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From Star Wars: Empire Ascendant #001, “An Echo of Victory”
Art by Luke Ross and Guru-eFX
Written by Charles Soule
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I had a question on the fic I just finished (Love Will Help You Heal) about how I picture Kes Dameron and Shara Bey in my story. My links to the images didn’t work, so I’m posting the pictures here
I picture Kes as this specific Antonio Banderas look (maybe a little stockier, but you understand)
Shara died in her early thirties in my story, and I picture her looking a lot like Mandy Gonzalez.
I just love her smile in this picture. She’s an incredible Broadway actress, and you should check her out.
Sooooooo, if you read my story, thanks for reading! And commenting– I really appreciate the support and encouragement.
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Anonymous asked:
headcanons about the damerons (kes, shara, poe)
- Shara’s mother used to say that she was born a speeder without thrust reversers. She wanted to do everything at eighty parsecs a minute—talk, run, fly, chores, make friends, fall in love. She’d never listened to a warning her whole life, and once she finally climbed into the cockpit of an x-wing, got her hands on the yoke, she was never going to.
- Her mother cried, the day she left for the Imperial Flight Academy. When will you be home? she asked, and Shara had laughed because she would be home.
- (A point of clarification: Shara never had a homeworld, not then, not yet. She’d never been planetside for more than a few days, however long it took for her mothers to exchange goods for credits and refuel again. Just barely this side of legal, especially after the Empire took over. Shara felt the hum of hyperspace in her bones, could close her eyes and see the tangled threads of hyperlanes, spread out in blue before her. she was always home, in space.)
- It wasn’t—or maybe it was, but in the way was the Imperial Flight Academy. She’d hated the Academy.
- Cold and proper and regimented in a way that made her feel like something unclean, being washed and washed again until she was thin and grey as their trainee flightsuits.
- All those Coruscanti accents, sneering at her—her wardrobe, which was cobbled together from half a dozen Outer Rim marketplaces, her taste for xeno foods and music written in languages other than Basic.
- She’d lied, whenever her mothers sent a transmit. Or talked about her scores (impeccable) or her instructors (impressed, even if they were cold and grudging about it.)
- (Before you ask, that wasn’t the reason. Or maybe not the only reason—it was a hundred things she just kept swallowing, like drinking thimbles of something only lethal in a large dose.
- She didn’t want to die of poisoning, she wanted to die in fire and flying, so—)
- When Shara Bey defected for the Rebellion, she did it in true speeder-sans-braking-system style; a decision turning on a Coruscanti second, because there were stars she hadn’t seen before.
- It was her last qualifying solo flight—they let the trainees take out one of the just-off-the-line x-wings for the qualifier, as a sort of incentive. (See what you could be flying! except of course, new pilots got stuck with aging TIE-fighters, where one in three died. She’d checked the numbers.)
- Shara broke atmo and it was—
- There were so many stars. How had she never seen the stars before? She’d hung there in space, watching the stars flick by and staring, awe-drunk.
- (Shara Bey never returned to the Imperial Flight Academy. Neither did the x-wing.)
- Kes’s mother used to say that he was a mountain, a rock face. He shifted slowly and only when he wanted to, with much groaning. But once it was decided, it was decided, and no one could keep him from it any more than they could stop a landslide.
- Kes’s mother had been the one to first put a blaster in his hands. We will keep our world free, she said, painting the practice targets the same off-white as stormtrooper helmets.
- They were Republican troopers then, but it was good practice for later. The regime changed, the aesthetic didn’t.
- (A point of clarification: they did not protect their world. The Jedi fought them, but the Empire conquered them, and took the blaster from Kes’s hand and the mother who gave it to him. He was young, but not so young he expected her to return from whatever prison planet they shipped her away to. She doesn’t, so that’s that.)
- There were those who fought alongside her, who manage to evade her fate. They contact his family, settlers on the Outer Rim, some moon he’s never heard of—
- Yavin IV might be the only thing in the whole of the galaxy which changed Kes Dameron’s mind for him. It is the first great love of his life, from the moment he sets eyes on it.
- (The second is Shara Bey, and the feeling will be the same.)
- His aunts and uncles, cousins—some of which share his blood, but most of which are related only by proximity, and someone his uncle played sabacc with once—are warm and loud, and he is brought into the affectionate crush of them without question.
- Though his aunt does look at him curiously when he volunteers to keep watch over the chaqua harvest, and shoot at the rats. I’m good with a blaster, he says with a shrug. His voice has deepened now, and it finally sounds like a man is offering his protection, instead of a child boasting.
- Sometimes he can hear them talking about his mother—the strange one, wayward daughter who wanted to fight the Republic over a useless spit of mined-out rock, look at where it got her— Kes always shuts his eyes tight, focuses on his breathing, because the alternative is screaming: what if it was here, what if it was you? would you give up yavin? would you give up me?
- Kes Dameron never really left for the Rebellion. When it arrived on Yavin IV, he was already there, sitting on a heap of rock with a blaster balanced across his knees. You’re here to keep our world free, right? he asks.
- Really, the answer doesn’t matter. He’s decided, all the same.
- Poe’s mother used to say that he was a comet. No question, ishoco, she said. Because no matter how fast you fly, or how much you burn, you’ve come from rock, the same stuff that makes up a world.
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Obscure details about Poe Dameron that the films don’t tell you
Poe’s parents names are Shara Bey and Kes Dameron.
