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asexualsimonsnow · 1 year ago

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A Shortened List of Simon Snow's Autistic Traits

because a full length list would be too long of a post.

1. His love of magic could easily be interpreted as a special interest

“No ones loves magic like I do,” (Carry On, page 9).

2. He is shown to have poor spatial awareness

“That’s when we hear the first scream. I stand up, knocking the table over and breaking the teapot more conclusively,” (Carry On, page 235).

“...before she starts treating me like a Great Dane who can’t help knocking things over with its tail… You’d have to be incorporeal not to knock anything over,” (Carry On, page 267).

3. He is always interpreting things literally

“‘Let hardship sharpen your blade, Simon.’ I thought he meant my actual blade… Eventually I figured out that he meant me,” (Carry On, page 9).

It even affects his magic: “And sometimes when [Simon] casts metaphors, they go viciously literal,” (Carry On, page 119).

4. He has his whole thing with lists to help him process things

“I keep a list—of all the things I miss most—and I’m not allowed to touch it in my head until I’m about an hour from Watford. Then I run through the list one by one. It’s sort of like easing yourself into cold water. But the opposite of that I suppose—easing yourself into something really good, so the shock of it doesn’t overwhelm you. / I started making my list, my good things list, when I was 11, and I should probably cross a few things off, but that’s harder than you’d think,” (Carry On, page 11).

^ Not only is the list thing autistic, struggling to take things off because he's grown used to the list as it is is autistic.

5. He has difficulty with verbal communication

“Half of Snow’s sentences are shrugs,” (Carry On, page 354).

“I’ve never been good with words,” (Carry On, page 107). They mention this like a million times.

This is the bit that really convinces me: "I don’t remember when I learned to talk, but I know they tried to send me to specialists… I used to see a counselor and a speech therapist. ‘Use your words, Simon.’ I got so bloody sick of hearing that. It was so much easier to just take what I wanted instead of asking for it. Or thump whoever was hurting me, even if they thumped me right back," (Carry On, page 108).

“Simon seemed conscious, but wasn’t saying anything. And he wouldn’t make eye contact,” (Carry On, page 427). The eye contact thing in here is also pretty autistic.

6. He does a lot of stimming

“Simon groans and rakes at his hair,” (Carry On, page 362). He messes with his hair a lot.

“Simon was pacing around my bedroom, swinging his blade,” (Carry On, page 454).

“I intentionally slam my shoulder into the wall next to the door. (People who tell you that slamming and bashing into things won’t make you feel better haven’t slammed or bashed enough),” (Carry On, page 274). This one especially stands out to me.

Again, just a short list. There are plenty more quotes for these traits, and other autistic traits that Simon has.

#and that's not even getting into the ways in which a lot of the aspects of his story can be clearly read #as being metaphors for autistic traits #yeah magically exploding isn't an autistic trait but it could very easily be a stand in for autistic meltdowns #a lot of the build up/causes/aftermath is the same #and the mage wanting to fix him and that desire ultimately harming simon far more than it helps #that's something loads of autistic people deal with from their parents #not for magic purposes #but the metaphor is there #etc etc etc #like it gets to a point where it feels weird calling this a headcanon because its SO present #simon snow #carry on #simon says #co/ws/awtwb #the simon snow trilogy #simon hc #there's also plenty of stuff from the sequels i just haven't documented them the same way i have carry on

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silverwings22 · 8 months ago

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Moth Fixes It: The Sequel Trilogy

This is a very long rant about the sequel trilogy, based on a conversation I (Moth) had with my husband (Mr. Moth) and my best friend (Lamp) who was more a victim of my yapping than anything else. My plan for how to fix the sequels below the cut!

MOVIE 1: The Force Awakens

This is our introduction movie. Let's start with our big bad: it should be Captain Phasma. The comics (according to Mr. Moth, I have not had the pleasure of reading them) says she grew up poor and found that chromium for her armor off Palpatines' old personal Nabooian yaht. So lean into that. She's obsessed with Vader/Anakin. She's obsessed with the idea of the poor slave kid who became the Fist of the Empire. She's the one fixated on Ben Solo, and seduces him into being Kylo Ren. (Give Gwendoline Christie more screentime, and let her be sexy. Dammit, I love her.)

