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Ben & Rey | A power like life itself

“He could even save the ones he cared about from dying..”

I broke my own heart making this haha. This song is so emotional and with them i just can’t handle it! Ben really did what his grandfather couldn’t, he saved the woman he loved AND he did it as a Jedi.

I tried to portray how similar Ben and Rey are in this, when he says that she’s lonely, afraid to leave, when she tells him that he’s haunted, that he’s afraid, they both feel those things equally and they understand each other in a way that no one else could. When he tells her “you can’t hide Rey, not from me” I think he means that she can’t hide who she really is or how she feels anymore than he can with her. They’re both so vulnerable around each other and they try to fight it most of the time except for at the very end of course when they’re finally on the same side..

I hate that the line “his compassion for you will be his undoing” is what happened with Ben as well, he loved her so much and it cost him everything at the end… I’m still clinging to all the fanfiction out there though to convince myself they actually lived happily ever after lol. I literally did nothing but read fics for like 3 days straight after I saw the movie again.

"While scavenging that abandoned spaceship in the desert of Jakku, Rey found a resistance pilot doll. She felt happiness through that doll. Rey felt that she was not alone anymore, cause she found a new friend."

the star wars universe has no official name but in fandom you’ll see it shortened to GFFA for “galaxy far, far away”

glass - transparisteel

metal used in construction - durasteel

very strong space-plastic (used in stormtrooper armor) - duraplast

tablet computer (analogous to a PADD in trek) - datapad

rather than paper, handwriting is usually done with a stylus on flimsiplast (flimsi/flimsy for short)

holos are 3-d videos or videomessages, recorded and played on a holoprojector (these are often seen in small formats, palm-sized - analogous to like. a GoPro.)

we don’t drive cars, we drive landspeeders or speeder bikes

we don’t shoot guns, we shoot blasters

if you didn’t bring a knife to a gun fight, you perhaps brought a vibroblade instead - an edged weapon that, you guessed it, vibrates. little ones could be called vibroshivs or vibroknives. we actually got to see polearm versions of these in The Mandalorian! it was very exciting.

robots in GFFA are, of course, droids. astromech droids (astromechs) are the like. iphones of the droid world - ubiquitous, multipurpose, most with a similar aesthetic. R2-D2 and BB-8 are both astromech droids. human-shaped droids like C-3P0 are protocol droids.

got a papercut? a nasty flesh wound? a missing chunk of your torso, perhaps? slap a bacta-patch on it or take a dip in a bacta tank for a soothing treatment with this all-purpose miracle healing goo. this is what diapered Luke is bobbing around in during the early part of Empire Strikes Back.

you’re supposed to say kriff/kriffing instead of “damn,” “shit,” or “fuck/fucking,” but this is for cowards. let Obi-Wan cuss.

midichlorians - ignore them.

before the Empire comes to power, baby jedi who can’t hack it as knights or are never chosen to be Padawan apprentices become members of the Service Corps, the branches of which are the Agricultural Corps (AgriCorps), Medical Corps (MedCorps), Educational Corps (EduCorps), Exploration Corps (ExplorCorps)

dates are expressed (typically) as [date] Before the Battle of Yavin (BBY) or [date] After the Battle of Yavin (ABY). for instance, the sequel trilogy begins in 34 ABY.

but the shitty-electrical-mods subreddit style unhoused wire just stapled right on to the outside, kid what are you doing??? Its such amazing prop design, it’s such a metaphor for his character. Turn a light being like a person or a semi-sentient kyber crystal dark, but it can’t handle the trauma of the process so it cracks in half. Keep it in a state of torment enabled by destructively venting its extra energy. Spray paint yourself black. Do some decent welding work and then lose conviction and halfass the rest or make it a deliberate hazard. Need a last minute electrical fix after you’ve already reassembled the blade? Just throw it on there. Use a hot glue gun if you run out of cable cleats.

It’s the same saber from his padawan days. Look at how neat it is. It looks like a nice, normal saber.

Now we can assume that, after the burning of the temple, he bled it so it would turn red, the way Dark Side practitioners do. But he was never committed to the Dark Side, so his inner conflict cracked the crystal during the process. That’s why it looks so volatile, so broken. As the SNL stormtrooper said, it’s “poorly made, like a little kid made it.” Lousy paint job, a hole that wasn’t even cut out neatly, a wire outside the casing, those makeshift vents (that is not a crossguard; a crossguard is meant to protect the user’s hand, not singe it or cut off their fingers if they touch the damn thing). In short, the saber needs fixing.

So he should have FIXED it, not thrown it into the sea. If he’d healed the cracked crystal (turning the blade white), the saber itself obviously wouldn’t be the same as the original but it wouldn’t be damaged anymore. It would have been a metaphor for his path to healing, to redemption. He’s not that young boy anymore, but he isn’t Kylo Ren either. He would have been Ben Solo reborn, healed and made new.

But instead we have him throw it away like a piece of trash, which is also a metaphor for how Ben Solo was treated in this movie.

(From SW databank)

So before I saw Solo: A Star Wars Story I thought the dice would play in to how Han won the Falcon in the winning game of Sabaac he plays against Lando.

Now that I’ve seen the movie, I know that they are really a symbol for Han, which become a symbol for Ben.

And let’s look at that symbol. Two individual objects, destined for same purpose, linked together forever by a chain. Together they are balanced.

He sad

But most importantly

He love his dad

They did it, guys.  The powerful raisin’s been defeated.  Just one thing left to do.

If at first you don’t succeed.  All Rey wanted was one soft boi.

They did it, guys.  The powerful raisin’s been defeated.  Just one thing left to do.

So..what if the world between worlds portal is right on Exogol maybe even where Ben fell off that cliff?

AND. Only the pure of heart can enter. What is more pure than sacrificing yourself for the one you love???

Evolving into Ben Solo’s defensive lightsaber stance.