Captain…Commander…Trooper. All titles Rex had held in his lifetime.
But never father.
After the battle of Endor, after fighting alongside Solo, Organa, Skywalker, Calrissian, Bey, and Dameron, and watching them all have families, Rex was starting to think that Cut Lawquane was right. Maybe Rex wanted more than just battle.
timd would pass, and Rez would find a good woman, an old friend of Bey’s. She was kind, smart, a soldier like him. Well, not a Clone of a legendary bounty hunter, but damn was she good with a blaster. Eventually the two of them settled down and had twins, a boy and girl.
Everyone from the Damerons to even Ahsoka gave their congratulations. Ahsoka even mentioned that his children could be force sensitive. Imagine that? Clone Trooper Commander Rex, father of Jedi! Kenobi and Skywalker must have been grinning like idiots from the other side.
Unfortunately Rex knew he wouldn’t be able to watch his children grow up due to his accelerated aging. It was something he made peace with long ago and when the time came, Commander Rex had no regrets. He was remembered a hero, and mourned by many.
Kes and Shara offered Rex’s wife to stay with them for awhile to keep her and the kids company, which she accepted of course. Though Shara never came home after picking up the Trooper’s family.
Shara Bey’s ship had been attacked in the Outer Rim while she was on her way back to Yavin 4. Many thought it was raiders, but in reality it had been the First Order.
The twins had been the only survivors of the attack. Both were indoctrinated into the Stormtrooper program, but both were separated and their relation to never be revealed to the children as to avoid conflicting loyalties.
The girl would grow up to eventually gain the rank of Captain at the brink of the Cold War Between the First Order and New Republic. As Captain she was able to name herself. She chose the name Caro.
The boy on the other hand would grow up to become one of the best Stormtroopers in the entire First Order…and their greatest enemy. The boy deflected and joined the Resistance, and he took on the name Finn.
Finn had accepted long ago that he’d never find him family, but after the infiltration of the Supremacy, BB-8 shows Finn his military file from his Stormtrooper days. He had a sister and she was alive!
But he had no idea how he’d find her.
Since joining the Resistance, Finn had dealt with the silent confliction of fighting Stormtrooper. As a soldier, he never hesitated in battles with troopers, because it was them or him, but it all was catching up to him…it was eating away at him. Finn wanted to liberate them, give them the same option he was given.
So against mass protest from Rose, Poe, and especially a worried sick Rey, Finn decided he would go undercover once more in the First Order and not only find and convince his sister to rebel, but he would start a damn uprising. The Stormtroopers would not be the faceless casualties of this war.
He’d save his sister Captain Caro, and all the Stormtroopers, or die trying. Isn’t that what a real good Trooper does? They never leave a soldier behind. At least, that’s what the old holotapes about Clone Trooper Rex said. Finn always admired him and the other clones. Something about them felt… familiar.
(From the start of Chapter 8 in the TLJ novelization)
The TLJ novelization continues to have these little irritating moments. Why would Leia be a mentor to Kes OR Shara? They were similar in age, I think Kes and Shara might actually have been older, and Shara partook in missions along with both Luke and Leia. They outranked her and she took orders from them, certainly, but that’s a far cry from being a “mentor.”
ANYWAY Kes was the ONLY PERSON IN THE REBEL ALLIANCE who Han
100%
respected besides Leia, Chewie, and maybe Luke or Lando depending on the day. Like. If anyone mentored anyone, it would have been Kes mentoring Han.
As for the Confusing Womenfolk who Rilo Totally Respects Because He Wrote A Feminist Film That Absolutely Stands Up To Feminist Critical Readings And Isn’t At All Objectifying, Minimizing, Ridiculous Bullshit –
Shara literally saved Leia’s ass anD THE ENTIRE PLANET OF NABOO. As the only truly battle-trained pilot in the air during the fail-safe kill-switch genocide that Palpatine had set up meant to destroy the entire planetary system, climactically, which, yk, one would think would make it pretty hard to fly.
