#post TROS

[msuolo]

finding you one day.

[solohux]

When Ben leaves Exegol with Rey and returns to the Resistance, he’s told that General Hux is dead. The pain and the grief are so strong that Ben runs into the forest before he can hurt someone, throwing his head back and screaming to the sky when he’s alone. A massive burst of his powers explode from him, knocking down trees for miles.

If a man falls and no one is around to hear him, does he make a sound?

He falls to his knees, sobbing. He begs Hux for forgiveness, for letting this happen. Hux is gone, and that means their unborn baby is too.

But Ben carries on. He tags along with the Resistance, taking more of a backseat than anything whilst they clear up the Final Order’s mess. He tattoos himself, writing Hux’s name in native Arkanis letters on his wrist, wanting a piece of Hux with him forever.

It’s 16 years later when Ben feels a disturbance in the Force. Nothing has happened for years; there are still tiny factions of the First Order dotted around but the New Republic reigns, and Ben is happy as a traveller across worlds, appreciating life.

He’s on a space station in the Inner Rim when he sees the news reports.

‘KYLO REN: BACK FROM THE DEAD?’

There are photos of a figure who looks remarkable like him from his past life, with long flowing black robes and a red, cross-guarded lightsaber. The holoreport freezes on the person’s face, and Ben feels his knees grow weak. The person is a young man, no older than 16 years, with mid-length dark hair and pale eyes, sharp cheekbones and a glare that could kill. There’s no doubt in Ben’s mind that this kid is the son of Armitage Hux…& Kylo Ren.

Ben has to find him and talk to him, find out the truth of where he comes from. If Hux is alive and this boy is their son then…then it changes everything. Ben sets off to the planet where the ‘Kylo Ren’ was spotted, hoping with every fibre of his body that he’s going to find Hux there.

Meanwhile, on a little planet in the far Outer Rim, 16 year old Elias is getting a telling off from his mother about going out dressed like his deceased father wielding his old lightsaber for everyone to see when they’re supposed to be in hiding. Oops.

[pancakesandsugarplums]

Okay guys I’m back on my Reylo bs five years later and I neeeed someone to talk to about it, esp with new interviews where Adam and Daisy are discussing what happened back then so if anyone wants to chat I’m down 😭😭🤣

[flilisskywalker]

Most recent rumor of New Jedi Order film is that Finn and Rey will have kids.

I WANT THAT TO BE TRUE SO BAD.

[halfbakedbeanz]

After Ben's death Rey becomes a workaholic. She throws herself fully at her work to avoid greiving and feeling the half of herself missing. She knows hes gone, but doesn't want to face the fact fully. It all boils over years later when someone approches needing directions to get around the newly rebuilt republic. he looks so similar to ben that she finds herself feeling sad and looking at him for to long. Her fortress she built around herself to protect against reality crumbles a little revealing the hole in her heart. Her need for him is still there, she wants to act like its not but can't help it. She needs him to be standing in front of her she needs to feel the comfort and the sense of home she felt on Exegol before it was ripped away without warning. But the stranger isn't ben, he isn't here she starts to feel the coldness again and lonelyness that ate away at her for years before he appeared.

[eagna-eilis]

Hear me out, okay.

In 10 ABY, when 'Ahsoka' is set, Ahsoka is only in her mid to late forties.

At the end of TROS (she's not dead, sorry, I'm not having it), she would be about seventy.

Which is definitely not to old too old to teach Finn some Force stuff. Former child soldier to former child soldier.

Elder Ahsoka teaches Finn some Force Stuff AU like right now plz.

[ladydiscordia]

Hidden (revised Chapter 1-3)

Summary: Posing as a couple who've lost everything to the First Order, Rey and Ben arrive on Carajam after the Emperor's defeat to hide themselves away and heal the scars within. Post TROS, with one obvious tweak. Light on angsty redemption, heavy on the come-hither stares.

A/N: I've revised and rewritten this into a drabble series, hoping it will help me finish this by the end of 2024. Let's go!

