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Reylo fiction & art blog. Send me a prompt. Find me on AO3 and FF.net. Reylo trash sideblog is @renlovesrey
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#when they say perfection doesn’t exist

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Ben & Rey | A power like life itself

“He could even save the ones he cared about from dying..”

I broke my own heart making this haha. This song is so emotional and with them i just can’t handle it! Ben really did what his grandfather couldn’t, he saved the woman he loved AND he did it as a Jedi.

I tried to portray how similar Ben and Rey are in this, when he says that she’s lonely, afraid to leave, when she tells him that he’s haunted, that he’s afraid, they both feel those things equally and they understand each other in a way that no one else could. When he tells her “you can’t hide Rey, not from me” I think he means that she can’t hide who she really is or how she feels anymore than he can with her. They’re both so vulnerable around each other and they try to fight it most of the time except for at the very end of course when they’re finally on the same side..

I hate that the line “his compassion for you will be his undoing” is what happened with Ben as well, he loved her so much and it cost him everything at the end… I’m still clinging to all the fanfiction out there though to convince myself they actually lived happily ever after lol. I literally did nothing but read fics for like 3 days straight after I saw the movie again.

And I’ve done nothing, but edit lately too, it’s kind of a problem lol. With this whole quarantine going on I know most people don’t know what to do, but for me I’m like staying inside all day is just a typical Tuesday and I just have an excuse now to not go outside lol. Still, stay safe everyone! xx

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reylovesren

Unbelievably and absolutely stunning. Thank you for this.

Source: youtube.com
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"While scavenging that abandoned spaceship in the desert of Jakku, Rey found a resistance pilot doll. She felt happiness through that doll. Rey felt that she was not alone anymore, cause she found a new friend."

Inspired by iridescentry post on twitter and cursebreakker coment

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star wars is so fucking stupid, I love it

Prime example of why being a fanfic writer is painful

star wars fuckery to english glossary: the reader’s digest version

  • the star wars universe has no official name but in fandom you’ll see it shortened to GFFA for “galaxy far, far away”
  • glass - transparisteel
  • metal used in construction - durasteel
  • very strong space-plastic (used in stormtrooper armor) - duraplast
  • tablet computer (analogous to a PADD in trek) - datapad
  • rather than paper, handwriting is usually done with a stylus on flimsiplast (flimsi/flimsy for short)
  • holos are 3-d videos or videomessages, recorded and played on a holoprojector (these are often seen in small formats, palm-sized - analogous to like. a GoPro.)
  • we don’t drive cars, we drive landspeeders or speeder bikes
  • we don’t shoot guns, we shoot blasters
  • if you didn’t bring a knife to a gun fight, you perhaps brought a vibroblade instead - an edged weapon that, you guessed it, vibrates. little ones could be called vibroshivs or vibroknives. we actually got to see polearm versions of these in The Mandalorian! it was very exciting.
  • robots in GFFA are, of course, droidsastromech droids (astromechs) are the like. iphones of the droid world - ubiquitous, multipurpose, most with a similar aesthetic. R2-D2 and BB-8 are both astromech droids. human-shaped droids like C-3P0 are protocol droids.
  • got a papercut? a nasty flesh wound? a missing chunk of your torso, perhaps? slap a bacta-patch on it or take a dip in a bacta tank for a soothing treatment with this all-purpose miracle healing goo. this is what diapered Luke is bobbing around in during the early part of Empire Strikes Back.
  • you’re supposed to say kriff/kriffing instead of “damn,” “shit,” or “fuck/fucking,” but this is for cowards. let Obi-Wan cuss.
  • midichlorians - ignore them.
  • before the Empire comes to power, baby jedi who can’t hack it as knights or are never chosen to be Padawan apprentices become members of the Service Corps, the branches of which are the Agricultural Corps (AgriCorps), Medical Corps (MedCorps), Educational Corps (EduCorps), Exploration Corps (ExplorCorps)
  • dates are expressed (typically) as [date] Before the Battle of Yavin (BBY) or [date] After the Battle of Yavin (ABY). for instance, the sequel trilogy begins in 34 ABY.

and, yes: that famous cantina tune from Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes is in a musical style called jizz. because star wars is incredibly stupid.

