Welcome one. Welcome all. I have brought all of you here today to say that YOU WERE LIED AND DECEIVED BY THE FORCES OF HOLLYWOOD AND UNCHECKED CAPITALISM. 'How?' You ask. And yes. I shall answer. It is simple:
The ending of the Rise of Skywalker was wrong
Wait. Excuse me. WHAT THE FUCK?
You read correctly, dear friends. Someone fucked with the editing of Rise of Skywalker and it changed the entire ending of the movie. It changed the characterization of three key characters and it's clear this was against the creator's wishes. I'll be breaking this down into a few key sections. What were the changes, Why I believe these changes were made (and made last minute), and do I consider this ending more or less canon then the theatrical ending. So. JOIN ME ON THIS ADVENTURE FRIEND
The plot changes/editing change
It's fairly simple. They changed Leia's role in the plot, this changed the entire direction of the last few minutes of the movie. Let me break the timeline down
โ Deathstar fight on the ocean still happens, Ben is distracted by Leia reaching out to him. She either still enters her "disappointment son" coma here, or perhaps simply just reaches out to him.
โ From here, the plot continues as normal. Ben and Rey both get to the sith rave separately.
โ Rey Dies
โ Ben Revives her and dies.
โ Leia chooses THIS MOMENT to die and give her life to her son
โ Ben is revived. He and Rey kiss.
โ Move to conclusion
WHAT EVIDENCE DO I HAVE THESE CHANGES WERE MADE (and at the last moment)
Take in note, my evidence is circumstantial, but circumstantial evidence still counts as proof
โ Leia's final role in the movie is insanely unclear. She also takes 12 hours to actually die or something. Again. Confusing
โ Ben's final words, as of this moment, are "OW". Adam Driver said he was nervous about his final dialogue in the movie to the point he stressed about it on the flight over. And. Man. IDK about you but OW seems a little unstressful to say
โ There was no Force Ghost Ben, a decision that is baffling story wise. It would take any competent VFX team hardly any effort to throw a ghostly adam driver next to Leia and Luke. And this would be advantageous to add to the plot if Ben was going to die, give that final bit of closure to the Skywalker fam.
โ Rey's near LACK of emotion over his death. Go watch her realize she has to leave Ben behind in TLJ and tell me that the difference isn't noticeable. It's completely against her character.
โ The weird beats of Leia going into her disappointment son coma and the other strange beats of Ben's death. Especially the fact that you only see him disappear in like. one shot.
โ None of the cast thought he was going to die
โ Wow I wonder why Adam Driver is adamant about never wanting to do star wars at this point?
โ Wow, why does disney keep resetting the character poll of who is the most anticipated character of this movie????
โ The prophecy about Ben's death is completely unnecessary at this point. If it was brought up during TFA, it's understandable to put that thread there. Instead it's in the last movie when his death seems to be a foregone conclusion???
โ So Rey's fine for Luke and Leia even tho she's palpatines kid, but Luke and Leia don't seem all that bothered by Ben's death??????
โ This was supposed to be Leia's film and complete her arc. And while I understand that there was a lack of footage to use for her, it's odd that she ended up not playing much of a role beyond "Distract Ben so he gets stabbed ig"
โ Every single hole in characterization for Luke, Leia, and Rey, every strange beat that didn't really make sense in Ben and Rey's fight on the ocean and during their ??? Mutual deaths???? and the some how rushed and dragged on ending can be solved by a simple solution. Occam's razor, Ben was never meant to die permanently.
โ The fact that there was no final dialogue for Ben after his talk with his father suggests he had something significant to say after his resurrection
โ The fact that they didn't have a cut of Rey absolutely LOSING HER MIND over losing to, what amounts to, the other half of her soul suggests that she was never supposed to lose him permanently
โ The fact that there is no Ben Ghost means that they didn't have the time to slip that in before pushing it out to theaters
โ The way the final scenes with Rey are shot and edited are, again, weird, off balance. It seems like it ends WAY TOO QUICKLY and far too on the nose.
