#rosefinn

[jebifinn]

me: oh yeah i have a lot of sequel star wars ships. finn and poe, finn and rey, rey and rose, rose and finn, hell i’d even ship all four of them together

them: what about rey and kylo

me: not to be dramatic but i’d rather die

[agent-danascully]

here’s a thought: finn was kissed at the end of TFA by rey, and then he was kissed at the end of TLJ by rose

so here’s to episode IX completing this triad by having poe kiss finn

[fushigi-fushigi]

Let’s not talk about a possible ending -

Rose & Finn Undercover in Canto Bight

The bow tie was out for him. The droid Poe - Captain Dameron - had supplied him with for the mission was either programmed to be a masochist or (and this was what Finn suspected), Poe himself had ordered the tiny bot’s nimble fingers be set to “strangle” when dressing Finn in one of the five smooth suits he’d been supplied with. Revenge for trying to get out of this mission, he supposed, and he dug his fingers around his collar to try and get some relief from the satin noose.

Noose. Fitting, he thought to himself, moving down the hallway of the Canto Bight hotel neither he nor his partner for this terror mission could ever dream of affording, but at least she’d gotten the less violent BB-8 to help her dress.

For the Resistance, and all that, his head auto-ducking while passing a giggling human-alien couple sloppily moving down the hallway. He sighed, pushing his sweaty palms down his tuxedo pants - forgetting their cost for a moment because he was wondering, for the eighteen millionth time in the past hour, why he and Rose were even on this stupid run Poe’d deemed of upmost importance after the death of General Organa.

“We need either DJ or the Master Codebreaker if we want to hack their systems, yeah?” A smart-ass smile and Finn felt his heart drop. “Your choice.” Finn’d felt Rose tense beside him, her tiny frame radiating quiet but resigned disapproval. “You guys are the only ones who know the place. What they both look like.” Poe spread his hands and sat wide-legged on the bridge’s command desk. “You in?” Rose spoke first. Agreed first. Of course she did, and within hours they were on a ship Finn was sure Poe’d stolen “for the cause”, a bunch of clothes cut to their measurements in an hour by a bunch of droids on board along with a cache of weapons Finn knew for sure were stolen - but at least he knew how to use them. They’d spoken little as they made their way to Canto Bight, the light speed pulling them out of their trajectory and into Cantonica’s orbit, but Finn clocked Rose’s gentle pulling of her Haysian Smelt necklace at a speed of about twice a minute. It was only when they got their docking clearance did Finn mutter “what the hell are we doing?” His response was a shrug, as she moved the landing gear into position - “what we’re supposed to.” Finn reached her room finally. They’d booked rooms apart, to avoid any of the guards recognising them from their last eventful excursion to the capital, but their forged documents, savvy clothing, ship and money spoke for them. He knocked, BB-8′s beeps happily moving towards the door and eventually opening it. “Hey buddy,” Finn said, patting the droid’s head to a chorus of happy chirps telling him Rose was in the side room finishing getting dressed. “So she is a girl after all,” Finn laughed, not entirely sure what the sentiment meant, but Poe’s eye rolling towards the women in his fleet taking “forever” to dress for occasions made Finn think it was appropriate here. Rose, in his experience, took about four seconds to get ready, and he was curious about the large bags holding her clothing for the mission that seemed to take up more space than both of them put together.

“You ready?” he called out, so not to startle her when she eventually came into the room. “I’m -” there was a small crash, causing Finn to stand and BB-8 to chirp-laugh. “It’s okay, yeah. Just - new territory. Two seconds.” Finn sat back down, ignoring BB-8 rolling in a conspiratorial way.

“You’re prepped?” Finn crossed his arms across his jacket. Uncomfortable. Hands on pants. Sweaty; expensive. How did people wear these things. “BB-8 briefed you, right?”

“Yeah, I -” another crash, smaller this time. “Geez, how do - yeah, I’m good. We act like patrons, using the cash the Resistance put forward to the casino for us. It’s enough for - what is this thing...no wait - um - yeah, it’s enough to get the owner’s attention. He’s already called up.”

Finn blinked, standing. “He did?” 

“About an hour ago.” An ‘ouch’ followed this, and Finn smiled.

“It went okay?”

Rose stuck her head around the corner and glared at him. Her hair was up, off her neck and in an elaborate Alderaanian style BB-8 must have pulled out in honour of General Organa. She had makeup on - something Finn had no idea about in general, but to him it seemed BB-8 had helped her apply it in all the right places. Red lips, rosy cheeks and then. Then, there were her eyes. Her dark, beautiful eyes highlighted by lashes and sparkles and Finn sat down abruptly without breaking eye contact. 

