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Me on any given day

#snamione

I love my eyes in this photo.

Me as a child.

homuras

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Reylo and Anidala + parallels.

leupagus

oh my god IT’S TRUE

audible-smiles

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@emmatomorr0w there’s more of it now!!

mj05209

omg!

This is so damn true. I know exactly who my right person wrong time is. We're both married now to other people and we hardly talk.

some days i embrace it other days i loathe it, and yet others i wish felt badass enough to deserve it.

linovsp

You know what I love most about Rey? She is fucking brutal.

I mean look at this aggression… I’m an older fan and I NEVER saw women presented like this when I was growing up, and I am so happy for all the little kids out there who get to have this

And in tfa it was this bit that got me shook

She just stalks towards him like the badass she is

Look at that face. I f**cking love it. I am so happy (and Daisy just kills it, what a star).

jimintomystery

What’s cool about Rey is that she’s a change of pace from Anakin and Luke, whose stories were about reckless heroes who need to be taught patience and discipline by wise old mentors. But Rey is already disciplined as heck from the moment we meet her–you’d have to be to stay alive for ten years scavenging tech on Jakku. She already appreciates the qualities that had to be drilled into the Skywalkers, which I think accounts for her picking up how to use the Force so quickly.

Consequently, Rey isn’t so cautious about cutting loose and being badass. She’s not afraid that the anger will run away with her like Anakin and Luke were. Because Rey’s anger doesn’t come from being tempted by attachment or glory. She’s not out here trying to protect the ones she loves or trying to be a hero. She’s just pissed that there’s injustice in the galaxy, and all these assholes (droid theives, hand-grabbers, fascist edgelords, troll-y old hermits) are making it hard to put a stop to it, so hey fuck you, I’ll kick your ass.

I’m not sure the old Jedi would approve, and maybe the Sith would have a field day exploiting her emotions. But it’s good for us because we get a novel twist on the whole “kid goes off to become a Jedi” story. Rey’s anger is selfless and just, and it’s a damn good thing she’s on our side.

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Ben Solo’s “BLOW THAT PIECE OF JUNK OUT OF THE SKY!”

is like the SW version of the Beast’s “THEN GO AHEAD AND STARVE!”

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Also

Beast: I let her go.

Cogsworth: You what? How could you do that?

Beast: I had to.

Cogsworth: Yes, but-but why?

Beast: Because I love her.

penstofingers

That’s implying that he knew Rey was in the Falcon, which I don’t agree with. I like the beast/kylo similarities though.

chandrilasky-deactivated2018052

I don’t think he knew either, but that’s missing the point. It’s about the audience perception of the overreaction – the tantrum to just freak out and be harmful to anything and anyone and shout something ridiculous – the overreaction that falsely implies he’d want harm to come to her, but in reality doesn’t intend to harm her and could never want that.

gingrpie

mylordshesacactus

I’ve Never Seen Such Devotion In A Droid Before: Kid, You Don’t Know The Half Of It

But can we talk about Artoo, though?

Because R2-D2 is so iconic as Luke’s Droid™, and even in Clone Wars and RotS as Anakin’s Droid™ that I think it’s easy to forget that Artoo is Padmé’s.

I mean the little guy was cheeky and confident and saving his mistress’ life before she even met him. And that’s not to say he doesn’t bond with Anakin right away in Phantom Menace, but the thing is he stays with Padmé for the next…ten years? Eight years at absolute minimum.

And the thing is Artoo was assigned to the royal cruiser, almost certainly property of the Crown–by rights, Jamillia should own him by this point. And yet there he is with Senator Amidala. Did he just decide to stay with her and no one questioned it? Did she buy him? Was he a gift? No matter how it happened, by the time they run into Anakin again Artoo and Padmé are almost literally inseparable.

Artoo stays with her when she’s posing as a fighter pilot. Artoo–an astromech droid, not a specialized security unit–is the one who guards her while she sleeps.

Artoo accompanies her when she’s undercover, for no apparent reason. Why do you need an R2 unit at Varykino? What possible benefit could he be? If anything he draws unwanted attention. He’s there because Padmé wants him there. (And, I suspect, because he refused to stay behind.)

Artoo saves her life. Artoo is at her wedding. Artoo takes care of her husband for her (and yes, despite shipping Padmé with Sabé with the passion of a thousand suns, I think it’s adorable that she and Anakin assign their respective most trusted droids to take care of each other.) Artoo is there for the birth of her children. Artoo watches her die. And Artoo spends Leia’s entire life as the only person in the universe who knows everything. And he has to carry that knowledge by himself, because Threepio doesn’t remember. And yet over the decade-and-then-some between series, he manages to keep them together. Because they’re married Artoo is Padmé’s, and Threepio is Anakin’s, and they’re supposed to do this together.

Fast forward to ANH and we find Artoo exactly where he’s always been, protecting his mistress. He takes care of the Skywalker kids exactly as fiercely as he ever took care of their mother. (”I found her! She’s here, she’s here, she’s here!” ”Do you think he likes me?”) He crossed half the galaxy to find Leia, who wasn’t even his owner; because she was Padmé‘s daughter and he had a duty to fulfill. And just as an added bonus he found Luke, too. And he never once leaves them.

And the fact is it all started because Padmé’s best friend wanted to play a trick on her.