#ch: finn (sw)

[rebel-ahsoka]

JOHN BOYEGA as FINN in STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS

[janiedean]

FinnRey anon again, so, in this hypothetical OT5 thing. Poe and Ben probably grew up together. Finn and Ben worked together. Rey and Ben are force bonded. Rose and Ben are strangers, but she'd probably find a way to communicate what she thinks about him. And, err, I win in this ship thing? Hahaha, I've never done this before, so, you're my guide.

anon YOU’RE DOING VERY WELL AND YOU’RE 100% WINNING XD that said well

rose is the one who says that the resistance is about protecting who you love so the moment she finds out how the rey/ben thing is supposed to go she’d absolutely give him a second chance

poe and rose absolutely have worked together and trust each other so that’s a score

finn would trust rey on it also ‘ren it took you a long time to follow in my footsteps huh’

if finn is somewhat force sensitive he probably could get a feeling of how shitty ben feels about his wrongdoings and he’d become way more sympathetic imvho

rey and rose would totes be friends imvho so they’re down with this ot5 with benefits thing

I mean... you’ve got a goldmine there anon ;) ;)

[skywalkersleia]

❝ As the other Resistance soldiers regarded Rey in astonishment, Finn rushed forward, calling her name. For a moment he was afraid that Rosa had been right-that this Rey who could lift mountainsides would be utterly changed in other ways, too, with no trace left of the young woman he'd followed across the galaxy from Jakku. And she was different. But the old Rey wasn't gone. And it was that Rey who fell into Finn's arms, sobbing and laughing at the same time, and held him tight. ❞

[actualreyofsunshine]

Finn Appreciation Week - Day 3 Favorite Relationships: Finn & Han Solo

[luminoustico]

Finn: I'm going to die and take out that cannon with me FUCK THE FIRST ORDER

Rose:

[skyvalkers]

character moodboards: finn (star wars)

"Listen, I've had a pretty messed up day!"

[httpsburnout]

endless list of faves: finn (star wars)

“You don’t know a thing about me. Where I’m from. What I’ve seen.”

[blackleader]

THE RESCUE // (insp.)

[lumosinlove]

Ok but in ch 13 of SW when Remus told Logan “you can love whoever you want” and in ch 5 of C2C when Logan said to Finn “I’m allowed to love you”

:))))

[starwarsfangirl]

I am ambivalent about Star Wars: The High Republic.

The cover art all have a very 90s feel to me. Also, I’m really tired of prequel stories, not just in the Star Wars franchise, but just in general. It’s safe and really doesn’t mean anything because the universe it’s set in is already established.

Charles Soule has written some of the best SW comics I have ever read, so I’m sure he’ll bring that excellence to the first book of this new series.

I just cannot fathom why Lucasfilm decided to not capitalize on the momentum of the sequel trilogy by giving us stories about Rey and the others. I want to know how Rey deals with being the last Jedi in existence. Finn would of course be a natural choice as her first student. Does the galaxy know of her confrontation with Palpatine or do they believe it was just a battle in the skies over Exegol? Does Rey take time to learn more Jedi lore or does she jump right into training the next generation and they learn together? Do potential Jedi seek her out or is it the other way around.

That’s not even dealing with losing Ben and half of soul, half of the Dyad.

What is Poe’s role in this Palpatine free galaxy? How does he adjust to being a leader in a time of relative peace? Does he struggle or flourish?

Did Lucasfilm think the all important demographic of Males 18-34 would not be interested and therefore not spend their money on it?

[janiedean]

finn and poe’s sl in the last jedi: a few considerations

first thing to state: these two both needed to have some kind of journey from A to B in order to arrive at the ending that this movie had in mind and the set-up for IX, finn needed to deal with Some Issues that were there since TFA and poe needed a lot of screentime to make up for the fact that while he’s one of the main three, in TFA he had very limited screen time. now.

