Darth Wiki / Star Wars The Sequel Remake

A trilogy of Star Wars Fix Fic attempting to reimagine the infamously divisive sequel trilogy, written by and with character design done by shonengirl and made into a Web Animation, with the idea of “what if the writers had planned out the sequels more?”.

The trilogy’s titles have mostly stayed the same or keep the same idea:

• Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens
• Star Wars VIII: Legacy Of The Jedi
• Star Wars IX: Rebirth of Skywalker

However, these take it a step further, as by taking into account real circumstances, it aims to recreate a trilogy of movies as if it were truly from an alternate reality where this was the case, turning back the clock to 2015 when expectations were still high.

To reinforce this, the actors, including Mark Hamill himself, make a grand return voicing their characters (with some exceptions to make up for those dead or unwilling, with Hamill also playing Han Solo, Chewie’s voice using recycled clips, and Leia being voiced by an impressionist). The author also features little notes explaining meta information concerning the “filming” of this version; e.g. Hamill supposedly begging Ford into being in two movies and that they "filmed" Ford’s scene in Rebirth alongside filming for Legacy, how they apparently used CGI for Rey’s brief daydream sequence in the Millennium Falcon, jokes about how many times they had to rebuild the sets, etc.

The setup of the story is somewhat similar, but different (pending); it has once again been over 30 years since the end of Return of the Jedi. The First Order, a terrorist cell of imperial remnants, has suddenly risen from the ashes in the past decade, expanding and growing increasingly powerful at alarming speed. For half a decade now Jedi Master Luke Skywalker has gone off the map in search of something unknown, bringing with him what remains of the Jedi order after the Second Jedi Massacre perpetrated by one Kylo Ren and his Knights of Ren. Senator Leia Organa-Solo and the rest of the New Republic government in the best efforts try to keep the somewhat weakened, but still strong Republic together in these dark times. Now, they are about to cross paths with a new generation of heroes...

Note: Will list tropes for several scenarios; e.g. for the main character, (Cynical Rey) describes the scenario where Rey keeps her canon backstory and is the explicit main hero, (Fangirl Rey) describes the scenario where Rey is an Audience Surrogate Ascended Fangirl who adores the tales of heroism of the Rebellion and especially the original trio, (Dark Rey) describes a scenario where she turns at some point in the story; "Rey Skywalker" (Rey is the daughter of Luke), "Rey Nobody" (not related to anyone), and “Padawan Rey” (Rey is a padawan of Luke, with Finn as the fish out of water half of the protagonist duo). Due to the many factors it will also be noted (like this) to elaborate which plot a given entry is referring to, and I hope I can find out how to sort my many scenarios.

As of now the route where Cynical Rey is a Skywalker by blood and (maybe) doesn't turn is the one I’m most partial to, especially in Jedi!Finn routes, so these tropes will assume this is the Cynical Rey Skywalker scenario for now, unless otherwise specified. While this reveal would be spoilered usually, here it isn't for obvious reasons. This will also be assuming Finn is the second main character. I may add a separate list for the scenario in which changes are most minimal (I.e. Some changes to TFA, hitting many of the same notes and themes as TLJ but without the character breaking and worldbuilding holes, and only TROS getting a complete redo).

For the other characters, this will also be assuming “Elsa Ren” (Kylo is the way he is because of a Dark Side curse, and grew up fearful of his destructive potential and tumultuous emotions), “Senator Organa” (Leia is a Senator) routes, and that Poe and Ben were childhood friends or at least knew each other growing up. Many don’t have as drastic a difference between character directions, but they’re still noticeable (e.g. Luke can be anywhere from “Space Mr. Rogers” to “idealistic but a bit jaded”, Hux can be anywhere from “Why do I have to deal with this idiot” to “stoic and visibly gives no flips” to “mask of ice, hidden Azula”, I’m not completely sure exactly how snarky Poe is). I will try to label them but that may become pretty messy, and some are rather minor, even if they do affect the larger picture of the character (e.g. whether Hux is afraid of Kylo or can easily manipulate him, though I’m becoming partial to the latter, whether Finn was an Elite Trooper or just a private, Han’s occupation, etc).

(Note: I do want to write a fanfic or screenplay of this sometime. The parts with the IRL actors are obviously pipe dream. Mostly.)

