And what legacy does he carry? He only brings imbalance to the Force. He led his father astray from what truly mattered. He made him believe in some false ... sentiment, as if it was the thing that truly mattered. [This is practiced. He's spoken similar things to his grandfather's mask while alone. He's asked him why sentiment, why love, can cut through the darkness. Why did he feel weak to it, as well? How could they find a way to defy it? Over and over, he's asked, and he's never truly found a place inside of himself to hate his family. He knows hatred is what matters. Not indifference—indifference does not fuel him in the same way—and he could never muster it inside of himself.

He still can't.]

A name is just a name. A legacy is something different.

[Or so he tells himself. Luke did not follow in his father's footsteps, and Kylo Ren's version of Darth Vader is a man disappointed with his son the same way that Ren is disappointed in his father.

It's tidy and poetic.

And false.]