I think one of the things people miss about Jyn is that she was literally raised in the anti-imperial rebellion, as part of Saw’s rebel faction. (Maybe not as part of the Alliance technically but definitely as a rebel.) She’s Like I think she’s incredibly jaded in ways that foil Cassian quite nicely.
Cassian says that some people don’t have the luxury of deciding not to care, but Jyn also didn’t have that luxury. She was in hiding from the Empire for years as a child, then they took her parents away and killed her mother in front of her, and then she was raised by a charismatic rebel leader who slowly spiraled further and further into paranoia.* A lot of people take Cassian at his word but Cassian doesn’t know Jyn’s history or decision making process anymore than the audience does.
And this isn’t to let Jyn morally off the hook. Like obviously “keeping your head down when you can do something positive is bad” is the message of the movie and also one of the messages of Star Wars more generally. But Jyn’s relationship to the Rebellion and the Empire is a lot more complicated than I’ve seen people describing it as.
(*I’m ignoring a lot of Saw’s appearances outside of RO bc I think they’re unfair to the character and also bad.)
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Kyber Jyn 💚🔮
(will eventually be a pin)
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Rogue One is very much about moral culpability and living with the choices you’ve made. Jyn, Cassian, Bodhi, Galen, they’re all trying to make up for what they’ve done, to make some good come out of all the choices they’ve made. They don’t get a happy ending, but they do make the right choice and they do matter.
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tried making an OC still working on it </3
yes he is madly in love with marchion ro (totally not projecting.)
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shoutout to that one particular background elf that stood next to arwen in fellowship of the ring and still served major cunt despite all the obstacles they faced (only having <10 seconds of screentime) (being halfway cut out of the shot) because i think of them often. Who are you whats your name where are you from. and most importantly are you single
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