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Texts From Last Night

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TEXTS FROM LAST NIGHT GENERATOR

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[forcedbonding]

After the Battle of Yavin, where the Rebels destroyed the first Death Star. So close to the end of the Empire-ish?

And he wasn't old and cranky? He was the hero and legend everyone said he was?

I'm definitely in the latter category, though the First Order is doing a brilliant job of trying to replace them. But there's the Resistance, they'll stop them if what I'm trying doesn't work.

[and guess whose mind comes to a screeching, crashing halt at that information? rey.exe has temporarily stopped working]

Nephews? As in, more than one? And a niece? And I don't even want to think of Luke having his own wife and child, it's like thinking about an angry uncle fooling about.

[ezra_of_lothal]

I *was* based off Yavin for a while.

What's a Death Star?

[He'll...get back to the rest. If there's a whole new calendar system based on this one event, it must be pretty important.]

[forcedbonding]

Then I guess you have something to look forward to?

It's a traveling space station with the ability to destroy entire worlds with a single shot.

[yes, because she really really really wants to know more about the Organa-Solo extended family. where does Kylo fit into there?]

[ezra_of_lothal]

Please tell me you're joking.

[How is that something to look FORWARD to? Not that he think he'll ever be around for any of this.]

[forcedbonding]

Nope.

There's good news and there's bad news.

The good news is that Luke manages to blow it up.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Before it took at Yavin or after?

Is that the bad news?

[forcedbonding]

Yavin's fine.

That's why the new calendar counts after that particular battle.

It was a huge loss for the Empire, so that's a good thing?

[ezra_of_lothal]

Yes, I'm sure it was a massive loss of resources, showed everyone the Empire's true colors in a way that couldn't be ignored, and a huge crack in the veneer of invincibility when it was destroyed. Yay.

What's the BAD NEWS, Rey.

[forcedbonding]

[well, kriff. kriff kriff kriff. it's not like she can say 'well, it did,' because that sounds completely childish. best she can hope for was]

It was a huge victory for the rebellion, yes.

The Empire already used it on a planet before it was destroyed.

I don't want to say which one. Just in case.

[ezra_of_lothal]

[He thinks about it for a long moment. The future is always in motion. There are also, potentially, infinite timelines. And yet there seems to be timelines that have certain events in common. So many Earths, with the same nations. As if infinite doesn't mean that some things are more likely than not.

He believes all these things are true.

He's talked about Lothal a lot, a not one person's he's met from a relative future has reacted strongly to it.

Ok.

Not Lothal then. Lothal might make sense as a target if it remains free, but really, it's a tiny world far into the Outer Rim. There are much better targets out there.

Ok.]

I'm not sure what you're worried about, but ok.

There are clearly multiple versions of the future out there, even for 'our' galaxy, anyway.

[forcedbonding]

[mercy, mercy on the poor little Jedi girl who believed in the power of love friendship in her version of reality]>

Yeah, I know, but the whole thing is very sad.

Now, if it's okay?

Can we get back to Luke having multiple nieces and nephews?

[because the very idea makes her brain hurt in a bad way]

[ezra_of_lothal]

In the place I was for about a year and a half, I spent significant time with Anakin and Jaina Solo. I know Jaina has a twin named Jacen.

Their baby cousin was Ben Skywalker.

But there was *also* this guy who turned up around calling himself Kylo Ren. Darksider, although he seemed to mostly keep to himself. Really resented being born into that family, for reasons he wasn't willing to talk to me about. Also said some weird stuff about not being able to choose your family.

But Jaina and Anakin didn't recognize him at all.

[forcedbonding]

[guess who goes from 'nope nope nope, do not want' to an odd and completely ridiculous sense of relief in 1.5 seconds? after all, wouldn't it be better for everyone if Kylo Ren never existed? better for the entire galaxy, better for his family, better for Finn, better for her?]

I've never met Anakin and Jaina Solo. Unless Leia hid them away somewhere?

[ezra_of_lothal]

I don't see how. Anakin's a Jedi Knight and Jaina was in training.

