a smol feel about Bodhi Rook
listen: i am on board with Bodhi Rook, Too Good For This World, Too Pure. i am here for Bodhi Rook with Flowers Gently Braided Into His Hair. i too have felt tears well up in my eyes and softly stroked my laptop screen and whispered, “i love you” while gazing into a flickering gifset.
but like, can we also remember Bodhi Rook, inimitable badass? Bodhi Rook, just walked out of a terrifying brainwipe, guess it’s time to infiltrate an Imperial stronghold? Bodhi Rook who held his position on the ground until the last possible moment, who knew he was going to die at the hands of the empire he’d betrayed, who knew it would not be a good death, who was so pure of heart that in his last words, he dedicated his final act of resistance to someone else? OKAY I MADE MYSELF CRY. ANYWAY, MY POINT: BODHI ROOK IS BOTH A SWEET PRECIOUS FLOWER AND A TOTAL FUCKING BADASS AND I WOULD LIKE THAT TO BE REMEMBERED, PLEASE.I will add that I love and want emphasized that Bodhi canonically wanted to become a starfighter pilot. like, he’s a hero and a badass and a gentle anxious soul, but he also is a defector who 1) bought into the Imperial military at least enough to enlist and want a career in it, and 2) is a weird combination of low-level defector (which apparently is very common) and someone carrying some of the most valuable info in the whole damn canon. That’s a GREAT mix of traits and I want ALL OF THEM
(also, again I’m becoming Novelization Girl, but he’s referred to as ‘the coward’ several times in the novelization and I just. want more about that. A COWARD WHO CHOOSES TO BE BRAVE)
(via jhaernyl)
