OOF

nothing would have happened if it weren't for you

Cassian toasting to Cinta because he knew Vel could not say it. So he said it for her.

Vel toasting to Ghorman and Ferrix because they hold memories of destructions for Cassian that he would rather not relive again. So she said it for him.

Then Vel toasted Cassian’s mother. Because Vel was there at Ferrix during the funeral. And because Cassian couldn’t not say it. So she said it for him.

fascism rises, again and again. the empire is only one mask it wears. it speaks different languages, waves different flags, but it’s always the same fear, the same cruelty. and every time, people who fight it –not jedi, not chosen ones– are farmers, students, workers, lovers.

a manifesto written in hiding, a prison break echoing “one way out”, a funeral that turns into a riot; the fire always starts small. a single act. a handful of people willing to stand up. it grows, and so does the cost. the prisons fill, the streets choke with fear, and still someone shouts. someone resists.

andor gets it: there’s no clean victory, no hero to save us. only people, scared and stubborn, who refuse to let the dark be the only thing that survives.

Because I love you.

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