#Captain Chromium

[ilovenovaartino]

Renegades scenes I would LOVE to see fanart of:

The dinner scene, there is not a single fanart of that scene

The scene after the library one where Hugh hugs Adrian

The scene in the carnival after Nova shoots The Detonator where Adrian says that he’s going to carry Nova to safety and she just slumps in his arms

The moment where Adrian sees Nova walking through the door in the gala and he’s in shock

The scene where Nova helps Max after Frostbite harms him

The scene at the end of the last chapter in Supernova where Nova says “Captain, what would you think if a villain happened to fall in love with your son”

THE OSBY KISS

The trials

[mikodrawnnarratives]

anyone else in the renegades trilogy fandom think abt nova missing her shot at CC in the first book in light of... recent events kljdfskjldsfjkl

[jullsisfangirling]

I just crossed my path with this Heartstopper art and automatically thought about Hugh and Simon

[kbkirtley]

Renegades Series - Marissa Meyer

This was my favorite series I read this year. All my life I’ve looked for superhero novels, but there weren’t really any in the mainstream. And while I’ve learned to enjoy Graphic Novels this past year, I still don’t fall into those the same way I do with books. Finding Marissa Meyer’s Renegades series was such a fun experience for me because of that.

Nova being a villain at the start shifts the perspective of the book and raises a lot of questions as to whether the heroes are actually the good guys. Moving from Renegades to Arch-Enemies to Supernova, Meyer creates a really interesting world of superpowered people and the struggles that go with keeping people safe in such a world, especially when the government is being run by people with powers.

The characters are really where the series shines. Nova/Nightmare/Insomnia and Adrian/Sketch/Sentinel are the two main characters whose perspectives we see. Both of them have secrets that they’re keeping from each other and the Renegades as a whole, leading to much of the tension in the book. They are one of the best pairs I’ve read in YA in a long time and both of their desire to see the Renegades be better than they are is the driving catalyst for the series.

The supporting characters are maybe even more enjoyable. Max/The Bandit is my favorite character in the story. The rest of the team Oscar/Smokescreen, Ruby/Red Assassin, and Danna/Monarch are a delight. The council as a whole is fantastic, but Adrian’s dads Hugh/Captain Chromium and Simon/The Dread Warden, do a ton of the heavy lifting in helping to understand what the Renegades are and what they stand for. The other Anarchists, especially Leroy/Cyanide, help to humanize the other side of the Renegade’s battle and allow for Nova’s story to carry the weight that it does.

The Renegades series is one that I would absolutely recommend and it’s one that gives me hope there is an audience for books like mine!

[afairywithacrown]

everytime they describe captain chromium i just can’t help to think of this guy

[badslittlemuffin]

WHO DID YALL PICTURE FOR THE RENEGADES CHARACTERS?? THIS IS MINE

Hugh Everhart, and also sorta Simon Westwood:

Max Everhart:

and then I realized he was white so I pictured Percy Jackson💀

Honey Harper:

didn't really picture her as Cruella De Vil, it's just her ✨️vibe✨️ was Cruella De Vil

[dementedeagle]

I was watching 1987 Aerobics Championship opening on Youtube and wondered how the fuck those people could dance nonstop like that while smiling ear to ear. Then I suddenly had a thought: this is how Captain Chromium must feel.

IMAGINE HUGH EVERHART BEING BORN IN A WORLD THAT DOESN'T HAVE ANY PRODIGY HATING THING AND HE DECIDES TO TAKE AEROBICS FOR FUN. EVERYONE WOULD LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE NEVER RUNS OUT OF ENERGY AND DOES THE SICKEST MOVES ANYONE HAS EVER SEEN AND HE DANCES IN THOSE CHAMPIONSHIP OPENING DANCES YEAR AFTER YEAR DRESSED IN BLUE OMG

[uinferno]

Another Cosmere Inktober sketch finished. Ignore the fact it's now April and my last one was December and the sketch was done in October. Just look at my take on Cyberpunk Mistborn Hoid.

Day 23 Pitch

[freddycartr]

does anyone have any good simon and hugh fics that are them being domestic?

[sw5w]

This Storm Will Slow Them Down

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 00:37:18

[ilovenovaartino]

Something I find very weird in Renegades is the fact that Nova’s name is not in the report Captain Chromium did about the murder of her family.

I don’t know if it was intentional, if it was a mistake, or if it even has any relevance but I thought it was interesting.

Like, why are the names of dead people in the report but not the name of the missing member? Wouldn’t it help the investigation to know the name of the girl in case someone finds her?