Her eyes, that now moved from regarding him crankily to a look of - something Finn wasn’t sure of; she seemed to look him up and down in his tuxedo of torture quickly before disappearing behind the wall. “Yes, Finn,” she almost squeaked, before a quick cough dispelled it and brought her patented ‘cranky-at-Finn’ voice back. “I handled it like the fancy lady I was supposed to be.”

Finn stood again and began pacing, feeling suddenly from Rose’s expression when seeing him like maybe he did look the part. “Play big spenders, get into the high rollers room, find the Master Codebreaker, bring him back. Easy. Right. So we’re ready?”

He’d not been ready for when she stepped around the corner into the room. She’s all white ice sparkles, soft curves in see-through fabric and a breath of beautiful, brunette fresh air - it’s like he’s been smacked in the face by an ice storm on Hoth or her home planet of Hays Minor. Heels peeked out from under the hem of the dress - a small wobble as she walked towards him, but she had quickly collected herself - and Finn feels his face going red. She looks..he’d shook his head, trying to clear it. The mission. It’s just Rose!, and he had a flash of her kissing him on Crait, except this time its under the stars of Canto Bight and she’s in a dress he’s not even sure how she got into it fits her so well. It’s just Rose, and he suddenly had wanted to remember this moment forever.

“What?” She looked visibly panicked for a moment, pulling at the delicate fabric, her hair, her face. “I look terrible? Ugh, I told BB-8 it was too much but -” 

“No.” Finn moved forward, offering his arm to her. “No. It’s -” and he again ducked his head, but for different reasons than in the hallway - “It’s perfect. You look...”

BB-8 beeped happily, saying what Finn was thinking out loud as if a mind reader.

“You shut-up!” they say in unison - was she thinking the same thing about him? - before laughing and the tension slightly alleviated. 

“Shall we?”

She nodded, taking his arm and smiling slightly. “Godspeed, Rebel.” -- @finnroseflowers​ <3

[mechina]

Rey went to save Ben

Ben saved Rey

Rose saved Finn

“Saving what we love.”

[xxlost-oncerxx]

recently got into the Star Wars fandom, just saw tlj and omg it’s amazing I love it so much 😍😍🎉

stormpilot is canon don’t @ me

rose and finn can stay a badass duo pls

reylo has good chemistry 🔥 but I need Ben to sort out his shit before it’s official (Adam Driver is a pure soul that deserves all the love in the world tbh)

luke sasswalker is my entire life

basically, Star Wars owns my ass now ✌🏻

[ohmuqueen]

i need AT LEAST five(5) of six(6) things in Episode IX to be even halfway happy and not think this sequel trilogy is a complete failure:

Rose Tico AND Finn having a prominent role in the main plot (REQUIRED)

Finn being Force sensitive (REQUIRED)

Rey being happy about Finn and Rose’s relationship

Rose being happy about Rey and Finn’s relationship

Rey getting a dual lightsaber

Rey and Rose being friends and interacting and passing the Bechdel test

EDIT: I forgot to mention bc it should never occur to anyone controlling what happens in ix but also

ROSE, POE, REY, AND FINN ARE ALL STILL ALIVE AND WELL BY THE END OF THE MOVIE

[nokris-hive]

Rose Tico (Spoilers)

I AM NOT HATING ON ROSE!!

But Rose & Finn SHOULD NOT get together. That said let me get into my arguement.

Rose & Finn should not get together because Rose Tico is a major Finn Fan-girl. Rose does not know Finn properly, and she idealized what he might be like in her head before she even saw him. In order for the romance to make sense they should either:

Have Rose & Finn date, break-up do to fundemental differences, then return to the concept off not meeting your heros (also not dating/marrying someone you just met).

OR wait for the relationship to mature past the point of Finn being a war hero, let time pass, return after a year at war and say that Rose & Finn understand each other well enough to have a healthy relationship.

For me not even Rey & Finn make sense as a couple because Finn developed a strong attraction to Rey seemingly out of nowhere but force bond(?) and vanity. Finn also may not have had a normal relationship before. Finn put his neck on the line for Rey every chance he got, but Rey only got mad cause Ben nearly killed him and thats her connection to him.

Reylo (the name ill use for the ship) makes the most sense to me because they have the most chemistry rn. They have talked numerous amounts of times through the force instead of trying to kill each other all the time. Ben & Rey without prompting from anyone else took the time to get to know each other (even though Ben did so by invading her mind). Rey learned about Ben through Luke, Leia, Han, and even Finn, which led her to know more about him than anyone else. Rather than be manipulated by Snoke the two seemed more focused on learning about eachother and turning them to their side. Ben is an asshole but he understands Reys attachment to the others (even if it doesnt make sense), he only knows that he needs to sever those bonds though (if Anakin appears to him im sure he'll turn). Rey i dont think was told the truth about her family, so i think if it is revealed that she is desendant from sith she may also turn, but I am of they mind set that they absolutely need to strike a balance with each other, which is why Reylo makes sense to me.

