#100daysoffinn

[saviourfinn]

We can be heroes everywhere we go We can have all that we ever want Swinging like Ali, knocking out bodies Standing on top like a champion

[the-bi-writer-blog]

for @finnmurdershux and @swrebelfinn‘s 100 Days of Finn 

Insp 1 | Insp 2 

[proudtoehaver]

Now that we know that Finn will face off against Phasma in what looks like the hangar of Snoke’s capital ship the Supremacy, I found something interesting in the teaser trailer.

Here’s Finn igniting his baton:

Here they are fighting:

And here’s a shot of Phasma walking out of the darkness leading a group of Stormtroopers from the teaser trailer:

In the teaser this part is cut together with a shot of the burning building Luke is kneeling in front of, making it look like this scene and that is connected but on closer inspection it looks all wrong.

Look at the curved bit with the metallic reflection in the upper left corner and the debris on the ground, it looks nothing like Luke’s burning building. But it looks a lot like the hangar in the fight scene.

So Phasma doesn’t arrive alone to take on Finn and what’s more the hangar is already burning when she and her troopers do. Someone has already destroyed it.

What’s more, these Stormtroopers with Phasma cannot be the only ones there.

This Stormtrooper behind Finn is interesting because he’s shooting a TIE fighter. 

So the two possibilities seems to be that: A) He’s one of Phasma’s loyal Stormtroopers and someone has taken over the TIE and are helping Finn bust up the hangar. In which case we must be looking at a major infiltration by the Resistance, but do they even have the personnel to commit to such an action? In TFA they looked very understaffed and not at all equipped for such large scale infiltration. Not to mention that this mission seems to consist of Finn, Rose Tico and the mysterious DJ.

B) He’s a Stomrmtrooper that, like Finn, has turned against the First Order.

Now this is much more in thread with what we already has hints off about Finn’s storyline. And it makes sense of his lines from one of the other TV spots:

“I was raised to fight. For the first time, I had something to fight for.”

Lines that clearly comes late in the movie given how he’s dressed.

What he has found to fight for is freedom. Not just his own, but the freedom of all those infants that the First Order stole and indoctrinated. For all the children that the world forgot and who grew up into people that the galaxy tries to forget about as well, at least that they are people.

[lj-writes]

The trouble with the Light Side, and Finn as the Balance

What happens when you’re told, “Don’t think about the elephant?” Chances are, you’ll immediately think of an elephant.

I think that’s the problem with the Light Side of the Force as we have known it: So many of the doctrines and practices of the LS, such as the Old Jedi way of not forming attachments, are premised on resisting the temptations of the Dark Side.

If your goal is not to  turn Dark, then what are you going to be thinking about? The Dark Side. This is why puritanism of all stripes is destined to fail, because it’s consumed more with what it’s against (sex! rock ‘n roll! murder!) than what it’s for (eh, love and peace I guess?).

Anakin Skywalker’s story from the prequel trilogy is a prime example of this in the Star Wars saga, walking backwards into the one place you were determined not to go. Intentionally or not, the prequels were an indictment of the Jedi way.

I think similarly, trying not to turn to the Light Side has a polarizing effect on those who turn to the Dark Side of the Force. You can see this with Kylo Ren in the new trilogy, thinking too hard about how not to go Light and then running to bugfucking extremes in the other direction.

The results of such extremism, in turn, are so horrific that the other side becomes understandably all the more preoccupied with, you know, NOT BEING THAT HELL NO and, again, being more anti-Dark than anything else. This doesn’t make the LS morally equivalent to the DS, but it does mean that LS practitioners can fall into the trap of puritanism.

Going to extremes seems to be a major theme of the upcoming movie, The Last Jedi, and Adam Driver who plays Kylo Ren has discussed mass murder committed by “both sides” (maybe this is his character’s perspective, I don’t agree with it) and how he took inspiration from the absolute moral certainty of terrorists in playing his character. Since director Rian Johnson has repeatedly said the movie will showcase moral ambiguity, it’s a safe bet that we’ll see the good guys go to extremes, too, something we have also seen in Rogue One.

We can reliably tell where many of the characters old and new fit into this increasingly polarized galaxy: Leia, Poe, Holdo, Rose, Paige, and others on one side, Snoke, Kylo Ren, Phasma, and Hux on the other.

