Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

swearydroid:

kadigan2:

jathis:

firstordershitposting:

firstordersquad:

avalanche-of-swaggy-baguettes:

Fanon Captain Phasma: PhasMom, remembers the names of all her stormtroopers, a nice and caring person, friends with Kylo Ren and General Hux, only wants the best for you.

Canon Captain Phasma: Straight up burned down a village in the first 5 minutes of the movie, is jacked, wears armor plated with the melted down hull of the ship belonging to the former emperor/dictator that was totally up for genocide all the time, a person she idolizes

Originally posted by eclecticsanonymous

WHY NOT BOTH

THIS IS SO FUCKING IMPORTANT TO ME

Also canonically she does remember the “names” of the soldiers under her command. Whether this is out of respect or just because she has an awesome memory is up for debate. Personally I see it as both idk.

I did not know the source of her chrome plating. Holy badass, Batman! Was that Palpatine’s ship? How did she get ahold of it? AMAZING backstory holy shit. :D

SHE IS BOTH

(Source: breadstick-boogaloo, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

real-smug-caryatid:

cywscross:

3fluffies:

mmelolabelle:

tally-ho-mother-fucker:

indigobluerose:

airyairyquitecontrary:

mmelolabelle:

But what if Anakin isn’t ignoring Kylo Ren?  What if that great pull Kylo feels towards the Light is Anakin Skywalker desperately trying to save his grandson from his own fate, the way his wife and son tried to save him?

what if Anakin is literally constantly standing behind Kylo Ren, sputtering with ghostly frustration, going, “No! No! No! Do not do that! Do NOT do that! oh for fuck’s sake.”

This is almost certainly what is actually happening.

“Ben if you skewer my son-in-law with that lightsaber then SO HELP ME”

“Ben Solo your mother is blaming me for this, get your ass home and apologize now or I swear-”

And Yoda and Obi-wan are watching, shaking their heads. “Now you know how we felt,” Obi-wan says.

Yoda agrees: “A bitch, karma is.”

I love this. So many people can just totally see Anakin trying to strangle Ben from the afterlife.

I love this idea so much

Basically Anakin in that mini-fic I just wrote.

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wake-up-finn:

There’s something about the way Finn said “That’s the only name they ever gave me” that breaks my heart. He sounded so resigned, so nonplussed, so matter of fact–as if Poe had asked the time, Finn had given it, and Poe seemed confused, to which Finn just shrugged and replied “that’s what the clock says.” He didn’t sound sad or particularly broken up about it and I realized it’s probably because he didn’t know what was stolen from him.  

Of course Finn knew what families were and that some people got to grow up with them. He understood what parents and siblings were. He knew enough of the concept of friendship to want it. But these were all things he’d never had and knew he’d never have. So, Finn pushed them from his mind. 

Since birth, Finn was told that he could never change his circumstances. So, what was the point of complaining, he reasoned. Why wallow? His hand had been dealt and so he worked to play his cards to the best of his ability. 

Because Finn isn’t self-involved. Finn doesn’t pity himself. Finn is selfless, almost to a fault.  

That is why it was never anything the First Order did to him that made Finn decide to leave. It was what the FO did to others: the teammates they told him to leave behind, the innocents they ordered him to kill, the teammates they led to slaughter. 

That is why every new experience and person is so precious to Finn. He’s discovering the life he never had–the person he wasn’t allowed to be. And he greets each new discovery, not with an understandable sadness borne of deprivation, but with the wide-eyed enthusiasm of exploration.  

A nickname? He’s always wanted one. Tries it on. Finds he likes it. 

A pilot. A friend? Gone too soon. Finn clings to the only remaining piece of him. 

A scavenger. A look. One he’s never seen before but is immediately determined not to lose. 

A reunion. He runs to it.  Embraces it. 

A righteous battle. Innocents to defend. He dares Death to come get it. 

When Finn awakens, he’ll find Rey, friendship, love, family, a future. All the things he thought he’d lost. Finn will embrace each new revelation the way Finn always does: not with the sadness of “this is what I missed,” but with the joy of “look at what I’ve found.” 

