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Since I take it you read Trevorrow's script, could you tell us if there are any other Poe/Rey moments besides the kiss?

I finally had the time to screen-shot through. It’s sexual tension done right and very gracefully in my opinion. How I wish we got this.

The romance is done steadily, embedded in characters’ and their relationship development. Nothing is rushed and nothing comes out of the blue. The whole angst/drama is Rey trying to find her way as a Jedi, including her love for Poe. She makes him to leave because literally moments before she feels Finn’s pain through the force - she can’t take more pain from the people she loves. There are also many fulfilling moments for Poe, Leia is so proud of him. No slapping, no ridiculing.

It rhymes perfectly with PT (especially with Anakin and Padmé lovestory), OT and the story we were set up for in TFA. Leia acknowledges there’s something between Rey and Poe too and they behave like a couple even before they get together. They’re fucking called a couple and lovers.

Just read the thing. It’s pure Damerey-fest.

Below I pasted the moments in chronological order. Look out, I’ve pasted what feels like half of the script.

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Requested by Anonymous : Damerey Context/Subtext in The Last Jedi

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hey sorry if this isn't ok, but you seem to have so many reference books and expanded canon books and the like so maybe you might know? do we know if canon has said how often leia visited poe's family when he was a kid or how well he got along with ben when they were little?

Hi Anon, it’s more than ok for you to ask me questions like this!

Canon does indeed have an answer to this question, and the answer is that the very first time Poe ever met Leia was was when he was first recruited to leave the New Republic Navy and join the Resistance (about one year before the events of The Force Awakens).

Here is Poe and Leia’s first meeting, as described in the book Before the Awakening:

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka (2015)

The Story Group, knowing how important the first ever meeting between Poe and Leia is, adapted Poe’s segment of this book into a children’s picture book. That means we have actual illustrations of Poe and Leia’s first meeting! How exciting is that!

Star Wars: Poe and the Missing Ship adapted by Nate Millici based on Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Pilot Studio

This is also quickly summarized in the visual dictionaries.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - The Visual Dictionary (2015) by Pablo Hidalgo - reprinted in Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary - New Edition (2018) by James Luceno, David West Reynolds, Ryder Windham, Jason Fry, and Pablo Hidalgo

When it comes to what Poe was told when he was growing up, we know his parents didn’t talk about their time fighting with the Alliance all that much.

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka (2015)

That’s one of the things that caused Poe to fall in love with the Resistance btw. After he joined he discovered there were a lot of veterans of the Galactic Civil War around, and many of them knew his parents.

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka (2015)

There were also people in the Resistance Poe grew up with, such as A-Wing pilot L'ulo L'ampar. L'ulo had been his mother’s squadmate during the Rebellion, and then flew with Black Squadron in the Resistance.

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Shattered Empire #1 (of 4) (2015) - Written by Greg Rucka - Art by Marco Checchetto - Colors by Andras Mossa

According to the eulogy he gave at L'ulo’s funeral, Poe had grown up considering L’ulo to be his uncle.

Star Wars: Poe Dameron (2016-2018) #14 - Legend Lost I - Written by Charles Soule - Art by Angel Unzueta - Colors by Arif Prianto

I bring this up mainly because it reminds us that as the Visual Dictionaries put it “Poe Demeron grows up hearing the legends of starfighter jockeys of old, having been raised by veterans of the Rebel Alliance.” Even if neither Shara nor Kes talked very much about their time with the Rebellion, there were other veterans around Poe all through his youth, including L’ulo.

During that same funeral, Poe calls Leia an old friend of his family.

Star Wars: Poe Dameron (2016-2018) #19 - War Stories III - Written by Charles Soule - Art by Angel Unzueta - Colors by Arif Prianto

Feel free to interpret that as you wish. Personally I see it as Poe making it clear he bares Leia no ill will after this man who was his uncle gave his life to obtain a much needed fuel shipment for the Resistance.

Even though he didn’t meet her until a year before TFA, Poe seems to have always idolized Leia (she was a major historical figure after all).

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - The Visual Dictionary (2015) by Pablo Hidalgo - reprinted in Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary - New Edition (2018) by James Luceno, David West Reynolds, Ryder Windham, Jason Fry, and Pablo Hidalgo

Interestingly, the condolence letter she wrote his family after Shara died was in the book Star Wars: Poe Dameron Flight Log by Michael Kogge, suggesting that Poe kept it all those years later (Poe also had a letter Han wrote as Kes’ direct superior officer, recommending Kes for an honorable discharge as well as a special compensation package for exemplary service).

Star Wars: Poe Dameron Flight Log by Michael Kogge (2016)

The fact Poe kept both of these letters is kinda funny when you consider that six years before her death, Shara Bey specifically asked Leia not to write a letter to her family after she died.

