Β Β Β Β Β @coronadelsolβ: β When we die, we turn into stories; and every time someone tells one of those stories, itβs like weβre still here for them. β
Β Β Β Β Β A scoff left him at the notion but Ben shrugged slightly.Β βA pretty way to put it. Too bad itβs all bullshit. You canβt really believeΒ that, can you? Texts are going to paint the Resistance and the First Order as being just as bad as the other. In a few decades, our names will be next to meaningless - boiled down to whatever collection of verb the writer is feeling up to that day.β
As bitter as he sounded, Ben didnβt say it unkindly. Bluntly, to the point, and a bitΒ rude, but he didnβt believe that he was wrong. He knewΒ how heβd be depicted in history texts and various spoken legends from then on - Kylo Ren, the power hungry Supreme Leader of the First Order and Former Apprentice to Leader Snoke, son of Leia Organa and Han Solo, and Murderer of The Hosnian System.Β
While the hunger for power surged upward, he was getting better at controlling it. That didnβt mean that he wasnβt certainΒ that he still deserved said power, but curbing that was hisΒ problem. Glancing up at Poe, he paused and waved a hand in a vague gesture.Β βDo you disagree? Word of mouth is often unreliable so forgive me if my faithΒ in those storytellers is faulty.βΒ
If they stuck to the facts of the situation, then he couldnβt say that itβd be much different. He stillΒ stood by while the Hosnian System was destroyed and heβd done little to rid the galaxy of the rumors that Rey had killed Snoke. Ben shrugged and grabbed one of the wrenches off the work room floor only to toss it in the nearest tool box.Β
βI know what you say and no, I donβt give a shit that Iβm the villain of allΒ of this. Itβs not wrong, is it? But I do care that itβs told the right way. But Iβll leave that to Rey.βΒ