In Defense for Mollo101
So I assume lots of you have heard of @mollo101, and his art. If you have, you will know that he loves to draw Star Wars art, and did a lot of free commissions and requests for people a while back.
When he first started his blog, he drew ALOT of Rexsoka. Throughout his time on Tumblr, he has done so continuously, in his love for the pairing. I loved a lot of his art, and had great respect for his skill and talent.
But as of recently I have been seeing posts like this drifting around-
I get why some people are furious, and I do understand your frustration. As a single woman, I do feel your anger when it comes to this sort of art. But, let me ask you this. Does that make it right for you to make a whole hate post about him, hating on his art and what he does? Saying that he’s a pedophile? In your eyes, that’s what he may be. But does that make it right to post something like that?
Also, what you call “Child Ahsoka” is not so in some cases. Being from Japan, the main art style there is Anime/Manga, whatever you want to call it. This art style portrays women much younger then they actually are, such as
or
or this.
These girls are probably in the older teen/adult years. The anime style has a way of making women in general, seem much younger. In Japan, it is a really big deal for women to look “cute”. So he’s drawing Ahsoka from when she’s 17/18 in lots of cases, and it makes her look like she’s 13/14. I assure you, that is just the way his art style makes it, he is not purposely trying to make it look like he is making her into a tiny child.
Now I know some art he has posted is from the first two seasons of Clone Wars, in which she is 14/15. These Rexsoka posts are pretty well kept, although there is one or two pieces of them kissing. Do I think this is appropriate? No. But neither is 12 year olds kissing in school. (At least in my opinion). An underage character paired with an older aged is inappropriate I know, but shall we get into the whole age difference of Star Wars?
In the beginning seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ahsoka was aged at 14. This would make Rex (get this) 12. He was twelve years old, two years younger than Ahsoka, and he remained that way for the rest of his life. He did look older, but that is not the point. He wasn’t older. In the later series of Star Wars, (the later seasons) He was 14-15, while Ahsoka was 16-17. Still, she’s older. The growth acceleration does not make him older than Ahsoka, which is still shown in Rebels. In rebels Rex is about an estimated age of 30, but how old does he look? 60.
In conclusion, I must agree with some of the haters in the part where drawing nudes and sex pictures of Rex and Ahsoka when she was at the age of 14 was not appropriate, and I can understand why it makes them mad. But he also draws them during the Rebels time period, which I know several people who ship them only in that time frame. I myself ship them in all time frames, but do not believe anything like that should be going on till at least after the later series.
Rexsoka is a great ship, and while I understand the reasons it makes some people mad, but in canon, is pretty innocent. It’s not even an actual pairing in canon. Blowing your top over someone’s fan art is not going to help. Instead, just ignore it and scroll past it, and if your that concerned about it appearing on your feed, block him. But don’t be making crappy posts against him, when other people like him. It’s one, not courteous or considerate, and two, just plain out rude. It’s not hard to click a button and block the person. I do the same thing for people who heavily ship things I don’t like and it all appears on my feed. It’s done silently, and without issue. Just take this into consideration please.
And Mollo, I really do support you. I may not agree with you on a few things, but I support you. Have a nice day.