Up to No Good

Star Wars: The Fierce Awakens

i actually have a lot of feelings about these parallels the rogue one!trio are basically the broken versions of the tfa!trio bodhi and finn: breaking through the banality of evil to do good (with the help of a friend!), but bodhi never had any type of training and was actually *tortured* for his deeds, so his mind’s durability is compromised cassian & poe: believing whole-heartedly in their cause and act as spies, but poe got to grow up in peacetime with his family, while cassian grew up in war with none. poe’s superior sends him on dangerous missions, but (most likely) actually cares for his health. cassian’s superior thinks only of winning, of getting ahead. (headcanon: if cassian had survived, he’d be absolutely against poe being a spy. not only because he knew Poe’s parents, but because he believes the work would break Poe’s spirit). jyn & rey: both abandoned by family, but rey is able to hold onto her hope, while jyn completely loses hers. the tfa!trio are what the ro!trio could have been, in a kinder universe. if we were to go meta, maybe the brief period of balance in the Force post-OT tilted the tfa!trio to a better life (if still tainted), whereas the imbalance in the ro!trio twisted theirs. also, the ro!trio all died, so, y'know, can’t be more broken than that

The best thing about this is the absolute, blinding sincerity of Sean Bean’s delivery. Amazing.

A bee has never lied to Sean Bean not even once

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why does it work?