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[sandhate]

Who: Anakin Skywalker
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Paisley
When: Right meow

There are a lot of questions and interests about other worlds lately. I have one question that I'm interested in right now. [ Alright, Ankain you can do this. Forget about that scolding Obi-Wan voice in your head telling you that the future is always changing. ] Does your universe-- do you believe in fate?

[ Oh, great. It sounds like a load of bantha dung when he actually hears it out loud. Awkwardly: ]

Destiny.

[ That doesn't help, which is fine. It's fine. It goes against the Jedi teachings and feels wrong just saying it. Nevermind that things are different with each universe, so it can't be really applicable, right?

Whatever, roll with it.

He adds, without pause, a completely unnecessary definition. ]

That certain things needs to happen in the future.

Comments

[forcesensitive]

[Finn has to think about that one for a while.]

So what if it's both? It has a way it wants things to go, but people don't have to follow it.

[sandhate]

That's not how it works. Not at that scale anyway. For someone to change the flow that the Force is on, they have to be a powerful.

[ A beat ]

That's my guess, anyway.

[forcesensitive]

I think--

[Finn pauses. What's he even saying? He's not a philosopher or a Jedi or anything like that, but there's one thing he knows for sure: just because someone tells you all your life you're supposed to be one thing doesn't mean you have to accept it if you believe it's wrong.]

I think if there's something you need to do or be, all it can do is show you the path. You have to be the one to take the first step.

[sandhate]

[ He's not wrong. ]

Sounds like you have some experience in this.

[forcesensitive]

I never thought I'd get to see another path at all. Just the one set out before me. And I remember how easy it would have been not to step off it.

What's easy and what's right aren't the same thing.

[sandhate]

What's right isn't always the hard choice either. It's not mutually exclusive.

[ Which is moving to a whole another philosophy entirely so he'll gently give Finn a way out ]

I don't think we've met before, I'm Anakin.

[forcesensitive]

[Makes sense - it can't always be the hardest path or everything would be even worse.]

Ahsoka's teacher, right? General Kenobi said I hold a lightsaber like you. I'm Finn.

[sandhate]

Huh. [ General Kenobi, huh. He gives Finn asmall smile ] If General Kenobi says it's true, there might be something in it. You'll have to show me sometime.

[forcesensitive]

[Some day he'll remember to call him Obi-Wan. Today is not that day.]

I'll try not to embarrass myself in front of a Skywalker.

[sandhate]

[ u already did ]

I wouldn't worry about that. As long as you work hard at it, you should be proud.

[forcesensitive]

[He said try! Par for the course, really.]

Hard work I got no problem with.