knitmeapony:

Ugh god I just need to talk about how important Finn Dameron shut up is right now, okay? 

He starts out a young black man with his entire humanity denied to the point where he doesn’t even get a name, okay, he’s literally nameless, faceless canon fodder, one of thousands.  And he’s assumed to be violent, it’s assumed that he will get bloody on command, that he’s obedient and savage at the same time.

And instead he’s soft.  Not weak, but kind.  Not cowardly – he’s not afraid of the violence.  He refuses violence.  He sees innocents hurt, he sees his friends fall, and then he rejects literally years of training and brainwashing.  His mind and soul are both powerful things, forces for the light side, immutably so.

He rebels successfully – cleverly, with a plan that’s simple but effective.  He doesn’t just go AWOL, he rescues someone in the process.  He is a moral compass from the start, pointing us towards true good.  He is the worlds worst liar, dear god, and when he claims to be part of the rebellion it’s not just because it’ll get him to where he needs, to be, but because he desperately wants to be seen as a good person.  No – he wants to be a good person.  No wait – he is a good person, and now he has the opportunity to show it.

And they try to kill him for it.  Over and over and over.

He will engage in violence, sure. but when he does it’s in defense of his life and his friends and his new family.  When he’s on the run, beyond hungry and thirsty and should be hiding, he creates a stir and tries to rescue a girl when everyone else was ignoring the attacks.

More than anyone else in this movie, Finn’s instincts are to do the right thing, every time.  He is shown as so inherently good it’s indisputable. He is the purest of the heroes.

And then on top of all that, he’s the one who gets hurt.  He’s not an unstoppable warrior, he’s just human, well practiced but fallible, who falls and is the one who has to be rescued.  And he gets rescued, by the people he showed his heart to, by the ones who are there for him as much as he was there for them.  He doesn’t fall by the wayside – he survives, and his new family is there to hold his hand while he sleeps.  He is loved.  He is lovable.  In every sense of the word – he is inherently worthy.

UGH FINN IS SO IMPORTANT MORE FINN META