“…but I know the Force. It moves through and surrounds every living thing. Close your eyes. Feel it. The light. It’s always been there. It will guide you.”
SO THIS IS A THING IVE BEEN WORKING ON. Alphonse style Starwars ladies <3 This was mostly just a reason to play around with shading and testing out my new tablet!! pls full size for mega details~
Decided to craft this one around the same vein as my piece for Finn, a sort-of tapestry of the character’s arc throughout the movie. Spoilers obviously!
Rey was so nuanced and well-rounded that it was almost impossible to cram all of her richness in a single still image.
I decided to start with her wall, with her wait, the limbo of denial that holds her back from who she can be. But the darkness of her harsh survival on Jakku is always punctured by the ease of her spirit, her dormant wish for adventure and freedom; the dolls she sews and that Rebel helmet she pulls on before even finishing to chew on the food that she risked her life for hours before.
The Millennium Falcon is what ultimately becomes her vessel that tears her away, through the inevitable quest for the Resistance that she accepts without a second thought. It leads her to places where she discovers the true potential of her power, her strength, and her capacity to be something far greater than she had ever hoped to be.
Rey is my absolute favorite and I will fight anyone who talks smack about her. Also, see if you can spot a surprise cameo by BB-8 :P
No but actually forreal can we talk about how Han reacts to Rey?
This scrappy kid from a desert planet in the back of beyond, all bright eyed and so eager you can practically see her tail wagging. Hopeful and brilliant and shining, believing in fairy tales, believing in righteous causes, in armies of Light and Dark, in happy endings.
Like Maz says: you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people. He’s seen her eyes before. And he’s seen what happens to bright, scrappy kids from the back of beyond who volunteer for big adventures in wide galaxy.
They get eaten alive. The galaxy is a hard place, and it has no pity for innocent kids who believe in right and wrong.
He’s seen her eyes before, all right. He still remembers that scrappy kid on another desert planet, another kid with wide eyes and a wagging tail, another kid with more hope than sense, more courage than cunning, more skill than they knew, another kid who burned so brightly but not bright enough. Not for the blackness between the stars.
He failed that kid. Like he failed his wife, and his son.
The fact that Rey’s natural weapon is a pole/quarterstaff thing makes me really hope this is where she’s headed.
I am really hoping for this, except with a longer handle in the middle and a shorter blade on each end. Tell me she couldn’t engineer that, I dare you. And it would be cool.
OR she could keep her normal weapon and pimp it out with lightsabers.
