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MAJOR SPOILERS, obviously, for Rogue One (and anyone who wants to read the novelization).

• Jyn went through all of Cassian’s things while he was off having his secret conversation w Draven and made a mental note that there was ‘no holoimage of a dutiful wife’ like chill girl you could just ask him if he was single
• THE BLASTER PISTOL SHE “FOUND” WAS STOLEN STRAIGHT OUT OF CASSIAN’S BAG LMAO IM SCREAMING
• and he knows it too and lets her keep it looool
• Moments after Cassian saves her life by shooting the rebel with the grenade, Jyn tackles him to the ground and saves his life in return
• these two seem “pressed together” a lot like we get it, personal space is not a thing
• Cassian is literally Always Stressed about Jyn being cold and injured after their battle in Jedha
• but like, side note, Cassian is literally always stressed about Jyn anyway
• even when he knows she’s served her purpose in the mission and is by all means ‘expendable’ (and is justifying in his mind a million reasons to leave her behind) he’s desperately trying to save her as Jedha is collapsing
• Cassian comes up with a hundred reasons why he SHOULD shoot Galin Erso but what it comes down to in the end is the fact that he has Jyn’s eyes and he just CANT DO IT please someone end my suffering
• when Cassian sees the explosion on the platform he whispers Jyn’s name
• and then he RACES to save her, and the logical part of his brain is like “where would we even go? we’re trapped here anyway” but he’s so frantic he doesn’t care, his one track brain just locks onto Jyn and her wellbeing 
• their fight after is so emotionally charged I almost can’t handle it 
• once Cassian realizes Jyn won’t be getting the support from the council he slips out quietly with Bohdi and they gather people together to pull off the death star plan mission
• when Jyn realizes what Cassian has done for her, how much he believes in her, and how dedicated he is to helping her, she finally starts healing for the first time in her character arc (which is why the line “welcome home” is so destroying like…….. this is the first time in the entire book that she actually feels hope)
• something I didn’t realize in the movie but was spelled out more obviously in the book: when Jyn sees Cassian shot while they’re climbing the tower and he falls, she thinks he’s dead, and is literally so distraught she almost lets herself fall after him for a millisecond hahahaha 🙂 🙂 this is fine 🙂 
• and when she sees ‘the man in the white cape’ she mentally lists Cassian’s death up there with her parents as ways the man has made her life a living hell, and she burns with rage
• and when she realizes Cassian is alive (and that he’s ended her nightmare by killing Krennic) he “looked as beautiful as anyone Jyn had ever known” and once she beams the plans to the death star out, she stumbles to him smiling like a child
• when Cassian sees her smile he’s shook by how ordinary it is, how it turns her into a woman he might have known and understood “He hadn’t known her, didn’t know her, of course. There wasn’t the time.” NO
• in the end Cassian still had a hard time forgiving himself for all the awful things he did in the name of the rebellion but looking at Jyn and knowing he’d given her what she needed, that was enough.
• “Her faith carried him with her.”
• As Jyn is carrying Cassian (who is SO WEAK and SO BROKEN) toward the beach, she blocks a dead rebel soldier from his view
• “Somehow she found herself closer to Cassian than before. Her breathing matched his, or his matched hers, deep and steady.”
• and Cassian, completely out of strength, somehow still manages to hold her tighter, as tightly as he can, as the bright white light blinds them both and they become one with the force
• (so basically, lots of tears were had) (I’m so Shook)

Did the novelization said anything about them in the elevator? In the film, it looked like Jyn said “I love you” even though the darkness covered much of her mouth movement.

It kind of glosses over the elevator scene because Cassian is really deep in thought (the part I mentioned above where he’s having a hard time forgiving himself still but lets go with the knowledge he did everything he could to help Jyn).

The only other line about the elevator was: “He didn’t want to disturb the silence as they rested against each other, hurting and relaxed, listening to the hum of machinery and the distant billowing of fires.” 

Thanks for the explanation. Reblogging this for further reference.

One of the best ships in SW. So much angst, so much “almost”.