#Force Awakens

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[reylo4ever2020]

Found this on Pinterest. Made me laugh.

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Jedi Knight Finn

Artist is Andres Bellorin, who's thoughts on the design can be found here:

[flettwin]

Lipbite.exe

[cruorcrave]

The funny thing to me about the Star Wars sequels is the problem I was only able to properly realise after watching Andor, Rogue One, and re-watching the original trilogy: The First Order is not scary. Even when they have the Resistance backed into a corner, they are laughably, stupidly childish. Hux is a blithering man-child who constantly gets thrown about (literally), Kylo is an angsty teenager (to be clear, I think that wasn't a bad direction for him), and Snoke is a vague, barely explained shadow on the wall. Every instance of "Palpatine" either made me groan or laugh out loud. They are not intimidating, they are not frightening, they are not sadistic, they are just there. They just wear black and have big ships and come with a repackaged Vader theme. The closest they got to reaching the intimidation factor of The Empire was either in Episode VII with the first appearance of Kylo and his Stormtroopers, or in Episode VIII where they're slowly chasing down the Resistance, and even then they fall short. I know I can't expect the level of beautifully horrific and meticulous villainy that we got from them in Andor, but come on. I was nine years old when I saw The Force Awakens in theatres and I was more scared of the bounty hunting groups chasing Han than I was the main antagonists. Just so disappointing, especially after the masterpiece that was Andor.

[dyingroses]

Star Wars + text posts and stuff

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The High Republic: Fear of the Jedi #5 (2025) The Force Awakens 10th Anniversary variant cover by Chris Sprouse

[rannirize]

Wowoowow Star Wars sketches plus Oc ihavegotten back into Star Wars so epic…the empire strikes back is still my fave but the characters in the prequels r the best…

Also not a big fan of thrsequels…but kylois supa cool in the force awakens…

[orienteddreamerrr]

I DISCOVERED THAT KYLO REN BUILT HIS OWNNNN LIGHTSABER!!!

[reylo4ever2020]

I didn’t need my reylo hyperfixation to come back, but here we are. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[macaroni-stars]

"You knew him."

A statement, the truth of which Han never tried to hide, yet one that makes his blood freeze. He did know. More than anyone.

He knew Luke's hands, all calloused and chipped from farm labour but firm and warm and gentle, grounding him better than any magnetic anchor ever could, and even metal, new, thrilling, always warm to the skin from under the glove, familiar, like a piece of Falcon, a piece of home. He knew Luke's smile, big and bright, that always made his eyes crinkle and the faintest dimples appear on his cheeks, the smile that carried with it a piece of Tatooinian suns. Han knew his eyes, two big blue oases dragging him in like a dreary desperate man in a desert, which was not far from the truth of how he and Luke met altogether, the eyes that always kept flicking to his lips, the eyes that never lost their determined spark. He knew which words Luke liked and which he didn't, the faint consonants of Huttese still scraping Han's tongue, words of 'common not trade' echoing in his mind. Knew how Luke liked to get his hair cut and knew exactly when to offer it, when the bangs were getting a bit too long and poking in the eyes, or the gentle curl of darkening blond got in the way of lightsaber spins. Han knew how much time under a blazing sun akin to Tatooine's two it would take for Luke's freckles to shyly start blooming over his nose. He knew Luke's voice, knew every little twinge and shake and intonation of it, knew every way it could pronounce his name, from whisper to scream, from anger to bliss, Han would know it blind, somehow he would even know it deaf.

"I know him." Han wants to say, but the words die in his throat.

What if Luke's hands have gone soft from the meditation or other high-end solitare jedi practices Han had only heard rumours of, the metal now only feeling foreign and cold. What if his smile was crooked now, weary with time, and no longer remembered the sun, the dimples lost in the beard, if there was one. What if Luke's eyes went duller over the years, what if the blue disappeared, cutting off Han's water supply, leaving him to die in the desert, no longer having the beam of hope in the little sparkle behind those eyes. What if Luke had forgotten the language, what if he had no longer liked the jokes Han made. Perhaps he had picked up a new manner of speaking altogether, something more proper, high-class. What if his hair was now all grown and grey, messy with nobody to care for it, holding within it the pain and memories. What if his skin has gotten wrinkly and stale, the freckles now only existing in Han's latest memory forever and ever. What if Luke's voice had changed, deepened, roughened, or softened, gotten louder, or gotten quieter, and Han may never hear him say his name in that new voice.

'I know.' reverberates in his mind, once an echo to a lover's call, a declaration of a feeling yet untold.

"Yeah. I knew him." Han finally whispers, trying to keep his own changed voice from shaking. "I knew Luke."

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[meshla-cyarika]

my favourite pastime is hyping up overhated characters

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General grievous portrait