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here I have a totally trivial, stupid, amusing, absolutely-zero-stakes spoiler-free no-drama Discourse About Star Wars for you:
[image description: a snapshot from the The Visual Dictionary or whatever that is, with an image of a silver-colored ring on a silver-colored chain, and the caption “RING NECKLACE: Poe wears the wedding ring of his late mother, Shara Bey, on a necklace, waiting to share it someday with the right partner.” end ID]
OK Shara Bey’s wedding ring. I honestly didn’t notice Poe wearing it in the movie but like. It’s a thing, the fic writers fucking love it, Carrie Fisher is a genius for the Space Jewelry thing. Also is that steel? It looks bad as hell, I love it.
BUT.
We have one (1) canon source of Shara Bey, and that’s the Shattered Empire comics, which I finally read. And:
[image description: Shara Bey from the Shattered Empire comics, with her bare, gloveless, ringless left hand, fingers splayed, pressed up against the inside of a ship’s window, saying “That is indeed my husband.” end ID]
There she is. That’s her left hand in that picture. Mm maybe they wear rings right-handed in a star war! Or, since most of her canon appearances are spent wearing gloves and full flight uniform stuff, maybe she doesn’t wear the ring when she’s gonna be wearing gloves too. So let’s see Shara out of uniform:
[image description: Shara Bey, looking satisfied in a pink graphic-front t-shirt, dusting dirt off her bare hands as Kes, holding a shovel over his shoulder, extends a gloved hand to her and says, “Let’s go home, Shara Bey.” end ID]
ambiguous, but let’s look closer
[image description: both of Shara Bey’s bare hands patting down the dirt next to the roots of a small tree. No rings are visible, but all ten fingers are visible. end ID]
oh dear that one shows both hands too so the right hand ring hypothesis is out the window
SO
we are left with some Possibilities
#1 she does not wear her ring for flying or gardening but of course does for all other things
#2 she did not have a ring yet and was gifted it later, perhaps for an anniversary or, like, as a We Survived The War present, and it was just easier to say “wedding ring” in the description and if it was a gift from her husband then it’s the same diff right?
#3 she never wore the damn thing at all or #3a wore it on a chain just like her son does
#4 really it’s a subset of #1, she had a ring that she did not wear during the war (for fear of it being lost with her body if she was killed? having always intended to leave it to her son??????) and she hadn’t put it back on yet in that last panel since she’d only just arrived home from a dangerous mission, and in fact she never wore it when she was flying just in case she got exploded or something so that the ring would still be left even if there was no body for her family to bury which is totally what happened grief-stricken pterodactyl-like screech of distress
worth noting: no rings visible on Kes’s hands either are wedding rings really even a thing in the star war??? ??? ?? ???
is it not really a wedding ring, per se, but that was the most succinct way of referring to it?
(The comic book artist not being interested in drawing jewelry is not a possibility this is not how we Discourse around these parts!)
Also for the uninitiated, check out Shara Bey’s beautiful visible facial scar ok that thing on her eyebrow is in every frame she’s depicted in enough detail to show, it’s clearly intentionally part of her character design, and ok it’s not exactly disfiguring but tell me the last time you saw an Unambiguously Good Heroine with a notable facial scar??? It is very clearly not a decorative body mod, not an eyebrow ring or something, but definitely a scar. (which actually feeds back to my previous point: if the artists were willing to include a detail like that surely they could have drawn a ring if that had been imagined for Shara when the series was written, so—)
ANYHOW.
Please someone talk about how Shara didn’t have/wear a ring during the war and keep in mind that by the time of those last frames, Poe’s like two or three years old. He might conceivably remember her getting the ring if it was A Thing.
I’m just tired of being the only person obsessed with shara bey
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here I have a totally trivial, stupid, amusing, absolutely-zero-stakes spoiler-free no-drama Discourse About Star Wars for you:
[image description: a snapshot from the The Visual Dictionary or whatever that is, with an image of a silver-colored ring on a silver-colored chain, and the caption “RING NECKLACE: Poe wears the wedding ring of his late mother, Shara Bey, on a necklace, waiting to share it someday with the right partner.” end ID]
OK Shara Bey’s wedding ring. I honestly didn’t notice Poe wearing it in the movie but like. It’s a thing, the fic writers fucking love it, Carrie Fisher is a genius for the Space Jewelry thing. Also is that steel? It looks bad as hell, I love it.
BUT.
We have one (1) canon source of Shara Bey, and that’s the Shattered Empire comics, which I finally read. And:
[image description: Shara Bey from the Shattered Empire comics, with her bare, gloveless, ringless left hand, fingers splayed, pressed up against the inside of a ship’s window, saying “That is indeed my husband.” end ID]
There she is. That’s her left hand in that picture. Mm maybe they wear rings right-handed in a star war! Or, since most of her canon appearances are spent wearing gloves and full flight uniform stuff, maybe she doesn’t wear the ring when she’s gonna be wearing gloves too. So let’s see Shara out of uniform:
[image description: Shara Bey, looking satisfied in a pink graphic-front t-shirt, dusting dirt off her bare hands as Kes, holding a shovel over his shoulder, extends a gloved hand to her and says, “Let’s go home, Shara Bey.” end ID]
ambiguous, but let’s look closer
[image description: both of Shara Bey’s bare hands patting down the dirt next to the roots of a small tree. No rings are visible, but all ten fingers are visible. end ID]
oh dear that one shows both hands too so the right hand ring hypothesis is out the window
SO
we are left with some Possibilities
#1 she does not wear her ring for flying or gardening but of course does for all other things
#2 she did not have a ring yet and was gifted it later, perhaps for an anniversary or, like, as a We Survived The War present, and it was just easier to say “wedding ring” in the description and if it was a gift from her husband then it’s the same diff right?
#3 she never wore the damn thing at all or #3a wore it on a chain just like her son does
#4 really it’s a subset of #1, she had a ring that she did not wear during the war (for fear of it being lost with her body if she was killed? having always intended to leave it to her son??????) and she hadn’t put it back on yet in that last panel since she’d only just arrived home from a dangerous mission, and in fact she never wore it when she was flying just in case she got exploded or something so that the ring would still be left even if there was no body for her family to bury which is totally what happened grief-stricken pterodactyl-like screech of distress
worth noting: no rings visible on Kes’s hands either are wedding rings really even a thing in the star war??? ??? ?? ???
is it not really a wedding ring, per se, but that was the most succinct way of referring to it?
(The comic book artist not being interested in drawing jewelry is not a possibility this is not how we Discourse around these parts!)
Also for the uninitiated, check out Shara Bey’s beautiful visible facial scar ok that thing on her eyebrow is in every frame she’s depicted in enough detail to show, it’s clearly intentionally part of her character design, and ok it’s not exactly disfiguring but tell me the last time you saw an Unambiguously Good Heroine with a notable facial scar??? It is very clearly not a decorative body mod, not an eyebrow ring or something, but definitely a scar. (which actually feeds back to my previous point: if the artists were willing to include a detail like that surely they could have drawn a ring if that had been imagined for Shara when the series was written, so—)
ANYHOW.
Please someone talk about how Shara didn’t have/wear a ring during the war and keep in mind that by the time of those last frames, Poe’s like two or three years old. He might conceivably remember her getting the ring if it was A Thing.
I’m just tired of being the only person obsessed with shara bey
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