concept: yet another time travelling finn

[wrennette]

finn was so underutilized in the sequel trilogy, so now that we know starkiller base used to be the planet ilum where jedi had for thousands of years sought their lightsaber crystals, i'm thinking that at some point when he was newly assigned to the base he got turned around somewhere he probably wasn't supposed to be, stepped through time, and got adopted as a padawan. maybe when finn is ~14-15ish, he meets ahsoka on ilum when she is supervising the gathering during the clone wars? he'd be a great padawan for obi-wan. will have to let this percolate a bit. i just need more jedi finn content.

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[anundine]

i'm sorry, starkiller was ilum? that is....so incredibly fucked up on so many levels. it's not enough that as a people the jedi were killed and their culture was destroyed and their temple desecrated, but one of their most sacred places was turned into a weapon, too? it's like finding out about the jedha temple being stripped to power the death star all over again.

also time-travelling jedi finn is an amazing concept and i'd read that.

[wrennette]

yes, isn't it awful? someone i follow on tumblr had suspected it and made a post not long after the first movie, but i guess at some point maybe in the expanded material it was confirmed. very skeevy of sheev.

i just want finn to have proper jedi training so so much. he'd be such an excellent jedi! and i feel like of the 'new trio' he's a really excellent candidate - he knows some of what happened but from a really skewed viewpoint, he has his moral code, he was being trained to become an officer, i want it so much!

[anundine]

sheev palpatine: the gift that keeps on giving. the anti-gift that keeps on taking away? bastard man.

Finn would be and excellent jedi, and if the sequel writers hadn't been cowards he would've been a jedi, and i'm going to be mad about that forever, probably. from a narrative standpoint he's also the best possible candidate, because as you said he knows some of what happens, but not everything, which means there's a lot of built-in drama potential of fixing everything vs the characters don't know, exactly, what they need to fix. plus all the fun character drama of finn unlearning stuff about the jedi and the republic and how to be a person!

[wrennette]

i know right? palpatine is one of my fave villains honestly because he's just such a cariacture. so so easy to hate. and so fun to think up new ways to get rid of him in fic.

yes, the writers did finn dirty. the sequel trilogy started off with such promise and then delivered so much disappointment.

[anundine]

Personally, my favorite is when palps chokes on a pretzel and dies, because for me he is So Much of a thinly-veiled fictionalization of george bush that I really love the callback to the time that asshole almost choked on a pretzel and died.

[satsuma]

I love Jedi!Finn so much. & Ilum is totally a planet that could plausibly just...send someone back on time all on its own

[wrennette]

the lack of canon jedi finn is such a tragedy to me tbh. and yes! ilum is just - like that.