*thinking How It's Time I Move On From Tros, I've Thought About All Its Flaws Long Enough, There's Nothing

*thinking how it's time i move on from tros, i've thought about all its flaws long enough, there's nothing left for me to be upset about*

my brain:

I say it with the words of Matt the radar technician: "Exactly! Exactly!"

I don’t think Disney actually gets why everyone is so upset about Ben Solo. 

He was the first non-toxically masculine and emotionally vulnerable male character in a big movie franchise. He was a byronic hero and was a character that was written incorporating the female and queer audience. Also incorporated the men who were relentlessly ridiculed for having any amount of emotional intelligence and vulnerability growing up. He cried. He held the hand of his lover and told her that she wasn’t alone. He begged her for companionship. He was human and loving. He wasn’t a caricature “villain,” just a broken boy who was hiding behind a mask to protect himself. 

And then you kept the pew pew flyboy alive to satisfy the dudebros and killed off the actually complex and well-rounded male character. 

That is sickening. 

Does anyone else feel like they're mourning Ben more than his literal bond/soul mate???

Prayer circle for Ben Solo.

Oh my god this. I was so PISSED that they killed Ben and then completely acted like he's never significant in the first place like. Not even a force ghost? When Leia and Luke were? I was holding out hope that when Rey only saw Leia and Luke it was because she would turn around and see Ben smiling at her or something but NOPE. NOTHING. Not even an ambiguous silhouette that teases the possibility of him being alive/force ghost/vision. They killed him for real and I will forever be salty about that

There are literally only two options here: bad writing (they forgot to put him in, generally bad storytelling, etc.), or they purposefully left the door open for him to come back.

The latter is much, much more likely than the former. I don’t think we’ve seen the last of our boy.

Amen.

One.