Other characters, on the other hand, stand in notable contrast to the characters whose allegiances are well known. Luke, the character we thought was the Rebel to end all Rebels and the Jediest of them all, not only stayed away for years but still seems reluctant to join the fight. Rey is definitely Resistance-allied, but is still trying to find her place in all this.  “DJ,” a new character, is a cynical outsider who’s only in it for the creds.

Then there’s Finn, who has been in and rejected the First Order and fought alongside the Resistance, but as of the beginning of TLJ is not a committed fighter. Like Luke, he’s wounded from past experience; like Rey, he’s still figuring himself out after his life was turned upside down; and like DJ, he has cause to be cynical of causes in general, something I have previously discussed.

In a universe of absolutes Finn stands out with the other uncommitted characters for his refusal, at first, to choose a side. Turning against the First Order does not mean he automatically chose the Resistance, though he has worked with them.

Interestingly, for someone who rejected absolute evil he seems to have very little to prove. He’s not obsessed with trying not to be evil, or with trying to be good by fighting evil. He suffers the undeserved shame of the abused, but he’s not consumed by it. He doesn’t beat himself up over killing Stormtroopers to defend himself or wonder if that makes him as bad as them, a lack of self-flagellation that some fans have criticized him for. He doesn’t agonize over whether he might be a bad person for lying to the Resistance so he could go back for Rey.

Finn is, in other words, the opposite of a puritan. He refuses to do evil, and that’s enough. He’s not consumed by the thought of it. He tries to be good to the people he meets and distrusts causes and grand theories.

Finn is most definitely not Dark Side, but he’s also not the Light Side as we’ve come to understand it, an anti-Dark puritanism. His allegiance, I believe, is to the Balance as near as I understand it, a goodness that is defined by what it supports, not what it opposes, a space that has room for human ambiguity and fallibility without fear of turning to irrevocable evil.

It’s significant to me that right after his arguably most morally questionable and admirably badass decision was revealed--that he had lied to the Resistance to come get Rey--Finn immediately brings up the Force to a livid Han.

Sure, it may read like a funny deflection, but think about the juxtapositions here: At this moment, we know Finn lied to the Resistance to walk into the heart of the First Order in an act of selfless love. He rejected an evil authority in the most final terms possible but also showed himself not to be following the authority that stands against it. Finn is beholden to no one, standing between all the lines, standing for nothing but the purest love and courage, as he invokes the Force. And he does so in a humorous way, like the trickster figure he is.

This is why I like the Stormtrooper uprising theory so much for Finn’s story, and why I believe it’s the cause that he found to fight for. Finn is not going back to the First Order other than to kick their collective butts across the galaxy (hi, Phasma!). But what does the Resistance mean to him? They stand against the First Order, true, which is why he’s worked with Leia and Poe and the others.

The Resistance is, however, also a Republic-affiliated organization, and what is the Republic to him? If he was ever a Republic citizen, it was by chance of birth and it certainly means very little to him now. This is something I also touched on in my Cassian meta and my Finn and Rey parallels meta, that the forgotten children like Finn and Rey, much like Cassian before them, were essentially failed by the Republic. The Republic is not the Empire or the First Order, sure, but it has to mean something other than that massively low bar.

Finn and his friends can fight the First Order and win. But what comes next? They know what they’re against. What are they for? Without answering that question they will fall into the same elephant trap as traditional Light Side practices, and of the Republic itself. In their shadow loom the Dark Side and Empire.

If there’s one thing we know Finn has always stood for, it’s the freedom and dignity of every individual. That’s why he refused to fire on the villagers in Tuanul. That’s why he escaped at the risk to his own life, and why he meant to flee to the ends of the known universe, to be free. That’s why he came back for Rey.

That is why, I believe, he will find a cause to fight for in the freedom of other Stormtroopers like himself. It’s a cause greater than himself, greater than Rey, and to him, greater than the First Order or the Resistance or the Republic or anything else. He is likely to ally with the Resistance again so far as their goals match his, but much as in Act 3 of TFA, except on a greater scale, he may not concern himself with loyalties or scruples other than his own true North.

He might not always be squeaky clean in the process, either. He could be ruthless. He could be violent. He could be dishonest. He has proven himself capable of all of this in the past.

