oh no, this goes right with my bb-8 is a rescue droid headcanon
the one where poe comes back after a mission to some junkyard world in the outer rim with a battered and malfunctioning bb-8 in tow and everyone tries to tell him it’s useless to try and get a bb unit in working order because they’ve been out of production for years, see you can’t even find some replacement parts anymore, it took you 4 days just to dig up a maintenance manual
the one where poe reads about the bb line’s ‘adaptive personality’ function and makes a conscious effort to: spend some time talking to bb-8 everyday; speak softly around bb-8 even when he’s angry or upset; honest to god actually play hide and seek with his droid or having a long game of ‘find the thing’ across the entire base on their days off; never delete a file or tweak a protocol without bb-8′s consent, even when it’s a minor or routine maintenance thing
the one where their first genuine bonding moment after bb-8′s rescue is poe getting around to that promise of giving bb-8 a new pain job and asking bb-8 to choose some colors and it’s never outright said but the reason bb-8 picks white is that it’s pretty and not dirty like all the junk in the old scrapyard, and the reason bb-8 picks orange accents is because it matches poe’s flight suit and once the new coat is done bb-8 twirls around and chirps happily and poe’s big dumb all-loving heart hurts a little
lando calrissian, in cloud city, wearing a beautiful expensive cape and drinking expensive wine from a crystal glass, looking at the galaxy going to shit because of a serial killer emo again: unfortunate
Can you imagine how much Kylo Ren must hate Poe Dameron?
Like his whole deal with his parents was apparently ‘they were too involved in the resistance and rebuilding the shattered empire to look after me :(’
And here is Poe who is also a son of resistance fighters but who instead of making it all about himself he’s right there next to Leia, fighting for justice, being the Best Pilote of the resistance and her most trusted man.