โ no but really guys. His final words are "OW"
โ As for WHO changed it, because of the fact that this is clearly an edit job done at the last minute? I'm putting my money on a CEO that is above Kathleen Kennedy and JJ Abrhrams. I think their hands are tied ATM. This is the ending that had been planned for, this is the ending they wanted, otherwise there would not be such big holes that felt weird and dishonest to the characters. And, like, Kylo Ren/Ben Solo was JJ's child, he wouldn't have done him dirty like this.\
THEATRICAL ENDING/TRUE ENDING
I'm sure opinions would be divided on which ending is canon depending on the person. The theatrical ending will be what's considered canon in the universe of star wars at large. For myself, I find it hard to deny the creators and filmmakers the right to present the story they wanted to tell. So, in that way, both endings are true for me. Though, I am biased-- both as someone who is an artist myself and someone who adores Kylo Ren's/Ben Solo's character-- I like the story the film team were trying to tell over the agenda that whoever pushed for these changes had. Personally, I believe it pushes Star Wars as a universe forward into new territory rather than keep it stagnant in the same old same old that it's always been. Plus. this maintains the integrity of Luke, Leia, and Rey's characters, Ben was never forgotten, far too gone, or unloved. Leia gave him one final gift, a second chance.
That said, I'm not pushing this ending on anyone. I won't be playing it by default. I would rather ask permission or have someone else bring it up.
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Second off that kinda just-- sits in the air around them and.. He can feel that she knew that was a mistake to say. Again, he knew he wouldn't make it sixteen days. He would have wasted away in that cave holding on to her body and wanting to die there with her. At the very least she could stand up and try to move forward. Even if it wasn't in the right way.
And before he's even entirely aware of what he's doing he's taken too large steps forward and pulls her into him. Just holding her as tightly as she'll allow because he broke his family and he broke Rey and he's just not sure how to start making things right. His mother's final act still unnerves him, confuses him. The fact that she had to hold on for sixteen days of what must have been agony for her soul... for him.
It's taking every inch of self control to not immediately fall to pieces with Rey. ]
I love you.
[ That's murmured quietly and just for her. But don't worry. No one else is gonna hear that shit because BB-8 and Chewie have both slowly backed out of the hut and shushed Lando and Jannah away because??? ARE??? THEY????? GONNA BREAK OUT LIGHTSABERS???? AND FIGHT??? NOW??? ]
someone's gotta have placed a bet on how long it would take them to say it
So what she's going to do is cling to him just as tightly and somehow gather up every single ounce of calm the Force will grant her, and just try to let everything. else. stop. For both of them, if she can. She's never been as good as keeping him out of her head, so for once she tries to use that to her advantage.]
I love you, too.
[It's muffled against his shirt (and dear sweet kriffing mercy he's gotta burn that shirt when he's done wearing it) and she's not even 100% sure she said it so much as let her entire being feel it. Because it's somehow everything that's been wrong and the only way to fix it. She doesn't have anything else.]
He has wanted to say it but was kinda afraid he was gonna break rey more if he did.
But-- this... it isn't good in the way that getting a holo message from a friend is good. But good in the way that you had a really shitty day and you decide to wander to the kitchen to try and find something to eat and then you remember you have ice cream in the freezer. It's that kind of good. It feels needed in a way. ]
I won't leave you alone. [ And he tries his hardest to let his emotions reflect that he knew that his decision would hurt her. He knew he'd broken an unspoken promise. It'd been the very last resort to leave the galaxy with a little more light left. ] I didn't want to leave you the first time. [ A hesitation before he continues. ] I'm sorry.
[ Chewie's probably being sent as recon outside to see what the fuck is going on are they dead? But don't worry no one is disturbing them. ]
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Rey has... literally waited most of her life to hear those words.
From a distance, she's able to look back on her parents and understand why they'd chosen the way they did -- it's a desperate set of choices that causes you to sell your child into slavery to preserve her life. But she's lived for years and years waiting for someone, anyone, to come back for her. To promise not to leave her again. To tell them they're sorry. And instead, people kept leaving and leaving and leaving and it's some sort of miracle she hasn't lost her mind sooner than this.
So it's probably fairly understandable when those words draw a choked-off sob out of her. (She's not going to fall apart entirely again. She's not. Just give her a second to snuffle into your filthy shirt for another second or two before she can find a way to reply.)]
I know. I'm sorry I'm... like this.
[Honestly, "I'm sorry I'm like this" would have been a good title for a mixtape from Kylo Ren to Rey about a year ago, but there's absolutely no irony in her statement at the moment. She just wants to reassure him that she's not always going to be this way. Give her a few nights in a row of decent sleep and don't die again on her and she'll probably be the Rey you remember.]
