hi im not dead
just chillin looking at my pretty boys, eah
dont wanna draw anything but them, help me
271 notes
·
View notes
The more I think about it, the more I think Ephraim and Mira Bridger knew their son was different in a way that would make him a target if anyone noticed. They probably would have stood up to speak out against the Empire anyway, but imagine them just just going about their business, watching what’s happening, maybe listening to whatever state mandated message is playing non the radio, thinking that someone has got to do something; and then one of them turns around and sees that their three year old is levitating a jar of cookies across the room, and their heart sinks.
Because it’s not as though force sensitive people stopped being born after Order 66. They kept popping up, kept being born, but they had to be hidden, they were hunted down and killed, or hunted down and taken. And if they were hidden well enough, they’d grow up with no framework to understand that part of themselves, even if they were born into a culture with a force tradition separate from that of the Jedi, like the Nightsisters or the Lasat, because they were wiped out, too.
And most people probably knew very little about the inquisitors, if they knew anything at all, but people still talk. There had to be rumors, even early on in the imperial era. And the genocide of the Jedi was a public event; everyone knew about it. So there had to be a general sense of knowing that the force was a very, very dangerous thing to have, and those force sensitive kids who just kept being born would have suffered for it. There would absolutely be abusive parents trying to beat it out of them, absolute monsters abandoning their kids or handing them over the second their kid showed any signs to avoid being targets themselves; even well meaning parents begging their children to please, please hide it, you can’t do things like that, otherwise they’ll come and take you away. Who? And those parents don’t know, but they do hear that nothing good happens to children like theirs. So they hide, or pick up the entire family and run, find a new life, and hope that no one ever finds them. Or they just don’t acknowledge it, and hope it dies out quickly and that no one notices. Or they fight back, because they want the galaxy to be safe for children like theirs as much as the parents who hide their kids do, and they get themselves taken instead.
I sort of wonder if that’s part of why the Bridgers were so adamant about pushing back. Not the entire reason, of course, because the little we see of them really does imply that they’re just the kind of people to stand up for people who can’t. But knowing their son would always have a proverbial ax hanging over his head for being what he was probably made the fight a little more personal, assuming that they knew.
And I also wonder if that’s part of why no one took Ezra in after the Empire took Mira and Ephraim. If they knew, Tseebo probably knew, or at least suspected, and their neighbors might have, too. Because…I mean…when we meet Ezra in Rebels, he’s very obviously force sensitive. He has no training and he’s very casually using the force without knowing it. And, yes, a lot of that was probably brought out because he was basically a second grader who was going to starve to death if he didn’t start fending for himself and survival instinct kicked in, but there might have been reasons for the people around him to be suspicious before that. Because if they were, then he wasn’t just dangerous to take in because his parents were un-personed political prisoners of whom the Empire chose to make an example, he’d also potentially be that weird kid who might have the same thing the Jedi did, and everyone knew what happened to them, and the empire may very well come for him, too, if he is and if they notice. There would be people who’d see adopting little seven-year-old Ezra as too much of a risk. And most everyone in Ezra’s life did see taking him in as too much of a risk, because he was on his own until the ghost crew showed up.
Aaaannd this is getting away from me, but, tl;dr: I want to know if Mira and Ephraim knew their son was force sensitive, because I suspect they did.
74 notes
·
View notes
Just had a thought while reading through your response, espc the George being able to read Dream bit,,,
I know we're already in agreement that Dream asking for tickles is a whole freaking process. He has to realize what he wants, which doesn't take that long, hes perceptive. But Then he has to get over his own pride to actually go up to his friends and ask. And that takes ages. Between going back and forth with himself that he doesn't actually want it that bad (no, he does) and actually going up to his friend only to loose his nerve at the last second and awkwardly redirecting the conversation topic again he's making his own mood 100x times worse- and himself even more flustered than if he'd just sucked it up and went to ask in the beginning
N e ways hc that George can tell. He can absolutely, with certainty always tell why Dream is slinking around all red, switching between being physically guarded and then completely affectionate and open every few minutes. But he just loooves to fuck with Dream just a little bit. So he pretends to be totally oblivious. Even when Dream is at his most obvious, practically sprawled over George's lap with his arms stretched out behind him he will not act on it. He won't even tease him (at least, not obvious enough for Dream to notice). He's just content to act like there's not a devious thought in his head right up until Dream finally works up the courage to stutter and blush his way through asking for it and admitting his mood. Only then does he direct the most unholy smug smile at Dream as he leans closer to whisper in his ear that he knew the whole time.
(The best part is that Dream somehow forgets it everytime, and truly believes that he must just not be obvious enough...)
ftzgagayxs nawwwww thiiiissss 😭😭
ok so several things about this, first off the trope where the lee finally gets the confidence to ask but then starts hesitating again half way through is so cute. like it’s perfect for a doorway situation i feel. like george has heard his office door crack open, he can see the silhouette of dreams figure appear on his desk and wall in front of him. but when he finally spins in his chair to address the disjointed, hitched sentences that are falling from dreams mouth behind him, they suddenly stop, and he gets to watch in amusement as dream tries to not-so subtly excuse himself instead, george should just never mind, it’s ‘nothing’ anyway. but of course george would never let him leave that easily
second off, the idea that george already knew exactly what dream was going to ask the whole time is heckin cute. and also i imagine he’d be mean enough to not even give dream the relief of interrupting him to help him straight out his words or anything. like he’d just let him splutter along with words of flustered nothingness
also just the smug grin at the end of dreams eventually admittance is absolutely perfect 😭
8 notes
·
View notes
I get mad about the vegetable argument every time I garden. None of my veggies grew enough to actually grow anything this year. NONE. NONE.
My flowers tho?? Nothing stops them from growing back every year.
4 notes
·
View notes
I CAN'T SCREENSHOT BUT THER'S A HANDY HIII HIIIIIII MISTER HANDY
0 notes
I hope whoever spat out the gum that I stepped on (in my new tennis shoes, and it got in all the grooves) steps in a bigger and even worse glob, fuck.
1 note
·
View note