#guys! 🙂 i’ve fallen so hard for this 🫠🫠😳😳

[daisychainsandbowties]

To me Baylan and Shin is Iroh and Azula in Au...kind of. 🤷‍♀️

i think Shin wishes she was less of a wet cat and more of a “i will set the world on fire to warm my hands and they’re not even cold.”

azula is terrifying and while i think Shin is certainly frightening i also (delusional) am hoping for more of a Zuko arc with her. redemption i guess but more importantly realising that just because Baylan saved her (probably from being hunted by Inquisitors or, worse, turned into one) doesn’t mean she has to tie all her lifelines to his cause.

i know we joke about Shin being 👁️👁️ confused.com about everything but really!!! i think she believes in Baylan, and she believes in having somewhere to belong. she’s an arrow and she goes where momentum takes her but… i’m so struck by how she fights Sabine on Lothal.

it’s a dance. she stands there, waiting, and she doesn’t do it out of malice but because she’s curious. there’s no reason to think that Shin has ever met another girl like her. she’s been trained to fight, honed into a weapon, flinging herself at problems. she’s a cutting edge but in that fight she’s holding back. she’s playing until she forgets herself and sheathes her sword in Sabine’s body.

it has that “i like you but i don’t know how to like you.” so instead, Murder

Sabine is always defending and Shin is just testing her, taunting her, saying better better i’m better (i’m enough). she sidesteps that green lightsaber, totally unafraid of its bite, and in that sense i think she’s like Zuko. she’s just… looking for something to make her feel whole and then she sees Sabine and here’s another person who feels what she feels, right?

but she doesn’t. i think that’s half the vehemence of “you have no power.” there’s a hint of betrayal in it, of Shin’s horrible hope that she might have found a person who could understand her.

i think what we’ve seen of her is… so interesting because the ONLY agency she has shown is her fascination, her anger, her fury and helpless attraction to Sabine. that little smirk at the start of their second duel, the way she seems to lose every iota of her composure as soon as she sets her blade alight. it’s so rich and i think there’s a so MUCH to Shin that we can’t see yet.

i think she’s just reaching out with the Force and aggrieved at the silence she finds in Sabine but also… fascinated by this girl she cannot read, cannot predict. i mean… look at how she reacted to her, Force choking her when it was pretty obvious she posed little threat to Baylan. that was frustration and fear and silence, not her being pointlessly cruel. she’s burning up like she’s ice and Sabine is magnesium.

and i think Shin will fall for that. for the loud colours and the lightning to her fire that Sabine has become.