TROS / REYLO DUMP 3

Rey is now just alone on another random desert, now without her soulmate and partner, without a family. Ben Solo is just killed off without giving him an opportunity to confront Palpatine, who has tortured him for years, or heal and grow into his own person. The two of them have no chance to live and love and balance The Force together, or to help each other heal. Congrats Disney, both of our protagonists have more trauma than they started with. Great fucking job.

Was kylo redeemed with his sacrifice to rey? Do you think that negates all his past actions ? Regardless of the motive or cause ?

“what does he have to be redeemed for?” Adam Driver 

You can tell the frustration  during the interview, that he himself has been thinking about it so much, that he delved into what made him Kylo Ren but also human, that HE knows the backstory. 

A backstory that was almost completely absent from TROS, if you count Palpatine “ I was every voice you ever heard in your head” inferring manipulation and lies.  The story omits completely his childhood, the feelings of betrayal he felt as his own parents feared him, the way they sent him away and the ultimate failure from his own uncle is not once mentioned, it omits that he never massacred his Jedi friends ( comic) that he never destroyed the temple, that he felt so alone,  traumatised and ashamed that he went to the only welcoming place : Snoke / aka Palpatine

He was a victim, with a feeling of helplessness and depression so strong that seeking the dark side by killing his dad was really a form suicide. 

You’re son is dead // My son is alive // ergo kill the father to kill the son at last

Han Solo tried to bring him home in TFA and failed, but once Rey admitted that she loved Ben Solo, he went back to the moment he killed his father, the moment that tormented him with his guilt. He replayed the scene, and this time He really heard and understood what his father was telling him, he welcomed it.

His  father’s love, his mother’s love were unconditional and he could go home at ANY time…. they always loved him. At this moment Kylo literally TURNS around, he turns and THROWS aways his lightsaber, and later off screen the top layers of the Kylo Ren persona,  to reveal only BEN SOLO, damaged and all. He freed himself.

I think, the Han Solo scene shows that Kylo/ Ben had to forgive himself first, before moving on, he was held back by guilt and resentment and thought he had done too awful a thing that it was impossible to come back. 

Finally Ben SOLO came for REY. It was not Kylo anymore.

Ben Solo never had anything to be redeemed for, he was a victim.

But even then, he made the ultimate sacrifice, selfless, without thinking twice about it, he gave Ben Solo’s life to Rey, out of pure LOVE. He is more than redeemed, he’s a hero in that scene. 

The movie does not do him justice, by telling us what’s happening to him. We can only read the subtext, he’s either one with Rey, making her Skywalker, or one with the Force, but they only wanted to have the legacy Force ghost in the end, as new parental figures, or he is somewhere yet unknown. The story is cruel because it does not really bring closure to his fate. 

BUT Ben solo is a hero. 

I don't know about the rest. But This is not enough for me, 40 years ruined... The whole saga ruined, and people saying we should be better than the fans who blasted the last jedi, I don't feel like I should be better, I won't win anything being better, because they won doing what they did. They won complaining about headcannons they made up with no bases. And we lost (yeah, we lost, the whole plot of the protagonist changed) while we were just following what It was given to us. So I'm sorry but I will complain and reach to them, and comment everywhere I can that this movie ruined starwars to me, because I can't enjoy it anymore knowing that It leads to the worst posibility. Killing the HERO with no glory and leaving the PROTAGONIST right where She didn't want to be, where She feared to end up. Errasing the world hope from the entire saga because everything they went through was for nothing more than killing an old ball sack again and again. And what disappointed me the most is how a part of the fandom that presumes to love the protagonists is completely fine with this because they can't see further than the flashing lights in the movie. I want to express my anger, because is not just that I didn't get what I wanted, I got played with, I spent money, time and energy, made people see the movies and learn the stories, just to get flashing lights and potential wasted in return. And I didn't make a fucking rottentomatoes account like many fans did in TLJ. And they got heard and I did not. I want Disney, JJ, KK, and Lucas Films to know, I don't want to stay sit and take what I was given, This movies were suppoused to pass to new generations... And there's no way I can do that with this. I want answers, I don't want a comic in 20 yeasr to fix it. But I wont get shit because there's no way those actors would participate again in an "episode x" and they have been pretty obvious about it.

They ruined the last chance, the perfect potential that Rian gave them and JJ himself started.

You came along and offered me everything I could dream of.

I saw an interesting discussion recently about what Ben mouthed at Rey after he saw her get injured in the Throne Room (some potential ideas thrown around: “Rey,” “Oh God.”)

Well, I spent some time examining the footage today, and I just figured it out. The movements of his mouth and cheeks are unmistakable. 

“Hold on.” 

Ben is telling Rey to hold on while he fights off the remaining Praetorian Guards so that he can rush to her aid and protect her.

 I’m wrecked. 😭 

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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Yes, this is another "the last piece of making Steve's compass right" post... because they keep appearing, haha! I TRULY believe this is the last one and my brain CAN REST FOR REAL, but you never know xD

Please, beyond being a shipper.... don't tell me the use of "Bucky is alive!" does not make much more sense now! Specially knowing the "Bucky is alive" was not in the original script (!! still GOBSMACKED ABOUT THAT)

But, was my brain satisfied with changing the compass... of course not. My brain made me do this particular audio correction, too:

That's right. It totally is, damn it!