Speaking of Ben Solo: I want him to be a doe-eyed dumbass the whole movie. She's molding him and manipulating him, he's trying to be the shadow of Vader she wants because he thinks he's in love and he's young and stupid. Show him jerking him around. Let her be the femm fatale and he's the halpless dolt trying to make her happy. Show him hesitate until she urges him. Show him with hickies and bruises on his wrists. Fuck that man up.

Keep Finn's backstory. A defected stormtrooper is INTERESTING. Lean into it. He was kidnapped as a kid? Show him questioning who his family was. Show him wondering if he was thrown away or if they had no choice. Let him be angry, let him be sad, LET HIM BE HUMAN because that's what his whole character is. He's human, despite what the First Order wanted him to be. Then let him defect because he's afraid, as he should be. And let him run straight to Rey.

Rey, however, needs MORE backstory. Gimme more than a nightmare or two about parents she can't remember the faces of. And start introducing the concept of the dyad early. She pops up in Kylo/Ben's bedroom right after a fight with Phasma where he's nursing a black eye? They share dreams? Whatever it is, scrungle him TF up so he looks good and pathetic, and she offers to help him. Give me an open hearted sugar cookie of a soon to be Jedi, despite everything she's going through on Jakku. Let her offer him some of her depleted little bacta stashes.

When she meets Finn, same thing. Let her offer him one of her measly little food portions. Let her be protective of him immediately. When they dip for the Rebellion together, let him confess who he is quickly, and her be the one to offer up that people can change for the better. Give her some unyielding hope to hold this being-found family together.

When they meet Poe with the Rebels, they quickly click. Finn and Poe make besties, they both adore Rey, the trio is born.

DO NOT have Han Solo and Leia just be talking again after years of being estranged. Han's whole character arc in the original trilogy is becoming the guy that STAYED. You expect me to believe he ditched his wife and Luke and went back to being the scruffy looking nerf herder he was 20 years ago? No, fuck that. He's been with Leia all the time. He's not Han Solo, he's Han Organa cause he took HER name. And they're running this shit show spectacularly, General and Captain. Rey and Finn can still turn up on the Falcon, he just sold it to help fund the Rebellion or something and the old girl found her way home anyway.

During their introduction to Han and Leia, let them meet a couple people who wear less orange jumpsuits and more brown with a couple funny looking braids in their hair. Leia can explain they're former padawans from Luke's temple who escaped and survived.

While the new trio is getting acquainted with the finer art of war, Kylo is being toured around his awful, hot, evil girlfriend's laboratory she's funding with her shiny chromium credits. None of this "somehow Palpatine returned" bullshit, he returned because Phasma got ahold of Hemlock and Pershing's research and she's cloning things. Throw in some sniffly looking little genius chained to a lab table for good measure.

We learn what a dyad is from Kylo’s research, and figure how that’s how he and Rey are connected. Throughout this Rey keeps trying to get to Kylo, as she learns more about who he is and gets to know his parents. She tries to help him, to hold the door to the light open for him to be brave enough to run through. "I'll help you. Just take my hand. Please." He answers this in typical shithead behavior by attacking the rebellion, injuring (BUT NOT KILLING) both his parents. (Can't reconcile if your parents are dead. The Jedi are about forgiveness, I need them alive to forgive.)

The movie ends with Palpatine coming out of the tank, not old and decrepit but young, in his prime, and pissed at the entire Skywalker lineage. He's not about to make Kylo his new apprentice, he's going to take Phasma as his new Fist of the First Order and focus on immortality instead of training a new Sith. He'll be his own apprentice, with blackjack and hookers. He tells Phasma she can keep Kylo as long as she keeps him in line, but if he so much as looks in the direction of Anakin-level drama Palps is gonna use lightning to turn him into Mongolian BBQ.

And I want doe eyed dumbass Kylo to be standing just outside the room, back to the door, listening in terror and with a recently bloodied lip, as he realizes that Rey was right. Phasma doesn't love him, and he's in fucking danger.