Where do we go from here?
[Chewie is probably telling everyone via overemphatic sign-language that everything's more or less fine, not that it helps anyone understand exactly what the entire fuck is going on in general.]
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We need to discuss this with Lando and Chewie.
[ As much as she may feel like it'll make it worse... they have to just rip off that band-aid. ]
And try and create a timeline to bring the others in the fold. [ It's better to be told the truth first as opposed to hearing rumors. ] We can figure out the rest after that.
[ Because those are two Very Big things and we gotta tackle those before making any elaborate plans. ]
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It's... not great, but better. But once she feels like she's even a little bit ready to do this, she'll check in with Ben and then tell Chewie to get the others. She knows there are things that they're going to have to hear from her, even though they're all that's left of Ben's family and she wants to give them space to deal with one another however they need to.
Once everyone's assembled (and she's still going to put herself in between Ben and Jannah as subtly as she can without making a big thing out of it) she'll start with the thing she needs to make clear before all the rest of it can fall into place.]
The first thing you need to understand, before we go any further, is that Ben stood with me against Palpatine on Exegol. He saved me. He sacrificed himself for me, and it was Leia's final gift that brought him back.
[She knows that Lando and Chewie will at least kinda understand, but this is something she needs to be made clear to the entire Resistance from the outset. Speaking of which.]
The second thing is that if anyone thinks they're going to seek retribution by killing him again, they're as good as killing me, too.
[She can't look at Ben as she says it because if she does she absolutely will break again, and right now she's calm and clear-eyed and determined, and she'll make an attempt to explain about the Force dyad as best she can and answer as many of the technical questions behind what actually happened here yesterday before turning the floor over to Ben, who deserves a chance to speak for himself.]
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Even if Jannah is looking a little sus about everything here.
Like. Really, Lando and Chewie aren't the ones they're trying to convince, it's BB-8 and Jannah who are the non-believers. And even BB-8 has aligned himself with Ben solely on the fact that HE HAS BEEN TASKED TO WATCH AFTER REY'S WELL BEING. AND APPARENTLY THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS LARGE SCARY MAN.
So everyone kinda turns their attention to him and he's just like. Han Solo shrugging because there's not much more he think is important to the entire thing.
Wait. CHEWIE HAS A QUESTION. His howl can be loosely translated to: HOW LONG HAS FAILURE SON BEEN BACK.
God it feels like centuries already. ]
Less then a day--
[ BB-8 cuts in to give the precise amount of time down to the seconds because BB-8 was the one who swiveled around when he sensed some weird bullshit wind trying to bring souls back from the dead.... and then when he spun around THERE WAS KYLO REN.
Chewie seems pleased with that answer. The wookie was gonna be upset if he had been out of the loop like. WOW. Good job not causing everyone trauma there Ben. At the very least now he is like. Tangentially in trouble but not entirely directly.
Jannah seems a bit emboldened by Chewie's question and sort of just blurts out:
'You should be turning yourself over.'
Oh cool. He's just gonna have to jump on that grenade of a question before Rey decides to launch a nuke. ]
I'm fairly certain Rey would murder me if I attempted that and then murder anyone who would try to imprison me. [ ...I think that was supposed to be funny. Maybe. Unsure. ] And Rey is the only person qualified to hold me captive without using extreme methods.
[ Not entirely an exaggeration. Any method to hold Force Users which were available to the average being were akin to torture devices.
A beat of silence hangs over them before Lando decides to take the reigns on this because-- yeah. He and Chewie both were in silent agreement about ripping someone's arms off before they let Leia's kid get locked up for the rest of his life. Moral or not, they had a duty to the family.
'Where do you want to go from here?'
THEY HADN'T GOT THAT FAR LANDO. JEEZ. ]
We haven't decided yet. [ IT'S BEEN LESS THAN A DAY GUYS. PLEASE THEY NEED A NAP.
and there's a beat of silence right before Ben Solo decides he wants to be cheeky ] We could always try to seek refuge on Naboo.
[ ..................
Does Rey actually realize the "Joke" Ben's making here? Jannah doesn't. Lando is just really wishing Han or Leia were here so they could all start ragging on this asshole like Right Yeah MAYBE YOU ARE TECHNICALLY???? THE GRAND SON OF A QUEEN BUT YOU CANT JUST WALTZ INTO THE GODDAMN PALACE FOR DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY.
