Those people should know that Andor, despite being a precursor to Rogue one, is NOT the rogue one prequel show. The show is not about setting up for rogue one or how rogue one came to be, it's a show about the rebellion, and how it came to be. It's a show about the empire's oppression and how it infiltrates every aspect of life until it suffocates people. Neither Vel nor Cinta needed to die in order for Andor to be canon compliant, just because neither of them appear in Rogue One or in any current project set in that era of the star wars timeline.

Those people should know that just because Andor is a dark show, that doesn't mean they had to kill off a queer woman of color for the sake of telling a dramatic story. So many times in these stories do we see an overwhelming amount of personal losses for the rebels- we rarely see any personal wins. Jyn Erso famously said that "Rebellions are built on hope" and what could possibly be more hopeful than the idea that you and your dearest can fight for the rebellion, win that fight, and make it out alive together?

that's a specific trope in which gay characters are not given the same weight as others and often they are the only ones who die. if it's specifically the gay character who dies and the plot moves on immediately, that's bury the gays. cinta's death was not that.

cinta died in a mission cassian refused to get involved with because they were too disorganised too reckless too impatient. she dies because Vel had made it very very clear that no-one was to carry a blaster, and that guy had one anyway, he disobeyed those orders. she dies because they were unorganised, she died because that guy couldn't follow orders, she died because the ghorman front is reckless, she died because that guy got impatient and didn't bother to try to explain.

the show sits with her death, we are given time to think about it, to see the impact it has on Vel and on the guy and on the rest of the group.

But the thing I'm here to say is that I'm seeing enough people separately making the same specific mistake, that I think there's a decent chance it's not a mistake, that homophobes are purposely planting this idea about the definition so they can deny the homophobia of killing Cinta. Possibly using sock puppet accounts claiming to belong to queer people to do so. (not saying the specific people in this post or other posts I've reblogged are necessarily sock puppets, they may just be the useful idiots)

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