#swrebels

WE KNOW TECH TAUGHT OMEGA HOW TO FLY! WATCH HER ROLL UP INTO YAVIN 4 LIKE THIS! 🤣

did they

Which is fans exploring moments in canon that could have had big, long-lasting consequences, yet just...don't, often because of constraints of the genre or story.

Betrayal, manipulation, injuries. "They need to forgive each other because this is a serial format with an ensemble cast." "We didn't do enough research into this injury before the character got it, pretend it didn't happen." "Hm, a realistic fallout for this doesn't fit the vibes of our kids show."

Hera & Kanan keeping the Bridgers' survival and location a secret from Ezra until it's too late for him to help was really fucked up, and for most people would've been too huge a betrayal to get past. But Ezra thanks them for doing what they could and turns to Kanan for a hug; this forgiveness is now part of his canon characterization, yet it probably came about because Ezra getting angry enough to leave, or asking himself "What else are they hiding from me?" would break up the cast to the point of breaking the show.

Tim Drake loses his spleen on Brucequest...but after the scene where he's told his impalement resulted in the loss, it never comes up again. They skip over his recovery, focusing on the actual plot of "working under duress with the LoA", never mention in dialogue or thought boxes that he's needed to make lifestyle adjustments, never show him with pills, and flat out have him fake a completely DIFFERENT injury when he decides it's the best way to protect his secret identity.

With the asplenia, it's easy enough to say all that was just off-page, and incorporate it into fics without altering canon. With Hera & Kanon's secrecy, really digging into it necessitates writing a canon-divergent AU. With some incidents of emotional injury, fics can dig into the characters' hypothetical thoughts and emotions over it without changing their canon actions. Though of course, if it's a media that gets us into their heads, doing so without breaking canon characterization gets trickier.

A fic were Damian's murder attempts permanently injure or kill Tim is a "Wouldn't it be fucked up if...?" Fic where Tim noticeably loses trust in Batman after the 16th birthday incident is a "Wasn't it fucked up when...?"