Idk it probably doesn’t have any relevancd but since I noticed it I js wanted to share it.

[mikodrawnnarratives]

I really hope marissa meyer goes somewhere interesting with the parallels Maggie and Max have to Ace Anarchy and Captain Chromium respectively. They also have parallels with Nova and Adrian, and I find that interesting

Ace and Hugh: Polar opposites representing the two sides that are both corrupt in their own ways, yet both have saved and helped people in different ways. Ace helped start change for prodigies, and Hugh (and his friends) allowed Gatlon to have peace

Nova and Adrian: Generation after the first, and have been hurt by both sides in different ways. Both have their lives interconnected when they were six that one night all those years ago. And by the end, they represent a new era of allegedly the two sides joining and having peace, again.

Maggie is so similar to her sister when it comes to her trauma and upbringing. She was an afterthought of the renegades and its clear she's never really had anyone on her side that she connected with. She's been forgotten, similar to her uncle's motivations. She's facing an injustice, and the epilogue implies she's ready to take on the villain mantel. She partially has her uncles powers, and nothing to lose. She's motivated by survival and selfish intentions, the motto and theme of the anarchists. After all, the anarchists started anarchy over injustice, they had to think of themselves after being stepped over for so long

Max has been sheltered his whole life because of his powers. He's strictly been helped by the Renegades and in return, he was used to make a weapon. He's the most selfless character in the series, in contrast to Maggie's selfishness. He doesn't want to hurt others, but in order to not he has to stay sealed away from people. By the end of the trilogy, he almost dies in his most grand selfless act to stop the violence. He ends up with no powers, in return for everyone having powers, and he's honored highly for it. He fits perfectly into the role his father had before him. Hugh had a power that made him almost completely invincible, making him standout from all other prodigies, already a minority of people. Max used to be able to take powers, already unique, but becomes EVEN MORE unique once he's the SOLE person without a power.

It's already implied we're gonna get a romance between the two, given Maggie has a crush on him. They no doubt will have some sort of relationship in the books to come based off of what we've gotten of the two acknowledging each others existence in the Epilogue and Cinder's Adventure:

Epilogue:

Cinder's adventure, which take with a grain of salt cuz the specific events aren't canon:

And I didn't even realize until now, quizzical means:

So jkdfsljkdjsfl probably positive

The trilogy is built off of opposites and their attraction or repellation and I really want to see Marissa Meyer DO something with all this. I want to be PICKING UP what she's PUTTING DOWNN

Personally, I think doing another romance would be in character for Marissa Meyer but i hope she doesn't. At least not how she did Nova and Adrian cuz that would be too samey.

I don't expect them to be confirmed as Aromantic/Arospec and become besties in a qpr

I mean, i wish but

I'd also be interested in if they were doomed. If they could be friends, they almost WERE friends, but it wasn't meant to be. I mean, i wouldn't want a romeo and juliet situation but it would be different

Anyway, if we get a romance between the two then I'd still be so happy if their relationship acknowledged all of this. Theres no way it can go EXACTLY the same because Maggie and Max aren't the same as their siblings or their family members, and they have their own traumas. And I'll be looking forward to their characters being explored too. Like, I am very much LOOKING at this part specifically from Maggie's pov

The emphasis on "no one really noticed Max Everhart before" that intriguesssssssss meee

And it better show up in the book(s) to come

And side note, romantic or not I need trinket duo's relationship to highlight the selfish/selfless dynamic they got going on. Maggie makes Max more selfish, Max makes Maggie more selfless. U get it? God, I want that explored there is so much potential

[kyluxtrashpit]

Behold, my Phasma playlist. I had fun making it.

Oh this is so cool, thanks for sharing it! Some real bangers on there too!

[ilovehugslikealotalot]

The Knight In Shining Chromium (Series)

WARNING: MINORS DNI, mentions of alcohol consumption, threats, mean!phasma, betrayl, slight angst, flufff?, use of ocs, Phasma being tall yk :)

part two

┌───── •✧✧• ─────┐ The Presence of The Captain

└───── •✧✧• ─────┘

sum: after Hux has taken over y/n’s kingdom it’s up to her to try and save her people from the first order and evade a certain shiny armored Captain

(Not proofread)

Y/n rested in her chambers, sitting and reading in her spot on the window seat. A soft pillow sat in her lap whilst she flipped through the page with her nimble fingers. She was relieved to finally have a moment to herself and not be constantly bombarded with the First Order. If only she had trusted her gut and banished her royal advisor, Iris Firestar, then this situation would’ve never happened.