No actually. Does Rey even realize???????????? ]
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Well, that's not true. Rey has had a lot of time alone with those Jedi texts. A lot. Of time. And there's a decent amount of history in there. A lot of precedents to consider when attempting to reform a New Jedi Order.
So Rey's gonna put a pin in the Naboo question for a minute while she backs up Ben's previous statement, which she'd nearly rebutted with it's not murder if I think they deserve it, which, thank goodness she realizes before that thought even fully coalesces that it's the fucking Dark Side talking. No wonder this woman's soulmate was Kylo Ren. Sheesh.]
"No one's turning anybody over to the Resistance or anyone else. And if you press me on this, allow me to remind you all that the Jedi Order has authority to recruit whatever Force users it sees fit, especially in times when the existence of the Order itself is threatened. Neither the Republic nor the Resistance has any authority over the Jedi Council, which at the moment consists of... me."
[Rey stares Jannah down with a cool equanimity. She's not going to rage at anybody, but she's not entertaining any arguments on the matter at this time. She won't force Ben into a role he doesn't want, but she's not letting him be locked up.
That said, her rational brain has had time to catch up with her about-to-fuck-shit-up brain, and she turns to blink at Ben.]
"Naboo? Why Naboo?"
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And then she asks about Naboo and-- there's a lot of nervous chuckling...
'I'm not sure Naboo is an option we can take,' And here is Lando trying to side step this entire subject and Ben is OVER IT ALREADY. ]
My grandmother was Queen Amidala of Naboo. [ Excuse Jannah over here lookin' Real confused about this. ] She went on to be a senator for the Republic.
[ Didn't work out great for most anyone tbh.
Chewie chimes in here to point out HEY LEIA WAS A PRINCESS, which isn't helpful because Alderaan is kinda Blown up. By her father.... okay we don't talk about that in this family. But he's going to bring up a different point.
Also Chewbacca is not giving that any time to land. Rey is literally gonna have to interrupt their entire conversation because the fact that Ben is kinda?? Sorta??? Royalty is such old news and very confusing at best. ]
I'm not sure if Chandrila's entirely secure.
[ Plus... presumably??? People recognize him there. LOOK HE WAS JUST MAKING JOKES NOT SERIOUS SUGGESTIONS. ]
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But.
BUT.
Somehow her brain is sort of catching up to what this means and she kind of has no idea how to take the fact that her former Supreme Leader and current zombie boyfriend is actually still kind of a literal Disney prince.]
Wait.
[She holds up a hand for everyone to just stop and fucking back this train up so the sleep-deprived manic Jedi can hop on. She turns to look at Ben, silently reassessing him in some nebulous way.]
Do either the Naboo people or the remaining Alderaanians claim you as one of their royal line? Would they acknowledge the claim if you made it, even as a temporary measure?
[There is another possibility forming somewhere in the back of her mind, but it is absolutely not one that she's going to voice or entertain on any level. Her grandfather's legacy is not something she's willing to exploit. Not even for this. She wouldn't even know where to begin if she wanted to.]
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The last time I spoke with my mother about this-- [ Which was a really long time ago. Like, he'd been a kid and kinda confused about it. ] -- She said it was my decision if I wanted to take a title or not.
[ There is your answer to the question of "Did Ben Solo ever want to be a Prince tho?" ]
It seemed a bit excessive at the time.
[ This means he has no fucking clue, Rey. He's been a fascist dictator where he claimed the title by murdering his master who wanted to murder him. He has no idea how royalty and bloodlines work.
Also no Rey. No Don't. Because now his offhand joke is becoming a plan??? AND IT LOOKS LIKE MAYBE EVEN LANDO IS CONSIDERING IT. ]
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We just need options. Some room to think.
[Then, to Ben,]
You don't have to decide now. I'm just not taking you before a Resistance that wants you dead without a plan of some sort.
[Unless he wants her to get even less sleep because she's guarding him from constant assassination attempts.
Lando, for his part, is muttering something about calling in some important favors just for the information they'd need to determine if Ben's claim to a title would be accepted, and if a title would even be a deterrent to those who wanted a harsh justice served.]