finn:

needed to work on his main **character flaw** that was stated in TFA, ie: he tends to go flight when in a flight or fight response, which is entirely understandable from his POV but not exactly useful if he has to, uh, *be in a rebel resistance*;

needed to know more people and see more beyond what he knew since he’s been a stormtrooper all his life and only ever worked for the first order and he can’t get around just knowing rey and poe and maybe leia but it’s not like they knew each other;

needed to see beyond his stormtrooper bringing up and get around, you know, having individuality;

what this movie did was addressing all of that by:

sending him away from the only two people he knows (okay, poe not so much because they were in contact always but still) so that he has the chance to, you know, leave and come back;

giving him a storyline with rose ie someone who has entirely good reasons to fight for the resistance and lost her family and everything she had and opened his eyes to other horrid shit the first order did (you know, he goes from ‘this town is beautiful’ to helping her tear it apart sooo) and who admires him first as an icon but then as himself and is willing to die for *him* without really owing him anything beforehand;

doing that, he realized which were his priorities, he fought for people other than his two friends, he realized that he wanted to be rebel scum (or did I dream that conversation with phasma) and by the end he was about to die for the cause when in the beginning his first thought was running (without even warning poe for that matter) so that he’d save his ass and rey’s. which is entirely understandable from his pov, again, but it was something the movie needed to address and is named character development, which he got in spades;

now he’s reunited with his friends, made more friends, knows his place in the world and doesn’t want to run anymore. mission accomplished.

poe:

needed more time to have his personality established given his lack thereof in TFA;

needed to be established as leia’s successor which this movie obviously was pointing at;

needed to learn the skills to be a good leader;

now, they could have shown him already being good at it, but thing is: this movie ran two hours and a half and no one wants a Perfect Protagonist Without A Flaw in movies, because it’s completely unrealistic and the fact that poe was a+++ amazing in TFA worked because we saw him less than the other two, if he was like that all the time he’d have been a gary stu.

so, what this movie did was addressing all of the above by:

giving him a hell of a lot of screentime which was used to show us that while he’s an excellent guy all around he does have some flaws;

(which are all by the way entirely consistent with his character because if he’s a hothead who likes to blow things up and fly in the middle of the action he most likely won’t consider that sometimes you have to retreat or that sometimes you have to look at saving lives rather than making sacrifices of most people you have before being left with a handful)

establishing that he and leia have definitely a parental/familial vibe because she basically treats him like she’d treat her own family and they’re familiar in ways you are not with your boss;

putting him in a situation where he realizes that acting rashly means you get demoted regardless of how good you are at your job;

giving him the tension with holdo which made him realize that you can be a good leader also by retreating and not ATTACKING all the time, that sometimes you have to buy time like that and that it’s not cowardly to run and that it’s not necessary to go around sacrificing your own life and others’s for the cause;

doing all of the above, he went from promising general to virtually effective leia substitute, because at the end of the movie he did exactly the contrary of what he did in the beginning, told finn what leia told him (to disengage), stopped finn from going after kylo and luke when he realized luke was buying them time so they could run, and leia herself told people to follow him and not her, which brings us to the conclusion that the infamous rewrites post-tfa most likely were to give him a larger role and effectively set him up to become the next general (also because let’s be real, if han died in VII and luke died in this one, leia was gonna die in the next one if carrie had lived to act in it, and all of them needed the new trio to pick up where they left from), and this when poe was a character who was supposed to be killed at the beginning of tfa.

like, they gave all of this hell of a storyline to a character who was supposed to not even survive the first movie, that’s how much they liked him and how much they accounted for the fans liking him.

so: what happened with this movie was giving them arcs with proper screentime for both which addressed points that couldn’t be addressed in TFA and set them up respectively to a) finn being a full part of the resistance where he’s staying by his own choice and where he’s made friends and found his own individuality and not forcing him to be it which would have happened if he stayed in the main ship for the entirety of tlj, he needed to leave and come back and get rid of his former boss/phasma to fully leave his past behind, b) poe being the new general of the resistance with leia’s full blessing and after we saw that he learned how to be one and we can trust him to take good decisions because he learned on his own skin what it means to take bad ones.

doesn’t seem to me like *character assassination*, except that of course we get to the crux of the problem which is, ‘stormpilot didn’t happen’ and ‘neither of them is confirmed gay’ and apparently that trumps everything else. ship discourse under the cut because this post is long.

now:

this is the middle movie of this trilogy. if stormpilot was gonna be a thing I highly doubt it’d have been a thing here since we’ve seen that people were clutching their pearls over freaking lefou in b&b and here we’re talking about main characters - if it was happening, it would happen next movie;

if they locked lips now it’d have been in a situation where finn literally knows no one except rey and poe and we don’t know anything about poe except that he’s a good pilot, he’s a nice guy and looks hot in leather jackets, which.. I mean, do we want them to establish their personality before thinking about them kissing?