The Kingdom of Kalisto wasn’t in shambles, unlike other planets the First Order had taken over.

The recent invasion of their home was very much traumatizing, they lost many warriors that tragic day. The war was merciless, though, some were spared. Y/n couldn’t forget the moment they had breached the walls of the great Palace and captured y/n and her remaining family, which was her two sisters.

One older sister, Lanovah, and youngest sister, Danica. Their parents had died a few years ago and everything was well, that was until Iris had got a little power hungry.

Hux had locked y/n in her chambers with no way out, except for a window that dropped at least a couple hundred feet. So, unless she wanted to die a painful death, she couldn’t get out.

Knock. Knock.

“What is it now, Hux?” The Princess huffed, shutting her book with a slam, the door opened revealing the corrupt advisor.

“Oh. You.” She seethed, crossing her arms, not moving an inch, yet Iris moved quick grabbing the girl’s arm and yanking her up, not even saying a word. Her face was expressionless as she dragged her across the Palace, the Young Princess screamed and shouted behind her doing her best to resist her grasp. Throwing the throne rooms’ doors open she pushed her inside, shutting them promptly behind her, “You sick monsters, what do you want from me now? Money?” Troops marched into the throne room with an organized fashion, another one that looked like a trooper walked in behind them. The figure commanded respect, never faltering in their confident movements. She instructed for the troops to disperse around the room, her voice was harsh, rough, but feminine in a way, they all replied with a ‘Yes, Captain Phasma.’

Hmm. Y/n knew of that name, she could faintly remember her people gossiping about a highly decorated Captain from the first order

“I’m saddened, you think so lowly of me, Princess Y/n” Armitage smirked, his hands secured behind his back, he took a step forward, explaining the situation to the princess, no one in the royal family would be left alone without a trooper with them at all times.

In this case for y/n, Captain.

“I’ve assigned you, Captain Phasma, one of our finest” He stepped aside to let the chrome armored woman stand next him, her aura never fading, it seemed that Hux was being rushed and hastily sent them off to do what ever it is the Princess needed to do.

————

“So, what do you like to do?” Y/n asked, looking up at the tall Captain her armor was perfectly polished, so much so that she could see herself in the reflection. She’d tried to get to know the First Order Captain but it had been a few hours and she hadn’t said a peep. Anytime she’d need to go somewhere Phasma was always a few feet or…inches away.

She didn’t sign up for this! No, this couldn’t be happening her privacy was always something she valued. Now, it was ruined all due to that Armitage and this walking disco ball. She’d abandoned any form of manners, she prayed to the maker that she’d have the strength not to just smack the Captain in the head. Though, she was sure she’d be overpowered.

She opened her window revealing the glorious City surrounding the Palace walls. Her eyes stung with many emotions, she looked out at the city she failed to protect, she had failed her parents, her people, her oath.

She could feel the other woman’s presence in the room standing firm like a statue. She wondered what was under that perfectly polished exterior. Maybe what lay beneath doesn’t resemble the outside.

The princess huffed, throwing the book she was reading before onto a pile of them on the floor. She sniffled as tears began to resurface, Phasma turned her head toward the young woman, her face shielded her from revealing any sort of emotion not that she was going to show them any way. Her just smirked knowing that the princess realized that there was no way out of this. Surely, now that the First Order has the upper hand, this Kingdom will be a base of some sort, who knows what obstacles and difficulties the people of Kalisto will endure. Maybe, the First Order will receive a protest of some sort.

Only time would tell on how this disaster would end up.

———

Pretty short but proud of what I got together in a short amount of time!

[frozen-orbit]

Something i love a lot about Renegades is the amount of parallels/sometimes foreshadowing there are in the books. These are the ones i remember, but there may be more:

6 year old Nova telling herself to pull the trigger to shot her family's murderer -> 16 year old Nova telling herself to pull the trigger to shot Captain Chromium -> Nova saying "i pulled the trigger" after shooting Ingrid

Nova handing Adrian a gun in a flirty/playful way while teaching him how to shoot in book 2 -> Nova coldly aiming at Adrian's head with a gun in book 3 (please someone needs to draw this)

The very first chapter and the epilogue (the parade scenes)

THESE ONES FROM BOOK 1 AND BOOK 3

"we were all villains in the beginning" -> "we were all heroes in the end"

