#syril andor

[ethiobirds]

syril

[gadmiral-thrawn]

Syril Karn died finally understanding what everyone else had figured out before him - that everything he ever did and will do meant nothing. All that effort, all that crawling around just to prove he’s a good little soldier, all that time he spent trying to play the hero, the time spent chasing power, chasing Cassian, was always him just screaming into a void, hoping someone would care. The Empire didn’t. Cassian didn’t. He wasn’t a soldier or a hero. He was a pawn that thought he was playing chess. And in the end, when it all came crashing down, when the blaster finally hit, he didn’t go out in glory, just with that dull, gutting realization that he gave everything to something that never gave a damn back.

[maironscrotchlessbreeches]

Syril Karn x text posts 3/????

[veryfastnighuncatchable]

Just started watching Andor S2 (I know, I know, I'm behind) and I am CACKLING at Dedra and Syril playing house together while everything falls to shit

[ambiencowboy]

I fucking love Syril, one of thee antagonists of all time. He’s a wannabe fascist chihuahua with generalized anxiety disorder. I’ve never seen such a simpering, desperate little man.

His vindictive righteousness and pride make him viscous but he is so sensitive and fragile that you forget the depths of his misplaced rage. His bizarre intensity is deeply off putting to everyone except his evil girlfriend. This man has never relaxed a day in his life.

I can’t imagine what him and Dedra ever talked about. They probably had a time table that outlined their dates minute by minute. They’re beyond fucked it’s perfect.

Andor is no masterpiece but still really good imo, 7 or maybe 8 out of 10 I think. But Syril is a perfect antagonist character 10/10 for that freak no notes

[malkoddith]

best syril moment imo

I like it purely for the meme potential

[commandercody212]

He's embarrassed... doesn't like being called delicate.

[randomthoughtquest]

I understand where you’re coming from but Syril is an unredeemable character. The entire time he believes what he is doing is righteous and meaningful. When it turns out all of it meant nothing and that he’s nothing more than just another cog in the machine, the same as everyone else. His response would not be to change or to join the rebellion. No his pride would never allow him to do that. The idea that rebels are scum of the earth is too deeply ingrain in him but more importantly he would be wrong. Being wrong would be the worst outcome for him cause it would be proving his mother right. Nothing he did amounted to anything and that everything he fought to become by going against her wishes had just the same amount of usefulness and meaning as the pathetic jobs she kept pushing on him. If he survived he would have done something akin to a workplace shooter. The way that they wrote his character was not someone that could ever be redeemable.

Tony Gilroy you fumbled Syril’s arc so hard because his entire character was about misunderstanding his place in the imperial death machine. he is a low-ranking true believer who can be used by his betters to carry out orders and then discarded when he’s no longer of use. the logical culmination of his character is him realising he is a dog that has been cast aside, not “wait you guys actually meant it when you talked about doing all this mass murder shit?”

[demonsandpieohmy]

[syrilism]

(I don't think this post has made it here yet but if it has, I'll happily take it down)

[maironscrotchlessbreeches]

Syril Karn x text posts 2/????

[myfandomistingling]

Mon Mothma in Andor (Star Wars)

[hegodamask]

“He built up this totem of Cassian, this kind of voodoo doll, and the fact that he wasn’t even a blip on Cassian’s radar is crushing to him. He’s so desperate to be remembered and to make a difference, and it’s a cut too deep by that point. He’s been betrayed by Dedra and the Empire, and now his one true obsession doesn’t even think he’s worth remembering. He’s heartbroken.” - Kyle Soller

[chirrut-foreverinourdreams]

Imagine being Dedra Meero and being the most sane and normal person at the dinner table that shit was insane

[thewistlingbadger]

I love Andor for giving their antagonists shitty endings. We follow Dedra and Syril for such a long time that there are moments where we kind of root for them or feel bad for them, even though we know they're terrible people. Andor creates situations to put ourselves in their shoes AND it treats these characters as they should be treated- as villains. There is no "she was just misunderstood" or "there was good in him." These bastards are straight up, unrelentlessly evil, and their endings reflect that. Syril's death is overshadowed by the cleansing of the ghors. He's filthy and at a low point and fighting a man who he's convinced is the enemy, even though the man has no idea who the fuck Syril even is. Dedra, who's whole character revolves around her ambition with her career, ends up being arrested for overreaching on her job. She ends up in a max security prison, not for the crimes she's genuinely committed, but because she disrespected the chain of command at work.

These are genuinely some fucked up endings for these two characters and I love it so much. These bitches got exactly what they deserved, I've never seen karma and justice work so swiftly.

[blue-saaaaargent]

cassian’s “who are you?” to syril is not a thanos “i don’t even know who you are” moment. it is not “for me, it was tuesday” or “the axe forgets but the tree remembers”. because cassian didn’t ruin syril’s life. syril upended CASSIAN’S life, and ruined his own in the process. syril stumbled on on the case of two dead beat cops that the empire could not care less about and told him so to his face, but he was so desperate to prove himself as a useful cog in the empire’s machine that he went against his superiors to make a big show out of apprehending someone who was only trying to get back to his normal life. and it goes horribly. syril fucked up, and he’s fired, and he can’t make himself blame the empire so he becomes fixated on andor, his enemy, this big bad master criminal who escaped justice and ruined his life. it’s an obsession. and years later, in the midst of his disillusionment and regret watching the violence on ghorman he helped bring about, he sees him. cassian andor. and all this rage and resentment that’s been boiling under his skin for years overtakes any thought of the innocents dying and he throws himself into fighting cassian with a brutality that is obviously personal. and he almost wins, he has the gun pointed at him, when cassian looks at him with genuine confusion and asks “who are you?” and syril breaks. because he’s spent so long convincing himself that andor is out to get him, and now he sees that this was just as futile as everything else he dedicated himself to. because andor did nothing to him. and he has to die with that realization.

cassian had far more reason to hate syril than the other way around, but syril was completely unimportant to him because he chose the rebellion and love over resentment and the empire