What he will always be is committed, not to being Not Evil or a perfect vision of Good, but to being free. And he will realize, I think, that he cannot be free alone. His journey to freedom was always with others, from the moment Slip’s death marked him forever, to having to free Poe first to get away, to realizing he could not be free while Rey was in captivity, and finally, I hope, to seeing that others who were abducted and enslaved like he was must also be free.

This is what the Balance could mean for Finn’s story: not two opposing sides locked in extremes, not a cynical equivalence or sophistic compromise between the two, but a moral code that has meaning outside of what it is not. Now that is a code worth living and dying for.

[nyios]

Finn and Rey holding hands

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[twisterss]

Answering The Call

I’ll keep this short because I’m in the midst of writing a fanfic exploring this but I wanted to talk about this image a little bit. Here we have a child gazing up at Finn in adoration - in open hero-worship. This isn’t surprising for any of us who’ve been keeping up with TLJ promo. “Everyone in the space, throughout the galaxy, would have heard about… the young former Stormtrooper who helped save the day,” Boyega says. “He’s a hero…,”. As this ill-titled EW article says, Finn has much of the galaxy and quite a bit of the resistance who view him as heroic. TLJ is supposed to explore whether Finn sees himself as a hero and what he plans to do about that. Now I know that I’ve read a lot about how Rose will help sway Finn into accepting his heroism, but I think that this sort of image hints on what will actually compel Finn into answering The Call. Finn knows what people want to hear and what people expect of him. He tells Poe what he believes a resistance pilot would want to hear when he breaks him out of the FO. He tells Rey what she wants to hear after she attacks him on Jakku. So if Rose needs Finn to seem heroic - he’s more than capable of giving that to her. This doesn’t mean he’s dishonest of course. He grew up in the FO so it’s logical for him to understand what someone expects of him and live up to those expectations - his life depended on that. But at the end of the day Finn sticks to certain expectations as long as they serve his end goal. He was a brave resistance member for Rey until he found the perfect opportunity to hop on a ship and get out of the FO’s dangerous path. I think Finn probably keeps working within the resistance until he is faced with a chance to make a clean break. I don’t think he would abandon them if they needed him for a mission, especially because there are people he cares about now within the resistance. But if Finn saw an opportunity to make a life for himself outside of this all consuming war - who would blame him? I don’t think he would blame himself because at the end of the day his actions were not motivated by saving the galaxy but by saving himself and the people he cares about. So when he sees the impact he’s made first hand, when he sees this child staring up at him with a smile and wonder in his eyes - I think that is when he will answer The Call. When he see’s the impact of his personal decisions on a larger group of people - not the people in the resistance (whose whole lives revolve around this galactic war) - I think that will put into perspective exactly how important he is & how much of a hero he can be if he chooses to be one. 

[classic-vision]

Finnrey Short: College Dorm Studying

@swrebelfinn

Rey’s head was pounding as she starred at the page in her textbook while Finn kept making noise pressing all the buttons on his video game in front of the tv. Rey tried to keep reading until she finally had enough.

“Ugh! This is impossible.” she complained.

“I know! The Warriors are seriously over powered this year.” Finn said from the couch gripping his controller tighter.

“Finn..”

“I mean all they do is shoot 3s!” Finn continued. “And it’s an automatic basket every time. How am I supposed to win?”

Rey threw her pen down and walked over to the couch and snatched the controller out of Finn’s hands. She pressed a serious of buttons and won the game. “There. Happy?” she asked frustrated.

Finn sat stunned starring at the tv. “You made them miss. Was that some kind of cheat code?”

“Yeah, it’s called defense” Rey said, tossing him the controller.

Finn shook his head. “No way. You had to have done something.” he said spinning the controller around analyzing it.

Rey flopped down at the table exhausted from studying. “Baby, help me.”

Finn sighed. “Rey, this isn’t that bad.” he said walking over to her.

“Pfft. Says you.” Rey said. “The only thing you have to worry about is whether you’ll graduate Summa or Magna Cum Laude. Meanwhile us normal kids are just out here trying to pass.”

Finn smiled and put his hand on her shoulder. “You’re a lot smarter than you think. You always over stress and end up doing well.”

“Well I feel a lot less stress if you help me.”

“Alright let’s take a look.”

____________________________________

Rey closed the text book with delight. “You’re way better at teaching than the professor.”

“Feel better?” Finn asked.

“Much.”

“So” Finn said leaning in. “You up for a study break?”

“On one condition.” Rey leaned in.

“What’s that?” he asked.