Tropes in the Sequel Remake script include:

• Acting for Two: Mark Hamill voices not only himself/Luke and Harrison Ford/Han, but also several extras.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Finn in canon was rather cowardly. Here the fact that he's a former soldier is very clear from the start, and he was in fact part of an elite squadron (Pending), not a janitor. In fact he seems to have an almost inhuman tolerance for high-stress situations due to his training.
  • Rey manages to best Luke in The Last Jedi; in Legacy of the Jedi, Luke completely wipes the floor with her, though he does it in a way that doesn't actually cause harm, and it only escalates from there.
  • Similarly, while Kylo Ren does show impressive feats never seen before as early as his Establishing Character Moment in canon, in this version of The Force Awakens he's established to be especially destructive. The first face-off between him, Rey and Finn is replaced with a very tense chase scene of an enraged Kylo hounding Rey and Finn through the snow, and all they can do is run as trees are falling around them, shockwaves threatening to knock them off their feet. It ends with a short, desperate lightsaber duel where Kylo clearly has the upper hand on both Finn and Rey, Kylo mercilessly barraging them in a flurry of strikes, which Rey is just barely able to parry with her nonexistent knowledge of what she's doing until within seconds he succeeds in cutting her hand off, making her let out an absolutely bloodcurdling scream and sending the lightsaber flying with her hand (pending), and she and Finn are only saved by Luke coming to save them just in time. (pending) If he becomes really distressed, he can even cause small scale explosions or surround himself in a chaotic Force Storm complete with lightning. (pending) And to make it worse, he is barely in control of these powers.
  • Captain Phasma had one rather brief fight scene in the canon trilogy, which she lost, and before that made her debut with Finn and Han forcing her to unlock Starkiller Base’s shields. In this trilogy, she's a terrifying, imposing Implacable Woman who almost kills Finn in their first face-off, and the mere mention of her name is enough to make him freeze.
  • Hux is way more threatening, dignified, and in control than his canon counterpart, and is way more respected by those under him, to contrast him with the childish Kylo Ren, and he even comes across as an Only Sane Man. He’s an incredibly effective tactician, a manipulator who can even push Kylo's buttons without getting chopped into pieces, and sometimes even seems borderline sociopathic in his pragmatic ruthlessness.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Rey, initially (Cynical Rey). When Finn and Poe first meet her, she's incredibly distrustful, cynical, uncooperative, and brutally pragmatic, like A New Hope Han Solo without the bravado, just trying to survive. In fact, she's encountered trying to outright sell BB-8. However, considering how she grew up, her worldview is perfectly understandable. By the end, she develops to more resemble her caring, nice, even cheerful canonical counterpart. (Non Dark Rey routes)
• Adaptational Wimp:
  • An example of Tropes Are Not Bad, as her being overpowered was a common complaint against the sequels; as mentioned above, Rey is hardly as powerful as she is in canon, especially initially. She is able to hold her own with a staff and is pretty resourceful (especially Cynical Rey)/knows some fighting skills with a staff (Fangirl Rey)/is pretty skilled with a lightsaber all things considered (Padawan Rey), but she still gets her butt kicked a lot. Even by the end, she has far fewer abilities than her canon version had by the end, and she had to train for all five years from the start of Legacy to the beginning of Rebirth to earn them, whereas canon Rey only had one year.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Though more an example of Character Rerailment, Luke Skywalker. While in The Last Jedi he had become a Grumpy Old Man due to events occurring before the movie, in this trilogy he's still optimistic (if maybe kind of jaded and unsure of himself) and idealistic as had been in the original trilogy. The writer even describes him as "a cuddly old man" and “Kind of a Superpowered Mr. Rogers”. (Pending)
• Ambiguous Disorder: Kylo Ren/Ben Solo's dialogue, how he’s described, and demeanor invokes him having some kind of mental illness or personality disorder; not helping especially is his childish personality, with his emotional maturity often seeming to be that of a teenager, but sometimes regressing to the point that he acts like an actual child, and especially his extreme emotional dependence on people and ideals. Granted, this was made much worse by the curse, but Legacy reveals that he had always had some emotional issues, and while they only became really severe as Snoke’s curse started to sink in further, it seems to have just exacerbated problems that were already there. The closest seems to be borderline personality disorder possibly comorbid with Anxiety or even dependent personality disorder, but it is of course never explicitly stated. However, the author does say that when approaching his turn to the light she took at least some inspiration from mental health recommendations, and Luke’s training methods after his studies on Ach-To are heavily influenced by techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
• Apocalypse Maiden: Revealed to be Kylo’s purpose all along, and Rey had the potential to become one as well, as grandchildren of the Chosen One and in a way products of the Force itself. This was why Finn had none of his Force potential utilized, because he was not and therefore useless to be used as a vessel. (“The JRPG Ending”)
• Ax-Crazy: Kylo Ren when he’s in berserk mode. There are moments where his sanity seems... questionable.
• The Berserker: Kylo Ren’s Psychopathic Manchild tendencies from canon are played up to the point he’s even sometimes referred to as “The Berserker” in-universe; though he doesn’t go berserk in every battle, he’s this borderline Ax-Crazy, angsty, volatile, emotionally unstable manchild who has a tendency to throw extremely destructive tantrums that can range from destroying machinery to literally explosive rampages if angered or under high distress, and woe betide anyone but the best who fights or runs into him in this state. However, these are involuntary or are an effect of the curse, the script describing them as "weapons-grade tantrums or panic attacks".
• Captain Obvious Reveal: As much as the writer tried to throw people off while the story was being animated, quite a few still guessed that Kylo Ren is still Ben Solo.
• The Comically Serious: This version of Finn, especially initially, cannot understand jokes and is very awkward with emotion, leading to him having very deadpan reactions to Poe’s jokes, taking Poe, Rey, Leia, and Han’s sarcasm at complete face value and promptly being confused, and treating even the most silly things completely seriously. As he develops this starts to fade, but this still remains the bulk of humor involving him, with Poe taking up almost all of the wisecracking.
• Cool Old Guy: Han isn’t quite what he used to be physically but he’s still an expert shot, pilot, and respected military leader (Admiral Solo)/regularly, willingly subjects himself to danger as the Courier for the Republic (Courier Solo). While the other original trilogy characters also seem to be this, Luke and Leia are actually still in their early 50s. With Luke this is more apparent when he cuts his hair shorter.

