i did start off as a "hux survived" truther, but thinking on it now...while i still enjoy AUs where he survives, i think in Canon Terms it makes sense for him to die. thematic sense. maybe he felt like he deserved to die for betraying the order. maybe he no longer saw any hope for the future. maybe he realized the end of the war was near and couldn't bring himself to face a galaxy at peace. maybe he felt like now that he's lost his power and influence and his nation there's nothing left for him to do except die. or some combination of the above. i definitely agree that hux is the type who'd always wear a blasterproof vest or something, so he would have had to decide not to wear it.
as for why, if the above paragraph was the case, he asked finn to blast him in the arm? or why he even bothered with the "it was a coordinated incursion, allegiant general" shtick if dying was part of his plan?
i think the options are either (a), it was less of a conscious plan to die and more of a passively-suicidal "not looking both ways before crossing the street anymore because idc if a car hits me" type situation. he wasn't trying to die but he sure wasn't trying not to.
or (b), cerebrally he knew he was going to die, but despite that, when actually face-to-face with his own imminent demise, part of him couldn't accept it and kept clinging to life even though the rational part of him already knew it was over. deciding to die for the cause is one thing, actually going through with it is a whole other thing.
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