reasons why reylo isn’t “platonic” / inspired by this
The current Justice League members in order of when they first appeared in DC Comics!
me: *sees a ship i hate*
me: *calmly scrolls past bc i'm not a fucking gremlin like some of you*
1. Ben did not destroy Luke’s temple. Palpatine did, and somehow he gaslighted Ben into thinking he was responsible.
2. Ben thought he killed Luke but it was in self-defense, but he still feels enormously guilty about it.
3. Ben did not kill ANY of Luke’s other students that night. He was instead relentlessly hunted by a small group of them across the galaxy, including one (Voe) who had a particularly large chip on her shoulder wrt to Ben and feeling inadequate in comparison to his Force-abilities.
4. Ben wanted to go home to Leia but felt he couldn’t because he didn’t think she would believe him.
5. Snoke was just casually in his head having full-on conversations with him when he was at least 11 or 12 years old, feeding him lies about his family and how they didn’t really give a shit about him.
6. Ben killed one of the Jedi students hunting him by accident.
7. He turns to the Knights of Ren because he literally feels like he doesn’t belong anywhere else.
8. He openly acknowledges that even Snoke only cares about his legacy and not himself as a person.
9. HE DOES NOT WANT TO KILL ANYONE. Even after he joins the KoR, he goes out of his way to avoid killing if possible… until it’s no longer possible.
10. He did not “fall to” or “choose” the dark side – he was gaslit and pushed into it. Treat someone like a monster long enough, they will start to believe it.
11. Ben doesn’t think he’s “special”. He just wants to be treated like a normal fucking person.
12. The first person that Ben killed on purpose was Ren, the leader/founder of the Knights of Ren, thereby facilitating his fall to the dark.
13. Leia felt his fall…
14. … AND SO DID LITTLE BABY REY
15. Ben finally killed Voe after he killed Ren.
16. Ben’s preferred mode of drawing his saber was from over his shoulder, like at the end of TROS.
17. He bled his kyber crystal while shirtless, and he squeezed it so hard that it cracked.
18. He never did anything wrong, ever, in his life, and they still let him die.
I wrote twitter meta about the one good thing about this film (Adam Driver’s acting, the PURE character work he did with zero dialogue) because I finally figured out what he was talking about when he said he was using “mask work” with Kylo Ren. He wasn’t playing through a mask only when he wore the helmet, he was acting as if his very FACE was a stoic blank mask he was looking through. That’s why Kylo Ren as a character has such a specific feeling to him, and why the audience instantly responded to Ben Solo, who could show his emotions.
This character was always 100% a young boy hiding behind a mask that hid and disallowed every emotion except for his anger, the only emotion that men are allowed to feel. This character is an exploration of how toxic masculinity harms men. And what miracles can happen for men internally when they embrace emotionality and forgive themselves and use their energy to do good. (I’m crying about him again.)
saw the cutest wedding photobooth-esque pic and had to draw it as spirk :,)
You now what? The Weeknd’s album ‘My dear melancholy’ is a f*cking masterpiece ✨ and 'Call out my name’ is my favourite
The Real Story.
A gentle reinterpretation of the end of The Rise of Skywalker.
Dream revealed his identity to Hob at the New Inn, as well as where he had been for the last 100+ years. Still he felt he needed to say something to Hob, but eventually Hob has to work it out himself.
10 pages under the cut:
Notes:
I rushed this thing in a week so I apologize if there are some mistakes…. The first pages have a weird layout because I thought I'd figure it out later and then I didn't. OTL
TV Dream spent over a century naked an humiliated in a snow globe so I imagine maybe now he's like "clothes? Very nice, so comfy. I love clothes. I shall be wrapped in the darkness of the soft 100% dream cotton for the unforseeable future."
Don't be an ass face and repost this elsewhere. If you do you have a literal ass where your face should be. Ew.
If you would like, feel free to translate this comic in the replies/reblog. It's a lot, sorry.
I probably forgot something… it's 4 am.
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