• Custom Uniform: Han wears his uniform jacket as a Coat Cape, complete with hanging sleeves. Shonengirl has admitted that she was probably influenced by anime a bit, like she was in other aspects. (“General Solo”)
• Dead Guy Junior: Ben Solo, obviously. Along with his obsession with family honor, he grew up admiring the old, wise mentor of his beloved uncle, even if he never met him, the real Obi-Wan choosing to watch him from afar, and it subconsciously put even more pressure on him to be a good Jedi. This also made Obi-Wan one of the prominent targets of "Vader's" character assassinations in order to lure Ben to the Dark Side, to the point that calling him Ben is one of many things that can potentially send him into a rage by the time of The Force Awakens.
• Dead Person Impersonation: In a way. Ben grew up seeing visions of Darth Vader in his mind that became ever more frequent. These all culminated in the final night before his fall, as "Vader" recounts to Ben the events of "his" life that is mostly an accurate account of events (e.g. showing Ben how corrupt and ineffective the Old Republic was, how the Jedi emotionally stifled him and wouldn't even allow him to be with the love of his life), but also mixes in heavy skewed, really embellished interpretations of these events (e.g. framing Palpatine's grooming of Anakin to the dark side as just a straightforward bond, framing his final battle with Obi-Wan, the very person Ben is named after, on Mustafar as Obi-Wan betraying him in cold blood when he needed him the most, his infamous "I HATE YOU!" line being a despairing cry after begging for help as Obi-Wan only coldly stared) if not straight-up Blatant Lies (e.g. showing Obi-Wan as the one who said "If you're not with us, you're our enemy!" and Anakin as the one who said "You were my brother!" at Mustafar, showing his death to be at the hands of Luke backstabbing him in cold blood after he had come back to the light for his sake); after which, as "Vader" beckons to him to fulfill his true destiny, the real Anakin is right beside Ben, screaming at him to not listen to "Vader" but unable to be heard.

