something really funny about interfandom “ship wars” at least in the SW fandom is the amount of cherry picking antis do. take, for instance, haaaardcore anidala shippers. in my experience they’re mostly anti-reylo and they like to get on their high horse about how reylo is “abuse” and a whole bunch of other bullshit, that really isn’t reflected in canon. however when reylos bring up the issues with anidala, like how Anakin killed a bunch of literal children and choked a pregnant Padme, almost to death and was the indirect cause of her death (also the thing where he murdered a whole village full of tuskan raiders, innocents included, in attack of the clones, four entire years before he turned to the dark side yet Padme, unproblematic kween marries him anyway), they deflect. they always reply with, “that wasn’t Anakin, that was Vader. No one ships vaderdala.”
It’s just really funny to me because they act as though Anakin and Vader are two separate people and Anakin is an innocent bystander in all of this. But to them, Kylo and Ben are one in the same. the sin of one is the sin of the other, while their ~Broody King~ gets off scot free. while no reylos really apply that logic to kylo/ben because let’s be real it’s not logic and it’s flimsy at best.
And let’s talk about the whole alleged pedophilia thing, you know, while we’re here and i’m fired up. when we meet Rey in TFA, she’s about 19 years old. it’s not explicitly mentioned in the film but i’m 75% sure it’s in the novelization, as well as just being common knowledge at this point. Kylo/Ben in TFA is 29. it’s a 10 year age gap, which isn’t even the biggest age gap in star wars, not to mention the fact that 19 is an adult. the biggest age gap that i’m aware of (and i haven’t done a ton of EU research, im just going off what i know here) is han and leia. leia is 19 at the time of ANH and han is about 15 years her senior at 34. not to mention a fact i just learned which is han is only 9 years younger than anakin, leias biological father. BUT leia is an adult and she can make her own decisions, without being infantilized which is something that our girl rey has yet to experience after 5 years and 3 films. ALSO back to our ~holy grail uwu ship~ anidala, anakin is 9 in TPM and padme is 14, hes 19 in AoTC she is 24, 23 and 29 in RoTS you get it. not the biggest age gap but they met when he was 9. no one wanna call that gross based on unfounded bullshit? no? oh so we just gonna do that with reylo? gotcha.
don’t even get me wrong there are legitimate triggers for some people with reylo and that’s totally valid. it’s an enemies to lovers ship, they do some shitty things to each other in the beginning, and that can be triggering, i get it. and i have interacted with people who have just been like “that particular ship triggers me so i don’t interact,” and we’ve moved on. but when people start pulling the “it triggers me, so YOU can’t ship it bc of X Y and Z,” that’s when i start getting irritated. blacklist tags, for the most part reylos are really good about tagging our shit. stay in your own lane. if you don’t like it don’t interact.
also like it’s canon they’re soulmates AND they smooched so suck it, virginity pledges. suck. it.
don’t come for me. i’ll block you ✌🏻😗✌🏻
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