Nova and Adrian watching eachother across the arena in book 1 during the trials -> Nightmare and the Sentinel watching eachother across the arena in book 3 during that brief moment of wonder mid-battle

Nova trying to help an injured Max in book 1 and being found by Adrian -> Nightmare trying to save a gravely injured Max in book 2 and being found by the Sentinel

6 year old Nova putting Evie to sleep when she's crying -> Nightmare putting Magpie to sleep while she's crying during the arena battle in book 3

[silverwings22]

Moth Fixes It: The Sequel Trilogy

This is a very long rant about the sequel trilogy, based on a conversation I (Moth) had with my husband (Mr. Moth) and my best friend (Lamp) who was more a victim of my yapping than anything else. My plan for how to fix the sequels below the cut!

MOVIE 1: The Force Awakens

This is our introduction movie. Let's start with our big bad: it should be Captain Phasma. The comics (according to Mr. Moth, I have not had the pleasure of reading them) says she grew up poor and found that chromium for her armor off Palpatines' old personal Nabooian yaht. So lean into that. She's obsessed with Vader/Anakin. She's obsessed with the idea of the poor slave kid who became the Fist of the Empire. She's the one fixated on Ben Solo, and seduces him into being Kylo Ren. (Give Gwendoline Christie more screentime, and let her be sexy. Dammit, I love her.)

Speaking of Ben Solo: I want him to be a doe-eyed dumbass the whole movie. She's molding him and manipulating him, he's trying to be the shadow of Vader she wants because he thinks he's in love and he's young and stupid. Show him jerking him around. Let her be the femm fatale and he's the halpless dolt trying to make her happy. Show him hesitate until she urges him. Show him with hickies and bruises on his wrists. Fuck that man up.

Keep Finn's backstory. A defected stormtrooper is INTERESTING. Lean into it. He was kidnapped as a kid? Show him questioning who his family was. Show him wondering if he was thrown away or if they had no choice. Let him be angry, let him be sad, LET HIM BE HUMAN because that's what his whole character is. He's human, despite what the First Order wanted him to be. Then let him defect because he's afraid, as he should be. And let him run straight to Rey.

Rey, however, needs MORE backstory. Gimme more than a nightmare or two about parents she can't remember the faces of. And start introducing the concept of the dyad early. She pops up in Kylo/Ben's bedroom right after a fight with Phasma where he's nursing a black eye? They share dreams? Whatever it is, scrungle him TF up so he looks good and pathetic, and she offers to help him. Give me an open hearted sugar cookie of a soon to be Jedi, despite everything she's going through on Jakku. Let her offer him some of her depleted little bacta stashes.

When she meets Finn, same thing. Let her offer him one of her measly little food portions. Let her be protective of him immediately. When they dip for the Rebellion together, let him confess who he is quickly, and her be the one to offer up that people can change for the better. Give her some unyielding hope to hold this being-found family together.

When they meet Poe with the Rebels, they quickly click. Finn and Poe make besties, they both adore Rey, the trio is born.

DO NOT have Han Solo and Leia just be talking again after years of being estranged. Han's whole character arc in the original trilogy is becoming the guy that STAYED. You expect me to believe he ditched his wife and Luke and went back to being the scruffy looking nerf herder he was 20 years ago? No, fuck that. He's been with Leia all the time. He's not Han Solo, he's Han Organa cause he took HER name. And they're running this shit show spectacularly, General and Captain. Rey and Finn can still turn up on the Falcon, he just sold it to help fund the Rebellion or something and the old girl found her way home anyway.

During their introduction to Han and Leia, let them meet a couple people who wear less orange jumpsuits and more brown with a couple funny looking braids in their hair. Leia can explain they're former padawans from Luke's temple who escaped and survived.

While the new trio is getting acquainted with the finer art of war, Kylo is being toured around his awful, hot, evil girlfriend's laboratory she's funding with her shiny chromium credits. None of this "somehow Palpatine returned" bullshit, he returned because Phasma got ahold of Hemlock and Pershing's research and she's cloning things. Throw in some sniffly looking little genius chained to a lab table for good measure.

We learn what a dyad is from Kylo’s research, and figure how that’s how he and Rey are connected. Throughout this Rey keeps trying to get to Kylo, as she learns more about who he is and gets to know his parents. She tries to help him, to hold the door to the light open for him to be brave enough to run through. "I'll help you. Just take my hand. Please." He answers this in typical shithead behavior by attacking the rebellion, injuring (BUT NOT KILLING) both his parents. (Can't reconcile if your parents are dead. The Jedi are about forgiveness, I need them alive to forgive.)