neither of them was *confirmed gay* (though I mean with finn I guess he’d need some experimentation around to find out what he likes but never mind) and finn and rose kissed and poe was flirty-ish with rey so OMG HORRIBLENESS: you know, they could.... be bisexual. or pansexual. both of them. which would also mean they might be interested in women as well as each other. like, just a thought to consider;

the finn/rose kiss was her kissing him, not him kissing her, and like it could either go somewhere or it might not, but if it turns out that he likes her and they become canon and stormpilot doesn’t happen.... there’s nothing inherently horrible in finn liking rose who is a nice girl who went through a lot of shit and has all the reasons in the world to like him and tbh I find it really gross that I’ve read around ‘ew omg he kissed a girl how horrible’. I mean, back when TFA came out we were all rejoicing that we had a nice diverse ship and we were all having fun and sorry to break it to you but finn/rose is also a *diverse* ship so it’d be still fairly progressive to have it canon in a mainstream scifi movie. but now since finn kissed the wrong diversity it’s... a downgrade? like, you do realized how it sounds?

anyway, if finn/rose doesn’t go anywhere, the next person in line realistically to be his love interest (if he does have one by the end) is poe, not rey (who, as much as people around here like to deny, might have been set up to have a meaningful story with *ben solo* who is, sorry to say, not the horrible irredeemable villain a lot of people decided he is, and if you still think he is just go watch the OT and realize that the entire point of it was redeeming darth vader ie someone who did a lot worse than kylo but of course we all forget that SW is a franchise about redemption, huh?), and those two spent the entire movie worrying about each other, staying in contact if they were apart, let’s not go over the ‘finn is naked and wet’ part or finn wearing poe’s clothes for the entire thing or poe coming fully into his future-general self by ordering finn to retreat therefore saving his life rather than send him to sacrifice himself at all costs to take out that cannon (while most people who went after the cannon in the beginning died, including rose’s sister), which doesn’t seem to me like *nothing*. like, we had a lot of stormpilot interactions in this movie considering what they needed to do with it;

now, while it’s probably not likely that it might happen forreal or overtly (it’s still disney guys) saying that, considering all of the above, what I’m seeing was a movie that did both of them justice and didn’t sideline them or their relationship while also dealing with another ten storylines at once and if the point that makes everyone think they’ve been butchered was that they didn’t lock lips you know how it sounds like? like whatever these two characters do or stand up for it’s worthless unless they make out, or unless they’re **gay** (not even bi, gay), and therefore you’re basically reducing them to their PERCEIVED sexuality. ie they’re worth nothing if they aren’t the sexuality the fandom wants them to be, which sorry but a) it’s bullshit, b) it’s tokenism, c) it’s ASSUMING SOMEONE’S PERSONALITY ENDS AT THEIR SEXUALITY AND THEIR ACTIONS ONLY MATTER IN LIGHT OF THEIR SEXUALITY.

like, we have two main characters in the new trio who were given extensive screentime and storylines that brought them forward from the previous movie and gave them character evolution and development and brought them to a narratively better place and made them better people (never mind that if they get together in IX it’d be way healthier than if they had in this movie)........ and that somehow doesn’t matter because we didn’t get a confirmation that they would lock lips or that they prefer to bang men and actually one of them being kissed by a woman is seen as character assassination when in the first movie finn sure af wasn’t going around stating his sexual preferences if he even figured out any?

I mean, I’d like to think we’re watching these movies also for the plot and if poe and finn have to be lgbt rep other than minority rep maybe it’d be nice if they also had a personality to go with it, and possibly realistic too because people without flaws aren’t realistic and sure af the OT trio and prequel trio weren’t flawless people actually all the contrary, and this movie did nothing wrong in establishing it. but hey, seems like we only care about it if they kiss. does it sound woke to you? because to me, it doesn’t.

tldr: idk how this movie butchered either of them or did them wrong or ruined them (all the contrary), but if all the criticism’s point is OMG THEY AREN’T GAY AND THEY DIDN’T KISS then we don’t want well-written characters, we just want the ship. and honestly, making it everything about the ship while throwing everyone else under the bus (rose first and foremost) is hardly, like, progressive or anything, but whatever you like.

[skywalkersleia]

So you're with the Resistance? Obviously. Yes, I am. I'm with the Resistance.

[actualreyofsunshine]

Anyone who unironically sorts Finn into Slytherin owes me approximately eleventy thousand dollars for causing emotional distress and unchecked frustration.

[ao3feed--reylo]

the legend of reylo

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/35Uqg57

by klutzybriefing

Recent college graduate Rey is out of work, out of luck, and out of money.

