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lilithsaur · 7 months

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#reylo #lilith art #tfa nostalgia

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izachin · 9 months

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Guess what I’m rewatching 👀 #reylo #rey #kyloren #dyad #starwars #bensolo #reyxben #sequeltrilogy #theforceawakens #thelastjedi #procreate #fanart #ArtistOnTwitter #art

#fanart #art #artblog #starwars #procreate #artistsoninstagram #artist #starwarsfanart #reylo art #reylo fandom #reylo #rey #ben solo #kyloren #kylo ren #the force awakens #thelastjedi #tlj #tfa

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bookishdaze · 1 month

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I gotta share something that's gonna sound so ridiculous, and I'm self-aware enough to know that this is me being very gullible, but I just HAVE to spit this out somewhere. Plus, I think it's hilarious.

So I just came back from watching Civil War. I went through like 3 mini heart attacks during that movie by the way.

Anyways, we got a KOTPOTA trailer beforehand, and ya wanna know what my mother said?

"Creo que el changuito se va enamorar de la humana." That's Spanish for "I think the little monkey is gonna fall in love with the human."

And listen. LISTEN. The last time I took a general audience member (my cousin) to watch the first movie in a trilogy from a popular scifi franchise (The Force Awakens) and who had never seen any of the previous movies, I KID YOU NOT they turned to me and told me that they felt something going on between Rey and Kylo. Fast forward 2 years later when the sequel came out AND THEY WERE RIGHT.

For those who don't know, 99% of the theories about Rey at the time were of her being a Skywalker, which would make Rey and Kylo related. Yet my cousin CLOCKED it. My cousin had the gift of PROPHECY.

"Don't be ridiculous. That was ONE time." I don't care. You don't understand. After that experience, I'll believe so many things at this point.

#planet of the apes #pota #kingdom of the planet of the apes #kotpota #planetoftheapes #kingdomoftheplanetoftheapes #star wars #reylo #I know this sounds ridiculous #but I came out of TFA thinking rey and finn were cute #but then she goes no no no I think its rey and kylo #and I never thought about it again #until the TLJ teaser dropped #and it ends with kylo freaking extending his hand towards rey #i flashbacked to 2 years prior when my cousin mentioned that rey and kylo looked like they were gonna be a thing #and i FREAKED because HOWWW #and then i fell down the reylo rabbit hole #and the rest was history

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theweeklydiscourse · 3 months

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Tbh I’ve never really viewed Han’s death as an insurmountable moral obstacle in Kylo’s redemption arc. This could be because I personally don’t have many strong or passionate feelings about him as a character, but I also think that from a story perspective, it’s because his death has a relevant narrative function for Kylo’s character arc.

The fact that the movies take the time to show the viewer his guilt and turmoil over the event, telling Rey that he didn’t hate Han, Snoke berating him for being so shaken by it, these are clear examples of his progression towards redemption. Especially considering that Han had already forgiven his son for killing him and his death acted as a symbolic gesture to give him a push in the right direction. Because it was precisely Han’s death that was the catalyst for Ben’s development in the subsequent movies. I guess I just don’t really see it as a huge deal, Han died loving his son and what better way to honour his sacrifice than for it to eventually culminate in his son returning back to the light?

#ben solo #han solo #the force awakens #tfa #tlj #Rey #redemption arc discourse #reylo discourse #reylo #kylo ren

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kylowanderer · 10 months

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“My life was black and white before I met her. She was the colour.”

#reylo #kylo ren #ben solo #kyloren #star wars #rey #adam driver #daisy ridley #tros #tfa #star wars sequels #reylo edit #reylo love #reylo fanart #reylo trash #reyloedit #a man named otto

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emilyredekerart · 1 year

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Some Reylo babies for a Twitter request!

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these-are-the-first-steps · 1 year

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My friend who is not on tumblr wished to convey to you all this Long Pants Kylo Ren and said to say that they hope his scribble feet make at least one person happy today! 😂💗

#reylo #kylo ren #ben solo #reylo fanart #star wars #tfa #tlj #tros

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artist-issues · 4 months

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Hello! My ask is about The Rise Of Skywalker. I would like to read your analysis of Reylo's scenes such as their dialogues in the film, Rey's declaration to Ben ("I did want to take your hand. Ben's hand."), Ben's return to the light side and the reylo kiss. The declaration, Ben's return and the kiss, for me, are the only good things about this film.

I thought all of the Rise of Skywalker was really terrible. Terrible writing, terrible plot, and even some pretty terrible characterizations. (I thought the actors did their best, though.)

Basically, ROS had several threads that TLJ and TFA had braided together. All it needed to do was tie those threads off. But instead, it unraveled them and tangled them up and said “done! All tied up!”

For example:

Thread 1: Finn’s journey from fear to faith.

Thread 2: Leia’s hope for her son.

Thread 3: Poe’s journey from hero to leader.