Preview:

Rey was wrenched from the consuming darkness of the Otherworld by a warmth at her waist. Feeling returned to her limbs in a pinpricked rush as she summoned her hand, reaching for the warmth. It was a palm spread across her stomach. Who's? She inhaled deeply, and the palm twitched in surprise.

Rey looked up. Ben's dark eyes met hers with shock so full of hope it banished the vestige numbness from her frame. It was his hand—his warmth—she touched.

"Ben?" She breathed, gazing at features both familiar and foreign. There was a softness she'd never seen in his brow, an unguarded parting to his mouth, a reverence in his glove-free hold. Raw relief spread across his face, rounding its shadowed angles and exposing the man caged away long ago. He cradled her neck as she straightened to sit, and Rey let her fingers travel through the air, hovering near his cheek.

Searching this new face—so different from the one she'd first seen in Starkiller's interrogation room—Rey surged forward. Ben rushed to meet her, kissing her in trembling celebration.

They had done it. They had defeated the Emperor. Together.

Ben pulled her closer, and Exegol's cold ruins fell away. The idea of him was nothing compared to the reality. His mouth was triumphant, but tender—she had saved him from the dark side, and he had brought her back from the Otherworld. The press of his lips strengthened as he deepened the kiss, brushing his nose against her cheek.

Rey wanted to savor the contact, to live forever in a single moment, but the urge to memorize him—to make Ben's soft joy eclipse the rage of Kylo Ren—had her pulling away.

She roamed his features, proving to herself they were real, and felt herself smile in wonder. He stared back, flitting over the lines of her nose and jaw with the same hint of awe. It was like he'd never seen her before. Like he'd waited his whole life to feel the elated acceptance in her gaze.

Ben matched her smile with one wide enough to show teeth, and Rey's heart leapt. The promise it held, a future without black robes or masks, left her nearly breathless. They had both been right; he had turned, and when the moment came, she had stood beside him.

For a beat, they just smiled, buoyed and proud, sharing something they'd never shared. And then—without warning—Ben's expression went slack and vacant. He grew heavy in her arms, and Rey bent to catch him as he fell, resting his head on the stony ground.

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[inquisitor-apologist]

I think all Star Wars exists on a spectrum of too much to too little Lucas-ness. Aotc has way too much, tros has absolutely none, rots novelization is perfect amount etc

[stardustfairytale]

Rey. Some things are stronger than blood. Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi. Your destiny.

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (2019)

[msuolo]

n e o n.

[brackenferns]

i know i'm not the first to say this, but the acolyte's cancellation has confirmed how tired i am of disney's decision-making when it comes to their content. i know nostalgia is the easiest way to a big payout, but we can only take so many spinoffs before the universe starts to feel too small. but then fresh content—content that's building on the canon by looking to old star wars lore while asking new questions—fizzles out.

it's the sequel trilogy all over again. we're promised something new, something that actually expands the canon rather than just recycling it, even bringing in concepts from legends, and then the rug is ripped out from underneath us & we're punished for ever caring about any of it. silly babygirl! palpatine was always the big bad (don't worry about the fact that this is thematically nonsense and not foreshadowed in any way), and rey isn't a nobody ("your parents sold you because they loved you"), and this isn't a story about how the force transcends human categories and dynasties (represented by a grey jedi force dyad between a legacy skywalker and a nobody orphan from a backwater planet, fulfilling not only balance between light and dark but also transcending the old to become something new). silly idiot!!! rey's a palpatine by birth and a skywalker by self-adoption and god forbid she create her own identity outside of these names our fans recognize. watch as she stands alone on a sand planet that has no personal significance to her, ending her arc almost exactly as she began. but look!! two suns! neat

i don't even know if fanservice is the right word. at a certain point, it just starts to feel like they're quaking in their boots at the thought of doing anything new. i had my gripes with some of the choices in the acolyte, but at least it was unique. it explored a new era and asked questions that star wars has only ever flirted with. like: what happens to the children who are uprooted from their homes at such a young age, yet can't find their place in the jedi order? how does one survive in a supposedly honorable system that nevertheless relies on the repression of some of humanity's most fundamental emotions? is it possible that an organization dictating exactly how one ought to interact with the very life force of the universe... could perhaps be faulty and shortsighted? what happens when the ways of that order clash with other cultures and worldviews? (spoilers: space colonialism). and that's not even to mention the ideas they play with re: the force itself (vergences! plagueis! force witches!)