The movie ends with Palpatine coming out of the tank, not old and decrepit but young, in his prime, and pissed at the entire Skywalker lineage. He's not about to make Kylo his new apprentice, he's going to take Phasma as his new Fist of the First Order and focus on immortality instead of training a new Sith. He'll be his own apprentice, with blackjack and hookers. He tells Phasma she can keep Kylo as long as she keeps him in line, but if he so much as looks in the direction of Anakin-level drama Palps is gonna use lightning to turn him into Mongolian BBQ.

And I want doe eyed dumbass Kylo to be standing just outside the room, back to the door, listening in terror and with a recently bloodied lip, as he realizes that Rey was right. Phasma doesn't love him, and he's in fucking danger.

MOVIE 2: The Last Jedi

This is the BIG PLOT points movie, with the action. Start with Kylo fucking bailing on Phasma, running for his life pursued by angry giant pretty ex girlfriend. He has NO IDEA where he's going, and the dyad snatches him and Rey together on some poorly inhabited planet. (Bonus if it's cold, so they gotta cuddle). Build a believable romance starting there ala Zeb and Kallus from Rebels, where they gotta work together to survive. Poe and Finn, in all their bravery, find them because they'd never give up on Rey.

Kylo tells them how Palps is back. Poe calls Leia, who tells them the last person to defeat him was her brother Luke, who's been living in shame in the ruins of his Jedi Academy. She decides to go find Luke, so she can train to defeat Palps. Kylo goes with her, cause he's gotta start a galactic apology tour.

Finn meets Rose during a Rebel battle (I love her, such a wasted character, the actress deserved better and I'm giving it to her) and she obviously doesn't trust the ex stormtrooper. But he's been mulling over Rey going to fight, and parses the idea to her: let's steal their troopers. These two go on a harrowing adventure posing as Storm Troopers, getting into the barracks, inspiring other troopers to rise us and fight back. To take back their autonomy, and show them they're not just pawns. They lead a mutiny, they steal a ship, then they decide to do it again with a bigger ship. And a bigger one. Fuck it, they're stealing a goddamn fleet. Fuck the fathier races and the knife quest, they are inspiring people to take charge of their lives. (Have someone mention clone troopers that fought back for a callback to someone like Howser on Ryloth in TBB, maybe?) He's stepping into Han's shoes as the runaway who's learning to stay and find his place.

While this is going on, Hosnian Prime takes a Death Star to the face. The New Republic's seat of power is gone. Let's NOT act like it's not a big deal, and instead have the rebellion splintering at the seams because their two main leaders are injured and down for the count. Poe is the one who's pulling them together, forcing them to remember their on the same side. No contrived, unnecessary fight with Vice Admiral Holdo. She can be beefing with another leader or something, but a valid beef instead of "the script says I'm a bitch on a powertrip but I got no real reason." Poe gets all of them to pull their heads out of their collective asses. Let him step into Leias shoes as a military leader.

Now for Rey. You still want sad Luke, okay. He's ashamed he failed to protect his nephew from Phasma. He's ashamed he couldn't keep his students alive. Show him in the graveyard of the Academy, talking to the headstones. Have Rey show up with an apologetic Kylo who gets on his knees and begs Luke for forgiveness. Then let Luke 'There is still good in Darth Vader' Skywalker... forgive him. Cause that's who he is. Then Rey gets training. Actual training, not just with Luke but with Mara fucking Jade. Show him a path back from the Dark side from Auntie. And let them learn to control the dyad together.

Meanwhile, Rey’s still burning to know about her parents. So she and Luke finally sit down and delve into the Force, turning up a Force ghost nobody’s seen in a while. And fuck the “Rey is a Palpatine” angle. She’s Korkie Kryze’s kid, who’s Obi-wan and Satine’s. (This is where Lamp started cheering at the idea. She’s a Obi-wan Kenboneme girl.) Confirm that lineage. (And get a fun tie in to the Mandalorian too, making her have Mando heritage. It gives you more to work with on future projects if you want, too.)

Then give me a Kenobi and a Skywalker synergy, and the dyad making sense. Anakin and Obi-wan were two halves of a single warrior, and their grandkids took that shit literally.

MOVIE THREE: The Rise of Skywalker. (Let’s rename this. The Rise of Kenobi? The Rise of the Light? Something.)

