Hux

I recently bought the digital version of "Age of Resistance - General Hux," the one-shot comic, just for preparing this post.

I did not know or understand Armitage at all, and when I bought this gorgeous pin by @ritarussiandoll_pins on a design by @yanh_hyung I wanted to fill my total ignorance, at least a bit.

To be honest, the reading left me with more questions than answers.

Hux's childhood is probably the most terrible you can read in SW media.

Like EVER.

And, I mean, including SLAVERY and WAR and MURDER.

The psychological and physical torture depicted there, screaming from the ink in front of you, may be just comparable to the pain inflicted on Anakin by the Emperor in the Pak's Vader last installment.

And, if you didn't read it yet (DO. IT.), well, that is super heavy stuff.

This? It might be even more massive.

So, the fact that Armitage grew up totally (like TOTALLY) messed up, it is not surprising. But I did not expect that he was SO wicked, to be honest.

And I am talking about Marchion Ro's level of evil.

Which, if you didn't read anything "The High Republic" yet (DO.IT.), well, it is like being a COMPLETE SOCIOPATH —manipulative, egocentric, displaying no empathy whatsoever—.

Hux is the mold of the frail kid, totally ill-treated by his abusive father, becoming a torturer and a mass murderer as a coping mechanism.

A perfect counterbalance for Ben, the loved kid and talented pupil that everyone wants to be.

So you can guess the hate and the envy.

[And the twisted connection too]

[Finally realizing why there are so many S&M Kylux fanfics on AO3]

I conclude by saying that, although I still don't understand the character at all, I started to feel that his demise in IX was a total waste, and, if you want the five cents of this very last-minute fan, a total lack of appreciation and grasp for his dramatis personae.