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There's still just. A lot. There's a lot more that they need to discuss and as much as he'd love to sit here in the rapidly dimming light and talk about the diplomatic implications of him using a title to keep his head?? There's some more important shit that needs to be addressed. ]
We need to sleep. [ Rey more than him, in all honesty. ] And eat something more than nearly expired rations.
[ He's still unsure on whether he's hungry or tired but like. He's fairly sure his body is going to decide for them pretty soon.
And, yeah. Everyone can agree on that, there's a quiet murmur of agreement before Lando decides to try and take charge of this situation.
'There's room on the Falcon if you don't want to stay here,' He has not forgotten Rey's angry storming around and "WE GOTTA LEAAAAAAAAAAAAVE". 'I've got a few places in the outer rim we can orbit around quietly until we decide the next steps.'
Because the next steps are likely deciding between bringing Poe, Finn and Rose into the fold before or after they try and run off to Naboo. ]
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It would be good if Ben changed clothes, too. Death shirt is kinda hot and all that but again: death. shirt. She needs to stop seeing him die over and over again in her head every time she lets her mind land there.
Rey manages to communicate her need for cleanliness in some half-coherent fashion before leaving everyone else to sort out their own lives. Let someone who's had more than a few hours' sleep in a row figure out the food question.
Also, she's not gonna tell you what to do, Ben. She doesn't actually care where they sleep as long as it's you and her in one room where they can shut the door on everyone else.
She's just gonna. Disappear into the fresher for a while. I have no idea if their showers produce actual water but once again this is my imagination so I'm gonna go with fuck it, yes, because this is the quality content you're here for. Wet Rey. Trying her best to let the hot water overtake all her other senses for a little while.]
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Okay no he's gonna walk in behind her because Jannah's still looking at him weird and BB-8 is taking up the caboose. They are a small family of ducklings right now. Chewie's gone off to grab her stuff and Lando and Jannah aren't too far behind. Looks like he's working out the rooming situation between all of them. Captain's quarters, crew's quarters, main hold. Not a lot of options for everyone but for the safety of their current VIP fascist dicktator guest? He and Rey get Captain's quarters. Lockable door, Jannah's not gonna know the code. Sorry girl, you're cute and all but this is something he really owes to Leia and Han.
Ben's guided there and Lando explains that maybe some of his clothes will fit him but??? Ben you're so large?????????????????????? They're gonna have to make a stop for clothes. And probably more food. Chewie shushes both of them off as he decides he's gotta make sure to change these sheets because he doesn't trust Lando to not taint them and Ben's left in the main hold with a towel and a new shirt in his arms and???
'I'll go see if I can find you some food,' Lando just goes off to figure out that situation and??
Okay fine?
He walks up to the 'fresher door and because he's not a fucking harem protagonist he's actually gonna hear the water running and... Just decides to wait outside. He doesn't think Rey would mind, but he's not sure either one of them is ready to see the other Wet and Naked at this point in time with everyone scrambling around the ship.
(Oh and the sheets will be CLEAN when they get back to the room and there's gonna be some actually good food. Like even some fruit which Lando may or may not have killed a man for.) ]
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Her hair is also down out of the messy buns and she's working out some of the more stubborn snarls with a hairbrush she's managed to find as she steps back into the room. She spares Ben about half a second's glance before her eyes land on the fruit. There is fruit. Do you know how rarely in her life Rey got to have fruit???
Sorry, Ben, but you're currently second place to a weird purple pear-shaped thing, which Rey is going to eat like it's the absolute last piece of food in existence. It's probably either really gross or really sexy depending upon what you're into, but Rey is incredibly unconcerned with anything else for a few minutes. She's probably got purple pear juice all over her mouth and is chewing really unglamourously by the time she remembers Ben even still exists on the same plane of reality.]
So that... went okay, I think?
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We didn't kill anyone.
[ A low standard to set but honestly... probably a good baseline.
Also. He's not minding her need for fruit. Please eat more Rey. Like he's not gonna be taking too analytical an eye to her right now. But he's fairly positive that you have probably lost some weight and he's gonna feel bad about that okaY?????
He's about to duck into the fresher and probably use every last drop of hot water on this ship (like. it's gonna recycle but its gonna take a while to re-heat okay) but then thinks better of it and stops to ask ]
You need me for anything?
