The issue with how the SW fandom treats Finn is that most of the hatred towards Finn is thinly veiled racism. For real, you guys are not subtle with your anti-blackness.
So if what we’ve been told is true and Finn and Rey do spent most of the plot of Episode IX together then that’s very interesting because that puts Finn right back at the center of the Force related plot.
how do people not understand how powerful finn is as a character and a person
EVERYWHERE HE GOES HE CHANGES PEOPLE’S LIVES AND SAVES THEM. he put the spark back into poe when poe was at his lowest point and ready to die!!! he went back for rey when no one else ever had, and showed concern for her when nobody else had!!! he helped rose come up with a plan that could have saved the resistance in tlj and gave her the chance to HELP and be a hero she never thought she could be!!!
literally just by existing and doing what he thought was right
he is the reason starkiller base got taken down! at one of the resistance’s lowest points he was the one who stepped up and said no, we have to believe and have hope and trust that someone will respond to our message and we have to give them time to do it!
he fuckin creates and facilitates change EVERYWHERE HE GOES. he INSPIRES people. people inherently TRUST HIM. the universe tears open around finn everywhere he goes and that’s why everyone in the free world looks at him like he hung the fuckin moon. because just by existing and making a choice despite a lifetime of having no choice, he made the galaxy a better place and changed lives for the better. and basically, i love the male lead and co-protagonist of the new trilogy, without whom none of the events of TFA or TLJ would have been able to happen
god tier theory is that finn and rey were raised side by side in luke’s jedi temple until kale snapped
Luke watches the children from afar: they giggle as they run circles around the older students, the girl trying hard to keep up with the slightly older boy as they dart around the meditating students whose eyes are pinched shut in focus.
Two of his own blood – the oldest boy fidgets as he meditates – the others not, but he loves them all nonetheless.
(After all, as a young man he’d gazed upon the most fearsome visage in the galaxy without hatred. These children, the stars that would bring light to the future – they deserve nothing less.)
He doesn’t chastise the two young ones. They’re children, and children deserve to run, grow their wings, before they can use the Force to fly. He’d felt caged by the sand dunes on Tatoonie, but now he understands that the love he’d been gifted under the roof of the Lars family home is the most precious thing in the galaxy.
The boy screeches to a halt when he realizes Luke is watching them.
“‘orry Master Luke,” he says bashfully, gaze cast towards his feet. If it wasn’t for his dark complexion Luke knows his ears would be a bright red.
The girl, never far from her beloved friend, careens into him. She half-giggles, half-gasps for air, then turns to face her mentor.
“We weren’t being loud – we, we didn’t disturb the older kids. Like you told us – like we promised!”
“Indeed,” Luke replies, crouching forward to meet the girl at eye level. His hands covers his knees and Luke can’t help but notice the girl’s eyes flicker briefly towards his mechanical hand. “You’ve shown restraint and an intent to keep your word, both important Jedi traits.”
The girl gives him a gap toothed grin, while the boy lifts his eyes to meet Luke’s gaze. Their eyes sparkle like twin suns.
When Luke makes it out of the ruins, all he sees are flames and smoke.
Then bodies.
Then the lightsaber wounds.
There are less bodies than students – when he counts the lightsabers, he knows where they’ve gone.
The rest are dead. He knows it, felt their flames go out. All that’s left is ash.
Except – except two.
The girl clings to his robes, tears streaming down her face and soot smudged across her forehead. She cries for her friend, cries out his name, cries for the dead, cries for the luck that had kept her away from the dorms.
He wipes her mind of the trauma, forces her gifts into hiding. He sends her away, knowing that together they’re a more noticeable target. This star, the one that shines bright with kindness and burns with resilience, goes out.
He reaches out one last time before he goes into hiding. The other star, the one that shines bright with promise and burns with compassion – he can no longer find it. He’s gone, but not in the way the other children were extinguished. He was not snuffed out, the flame didn’t slowly dwindle away as life left his body. No screams of terror, no shaky last breaths.
No – he was cut off abruptly, like the girl. But this was not Luke’s doing. More sinster forces are at work.
(He knows what Imperial reconditioning can do. He knows of the ever-growing list of missing children. He fears it.)
Luke sighs, prosthetic hand curling into a fist.
Then he cuts himself off.
He trusts the Force to know when to awaken them.
The last Jedi sits alone on Atch-to.
No, not the last.
First one star reignites, then the other. Luke can feel the twin suns rise.
I️ DARE one more anti to assume that reylos hate Finn because I️ love and will protect Finn with my entire LIFE!!! TRY ME!!!
It’s not an assumption, which is a supposition without proof. Far from being an assumption, there are documented instances of reylos saying Finn is not a main character, that he’s not a hero, that he’s killed more people than Kylo did, that he’s not good enough for Rey, of them literally erasing Finn from his scenes to replace him with Kylo, using Finn’s lines and story for Kylo… so yes, reylos do hate Finn. Not all of them, no doubt, but enough that many of us feel the need to defend Finn and don’t want anything to do with that section of the fandom. I mean, if you really do feel that strongly about Finn I’d have thought you’d care a LITTLE about this anti-Finn bullshit, but evidently your comically exaggerated outrage is reserved solely for “antis” who are sick of Finn being shat on.
And if you think this is a ship thing, Finn stans regularly call out racism against Finn from Finnreys and Finnpoes, too. But I guess you were too busy being ready to protect Finn with your entire LIFE!!! to notice that he is one of the most unfairly demonized, erased, and ignored characters in this shit fandom, across all ships.
I will never get over how JJ Abrams told John he’d be the star of Star Wars, John cried of joy after he read the script of TFA and was having the time of his life making and promoting the movie …and then Rian Johnson turned up ….
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