• Deuteragonist: The story is also very much Kylo Ren’s story as well, not just Rey and Finn’s, with his struggles between the Dark and Light. The author has fittingly called him “The Zuko of the story”.
  • Arguably Luke as well, as the story essentially follows him trying to correct what he couldn't before throughout the series. (pending)
• Eagleland: Meta( the writer has said that Poe unintentionally turned into a great example of Type 1 as she was writing him, and pretty much ran with it. As Oscar Isaac is Hispanic, specifically Guatemalan, the writer has said to [[What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? “Make of that what you will”.
• Expy:
  • Apparently the writer based Luke heavily on Uncle Iroh, as his character seemed as a very fitting direction for Luke as an elder to go. ("Iroh Luke")
  • Kylo Ren's character was apparently heavily influenced by Silver, the writer's particular interpretation of the Arthurian/Fate Series Mordred, Proto Mordred, and [[Western Animation/Frozen Queen Elsa]] (pending for Silver). Some of his character concept can easily be traced back to an idea for a Fate adaptation of the series she had lying around, which is also where the idea of him being referred to a "Berserker" also traces its roots to.
• Feeling Their Age:
  • Han has to demand Rey slow down on the mission to rescue Finn while grumbling about this, and is completely winded on the stairs to Luke's cabin, showing that he isn't quite like he was in his prime, even if he is still a badass.
  • Luke jokes about this in Legacy. ...After earlier having basically skipped his way up the aforementioned rocky, steep stairs, jumped across a canyon, and just moments later casually flinging a boulder blocking their path and wiping the floor with Rey in a mock swordfight.
• Foil: Many.
  • Rey was badly neglected, never seeing herself as of any importance but still trying to survive, not caring about ideologies or causes, is fiercely independent and self-reliant, and is really, really Book Dumb. Finn meanwhile was well cared for as a soldier, and lived under the assumption that the First Order fought for the good of the galaxy and that it was worthy of devoting his whole existence to, never perceiving of himself as an individual as much as part of one big machine, but seems to be educated on some level. However, they also have more similarities than one would expect.
  • Rey and Finn as a duo to Kylo: Rey was raised with no expectations put on her, no grand vision for her life, and had no reason to care about what others would think of her, growing up lonely and cared by no one. After she becomes willing to accept and love Luke her father, while she does become willing to and even takes solace in the fact that she’s an heir to the bloodline, it’s heavily implied that she’s more happy to know that she has a family that loves her first, the whole Heroic Lineage thing second. Finn was a cog in a machine, just one out of many, and has no lineage of any note whatsoever, but ultimately chose to leave the First Order to the side of good. At the beginning of the story, they are leaving a life of harshness and cruelty for one of adventure, but also one of understanding and true friendship and love, things they barely if ever desired before due to their conditions growing up. Meanwhile Kylo seemingly leaves a life of prestige and love for the First Order and the darkness. He is obsessed with carrying on his family’s legacy, it having weighed down on his shoulders all his life to the point that he eventually became unable to see his family as a normal family but idols to be worshipped and something he is failing to live up to. He was in his backstory constantly starved for love and still is, but keeps trying to reject it because he thinks he isn’t worth it anymore. But Kylo also has similarities tying him to one or both; being raised and groomed to do evil and having an underdeveloped sense of individuality (Finn), a defensive and very reactive, anger-prone personality, not to mention being cousins (Rey), starting the trilogy out “evil”, distrustfulness, and an underlying sense of loneliness (both).
  Rey: No, I don’t understand! You had everything! You had a purpose, a reason to live, a family that gave a damn about you! Me? I had nothing! I would’ve killed for a life like you, Kylo! But you threw it away! And what do you do with all that power? You just push people like Finn around and use them!
  • Poe for basically all of the main four, not just for not having the Force, but his defining trait being that he’s a genuine Nice Guy who does things because it’s the right thing to do, having a healthy sense of humor, and just by virtue of being stable, a functioning member of society, and not having some kind of Dark and Troubled Past aside from that thing about his childhood friend turning evil. Most importantly, however, he’s very trusting, is willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, and is kind even to most of his enemies. There’s also irony in the fact that despite being non Force-Sensitive, he’s the most Jedi-like initially, and has the most heroic personality despite being the least in the spotlight comparatively.
  • Kylo and Hux. The former is extremely powerful, fights in a small unit but can perform as a One-Man Army, but most of all is incredibly troubled, conflicted, and unstable. He had parents and family who loved and still love him, but due to intervention in his life beyond his control and his own personality flaws what should have been a happy life was corrupted, and he has a very twisted view of how his family see him, but even then, despite believing it’s his destiny and the inherent addictive properties of the Dark Side, he can’t bring himself to fully hate his loved ones and give himself to the dark. This leads to frustration as he sees them as what is binding him to the light. Meanwhile, Hux is a normal human in terms of physical power, but is the actual military leader out of the two, a Manipulative Bastard in his own right, calm, cold-blooded, and confident. He was abused by his father, but yet it’s ambiguous wether Hux killed him because of that, because he’s inherently a psychopath who saw doing so as a means to an end, or some mix of both; still, he seemingly is completely unaffected emotionally by the abuse aside from adopting his father’s demeanor and teachings, even mocking Kylo by telling him that he got over it “like an adult”. And despite not having the Force and the lack of a curse, he was way more accepting of evil.
• Food as Bribe: Poe convinces Rey to help them by promising a meal once they reach their destination.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The human focus characters on the heroic side by the time of Rebirth:
  • Rey: Choleric; though she is trying to tone it down so as not to fall to the Dark Side
  • Finn: Melancholic; now more introspective, quiet, and still kind of pessimistic, though he's a less strong example
  • Poe: Sanguine; lighthearted, cheerful, and always optimistic
  • Luke: Phlegmatic; sweet-natured, humble, mature, and calm, but with an unbendable iron will
• Freudian Trio: Villainous example in the First Order (Pending):
  • The Id: Kylo Ren; extremely emotional, immature, and irritable.
  • The Superego: Captain Phasma; generally quiet, extremely loyal to the mission, almost robotic in demeanor, and unhesitatingly, brutally pragmatic in her pursuits.
  • The Ego: Grand Admiral Hux; the most balanced of the three, though due to being evil he leans towards pragmatism, manipulation, and unscrupulous actions.
• Grow Old with Me: Han and Leia are still very much a couple even after all these years, unlike in canon where the two took separate paths for unspecified reasons.
• Hates Being Touched: Rey, much like canon, understandably. (Cynical Rey specific) She gradually loses this as the trilogy goes on, and by the end she's fighting with Finn hand-in-hand, and is the first to outstretch her hand to Kylo along with Finn to accept him back before Luke pulls all of them into a group hug. (Pending)
• The Heart: Poe Dameron is more of a supporting character compared to the main duo, and is the least dynamic. However, among the main characters (and in his squad as well) he is the one who keeps the trio emotionally grounded and on the path, keeps spirits up with his laid-back, joking attitude, is the least socially incompetent and the most “normal” of the group, and is described by shonengirl as the “Cool Big Bro” and this exact trope. Without him, the trio would probably fall apart. He also in a way serves as the Only Sane Man due to him being the most down-to-earth.
• The Heavy: Kylo Ren, and to an extent Phasma, but mostly Kylo, described by shonengirl as "The First Order's attack dog". Though he does sometimes express reluctance due to the influence of the light side on him, and Phasma expresses no such hesitation, even if she's not as crazy powerful as he is.