[sarahbatistapereira]

/star wars spoilers???/ oh wow did the episode make reylo happen or what? Havent seen it yet but i thought finnrey would be the romance haha

I think it depends how you define “happen” though that is a complicated spoilery thing to explain. The short answer is: It didn’t not happen. Depending on how you define Reylo it in fact happened in spades. But this movie wasn’t really about traditional blockbuster romance in any direction. If anything, it was all more like watching kids on the playground. But:

Having seen it twice now, I do think the next episode could still do a few different things. If the first film ended in a free for all, with an open invitation for Rian Johnson to do whatever he wanted (and I strongly stand by the idea it was, and would be happy to explain why), then I think this film ends in a way where paths have been followed, choices were made both by writer and characters, but the relationship tree is complicated and everything is in a preliminary stage. So much so that you can still possibly rearrange where people sit on the branches if you wanted to. 

Johnson has even stated as much actually, if you follow interviews. He said that there is romance in this film, but that he left it mostly open for the next film to either choose it or not–that he did not think the characters were ready for it as much as he would have liked to dig in more (and in this I think he was a thousand percent correct). 

All of that to say, I think we have in no particular order:

1. FinnRey: What I feel they could pick back up if they really wanted to, though I would not currently bet the farm on it. For one, both Boyega and Ridley seem pretty not keen on it and have gone on record as saying that it’s not a thing. But also, I admit that I feel like the trilogy has been doing pretty well so far maintaining a focus on love without letting romance become overbearing, and these two are currently in a position where to up them from Luke and Leia status, I think it’d be hard not to make it the point of next movie. They have spent all this movie not only apart but with two very particular people (see below). You would need to both sell me on the idea Rey has fallen in love with Finn (Finn’s feelings for her in TFA are pretty clear) and sell me on a choice between her and Rose which does not leave Rose out in the cold, does not reduce either Rey or Rose as objects to be won, and does not make Finn’s only story to do so. 

2. RoseFInn: What I feel like they are promising. Mainly, because I think The Last Jedi does a phenomenal job of demonstrating just why Rose and Finn have the potential to be romantic and Rey and Finn are not. The beats of their relationship are incredibly similar, but always different, in a way that feels distinct. Finn and Rey spin around each other like excited children while Finn and Rose complete each other’s sentences. Rey leaves a comatose Finn behind easily if with care and Finn stays glued to Rose’s side even though he just got Rey back. Finn and Rey end with a forehead kiss and a “my friend”, Rose and Finn end with a peck on the lips (not surprisingly started by Rose, as the most self-actualized of the four). There is such care in this film to give them separate but rhyming journeys, which I think flesh out Finn’s emotional world just as much as they flesh out his hero’s journey–and all without bogging him down in a romantic triangle. I’d really like to see that integrity maintained (to not even speak to, for me, the uncomfortable implications of Rose getting passed over for Rey).

3. ReyBen: What I feel like they could step away from but I would be hugely disappointed if they did, because this too felt promised. The ship name I am sure will remain Reylo, but this is the real choice here, and I appreciated acutely how clear the film made this, in interest of preserving Rey’s integrity as a character. The tropes they slip into may carry more than a little gothic romance in them, but much like Rey’s attraction to the dark side of the Force is more about what it has to offer her rather than a true desire to do evil, Rey is drawn to the kinship she feels in Ben Solo more than she is drawn to the power plays of Kylo Ren. And ultimately, I think you could see the same of him. You can hang their entire development on that moment where they see that vision of their future together (which I would not be surprised if they saw the same thing, as suits their overall arc). Until that point, their scenes together are a natural climb out of where they ended last film to a place of begrudging acceptance they find each other intriguing. That they have common points, that they have things to offer one another. But whatever they saw in that vision, it was enough to prove one thing to them: That before they were alone, but together they could not be. It was enough to push both to risk everything for it, although they both fail to do so correctly (Rey goes still looking for someone else to be a hero, and without remembering she has belonging elsewhere too; Ben asks her to stay still believing at that moment that he has moved on from his past). More than that though, like with Rose and Finn, a lot of this film is seeing how these two work together in a way Rey and Finn don’t. Not because Rey and Finn don’t work together, but because they simply don’t push each other, not like either of these above two pairings do.