#brendol hux

[gffa]

me:  Listen, I don’t care about the cameos of this episode, yeah, it’s neat that they brought back Brendol Hux and boy did the actor nail a voice that sounds like Hux’s accent and brought Gilad Pellaeon into live action, but I’m mad about the lack of Rae Sloane and-- The Mandalorian:  Hey.

me:

me:  Okay, that’s not as wild as the last three weeks, but oh my GODDDD, they really got Domnhall Gleeson’s brother to play his character’s father, that’s pretty fucking funny.

[cloudyfacewithjam]

Armitage Hux /// Brendol Hux

[artistotel]

fished him out

[tomatette]

Episode VI

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[humanveil]

Brian Gleeson as COMMANDANT BRENDOL HUX in The Mandalorian — Chapter 23: The Spies.

[incorrect-first-order]

Phasma: Would you like something to drink? I've got tea, caf, spiders, Dr. Pepper--

Brendol: Spiders?

Phasma: Spiders it is, then.

Brendol: No, that's not--

Phasma: (already pouring a glass of spiders)

[hydr0phius]

Hux: Project Necromancer is progressing as planned.

Thrawn who just spent the last nine years with three necromancers and saw Some Wild Shit: Pellaeon, we're leaving.

[aki-anyway]

THE MANDALORIAN SPOILER:

While watching the first season of the Mandalorian I was thinking how cool it would be if we saw a bit of the raise of the First Order, since it’s set in the same period.

I thought it would have been improbable though, since they like to pretend the sequel trilogy doesn’t exist.

And now, NOT ONLY we get the First Order, but we get BRENDOL HUX and he’s BRIAN GLEESON, I AM LITERALLY SCREAMING

[nonhumanhottie]

Brian Gleeson sounds like he's 100% mocking his brother's performance and I loved every second of it

[not-so-allegiant-general]

There were nights when Brendol Hux was appearing in his bedroom uninvited. He was dead. Hux knew that. But somehow he couldn't throw him out of his head. It was humiliating. Siting on the ground and crying because someone gifted him a bottle of alcohol. The kind of alcohol that Brendol used to drink all the time. And Hux could only feel shattered glass cutting his skin, he could only hear screams and insults. And It kept happening. Suddenly the panic took over, and he wasn't general any more. He was a whining child, crying on the ground, struggling to catch his breath, trembling and praying for this to stop.

And memories. Memories of pain, violence and abuse. Of fear and humiliation. Of deepest and blackest despair.

And after all of that just emptiness. He could sit on the ground or under his desk for hours, tremble and stare into nothing. And feel nothing. And be nothing. No matters how hard he tried Brendol was always somewhere near. Haunting him and harming him even after death.

Once, Kylo found him under the desk. It was after inspection on Arkanis. Hux was impressed that he could at least keep his composure planet side.

"Hux?..."

"Please stop" he clenched hands on his hair trying hard to breath. Kylo blinked looking at him in confusion.

"General?" He came closer.

"Don't touch me!" Hux pressed himself into corner. " Please stop. Leave me alone" Ren stand there looking at him not really knowing what to do with this broken Hux. He checked his mind, inhaled sharply and withdrew quickly

"What a mess..." He murmured to himself and took off his helmet "Hux? Can you hear me? " Hux couldn't. And he was hyperventilating. "You need to breath. Hux. " Hux. General flinched hearing him in his head. That's right. Breath. Good. "You want some of that awful tarine tea?" Hux nodded taking another breath. Kylo brought him a cup and a blanket from the bed. Hux was looking at him silently, a bit calmer now but still trembling. Ren put cup and a blanket next to him and sat down on the ground closely. It took Hux a few more minutes to actually drank some tea and draped blanket over himself. It felt warn. It felt good.

"Can you stand up?"

"What?"

"Up Hux?"

"ah.. no. I.. don't think so.. "he rubbed his cheek on the blanket. Like a cat. Kylo thought. "I usually drag myself to the bed on all fours. Till today i thought there is actually nothing more humiliating than this but life is full of surprises isn't it?" Hux laughed " Are you going to mock now or do i get a few minutes to end my tea?"

Already so defensive...

" Don't talk too much just keep breathing" he ignored his bubbling and gave him his hand. "Come"

Hux went silent he got up carefully and leaned on Kylo. Then curled on the bed. Ren sat down on the edge.

"You are not going to mock aren't you?"

" No."

"Its ever worse"

Kylo sighed.

"Every time you open that mouth of yours i want to destroy something you know?" He felt fear. "No. Am sorry i... Didn't meant It like that i won't harm you"

Hux snorted.

"Do you now? I do have quite nice collection of bruises because of you, Lord Ren" and suddenly Kylo felt shame creeping at his cheeks.

"I..."

"Spare me this. I don't want to hear empty apologies just to be thrown on another console next week"

" It won't happen again, Hux"

" If you say so." He said drawing circles with his finger on the pillow. " Why did you... You brought me tea and... "

"Yes. And i will stay for the night. Do. Not. Argue. With that. "

" Why are you doing this ? "

Kylo sighed taking off his boots.

