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Can we have them meet now?

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He looks amazing. I love the earrings ✨

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Something that is so, so relatable to me about Sabine is that she’s the first-born daughter, straight-A student, high achiever, carrier of her parents’ and culture’s expectations, which I was thinking about when I noticed that, within the first five minutes of reuniting with each of her parents, after she’s been gone for years and possibly presumed dead, they both let her know that she hasn’t measured up to their expectations. She’s not the warrior her mother wanted, and her father critiques her art.

Which reminded me of Bo-Katan’s: “A Mandalorian with a Jetpack is a weapon.”

It made me wonder if this is how Mandalorians evaluate their people, their families. That you’re only as worthy of love as you measure up to a certain standard or ideal. Your usefulness, your skill, your success, your House and Clan. Loved for what you are and what you contribute instead of who you are.

I think Sabine had always existed as a What, rather than a Who.

And it finally solved for me something I’d been stuck on. I knew exactly how Sabine found Ezra and fixed his being lost, but what I couldn’t pin down was exactly how Ezra healed a broken Sabine.

It reminded me of this explanation about Padme and Anakin. That Padme indulged in Anakin because, ever since she was a child queen, he was the only one who ever wanted just her. Not the Queen or the Senator. Just Padme.

I think, similarly, in her whole life up to that point, no one had ever formed a relationship with Sabine just for her. For who she was. Without some kind of expectation of something from her for her intellect, skills, talent, or information.

Her parents and people, the Empire, Ketsu, even Kanan and Hera to some extent, form relationships with Sabine based on What.

Only Ezra pursues the Who.

“Sabine. My name is Sabine.”

And even she doesn’t really know who she is yet when she meets him, but they go on this journey together. Together they figure out who they are and the kind of people they want to be.

“Happy Birthday, Ezra Bridger.”

Sabine learns how to be a Who with and because of Ezra, and it’s a reciprocal, complementary relationship. She finds him, sees him, encourages him to become so much more than he believes he could be. He’s too much Who and not enough What.

She’s too much What and not enough Who. Ezra heals her brokenness by seeing beyond the What.

To him, she’s more than just the sum total of her abilities and accomplishments. She’s not someone to be evaluated, to be accepted or dismissed based on her success or failure. He reassures her that she’s more than all of the labels she’s been assigned and holds on to herself.

To Ezra, she’s not just Clan Wren, House Viszla. Her mother’s warrior or her father’s prodigy. She’s not the abomination of the Duchess, an Imperial Traitor, a Traitor to Mandalore, or a failed bounty hunter. She’s not a translator, a weapons expert, an artist, a tech or a Rebel. She’s not even Spectre 5.

She’s Sabine.

I’ve said it before, but a few other posts this week have reminded me that this is THE Star Wars m/f ship dynamic. Some Guy falls hard for a Princess/Queen, and she falls for him because he sees who she is underneath all of that. In turn, he makes something of himself because of her. Hanleia. Anidala. Obitine. Kanera. DinBo.

#fr😭he doesn't even gaf about mandalorians #he was so confused when sabine was talking about how her people thinks she's a traitor cuz bro she's SABINE are they blind???

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#SIMILAR IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

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Okay but if this is Ezra

Then I can't help but laugh and cry. Cause we can see the man throw his weapon away? I can't tell if it's some sort of rifle or a stick or just something long, but he tosses it the moment Sabine starts to choke him. Like he chucks that shit a foot away. Almost like he's trying to not seem threatening, while also not moving or trying to attack her?

So who wants to bet that this is Ezra, he notices and recognises her helmet, and puts his defenses down and without thinking just goes up to her like "Sabine :D"

Forgetting or not thinking about how it's been like a decade, and he's wearing a disguise, and that he is now nearly thirty now and the last time they saw one another he was only eighteen/nineteen, so Sabine just attacks him.

He tries to talk to her, not wanting to fight or hurt her, but she ends up dragging and choking him across the floor or trying to pull him down.

What if he has to either kick her legs out from under her or he uses the force to grab his lightsaber to free himself because she can't understand him as he's choking?

What if Sabine pulls him with her and sends him flying back into the side of the ship she's in front of, or trying to pin him to the floor?

What if we get Sabine being so angry that she doesn't care about what her trying to say, why he isn't fighting back, and just trying to talk to her?

What if she is just so sick and tired of people stopping her, taunting her, using Ezra against her that she doesn't want to talk anymore?

Until she hears him cough out a familiar "Sabine!"

And she just stops because she knows that voice.

Cue the man flipping them over, or cutting the cable, or just breaking through the rage rolling off her in waves with a single sentence: "It's me!"

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✨ WOMEN ✨

Andor ladies let’s go!! 

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Something I really like about the main cast of rebels is that they’re all people who ran from their past in one way or another, but managed to find closure with the help and support from each other. Like Kanan literally ran away on Kallar and from his connection to the Force, but found it again when he met Hera and later with Ezra. Hera ran from Ryloth because she didn’t feel heard by her father and couldn’t agree with his sole focus on Ryloth’s freedom alone, but reconnected with him with the other Spectres supporting her all the way. Zeb ran from his past as the Captain of the Honor Guard, unable to forgive his own guilt at the destruction of his people, but the other Spectres (and Ezra especially) give his that push to reconnect with his people and his culture. Sabine ran from her people and culture, from the Empire, and from her family, chased away by her mistakes and overwhelming guilt, but with the support and understanding of her new family, Sabine drummed up the courage to go home and face her family and mistake. Ezra didn’t really run from his past per say, but there was a time when his fear of what happened to his parents led him to shutting out his new friends, which Ezra managed to find a sense of closure from with Kanan’s help.

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SABINE WREN in the AHSOKA trailer.

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Another (late) Barbie Redraw with the Clan of Three.

This is how I picture these three to be: Din and Grogu dragging Bo-Katan to their antics. This is just like the episode The Mines of Mandalore.

And I imagine that Din and Grogu would be proud of the damage/chaos they brought to the place while Bo-Katan would want the complete opposite but still chooses to keep up with the two.

Needless to say, I ship DinxBo.

#oh gods i love this

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“Even if this all ends up in a puddle of burning goo, we can go off together.”

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We’re not jettisoning anything. We’re taking the entire ship.

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she stole the show this season i fear

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“Fought side by side.”

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CASSIE CLARE and GRAHAM MCTAVISH on HeyUGuys discussing Philippa and Dijkstra's "whipping scene"

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#shipping two characters and having to read into their eye contact like