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millennium-eagle:

Omg this poor baby boy 🥺😭

kylo-renperor:

The world turned against Ben Solo. He thought his uncle tried to kill in his sleep and to defend himself he destroyed the temple. His friends didn’t believe him, blamed him for the murder of their master and hunted him. Then later he was blamed for the murder of his friends. His father and mother never knew the truth about what really happened to him. He run away to his abuser because his was lost and afraid. He was alone.

I am so contrary! I really bet I would be the biggest of Kylo stans if it wasn’t that it felt like everybody else was doing it for me. I mean, yeah, what we’ve got now is “grew up with parents who were too busy for him, passed off to an uncle who tried to kill him, driven away by masked scary people from staying there and demanding an explanation. Under influence from a manipulative dark lord from infancy. Ran to Snoke when it seemed he had no-where else to turn, spent five years in a paramilitary cult where he despised everyone, with no one to rely on but his abusive master…”

That would totally move me, if I wasn’t so deeply aware that it was supposed to. You know? When reveals of Kylo’s backstory are supposed to make him sympathetic whereas reveals of Hux’s backstory are supposed to make him seem unsalvageable? It doesn’t work like that for me. I experience media in too much of a meta way.

It’s like I’m deliberately looking for the character that other people despise so I can find the good things in them - and if too many people also support them, I can’t.

I really do wish that my mind didn’t work this way. I would enjoy stories so much more wholeheartedly, in a way that their creators want me to enjoy them.

But it doesn’t, and so my response to this is to say “Oh wtf? Are we going to learn that it was Han who killed himself on the bridge next? Are we going to be told that Kylo never did anything wrong in his life and all that black clothing and shouting is just for the aesthetic?”

If you want me to invest in a villain, have the f’ing courage to make him a villain, why don’t you?

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