i know not everyone loved the show, but a lot of people really did care about it. a lot of people, like me, were excited to see these new questions being raised. but forget it—the disney gods have decreed that it didn't hit some magical threshold of streaming hours or reach a "broad enough" audience in the two months it's been out. but don't worry guys. turn your brains off and tune in for the next spinoff 2 chewy 2 bacca

[vickysomething]

As a woman and as a fangirl, watching the Star Wars franchise feels like being invited, then disinvited to a party.

The Last Jedi : "Welcome to Star Wars !"

The Rise of Skywalker : "We're sorry to inform you that most of the previous storylines have been canceled, this movie is for dudes."

The Acolyte Season 1 : "Welcome to Star Wars !"

The Acolyte Season 2 : "We're sorry to inform you that the entire show has been canceled, please leave."

[flilisskywalker]

There is no really better time to make FinnRey a thing than in the New Jedi Order movie. Like, it's right. Who better to be the "father" and the "mother" of a whole new era of space wizards?

Let the New Order be their "baby".

Let them be like Kanan and Hera, let them banter like a married couple and say things like: "Ok, kids, do mom and dad proud." It makes far more sense than let Rey handle all on her own.

[please-dont-pet-the-okapi]

okay so i've not seen the last few star wars but i grew up on the originals and saw the first sequel

could you please write me a synopsis of whatever happened to rey, finn and kylo ren?

My account is going to be very long-winded and heavily affected by 1) the fact that I was deeply upset by The Rise of Skywalker and 2) the fact that I haven't been able to bring myself to rewatch any of the sequels since 2019, because of how upset I was, so a lot of these details are kind of half-remembered. I apologize for my biases and the scattered nature of all this.

Rey trains under Luke Skywalker, but the Luke we meet is bitter and crotchety. It's eventually revealed he has cut himself off from the Force entirely, and reacted to his nephew's turn to the Dark Side by trying to kill him.

(It is not clear if Luke ever had Ben's redemption in mind, which is surprising, since hope and desire for others' redemption are among Luke's defining characteristics.)

It is revealed that Rey and Kylo Ren have some sort of connection in the Force through which they can psychically communicate. ((Sidebar: I actually REALLY like Force Skype as a concept. As a kid writing fanfic in my head I toyed with the idea. This remains, for me, the One Good Thing The Sequels Did.))

Rey and Kylo Ren bond and it seems like Kylo is going to turn back to the Light. Rey goes to help him defeat Snoke and PSYCH. He's still evil.

PSYCH AGAIN. Kylo Ren and Rey kill Snoke together at the end of TLJ.

PSYCH. FOR THE THIRD TIME. Kylo is still evil and wants Rey to join him. Rey refuses. (I can't remember how she escapes. I think he just lets her leave?)

It's revealed that Rey isn't related to anybody at all.

Luke dies :(

Finn is honestly kind of ignored in TLJ, from what I recall. More focus is placed on Poe (who spends the film feuding with Holdo, a new character, while Leia is unconscious in med bay) and Rose (a new character who was, unjustly and unfathomably, poorly received enough to be more or less written out of the third film).

There's also this scene...

...for some reason.

Anyway. The Rise of Skywalker.

The last movie is, until about halfway through, a fun sci-fi adventure movie ft. a MacGuffin Knife that will lead them to Palpatine, who has Somehow Returned. People complained about the MacGuffin Knife Adventure Plot. I don't care. It's fun.

