time for Rogue One wank, I guess?

[anghraine]

Jyn haters have been incredibly obnoxious about Jyn and Cassian's Eadu fight, but occasionally I'll see a Jyn fan talking about how comparing Cassian to a stormtrooper was Right and Good, Actually, and ... whew, that's a strong nope from me. (Well, more of a *backs away slowly*)

The point Cassian makes that ... sometimes gets overlooked is that he ultimately didn't obey orders, even though he had them. This is true! Jyn following up by comparing him to a stormtrooper arises as much out of her grief and anger as anything he actually did. Now, she does have perfectly legitimate reasons to be angry with him. He was lying to her and using her and only turned back at the last possible moment, and then tried to downplay what had happened. But none of this makes him comparable to a stormtrooper. The reason why I have no time for Jyn antis who use this scene to completely dismiss her is that they act like she has no reason to lash out at him. She does! But that doesn't make what she says right or fair, either.

(I did read quite a bit of Jyn/Cassian fic back in the day where Cassian ultimately accepts that she was right and he was basically indistinguishable from an agent of a murderous interstellar dictatorship until Jyn showed him the error of his ways, so despite the louder screams of Jyn antis, it remains a sensitive point. They're both right, they're both wrong, and ... /sigh.)