Thank you! I've never worked in fast food before, so it's definitely been (and still is) a learning process, but so far it's been working out okay, which I'm enormously grateful for.
Oh, yeah. There is a definite bittersweet edge to the movie because of that, even if it's mostly a fun heist with a cool character twist or two thrown in. There's even a little bit of a nod to TLJ thrown in, and I loved it, even though, again, it puts a tragic spin on the whole thing.
Oh, okay! Hoo, well. I'll do my best. :)
First of all, it's maybe one of the crackiest crack pairings I've ever shipped? Absolutely no chance of it ever happening in canon, obviously, but that's kind of what makes it work for me, because once you get past the bizarre first impression it's like your brain goes, "Okay, that's really weird. But what if..."
Rose hates the First Order; that's pretty well established in TLJ, so this definitely wouldn't be a love-at-first-sight kind of deal. HOWEVER, Rose is also very perceptive, and tries her best to live a life centered around love, not hate (i.e. "it's about saving the things we love"), and so I feel like, should they ever meet, and in the right circumstances, she'd eventually come to see Kylo/Ben as more of a person than just a figurehead for the First Order. And, eventually (and very slowly) she might start to have some sympathy for the conflict that's in him. Basically, I'm in love with any scenario that would cause her to get to know Ben on a personal level, whether it ends in romance or not. They're two incredibly different people, but idealists at their cores--the difference being that Ben's idealism is completely warped and misplaced. But that would provide interesting source of conflict, I think. Rose also isn't "in tune", necessarily, with the Force; I can see her as the sort of more practical, grounded counterpart to Ben's lofty ways of thinking.
Looking at it from Ben's point of view, I feel like the guy just needs somebody to be loyal to, somebody who he can believe in. That obviously led him down a really dark path with Snoke, and with Snoke out of the picture, I don't think Ben would automatically just snap back into independence--I don't think he could. By nature, he's in some ways more of a follower than a leader. He needs something (or someone) whom he can see as greater than or better than himself to look up to. In canon, that person might end up being Rey (if anyone), but in fanon it's fun to think that he could find that in Rose. Also because she'd start out treating him comparatively better than other rebels might not because she feels sympathy for him but because she hates him and wants to shame him by being the better person--which I think would be attractive to Ben, in a way? He'd see it as honesty. Also, the guy's nothing if not a glutton for punishment.
Whew! Sorry, that got super long (and probably incoherent)! But, yep, in case you can't tell, I'm deeply in love with this ridiculous little pairing.
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Date: 2018-06-03 03:25 am (UTC)Oh, yeah. There is a definite bittersweet edge to the movie because of that, even if it's mostly a fun heist with a cool character twist or two thrown in. There's even a little bit of a nod to TLJ thrown in, and I loved it, even though, again, it puts a tragic spin on the whole thing.
Oh, okay! Hoo, well. I'll do my best. :)
First of all, it's maybe one of the crackiest crack pairings I've ever shipped? Absolutely no chance of it ever happening in canon, obviously, but that's kind of what makes it work for me, because once you get past the bizarre first impression it's like your brain goes, "Okay, that's really weird. But what if..."
Rose hates the First Order; that's pretty well established in TLJ, so this definitely wouldn't be a love-at-first-sight kind of deal. HOWEVER, Rose is also very perceptive, and tries her best to live a life centered around love, not hate (i.e. "it's about saving the things we love"), and so I feel like, should they ever meet, and in the right circumstances, she'd eventually come to see Kylo/Ben as more of a person than just a figurehead for the First Order. And, eventually (and very slowly) she might start to have some sympathy for the conflict that's in him. Basically, I'm in love with any scenario that would cause her to get to know Ben on a personal level, whether it ends in romance or not. They're two incredibly different people, but idealists at their cores--the difference being that Ben's idealism is completely warped and misplaced. But that would provide interesting source of conflict, I think. Rose also isn't "in tune", necessarily, with the Force; I can see her as the sort of more practical, grounded counterpart to Ben's lofty ways of thinking.
Looking at it from Ben's point of view, I feel like the guy just needs somebody to be loyal to, somebody who he can believe in. That obviously led him down a really dark path with Snoke, and with Snoke out of the picture, I don't think Ben would automatically just snap back into independence--I don't think he could. By nature, he's in some ways more of a follower than a leader. He needs something (or someone) whom he can see as greater than or better than himself to look up to. In canon, that person might end up being Rey (if anyone), but in fanon it's fun to think that he could find that in Rose. Also because she'd start out treating him comparatively better than other rebels might not because she feels sympathy for him but because she hates him and wants to shame him by being the better person--which I think would be attractive to Ben, in a way? He'd see it as honesty. Also, the guy's nothing if not a glutton for punishment.
Whew! Sorry, that got super long (and probably incoherent)! But, yep, in case you can't tell, I'm deeply in love with this ridiculous little pairing.