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We’ll see each other again. I believe that.

John Boyega and Daisy Ridley as Finn & Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

OKAY LISTEN my favorite thing about this is that in the short time they’ve known each other Rey has grown to trust Finn enough that she is absentmindedly reaching back for him after he grabs her. On Jakku she told him to stop holding her hand and in this gifset shes motioning with her hand for him to take it o h m y g o d

#i want ‘finn bodily dragging his partners away from danger bc he’s the only reasonable person in this relationship’ to become a trend#rey goes between immobile with surprised terror from never having seen a thing like that to ‘i’m gONNA FIGHT IT’#poe gives long speeches to things with 17 tentacles and 400 teeth on the virtues of non-aggressive negotiations#‘i’m sure we can all be pals if we /tried/’ poe says with utter unfabricated sincerity#proffering his hand in friendship to one of 17 tentacles as finn drags him away#‘no rey you can’t fight that you’re gonna die’#’/no/ poe we can’t all be pals’#‘literally how did the two of you survive 19 and 32 years respectively in this galaxy before i came along’

Anonymous pal wanted Prequels-level romantic conversation in a Sequels-level setting.

Someone save Ray.

“Just keep flying Rey. Just focus on not smashing into that moon killing me instantly.”

#star wars#i stg this is the most millennial fucking movie look at these children#one of them rebelling against an oppressive system that seeks to reduce him to nothing but a number#conditioned to believe his only purpose is to be a cog in a machine#standing up and saying ‘no i am an individual and i can make my own  choices’#and the other one is a lonely isolated survivor who spends every day hoping for her family to come back#who ends up finding a family that she makes her own#completely out of their fucking depth#still managing to do the  right thing while mostly internally screaming ‘aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh’#they both get adopted by cool space parents who give them a sense of value and purpose#and the bad guy is the poster child for entitled white boys with no self control#there’s basically a canon poly relationship#and there’s fucking lightsabers#no wonder we love this shit (@racethewind10)

PAGING @janoda

also this is even more amazing when you go into extended canon

not only did rey grow up orphaned and isolated, but also dirt poor, working a thankless job for despotic boss in order to feed herself and sometimes not managing even that. if you read ‘before the awakening’ rey’s story is utterly fucking heartbreaking because it’s outright said that she has, on multiple occasions, gone so hungry she had trouble standing. despite this she loves building things so much that she’d rather keep the best stuff she’s scavenging for herself than exchange it for food. she built her speeder already several years before we meet her, so like, in her mid-teens and she’s very proud of it. she has a workbench in her home and she’s always tinkering with things. rey would literally go hungry to follow her passion.

finn is basically caught in the equivalent of an abusive educational system that’s forcing him in little boxes and teaches skills (which incidentally involve murdering civilians) at the expense of his humanity. not only that but finn is also the overachiever who’s constantly doubting himself. it’s fucked up but before he escapes the first order so much of finn’s thought process is ‘i’m always at the top of the class and they’re saying i have so much potential, so why do i feel like such a failure?’ finn rebels against the order by bringing out his humanity full force and holding it up to them. he’s such a giant fuck you to the system it’s incredible. if anyone is a rebel in this story, it’s definitely finn. 

poe is so interesting because at 32 he would actually still be in the millennial age gap. he’s older, and by all accounts should be that disillusioned guy who understood long ago that notions of galactic peace and what have you are useless in real life. he should be that dude who embraced his cynicism and is maybe sort of patronizing towards these idealistic wide-eyed kids. instead he’s the opposite of all that, but that’s not really the point. poe, whose family fought to establish the new republic, wants nothing more than to do his part in rebuilding it. but at some point in the process he runs head-first into a wall of corrupt politics and shady business deals that would profit from a war. but instead of giving up and keeping his head down once he realizes what he’s up against, poe goes and becomes a leader figure in the resistance.

so basically you have three young people: one who works incredibly hard and is often unable to cover her most basic needs, but doesn’t give up on her passion; one who should have been broken by an abusive educational system, but instead broke the system by affirming his humanity at every point in the story; and one who didn’t succumb to cynicism and chose to act once he understood politics is always self-interested.

and the second they meet they do nothing but praise and encourage and lift eachother up, loudly and enthusiastically. 

space millennials. my heart is so full of love for this story.

Finn’s sexual awakening took place while he lived a crowded barracks amidst like a hundred other people, and Rey’s sexual awakening took place while she lived in an abandoned AT-AT miles away from anyone else, so Finn’s approach to masturbation is like “be still, be quiet, pretend you are still asleep and nothing is happening under this blanket, what could possibly be happening under this blanket? nothing because I’m asleep,” and Rey’s is like “time for screaming, it is scream time” 

Which means they first time they combine their mutual sexual experience, it just stops halfway through so they can both be like, “UMMM SO I’M HAVING A GREAT TIME BUT WHAT ARE YOU DOING”

#rey: ‘are you…..enjoying this?’ #finn: ‘this is literally the greatest moment of my life’ #rey: ‘then why are you being so silent?’ #finn: ‘the real question is WHY ARE YOU YELLING THERE’S SO MUCH YELLING’ #and poe from the next room over is like ‘finn has a point there sure is a lot of yelling happening at two in the morning’

This family cosplay made me die a thousand deaths.

This is cute im dying 😍

This family is precious and must be protected at all costs.

Yay! Another photo of these guys! Love them!

somebody please save poe dameron

he’s trying his best

Truth is Finn was never really “asleep", and enjoyed the kiss Rey gave him a little TOO much~~ xD

“She’s doing it wrong. She has to kiss him on the lips to wake him up ‘cause… he’s Sleeping Handsome.”

- actual thing I heard a small child say in the theater during this scene.

SLEEPING HANDSOME

rey, come with me. don’t go.

Finn and Rey get together and have a baby-8

come to the dark side, we have cookies as big as you.

IT’S THE TINIEST REY *EVER*! I mean, I ALWAYS reblog the tiny Reys, but this takes it to a new and amazing level!

twitter dump

Omg

                                                                       K E E P  I T

love at first sight.mp3

I’m honestly shocked at the lack of rey/shmi and rey/padme comparisons and parallels.

Aside from looking exactly like the two of them, I think rey has lots more parallels with shmi and padme then people realize.

With shmi, rey shares her unwavering hope and optimism, despite living in the worst conditions (shmi is a slave, rey a starving scavenger). Not to mention both live on harsh desert planets and have to survive on their own in a very dangerous environment.

With padme, rey shares her ferocity and determination. She, like padme, stands up for herself and others (bb-8, finn, etc). She can defend herself as well as defending those who cannot. She stands up for whats right and isnt afraid to speak her mind.

TLDR: rey shares a lot of qualities and characteristics with anakin and luke there is no doubt about that, but I think she shares even more qualities with shmi and padme.