[ He just wants to doubly triply make sure because she has had a Hard couple of weeks. ]
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Rey will not need much encouragement to eat, though she's been neglecting food for a bit and yeah, she's probably a little more angular than she had been. But the shower and the change of scenery have helped, as has Ben's continued existence. And they've got some options. Breathing room.
Rey shakes her head and offers him a little smile.]
I'm fine. I'll be here.
[She figures he needs the shower to feel something approaching human again, too. So she's content to eat some more of the real, actual food and then settle herself directly in the center of the bed where she'll resume trying to brush the knots out of her hair and wait for Ben to return.]
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Lando will come in over the intercom to the quarter and inform Rey that they'll be departing soon. And that the door to their room is effectively locked to only people who know the code.
'You need anything, call me,' And with that Lando begins piloting duties with Chewie.
Ben will be a bit and once he gets out of the fresher it will be billowing steam and--
nah he's got on the Resurrectionย pants. And not the death shirt.... Nope. It's a goddamn tank top.
I apologize Rey. But it's all Lando had that would fit him and you've got his Resurrectionย Shirt hidden somewhere with your things.
So. Wet hair, pink skin, just a lot of arms and neck showing. He's got a towel about his neck that he's using to sponge off some of the moisture and sliding into the bunk next to her. Which. Yeah this is the captain's quarters but there isn't That much room on the bunk. So they're kinda pressed close, but he doesn't really care too much. ]
Hey.
[ What an eloquent and thoughtful start to a conversation. ]
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She'll slide over a bit to give him room to sit but she's really not all that concerned with being any further from him than strictly necessary. On the one hand, this is all very surreal and very new, but on the other, she's 97% certain that Ben's nearness is the only reason she's this calm.]
Hi.
[How is it that Rey can expend way too many words on literally every other aspect of what's gone down recently, but saying two in a row to Ben is near impossible? Is this ever going to get easier? Are they just going to have to make out, bang, and fight without ever saying anything?
Questions for the ages, honestly. But right now she's got herself together enough that she thinks she really ought to check in with Ben.]
How are you, really? That was all... a lot.
[There's a gentle inquiry that she'll send along their bond; she's not going to push him for anything he doesn't want to reveal. She just wants him to know she's not going to fall apart anymore so it's okay if he needs to.]
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And while the food should probably be his concern (he has barely eaten a thing and is honestly probably actually hungry but all this anxiety has just made his entire appetite fuck off)โ his concern is actually all over Reyโs hair. Heโll reach across and over Reyโs form to nab up that hair brush and turn her until her back is to him and. Yup. Heโs undoing what ever the fuck sheโd done and is going to start gently working at the knots and tangles. ]
I donโt know. [ it isnโt a great answer. But itโs honest. ] Iโll let you know when I do.
[ Again. This is very surreal. It doesnโt feel like he was dead for two weeks. It feels like he died and then didnโt.
And this isnโt even addressing the fact that he threw away his supreme leader mantle or the whole first order so his entire routine and life has been turned on itโs head. He had never thought coming home was an option. Heโd been ready to die because it was clear it never was. And thenโ heโs here. ]
I saw my father. [ heโll say that much ] After you healed me.
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Well, this is surreal. Whatever Rey had expected, she really did not expect Ben Solo to start brushing her hair. Like. This should honestly be the last of his concerns. It's barely one of her concerns.
But it's really, really nice. She'll lean back into him a little, not so much that she interferes with the brushing, however. It's soothing, and she could honestly fall asleep again if he keeps doing that.
But then he's talking about his father, and she turns her head just a little to glance back at him when he does. Just to acknowledge that she knows what that admission costs.]
I'm glad.
[A pause, and then, softer,]
Your parents loved you very much, Ben. You have to know that.
[Does he? Surely he must by now. There's no hint of judgment in it; she just wants him to know that he was and is loved, whatever his crimes had been.]
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I mean...
He'd also take making out as well, but HE JUST WANTS TO GET YOUR HAIR UNDER ORDER FIRST.
But in response to her statement he gives a soft noise that affirms that he at least heard her, but doesn't really provide an answer either way. On one hand, his mother gave him her life and his father had said he loved him, begged for him to come home. On the other-- well. He knows he's far from being an innocent victim of circumstance. He made many choices which should lead him straight to an execution.
Excuse him as he parts her hair to get to another section, he's being really meticulous about this. She'll probably feel how his methodicalness helps even out his emotions into background noise.
