Tag: rey

pentapoda:

Since I’m traveling, no digital art, but please enjoy Star Wars sketch night. Featuring:

  • What if that jacket was available at the Space equivalent of the Gap,
  • Rey telling training stories, 
  • Rey loving food almost as much as she loves Finn, and 
  • Rey giving everyone a piggyback because of that adorable picture with Daisy Ridley and Mark Hamill

what she says: i’m fine
what she means: mohawk actress kawennáhere devery jacobs got a callback for rey in the force awakens and it would’ve been so incredible to have an indigenous actress playing a LEAD in one of the biggest franchises in the world but instead they cast Another White Girl™ and i am so fucking bitter about star wars being INCAPABLE of casting women of colour

diversehighfantasy:

Some things that will likely happen in TLJ that the fandom doesn’t want to talk about:

Rey will miss Finn, especially if Luke doesn’t accept her at first. She’s going to worry if he’s OK and will want to find him again, as she said she would at the end of TFA.

Finn will resist going on the mission because he just wants to find Rey.

Both of them will decide they need to do what they need to do before they can be together again.

Finn and Rey’s Reuinion will be beautiful.

If they are separated again, they will vow to find each other yet again, to always come back for one another.

Their love story won’t be the main focus of TLJ, but it will continue to build.

Finn loves Rey and Rey loves Finn, and that’s not going to disappear because it’s inconvenient.

Rey and Kylo will have a connection, either by blood or the Force itself; Rey will likely see that Kylo still has light in him. Kylo is likely on a road to redemption.

Rey still loves Finn.

If your reaction to the above is “I don’t see it” or “I don’t ship them” then congratulations, you just played yourself because nothing in the op even has to be read romantically (although by cultural convention such devotion often does signify romance). You’re admitting that it’s not about shipping preference, you just don’t want to admit that Rey and Finn love each other, as friends, family, lovers or anything else and that their love is central to the sequel trilogy. And that is a big fucking problem.

jakkus-storyteller:

There is just WAY too much focus on making Finn a comedic sidekick and this caused viewers to forget or flat out not acknowledge Finn’s awesome backstory and capability in the Force Awakens novel. 

After watching Forces Of Destiny: Tracker Trouble, I was really put off at how Finn was written. Finn was raised within the confines of the First Order, under the the watchful eye of Captain Phasma herself…he would never just snatch something suspicious off the wall and it’s just so ridiculously out of character. Finn is not a bumbling idiot and him being dumbed down to prop up Rey is just gross.

This is a problem I have with a lot of the storytelling in FoD, with characters, generally non-human ones, being intentionally portrayed as helpless as a quick way to help the leads shine. If it’s a random passerby or child, fine, at least there’s story justification, but this plot device gets noticeably clunky when someone like Chewie gets damselled. Given the nexus between non-human characters and people of color in media maybe it’s not surprising that Finn would be the first human male to get this treatment, but yeah, it sucked.