[Video]

[leftonjakku]

Who: Rey & Open
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: For Marsiva.
When: 9/16

[She is understandably confused, but after all she has experienced, she is taking this in careful strides. Unlike a certain member of the Dark Side.]

If anyone can see this transmission, my name is Rey and I was just - [Meeting a cloaked Jedi. No big deal.] It doesn't matter. I'm looking for the Millennium Falcon and a tall Wookiee named Chewbacca.

[Unless she has been kidnapped by the First Order again.]

This ship is called the Marsiva, isn't it? It...wouldn't happen to be owned by the First Order, would it?

[Please say no. She has noticed that she is missing the lightsaber and that leaves her with only one option if she is cornered. How does the Jedi Mind Trick even work?]

Comments

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[leftonjakku]

I met him, but we didn't even have a chance to speak...

[After all of that chaos, she is right back in the same spot.]

The lightsaber... I don't know how to explain it. I saw so many things the first time I found it. Then, when I was fighting someone, it came to me.

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[beardstrokes]

[ So Luke was still alive . . . doing who knows what. And the Jedi still exists in this void of a galaxy. Never quite there. ]

It's an old Jedi skill, not often encouraged. You can get overwhelmed by the emotions of the bearer.

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[leftonjakku]

[And looking curiously like Obi-Wan, actually, with that cloak.]

It scared me. [She is fine admitting that.] Are you a Jedi?

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[beardstrokes]

It scares many people.

I am. I'm called Obi-Wan Kenobi.

[ video ] 1/2

[leftonjakku]

[The... No, wait. She hadn't heard that correctly! But Finn had said the Obi-Wan Kenobi was amongst them.

She flushes a darker red than she had ever done in the desert sun.]

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[leftonjakku]

I'm... Truly honored, sir. I'm sorry for sounding so confusing. I really do know your voice and maybe that's because the lightsaber remembers you? Through the Force?

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[beardstrokes]

[ He sighs quietly. ]

Possibly. It must have -- it would have been Anakin's. Before Luke took it.

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[leftonjakku]

Anakin is...Darth Vader? [No wonder Kylo Ren had wanted it.] I want to learn from Luke. I need to.

There's someone trying to follow in Darth Vader's footsteps.

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[beardstrokes]

( I'm going to assume this conversation is locked if you don't mind )

Anakin is more than that. Darth Vader - whoever that was - is not him. It's not the man I know. It could never be.

[ video / private ] Fine by me. Should have specified.

[leftonjakku]

The Dark Side changes people...

It twists them. Is that what you mean? Anakin wasn't...Anakin...anymore. He was just...a tool?

Re: [ video / private ] no worries <3

[beardstrokes]

I don't know.

[ Would he ever know? Even in Mortis, Obi-Wan couldn't understand, couldn't fathom the man he raised, the family he needed had fallen to the Dark. ]

I might never know. The Dark Side is power and power always corrupts. It is temptation and weakness.

[video / private ] <3

[leftonjakku]

I'm sorry you lost him. [She means that sincerely. It is rather like a death.]

I've tried to avoid it. I don't even know how I do some of the things I do.

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[beardstrokes]

You need a teacher.

[ But . . . he won't offer. Not anymore. ]

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[leftonjakku]

I'll find one no matter how long it takes.

[She won't ask. That would be presumptuous and rude.]

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[beardstrokes]

I'm sure you will.

[ Though he doesn't know who or how anymore. ]

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[leftonjakku]

Are you...okay? [She gets a sense that he's...not.] I'm sorry for asking, but -

I feel like I've made something more difficult for you. Or...sadder?

[Rey's great sense of empathy oftentimes crosses paths with her Force sensitivity.]

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[beardstrokes]

[ Obi-Wan shakes his head, his expression kind. ]

No. You haven't done that.

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[leftonjakku]

You can call on me. I support the Jedi and if I can help, I want to.

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[beardstrokes]

[ The Jedi are dead, his mind whispers back. Obi-Wan ruthlessly pushes it down. ]

Honestly, I'm not sure how.

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[leftonjakku]

I know what it's like to be alone.

If you just want someone to listen, I will.

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[beardstrokes]

I'll be fine.

[ He shrugs. ] I usually am.

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[leftonjakku]

I wish I was that certain.

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[beardstrokes]

It's a honed Jedi skill.

[ Is it lying or believing? WHO KNOWS. ]

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[leftonjakku]

Nothing feels certain anymore.

I guess I'm not good Jedi material yet.

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[beardstrokes]

[ He blinks, perplexed. ]

No one becomes a Jedi automatically. It takes years of work and preparation. Having the ability is a start, but it's not enough.