“I get the Warriors.”

[wet-raccoon]

Animal Lover Finn

HC that Finn has a thing with animals. 

As a cadet in the stormtrooper program, he would excel in the Terran survival missions. When asked how he did it he said he simply followed the small prey animals around to see where they gathered food and to see what was actually safe for consumption. Attempts at copying his method, however, was often met with failure as the small animals would run and hide at the mere sight of a stormtrooper before anyone could follow them anywhere.

Once there was an outbreak of Moraband serpents on Starkiller. Per Orders from the supreme leader, they were not to be harmed in any way. Of course that didn’t stop the serpents from leaving a trail of blood and dead bodies. They were finally subdued when a small group of FN-21XX designated stormtroopers managed to stop and contain the serpents without harming them. The group of troopers were then known as the ‘sanitation’ crew for their uncanny ability to clean up after the dangerous and often deadly animals the Supreme Leader would bring in.

The day after FN-2187′s betrayal, the crew had their first ever trouble containing a simple Nexu outbreak.

Remember that Rathtar that attacked them? It sensed the thread of anxiety from Finn and came to the conclusion that one of it’s own needed to be rescued.

While recovering from his coma, Finn would often go for walks along the edge of the resistance base. He once made the mistake of feeding some of the animals that came out of the forest and now the sight of friendly ash rabbit running around the base has become a regular occurrence. Leia would be mad, but they did help with the morale of shell shocked fighter pilots. 

After the big battle against the FO, after peace has finally been achieved, Finn is often seen with his own therapy cat. A fluffy companion who would calm him down when he has a nightmare, or bring him back to the present if he has that far away look in his eyes. 

Contrary to popular belief, Finn did not adopt his friend from any shelter. He met the stray kitten when salvaging a devastated planet. It saw something in him it liked and simply followed him home. 

[3piox]

“one person, at the right place, at the right time, can change the face of the galaxy”

now, first off, force sensitive finn is Good Content™ because he’s the first time in the movies that these iconic troopers are given a face, and having him be force sensitive is another facet which shows his connection to the universe at large & the humanity that no amount of horrific treatment could steal from him because he is fundamentally an individual who is bigger than himself because of all he represents

(i’m thinking, too, about it being established that finn excelled as a trooper, that he had talents, that you can’t hide these things. how much the death of a fellow trooper shakes him. that the rebels trust him because he reflects the humanity in everyone -- the force is just a further metaphor for that)

mr finn skywalker tho? takes it another step further because we have watched all these movies about keeping up with the skywalkers (catch it on E! 8/9c) and each features a young person lifted from obscurity and changing everything. each skywalker inherits the trauma & history of the one before them and it accumulates, it's like poetry, it rhymes, etc. now rey can fit this archetype too and i’m not here to argue about that, i want to focus on how, well --

anakin knew his name, he knew his story, but we see him constantly searching for fatherhood, the missing half of the template that made him? the force, qui-gon, obi-wan, palpatine; he even seeks it in being a father to his own child. he needs a reason for why, some guidance, because he is bigger than his skin and he doesn’t understand it. what made me what i am. a name is not enough for him, which is why it gets torn from him and anakin skywaker dies on mustafar.

luke knew his name, but he didn’t know his story, and he feels something is missing. he’s restless, unfulfilled. like anakin, but it’s even worse. then the truth hits. his aunt and uncle die, ben dies, yoda dies -- luke has no surrogates and has to confront what he has inherited, and redeeming vader is how he shows who he will be, who he is. his story is about believing in the humanity & sense of identity a name provides. 

then comes along finn! finn, who was stolen from his family. finn, who had his name torn from him. finn, who was essentially a slave. finn, who has been fed propaganda stories his whole life to deny him his humanity but chose to seek the truth instead. finn, who should just be another face in the trooper crowd, but broke free because he has a calling. when he does so, he’s given a name, and with it, community, trust, and purpose. he mirrors kylo who knows everything about himself and is thus obsessed with the past & repeating the mistakes of it. rey is also obsessed with her family, and this is what really underlines the value of finn in this narrative role for me because he .... isn’t? like, he knows this is a facet of himself and i’m sure he’d like to know more, but it doesn’t define him. 

finn hasn’t inherited anything.

this would make finn the first skywalker who isn’t defined by their name in some way growing up, and this would be something really new and exciting! because you take this character who was supposed to be a nobody but, well, nobody is a nobody (i know, sorry) and he had no expectations but still ends up inheriting the galaxy & the name that has practically defined it for generations now. he pretty much has anakin’s story, but luke’s compassion -- he takes what came before, but he makes something new.

also like can we just touch on this cuz:

anakin commanded the clones, then later the stormtroopers ...

luke made his mark by killing a ton of troopers, basically ...

