Ways I relate to Finn

[ljwrites]

An incomplete list of the ways I relate to Finn, movies and Before the Awakening canon:

1. Is recovering from emotional abuse with all the messiness the process implies
2. Was a promising and high-achieving student, yet never felt like he belonged
3. Tried to win acceptance and friendship by helping someone
4. Walked away from an abusive situation
5. Ended up throwing away a lot of stability and certainty as a result
6. Fell in love with his best friend
7. Confronted his abuser and threw her in the trash
   (This was only metaphorical in my case)
8. Traumatically bonded with someone who was being toxic to him

Comments

TLJ negativity ahoy

[ljwrites]

I'm with you that there was 0 romantic buildup--I didn't get the sense that she much liked him, much less was in love. I meant trauma bonding in a non-romantic way, since Finn seemed so eager to please Rose despite how she treated him to the extent of taking on her feelings about Canto Bight in an abrupt switcheroo ("It was worth it to make this town suffer" or some such crap).

Korean fans have also voiced suspicions that Finnrose was thrown in purely as a Finnrey spoiler. Maybe that's why everything about Finnrose was so rushed and shoehorned, because RJ didn't give a crap. I mean neither character was Kylo Ren so why should he care lol. There were even reports of theater audiences bursting into uncomfortable laughter at the kiss, ugh.

Re: TLJ negativity ahoy

[shirasade]

Korean fans have also voiced suspicions that Finnrose was thrown in purely as a Finnrey spoiler.

That's exactly what I told my brother when we left the theatre. I like Rose, and I did enjoy her friendship with Finn, but I got zero romance vibes until that kiss.

Re: TLJ negativity ahoy

[ljwrites]

I love Rose a lot, but yeah, there was no romance there. Also the amount of nastiness I got on Tumblr for simply saying that she was wrong to tase Finn leads me to suspect that a lot of self-proclaimed Rose and Finnrose stans just get off at Finn being treated terribly.