MOVIE 2: The Last Jedi

This is the BIG PLOT points movie, with the action. Start with Kylo fucking bailing on Phasma, running for his life pursued by angry giant pretty ex girlfriend. He has NO IDEA where he's going, and the dyad snatches him and Rey together on some poorly inhabited planet. (Bonus if it's cold, so they gotta cuddle). Build a believable romance starting there ala Zeb and Kallus from Rebels, where they gotta work together to survive. Poe and Finn, in all their bravery, find them because they'd never give up on Rey.

Kylo tells them how Palps is back. Poe calls Leia, who tells them the last person to defeat him was her brother Luke, who's been living in shame in the ruins of his Jedi Academy. She decides to go find Luke, so she can train to defeat Palps. Kylo goes with her, cause he's gotta start a galactic apology tour.

Finn meets Rose during a Rebel battle (I love her, such a wasted character, the actress deserved better and I'm giving it to her) and she obviously doesn't trust the ex stormtrooper. But he's been mulling over Rey going to fight, and parses the idea to her: let's steal their troopers. These two go on a harrowing adventure posing as Storm Troopers, getting into the barracks, inspiring other troopers to rise us and fight back. To take back their autonomy, and show them they're not just pawns. They lead a mutiny, they steal a ship, then they decide to do it again with a bigger ship. And a bigger one. Fuck it, they're stealing a goddamn fleet. Fuck the fathier races and the knife quest, they are inspiring people to take charge of their lives. (Have someone mention clone troopers that fought back for a callback to someone like Howser on Ryloth in TBB, maybe?) He's stepping into Han's shoes as the runaway who's learning to stay and find his place.

While this is going on, Hosnian Prime takes a Death Star to the face. The New Republic's seat of power is gone. Let's NOT act like it's not a big deal, and instead have the rebellion splintering at the seams because their two main leaders are injured and down for the count. Poe is the one who's pulling them together, forcing them to remember their on the same side. No contrived, unnecessary fight with Vice Admiral Holdo. She can be beefing with another leader or something, but a valid beef instead of "the script says I'm a bitch on a powertrip but I got no real reason." Poe gets all of them to pull their heads out of their collective asses. Let him step into Leias shoes as a military leader.

Now for Rey. You still want sad Luke, okay. He's ashamed he failed to protect his nephew from Phasma. He's ashamed he couldn't keep his students alive. Show him in the graveyard of the Academy, talking to the headstones. Have Rey show up with an apologetic Kylo who gets on his knees and begs Luke for forgiveness. Then let Luke 'There is still good in Darth Vader' Skywalker... forgive him. Cause that's who he is. Then Rey gets training. Actual training, not just with Luke but with Mara fucking Jade. Show him a path back from the Dark side from Auntie. And let them learn to control the dyad together.

Meanwhile, Rey’s still burning to know about her parents. So she and Luke finally sit down and delve into the Force, turning up a Force ghost nobody’s seen in a while. And fuck the “Rey is a Palpatine” angle. She’s Korkie Kryze’s kid, who’s Obi-wan and Satine’s. (This is where Lamp started cheering at the idea. She’s a Obi-wan Kenboneme girl.) Confirm that lineage. (And get a fun tie in to the Mandalorian too, making her have Mando heritage. It gives you more to work with on future projects if you want, too.)

Then give me a Kenobi and a Skywalker synergy, and the dyad making sense. Anakin and Obi-wan were two halves of a single warrior, and their grandkids took that shit literally.

MOVIE THREE: The Rise of Skywalker. (Let’s rename this. The Rise of Kenobi? The Rise of the Light? Something.)

Kylo/Ben and Rey are ready to fight, together. Luke and Mara Jade lend their sabers to them, but can’t leave to go with them because their place is here at the Academy. They literally pass the torch (but without dying. Mr. Moth is violently opposed to this trope and I’m inclined to agree) and the two go to leave. When they do, Luke turns around and goes to the equivalent of their Archives, and activates a beacon/sends a comm message harking back to Obi-wan’s “do not return to the Temple” from Revenge of the Sith but this time telling the scattered escaped Jedi that the time has come to return. We see comms blinking on wrists all over the galaxy, from the First Order stolen ships Finn and Rose are on to the Rebellion and everywhere in between. At least one woman is standing next to Lando Calrissian. Leia and Han see it too as they recover together.

