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Who: Ahsoka + You
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Not really (though if you want to find her, she'll be in her room on the Starstruck)
When: idk today

Hey! Soooooo since we're all stuck here, and going outside on this planet kinda sucks bigtime right now, I've been making it a project of mine to try and learn as much as I can about the different cultures of the other worlds people here are from! Particularly Earth, because there's so many of you! Someone told me the collective noun is "Earthlings"? Anyway.

I've been trawling through the media library, but to be honest, I'm not very good at sitting and reading for long periods of time. So I figured, why not just ask you guys instead?

Tell me one (or more!) thing about your home world that you think is culturally significant. It can be traditional, religious, social, or pop culture is fair game too! After all, it's no fun when people are making pop culture references that fly over my head.

The only rule is that you can't say the same thing as someone else. You ready? Go!

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[Ahsoka listens, taking that in. Jon's good at explaining it simply, at conveying the important information, so Ahsoka has no trouble following along.

When he's finally done, she lets out a long exhale.]

... I heard. [About Robb. About Sansa marrying Tyrion. Ahsoka doesn't specify which. Does it need to be specified?]

... Thank you. I know that can't have been easy for you. But-- I feel like I have a much better understanding of the situation now. ... I'm grateful.

I'm a man of the Night's Watch. [His tone is heavy, weighed down with grief and sorrow and regret.] We take no part in the wars of the realm.

[The way he recites it, though, says a lot about how much it breaks his heart to have had to stand aside. What is duty, after all, when compared to a brother's smile, a sister's laugh?]

You're welcome, Ahsoka.

... Is it ... better? Being here. Rather than there.

[He's quiet for a long moment. There are definitely things he hates about being here--the fact that they're being watched, the secrets he's kept, the last memory he has of Westeros, Theon Greyjoy. But.

Sansa calls him brother. Robb is here, alive. Bran is here, and alive as well. He's not alone.]

I haven't seen my family in years. [A confession, a mark of trust--of Jon letting his guard down, at last.] Most I'll never see again, if I go back. [Can you go back, if you're dead? What would greet him if he did--nothing but a cold, frozen embrace?] Yes. It's--better.

[Yet he still feels as if he's betraying some vital part of himself, just by admitting that.]

... If you had the choice... if you didn't have to live life here as their lab rat, if you could live as just a normal and free person, with the family you have here... would you still go back?

I'm not certain I could go back, even if I wanted to.

... What do you mean?

[I was stabbed to death.]

I'm not going to see my family again if I go back. I doubt I'll be able to see much of anything, in fact. [Which is the closest he's ever come to to telling someone not named Stark that he's dead. He doesn't come out and say it, though--the words stick in his throat, refusing to emerge.

But there's a finality to his tone that says as much already.]

... Oh.

["Poor Jon," is what she really should think, but instead-- what really occurs to her first is "Poor Sansa."]

Sansa knows. [So far, she's the only one. And now Ahsoka.] So no, I suppose I can't go back, even if I wanted to. And I'm not certain I want to.

... I'm sorry.

Do you... have friends here? People you like, and trust?

Some. I've my family, and Tyrion Lannister's not half-bad, for someone with his last name. [He likes the man, even with the things he's done.] And the people on my ship are good people as well. I've a duty to them now. [As the lone engineer, he can't really leave them in the lurch.]

[It comes out impulsively, and she doesn't even know what she's saying until she's said it, but--]

--You should come home with us. All of you.

[Even as she says it, she knows it's stupid. What's she doing, saying a thing like that? Even if it were possible (and they don't know that it is), and even if they wanted to, it's not like Ahsoka's world isn't also in the throes of turmoil and war. Sure, the Starks wouldn't be at the center of it, but it's not like her home is idyllic. And the Starks are from a world so removed from her own, pre-space-flight, pre-anything-flight by the sounds of it-- what would they even do? It's so patently far-fetched, Ahsoka feels stupid the moment it's out of her mouth.]

[For one wild moment, Jon wants to say yes.

Because what else is there for them in Westeros, besides danger and death? Winterfell is burned now, a hollow and ruined husk of what used to be home, and their father has been dead for so, so long. And Jon himself is sick of grief, of loss, of sorrows twisting in his gut like a knife, just wants to rest, just wants his family--what little of it he has left--to be safe. What duty does he have left to the Night's Watch, after all, when he's dead?

But he swallows the word.

Because what does he know of Ahsoka's world(s), besides what she's told him? And it doesn't sound that idyllic either, off that alone, and he's sick of war and turmoil, doesn't want the chance that his family might caught up in another. But gods, for one wild moment he thinks, yes.]

That--That would be nice, I think. But it wouldn't be--

[--home.]

--It wouldn't be the same. [It's a different world, of course not.

Some small part of him wonders about Arya, wonders how she would feel, if the offer had been made to her. It's been so long since he last ruffled her hair.]

Ah... yeah. Of course.

I kind of suspected that would be the case, but-- the offer's always open. If you change your mind.

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