Or rather, Anakin's the younger one. I'm pretty sure, back home for him, Jaina and Jacen were Knighted already.

But Jaina came from earlier, so she was still in training.

No, Kylo just came from a different way things could have gone, as far as I can tell.

[forcedbonding]

That sounds confusing for everyone, especially for Anakin and Jaina.

How different?

[ezra_of_lothal]

Kylo was never exactly willing to talk to me openly, so hard to say.

I know for Jaina and Anakin the Jedi Order was small, but they seemed confident in their paths, especially given they were both teenagers. That the idea that someone was sort of their brother would want to turn his back on both their birth family, and the Jedi, was bewildering and painful to them.

But there's only so closely I interrogated them, either.

[forcedbonding]

[which confuses Rey. why had Kylo Ren been so willing to talk to her?]

There is no Jedi Order where I'm from, though I think I've mentioned that. All there is is me and I'm barely trained. All I know is that the Force is strong and it's brewing in me and I'm still not sure how to control it.

I can't imagine having an even sort-of sibling and not wanting anything to do with them.

Of course. It's rude to ask too many personal questions.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Anakin was one of my closest friends in Trench. I don't think he'd have outright refused to answer much.

But sometimes it's just easier to focus on the present and not things as they were back 'home'.

[forcedbonding]

Refused to answer much about his family?

I'm trying to, but it's hard. I know there's another me back home and I know she's trying hard, but I still wish there was a way to know for sure what was happening.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Let me rephrase that. Anakin is part of my family. We agreed on that, and worried over the rest of our family, who was there in Trench, together. And of course even family is entitled to privacy.

I told Kylo I would be pleased to call him family as well - it seems arbitrary to me to exclude him - but I left it in his hands. He didn't want it. I can't really do more than hold out my hand.

I know it's hard. But to remained focused on what you truly cannot change gains you nothing.

[forcedbonding]

Okay. That makes more sense.

[guess who reads that part about holding out hands and twitches violently]

All you can do is try. No one can force someone to do something they don't want to do.

I know what I believe my potential is, but it needs help from someone else and he's not here.

[ezra_of_lothal]

No, you can't. Not in any meaningful way.

Must it be that person, specifically?

We may not have a Jedi Master here, but the most common way a Knight become a Master was by teaching their own student until they were ready for Knighthood. There's two here, and Padawan Kenobi was on the cusp of his Knighting.

I understand if the answer is, yes. Anakin Solo offered to help me finish my training - and he helped - but I wanted very much for the one of the survivors of the Purge who had been first teachers, to be the ones to Knight me.

[forcedbonding]

Yes, unfortunately.

[because she's going to turn Kylo Ren back to the Light if it's the last thing she does]

So you could train me? And so could he, if he was willing?

Most of that history, we never got on Jakku. We'd heard bits and pieces about the fall of the Republic and Jedi, the Empire, the Rebellion, and the New Republic, but I didn't get the whole story until I left.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Traditionally, under the old Order, any Knight may take an apprentice. But we're hardly in a position where tradition can be followed to the letter. Kanan wasn't formally Knighted when he took me on.

I suspect Obi-Wan would not be willing to commit to more than casual practice together as a peer, without a formal Knighting. And, to be honest, before he tried, I think there's some things it would probably be best if he had a chance to sort through.

One of Cal's teachers Knighted him, but I don't know his position on trying to teach, himself.

I have taught, informally. I've taught meditation and lightsaber forms, and I tried to counsel Jaina in a limited way, since she was so young. But I'm three months into Knighthood. That is *awfully* quick to be taking full responsibility for a padawan.

I know that's a lot of hedging. I genuinely think, particularly at first, you'd be best off trying to learn from all of us here. We've all had many teachers, to some degree or another. And then, if you're sure you want to put the work in, maybe we can come up with a way to acknowledge that commitment. And if that means focusing on studying more with someone in particular, that's fine, too.

Does that make sense?

[forcedbonding]

Yeah. It does.

I guess we'll just figure everything out as we go, then?