Moar Star War (spoilers obvs)

[elisi]

Twitter thread

(It's late and I have not replied to previous comments and it's Christmas TOMORROW and I still have presents to wrap, but oh, this verse, these characters! <3)

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Of course, I don't wish to dismiss Ben's homesickness or how much he must have missed his parents, just that it's hardly the same as Finn being torn from his family and then being robbed of his very name and any link to what he was before.

Rey wants to belong to a family, she thinks she needs to be 'somebody' to wield the Force, whereas Kylo would like nothing more to be a 'nobody', hence him constantly using that against her because he secretly envies how free she is of any legacy.

[elisi]

Yes, it's the push-pull freedom/dead weight of belonging/legacy.

Finn's whole identity was stolen, and he will probably never know who he once was. He is free to choose who to be, but he is also all on his own to begin with, making a choice all of his own.

Rey was abandoned (as far as we know), and she knows the hopelessness of having no future. (The scene where she cleans the day's loot and looks up to see the old woman across from her, her future made flesh, is one of my favourite scenes in the whole story.)

Ben Solo was always special, the son of heroes, the grandson of the most evil man in the universe, gifted and talented and probably painfully suggestible. One of the reasons I love the Emo Kylo Ren Twitter feed so much, is that - although very silly - it's not inaccurate in the look into his mind. The father who is silly and jovial, where Ben would be serious and sensitive, the mother who is busy laying the foundations of a rebellion, loving, but probably busy and unsure how to deal with her son who reminder her too much of her father... It doesn't excuse him, but it provides a poignant backdrop. Dammit I wish the prequels were better than they are.

[sea_thoughts]

The Emo Kylo Ren Twitter account is so funny precisely because it contains those kernels of truth amongst the melodramatics.

Given how much Leia hated her biological father, whom she only knew as a figure of repression and evil, I wouldn't be surprised if Ben's resemblance to him troubled disturbed her.

[elisi]

The Emo Kylo Ren Twitter account is so funny precisely because it contains those kernels of truth amongst the melodramatics.
It is acutely observed. Like how he puts up this amazing poster and then his father uses it for throwing darts at...

Given how much Leia hated her biological father, whom she only knew as a figure of repression and evil, I wouldn't be surprised if Ben's resemblance to him troubled disturbed her.
Very much so. :(