No, it’s fine, I didn’t need to function today.

(Source: jawnbaeyega, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

mooglemisbehaving:

kyraneko:

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rockscanfly:

roachpatrol:

ok but has anyone considered… stormtrooper memes. stormtroopers with injokes. stormtroopers quietly passing along little nudges and references while they’re standing guard or patrolling endless hallways. hux pausing halfway through a speech, suspiciously— he just heard a very tiny, staticy giggle. like,

• (standing in front of blank wall or empty box) nothing to see here, move along
• let’s just put that in the back pocket for now mmkay
  
• *eats ration bar* mm mmm tastes like [dead comrade]
  
• you can’t be mean to me on my birthday
  
• *force chokes a problem*
  
• (between heavy darth vader wheezes) i’m not mad, i’m just disappointed. 
  
• (when something falls over) rebel scum!
  
• *points at large machine* mom
• it’s party time (everyone stands perfectly still for at least a minute)
  
• (when friend come into the room) you’re surplus to requirements
  
• they put a worm in him
  
• *picks up thing that is not a phaser* pew pew
  
• i’m matt the radar technician
  

• millennium falcon as a code for “mother fucker”
• Sending troopers new to the unit on an ruffleluff hunt
• spreading the rumor that Hoth is secretly the main base because that’s the only place their uniforms make sense as camo
• tagging other trooper’s helmets with mysterious substances when they’re not looking
• radioing sanitation to ‘come take out this trash’ when dragging another trooper

• there’s coffee and doughnuts in the breakroom
• *does something dangerous* eat me ass first
• healthy habits start at home
• well, as we all know, [lie]
• *gives someone a pinecone*  (very difficult to pull off)
• i can’t go out dressed like THIS!
• my morale is so [genital adjective] right now.
• does anyone need to stormpooper before we go
• fun is illegal 
• *puts foot in small box* i live here now
• doubletime sleeping
• *points at captain phasma* mom
  

• *humming Vader’s theme tune when someone’s in trouble*
  
• Jedi are a myth
  
• Kylo Ren is a myth
  
• *explaining damage* It got KRed. (Kylo Renned)
  
• KRUBAR Kylo Renned Beyond All Recall/Recognition/Repair
  
• Calling helmets faces (a relic from the clone days)
  
• Backtalking superior officers “begging to be spaced”
  
• Kylo Ren is having a moment as an acceptable excuse for deviating a patrol route
  
• General Hux is in a good mood as an acceptable excuse for deviating a patrol route
  
• And Captain Phasma is smiling at us under that helmet (synonymous with “bullshit”)
  

Finn accidentally slipping into stormtrooper memes while with the Resistance and getting some odd looks.

Finn trying to explain to them why their Force-using manchild deadly enemy destroying property in a rage is funny and getting some more odd looks.

Finn feeling a little knot in his gut when he realizes he’s never going to be able to tell these jokes again. How’s he even going to connect to these people enough to make them laugh when they’re all scared shitless? How’s he going to carry his entire squad around in his head when he can’t even speak their language anymore?

Meanwhile Rey’s standing there squinting suspiciously at a pinecone.

Okay but Rebels who see Finn being upset and making a concerted effort to figure out meme culture. Rey and Jessika talking it out while Jessika is teaching Rey the cultural miscellany of Resistance and pilot culture.

Rey being the first one to get it, because she synergizes what Jessika’s telling her and what Finn’s explaining and realizes, this is all communication around communication, the key point is shared understanding, and then she starts making her own, with Jessika, and Finn picks it up, and soon the whole base is in on this bastardized mix of stormtrooper meme and purely Resistance meme and a ridiculous combination of the two.

And then they interact with stormtroopers and something goes on in the background on the First Order side and a Resistance soldier asks, “Is Kylo Ren having a moment?” and there’s muffled laughter and an absence of blasterfire from the stormtroopers.

Pretty soon there’s a whole code that stormtroopers and resistance soldiers can use to communicate. “Nothing to see here, move along” means “I’m ignoring you on purpose, don’t shoot me,” and “I’m KR’d” means “I want out, please capture me.”