Rey and Kylo send coordinates to Poe, but no one can get through to Finn. (Perhaps comm damage, out of range, etc. Gimme some juicy arguments. Holdo etc thinks it’s too dangerous with the Rebellion being so scattered. Poe demands to ask Han an Leia, there’s delays because ‘they’re still too weak, they almost died’ (we gotta fill 2 hours, lets get some emotional depth to this). Maybe they confer with another general, a graying blonde woman with a heavy tan and very distinct clone accent perhaps? (General Omega, General Omega, General Omega!) Or Hera Syndulla and a grown up Jacen? You can’t tell me they wouldn’t be there.

The argument is interspersed with Han and Leia doing what all older people who’ve seen some shit do: do it their damn self. They’re sneaking on the Falcon to bang on the long range transmitter, acting like they’re still twenty because they know their son is alive, well, and back on the right path. They’re so fucking proud. And while they’re attempting percussive maintenance to get a message to Finn and Rose, they get found by someone and then the whole arguing body is now in the Falcon.

They eventually decide to press the assault.

Meanwhile, Ben and Rey hand on whatever ship/planet Palps has made his evil base. Exegol is fine, we’ll go with that for the example. They’re dealing with young Palps and Phasma, along with tons of First Order, a fleet in orbit, and those Knights of Ren assholes. Cue EPIC lightsaber fight, I want this to rival Obi-wan vs Anakin on Mustafar. John Williams will do us proud with the score, he never disappoints. The battle is hard, but they take down the Knights of Ren and ground troopers. Phasma’s still trying to battlefield seduce Ben, but he finally gets to stand up for himself. He protects Rey from his former abuser. It’s very clear she’s got nothing on him, and we see the absolutely unhinged rage you get when a narcissistic abuser loses power over a victim. As she loses control, she finally makes a mistake and is taken down. The Rebellion turns up, and they’re getting it handed to them in orbit. We can keep that moment of despair Poe has in canon, where he thinks they’re going to lose and he apologizes while still fighting.

And then the stolen fled Rose and Finn had turns up full of pissed off former storm troopers with a lot of anger to work out. Let’s see good guys in TIE fighters (these are Mr. Moth’s fave SW ships, they deserve a little love.)

Let’s see my favorite line in all of Star Wars not get wasted this time. Rose’s “This is how we win, not by killing what we hate but by saving what we love” put to good use. Let her, Finn, and the fleet dive to put themselves between the First Order and the Rebellion, protecting them with the better and newer ships as shields. Flash cut to Rose and Finn’s hands gripping each other as they do this together. (I wanna ship it so bad and canon gave me nothing to work with!)

Rey and Ben face Palpatine, full dyad powers working together. He’s raging that he’s the most powerful being in the galaxy, all the great bad guy monologing. Let him reference the folly of the Sith Law of Two, because of how Vader betrayed him. How he’ll live forever, he needs no one, they’re weak and cowards because they won’t face him alone.

And then let them show what Star Wars has always been about: that you’re never alone. That doing the right thing will bring you to your people, and you’ll stand together against evil that seeks to divide and conquer. They are the Two that are One, and they whip his ass and destroy him, once and for all. (How many times to we have to teach you this lesson, old man?)

And they return, victorious, the First Order defeated, back to the Rebel base. Ben can apologize ot his parents on his hands and knees, and get hugged and forgiven. Maybe even a few of those padawans wave in his direction.

And the last scene should be Rey and Ben landing back at the Academy, with a couple other ships full of those same Padawans, and handing Luke and Mara back their lightsabers before Luke smiles and says “come on then, padawan. We have work to do.”

This fixes the GAPING plot holes, I think makes better use of the characters we got (they gave me great people and did NOTHING with them) and sets the stage for future projects while tying in some stuff that wasn’t put to great use either.

So if you read through all this: thoughts? Do you like it? Did I fix SW, or do you have better ideas? Yap with me, my friends.

#stars wars #sequel trilogy #fix it au #moth yaps #leia organa #luke skywalker #han solo #rey of jakku #poe dameron #finn star wars

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