Iskaulit Mingle - Problems with Psychics

[notzubats]

Who: Anyone on the Iskaulit!
Broadcast: If you'd like?!
Action: Iskaulit!
When: Today, as Sora's augment glitch starts.

[It's your average day on the Iskaulit. Absolutely nothing seems out of place initially, but without any warning- you might find yourself or your friends experiencing some problems. What's up on that?

In other words, it's an Iskaulit mingle with a twist! Come on in everyone! You don't need to interact with Sora to have it effect you, so feel free to start your own threadstarter! Or talk to Sora, that's cool too. ]

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[leftonjakku]

"Close your eyes. Reach out with the Force. You will see Light and Dark. You will see the divide clearly." Rey didn't think Ren was a Sith either. He was...somehow caught in-between. So very torn and chaotic.

"That's good." her expression said otherwise, "Just don't go overboard. No one needs that."

[therewillbeorder]

He closed his eyes, taking a moment to try what she said. He felt the Dark and it felt strong, powerful, and- well, tempting. There was so much raw power there which called to him.

He could understand now how tempting it was to tap into that energy. He wasn't sure even he could resist. He wasn't sure he wanted to. "Tell me why the Dark is bad again."

[leftonjakku]

"You can't control it." Rey figured that would be the point that resonated most with someone like Hux, "It may not overwhelm you for years, but it will eat away at you. You will lose yourself, Hux, and I think that would be a shame, don't you?"

Nothing else would matter but power and more of it.

[therewillbeorder]

He was quiet for a moment as he pictured the day Starkiller had fired. Looking up at the red beam it had been bigger than just him. He had constructed the weapon, helped design it, but in the end, its power was more than his own.

And what that left of him, he wasn't sure. He wasn't sure if there was anything left after nearly 30 years of devoting himself to his duty. Taking Palpatine's throne had always been his ambition but he also was realistic in knowing that it was likely that this would take his life. The Dark side of the Force may consume him but he could use it in the meanwhile.

"Perhaps."

[leftonjakku]

"That's all you have to say?" Rey's disapproval was fierce and unsubtle. She crossed her arms over her chest and continued: "Believe me, you would regret it. And don't think you are doing some good for everyone. The Darkness is never good."

It always, always bit back and consumed until there was nothing left of the one who summoned it.

[therewillbeorder]

"Yet the Dark Side and I are the same in many ways," he said thoughtfully as he started to mentally reach out, just a little to feel the power hum through his entire being. He wondered how long Anakin Skywalker had felt the temptation, how long Kylo Ren had managed to resist.

Perhaps that was why the Dark Side called to him so strongly, it was already in him. He had just never felt it before.

[leftonjakku]

"Not all of you." she spoke quietly, stiffly, "Why would you help me, then?"

Oh they had exchanged ideas about ships and the like, but Hux had never been anything but open and polite. Then there was Armitage...

Rey found it difficult to forget him.

"No one is born similar to the Dark Side." it was a choice.

[therewillbeorder]

He had no answer to her question. In truth, it had been something different to have someone to sit down to discuss such things with. He had never had that before, almost everyone in the First Order or in the old Imperial regime was a potential if not an outright enemy.

He smirked at her last statement, opening his eyes. "You would say that about Palpatine or one of the other great Sith Lords?"

[leftonjakku]

"It would be hard, but...yes, I would. They chose to follow that Darkness. Children are born innocent." Rey pressed her lips together tightly, stubbornly, "Babies should never be blamed for the futures their adult selves choose."

She was one of the people who would protect a child to-be Sith and hope for a better future for them. Yes, she was that sort of fool.

[therewillbeorder]

"You don't think there is something in our nature to make us decide to take that path? Palpatine was no doubt capable even as a child of making that choice." Hux had no regrets about the choice he had made when he was young.

Perhaps it may not have been much of a choice but he had decided to be ambitious and to serve the tradition of the Empire beyond what his father had commanded. "There has to be something in his nature and in mind that makes the Dark Side resonate through us."