reylo-bond:

themillenialfalcon:

skysilencer:

Why do people act like Rey is this social butterfly? She grew up her entire life specifically telling people to FUCK OFF because she wanted to be alone while waiting for her family………. her current friends so far are:

1) a former Stormtrooper who barely gets social conventions bc of a lifetime of being a soldier

2) a 2-meter tall shaggy dog Uncle

3) a 2-meter tall dark and handsome boyfriend who has even more issues with social conventions than the Stormtrooper, has his own Aesthetic™, who killed his own father, and who called her, “nothing, but not to me.”

4) the dead father of her emotionally damaged boyfriend

5) an orange ball

6) a short, grumpy, non-dog, magical hermit Uncle

7) the living mother of her emotionally damaged boyfriend

8) a broken mirror in a cave

So. 7.5 friends. She has 7.5 friends so far.

I know this list is facetious at face value, but I’m gonna be serious about this topic for a sec cause I agree with you so hard. 

Really - that the only actual human friend she has is Finn. Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie… they are all elders who mentor her, but they aren’t her friends. And BB-8, as wonderful as he is, is a robot. It’s just not the same. 

Finn is the only person she shares an actual friendship with. 

And…she spends almost the ENTIRE first half of The Force Awakens being brash, rude, mean, and completely unfiltered toward him. She has NO CONCEPT of social pleasantries. Their “meet cute” consisted of her beating him with a staff on the word of a droid. And then she spends a good chunk of the movie yelling at him. Finn looks past it because he can see past her gruff exterior to her true nature by way of her actions. But that is a credit to HIS character - not hers. 

I honestly have no idea where the *Rey is a sweet sweet cinnamon roll who would never hurt a fly and everyone loves her because she’s the nicest person on the planet* headcanon comes from. It baffles me. 

Rey’s blunt and ungraceful social behavior almost rivals Kylo’s foot-in-mouth disease. 

And it’s no wonder she tells people to fuck off… Her first two “friends” she was fixing a ship with stole it for themselves and left her on Jakku to starve to death. It’d be near impossible for her to trust people again after getting screwed over that hard. Kylo and Finn are the only people she’s really let in. The three of them have a lot of things in common tbh and social awkwardness is definitely one of them…