... and how interesting it would be for their grandson & son to be a trooper himself?

it shows the continuing consequences of anakin’s generation, and how luke wasn’t wrong to fight but, you know, there’s a person under every helmet, not just the one you happen to know is related to you -- and talk about some further vader/finn parallels there, luke’s father and son both losing who they are under a helmet (and finn being forced into one while kylo chose his) and luke learning about finn could so nicely echo him learning about vader except this time it’s a realization of hope that could help ease the space ireland depression spiral he lives in.

and finn? finn gets answers, but they aren’t easy, which is so compelling. and he brings a unique perspective to a legacy that demands so much -- he reminds us that the skywalker name has never just been about the power, it’s been about finding out who you are and learning what a name really means. how perfect a narrative for someone who starts off his journey not even having a name at all? how important for finn to know he was once loved, and that love can save us? how necessary to show the power of choice, and how much impact finn’s will have? 

i want all of this! i want finn skywalker! i want to talk about the skywalker name originating (for us) from a slave woman who feared her son having her life, and how finn shows that even growing up in those circumstances will never be able to destroy your humanity because he matters and he can be someone! *deep breath* finn skywalker. 

[saviourfinn]

Vampires

for @finnreyfridays inspired by this amazing moodboard by @jakkus-storyteller

also available on ao3

Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. It’s weird because you got it fixed at the repair shop last week, but maybe the mechanics weren’t as honest as they seemed to be. You sigh. Night is falling, and there’s only sand around you. You pull out your phone and consult Google Maps: thankfully, there’s a motel near your position. You start walking.

The neon sign of the Americana Motel is flickering in the dark like a broken beacon. You enter. There’s no one at the counter. You look around you, taking in your surroundings: the motel has clearly seen better days, but at least it seems clean. You look back at the counter, and startle. There’s a man standing behind the counter, smiling at you. You didn’t see nor hear him walk in – you must be really tired.

The man is young, in his early twenties, and distractingly handsome. His dark, smooth skin reflects the dim light of the hall, and his plumps lips make butterflies dance in your stomach. There’s something sharp about him, but you can’t pinpoint it – sharp eyes, sharp smile, sharp mouth? The white of his teeth gleams when he licks his lips, and maybe his canines seem a little too long, but you’re too mesmerized to pay attention.

“Welcome to the Americana Motel. How can I help you?”

His voice is deep and velvety, and you take a step forward without really meaning to. You realize you’ve been staring when the man tilts his head and stares back. His eyes are pitch black. The image of a panther comes to your mind, you don’t know why – maybe because the breathtaking man in front of you acts like one, with the way he studies you with a focused yet ravenous expression.

“Hello?” he inquires again, a tint of amusement coloring his voice.

You suddenly remember how to talk.

“Uh, yes! Sorry. My car suddenly broke down a mile away, and I was hoping to spend the night here.”

“Seems like it’s your lucky day. We have plenty of rooms available.”

He takes a key off the board behind him and places it in your hand. You’re too entranced by the way his fingers brush against your palm to notice the unsettling details – how his hand is as cold as ice, how the board full of keys and the motel’s empty parking lot mean that you’re probably the only client in the building.

“What is your name?” you stutter, transfixed.

The man smiles slowly, a weird smile with all lips and no teeth.

“Finn.”

You don’t notice the fact that he doesn’t ask your name in return.

“My colleague is upstairs, she will take you to your room. Have a most pleasant evening.”

You’re too heartbroken by the realization that you can’t stare at him for the rest of the evening to notice that he hasn’t asked you to pay. You climb the stairs.

You’re on the first floor. The corridor is narrow and as dimly lit as the hall. It’s empty.

“Hello.”

You jump and turn around. There’s a young woman standing on the last step of the staircase. You didn’t hear her come up. She’s as gorgeous as her colleague, albeit in a totally different way. Her nonchalant attitude – leaning against the wall, hands in the pockets of her jeans – contradicts the way she carries herself, taut like a bow ready to shoot. Silky brown hair frame her delicate face, and her skin is pale to the point of having a bluish tinge. Just like Finn’s, her eyes are so black that it seems to absorb light instead of reflecting it – it should scare you, but instead you find it fascinating.

