#melshian

[amy-thystt]

whatever happens now, we made it

[mon-moth-ma]

sometimes family is the guy you escaped prison with and the droid that tried to kill you

[wondersmith-and-sons]

rewatching rogue one after the finale, and yeah i do see lines differently now, because when chirrut says, "there's more than one sort of prison, captain. i sense you carry yours wherever you go," i immediately think of how cassian and melshi don't get knocked out by the stunners because they've become conditioned to electrical shocks from narkina 5. so that's fun.

[laneboyheathens]

Melshi really is just prepared to follow Cassian anywhere. “Suicide mission? And we’re both blind drunk? Same as last week then?”

[paperflower86]

The reunion scene we deserved to see. Based on this text post by @laz-laz-ace-pilot.

[andorshipsbracket]

SEMI-FINALS

Syril & Dedra

Cassian & Melshi

Voting ended onJul 23, 2025

[scomplink]

is this anything

[major-comet]

thinking about how a recurring theme for cassian throughout the whole show is how he doesn’t feel in control of his life. that he feels he lacks the autonomy needed to truly make important decisions for himself. and how, at the end of his life his two closest companions are people who only have their own senses of free choice and autonomy because cassian helped give it to them.

kay was liberated from the empire’s control all because cassian decided on a whim to take the k-x that tried to kill him on ghorman back to yavin with him, and melshi was liberated from prison just a month after cass got there after being there for so long it had completely crushed his spirit.

if it hadn’t been for cassian, kay would have never known what it feels like to Feel things, to know what it’s like to say No. melshi very likely would have never seen the sun again, never been reborn in the waters of narkina 5 and on the shores of niamos into the man who would be a sergeant within a year of joining the alliance.

they never would have known what it’s like to play 863 games of rianza in the jungle yurt they’ve lived in for a year, with the man who freed them and someone else he freed along the way.

and i’m not sure cass ever truly recognized the effect he had on those around him, but they sure did.