If I had a nickel every time Rick Famuyiwa directed a Star Wars season finale that separates the two characters who have the best shot at romance in the franchise right now, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I like to look back at episodes 1 and 2 and notice this. I couldn't stop laughing at it because she is so real for this! I know she thinking: “She got it this bad?” she like an older sister peaking through his diary
I FINALLY UNDERSTOOD PROMPTS--hang on, is there supposed to be a palette for this one. I cannot find the original post.
Anyway, for the In Between Prompt, I decided to not do it literally. What I think these two were doing during those years in between the Rebels finale and the start of Ahsoka is still connecting with one another in any way they can (big or small, subtle or obvious); for Sabine: by living in Ezra's tower in Lothal and looking over his things, and for Ezra: painting those Phoenix logos on the Noti's necklaces.
And I interpret all that as Sabine and Ezra drawing their own star map to one another.
Also, I will join just one prompt for @sabezraweek (bec unfortunately it's all the time I have) and I specifically joined this one prompt because October 23rd is my birthday!! <3
I also made Ezra look more Space Jesus than he already does because I can.
Do people actually believe that the relationship between Ezra and Sabine in Ahsoka will still be that same platonic sibling-type dynamic that it was in Rebels? Or does Dave Filoni seriously think that the viewers, especially casual viewers (who in all likelihood have seen little or none of Rebels), will see it that way?
I'm not going to repeat what several of my fellow shippers on this site have already said about Ezra's body language when he says the line, they've already done a better job covering it than I ever could. Not to mention it's been ten years since Ezra made this recording for Sabine and disappeared, and we won't have any way of knowing his current feelings on the matter until after we see him again.
Sabine, on the other hand...hoo, boy, there's a lot to unpack.
Being the celebrated hero she is to those on Lothal, Sabine should have absolutely no problem finding a very comfortable place to reside in the city, which has clearly boomed since the Empire left. Yet she consciously decides to live in Ezra's old place: a grungy old communications tower that was clearly never designed for someone to call it a permanent residence.
She continues to wear his old clothes. And I mean old. I'm not sure what they use to make clothes in the Star Wars universe or if it's more durable than what we use IRL, but you need to be taking good care of your clothes if you expect them to last a long time. Clothes tend to last up to five years or so before they need to be thrown out; Sabine has evidently been taking good care of Ezra's clothes for ten.
She has kept and continues to take care of his old stuff. She's got her own collection of Ezra memorabilia that is, again, at least ten years old with various amounts of wear and tear.
She continues to have dreams/nightmares about him, meaning that he and his actions seen in the finale of Rebels continue to weigh heavily on her mind, even after all this time.
All this is pretty over the top for someone who, at least according to skeptics of this ship, only views Ezra as a brother and nothing more. I understand mourning the loss of a close family member, but if Sabine truly loves Ezra in a strictly platonic manner, she is taking the "platonic" factor to its absolute outermost fringe limits. She is unquestionably obsessed with him.
So, yeah. Biased as I might be, I fail to understand how anyone could view Sabine's behavior regarding Ezra in these first two episodes of Ahsoka and come to the conclusion that these two are just like siblings and that's it. It just straight up baffles me.