“Is everything okay?” the woman asks.

It seems that your transfixed silence is the answer she wanted. Her lips, oddly pink compared to her chalky complexion, stretch into a knowing smirk as she looks you up and down. Whereas the young man looked like a panther, this woman reminds you of a wolf – all sharp teeth and barely contained hunger, violence humming under tense muscles. Yes, sharp – you realize just now that her canines are abnormally long, peaking out of her mouth and pressing against the flesh of her lips. You should be scared, and yet you only want to come closer.

“Rey, how come you haven’t taken our guest to their room yet?”

Finn’s smooth voice comes from behind you, and you have no idea how he managed to get there without you seeing him. But the scariest thing is not his sudden appearance – it’s the fact that you don’t feel any terror, or even a mild apprehension at the sight of two people with razor-sharp fangs cornering you in a narrow hallway, looking like predators about to devour their prey.

[the-bi-writer-blog]

100 Days of Finn | Day 95: Finn/Luke Parallels | based on this |

[proudtoehaver]

The Phasma novel tells us that the children the FO takes for the Stormtrooper forces are the forgotten children in the world. They’re orphans, abandoned or the children of those so disenfranchised that they cannot protect their children and the FO takes them. 

This got me thinking about Jedha and the Jedhan diaspora - you're never going to convince me that part of Jedhan culture and people didn't survive. They would have been very vulnerable to be preyed upon having perhaps no real home and it's likely the New Republic would have forgotten all about them. 

So... Finn as the son of some of Jedha's survivors, taken because they had no means to protect him, to keep the FO at bay. Who finds out where he comes from, about all that his people have suffered. That not only did the original Empire destroy his people’s home - first by oppression and stripping it of its resources, then scouring its surface in a test of the original Death Star - but that the First Order then saw fit to target them again, to take their children, their future.

Finn eventually returning to them after the war, with some of the other freed Stormtroopers - some who have Jedhan family too and some who just don’t know where else to go - both angry at what his people suffered, but also shy and uncertain of what reception they’ll get.

The Jedhan diaspora has done what Jedha has always done, survived in the face of the impossible, overcome adversity and though they never forgot their pain or those they had lost, determined to prosper all the same.

Finn and the former Stromtroopers being received with joyous welcome, as long lost Jedhan even the ones who had no family ties. (One part of Jedhan culture was that any who came and settled permanently, who learned the ways of Jedha, was seen as being as Jedhan as any who was born there).

Finn finally seeing his family, for the first time in his memory. Meeting his mother and father and grandparents, all his sister - who had been deemed too old for indoctrination and that was what saved them - and his younger brother, born after the Jedhans learned how to hide their children.

His family hugging and kissing him, and him hugging and kissing them in turn, all of them crying with joy of finally being reunited.

Finn learning the ways of the Force the Jedhan way, which is varied and manifold. Where you find the path that fits you, instead of being forced to fit the path set before you. 

Finn finally finding home.

[lj-writes]

War Heroes

They may have been evil, but they were very, very good. Finn studied all the historic battles over and over again as part of his training, told about the Empire’s mistakes and how the First Order would avoid them.

He studied the Rebels’ infiltration of the imperial records depository at Scarif, how a team led by the traitors Bodhi Rook and Jyn Erso, the ruthless assassin and spymaster Cassian Andor, and the cult-bred killers Chirrut Imwe and Baze Malbus infiltrated the installation and destroyed the planet in a deadly suicide mission.

He learned about the Battle of Yavin, where Princess Leia Organa–after all these years still a menace to peace and order–lured the Death Star to the Rebels’ base and an ambush, where Luke Skywalker destroyed the station with one well-placed shot, snuffing out the thousands of lives within.

He read about the Battle of Hoth where the Rebels eluded the Empire’s pursuit yet again, about the Battle of Endor where the Rebellion moved together like the parts of a symphony. Finn found himself glued to the screen as he learned, through reports and surviving archival footage, how the smuggler Han Solo led a ground assault to  disable the Second Death Star’s shields while Admiral Gial Ackbar, at large and a threat like Organa, joined battle in space. All this was only a cover, however, for Luke Skywalker to board the battle station and murder Darth Vader and the helpless Emperor. Criminal kingpin Lando Calrissian finished the job in another act of wanton destruction, an assault so reckless, so foolhardy it should have failed by all rights but somehow succeeded brilliantly.