Kylo/Ben and Rey are ready to fight, together. Luke and Mara Jade lend their sabers to them, but can’t leave to go with them because their place is here at the Academy. They literally pass the torch (but without dying. Mr. Moth is violently opposed to this trope and I’m inclined to agree) and the two go to leave. When they do, Luke turns around and goes to the equivalent of their Archives, and activates a beacon/sends a comm message harking back to Obi-wan’s “do not return to the Temple” from Revenge of the Sith but this time telling the scattered escaped Jedi that the time has come to return. We see comms blinking on wrists all over the galaxy, from the First Order stolen ships Finn and Rose are on to the Rebellion and everywhere in between. At least one woman is standing next to Lando Calrissian. Leia and Han see it too as they recover together.

Rey and Kylo send coordinates to Poe, but no one can get through to Finn. (Perhaps comm damage, out of range, etc. Gimme some juicy arguments. Holdo etc thinks it’s too dangerous with the Rebellion being so scattered. Poe demands to ask Han an Leia, there’s delays because ‘they’re still too weak, they almost died’ (we gotta fill 2 hours, lets get some emotional depth to this). Maybe they confer with another general, a graying blonde woman with a heavy tan and very distinct clone accent perhaps? (General Omega, General Omega, General Omega!) Or Hera Syndulla and a grown up Jacen? You can’t tell me they wouldn’t be there.

The argument is interspersed with Han and Leia doing what all older people who’ve seen some shit do: do it their damn self. They’re sneaking on the Falcon to bang on the long range transmitter, acting like they’re still twenty because they know their son is alive, well, and back on the right path. They’re so fucking proud. And while they’re attempting percussive maintenance to get a message to Finn and Rose, they get found by someone and then the whole arguing body is now in the Falcon.

They eventually decide to press the assault.

Meanwhile, Ben and Rey hand on whatever ship/planet Palps has made his evil base. Exegol is fine, we’ll go with that for the example. They’re dealing with young Palps and Phasma, along with tons of First Order, a fleet in orbit, and those Knights of Ren assholes. Cue EPIC lightsaber fight, I want this to rival Obi-wan vs Anakin on Mustafar. John Williams will do us proud with the score, he never disappoints. The battle is hard, but they take down the Knights of Ren and ground troopers. Phasma’s still trying to battlefield seduce Ben, but he finally gets to stand up for himself. He protects Rey from his former abuser. It’s very clear she’s got nothing on him, and we see the absolutely unhinged rage you get when a narcissistic abuser loses power over a victim. As she loses control, she finally makes a mistake and is taken down. The Rebellion turns up, and they’re getting it handed to them in orbit. We can keep that moment of despair Poe has in canon, where he thinks they’re going to lose and he apologizes while still fighting.

And then the stolen fled Rose and Finn had turns up full of pissed off former storm troopers with a lot of anger to work out. Let’s see good guys in TIE fighters (these are Mr. Moth’s fave SW ships, they deserve a little love.)

Let’s see my favorite line in all of Star Wars not get wasted this time. Rose’s “This is how we win, not by killing what we hate but by saving what we love” put to good use. Let her, Finn, and the fleet dive to put themselves between the First Order and the Rebellion, protecting them with the better and newer ships as shields. Flash cut to Rose and Finn’s hands gripping each other as they do this together. (I wanna ship it so bad and canon gave me nothing to work with!)

Rey and Ben face Palpatine, full dyad powers working together. He’s raging that he’s the most powerful being in the galaxy, all the great bad guy monologing. Let him reference the folly of the Sith Law of Two, because of how Vader betrayed him. How he’ll live forever, he needs no one, they’re weak and cowards because they won’t face him alone.

And then let them show what Star Wars has always been about: that you’re never alone. That doing the right thing will bring you to your people, and you’ll stand together against evil that seeks to divide and conquer. They are the Two that are One, and they whip his ass and destroy him, once and for all. (How many times to we have to teach you this lesson, old man?)

And they return, victorious, the First Order defeated, back to the Rebel base. Ben can apologize ot his parents on his hands and knees, and get hugged and forgiven. Maybe even a few of those padawans wave in his direction.

And the last scene should be Rey and Ben landing back at the Academy, with a couple other ships full of those same Padawans, and handing Luke and Mara back their lightsabers before Luke smiles and says “come on then, padawan. We have work to do.”

This fixes the GAPING plot holes, I think makes better use of the characters we got (they gave me great people and did NOTHING with them) and sets the stage for future projects while tying in some stuff that wasn’t put to great use either.

So if you read through all this: thoughts? Do you like it? Did I fix SW, or do you have better ideas? Yap with me, my friends.