FN-2187 walked into a detention cell and removed a high level prisoner by saying, “Kylo Ren sent me” and none of the guards even thought to call and verify it. He then marched that prisoner through the corridors of a Star Destroyer and into a fighter bay passed a gaggle of officers and no one batted an eye.
But go on and tell me how Finn was just a janitor.
oh but now i’ve been thinking about this!
ok 1.) finn in before the awakening is literally at the top of his class, like phasma’s only beef with this dude is that he’s got too much empathy but other than that he’s a+ officer material in logistics, combat training, marksmanship, leadership, the whole shebang. so he’s probably trusted to know his shit and do his job. so if fn-2187 says ren wants the prisoner, then ren wants the prisoner. that makes perfect sense.
now the hangar tho, here me out: finn using the force. unconsciously, but we know jedi can pass unseen when they want/need to, and he’s so desperate to not get caught he’s probably thinking okay stay calm stay calm nothing to see here just a trooper trasnporting a prisoner nothing unusual here and it WORKS.
Nah son. Fuck headcanon. This shit is CANON.
Has anyone stopped to consider the fact that in Star Wars any kind of large-scale sanitation project is going to immediately be colonized by giant tentacle hellbeasts, which may or may not absorb the souls of the people that get consumed for standing a little too close to the garbage chute? And that the hellbeasts are impossible to completely get rid of, and many of them have adaptations like acid secretions and echolocation that lets them digest things like battle armor and durasteel? Seriously, there are half a dozen I can think of off the top of my head, starting with the friggin dianoga from New Hope.
Only absolute badasses work sanitation. Anyone with lesser skills gets eaten.
Finn didn’t have to get that happy with the Force Suggest to get people to go with him being the boss is what I’m saying. You don’t start an argument with the guy who exterminates soul-sucking hell centipedes in close quarters twice a week to keep the trash compactor running.
why was han so dismissive? he met one of those trash monsters once upon a time.
this answers a lot of my complaints about why you would banish a high-scoring, intelligent, resourceful officer-track soldier to do a roomba’s job. but like also considering starkiller base is built into an entire planet, finn’s probably got to deal with a galaxy’s worth of native fangtentacled shitparasites, and alien polar moosebears wandering in to see where all that tasty garbage is coming from.
I just thought he was being sarcastic when he said he worked sanitation. That, or covering up the (to him, shameful) fact that he’d been on a strike troop. Or perhaps just saying the first ridiculous job that came to mind in order to get a rise out of Han.
because i’ve seen this post going around about how that totally invalidates the fact that their relationship is built on trust and therefore should be criticized by the fandom just as much as rey’s relationship with kr, since they are obviously they are comparable
1. finn has legitimate reasons for lying: he’s a first order defector, which means he has enemies on both sides now. straight up introducing himself with ‘yeah so i used to be a stormtrooper but i’m cool now you can trust me’ is not a great survival strategy
2. it’s not a premeditated lie. rey serves him the ‘so you’re with the resistance’ line and finn just runs with it and you can see he’s improvising sort of desperately. everything he says up to that point about helping poe escape the first order and crashing is 100% true
(2a. i’ve seen people argue that rey can tell he’s lying and doesn’t care, but i have my own theories about how a) rey is terrible at reading people; and b) she has trust issues from hell, esp. after the events in ‘before the awakening’, so if she thought finn was lying at that particular point where she’d just met him, she definitely wouldn’t have trusted him)
3. rey comes to trust finn implicitly because, unlike no one ever, he helps her and cares about her wellbeing. also unlike everyone ever, including kylo fucking ren, finn is the first person she meets who isn’t actively trying to hurt her, but instead asks if she’s okay and later comes for her on starkiller base.
4. finn’s confession actually happens pretty early in their relationship. a lesser movie might have let this go on until finn would be forced by circumstances to reveal his identity rather than choose to do it himself. when finn tells rey the truth it’s a sincere and emotional and really incredibly tender moment. and rey believes him because she probably figures out point #1 of this post straight away, and because finn has never given her any legitimate reason not to trust him.
5. tl;dr finn chooses to tell rey the truth at a point where it would not affect the genuine trust between them, and rey chooses to believe him because she understands finn had valid reasons to lie to her but didn’t let it go on beyond what was strictly necessary.
I was sure when that first happened that it was going to come out at a terrible time and shatter their relationship later on, and I was so, so happy when it didn’t.
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