Tag: space fights

politicalpadme:

au where Anakin is Mace Windu’s padawan

Anakin bit his lip, afraid to ask, but needing to know. “Master? Why didn’t you want me to be a Jedi?”

Mace gave the boy, his student for nearly a year, a measured look. “I was afraid.”

“Of me?” Anakin’s voice trembled despite his best efforts. Master Windu wasn’t afraid of anything. “What’s wrong with me?”

Mace shook his head. “You reminded me of someone I didn’t want to remember.”

Anakin looked at the floor, his shoulders tight with anger, fear, shame, and his determination not to show them. “A Sith,” he guessed.

Mace placed a hand on his wayward padawan’s shoulder. “Myself,” he explained. “Before I learned to trust the Force.”

Anakin raised wide eyes to his master’s, flashing with a hundred questions, but he could articulate none. Mace pat his shoulder, once, and let go.

“You will be a Jedi. I promise.”

jewishcomeradebot:

“Kylo Ren doesn’t have a clear and obvious motive, that makes him badly written!”.

No sorry, Kylo does have a clear and obvious motive. He wants power and control. That was clear in TFA and TLJ only underscored it.

Listen, I’m sorry it’s not the sympathetic motive you want him to have, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

I’m really flabbergasted at even Kylo’s detractors being this bad at character analysis. It’s almost like white villains have to have some sympathetic reason for doing what they do and not just want to rule because they think it’s their right.

But you know what? A lot of white people are just like that. So not only is Kylo nuanced with this, he’s entirely realistic. Possibly a bit too realistic for most people.

I think a lot of it is cultural Christianity at work, coupled with the expectation that Star Wars has to be a story of redemption. I ran across a site called Catholic Moral Theology openly wringing its hands, post-TFA, that Ren’s evil did not seem to be of the sort that admitted to redemption (link). Instead of extrapolating a story that fits the character they were putting the cart before the horse, deciding SW had to be about redemption and viewing the character through that lens. Which is hilarious, because who says the ST villain has to go the same route as the OT villain? Or that the ST is still a Christian story at all? Not to mention, the comparison itself is off because we knew nothing of Vader’s motives in the OT anyway.

The above is example is blatant about its religious viewpoint but we see the same thought process all the time in fandom, with fans constantly saying SW is about redemption and straight up making shit up about the character to make him seem redeemable. I think that’s what really troubles a lot of people about Ren; it’s not that he is incomprehensible, it’s that he seems unsalvageable.

thatscanvengerey:

sapphicsabine:

tbh (taking about reylo again lmao) ive never seen a fandom like. use quotes said to other characters to support their ship? like… they’ll be like “see she’s talking to/looking at finn but she’s REALLY thinking about kylo” with no evidence and it’s just… bizarre

Have you seen the hot takes where they use Finn’s lines to Rey (such as, “You looked at me like no one ever as”) and claim that once those words are spoken between Rey and Kylo, no one can dispute their love then?

I would like to thank them personally for confirming canon finnrey

disturbanceinthefrost:

Where are these antis who go “ewww sex” and deny that Rey could have sexual desires??  Like seriously where? I don’t think I’ve ever seen an anti talk like that about Rey.  We don’t think she’s sexually attracted to Kylo but that doesn’t mean we think she’s incapable of being sexually attracted to anyone. 

Hell most of us who are FinnReys think that Rey totally wants to jump Finn right in this scene here:

And since when

is Kylo

the only one

she’s initiated 

physical contact with?

In their minds Rey having desires or initiating physical contact doesn’t count unless it’s with Kylo.