Both of his parents served with the original trilogy characters and were life long friends with them after the war.
Poe Dameron had met Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, and Ben Solo prior to TFA. Poe and his family have had the longest ties to the original trilogy characters out of all the sequel trilogy characters.
Shara Bey died when Poe Dameron was young.
Kes Dameron is still alive and well.
Poe’s badass squad from TFA were sent on a mission before the events of TLJ.
Poe Dameron is constantly afraid that the fight his family and comrades had been fighting and dying for since before he was born was for nothing. Kes Dameron shares that fear.
Poe Dameron is one of the most trusted and successful soldiers in the New Republic and is often sent on top secret missions that he volunteers to go alone on so to reduce the casualties of others.
Poe Dameron‘s entire life has been dedicated to the Republic/Resistance, to democracy. Poe is the farthest thing from a fascist and refused to even sacrifice C-3PO when it would’ve been simpler to leave him behind. Poe has always been a good and caring leader and has suffered over the fact that he can’t keep everyone safe. Poe Dameron is a good man and a hero.
If anyone is expecting Poe to be a villain in ep 9 and turn against Rey, the woman that his best friend Finn is clearly in love with and who helped save the Resistance, you’re delusional.
My baby is so sweet and good and pure. I love everything about him.
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story by @bakingstreetsarah aka StarMaple on Ao3 >>read/bookmark on Ao3<< Please do not repost :)
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This is Poe Dameron
Poe is a Pilot in the democratic government the New Republic, and a freedom fighter in the Resistance.
These are his Parents, Shara Bey and Kes Dameron. They were soldiers in the galactic Civil War and fought along side the original trio and became close friends with them. Shara died after the war, when Poe was still a child. Kes now fears that the suffering they all went through might have been for nothing as the remnants of the Empire return.
Poe went through agonizing torture by Kylo Ren and the First Order after finding the map to Luke Skywalker, yet he still didn’t blame Finn for being apart of their army and trusted him because he was a good man forced into the wrong side.
Even after being tortured relentlessly and almost dying alone in the desert, Poe still pushed forward and fought with his squad and close friends to destroy Starkiller base, the weapon of mass destruction that had killed billions.
Poe and made the decision to disobey orders and destroy the dreadnought, a decision that cost the lives of many good soldiers, but the decision was the right one since the First Order had been tracking the resistance, and if they hadn’t destroyed the dreadnought, the resistance would have been sitting ducks.
Poe was forced to put blind faith in a commanding officer who refused to tell anyone her plan, his mentor was unresponsive in a coma, two of his friends and comrades were on a suicide mission, while his other close friends were scattered around the galaxy, and all Poe could do was sit in a ship and wait to die as the First Order pursued them relentlessly.
Poe had been forced to watch every single fear he had ever felt come true as he witnessed the First Order demolish the new republic, Kill almost all of the resistance, invalidate every single sacrifice he and his family and comrades had made, and just like his mother’s death, he had no control over the situation.
And yet regardless of all the pain he has had to endure in his life, Poe Knows that he can’t stop fighting, he knows that others are still suffering worse than he is, and he knows that regardless of the enemy, he must stay a good man and do the right thing, regardless of orders.
He’s not a hothead fly boy, he’s not some eye candy to fetishized because of his skin color or sexuality, and he’s definitely never going to betray the trust of his friends, comrades or hurt innocents.
Poe Dameron is a damn good man. He’s a hero, just like Finn, just like Rey, and he deserves better than anyone painting him as the real villain.
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#space latinxs
lots of good posts out there are asking the question, “what is Poe and Leia’s relationship like?”, and i believe this important discussion would be enhanced approximately 3000% by the knowledge that these two nerds are #space latinxs.
And yeah, the entire goddamned galaxy knows that Leia is a Skywalker and Skywalkers are as pasty as the snow on Hoth, but these are Leia’s adopted parents:
(played by Jimmy Smits, who’s Puerto Rican, and Rebecca Jackson Martinez, who’s Filipina)
These were the people who changed her diaper, who fed her and sung her lullabies. Leia is an Organa, and totally an adopted #space latina.
And then Leia loses it all when Alderaan was destroyed. She lost bolero music and the smell of plantains sizzling in the pan. She lost thunderstorms on the beach and peanut vendors shouting in the streets. She might have gained a brother and a family tree, but her history is twisted and dark and none of it can replace the smile in her father’s voice as he called her nena.
Her friendship with Shara Bey has got to feel like getting a little bit of that back.
Just a little, because Yavin IV isn’t Alderaan, but when Leia mutters “coño” at a failing engine Shara says, “el modelo GX1 no incluye uno de esos.” Kes Dameron makes a mean tamale, and is only a little horrified when Leia calls them “pasteles.” (Kes’s tamales are sweeter than Leia remembers, made with corn like her dad’s side. Her mom’s folks always made them with rice.)
This is the home where Poe Dameron is born. Leia is his general, but she’s also the woman who called her dad a cabrón when he wouldn’t pass her the rum. She once yelled at Poe for twenty straight minutes because he pulled a risky maneuver mid-battle, shouting that Poe’s life is worth more than that, his plane is worth more than that, only to stop him out the door with a quiet, “pero fue de pinga.” It’s a complicated relationship.
After all, it’s a cold galaxy. Space Latinxs gotta stick together.
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Stephanie Beatriz as Shara Bey & Jon Huertas as Kes Dameron
Shattered Empire casting because, space babes.
HELL YEAH