[Which has always been the issue, hasn't it? Following in the footsteps of a long-dead ghost he attuned himself to whispers, to silence and dust and decay, and it is so often easy to falter when that hollow mask yields nothing more than its own memories. The living, it seems, are unsurprisingly tangible; easier to grip when all else is crumbling alongside weakened resolve.
Which is why it is fortunate that he has his Master to guide him still, where otherwise he would be lost.
Where he might be tempted to seek shelter in the misguided arms of those he once considered family.] You know you have nothing left - why do you linger?
[Stubbornness? Weakness? Pride? A thousand guesses as to why his own past refuses to recede in the face of insurmountable odds and no friends, no family left to claim him. It was why Kylo Ren was born in the first place, why the decision was made to overturn yet another attempt at weakening an already diseased galaxy with Jedi: an order committed to nothing more than meditation and their own internal, self-righteous concerns.
Skywalker's absence has proven nothing if not that.]
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[Which has always been the issue, hasn't it? Following in the footsteps of a long-dead ghost he attuned himself to whispers, to silence and dust and decay, and it is so often easy to falter when that hollow mask yields nothing more than its own memories. The living, it seems, are unsurprisingly tangible; easier to grip when all else is crumbling alongside weakened resolve.
Which is why it is fortunate that he has his Master to guide him still, where otherwise he would be lost.
Where he might be tempted to seek shelter in the misguided arms of those he once considered family.] You know you have nothing left - why do you linger?
[Stubbornness? Weakness? Pride? A thousand guesses as to why his own past refuses to recede in the face of insurmountable odds and no friends, no family left to claim him. It was why Kylo Ren was born in the first place, why the decision was made to overturn yet another attempt at weakening an already diseased galaxy with Jedi: an order committed to nothing more than meditation and their own internal, self-righteous concerns.
Skywalker's absence has proven nothing if not that.]