#SW: TFA

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Torn

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A Meticulous Review of Rey's Costumes in The Force Awakens

Let's talk about how interesting Rey's two costumes in this movie are and what they tell us about her character.

The main costume Rey wears in this film is her Scavenger outfit. First, I like the way it is sort of hodge-podge. Unlike the other ladies I've talked about in the franchise, she wouldn't have anyone making her clothes - this is what she put together herself. It has a lot of great details that give texture to the costume (unlike, for example, Leia in ANH). Her staff, bag, and other things are all wearable because she would need to be able to move in a hurry without anyone taking her stuff. She's such a unique character and her costume is a perfect representation of that.

Female representation: 10/10 Honestly, I could not be happier. The scarves give her a feminine silhouette in a very practical way. Considering what other ladies wear in hot environments (even in this franchise), this makes SO much more sense. It's clearly something she would put together herself, not something for us to look at her wearing.

Practicality: 10/10 Again, so practical! It gives off the impression of being pretty while actually being capri pants and a tank top. She is covered up in a way that makes sense for being somewhere hot - everything is light and breezy. It's perfect.

I couldn't find a good photo from the Force Awakens, so please forgive that this is from TLJ (I will talk about it in response to that movie later). For this film, it is an interesting addition to make at the end, where she is now the Jedi representative of the Resistance, going to fetch Luke. First, it is a similar structure to her Scavenger outfit (likely something she owned, then?). Instead of the scarves, it has a vest and actual arm warmers instead of just wraps, so presumably this is what she wears when it is colder. We've now replaced the neutral tan for blending into the sand with this cold grey ensemble. It matches the terrain of where she's going while also reflecting her maturity. She was wearing the same outfit essentially since she was a child - now she is wearing more somber colors and growing up for the next stage of her adventure.

Female representation: 10/10 Since it is so similar to the previous one, it deserves the same score. Even if it is not fighting against the expectation of what women wear in heat, it is a great outfit to indicate a woman is no longer a child and I love that it manages to do so without sexualizing her.

Practicality: 10/10 Again, about as practical as you can be. And warmer this time, which is nice. Instead of light and breezy, the fabric is stiffer to hold the same silhouette. What can I say, it's just great.

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About Chaos Terran AU Transmutate

Transmutate was the last Chaos Terran to be born, and their birth was quite unexpected. Instead of Starscream succeeding in S02E09, a shard was knocked out of his hands and fell into a very convenient pool of water before Spitfire could piece them together. Starscream immediately tries to abort (?) the Terran in formation with the Cyber Slayer. The action shocked Spitfire. She acted before thinking and knocked the weapon away.

The new Chaos Terran survived but their generation was interrupted, causing them to be half-formed, both mentally and physically. They have a skeletal appearance with a hollow abdomen (indicating the lack of a T-cog), their limbs all messed up. They don't have a sense of identity, meaning no name, no gender, and no language. Their frame is too weak to hold the chaos energy it generates which caused them to immediately scream out a huge blast of chaos energy, and the Autobots took the chance to collect some of the shards and escape. The Malto Terrans were very concerned with the safety of the new Terran but were urged to escape quickly.

Starscream called the new Terran a transmutate and the name sticked (I might change this if I ever come up with a better origin). He didn't try to kill them, not wanting to raise further suspicion from the Chaos Terrans as well as wanting to exploit their chaos energy scream in the future.

The world is a really confusing place for Transmutate! It took them a while to realize those who don't share a psychic link with them are also sentient beings, that these bots and organic creatures are different from objects and have their own thoughts and act under a certain logic that is for some reason invisible to them. Transmutate ends up being very good at interpreting their siblings' emotions and thoughts though the link, as well as express themself through it.

Spitfire felt really torn about them. She wished she had either acted quicker before Starscream could have stroked them with the Cyber Slayer, or acted later because she thought death would be better than ending up like this. She was heavily manipulated by Starscream and wanted his approval, but didn't know how to feel about him trying to kill a Chaos Terran. Overall she was very protective of them though she didn't know how to care for them.

Transmutate's birth would somehow help Sideways realize chaos energy's connection to Unicron. Transmutate is the only Chaos Terran who's able to release chaos energy though it's involuntary, so it gave him samples to study. Sideways wasn't a good big brother at all and would intentionally trigger them to collect chaos energy.

Wreck-gar was probably the only being in this world who felt completely positive about Transmutate. She was simply happy to become a big sister and immediately assumed the role. Transmutate's messed up limbs made walking a struggle so Wreck-gar usually carried them in her backpack.

I think the Maltos, especially Twitch and Nightshade, would try very hard to approach the duo, but it was hard to persuade them to willingly stay at the Maltos. The two were friendly and were happy to visit but would always return to their siblings. Transmutate grew an interest in flying due to the two flying Maltos though, and Wreck-gar built them a jetpack.

