“ I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again… I’ll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we’ll be joined so tight…”
1. Ben did not destroy Luke’s temple. Palpatine did, and somehow he gaslighted Ben into thinking he was responsible.
2. Ben thought he killed Luke but it was in self-defense, but he still feels enormously guilty about it.
3. Ben did not kill ANY of Luke’s other students that night. He was instead relentlessly hunted by a small group of them across the galaxy, including one (Voe) who had a particularly large chip on her shoulder wrt to Ben and feeling inadequate in comparison to his Force-abilities.
4. Ben wanted to go home to Leia but felt he couldn’t because he didn’t think she would believe him.
5. Snoke was just casually in his head having full-on conversations with him when he was at least 11 or 12 years old, feeding him lies about his family and how they didn’t really give a shit about him.
6. Ben killed one of the Jedi students hunting him by accident.
7. He turns to the Knights of Ren because he literally feels like he doesn’t belong anywhere else.
8. He openly acknowledges that even Snoke only cares about his legacy and not himself as a person.
9. HE DOES NOT WANT TO KILL ANYONE. Even after he joins the KoR, he goes out of his way to avoid killing if possible… until it’s no longer possible.
10. He did not “fall to” or “choose” the dark side – he was gaslit and pushed into it. Treat someone like a monster long enough, they will start to believe it.
11. Ben doesn’t think he’s “special”. He just wants to be treated like a normal fucking person.
12. The first person that Ben killed on purpose was Ren, the leader/founder of the Knights of Ren, thereby facilitating his fall to the dark.
13. Leia felt his fall…
14. … AND SO DID LITTLE BABY REY
15. Ben finally killed Voe after he killed Ren.
16. Ben’s preferred mode of drawing his saber was from over his shoulder, like at the end of TROS.
17. He bled his kyber crystal while shirtless, and he squeezed it so hard that it cracked.
18. He never did anything wrong, ever, in his life, and they still let him die.
Welp, this movie truly broke me – I’ve gone and written a fanfic, y’all. Well, sorta. More like a lost alternate ending, written in screenplay format since, you know, it’s a movie, lol.
Anyway, I woke up with this in my head and needed to get it out. No time to work out any finer details and minutiae, so forgive any errors. It’s cheesy but I DON’T CARE. I just hope it makes someone feel better.
Begins after The Kiss:
no daenerys the last king in the north was robb stark firstborn of lord eddard stark the young wolf the only king i mean to bend my knee to thE KING IN THE NORTH
some 70’s dreamling for @landwriter
I would know him in death, at the end of the world.
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