forcevisions: (when you can't fall asleep)
actual shounen hero ([personal profile] forcevisions) wrote in [community profile] literaldumpsterfire 2018-06-01 07:54 pm (UTC)

instead all we have is fucked up surrealist dream bullshit, rip

[ In Rey's dreams, her parents have a ship of their own. A nice one. A corvette. It's not big, but it's a little like the Falcon, and she runs around their ankles helping them around it. They warn her that time is almost up. Over, and over, and over again.

And then they leave her.

The cycle repeats. Each time, their home is somewhere different. Each time, she is a little older, their abandonment a little clearer.

When she is old enough to know better, to recognize the slaver's chains on her wrists and her neck as they walk her down the plank to Unkar Plutt, she dreams that Ben saves her. That he cuts Plutt down and her parents have their money and apologize to her, and Ben takes her in his arms and lays her on the gangplank of their ship and —

She tosses and turns through the night, and when morning comes, she is the first awake, uncomfortable in her clothes and unsatisfied and disappointed by her reality. When he awakens, Chewie offers her a canteen, and she takes it, rubbing her eyes.
]

Time to go?

[ He nods and makes a warbling sound. ]

Yeah. Yeah, I'll be fine on my own. Go.

[ And Chewie does, stepping out into the hall to circle around and rouse Han so they can take off. ]

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