Thoughts on their future

Eventually Starscream would collect all the shards and start killing the Chaos Terrans, I haven't thought the whole thing through but here are some thoughts:

Spitfire and Aftermath stayed to fight while ordering Wreck-gar to leave with Transmutate.

The Decepticons were more involved with Starscream's plan in this AU, but some grew attached to the kids and allowed the duo to escape.

Wreck-gar decided to return when she felt Aftermath dying. The Maltos arrived and split up - Nightshade was responsible for taking Transmutate away and the rest went to rescue the other Chaos Terrans with Wreck-gar.

Hashtag and Wreck-gar would eventually reach Starscream, join force with Spitfire, have a cool fight, but eventually be over-powered. Starscream would spare Hashtag's life and maybe give her an invitation to join him, which only left Hashtag with severe survivor guilt.

Sensing Spitfire and Wreck-gar's deaths, Transmutate was devastated and could no longer keep the chaos energy within them under control. Feeling about to explode they decided to focus their energy outburst on the one responsible for their siblings' death. The concentrated energy created a very unstable chaos dome (similar to the one they made in BW), which trapped all the Decepticons and the rising Chaos Titan.

The Maltos managed to escape the shield in time.

Instead of watching them explode, Nightshade remembered that Terrans and Chaos Terrans can sync and hopped in to help. The rest of the Terrans joined as well. Their combined form was able to stabilize both Transmutate and the chaos dome, making it a chaos-quintus dome.

Transmutate wasn't that happy about surviving though. They were still mostly nonverbal at this point and their siblings were literally the world to them. For a good while they would refuse to go with the Maltos and just wander outside the dome wanting to get in to the side of their siblings. But the dome wouldn't be so easy to open in this AU.

Eventually they would start living with the Maltos. Initially they might abuse syncing as a replacement for psychic link communication but would eventually learn to communicate with English - maybe picture cards at first, then reading and typing, eventually speaking?

Nightshade would be very enthusiastic about building them assistive tech. Dot would supervise them to make sure they don't make something like a shooting leg again and teach Transmutate to use them. She's also quite insistent that Transmutate fly with a helmet (which gives Transmutate a chance to look not bald but just like any normal person they refuse to wear the helmet when not flying).

Eventually Transmutate would have an upgraded jetpack and a pair of crutches attached their forearms that can transform into jets and arm blades. They usually only wear the multifunctional crutches. They would also repaint themself into their classic colors ^ ^

Transmutate would still want to go back inside the dome, not wanting their siblings bodies to be trapped with the ones who murdered them. And the wish grew stronger as they learned more about Cybertronian biology and realized that there were hope to revive their siblings. Nightshade would very much support the idea and the two would research on it together, but I need to think more on the attitudes of the other Maltos.

It would feel really weird when the Chaos Terrans (excluding Sideways who were somewhere in some other universe doing child labor for Unicron) were revived. By that time Transmutate would have lived longer than their older siblings. Spitfire and Aftermath would refuse to live with the Maltos and move into the previous Decepticon base, and Transmutate would go with them. They regard both the Maltos and the Chaos Terrans as family and would try to bring them together, or at least urge their older siblings to think about who they want to be now that the Decepticons are gone.

Transmutate wouldn't assume the Maltos' surname though, and wouldn't wear a Terran badge. At some point they may reconsider the name and gender they were assigned with, only to realize they feel quite apathetic about it. （So technically they are okay with all pronouns including it/its but most of the character would just continue using they/them.)

I'm still weighing whether to add Rampage to this AU or not. There are already too many characters. But if I do bring him in - he would be a result of Quintesson experiment and meet Transmutate when the latter got abducted by the Quitessons for some reason. I don't want this AU to be an exception if the two are having a "do you think we are friends in every universe" conversation somewhere else lmao.

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I miss Rey Nobody and her husband Ben Solo

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back at it again

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[djarinsphere]

ben solo you will always be famous

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of all the star wars movies, which of them do y'all 1) enjoy the most 2) consider the best quality and 3) think you've rewatched the most. add your answers in the reblogs or replies, i'm genuinely curious how much of an overlap there is within everyone's three answers. mine don't overlap at all! they're revenge of the sith, empire strikes back, and the force awakens :^)

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Does anybody still read Kylo Ren x reader fics?

(Asking for a friend)

((Definitly not because I have a couple to post))

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STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS CAME OUT 9 YEARS AGO!!!!

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Some Reylo babies for a Twitter request!

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Poe Dameron by Kevin Wada

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Star Systems Slipping Through: Rey in TFA

For the third part of this series, let’s wrap up the introductions and talk about how we meet Rey in the Force Awakens. We’ll talk about how the story is built for us to learn more about her, how she starts her journey for the trilogy, and the impression she made.

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A gift for a friend back in 2019 :))

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just spent three hours verbally outlining a revised star wars sequel trilogy with several nerd friends and i love our version of ben solo that doesn’t exist