There's a repeated thing where Finn, Rey, and Poe are in Life Or Death situations and Finn starts to tell Rey something in desperation, but they always get out alive and he ends up not telling her. Disney claimed after the fact that he was going to tell her he was Force-sensitive, but that makes no darn sense. The timing and tone always felt very clearly like a dying love confession. But we never actually find out what Finn was going to say.

You didn't ask to hear about him, but blue puppet alien Babu Frik is a One Scene Wonder and The Other One Good Thing The Sequels Did.

There's a plot point where Chewie is killed in an explosion, but PSYCH. He wasn't!

There's also a bit where it looks like C3PO will have to lose his memory forever in order to translate a clue they need to find the Emperor's Evil Lair. PSYCH. R2D2 has a backup and reboots him! It's like nothing happened!

About halfway through, it's revealed that PSYCH. Rey is not related to nobody after all! She is the granddaughter of Emperor Sheev Palpatine.

"How does Palpatine have a granddaughter?" you may be asking. Well, they never explained in the movie itself. My IRL friends and I have spent every year since arguing about this, leading to many Incredibly Cursed conversations.

((I also distinctly remember thinking to myself while watching this movie in theaters for the first time, "Oh, no, I hope they don't make Rey Palpatine's granddaughter. That would be stupid." And guess what the next words out of Kylo Ren's mouth were.))

Anyway, according to Kylo Ren, the Palpatines and Skywalkers form "a dyad in the Force" (???) and they will be even more powerful together.

Finn meets another group of ex-Storm Troopers at one point, people who did what he did and chose not to kill civilians. Finn and one of the other ex-Storm Troopers talk about why they did what they did, and both chalk up their incredibly brave moral decisions to... "a feeling".

And that conversation ticked me off more than anything else. The prequels and originals are all about morality and choice--how nobody is just "born evil" or "born good", how choosing to do the right thing is painful sometimes, how our choices shape us and shape the world around us, and how it's never too late to choose to do what is right. And TFA sets itself up as part of that tradition--Finn makes a courageous but dangerous moral choice and then has to grapple with what to do next because good is not safe and he's scared! And then TRoS has the gall to have him say he made that choice because of nothing more than "a feeling" and to leave his internal struggle at that. And for what? A worthless throwaway line in the climactic space battle?

And for me, that whole thing really puts a damper on Rey choosing the Skywalker legacy over her Palpatine heritage, and on Kylo Ren/Ben Solo's kinda sorta redemption arc.

Rey is assisted in defeating Palpatine by the voices and power of every Jedi ever, so we get voice cameos of pretty much everyone who's ever voiced/played a Jedi in all of Star Wars.

Rey is killed in the final battle. Ben transfers his life energy into her. She comes back, kisses him, and he immediately keels over and dies.

Bear in mind the most positive interactions these two have had was holding hands over Force Skype.

On one hand, Ben dying shortly after being redeemed is fine. It (theoretically) mirrors the character arc of his grandfather. But for whatever reason, he doesn't appear with Luke and Leia (yeah :( she dies too) as a Force Ghost, although that would have been a good follow-through on Ben's arc.

I don't know how I'd summarize what happened to them all in a story-sense, due to how directionless this whole thing feels. In a meta sense, though, I'd chalk the whole thing up to execs trying to please everybody, conflicting creative decisions, and creative teams failing to understand what makes Star Wars good.

I don't know if this explains anything well, and someone else could probably have explained this better, but this is the best explanation I could give as to what happened to them.

[stealingpotatoes]

BAPPY HIRTHDAY! You are such an inspiration to me in all that you do! Your tl4j art has made fall in love with star wars again! And how you draw Ashoka is just *chefs kiss* you make her the tired lesbian wine aunt that we all know her to be

aww omg thank you!!!!! it’s simply ahsoka’s natural state

[beatcroc]

Also if you think death note isn't perfectly aware of how over the top edgy corny it is and isn't actively having fun with that like. Cmon dude