"i guess... I spent too many nights under my bed to find it funny" he looked at him.

" Did you met there any monsters? Or you're the one that most children are scared of?"

" Funny. Surely not the one that you're scared of".

"No. I was never scared of monsters."

"That... Explains a lot. Actually. " Hux laughed humourlessly.

"Yes Ren. It takes more than this badly crafted saber, mask and choking to scare me. I actually prefer when you come after me than after my crew"

"What?"

" I can take a lot and be... Mostly fine" he said silently and sat straight. " But i need my crew to be healthy and fully operational. Last time you choked Mitaka he was at medical leave for a week." Kylo snorted " it's not funny Ren! " Hux snapped at him.

"So you are saying it's not coincidence that every time i am in the middle of...

"Tantrum" Hux offered smoothly.

"Whatever. It's not coincidence that you are always around"

"Of course it's not. I am responsible for this people. As i said i prefer that you vent your anger on me. Not on them. Now get out. " He stood up.

"Excuse me?"

"Get out" Kylo wanted to touch his arm, but he heard click and found himself under a pointing blaster that Hux was holding "Get out. Or I will call security on you "

"As if they would help you... " he ripped out the blaster of his hand with the force.

That day Kylo Ren learned that Hux has a dagger in his sleeve. And that he actually knows how to use it. And how painful It is to be stabbed with monomolecular blade. Especially when that blade breaks in half inside of the wound. That day he learned that Hux is not a rabid cur. He is a viper. He strikes quickly. And with terrifying precision. If blade entered his body a few millimetre in any different direction he would be dead.

That day he learned that Armitage Hux is indeed dangerous.

[darthnostra]

If Brendol’s appearance means that one day we will get to see Armitage and Phasma kill him, I will lose my mind

[gffa]

Favreau can pluck the relatively minor character of Cobb Vanth from the Aftermath books and give him a fairly prominent role in not one but two of his series, can remember that Brendol Hux was part of the attempt to rebuild the Empire and go so far as to cast Brian Gleeson in the role, can bring Gilad Pellaeon into live action, but refuses to put Rae fucking Sloane’s name in his mouth?  She who had a far more central role in the Aftermath books and was an important leading figure in the Imperial remnants?  Just completely ignore her existence and neither of the unnamed women from that meeting could possibly be her character?  I see.  Coupled with this season’s absolute refusal to say Satine fucking Kryze’s name, I’m starting to give Favreau some serious stink-eye.

[cloudyfacewithjam]

THE MANDALORIAN - Chapter 23: The Spies /// Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[artistotel]

roman emperor hux

[tomatette]

You were going to vote for Obi-Wan? Well, now you're getting the two-in-one-package deal!

[avercado5]

Thoughts on Hux's sexuality

Please don't come for me this has been in my drafts for 6 months :]

So obviously, it's a big thing in this fandom to think Hux is gay. Which, I can see how people might see him as queer coded (and in some surface ways he is). Despite his homophobic vibes he's probably not homophobic since homophobia doesn't really exist in Star Wars as far as I know. But I was actually sitting back and thinking about it, and given his childhood abuse and backstory, I honestly seriously doubt he's gay.

Hux has spent his entire life being physically and psychologically abused by other men, be it his father, his fathers friends, Snoke (if you can call that nasty guy a man), or Kylo Ren. There is no Canon media of Hux being abused by non-men. Given the PTSD he has to have from these experiences, there is no way he would easily trust another person enough to be in a relationship with them, let alone a man (and we already know from Canon that hux is not a trusting person). Is it possible that he'd end up in a M/M relationship? Of course. Likely? I don't think so. If he did, it would be very likely it would be toxic or unhealthy.

Men are a threat to Armitage. They want to ursurp him. They want to hurt him. They want to use him for their own ends and then discard him. In a patriarchal organization like the First Order (albeit less so than the empire), men are the primary threat to his own stability.

So based on this analysis Armitage is either somewhere on the aroace spectrum (from trauma), OR he is on some level attracted to the opposite gender.

Why would the last thing make sense? That depends on a few things.

First, if Armitage had positive contact with his mother on Arkanis (as most of us like to assume, because um yes Armitage's mom we love her), he would crave nurturing presence of females after he was separated from her and, even as he grew older and more emotionally detached, there are primal human urges that he cannot erase. He was five when he left Arkanis. He could have known his mother long enough to understand that. Likewise, his protector and mentor, at least for a time, was Rae Sloane, a woman. Rae Sloane, at least for some time, protected and mentored Hux. As Hux grew up, the people who helped him tended to be women, and the people who abused him were men.

This is not to bash any ships with Hux or anything, just my own thoughts on the subject. Obviously this is all just speculation, but it's also explanatory to why a lot of pairings with Hux end up so abusive or out of character. His backstory and personality and struggles make writing a good ship with him immensely difficult, no matter what gender he's shipped with.