  • popcorn is called bang-corn, because obviously the earth-centric aspect of popcorn is the popping, not the corn.
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He kept his lightsaber. 💙

Damn, I understand this lightsaber is a metaphor for Ben’s mutilated soul and that the lack of basic safety features is a great character design detail of someone who doesn’t believe in what they’re doing and is trying to sabotage themselves at every opportunity

but the shitty-electrical-mods subreddit style unhoused wire just stapled right on to the outside, kid what are you doing??? Its such amazing prop design, it’s such a metaphor for his character. Turn a light being like a person or a semi-sentient kyber crystal dark, but it can’t handle the trauma of the process so it cracks in half. Keep it in a state of torment enabled by destructively venting its extra energy. Spray paint yourself black. Do some decent welding work and then lose conviction and halfass the rest or make it a deliberate hazard. Need a last minute electrical fix after you’ve already reassembled the blade? Just throw it on there. Use a hot glue gun if you run out of cable cleats.

I mean yes we also need this thing to be reconstructed as a personal metaphor, but I personally need Rey the lifelong Hack Everything engineer girl to be really really mad about this disaster object in IX in the way only an engineer can be. I can tell that this lightsaber is a piece of crap that’s about to spontaneously combust, but I know I don’t personally have the EE knowledge to be even a fraction as mad about it as I should be. jj, give it to me.

It’s 2020 now. Let’s bring this back. Because Kylo Ren’s lightsaber is a metaphor for his soul, and Jar Jar and Turdio purposely forgot that fact.

It’s the same saber from his padawan days. Look at how neat it is. It looks like a nice, normal saber.

Now we can assume that, after the burning of the temple, he bled it so it would turn red, the way Dark Side practitioners do. But he was never committed to the Dark Side, so his inner conflict cracked the crystal during the process. That’s why it looks so volatile, so broken. As the SNL stormtrooper said, it’s “poorly made, like a little kid made it.” Lousy paint job, a hole that wasn’t even cut out neatly, a wire outside the casing, those makeshift vents (that is not a crossguard; a crossguard is meant to protect the user’s hand, not singe it or cut off their fingers if they touch the damn thing). In short, the saber needs fixing.

So he should have FIXED it, not thrown it into the sea. If he’d healed the cracked crystal (turning the blade white), the saber itself obviously wouldn’t be the same as the original but it wouldn’t be damaged anymore. It would have been a metaphor for his path to healing, to redemption. He’s not that young boy anymore, but he isn’t Kylo Ren either. He would have been Ben Solo reborn, healed and made new.

But instead we have him throw it away like a piece of trash, which is also a metaphor for how Ben Solo was treated in this movie.

The end.

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My new headcanon is that he did fix it. It just happened off screen. Him and Rey fly back to the ruins in the Falcon and have a long talk about everything - the fight, Leia’s passing, her stabbing him (she apologizes), the dark side (it had possessed her, but only because she let it), Palpatine’s legacy, the ruins, his memory of Han Solo and how he finally rewrote the scene ‘the right way’, etc.

Then he summons the lightsaber from the depths and they discuss how to repair it.

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Han’s Dice. Ben’s favorite plaything.

(From SW databank)

So before I saw Solo: A Star Wars Story I thought the dice would play in to how Han won the Falcon in the winning game of Sabaac he plays against Lando.

Now that I’ve seen the movie, I know that they are really a symbol for Han, which become a symbol for Ben.

And let’s look at that symbol. Two individual objects, destined for same purpose, linked together forever by a chain. Together they are balanced.

I see you Lucasfilm, I see you.

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Because I can’t stop about the carpool.

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Because of course there’s more.

They did it, guys.  The powerful raisin’s been defeated.  Just one thing left to do.

It’s a trilogy, yo. 

If at first you don’t succeed.  All Rey wanted was one soft boi.

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Because I can’t stop about the carpool.

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Because of course there’s more.

They did it, guys.  The powerful raisin’s been defeated.  Just one thing left to do.

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So..what if the world between worlds portal is right on Exogol maybe even where Ben fell off that cliff?

#TROS

YEP. This is it. The map of Exegol’s hyper spatial waypoints and the visualization of the World Between Worlds ARE THE SAME.

AND. Only the pure of heart can enter. What is more pure than sacrificing yourself for the one you love???

This is all the proof I need that Ben is out there.

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