#rebels family

[raiidsol]

I love how the rebels family is formed by two jedis, a mandalorian, a lasat warrior, a droid that is a menace to society and hera. like, she is the badass pilot, but she doesn't need a lightsaber or a helmet or claws or droid tech. she's hera. HERA. and to me that's enough to fright anyone.

[foxgirl1668]

starwars things…. one day I’ll finish a full piece without giving up halfway through

[tyquu]

What's this??? Yet another SWR modern au?

I need to stop making these haha.

(Modern Au where Kanan and Hera are Single Parents TM to Sabine and Ezra respectively and decide to move in together. Queue shenanigans)

[copalcetic]

One of the things I love about Rebels is that if you just watch the opening two-parter, it looks like it's going to be the story of a young orphan taken in and educated by a family of functional adults.

And then you keep watching (and reading the tie-in media), and you realize that Hera is still seething with resentment toward the parents she ran away from in her teens, Kanan spent years drowning his trauma (and connection to the Force) in the bottom of a bottle, Sabine is frantically avoiding coming to terms with more bad past life decisions than any sixteen-year-old should have had time to make, and Zeb is the only person in the entire crew who’s made it out of his twenties.

But goddamn it, Ezra thinks they’re functional adults, so they’re going to pull it together and pretend for his sake. And somehow, it works. Somehow, they all grow up together.

[gsope]

I recently watched rebels for the first time and I just?? love this show?? now I regret not watching it sooner

[llamasofchaos]

Everyone talks about Ezra's relationships with Hera, Kanan, and Sabine but Zeb and Chopper loved him too. Zeb and Ezra were really like brothers. They teased and fought each other like brothers. Even when Zeb didn't understand all of the Jedi stuff Ezra did he supported him. I didn't ever think that we would see live action Zeb and Ezra reunite and maybe it won't happen in Ahsoka but now it can happen.

Do you ever think that Zeb remembers joking with Ezra back before the Season 2 finale? About how they'll have "probably have toppled the Empire" before he gets back? Even if in that instance he was referring to Malachor, I have to wonder did he remember saying it.

Does he tear up when he thinks of that scrawny, irritable kid that he misses so much? That he wishes he had nicer to? That he thinks about and immediately goes to get a drink because karabast, it's been eleven years?

The kid he sees in every new imperial helmet he finds and keeps just in case?

The kid he sees in the blankets and sketchbooks and cat fur that Zeb could never bare taking out of their cabin, leaving them aside because the kid'll be back and whining about him moving his stuff?

The kid he can't imagine as a man because it would hurt too much if he ever found out that Ezra had died before he got the chance to grow up?

The kid that, even years later, he'll still look back for during a mission to make sure he's out first, only to realise he wasn't even there?

The kid that he raised a drink for after the Death Star exploded?

The kid that he started making logs after every mission for, reciting every detail he could remember because he promised him war stories and didn't want to be outdone?

The kid he tells Jacen stories about?

[jellyfishforest135]

The Bendu: So, you got any kids?

Kanan: Yeah, three of them. *Pulls out his wallet* Want to see a photo?

The photo:

[lottiesoka]

The Clone Wars / Sue Zhao / Star Wars Rebels

[peachyhoolagan]

This is their song and it hurts me

[loreensdarling]

SUGAR AHHHH IM SCREAMING THEY'RE PERFECT

[rhadamantthys]

been catching up on all the animated star wars shows i didn’t watch as a kid

[raiidsol]

in less than 10 episodes darth maul tricked ezra, made him believe that he was a friend, lied to him, betrayed him, blinded his master, was one of the causes that ahsoka didn't came back, held the rebels family hostage, hurted them, robbed kanan's holocron, almost KILLED kanan AGAIN and tricked ezra AGAIN.

he messed with the space family so i don't care about anything else that he has to say. obi wan should've gone for his fucking head.

[0nceuponathrone]

Zeb made Hera a chair so he could have his back and now it’s the family chair

[1nk-ling]

You know which episode this is set after, guys. D'you think Zeb ever kind of regretted coming back? Like, not seriously regretted, just wondered how much less annoyed he'd be on Lira San?

Also, space socks look exactly like earth socks?!? Yes. And Zeb is wearing a space Tshirt that looks exactly like an earth Tshirt. Stop questioning me.

[copalcetic]

What strikes me about Rebels isn't that every single crew member on the Ghost has trauma associated with their family of origin. Traumatic backstories are a dime a dozen. What's different about Rebels is that every single crew member finds some measure of catharsis and reconciliation, too.

Hera and her father are at odds because he prioritizes Free Ryloth, while she ran away to join the wider rebellion--but they make up, and learn to work together.

Kanan loses the Jedi to Order 66--but over the course of the show he learns they're not all lost, and that the survivors believe he's worthy of knighthood.

Zeb believes his entire species is gone--but he finds them, and a home world, again.

Sabine is rejected by her family for speaking out against the Empire--and then convinces them to turn against the Empire in the end.

And Ezra may never see his parents in life--but he's able to speak to them one last time, and learn in turn that they were proud of him.

Yeah, it's a show about found family--but it's a show about family of origin, too. One doesn't replace the other; it complements it. And it's the crew working together that helps every one of them reconnect the bonds that are broken.

[rejectingrepublicans]