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Stranded on a broken ship alone together on some doomed planet, eating expired rations, complaining and blaming each other, eventually over-sharing depressing thoughts/childhood memories…

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begrudgingly helping each other after a defeat, trying not to make it awkward. Clingy depressed Kylo, grouchy old man Hux

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Syril holding Dedra’s coat while she is away

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I haven’t drawn them in a while but missed star wars after watching Andor. Kylux angst, injured Hux/Kylo, some arguing

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There is something uncanny, cringey, lonely, messed up, interesting about their characters, made some angsty sketches of them. Villain couple

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"There is something uncanny, cringey, lonely, messed up..." Yes, that's why I liked them. That's why episodes 8 and 12 broke me, that's why I haven't stopped crying ever since. Syril and Dedra were relatable in their flaws. More relatable than the good guys.

With the good guys, you can just FEEL being told "this character is flawed but GOOD, this is how you are supposed to think, this is how you are supposed to be, look at them and like them, look at how good and virtuous or cool and badass they are". But they still feel distant and you feel nothing.

Not the case with Syril and Dedra. We met earnest Syril being all lonely and not fitting in, starved for recognition and desperately doing his best, then having an embarrassing failure and having to go back to his emotionally abusive mom. We saw highly intelligent and equally serious and underappreciated Dedra dealing with jerks at work. We saw these awkward, emotionally starved, earnest people finding each other. And that is a thousand times more relatable than badass heroes, who do heists and revolutions.

And heists and revolutions aren't relatable to serious, damaged, lonely people because they don't dream of heists and revolutions. They don't have the need to rebel. They don't fit in a crowd to relate to and fight for their cause. People who don't fit in dream of connection, of being recognised, of being seen and understood.

Serious and earnest people with emotional damage are more closer to Syril and Dedra than they will ever be to any of the rebels.

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More angsty/protective sketches of them

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There is something uncanny, cringey, lonely, messed up, interesting about their characters, made some angsty sketches of them. Villain couple