irisparry:

tarkinducken:

irisparry:

ok every time I saw hux’s first scene in the cinema I was like, hmm, about his facial expression but now I’ve had the opportunity to watch it repeatedly in HD gif form (thank you tumblr) I have Thoughts and here they are.

When he says, “if it’s on Jakku, we’ll soon have it” is he SMILING at Ren?? Or attempting to? He’s pleased they’ve got the information and confident they’re going to get shit done, and can’t keep it off his face. He says *we’ll* soon have it and maybe he assumes he and Ren will share some sort of prissy-fascist equivalent of a high five over it, like a bonding moment, but Ren’s just, “I leave that to you” and stalks off. Hux’s face DOES A THING, like, wow that was a mistake please let me die. I have done that face when I said something that assumed some sort of connection or mutual understanding or level of friendship but totally misjudged it. I feel your pain, Hux.

So now I’m constructing this elaborate headcanon where Hux was making the effort in this scene and got embarrassed when Ren didn’t respond and that set the tone for the rest of their relationship in the film. And also, because Hux and I are terrible people, the added dimension that Hux been waiting outside while Ren tortured Poe – and I wonder whose call that was – so maybe he was getting a bit carried away imagining it all and the evilboner lowered his defences to the point where he accidentally said something bordering on praise or camaraderie or terrified-socially-awkward flirting.

Good morning, I think too much about General Hux before breakfast.

No yeah I think you’re dead on, that’s honestly what kind of set the tone for their interactions for me was this moment where Hux is briefly like “good job, buddy! we’ll just pop the Finalizer on over to–” and Ren’s like “Yeah go do your job” 

and we see Hux lookin kinda crushed tbh, like “oh god was that desperate? that was desperate oh fuck someone throw me out the airlock. oh fuck. ohhhh fuck.”

YES YES EXACTLY. Ren, you’re so mean. He’s been standing awkwardly out in that corridor for hours working up to this. Give him a break.