• Hot-Blooded: Poe, while being laid-back, has a strong hotblooded streak. Especially when in battle or his friends are involved.
• Improbable Age:
  • Poe, self-described as “born in the cockpit”, was clearly a teen prodigy because he was 14 when he got into advanced flight school, basically breezing through the entry level academy in less than a year before when he was 13, and according to supplementary material graduated at 17, becoming a Captain when he was barely 21. While this may have been less of an oddity in the Rebellion, and the Republic Armed Forces does have a slightly younger structure due to the youth of the nation, it is also a much more conventional military than the Rebellion and as such Poe’s age especially stands out in-universe too, even if it’s sort of justified by his upbringing.
  • Hux is likewise disproportionately young among his peers, even if he’s aged up slightly (36 instead of 34), having become an officer when he’s 16 and a Grand Admiral at 18. Oh, and part of the reason he got the promotion to officer so early was that he murdered his own father in cold blood and hid the evidence so no one could find it was him. When he was 15. Still, despite some nepotism and the murder, it’s heavily implied that he became an Admiral both by ruthlessly climbing to the top and out of genuine merit, and is respected by other officers and peers as much as the others, even seeming to be the de facto leader.
  • By virtue of being Child Soldiers, even teenage First Order troopers can be basically Demonic Spiders.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Kylo Ren/Ben Solo. In spades. He's one big ball of inferiority complexes, as much as he tries to be like Tranquil Fury incarnate Darth Vader, though this has been an issue much, much longer for him since before becoming Kylo Ren. (pending)
• Minor Major Character: Anakin Skywalker, regretful of his past actions, and not wanting his and Luke's efforts to be undone and his mistakes to be repeated. He doesn't appear extremely often, but the times he does he plays a significant part in nudging the character arcs along.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Luke doesn't exactly say the line because, as the scriptwriter says, "It would be a bit too on-the-nose", but he gets to have the opportunity to be the one giving this, revealing that he's Rey's father in Legacy. Rey herself is understandably angry at him initially, but after hearing why she was in Jakku and getting time to comes to terms with it, as well as through the new bonds she’s made by the end of the movie she embraces it.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Luke still drinks Thala-Siren milk in Legacy, as do his students, though he does so much more elegantly like it’s a spot of green tea and it’s actually a lesson in disguise. (Iroh Luke)
    • Later he’s shown heating and melting what appears to be chocolate into it before presenting it to Finn telling him how good it is. He apparently brings it with him for a few later tea-drinking moments, but him saying he prefers it with blue milk heavily implies he does this with milk in general and is fond of what is basically hot chocolate. This mixture is never outright called “hot chocolate” in the dialogue (though it is in the screenplay and prose), but it’s actually a reference to the now discontinued Extended Universe, now called Legends, where Luke, somewhat memetically, developed a fondness for said drink.
  • Rey’s mother is [[spoiler:named “Mara”. And she’s indeed a redhead, though it’s more
• Official Couple: Rey and Finn's friendship slowly progresses throughout the trilogy into this. At the end of Rebirth, they become engaged, completing FN-2187’s transformation into Finn Skywalker, Jedi Knight.
• Only Sane Man: Downplayed. Poe, though not in the typical way, as he's less the serious straight man, and more the most normal guy; a laid-back, wisecracking, well-adjusted, established member of society who loves his droid and sort-of parental figures, sharing the main cast with a misanthropic, traumatized former scavenger and an emotionally stunted ex-soldier. This is especially the case if one includes Kylo, who is downright mentally unstable, in the mix. He even jokes that "Guess I'm the resident normal guy here!". He's also the only one in the big four who has any social skills until at least partway through Legacy. The effect is balanced by the presence of the original trilogy cast, however.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Kylo Ren. Already having had a troubled history, the Dark Side has only served to heighten his emotions to turn him into the volatile berserker he is now. While aged down somewhat, he's still a (at the beginning) 27 year old giant of a man with the emotional maturity of a 16-year-old at oldest (if that) who throws destructive tantrums and panic attacks, literally storms back to his room to cry, has serious daddy and mommy issues, has a tendency to be slavishly loyal and short-sighted, is obviously painfully insecure despite trying to hide it, and shrinks like a puppy when Snoke scolds or berates him. Though not that anyone in the First Order except Snoke or Hux dares to say it because they're all terrified of him, as no one who has defied him other than those two has come out alive, or in the case of the Knights they don’t care because it only makes their leader more powerful.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Luke tried to find out what was wrong with Ben by looking into his mind. When Luke used this to try to help him, it only worsened the situation as Ben became ashamed of himself for thinking such dark thoughts and that Luke had to see them, and was traumatized by the violation of privacy, even if he ended up not blaming Luke and again redirecting all the blame to himself. This makes him paranoid and even more desperate to deal with his dark thoughts and inner turmoil himself, pushing him further and further to the Dark Side. Of course, Luke was also extremely guilty about traumatizing him like that, and never tried reading anyone's mind again. While he does try it in the main story to work out Rey and Finn's problems, he tells them that he's going to be doing so before he does it.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni:
  • Rey is fiercely independent, wild, and selfish (Red) and Finn is devoted to alliances once secured, stoic, and disciplined (Blue).
• Replacement Goldfish: It’s made apparent that Han and Leia saw Poe as somewhat of a surrogate son; and thus, he sort of filled the void after Ben's fall to the dark side. At the least, Ben definitely saw it this way.

