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Finn’s Squad from The Blood of Warriors! They’re based off from FN Corps from canon, but with some noticeable differences. I don’t know what their name might be, but I’m leaning towards Lyse Squad.

From left to right:

Slip, the Sniper of Lyse Squad, and the first death of the Sequel Trilogy. His character is roughly carried over from Before the Awakening. He does a lot of the dirty work, begrudgingly, while also not having the close combat skills of the others. He is close to Finn and less popular among the higher-ups. I modeled him after Pip Andersen, who played him in TFA, but made him look like he is Chiss.

Actinide, the Melee Specialist of Lyse Squad, modeled after FN-2099. He’s strongly loyal to the Galactic Union, and he is both the most difficult to break and eager to fight. Aside from that, he does focus greatly on the safety of the others in Lyse Squad, and is against killing people. He is modeled after Liang Yang, who played him in TFA, instead of his BtA appearance, which made him look like a Weasley.

Cypher, the Medic of Lyse Squad, modeled after FN-2000. Honestly, there isn’t too much to go off from BtA, and he didn’t show up in TFA. Appearance is from BtA.

Quickdraw, the Pilot of Lyse Squad, from the X-Wing miniatures game, which somehow made its way into canon. She’s a zabrak. Again, nothing to go by. (Moth)

Considering Mandalorian Finn is such a popular fan theory, I wonder if this new Mandalorian TV series has anything to do with him. Who knows, maybe the person under the mask in that first screenshot is one of his parents!

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I don’t have much hope of that, personally, but if Mandalorian Finn is at least hinted at I’ll be happy.

Prepare for more Rey parentage theories and Finn to once again be ignored. Y’all know they’re coming. 

If it’s true that Pablo Pascal is the Mandalorian people are going to be saying he’s Rey’s dad 😂

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Rose taking comfort under fire in the fact that if she and Paige die, they die together

(Consider everything in the notes a potential spoiler)

Oh wow, this book has actual, proper grieving scenes for the characters’ losses in battle! Who’d have thought such a thing was possible? Everyone knows this is so hard, even billion-dollar grossing movies have characters grinning like idiots with no one ever shedding a tear after losing of most of their friends and comrades.

That said, who thought it was a good idea to go out and fly the exact same mission again when a TIE fighter had escaped in the previous battle and the enemy was ready for them? Without, say, a fighter escort to fight off the TIEs? If the Resistance couldn’t properly protect their supply ships they should have admitted they were overextended and declined to help any further, or deveoped a different method so the enemy wouldn’t see them coming. You can’t just send out your crew hoping for the best, ffs, especially when this mission was about giving aid to an outside group and was not vital to the Resistance’s work. There was no mention of Atterra being of particular strategic importance to dislodge the First Order.

If the Resistance were at all serious about Atterra, why not go to the Senate? By this point members of the Resistance had seen more than enough to testify before the Senate about the abuses in the Atterra system. Whatever happened to those spy droids in the opening mission? They must have gathered some evidence, as the Resistance who visited the planet must have. They had two real live Atterran witnesses right there!

And let’s say they didn’t go to the Republic because the Senate was willing to let the FO do whatever the fuck they liked in their own territory, blockade entire populations into dying of thirst, dissolve the bodies of their victims in the acid oceans. If so, the Resistance was violating its own mandate and potentially starting a war with the FO. It would have been better to fly humanitarian missions to evacuate the Atterrans instead, because there is no indication the Bravo Rising resistance group could hold territory and keep their supply lines open even if they defeated the FO.

Argh. I like the worldbuilding and character development in this book but the story makes no sense once you really look at it.

Rose thinking she’d rather blow herself and Paige up than let either of them be taken by the First Order

Also let it be known for the record that you have not lived until you have heard Loan Tran doing a British accent.

Oh, these kids. They’re going to kill me. They devise a new plan on their own because their commanders didn’t, and now they’re flying into the very space where they lost their comrades, eager to do the job and win it. These beautiful, doomed young people at war.

I so, so wish Paige and Finn had gotten to meet. Finn would have had so much to contribute to the bomber squadron, and he and Paige would have hit it right off with their strategic brilliance and penchant for gamebreaking ideas. I can see why Rose latched on to Finn so hard: he and Paige are a lot alike, and he could brainstorm with Rose much like she used to do with Paige. The execution is so much better in Cobalt Squadron, though. In TLJ it was just bewildering, while Paige’s plan was presented very clearly and excitingly in the book.

thelastjedicritical:

There should absolutely be some mysterious reason why Rey can’t kill Kylo. She can knock him out, defeat him for the moment but she can’t end him. And the only one who can should be Finn. and NO it’s not bc Rey’s in love with Kylo, you nasties, it should all be some crazy  Force related mumbo jumbo!