Thread 4: Hux’s growing, rabid desire for control. (It’s why the organization’s called the First “ORDER”)

Thread 5: Kylo Ren’s learning that power won’t make him feel secure.

Thread 6: Rey’s learning that she doesn’t need to be “somebody” because it’s all about something bigger than herself.

Thread 7: Kylo Ren and Rey learning their respective lessons by finding the answers in each other.

TLJ took what TFA started and got you those threads. Then TROS said “never mind, we don’t like those threads” with most of them. For example, Poe and Finn suddenly have nothing to do. For example, Finn is not doing anything that requires the faith he began building at the end of TLJ; he’s just following Rey around. Poe is not learning how to lead, he’s just info-dumping and trying quick three-man hero missions, unlike the lesson he learned at the end of TLJ. Hux is not strategizing with rabid extremism for control; he’s just pettily throwing his life away to get back at Kylo Ren. Et Cetera. The threads all get unraveled or tangled up or left dangling uselessly.

EXCEPT for Thread 7.

They make an attempt at “Kylo Ren and Rey learning their respective lessons by deepening their bond.” The problem is, without the other threads, that one just doesn’t fit any better than the rest of the story.

First off, I 100% agree that Kylo Ren and Rey would be involved romantically, in some way, eventually. There’s literally no way around it. Romantic attachment is choosing to commit to someone on an intimate level. Because they’re Force Bonded, and because they are the only people in the universe who have similar identity crises and deep family-related angst, they were bound to intimately understand each other. They started caring about each other in TLJ. All TROS had to do was fan the flames of that care up in a way that led to their character developments concluding.

Rey just needed to demonstrate more of the letting-go she demonstrated at the end of TLJ: she wants Kylo Ren to be Light, but she realizes there’s nothing she can do to force it, even if she begs and pleads, so she just keeps doing the right thing on her end and trusts the Force, believing he’ll come to the right conclusion in the end no matter how much evil he’s done. What’s that ladies and gentlemen? It’s called ✨ unconditional love. ✨

Then Kylo Ren just needed to see that love. Literally, just see and continuously experience it. Even if he’s trying to hunt her down and kill her or take everything from her or whatever, she just keeps refusing to kill him and believing he’ll turn good. After all, that’s more than his parents did for him back when they sent him away—and since then, whatever unconditional love Rey shows him is strengthened by the examples of unconditional love Han Solo and Luke showed right before they died. Plus the alternative to accepting unconditional love—murdering everything that might give him a sense of power—hasn’t been making him feel any better. So he was primed for redemption via Rey.

That’s all they needed to do in TROS. Not so hard, just write a reason for her to save his life or spare it again, even after their previous encounter and even given his new status as Supreme Leader. He’s halfway there. Continued pushes are all that’s needed.

Just like Luke Skywalker in the Revenge of the Sith, Rey and Kylo Ren don’t really need to develop much more in the final movie of their trilogy. They just need to put what the first two movies taught them to a big final test.

Anyway. With that in mind:

Let me give you the bite-sized version 😅

The Force-Searching Scenes - I don’t like these because they’re all Kylo Ren searching for Rey, with little to no engagement from her. She feels more like she’s given up on him in these scenes and is just trying to win an argument whenever he barges into her brain. He, on the other hand, might be looking for her, but it’s with one hand on his grandfather’s mask. Which is totally the opposite of him “letting the past die. Kill it, if you have to.” So he’s taking weird steps backward, toward TFA, as if TLJ never happened… and that tarnishes his motives for finding Rey, in my mind. If he’s going back to trusting the past and the idea of his grandfather, then why does he want to turn Rey to the dark side? When Vader failed to turn Luke, he tried to murder him. Kylo Ren knows that. So meditating on a mask he should be giving up on in order to find and turn Rey makes no sense, so it takes the tension out of those scenes for me.

Fight Scenes - Again, it makes no sense that Kylo Ren would still be pursuing turning Rey to the dark side so doggedly. Neither of them could convince the other at the end of TLJ. They split a lightsaber in half to prove it. Now, that doesn’t mean they should be giving up on each other completely. But Kylo Ren should be acting like he’s given up on her, even if just to convince himself. That’s what he’s done this whole time: turned to killing the people who fail him to make himself feel more powerful. She has a reason to keep believing in him: she’s on the Light Side of the Force. But instead, she’s the one acting like she wants nothing more to do with him. He mentions how he’s going to turn her to the dark side multiple times in the movie. But she doesn’t say more than one quipped question hinting that she still wants him on the light side. So the “attachment” focus of their fights loses all it’s tension because again, it doesn’t make sense. After TLJ, he should be at least trying to give up on her and pursue killing her, if anything. And she should be steadfastly believing in him, while pursuing doing the right thing no matter what he does. That’s where they were in their character development. More fighting barely makes sense.

