fulfil his own dream and the Resistance’s need at the same time, to free the indoctrinated troops.
But convincing the Resistance’s leadership of his risky plan proves to be a challenge.
Meanwhile, inside the First Order, Finn’s former squad mate Zeroes is dealing not just with the suspicion directed at him by superiors after Finn’s defection, but his own increasing doubts about the First Order’s methods and intentions. Unable to silence the screams from Tuanul he hears in his dreams, Zeroes feels himself increasingly disagreeing with the orders he is given.
Covertly finding others who feels like he does, Zeroes slowly begins to build a group of subversive elements right under the First Orders noses.
When Finn’s attempts to reach someone inside the First Order wishing to defect and Zeroes’ endeavors to find outside connections to help him and his out succeeds, they’re both surprised to find themselves face to face once again.
Their old enmity cannot be ignored, but they both know they must put it aside to realize their mutual goal of freeing the First Order’s slave army.
Facing obstacles and dangers from both the First Order and the Resistance, their relationship is reforged in fire as they find that the other man is the one person in the galaxy they can truly rely on.
@finnappreciationweek + Day 1: Favorite Scene
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Finn Appreciation Week – Day 1
Favorite Scene(s) – Finn and Poe’s Escape
Here’s Finn as a very tired painting student because I too am a very tired painting student. He got paint on his nose but didn’t notice and nobody told him (rude).
I don’t think this really fits any of the Finn Appreciation Week themes but I wanted to submit it anyway bc it’s a drawing of Finn whom I appreciate 🙂 It’s also sort of a sequel to this from like a year ago
“This daring, brave, good man…” – JJ Abram’s on Finn, The Force Awakens commentary
Tomorrow is Day 1 of Finn Appreciation Week! Favourite Scene/Writing Prompt: Free
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notbythehairofmyfinnyfinnfinn:
“Tell him I’m trying to redeem the person who slashed him across the back and put him into a coma. Can you tell him that for me please? Thanks.”
Someone finally said it.
Rian Johnson is a fucking hack.
y’all forgot luke redeemed vader who tortured leia, had a hand in blowing up her home planet, killed obi wan and froze han in carbonite?
Do you think that Finn wouldn’t be at least slightly sympathetic if he knew what was actually happening to Kylo Ren, and what had happened to him in the past? You think Finn wouldn’t be against brainwashing and abuse, regardless of the target?
Awww lookit that, Finn is worthless unless he forgives and props up the man who bullied and would have killed him!
Abuse? Not an excuse even if it happened. Brainwashing? Total bullshit. Not only did Kylo disobey Snoke’s order in TFA, he murderized the pickled prune in TLJ. And still wanted to murder his mother and all the Resistance survivors.
I’ll take “shit I never said” for $500, Alex.
Implying Finn is unempathetic and cold unless he forgives and helps Kylo? Yeah you did.
No, I said he’d be against abuse and brainwashing. I said he’d probably understand, at least partially. If you don’t think he’d forgive Kylo Ren, that’s reasonable.
And let’s not forget, it was antis that brought Kylo Ren onto the post, not ~Reylos.~
So he’s pro-abuse and brainwashing now unless he “understands” the man who almost killed him and tortured his friends? How nice.
Finn was literally abused and brainwashed by the First Order and Kylo Ren who was a part of this process. Kylo Ren is one of the leaders of the FO, he’s directly responsible for the abuse and brainwashing Finn went through as a child. In TFA, Kylo Ren had the fucking gall to actually be angry at Finn for breaking his brainwashing and running away from his abusers. Kylo Ren wanted Finn to keep being abused and brainwashed.
I have no doubt that Finn is against abuse and brainwashing but even if it’s somehow revealed that Kylo Ren suffered any of these things too (which I sincerely doubt), Finn has absolutely 0 reason to try to understand or be sympathetic toward one of his abuser and implying that he or that anyone need to do this is disgusting. If anything Finn would probably hate Kylo Ren more and understand him less if it was ever revealed that Kylo Ren went through something similar and then decided to just go on to perpetuate abuse and brainwashing on a fucking industrial level. But there is nothing in canon saying that Kylo Ren went through this any way so that point is moot.
Also : Don’t use Finn to prop your fav white character.
(and while i’m at it, the difference with vader was that he was luke’s father not some rando he had just met AND luke did not redeem vader for his crimes against leia or his crime against everyone else in the galaxy : vader saving luke and luke forgiving him only redeemed vader for his crimes against luke specifically. vader/anakin could never be redeemed for all of his crimes, and neither could kylo ren because they both passed the point of no return a long time ago when they started participating in genocides – in any case, what luke did in the OT was nowhere near the bullshit we were subjected to in TLJ)
^^^Exactly. In support of your point about Vader and for all the dumbasses clutching their Vader pearls, let me just drop a George Lucas quote and get out of OP’s notes: “Anakin can’t be redeemed for all the pain and suffering he’s caused. He doesn’t right the wrongs, but he stops the horror.“
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