Finn used his own time to delve deeper into these battles, reading past lights-out until he was caught and got in trouble. He told himself as he dug out a drainage ditch as punishment that he wasn’t getting too deep into the history of the Rebellion, he just wanted to know the enemy so he could beat them this time around.

But by Space, those Rebels were good. It was no wonder a terrorist group had toppled the mighty Empire. If the First Order learned more from their enemies’ tactics it would be unstoppable, and unlike the Rebellion whose puppet government was already crumbling, the Order’s victory would be a lasting one based on justice and the rule of the Supreme Leader.

Nevertheless, the sense of awe at the sheer skill of these terrorists stayed with Finn. That was why, when faced with one of those legends, the smuggler, criminal, the terrorist Han Solo in the flesh, the words burst out as though they had been caught in his throat the entire time:

“Wasn’t he a war hero?!”

[swrebelfinn]

Day 34: Force Sensitive Finn Friday

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[softelesbian]

music lover finn hcs

for day 96 of 100 days of finn @swrebelfinn

 Before Finn joins the Resistance, the only music he had heard was droning marching music that all stormtoopers listened to in order to march in sync. He didn’t even consider it real music since it always repeats itself and feels controlling. 

However, after he joins the Resistance, he is exposed to so many types of music and immediately falls in love with the variety of music that existed. He falls in love when he hears people singing their favorite tunes in the hallway, or when he hears music playing from speakers as people dance along with the rhythm. But most of all, he falls in love when he hears people play musical instruments and sing along with whatever song they play, such as Poe with his guitar. This inspires Finn to learn a musical instrument so that he may be able to play any type of song he wished and embrace the warm feeling of music being created by him. 

Eventually, after months of thinking and listening, Finn decides to learn to play the piano and is granted his wish when Poe saves up his credits to buy one for his birthday. Finn is so ecstatic and uses any free time he has to teach himself how to play the piano and how to listen to the different chords and scales so he can produce the melody he wants. 

He soon becomes a natural at the piano and starts writing his own songs about his feelings, thoughts, and wishes. Everyone becomes such a fan of Finn’s songs that they convince General Organa to host a talent show so Finn could share his music to the entire Resistance. He receives a standing ovation from the entire crew and is showered with compliments, hugs, and requests from fellow members for Finn to teach them the piano.

Music becomes a huge part of Finn after joining the Resistance and he treasures his skills and appreciation of music for the years to come. 

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more muslim!finn hc

Finn first got reintroduced to Islam when he stumbled on a FO pilot praying in a hallway when he was just 6. He hadn’t yet learned to keep his questions to himself and thus when it looked like the pilot was finished, he ran up to them and asked what they were doing. 

“Taking solace in the truth,” 

If Finn hadn’t been standing uncomfortably close to the hunched over pilot he might have missed the murmured answer. Before he could ask what that meant, the pilot stood up from their kneeling position in the unlit hallway and turned to him. Their face was obscured but he was unafraid. He hadn’t yet learned to be afraid. 

“Listen little one. You’re too curious and that’ll either kill you or give you salvation. So think before you do,”

The pilot leaned down until a green piece of cloth brushed against Finn’s face. When he went to push it out of his eyes, his right arm was grabbed and he was violently pulled back until his back hit someones hard knees. 

“How many times do I have to tell you to STAY with you’re unit and stop wondering off?!” came Mr. Klandom’s booming voice. 

His arm. It hurt. And this man was so loud. Finn let out a broken cry and began to shake. He could hear Mr. Klandom and the pilot yelling at one another but it sounded so far away. He was going to get in a lot of trouble today and Slip was going to be even more angry with him. 

“-you think I won’t report you?!” Mr. Klandom yelled.

“You can try but I’ll slit you’re throat before you make it out of this hallway,” came the pilots calm voice. 

Finn felt the grip on his arm loosen and without a second thought, he ripped it out of Mr. Klandoms hands and made a break for it. He heard yelling and a loud thud but he didn’t dare look back. He ran right into his units room and into a seat on the sofa where they were all gathered. He could hear voices again but he just stared straight ahead and ignored them.