So she does what any jobless humanities graduate would: busts out her dad’s old N64 and attempts to lose herself to nostalgia.

But what happens when she stumbles upon an old, unmarked cartridge and finds herself quite literally transported to a universe that’s missing its protagonist?

She’s only got three shots to get this right, if she ever wants to make it back to her reality—or, somewhat less importantly, if she doesn’t want to literally die. Which would really suck, since she’s finally landed a date with her incredibly hot (albeit strange and intense) neighbor and would very much like to make it.

She meets several key SW figures (tiny ch 1-3 spoiler: Finn, Poe, Rose, Leia and Han) along the way, including the ~~Big Masked Baddie Daddie~~ himself, Kylo Ren (who knows a liiiittle bit too much about her life outside of this game universe for comfort).

Angst. Very slow burn. Some popular and thinly veiled game references sprinkled in like… sprinkles. Other character development. Yes, there will eventually be smut

ANOTHER FIC CONCEPT NO ONE ASKED FOR I DID IT ANYWAY :)

Words: 1603, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rey (Star Wars), Poe Dameron, Rose Tico, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Armitage Hux, Unkar Plutt

Relationships: Kylo Ren/Rey, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Poe Dameron/Finn, Leia Organa/Han Solo

Additional Tags: Video Game AU, Mostly fantasy, Kind of medieval, Reylo - Freeform, Action/Adventure, Fun angst, Best angst, I Will Go Down With This Ship, This will be long, Obsessive Kylo Ren, Kylo Ren Has Issues, Kylo Ren is Not Nice, Angry Kylo Ren, Badass Rey, Rey Needs A Hug, Video Game Tropes, N64 AU, Unabashed Nintendo references, Spoiler Alert: Reylo is Endgame, Dungeons and Bosses and Quest Items--oh my, Slow Burn Rey/Kylo Ren, Fun in the meantime, Angst and Fluff and Smut

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/35Uqg57

[ao3feed-stormpilot]

the legend of reylo

by klutzybriefing

Recent college graduate Rey is out of work, out of luck, and out of money.

So she does what any jobless humanities graduate would: busts out her dad’s old N64 and attempts to lose herself to nostalgia.

But what happens when she stumbles upon an old, unmarked cartridge and finds herself quite literally transported to a universe that’s missing its protagonist?

She’s only got three shots to get this right, if she ever wants to make it back to her reality—or, somewhat less importantly, if she doesn’t want to literally die. Which would really suck, since she’s finally landed a date with her incredibly hot (albeit strange and intense) neighbor and would very much like to make it.

She meets several key SW figures (tiny ch 1-3 spoiler: Finn, Poe, Rose, Leia and Han) along the way, including the ~~Big Masked Baddie Daddie~~ himself, Kylo Ren (who knows a liiiittle bit too much about her life outside of this game universe for comfort).

Angst. Very slow burn. Some popular and thinly veiled game references sprinkled in like… sprinkles. Other character development. Yes, there will eventually be smut

ANOTHER FIC CONCEPT NO ONE ASKED FOR I DID IT ANYWAY :)

Words: 1603, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rey (Star Wars), Poe Dameron, Rose Tico, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Armitage Hux, Unkar Plutt

Relationships: Kylo Ren/Rey, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Poe Dameron/Finn, Leia Organa/Han Solo

Additional Tags: Video Game AU, Mostly fantasy, Kind of medieval, Reylo - Freeform, Action/Adventure, Fun angst, Best angst, I Will Go Down With This Ship, This will be long, Obsessive Kylo Ren, Kylo Ren Has Issues, Kylo Ren is Not Nice, Angry Kylo Ren, Badass Rey, Rey Needs A Hug, Video Game Tropes, N64 AU, Unabashed Nintendo references, Spoiler Alert: Reylo is Endgame, Dungeons and Bosses and Quest Items--oh my, Slow Burn Rey/Kylo Ren, Fun in the meantime, Angst and Fluff and Smut

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/35Uqg57

[actualreyofsunshine]

Finn & Rey are gonna be like Sarek except with better parenting.

So, are we all agreed that FinnRey will have about eleventy kids? Because I’m pretty sure they’ll have at least eleventy kids. Finn’s already used to having a large “family” and always wanted to deepen bonds with his fellow troopers. Rey grew up mostly on her own, longing for family and people to belong to. When peace comes, they’ll be filling up the Falcon faster than the porgs did both with biokids and stormtrooper cadets who no longer have families to be returned to.