#( phasma )

see here's the fucking thing. darth vader was considered super scary, but he was standing next to run-of-the-mill rich fascists whose power lay in money and position, and he was part of a run-of-the-mill decadent evil empire bloated on the spoils of its conquered planets. kylo ren, on the other hand, is standing next to captain phasma (hardened warrior who grew up on a radioactive hellworld and who kills anyone who sees her face) and armitage hux (feral cult leader who's personally assassinated like half of high command and who outscreamed a bunch of teenagers at five years old), and he's part of an almost-completely-spacefaring order where even the people who look like run-of-the-mill rich fascists have probably done cannibalism out of starvation AND that formally announced its existence to the galaxy by blowing up five fucking planets from literal lightyears away because EVERYTHING ABOUT THE FIRST ORDER IS ABSOLUTELY BATSHIT INSANE. so honestly i think he deserves some credit just for being able to keep up