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hedgiwithapen:

thescarletqueen:

vrabia:

you guys wanna hear a sad story called ‘finn rescuing poe was a much bigger deal to poe emotionally than the movie let on’?

listen. i know that poe being the resistance golden boy is a really popular headcanon, but in ‘before the awakening’ we learn two things about him:

• he hasn’t been with the resistance that long before the events in tfa. his mission to jakku is only the second mission he flies for leia

• poe is a spy. a good one. sure, he’s also an amazing fighter pilot, but 90% of what he does in the book consists of retrieving items/intel from the first order while mostly using his piloting skills to get away before being caught.

so here’s the thing now. the political landscape around the time poe joins the resistance looks like this: the republic and the first order are engaged in a ‘don’t bomb us and we won’t bomb you’ sort of deal, with a neutral zone between their respective territories. for some incomprehensible reason the republic doesn’t think the first order is a big deal. the resistance, which the republic sooort of supports on the down low, thinks the first order is an enormously big deal and wants to stop them. the problem? they can’t do it by engaging the first order directly because it would violate the agreement with the new republic and potentially start a war.

enter poe dameron, disillusioned republic officer, who wants to do something about this. so when leia recruits him for the rebellion he’s 100% on board. but before leia sends him on his first mission she tells poe, with exactly zero sugar coating, that he can back down, but if he accepts and later gets caught he’s on his own. the republic, and by extension the resistance, must deny all involvement in whatever he was doing or risk open war with the first order.

on jakku, like on his first mission for the resistance, poe goes undercover, out of uniform and with a stripped x-wing

and he gets caught and tortured and has his secrets, including his ties with the rebellion, found out

all his snarking and posturing happens to the background of poe being acutely aware that no one is coming for him

if hux decided to livestream his torture directly to leia, she’d have to stand there and say she has no idea who poe is

the resistance isn’t going to rescue him, ransom him, or admit to having any connections with him.

poe is probably very aware that he’s going to die soon, alone and without having done much for the cause he believes in. 

and then finn comes and saves him, knight-in-shining-armor style

so yeah. think about that sometime.

#HONESTLY I WAS READING THAT BIT IN POE’S CHAPTER #AND IT PUTS HIS HOPEFUL LITTLE ‘ARE YOU WITH THE REBELLION?’ LINE IN TFA WHEN FINN SAYS HE’S THERE TO RESCUE HIM IN A WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE #A VERY SAD PERSPECTIVE #THE PERSPECTIVE OF POE HOPING AGAINST HOPE THAT THE RESISTANCE DID IN FACT COME FOR HIM #TO CLARIFY: POE UNDERSTANDS THE RISKS HE’S TAKING AND ACCEPTS THEM; LEIA DOESN’T FORCE HIM TO GO ON THESE MISSIONS #HE HAS A CHOICE NOT TO BUT DECIDES TO DO IT #I JUST FEEL A LOT ABOUT THIS #I FEEL A LOT ABOUT POE WANDERING THE JAKKU DESERT; ONCE AGAIN ALONE AND FEELING GUILTY AS FUCK #THAT HE ACCIDENTALLY KILLED THE ONE PERSON WHO HELPED HIM AND WHO ALSO TURNED OUT TO BE A WONDERFUL PERSON #I FEEL A LOT ABOUT POE TELLING LEIA WHAT FINN DID AND LEIA FEELING GUILTY ABOUT POE AND GRATEFUL TO THIS YOUNG MAN SHE HAS NEVER MET #I FEEL MOST OF ALL ABOUT THE LOOK ON POE’S FACE WHEN HE SEES FINN ALIVE AND WHOLE ON D’QAR #AND THEN RUNS ACROSS THE AIRFIELD INTO FINN’S ARMS & LOOKS AT FINN LIKE HE HANGS THE STARS EVERY NIGHT AND MAKES THE SUN RISE IN THE MORNING #STAR WARS (tags via: vrabia)

I’m reading the novelization, and there’s a whole chunk about Poe reminding himself that no ‘ordinary person’ can resist Ren’s torture/ interrogation and he shouldn’t feel bad about failing, that he tried. And it goes on to talk about how he made himself expendable, “less than that.” and he knows that it’s the end, soon enough he’ll be dead and  he thinks outright that he doesn’t care what happens to himself, and when Finn  takes him away? he’s 100% sure it’s to his execution and he’s just. ok with that. it means everything will be over. By the time Finn explains he’s rescuing him, Poe has “ long since surrendered anything resembling hope.”

my heart.