From the Rebel side, “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi” becomes “throw me a bone here” in either direction to ask for a favor; “That’s no moon” means “you’re walking into a trap here/we’ve got a secret weapon you won’t like.”

Okay, I was expecting someone to pick this up, but damn, this is even better than I hoped.

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

prokopetz:

I think the most plausible The Force Awakens headcanon I’ve ever run into is that the galactic media started holding Ben up as the face of the nascent New Jedi Order from a very young age, and everything that’s happened since then is basically the equivalent of a former child star meltdown.

Just, you know, instead of getting drunk and trashing his hotel room, he shivs his dad and blows up the sun, because Skywalkers never do anything small.

100% the most legit explanation I’ve come across.

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hollandlolland asked: Prompt: Finn/Poe taking Rey to a green planet bc she loves that shit but they're not flora/fauna experts so when she starts trying weird stuff (running through the bush, trying to figure out what's edible, etc) they don't know what to do

Yes, absolutely, Rey on green planets is my new favorite thing.  Also, if you didn’t expect this to be pre-OT3, you should have.  Also, this is my first time writing these three, so be gentle with me.

“Oh, Force,” Rey breathed, turning on her heel, neck craned back and mouth open in delight.  The trees towered over the Falcon, the sunlight filtering green-gold through the leaves and dappling the ship and its passengers in faint shadows.  Poe watched her spin, her arms out and her head thrown back, and tried not to think too much.  “Look at them!  How do they get so big without falling over?” she asked, looking at Poe with wide, curious eyes.  

He grinned, hands stuffed in the pockets of his new jacket–he’d gotten his old one repaired while Finn was in a coma, and the swathe of red material replacing the lightsaber damage had made the ex-Trooper beam at him.  “Hey, I’m a flyboy, not a botanist.  I don’t pay attention to trees unless they’re in my way.”

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outpastthemoat:

Everyone says stormtroopers can’t shoot.

Poe’s heard it for years. It’s a joke he hears in the barracks, in the war rooms; it’s the first joke they tell the new recruits: Don’t worry, buddy, stormtroopers can’t shoot.  Stormtroopers couldn’t hit the Death Star if they were in its orbit. Stormtroopers couldn’t hit a rancour in a closet.  We’ll come back safe and sound, his friends say as a farewell, we’ll be fine: You know that stormtroopers can’t shoot.

Stormtroopers can’t shoot, they say, but Poe knows it’s not true, because he’s standing here with Finn’s hand on his arm and Finn is looking at him with such goodness in his eyes and saying he’s here to rescue him, Poe Dameron, and Poe knows in that instant that everything everyone’s ever said about stormtroopers is wrong, all wrong, because here is Finn, wearing his goodness shining all over him like shining armour, and it hits Poe right in the heart.

They say stormtroopers can’t shoot, but here is Finn in the copilot’s seat of their TIE, his back pressed against Poe’s, and they are working in tandem like they’ve done this for years, like they’ve trained together and fought together and sweated together, felt each other’s fear and tasted glory together, like they have been fighting on the same side all along. Here is Finn, aiming to kill, taking a shot at the institution that told him he was nothing but a number and a pair of arms meant for holding guns.  He’s a good shot, someone you’d want by your side in a furball.  Someone you’d want by your side, through thick and thin.

They say stormtroopers can’t shoot, but here is Finn, fighting for what he believes in, rushing to save the ones he loves, and when he sees Finn, ready to race after his friend no matter where it will take him, it is then that Poe knows he wants it for himself: Finn’s devotion, his loyalty, his love.  This is it.  This is all he wants.  He wants Finn fighting for him.   

Here is Finn, doing what he believes to be right, and Poe’s always had a type, anyone could tell you; he has fallen in love with stories of knights and warriors, the ones who fight for justice and peace, and here is Poe, still reeling from Finn’s dark eyes and careful hands, and he never had a chance, he’s a standing target, and Finn’s aim is true.

Here is Finn, smiling right at him, and It hits Poe right in the heart.

It’s instant, it’s fatal, and they say stormtroopers can’t shoot.

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