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Laura Lee was so me in this scene. Because one would think you'd run with joy towards your suitcase after crashing the plane in the wilderness, to salvage what's left for your survival.

But no, she reached for her teddy bear right away. And that is such a valid response to what's just happened to her. It's the last piece of innocence she's able to hold on to before plunging into the horrors of the wilderness and survival.

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me: i wanna talk about my ocs

someone: ok tell me about your ocs

me, suddenly convinced that every single thing about my ocs is stupid and cringy and probably offensive: i. have them

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writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

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Yet another idea. Kleya, Cassian and Jyn create a "We have Complicated Parent Figures" club.

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Some pre-canon Andor fanart. still not over baby kleya.

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You go on ahead. I'm gonna be here a while.

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Me when Star Wars is about fathers and daughters

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The remnants of those gone ☀️💫

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Andor makes me want to write a Star Wars fanfiction but it's so scary. What if I write "Glup Shitto was sitting on the balcony, drinking coffee and reading his favourite book", but someone comments "didn't you mean he was drinking glop-goppy and reading a holo-journal? 🤨" so I open wookiepedia to check it out and it turns out that they also never invented balconies in the star wars universe and Glup Shitto can't read because of the freak accident he suffered in the episode 10 of the 2024 show "Jar-Jar and Babu Frik". What then.

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get yourself a main character whos two primary emotions are "little cunt" and "catatonic with grief"

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Also sending you this one because I'm so curious how others approach writing her: What would you say are your core (like, 3-5) Kleya headcanons that you use to inform how you write her?

oooh ok lemme think on this, i’ll try to keep it to 5 but some might become a little multi faceted but hopefully i can keep it concise

ok so the first one, which has been informed by a lot of things (discussions on twitter, a lot of what is on screen, my own personal experience) is that kleya is autistic. there were a lot of things in the performance that i picked up on and related to, so it’s kind of bled into how i have written how she processes and works through information and events as they transpire. i can also understand why people wouldn’t get this read, but it’s a part of my own funky little understanding of her

she is so deeply effected by her own grief, to a degree that i think no other character (not even luthen) ever really understands. she never doubts the necessity of what she has done and what she will do, but she does consider it her burden to bear that she has to live on with all this memory, like forgetting any of them would be a betrayal of what all these people died for

in her own weird way she is deeply affectionate towards the various agents that worked for her and luthen during the networks hay day. her constant snipping at vel and her “what does done mean” speech to cassian are born out of frustration, but it’s a frustration that comes from the fact that she really does care for these people, and wants the best for them (the best, here, being them becoming as absolutely locked in for the cause as she is)

i think she has this absolute desperation for tenderness and love and intimacy and affection but refuses to actually acknowledge its existence internally because it’s so intense it frightens her. she’s spent a lot of her life being really practiced in what emotions she’ll let influence her, and any that don’t directly benefit the fight get driven out or pushed down to the best of her ability, but in turn this means when all of it does finally come out it’s not going to be gentle or easy, it’s going to be an absolute explosive mess of feelings she simply is not equipped to deal with

nearly everything she has of her homeworld is lost to her. she can remember basic things, tiny facts and maybe a few local words, but the majority of what actually made up her life there is gone from her memory. i think she remembers her own name but none of her families names, and i don’t think she’s truly grappled with that fact yet. revenge has always been such a driving factor in her life that it’s not properly registered that revenge can’t be a substitute for her lost people, she can destroy the entire empire but her home will still just be gone

(a couple tiny ones that aren’t massive but are things i believe about her in my heart)

she’s obsessed with the colour blue

she has a soft spot for the weirdest of animals with no rhyme or reason (just wait till she meets her first tauntaun)

she does actually have a history special interest, that wasn’t ever a cover she genuinely loved being an antiquarian

she made luthen a birthday card on their first year together but it didn’t contain any well wishes, just a list of imperial targets that would be good for them to take off the board

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there you were

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kleya marki character of the century. everybody else shut the fuck up

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let me guess 🙄 you're tired 🙄 it's too hard 🙄 it's too much 🙄