Also he's doing that thing again. That obnoxious Kylo Ren thing of not directly answering her and just asking a different question. ] Why are you nervous around me?
[ Like. He would love to think it's just the tank top, but he felt her mind stutter before he got into the 'fresher so he's just making the leap of "well it's more than my tits" ]
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She would have been a small child the last time anyone else touched her hair. She hadn't realized it was something she would find so calming and honestly, so necessary right now. They both needed that contact; little ways to get more familiar with one another. Which was an odd thing to think about someone who was somehow your mystical other half, but. Nothing about the two of them had been ordinary.
She almost laughs in surprise and just... sheer confusion at the nature of his question. It doesn't exactly offend her, but she has to bite down her first defensive instinct to protest that she's not nervous.
But. I mean. Dude.
When you first met her you kidnapped her, and you've been kind of consistently intense ever since. She loves you, but that's a whole confusing thing in its own right. And you just keep jumping around all over the place and skipping the steps that normal people take before getting to the point where you're brushing her goddamn hair and just.
Your question is too difficult and also a little unfair, Ben.]
I told you it's hard to know how to be around you. We've barely had anything that counts as an actual conversation.
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I haven't had a lot of conversation in the last seven years. [ Getting lectured, strategizing, getting triggered by the light and talking to an old warped mask that had been worn by his grandfather? Yeah, there wasn't a lot of "hello, how are you? How was your weekend?" ] I'm rusty.
[ Which is an understatement.
But to be fair he was actually the first one to try and have a normal conversation when this whole force bond dyad shit started acting up. And she just immediately tried to shoot him and screamed at him.
Which. Yes her reaction was more normal. And YES He did skip a few steps. But REY IT WAs IMPORTANT AND SUPER INTERESTING, MORE INTERESTING THEN JUST MURDERING ONE ANOTHER.
But maybe he should throw her a bone??? He's not sure. How do people start conversations outside of sith cults????? ]
What would you like to discuss?
[ ???? Is that good???
Also, excuse him as he pulls her hair up into his hands and brushes at the underside in a maneuver that is completely uncalled for and unfair. ]
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BENJAMIN CHEWBACCA SOLO I STG
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off-topic but not rly: I'm listening to Frozen 2 and specific songs are a big mood here.
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jesus god they're never gonna fuck but i love it bc slow burn is my jaaaaaam
BEN JUST WANTS TO GET SOME UNINTERRUPTED SLEEP FIRST OKAY
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in which Rey is a vicious tease.
in which ben solo has no understand of how normal humans act
Rey: *just quietly implodes*
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writes an entire speech
better than any of Hux's speeches tbh
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makes everything worse or better idfk
Bruh its both
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coping skills: n o p e.
coping skills: laughs in star wars
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this sure didn't get any better!!!!
ITS ALL FINE. DONT WORRY. NOTHING TO SEE HERE AS REYS LIFE CASUALLY LIGHTS ON FIRE.
does he kiss his mother with that mou -- whoops nvm
excuse me wtf I never said I was gonna bring out the porgs.
look it's either dick or porgs i don't make the rules
okay porgs were first on his ideas list, then booze, then finding something for her to fix
all A++ ideas tbh, good thinking Ben
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lord I spent 24 hours dealing with sick children pls send help enjoy Disney!
What if I just send more children.
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writes this high on Nyquil thanks kids for the plague
Rings bell and screams BRING OUT UR DEEEEEEEEEEAD
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isn't the desire to fuck han solo just part of the galaxy's collective consciousness?
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current soundtrack: desire by meg myers. you're welcome.
LMFAO I'm tagging u at an airport gate sO UR WELCOME TOO
ofc now I've just got Lin Manuel Miranda singing you're welcome in my brain gj self
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these icons ruin everything lmfao
you misspelled "enhance the entire experience exponentially"
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remember the good old days when it was just Rey on the verge of a panic attack?
honestly we're all impressed he's kept it together this long
They are a relay race of keeping it together. It's a balance.
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I literally fell asleep halfway through writing this last night lmao
LMFAO. It was your intentions that counted most
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i didn't write this at the dentist, go me
I DIDNT WRITE THIS AT WORK GO US
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hey fam. wanna come rip out my uterus these cramps are killing my vibe
my kids gave me their sore throat. shares advil and general lack of vibe.
Work was being a dick so here I am back
my household had the plague so we all lose
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