#abuses

Snoke is a manipulator who constantly pits Kylo & Hux against each other. When one is rewarded, the other is humiliated, whether verbally or physically. (Use force on Hux in front of the officers to humiliate him / Throw lightning on Kylo)

Snoke uses Kylo Ben as an object, an object that he will get rid of when he wants. Han says in Star Wars 7 : "Snoke is using you for your power. When he gets what he wants, he'll crush you." Also, Snoke says in Star Wars 8 : "I stirred up Ren's inner conflict. I knew he wasn't strong enough to hide it from you. And that you weren't wise enough not to take the bait." Here, Snoke openly admits that he used Kylo's weakness as bait for Rey.

Sometimes Snoke compliments Kylo Ren, sometimes he belittles him. Thus, nothing Kylo does seems to fit in Snoke's eyes. Examples : "The mighty Kylo Ren. When I found you, I saw what every master dreams of seeing. Raw, untamed power. And beyond that, something really special. The potential of your lineage. A new Vader." He continues with ; "Now I'm afraid... I was wrong." He will add a few lines later, "You are only a child in a mask." In the final showdown, when Kylo brings Rey to Snoke, the latter will say, "Well done, my worthy and faithful apprentice. My faith in you is restored." And then say to Rey, "Did you see anything ? A flaw in my apprentice? Is that why you came ? Young fool. […] I stirred up Ren's inner conflict. I knew he wasn't strong enough to hide it from you. And that you weren't wise enough not to take the bait." Here, he clearly mocks and belittles Kylo Ben for having feelings that stir up conflict within him, only to later say : "My worthy apprentice, son of darkness, heir apparent to Lord Vader."

Signs of regular physical abuse are suggested. Especially through the scene where Snoke sends Kylo flying with a discharge of lightning, and we see him recover and get up very quickly almost without any moan of pain. Compared to Luke in the confrontation scene of "Return of the Jedi", who suffers the same thing from Palpatine, and where he can be seen struggling to get up and screaming in pain, it makes sense to infer that Kylo had to undergo this treatment several times to cash it as well. There's also the scene in the throne room with Rey, when Snoke flies the lightsaber, we can see Kylo, ​​eyes downcast, uselessly dodging the saber with two head movements in reflex mode, as if had already been beaten in this way. The impression is reinforced when we see Rey taking a blow to the head via the saber.

Snoke began manipulating Kylo Ben as a child. Indeed, in the 7th film, we learn that Kylo went to train with his uncle Luke. In the 8th film, Luke explains that he created a Jedi temple, where he brought in addition to Kylo a dozen students. Knowing that the only examples of Jedi training within temples that we have of the whole saga takes place during the prequel, where we see that the disciples are trained from childhood; there is therefore no reason why Kylo, ​​being born with the force, was not also taken care of during his childhood by his uncle who himself happened to be the last official Jedi. Knowing that in addition, Leïa sent her son in training for fear that he would have "too much Vader in him" probably due to his power (raw, as Snoke says) in the force, and that she reveals then that "It came from Snoke. He dragged our son to the dark side.", we can also deduce that Snoke began his manipulation on Kylo before he began his training at the Jedi temple with Luke. So suggesting that this manipulation has been going on for years and started at some undefined point in his childhood. A mental manipulation, (because there is no suggestion that Snoke and Kylo met in the flesh during his training) Snoke using force to infiltrate Kylo Ren's mind,"I see his thoughts. I see his slightest intentions." he will say to Rey in Star Wars 8.

It's also important to note that although Kylo Ben's character is clearly an adult in the films, he is never characterized or referred to as such. He is clearly played as a teenager (confirmed by the actor) by his hypersensitivity, impulsiveness and temper tantrums. As referred to as a child by the other characters who repeatedly use the terms "boy", "young Solo", "kid", "child in a mask", etc.

We are therefore on a character who has not yet passed spiritually into adulthood.

Snoke is dressed as Hugh Hefner. An old man, famous for the sexual exploitation of women and numerous sexual allegations made against him.

The throne room is called "Snoke's boudoir." The main image that we retain of a boudoir today is that of a gallant, even erotic space. A sexual space then.

And again, here I am only talking about films.

