I am probably committing all kinds of blasphemy for suggesting this but what the hell, let's have a prompt based on the Star Trek Voyager episode 'Child's Play'
For those who don't know it, it is about a boy called Icheb who was rescued by the ships crew from a race called the Borg who would invade and convert captives into drones for their society (sound familiar?). The crew manage to track down the Icheb's homeworld and his parents only to discover that he was actually handed over to the Borg as a kamikaze, designed to be converted and destroy the Borg from within. Icheb's parent decide to use the return of their son as an excuse to do this all over again and immediately attempt to hand Icheb back over to the Borg.
Now lets put this in the Star Wars universe and Finn in that place. Finn's capture and conversion to Stormtrooper was actually a plot by his people to destroy the First Order from within. At a certain age, he was supposed to be 'triggered' either with a virus that would wipe out the order or as some sort of mental conditioning to fight against them from within (Maybe a force related thing?) Finn had no idea he was a sleeper agent for his people. After the events of TFA, the Resistance manage to find Finn's homeworld and Leia decides that it would be good for Finn to go home and meet his parents and people. Poe on the other hand is very uneasy about the whole thing and feels that Finn is almost being pressured into leaving the Resistance by his people and he finds the whole story of how Finn was captured to be very suss. But Poe is shouted down because everyone believes he is simply trying to find fault to stop Finn from leaving him. It's only after the Resistance leaves Finn on his home planet that Poe realises and have to rush to save him before he is once again handed over to the First Order to be turned into a weapon.
Finn/Poe - Finn was a sleeper agent in the First Order
For those who don't know it, it is about a boy called Icheb who was rescued by the ships crew from a race called the Borg who would invade and convert captives into drones for their society (sound familiar?). The crew manage to track down the Icheb's homeworld and his parents only to discover that he was actually handed over to the Borg as a kamikaze, designed to be converted and destroy the Borg from within. Icheb's parent decide to use the return of their son as an excuse to do this all over again and immediately attempt to hand Icheb back over to the Borg.
Now lets put this in the Star Wars universe and Finn in that place. Finn's capture and conversion to Stormtrooper was actually a plot by his people to destroy the First Order from within. At a certain age, he was supposed to be 'triggered' either with a virus that would wipe out the order or as some sort of mental conditioning to fight against them from within (Maybe a force related thing?) Finn had no idea he was a sleeper agent for his people. After the events of TFA, the Resistance manage to find Finn's homeworld and Leia decides that it would be good for Finn to go home and meet his parents and people. Poe on the other hand is very uneasy about the whole thing and feels that Finn is almost being pressured into leaving the Resistance by his people and he finds the whole story of how Finn was captured to be very suss. But Poe is shouted down because everyone believes he is simply trying to find fault to stop Finn from leaving him. It's only after the Resistance leaves Finn on his home planet that Poe realises and have to rush to save him before he is once again handed over to the First Order to be turned into a weapon.