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Summary
you must stand tall now, Admiral,for you alone remain,and someday will the galaxyspin legends from your name -
strike a pose
**Author's Note:**
> There was a moment in _The Last Jedi_ when the Resistance abandoned the Raddus and we all saw Holdo standing tall - standing alone - as she watched the podships leave. In that moment, all my misgivings about her fell away and I saw her as a noble figure, a pillar, in the midst of their despair. > > This is a tribute to the one-time, single-film character who literally took my breath away.
strike a pose now, Admiral, as you have been taught to do: ripples of silk, lilac hair, fragile bones, gossamer wings. what an elegant thing you are! but, you know, fine china will not bear the weight left lone by our daughter-of-Alderaan-kings. don't you falter, Admiral, as they expect for you to do: the spark demands a steady wick and the captain's wheel a steady grip - but you're no captain. you're the figurehead, all poise and graceful arms and nobly tilted chin.
O Amilyn! Andromeda! it all comes down to this: no light to guide us through the swelling tide, no flag to raise upon the other side, no respite, nor shore. show us we've yet something to fight for, Andromeda! O Amilyn!
you must stand tall now, Admiral, for you alone remain, and someday will the galaxy spin legends from your name - so strike a pose, as the podships rise, that they might remember you: tower of dusk, moonlit eyes, spine of steel, so silver bright. you're all that's left now, so out, out, brief candle, in a blaze of light - _do not go gentle into that good night._ stare unflinching into the face of Death and rend apart the endless darkness
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