• Shipper on Deck: Poe (and BB8) for Finnrey. While he isn’t very loud about it, he easily suspects that Finn and Rey have budding feelings for each other, and is pretty supportive of the process of them realizing their feelings and becoming a couple. He’s visibly almost squealing at the end when Rey proposes to Finn.(Pending on the degree, almost all Jedi!Finn and otherwise main character Finn routes)
  • Rose also shares that sentiment (pending).
  • By midway through Legacy, even Luke starts encouraging them along, albeit also not too loud about it, and more in a “search your feelings, you know it to be true” way.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Han Solo in The Force Awakens, reportedly due to all his scenes throughout the trilogy being “filmed” in one go to use as archival footage later and “A lot of begging from Mark Hamill” (though “in reality” Hamill is just voicing for two). Though not so much the next movie, where Kylo Ren kills him after Han tries to wrestle his lightsaber out of his hands (quoting the script version) "Indiana Jones fight scene style". (pending, majorly)
  • Snoke survives Legacy and remains the Big Bad. (Pending; he might die only to reveal the real villain at the end of 8)
  • Luke completely survives the trilogy to keep on running his academy for the rest of his days (pending).
  • Leia also survives, outliving her actress to become chancellor of the Republic. (pending)
  • Kylo Ren/Ben Solo himself, as the writer thought that there was way more potential with him being alive for any future storytellers in this theoretical alternate reality that this story came from than with him dead.

• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Ben Solo has a nasty tendency to cling onto this mentality. This is such a deep-seated issue in his psychology that he seemingly cannot live without thinking like this. But unlike most examples, his family actively tried to support him, reassuring him that they loved him just the way he was, and Luke especially told him constantly that everyone develops as a person and comes to terms with their dark side at their own pace, doing his best to give Ben the space and affection he needed. It was just that Snoke’s curse saw to all of that being undermined and twisted in Ben’s mind.
• What a Piece of Junk: The Trope Namer line is referenced in The Force Awakens (Cynical Rey)
  Rey: Augh, what a piece of-
  Han: Piece of junk, yeah, yeah, I know. What else is new, there’s no air in space?
  Poe: You'd be surprised, she’s better than it looks! Fastest freighter in the galaxy, can take anything you can throw at it.
  Rey: It just looks like something I would scavenge. That’s all.
  • And again, using a line from The Last Jedi, in Legacy:
  Kylo Ren: Blow that piece of junk OUT OF THE SKY!
• There Are No Therapists: Played with. Some of Luke’s training methods he apparently found in the old texts are based heavily on real psychology and therapies, such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy, just with a strong spiritual/magical component. Shonengirl has outright compared Luke to a therapist at some points. However, this trope is arguably why Ben’s fall couldn’t be stopped.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Quite literally, Kylo Ren. Yes, even if he doesn't do quite as many horrible things as he does canonically, at least comparatively speaking, he's still a fanatical, obsessive fan of Darth Vader and is very proud of his role in the First Order and his being the grandson of said Sith Lord. ...Or so he says he is. But it's shown more and more that he's an extremely broken, anxious, overly perfectionistic, emotionally dependent, implied to be heavily mentally ill individual born into multiple family legacies, all the while Snoke had placed a curse upon him, constantly trying to pull him into the Dark Side, systematically breaking down his trust and belief in everything he admired from the ideals of the Republic to the Jedi to his own namesake to his parents', and most of all Luke's, love for him, giving him Power Incontinence that no one around him, not even Luke, could understand; said Power Incontinence once badly injured Han when he was merely a young child, in the inciting incident that made Luke take him in (Pending). Eventually, after Snoke giving him repeated visions of Vader who claimed to show him his true destiny, he decided it was best to just give up and let himself to fall. And as many terrible things as he does throughout the story, it becomes apparent the childish man is being used by the First Order, particularly Snoke, the other knights, and even to an extent Hux, and that even this isn't what he wants, just what he in his mind feels like is his only real choice.
• Unstable Powered Woman: While he was born strong with the Force, this version of Kylo Ren/Ben Solo may be one of the best male examples of this trope.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Ben Solo/Kylo Ren as a kid was a kind, sweet boy, albeit a rather anxious and nervous one, and he had a good relationship, or at least as much as he could, with his parents, Luke, Chewie, and other family friends like Lando, and even had Poe as a childhood friend (Pending). And even as he grew older, he always loved those important to him and acted out of such, even if a bit too much.
• Yandere: Kylo Ren is borderline one of these, if he isn’t already one. He has a... tendency to be obsessive, albeit not just romantically (hopefully), to a both extremely terrifying and extremely pitiful level. Quite a bit of this is already apparent with Rey (Main Hero Rey, Reylo route, pending), but even more so regarding Luke, where the attachment is so intense it almost starts to look incestuous. In this version, the major factor in his fall to the Dark Side was his extreme, unhealthy attachment to, desire to live up to, and obsessive hero-worship of Luke, which was so bad that he started nursing resentment towards his fellow students for taking away Luke’s attention and himself for his assumption that he isn’t good enough, and his self-doubt and eventual hatred focused majorly on him being afraid he isn't living up to his family legacy, especially his uncle, or that he's a disappointment to Luke. Granted, a lot of these were due to his emotions being amplified by Snoke, but Snoke says that Ben’s mind was particularly malleable and susceptible to the Dark Side.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: A variant. Anakin is understandably pretty horrified that Kylo Ren worships him as Darth Vader, trying but unable to reach him to tell him the truth. When he's finally able to speak to him in Rebirth, he at first scolds his grandson for causing so much suffering, especially towards his son and daughter, and for repeating his mistakes.
  Anakin: I guess being stupid runs in the family. First, don’t call me that. It’s Anakin Skywalker, not Darth Vader. I wouldn’t want my worst enemy to go down the same path I did, Ben. Much less you.

