I dunno what the current canon says, but the way I've always looked at it is that they both do, just to different extents It would make sense to me if the initial attunement to the Force is something anyone can potentially do, but that nobody can teach
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Replying to @FartCaptor @saintwalker98
all living beings can use the Force, and do use the Force, but some people seem to be born with more or less aptitude for being aware of and controlling it. It CAN be taught, but throughout the story as we see it the only teachers almost always take already gifted students
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Having an awareness of the Force (Force sensitivity) is helpful in using a lightsaber, and so when Sabine on Rebels had to wield the Darksaber for political reasons, Kanan and Ezra taught her basic Force sensitivity which she was not born with
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The Nightsisters also use the Force without innate Force sensitivity, just in a way that is largely different than Sith or Jedi
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then there's the Rogue One boys, no idea where they fall
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Chirrut is not Force sensitive (ie cannot "wield" the Force), but is knowledgeable of it and therefore able to let it guide him (his moment of awesome is not him controlling the Force to deflect fire but rather being in tune with the Force to avoid it).
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Replying to @EmilyUnbound @saintwalker98 and
I don't think Chirrut was considered "Force-sensitive" in that sense either His Moment of Awesome ISN'T using the Force in any way to "avoid" the gunshots He isn't avoiding them, he's just walking out there slowly and calmly like a big fat target, and everyone is just missing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
It's like Pulp Fiction, it's not a use of any kind of magic It's a miracle The Force is manipulating fate so that an incredibly unlikely event happens in order for him to fulfill his narrative function The *instant* that function is fulfilled, the blessing vanishes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
Chirrut doesn't, like, become exhausted and stop dodging at that moment A random stormtrooper just suddenly becomes able to do the obvious thing and shoot the slow moving guy right in front of him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
It's a powerful and yet infuriating moment, like you're supposed to scream with rage along with Baze It's the moment where Chirrut's faith is validated - "All is as the Force wills it" - and revealed to be a sick joke, that we're all just puppets the Force uses and discards
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It's the thing from Rosecrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, when they slowly start to realize they're not real They realize every coin they flip comes up heads, and begin to think that the laws of chance have changed and it is now impossible for coins to do anything else
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
Until the moment they literally bet their lives on a coin flip and then, on that flip and only that flip, it comes up tails Because they had no powers and there was no random chance, there was just a writer The thing with the coins was invented specifically to make that happen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
"Midichlorian count" from this POV is really just like, say, the God-detecting amulet in Supernatural It only ever worked in the first place because God wanted it to for the sake of his story When it didn't suit him to be detected, he just deactivated it
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