Rey’s the Zuko in this narrative, at least in that narrow sense–Zuko passed on a clear chance to kill his asshole father Luke Ozai, saying that was Aang’s job as the Avatar. Rey herself in the novelization knew that it was not the will of the Force that she kill Kylo Ren (and no, she felt nothing for him lol). It would be cool if Finn is the Aang in this scenario who has the legitimacy and the will of the Force behind him to end Kylo Ren–or better yet, pull an actual Aang and strip the asshole of his Force powers. Remember how I keep raving about how Finn might be Force immune? Imagine if he could turn that on its head and take away another Force user’s powers…

jewishcomeradebot:

Me going off on twitter about how much I hate the “Finn is too well adjusted to be traumatized” shit.

Transcript:

God I hate the “too well adjusted to be traumatized/an abuse survivor” argument. Apart from the clear racist bias there I hate it because it dismisses any survivor who’s coping mechanisms aren’t overtly destructive or self-destructive.

Just because Finn’s coping mechanisms doesn’t involve throwing tantrums, assaulting or screaming at people, doesn’t mean he doesn’t display clear coping with trauma, or that he isn’t traumatized by what the FO did to him or that he grew up in a very abusive environment.

For one thing he’s clearly compartmentalizing the hell out of his life and he also seems to use goal orientation as a coping strategy to avoid dealing too much with the chaos that is inside of him. But that chaos and his emotions does overflow at times.

But then he’s right back to coping again. Every time one of his goals are achieved he tries to pick up a new one. It is so damn obvious. And yes it helps move him (and the plot) along, but that’s because he is in action oriented situations so far.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t coping mechanisms and that these might become bad in the long term. It could be interested to see what Finn ‘sans goal’ for a lengthy period would do to deal. We’ve already seen him when his compartments bled and how that makes him panic.

But non-destructive coping mechanisms – self or otherwise – doesn’t mean “well adjusted”, doesn’t mean “not traumatized” or “less traumatized”. It just means “the way this person copes fits their current situation, but that doesn’t minimize the pain and trauma they’ve suffered”

I could easily have continued here because Finn displays far more than just this. But I felt my twitter novel was long enough and I hate the character limit on that platform.

So yeah, apart for the obvious racist bias in the argument in displaying a complete lack of ability to emphasize with a Black man’s pain, people who do this have also just dismissed every single “good survivor” out there who’s coping mechanisms aren’t openly maladjusted.

But to reiterate. Coping in ways that aren’t overtly damaging to self or others doesn’t mean a person was less abused or is less suffering/was less harmed/is less in pain from what they were put through. It just means that they’ve found coping strategies that aren’t openly harmful to others and not immediately harmful to themselves either.

Though Finn’s methods of compartmentalizing and picking goals to avoid dealing with his emotional chaos and pain can easily long term come back to bite him in the ass and become maladjusted and harmful. But for the time being they have helped him along rather than hindered him.

And you know, that’s what coping evolves to do. Help you in a situation where everything is fucked up.

themandalorianwolf:

A Stormtrooper Rebellion is important

I love animals and I believe in equality and fair treatment for all living things, but the fact that enslaved Troopers who were stolen from their families at a young age takes no priority, not only with the movies but with the fandom as well, disturbs me.

People actually watched Finn confess that him and fuck knows how many more were taken from their families and forced into a terrorist organization.

I’ve seen many people say “Finn doesn’t seem too broken up about.” Newsflash, asshole! Every single Trooper since the Clone Wars was trained to ignore any feelings and focus on the objective at hand and the First Order Stormtroopers were trained by the complete monster Brendol Hux who wanted to copy the Clone Troopers way of training the FO’s future soldiers. Just because Finn refused to fire on surrendering, crying, defenseless civilians, doesn’t mean he’s not going to defend himself against people trying to kill him or drag him back to that hell.

Worst of all Finn, and many other Troopers like him, wanted to be good soldiers in the FO’s army. What broke Finn was the senseless murder of innocent life, not because he cared about the New Republic, it’s because he hadn’t been brainwashed into a monster yet.

The Stormtroopers were either taken from their homes at a young age, born into it the First Order, or were blindly recruited young from horrible living conditions.

If there is any victims on the side of the First Order, it’s the Stormtroopers that everyone from the writers to the fandom treat as canon fodder, even though the co-protagonist of the sequel trilogy was a Stormtrooper.

It’s not just animals, either. They’re talking about DROID liberation in the franchise now and still no peep about Stormtroopers.

It’s almost like someone that has been abused their whole life might have sympathy with murder victims of their abusers. How is Finn unrealistic? Like you said, there is precedence for this in the real world. And if this is the one weak reason they have for not liking Finn, but they find remorseless privileged school-shooter Kylo Ren compelling, I have to think there’s something else driving the dissonance, even if it’s unintentional. (Moth)

Yeah it’s interesting how there’s always a reason to find Finn boring, unsympathetic, and unrealistic. He’s too perfectly good or too violently bloodthirsty, too childishly naïve or too aggressively sexual, too emotionally healthy to be realistic or too emotionally broken to be romantic (not with Rey, that is–because evidently Rose is perfectly safe with a creepy obsessive stalker). If there’s one thing I’ve learned in fandom it’s that a Black character will never be good enough for fandom, often for wildly contradictory reasons.