Tropes in other works based in the same universe/“Expanded Universe”

• The Atoner: Ben in post-Rebirth content. He’s understandably an extremely controversial person in the postwar Republic despite begrudging acceptance of amnesty being granted by the major heroes of the literal war to save the galaxy as everyone knew it, and lives quietly mostly outside the public eye, helping in small ways he can while he recovers.
• Child Prodigy:
  • Aside from the entering flight academy at 13 thing, according to pre-story fics Poe began playing with flight simulators when he was 6 and by the time he was 11 was good enough to be able to take Ben for a joyride and land at least somewhat safely. While this may not be much compared to, say, Anakin’s expert piloting skills at age 9, this is extremely impressive for a non Force-Sensitive.
  • In pre-story fics Ben is by all things considered a prodigy in the Force. And when he was able to control it, he was very powerful even as a kid.
• Image Song: As is standard for the author, the first released media regarding the stories were UTAU covers, though she also does these for the original trilogy, prequel trilogy, The Clone Wars, and even some other media. The songs for the sequel remakes are a wide mix of ideas exploring the many different paths the story could have taken.
• Lighter and Softer: The collection of “Mock EU” fics quite bluntly and aptly titled “Filler” is basically just scenes of characters interacting in lower-risk situations.
• Mood Whiplash: In the 4-part compilation "25 ABY", following a normal day in the life of the main four from the same year before the events of the sequel remakes, Rey's ficlet is a short but bitter record of a desperate 10-year-old girl's attempts to survive in a hostile, uncaring planet and her growing misanthropy, Finn's is a bleak, depressing peek into the emotionally stunting life of a 14-year-old First Order trooper in training that is a cross between a Nineteen Eighty-Four-esque dystopia novel and War Is Hell, both featuring rampant Troubling Unchildlike Behavior and an oppressive depressing tone (especially Finn’s), and Ben's is borderline if not outright psychological horror about the late-stage psychological torment of a mentally ill 18-year-old boy from said boy’s warped, self-loathing perspective. ...And then sandwiched between Finn and Ben there’s Poe's, showing a day in the life of a young early-20s Republic Flight Major anticipating his promotion and his interactions with those around him as he goes about his day, by far having the most normal life out of the four, even if there is the tense backdrop of preparing for another potential war. While expected due to the whole crux of Poe’s character being that he’s the (relatively) normal, well-adjusted one, the sheer difference can still be pretty intense. The darkest place the fic goes or even flirts with is when Ben is mentioned by Han and Leia and Poe suspects that something is up with him (pending), and vague mentions of how costly the war could be. This is also generally the case for the other stories that follow, being mostly cheerful or action-oriented, and while Poe still does have some darker stories (e.g. mourning falling comrades), they are pretty few and nothing compared to how bleak the others can get at their worst, the exceptions being a few of the ones he shares with Ben.

• What a Wonderful World: One of the abovementioned UTAU covers, specifically one of Old Luke/Luke Skywalker SILVER/HAMILLOID SILVER’s (well, three covers, one that is just a straight cover, a remake that slightly changes the lyrics to fit the universe’s scale, and finally a Young Luke version of the latter), is Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World” ...But for once it’s played completely non-ironically and earnestly instead of for Soundtrack Dissonance. It is also quite possibly the cover most representative of this version of Old Luke’s (or really just Luke as a Jedi’s, with the Young Luke cover being to obscure “when” the song is supposed to be in addition to the meta symbolic meaning) worldview outside of anything involving official music. The result is a Tear Jerker, especially with the tuning style, but also with the original heartwarming-ness put back in.
• There Are No Therapists: Subverted again in post-story content; Ben’s rehabilitation is very clearly based on DBT, even more strongly than what was seen before. It’s also shown that the former Stormtroopers are getting what is basically therapy to regain and nurture their humanity so they can become healthy members of New Republic society.
• Trademark Favorite Food: The chocolate and milk mixture is confirmed to just be called just “hot chocolate”, and Luke and his students are indeed extremely fond of it.