I love in FO the situation is considered beyond fuck when even Hux is gone. On normal days he’s totally the workaholic, who’s always the last to leave.
I love how the morale is high even when under attack because it’s like, “Hux has got this. He’s the Youngest General Ever. I’m sure he has a plan even when the fuel cells get hit!”
Where nobody acknowledges they might die until Hux is gone and then they’re like, “SHIT WE MUST BE ABOUT TO DIE. OUR SLYTHERIN LEADER IS GONE.”
Also the fact that some people apparently haven’t noticed Hux is gone which suggests he didn’t so much Leave as Go To Inform Supreme Leader Of The Situation and then not come back.
Brains over Brawn. He is certainly not the physically strongest officer in the First Order, yet he has managed to work his way up to one of the highest ranks through cunning planning and probably a healthy dose of calculated backstabbing. Domhnall Gleeson says, regarding Hux’s rise in the First Order, “You don’t get that high up in your life that quickly unless you’re pretty ruthless. You have to put a few people down on the way to get there.” Hux is a tactician through and through, and this translates in the way he leads the First Order.
People always say that Hux must be an evil, heartless monster because he murdered his father and felt no remorse, and compare that to Kylo’s reaction to killing his father.
But can I just remind everyone that Brendol Hux was mentally and physically abusive for all of Armitage Hux’s life, and so they had a completely different relationship to that of Han and Ben.
I’m not trying to make excuses for Hux or say that he was right to kill his father. I’m just saying that it’s a little unfair to compare the two situations.
I’m always amazed by people who sympathize with Ben but not Hux. No, Hux doesn’t show conflict anymore. Can you really expect him to?
At the end of the day, Ben’s parents did love him. Ben was misunderstood and all that, and I’m not going to try to downplay the struggles he went through.
But, Hux was actively abused by his father. He didn’t know his mother, which means he was either forced away from her by his father… Or, his mother didn’t want to keep him.
He didn’t meet anyone who stood up for him until he was eight years old. And, instead of loving him, they gifted him power. Power over other people. He was taught to use power and violence to protect himself. Rae Sloane validated that by offering to protect him from his father if Hux protected her from his child warriors. Then Sloane tells Brendol to teach Armitage everything he knows.
Brendol, probably the worst human being to exist in Star Wars. Brendol, the man who ran an Empire Academy for children, where he encouraged them to murder each other for favor. Brendol, the man who promised Phasma a better life for herself and her people, then instructed her to leave behind her one surviving friend. Then bombed her planet.
Armitage Hux is messed up. I don’t see him being redeemed. That’s why I sympathize so much. That’s why I feel so strongly about him. He was born in the wrong place at the wrong time to the wrong people, and it makes me so sad. He’s too far gone, and it’s too tragic for me to deal with.
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