Like, yes: it seems from Leia’s condolence letter to Kes after Shara’s death that the two families were probably in contact, at least casually (and probably politically, since the Damerons settled on Yavin IV and afaik the main group of colonists who’d settled there prior were the last remaining Alderaanian refugees under Evaan, and Leia probably had interest in how things were going on Yavin IV in general?) but how the FUCK does that suggest either Kes or Shara needed MENTORSHIP?
I adore Leia with my heart and soul, but she… doesn’t share any skillset with either Kes or Shara that they’d look to her for mentorship, unless we’re going to learn about Shara’s life settled on Yavin IV as a junior senator or something, but like, one would… think that in a franchise, we’d’ve… heard that by now… then again, it’s Star Wars and she’s a woman, so. But like??
She isn’t a Pathfinder. She isn’t a fighter pilot.
What does Leia know about ranching??? Like, I GUESS she has experience with agriforming a settlement because of her work resettling the Wobani refugees on Alderaan but again, that would be more between Leia and Evaan than Leia and either Kes or Shara. Kes and Shara are independent ranchers. They’re competent and self-sufficient adult human beings who were married with a kid while Leia was still yelling at Han in icy hallways.
THEY WERE JUST ADULT EQUALS AND AQUAINTA-FRIENDS, DAMMIT.
GODDAMMIT FRYLO (Fry and Rilo Jon, natch).
(From the start of Chapter 8 in the TLJ novelization)
The TLJ novelization continues to have these little irritating moments. Why would Leia be a mentor to Kes OR Shara? They were similar in age, I think Kes and Shara might actually have been older, and Shara partook in missions along with both Luke and Leia. They outranked her and she took orders from them, certainly, but that’s a far cry from being a “mentor.”
As an infant, Poe Dameron barely saw his parents due to the Alliance’s continued operations against the Imperials before and after Endor, as his mother worked as a Rebel pilot for the Alliance’s Green Squadron and his father was a member of the Pathfinders, and Poe was thus left in the care of his maternal grandfather.
Six months after the Battle of Endor, after the Imperial remnant put forward Operation: Cinder, Dameron’s parents left Rebel service to reunite with him, and settled on Yavin 4.
I did a quick bit of mental arithmetic on this, which is tricky because in a lot of cases years are calculated from various character’s ages but without us knowing when in a given year they were born it could all be a bit off.
Even then, the result is… interesting.
We know that the First Order have been raiding planets in the Outer Rim stealing children to raise as soldiers in their forces for a long time. In fact that was part of the original plan hinted at in the Aftermath trilogy and then confirmed in the Battlefront single player part.
Yavin IV is located in the Outer Rim as was probably not well defended being a very newly settled planet after the Galactic Civil War.
Finn is 23 in TFA which takes place about 30 years after RotJ so he would have been born about seven years after RotJ.
We don’t know how old Finn was when the First Order stole him, but if TFA we see a picture of him attached to his file where he is little more than a baby.
Shara dies in year six or seven after the Battle of Endor. (This is where is gets a bit tricky because we have to calculate after how old Poe was when she died and we don’t know what time of the year he’s born, nor which time of the year she died.)
So Shara dies either the year before Finn is born or the same year.
With this it is entirely possible that Finn and his family is from Yavin. Perhaps his parents too are former Rebellion soldier who settled there after the war. That the First Order raided Yavin seven years after the Battle of Endor and stole as many children as they could, Finn being among those children. And that Shara died fighting those raiders back.
okay then consider: Finn and Poe being childhood friends.
Finn has dreams of steamy jungles and being surrounded by green but he doesn’t remember what they’re from or if they’re even based on anything real
Poe always wonders what happened to that little boy whose parents always brought him to the market with them and why did he suddenly remember him now
Bb!Poe helped Shara make churros on rainy days, and they would laugh and sing as they got the batter ready, and Poe would insist that it wasn’t too hot and he could knead it but would blow on his hands when he thought mamá wasn’t looking (of course she was). So Shara would help him and Kes would smile at them from the kitchen doorframe, then the oil sizzling would accompany the drumming of the downpour outside. Then they would set the whole system, Shara pushing the batter out of the churrera, Kes cooking the churros in the oil until they got golden, and then Poe would roll them on sugar to coat them really well.
And then Shara was gone, but they kept the tradition. It was one of the many ways they had to remember her.
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