+ John Mulaney has chosen to opt out of the New Yorker Festival after the announcement that private citizen who is most famous for being fired and openly racist blogger Steve Bannon will be headlining
Headcanon: We all know Cassian Andor has “been in this fight since [he] was SIX YEARS OLD,” and there are different theories to his particular role at a young age.
I go with “he was small and harmless-looking, so he did a lot of info-gathering in crowded places, message running, deliveries, etc.” Until he had an unfortunately early growth spurt, and the errands that earned him his (almost) daily bread dried up.
So after a bit of research, tall-for-his-age twelve-year-old Cassian Andor barters, manipulates, or stows-away his way to an out-of-the-way planet/moon with a younger recruitment age for The Alliance to Restore the (and this is where Cassian’s disgust *almost* but *not quite* outweighs the hunger pains) Republic. He poses as a short-for-his-age sixteen year old, and while the recruiter doesn’t quite believe him, especially when Cassian is a little too insistent about his legal documents having been destroyed in a bombing, the Alliance is desperate, and the boy looks so hungry.
The recruiter gives Cassian the “standard” three days worth of Ration Packs along with his uniform and new papers. She pretends not to notice that his hands are shaking when he takes the rations, and he pretends not to notice her surreptitiously filling out a “rations lost to spoilage” report form.
Heartcanon: Cassian is aware of being physically attractive the way he is aware of his running speed or his skills with a blaster. He has cultivated numerous charming personalities, tailored to fit the desires of different marks.
The idea of anyone liking, or falling for, Cassian Andor himself makes about as much sense as getting dehydrated on Eadu. There is not a Cassian Andor to like, or to fall in love with. K-2SO is the exception to this, as he is the only person (and yes, he is a person, regardless of his mechanical status) who actually knows Cassian for who he is.
On the other hand, Cassian reprogrammed K-2 to break his loyalty to the Empire. Cassian is a pretty good slicer, but it’s possible that some of the loyalty subroutine wasn’t broken so much as transferred. So he can’t 100% trust K-2′s friendship as deserved either.
(And if we’re going with the “everyone lived / nobody died” AU’s, then Jyn and Bodhi and whoever else befriends / falls in love with him, work *very hard* with him on undoing all these beliefs. They cannot do it for him, but they can be there for him as he slowly rebuilds his sense of self.)
Gutcanon: At some point, probably years before the events of Rogue One, Cassian finds out that Draven was directly or indirectly responsible for the death of his father back on Fest. (Unlike Cassian, Draven was never a Seperatist, has been with the Republic all along.)
Draven may or may not know that Cassian knows. Draven may or may not know himself that this is the case. It’s not like “Cassian Andor” is Cassian’s real name, so it would be hard to build a link between him and the man shot down in a Seperatist protest decades ago.
In any case, Cassian’s feelings when Draven tells him to kill Jyn’s father are… irrelevant. Cassian’s feelings are irrelevant. Because there’s a Job To Do.
Junkcanon: LOL, I’m super Ace.
BTW someone started writing a sniperpilot story where Cassian is Ace, and it was awesome! They never finished it that I know of, but just having it as a concept makes me very very happy.
So sure, let’s say Cassian is Ace, which frankly just makes his job as a spy/seductor easier because all he feels during the seductiony bits is a quiet remove, leaving him free to notice all sorts of things while his mark is distracted.
Spleencanon: Cassian has a lot of feelings about his file saying “Cassian Jeron Andor” instead of “Casian Jerón Ándor.” But it’s not his real name, so it’s fine. It’s fine. (But really? Where did that extra ‘s’ come from? Doesn’t matter. It’s Fine.)
Headcanon: Similar to Sassy’s headcanon, honestly. Everything in Of Stone and Sand seems very real to me. (I’m sorry I haven’t finished it yet! I’m loving it so far!) That he grew up in a sacred pilgrim city, so he wasn’t so much religious as simply NiJedhan. Ancient Painted Caves where countless Important Figures had Important Revelations? You mean the caves I used to play Hide and Seek with my friends after school?
Occupation started when he was old enough to notice things were changing, but young enough to not realize it wasn’t normal. The white-suited soldiers on the streets were scary, but frankly so was the super-strict maths teacher who never smiled. And the new history teacher who was always making fun of everyone’s “backwater” accents, even though *he’s* the one who sounded funny to Bodhi and his classmates.
And I’ll add Sassy’s headcanons here, because I agree with them 100%:
Bodhi Rook was not conscripted into the Empire, he enlisted. But he enlisted because it was the best option of a bunch of bad ones. His world didn’t have enough money, didn’t have enough jobs, didn’t have enough future for him to stay. He didn’t want to leave, but there was only one good option he could see and he took it. He did his best to be responsible, support his family and his home, but slowly, slowly, he was stripped of his cultural ties. His accent flattened, letters home were delayed, Jedhan robes traded for a uniform. Everything that showed he was anything other than the Empire’s worker.
His hair is his small breath of defiance, grown out as soon as he had enough freedom that it wouldn’t be lopped off by a vengeful flight instructor.
Heartcanon: I know this goes against Riz Ahmed’s headcanon, but I believe that Bodhi came from a large-ish family. I like to think he was the oldest of a bunch of siblings, but also wasn’t really the oldest because his cousins were practically siblings, and some of them were older than him. I headcanon this because a) I want to believe that *someone* from that film had a nice, tight-knit family, with a lot of joy woven amongst the pain and degradations, and because b) Bodhi Rook obviously Had A Lot To Lose in ways that Jyn and Cassian simply did not.
Gutcanon: Bodhi could survive for days on junk food and caf. And often did.
Junkcanon: LOL I’m Ace. But I’m gonna go with Bodhi’s gay just because I Heart SniperPilot.
Spleencanon: The Bodhi we see on his way to Saw Gerrera is The Real Bodhi. Not that the one we see the rest of the film isn’t. It’s just, he’s nervous and quiet and scared all the time because of the particular situation, right after having been starved and repeatedly tortured for days (from someone he’d been told to trust! By the one person in the Empire he trusted! Who oops! just so happened to be the head engineer of the weapon that destroyed Bodhi’s entire people in an instant). Bodhi was very shaken, and very hurt, and very very tired. Nevertheless, He Persisted.
In conclusion, Bodhi Rook is not a precious cinnamon roll. He is Hell On Wheels, and we just caught him at a very bad moment. Given time, we’d probably have seen a lot more of the Feisty Bodhi we get at the beginning of the film.
character concept: the best trick archer in the world, the trick to which is that he’s actually not an archer at all, he’s a speedster and he can’t aim for shit, every time he takes a shot he actually just grabs the arrow, runs over to what he wants to stick, then runs back before anyone can see him move
he’s on a team with Heat Vision Man, who actually has no heat vision and is another speedster, he just glares at people then runs over and punches them and is back before they can see him move
(the entire team is actually just composed of speedsters who all use
their speed in different ways, and they all pretend otherwise in front
of their teammates)
The only speedster on their team is actually a teleporter
All of the speedsters know that the teleporter is not actually a speedster, but because they are all pretending to have a different power they cannot call him out. They all have to sit there and be irked as he very obviously teleports places.
The teleporter on the other hand knows the truth about his teammates and is having a very good time messing with them.
look I don’t want to tell anyone what to do but if you go down that path you will wake up a thousand years later and all your great-grandchildren will be dead
Rebellions are built on hope 