driftfleet | Happy Birthday From the Dark Side!

Who: Finn, Pinkie Pie, and YOU!
Broadcast: EVERYWHERE!
Action: The Caprine, especially the bridge.
When: Today~

[Video: Encrypted from Finn]

[HOLY COW that is a huge pink pony grin in your face!]

Gooood morning, everybody~! Gueeeess who's birthday it is today~? If you guessed Finn, then you'd be right! AND you'd be invited to his super special first EVERY birthday party on the Caprine! If you guessed wrong, don't worry, you're invited anyway! There'll be cake and ice cream and music and games and lots and LOTS of blue fizzy drinks! Hope we see you there~!

[Action]

[While Pinkie has Poe distract Finn for most of the day, this little party pony's hard at work making this the best (and only) birthday this ex-Storm Trooper's ever had! As advertised, the whole ship is decorated bow to stern with streamers and lights and balloons. There's music throughout all the speakers, dancing and games on the bridge, and SO MANY TREATS in the kitchen. There's mild and spicy nachos, salsa, cubes of spiky blue fruit that tastes like cantaloupe, candy, and HUGE birthday cake made from as many real ingredients as Pinkie could get her hooves on. There's also a HUGE punch bowl with Pinkie's best punch recipe, and pre-poured cups of what looks like some blue fizzy milkshake. Knock yourselves out, guys, and help Finn have the best birthday ever since the First Order is made of jerks!]

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[That makes sense.]

So a lightsaber is a pretty light charge for it?

For the most part. If I directed two more power sources at it, the crystal would easily implode.

[That would be a waste of a good kyber crystal.]

Must be why the hilts are so sturdy, then. If they don't get messed with, they can last a long time, though. I know the one I held on to had to have been at least fifty or sixty years old.

That's . . . a long time, even for a lightsaber. Whose was it?

[Finn furrows his brow.]

I think--originally, it must have been Anakin's. Looked just like the practice blade Ahsoka gave me, and she said she modeled it after his.

[ Obi-Wan can't help the shadow of sorrow that passes through his face. None of them would be around that far in the future. He knew that intuitively.

But the idea of Anakin's death, Anakin's fall was always a little too hard to bear. ]

He did always love that saber. Even though he kept losing it.

Blue blade, right? Well, Luke lost it, too. Never did figure out how it got from him to Maz. But I heard Rey set out to give it back to him, so--it gets home.

[ Softly. ]

Where would that be?

Han said he thought it was the First Jedi Temple. I don't know if that's what ended up being at the coordinates we found.

I see.

[ After a few moments, Obi-Wan sighs, expelling his dour mood into the Force. ]

I hope it works out.

[That at least Finn can project confidence about.]

It will. You can trust Rey. I know you haven't met her, but she's the best.

[ He smiles, despite himself. ]

Of course. I don't doubt it.

[Oddly, he doesn't even think to ask for her as a birthday present. First, because Atroma would use it to mess with him somehow, and second--as much as he misses Rey, the confidence isn't faked. He knows that even though she's as far away as it's possible to get, she's okay. That's far more important than having her here with him.]

I'd say she'd like you, but I think most people like you anyway.

I believe that's open to debate. I've certainly run into my fair share of enemies.

[Finn flashes a grin.]

Most people I talk to, then. I bet if they didn't, it'd be a good sign to keep my distance.

[ Obi-Wan chuckles. ]

As far as rumours go, I suppose those are rather tame. No one really calls me anything other than Obi-Wan here. Titles are reserved for our galaxy alone.

[Not true, Finn still calls him General Kenobi everywhere except to his face. Old habits die hard, and he's something of a legend.]

Good. Cause I only got the one title, and I'd rather go by "Caprine Security Officer".

[It has a much better ring to it than "traitor".]

Is that your official title now?

According to Atroma, yeah.

But do you like it?

I think so? It's not a hard job.

[He shrugs.]

It's a hell of a lot better than my old job title.

[ He nods. There's something tragic about the Storm Troopers, something the Clones didn't quite suffer. He wished Cody was here. He would have known what to say. ]

You didn't have a choice.

[He closes his eyes, having a brief flashback to being one nameless trooper in formation.]

There's always a choice. That's why I'm not there anymore.

[ He wonders how the Clones see it. He's never doubted Rex or Cody or any of the others.

Still. ]

I'm afraid I am partially guilty of that.

[Finn breaks out of his flashback and shakes his head.]

I don't think so. No matter what you did back in your time, it was the people who decided to continue it in mine that are to blame.

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