Healing Scene - I liked this scene only when Rey heals Kylo Ren. Their fight beforehand, and her ramming his lightsaber into him, still makes no sense. She’s angry at him because of her connection to Palpatine and she’s fighting him like that’s going to exorcise her identity…but Rey being a dark, angry descendant of Palpatine never made sense (it unravels her whole character development.) So her motivations in this scene don’t make sense…until she heals him. Then, suddenly, there’s a glimpse of that Rey we left on the Millenium Falcon in TLJ: she’s healing him, even though he might just stand up and attack her again, because she genuinely believes he’s Ben and she just needs to show him mercy until he comes around to believing it. And THAT is part of what turns him. So I like that: I just think it was executed really poorly. She should never have been healing him from a wound she caused.

The Kiss - The kiss was just basically the TROS storytellers confirming that they were romantically attached instead of just enemies-to-friends/Allie’s attached. Because…for some reason they had to confirm that visually. I just think, again, that they didn’t set it up and execute it well. They have no conversations and no significant attention paid toward each other between the healing scene and the final battle. They might be force-linked, but the audience needed to see that bond turned romantic, or him turned good before any overt romantic gestures, much earlier on. Other than that, I like that he healed her. I love Adam Driver’s acting in that whole scene. Makes me wish they gave him more to do.

The Death Scene - This should not have happened. It was lazy. Kylo Ren is a character who has been trying to fulfill himself by making BIG, final (emphasis on “final”) choices. Having him make one more big final choice, to end his own life, was not good character development. He should’ve had to live with what he’d done so he could learn from his mistakes. That’s where his whole character was headed. He’s always failed to learn from his past: he thinks he can just erase it. You know what giving up your life for a different hero and then fading away is? It’s nice, but it’s just another “erase” choice. Additionally? It’s terrible for Rey’s story, too. She finally had someone she chose, someone she waited for who actually came back, somebody who understood her…somebody who’s redemption rewarded her long faith…and she’s left alone again. That’s just the worst. Plus, what did she need him to heal her for? What exactly did she die of? He was way more injured than she was.

What they should’ve done was, Kylo Ren and Rey save the day, and then he’s condemned to death for his crimes by the New Republic, but in honor of Leia’s life of sacrifice and belief in him, he’s given enough of a pardon to simply be banished to the unknown reaches. And Rey goes with him, because she can finally stop waiting, she loves seeing the galaxy, and they can learn about the Force together…plus, they’re obviously deeply connected. And that would be a great homage to Leia’s legacy as a character who never gives up on hope, and that hope is ultimately rewarded. Instead of having her give her life to reach him…so he can live for an hour or so before also dying.

Long story short…you’re right! I just think all the elements you liked should’ve been way more central, built up to, and placed where they fit in a better movie!

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tarzelladraws · 2 years

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They made it off Exogol. They’re fine.

#reylo #rey palpatine #rey of jakku #rey nobody #ben solo #kylo ren #sw tlj #sw tros #sw tfa #fix it au #my art

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perpetuallyvvperplexed · 10 months

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@msuolo was right. crumbs.

(lol oscar in the back)^

#reylo #ben solo #kylo ren #rey #adam driver #daisy ridley #star wars #the last jedi #rey of jakku #tfa #tros #reylo fandom

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intermundia · 2 years

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i think the only people who can really understand how obikin fans might feel about the kenobi series are reylo fans and how they felt about the last jedi. i know this because i was there, gandalf, i was there the day all those years ago when the force bond became canon. it was such a common trope that watching it be dramatized felt slightly uncanny, like i was watching something i was sure i'd read. it's the same here, with the way the show is making canon things that obikin fans have had as tropes for years and years, from anakin's deeply canonical praise kink, to hearing obi-wan say "all he'll see is me," the way these two men are just stupid about each other even after a decade. it's like ms chow et al. decided to feed the obikin community in particular with this show, it's deeply surreal, and the vindication i feel is honestly impossible to put into words

#obikin #vaderwan #kenobi series #kenobi spoilers #i shipped a lot of things back in the day after TFA #reylo #for blocklist i know ppl hate it a lot #as an obikin shipper u kno i don't care lmao

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fanfictiondramione · 11 months

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I was walking dead, stuck inside my head I couldn't get out, turn the lights down The voices inside were so loud

Need a jump-start, catatonia, I couldn't feel, I wish that I could disappear The voices inside were so real

But you stood by my side Night after night, night after night

You loved me back to life, life From the coma, the wait is over From the coma, we're lovers tonight

(Loved me back to life by Sia)

After years, how did we get to that end. Honestly, it's not even because I love Kylo/Ben so much, it's because they killed, perhaps, one of the best characters in ST. There was a lot to be explored by the Ben Solo character, and I'm sad how they didn't know how to exploit that in the end.

I trust the perspective of the importance of breaking a metanarrative, which had been in the works for more than 40 years. Rey symbolizes this, but still? They killed Leia Organa's son. How to accept?

I can't help but think that JJ had a gold mine (literally) in his hands and didn't know how to take advantage of it. Worst of all, he didn't really want to.

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