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Shattered Empire #2 (of 4) (2015) - Written by Greg Rucka - Art by Marco Checchetto, Angel Unzueta, and Emilio Laiso - Colors by Andras Mossa

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Shattered Empire #3 (of 4) (2015) - Written by Greg Rucka - Art by Marco Checchetto and Angel Unzueta - Colors by Andras Mossa

Six years later Shara died, and Leia wrote a condolence letter to her widowed husband and eight year old son. In that letter, Leia gave a detailed description of the one and only mission she and Shara went on together. It feels pretty clear to me from this letter that Leia did not know Shara outside of the events of Shattered Empire.

Star Wars: Poe Dameron Flight Log by Michael Kogge (2016)

Shara died in 10 ABY, so Leia would have been 29 when she wrote this letter. I can only assume that means Poe is the one who stuck a photo of Leia in her fifties onto it.

It should also go without saying that like every single other person in the Resistance, up until Kylo Ren showed up on Crait without his helmet, Poe Dameron didn’t have even the slightest inkling of a clue that Kylo Ren could even possibly be Leia Organa’s son.

Poe would sometimes wonder about the grief he’d see Leia display, but he had no way to figure out what was causing it.

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka (2015)

I am trying to puzzle out why you specifically wanted to know if Poe knew Ben, so I can best help you here. I dunno if you were asking for fic reasons or just to know, but if you were planning to write a fic where knowing things about Ben before he became Kylo Ren is needed for the story, there is a member of Poe’s unit (Black Squadron) who you could use for that purpose.

Temmin “Snap” Wexley, joined the New Republic Navy when he was sixteen years old. At age sixteen he was in a unit that answered directly to the then pregnant Leia Organa, and he spent quite a bit of time around her before Ben was born.

Here is an example of Snap interacting with Leia while she was pregnant with Ben:

Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire’s End by Chuck Wendig (2017)

And here is a conversation Snap was present for about Ben, just a few weeks after he was born:

Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire’s End by Chuck Wendig (2017)

While we do not know if Snap and Leia had much contact over the years, six years before The Force Awakens Snap was present for the very first meeting/founding of the Resistance. That said, despite having worked extensively with Snap’s mother and having known and worked with him when he was a teen, Leia didn’t seem to remember Snap on that day, which suggests they had little to no contact in the 23 years between Ben’s birth and the founding of the Resistance.

Star Wars: Bloodline by Claudia Gray (2016)

Which is to say that since Snap is one of Poe’s closest friends, you could, if you want to stick to canon (that is up to you), either have Snap be the one delivering whatever info about Ben you need, or have Poe say that Snap told him stories about Ben, if Poe knowing stuff about Ben Solo is needed in your story.

I mean, you know that these two talk to each other about everything and anything:

Star Wars: Poe Dameron (2016-2018) #19 - War Stories III - Written by Charles Soule - Art by Angel Unzueta - Colors by Arif Prianto

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I have lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people.

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o captain my captain 🌼

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#damerey

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New outtakes | Daisy Ridley for the Hollywood Reporter by Miller Mobley

#daisy ridley

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The Four Elemental Power Walks

Water:

Earth:

Fire:

Air:

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my favorite thing about this is that each of them is walking in a different direction, it’s like these girls are off to conquer the entire goddamn world

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They’re gonna meet in the middle

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In the middle they will find the avatar, master of all elements and the force:

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“I love you.”

“I know.”

I wanted to see what this would look like on paper… so TA DA! They’re so cute!!!!

#damerey #fanart

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#lol #star wars

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Another thing about the Damerey meeting that floors me. It’s the Poe Dameron that approaches her – all throughout both films, he’s Commander Poe Dameron, flyboy, the best pilot in the resistance, but the second she catches his eye fixing BB-8′s antenna, all of the titles fade.

There’s humility in him, there’s light, there’s a faint eagerness, and slight uncertainty. How does he introduce himself to someone like her? But he’s Poe Dameron so he props himself just a little bit, and just goes for it – not Commander Poe Dameron, not Captain, no, I can fly any X-Wing look at me, nothing following – just Poe, because at his core, that’s who he is, just a boy who’s as eager and as wide eyed for a cause that’s bigger than him.

And then when he says “I know”, there’s that same humility again, that same faint glow and the light that tells her he’s heard of her – he knows of her; all versions of her. Because if we recall, when Holdo is introduced, he’s stunned, he didn’t know, but with Rey, he knows, and knowing all that she’s capable of, who she is, what she can do, he could’ve easily been just as bold with her as he tends to be, easily just as eager to establish his ground as Commander (essentially next in line), but no, he chose to introduce himself as Poe, and that’s huge.