Aurora is meant to be a very complex character or at least that’s how I’m trying to write her. her whole life has been one viscous cycle of violence, the abuses she has suffered at the hands of the government, her grandfather and even Erwin with his subtle manipulations have all but desensitised her to the part of herself that is crying out to be liberated and for her to be seen as others equal, even when Levi comes into the picture, his involvement is following that trend of an somewhat abusive power dynamic and it’s taken til she lost her twin brother who, albeit badly, did keep what I’ve described as Aurora’s darkness in check before that part of herself that has been screaming on the inside finally broke free.

Her whole life she has needed a strong male figure in her life, the dominance her grandfather asserted in her youth created this almost dependence upon needing that dominate figure, it’s why at first she allowed Levi to do what he did in the stables, why she followed Miche’s orders without question or even followed Rian a little blindly when she was younger, however as she begins to unlock her power through the dreamscape and in combat, she is unlocking the primal part of herself that refuses to be bent to another’s will, the part that is a Sparhawke first and a woman second, the part that is the warrior she needs to be, this is why was see Aurora beginning to push back against her Brother in dissension and in particular Erwin through out book 2, following this pattern she is likely to begin to assert herself more against Levi as well and the men hunting her.

I had tagged from the start in all forums that this story is mature for a number of reasons and Aurora and Levi’s relationship is one not just for the sex but for the constantly shifting power dynamic between them. Levi is a man very much in control of himself, his life is on his terms because he has a shitty start in life, it’s why in my canon his OCD is there, it’s all part of his need to control and dominate every aspect of his life because he knows what it is like to be at the mercy of others, that’s why he pushed Aurora away after their first sexual encounter, it took him til that moment to realise the control she had over him without ever exerting herself and it scared the shit out of him, not saying what he did was right, but imagine you grew up as he did, seen what he had seen, loved as he has loved, would you be so willing to hand over your heart to another for safe keeping?

So he runs for the proverbial hills and practically slaps Aurora across the face in the process but it’s too late, she unwittingly has her hooks in him and he develops what is in no small terms an obsession. While Aurora is struggling to adapt to this completely new sexual awakening/ rejection she begins to take back some of her control of the situation but Levi doesn’t let that happen willingly, it’s 2 years of this unhealthy dynamic where they are at loggerheads until Aurora is in a vulnerable position after the battle of Trost, she’s tired, scared and whether she admits it or not, struggling with throw backs to the horror of Shiganshina. This is where Levi kisses her, he’s he did it because he is in love with her but his timing is terrible because as I said, she is vulnerable and had she been in her right mind, she Likely would have pushed him away because of what happened between them., then to top it off she’s forced upon a pedestal by the people she saved and is exposed to the very thing her grandfather wanted to keep her hidden from.

Then off course they have the conversation on the rooftop, they finally start communicating and that’s when they realise that they are both fucked up and are both struggling with how their feelings fit into each other’s lives, of course I’m not condoning their unhealthy relationship but their both idiots who won’t admit their are in love that live in a horrifying universe, show me one person who fights like they do against man eating monsters and have seen what they have seen that would pass a psych evaluation without any red flags.

This is where their relationship begins to get blurry, despite their physical and emotional intimacy rising rapidly, some would argue too rapidly, Levi constantly lies to her despite promising to never do so, he thinks that omission isn’t lying and he rationalises this as his way of protecting her (maybe because physically he can’t because she is her own army) but it’s lying, he didn’t tell her Erwin’s plan for Eren in the trial, he didn’t tell her about the plan for the forest, Erwin’s designs for her in the scouts, about Jannick til he absolutely has too, so far Aurora has justified Levi’s reasoning for keeping her in the dark and each time she falls back into this mentality of they know better than me, but that is going to change, especially with her current mentality because she is done with everyone’s shit and is finally hitting back, and she packs a hell of punch.

On return from the battle for Eren, Levi experiences the prospect of Aurora’s mortality for real, of course he has a scare in the forest but deep down he knew she would survive but this time, he saw her dying, felt her struggling to hold on and it terrified him, unbeknown to him though it has opened his mind up to all the things he would have lost had she died, it why he for reasons beyond him, pictured Aurora pregnant with his child while carrying another of his children, something that he would never have dared think about before.

On top of that, during her fever she has an almost spiritual like awakening where she unlocks a part of herself that she has yet to fully realise, she saw the pathways in the waking world, she saw her own light and even if she was burning with fever she wasn’t delirious as Levi said, what she saw was real and why that is will be explained in coming chapters and also have a great emotional impact on their relationship, whether good or bad you will have to keep reading to find out.