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independent & private ben skywalker from star wars’ expanded universe.

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independent & private ben skywalker from star wars’ eu, loved by kore ( she / they, 21+ )

rules tba.

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@dualsuns LIKED FOR A THING.

“ does it ever get tiring, being you ? “ the words come out before the boy even begins to register just how they might sound, and teeth sink into his bottom lip as he takes in a breath through his nose and says, “ with all due respect, dad. you know, I don’t mean anything by it, not in that way. but it can’t be easy, can it ? being The Luke Skywalker. the grand master of the new jedi order… it’s like, you can’t ever be allowed to make a mistake. or ever be allowed to be anything other then the hero you’ve always been. you cant falter, or else then what ? “ he hadn’t quite understood, when he was a little boy. he hadn’t quite grasped the burden that his father bore, he had only registered how far away it had all made him seem. it had made him feel unreachable to the son who could not help but shy so completely away from him, out of fear of doing nothing but disappointing him. but now, he was starting to see it. he couldn’t help but see it now that they had actually begun to bond, and grow closer then they had been, just how tiring that all must be for his father ( and he had hardly made it easier, hadn’t he ? ) “ when you’re meant to lead us, you can’t ever really be lost like the rest of us, but you’re only human. and humans get lost, don’t we ? even jedi. “

he had his father’s legacy, and the name of a famed jedi knight, a man who had been known as a hero of the clone wars. yet ben skywalker had had proficiency with the force to live up to, and goodness, even despite, and he had struggled with both of those things for a very long while. and even now, he wondered, if maybe the things he thought were wrong or they could lead down a dark path—even the seemingly innocuous things, the things that had seemed so small to him, he analyzed, over and over again, to make sure he could never, and would never become like caedus. he wondered if his father struggled, even now with those things. or he had learned through years and years of practice. he knew better now then to think such things came naturally to him, “ I never meant to make it harder, “ the words were little more then a whisper, “ I never meant to…. fall for it. I should have come to you, instead of just going to mom. I should have come, but I was…. “ he looks down, the words catching his throat. he takes a deep breath to steady himself, before he looks back up toward him, regret plain within blue eyes, “ I was afraid, of you. of what you would say. if I wasn’t…. If I hadn’t, I knew that, something wasn’t right, for a while. but I didn’t want to see it. “

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“Ben, you have to stand down on this.” Caedus made his voice stern. “That’s an order.”

“With all due respect, sir, you can shove that order down the nearest black hole.” Ben’s arm appeared in the holo, as though he were reaching for the transceiver controls. “You’re the one who turned me into a killer.”

The hologram dissolved into static, leaving Caedus to the starlit darkness of his observation bubble.

—Legacy of the Force: Inferno, Troy Denning

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ben is 5’4” at 16-17, but he’s 5’2” at 13-14

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@aldereign LIKED FOR A THING.

he lingers before his aunt, rocking back and forth on his heels as he considers just how he might pose the question — surely whatever she was off to do was bound to be important — it often was, but he could be quiet, if he worked at it. and he had finished his lessons for the day, and he wanted nothing more then to be moving. to visit wherever she was heading even if he needed to be still, and could only observe. observing would be enough to occupy him ( but he was just a kid, and who knew if he would even be allowed to - he had not even made his lightsaber yet, he was not even a padawan yet. and who knew if…. if he would ever be ) even with his father’s and his mother’s help. who knew if he could ever feel anything but as if his very being was shying away from it. his uncle han wasn’t force sensitive and he was important, he had belonged in their family just fine, and he was a hero, he had been a hero, and there was nothing wrong with it. he knew there was nothing wrong with it. but it was expected of him, as his father and mother’s only child. and …. he didn’t want to disappoint them.

his aunt leia had not been too bothered in watching him before for his parents, and he was sure it would be fine if he went with her now, if he could — if he wouldn’t be put in danger in doing so. it would be fine, why wouldn’t it be ? “ can i come with you ? “ a little furrow forming in between the boy’s brows as wide blue eyes stare pleadingly up at his aunt, “ please, auntie leia ? i can stay quiet, if you need me to. and I can help with the little things, I promise, “ even if he couldn’t serve as her co pilot yet, he could do some things if she agreed to take him with her to make having him there a bit easier, “ mom and dad are busy, “ he started, “ and nanna plays the same old games with me, and they’re little kid games. i’ve already beaten them, more then once, and I’ve already done my homework. “ and he was plainly bored.

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Star Wars Expanded Universe Meme:

10 Characters (In no particular order)

10. BEN SKYWALKER: “Hi Mom, hi Dad. For my fourteenth birthday, I killed a little girl.”

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also know, mara is unironically the greatest person in the world to him

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ANYWAY. sc

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do y’all ever think about how jacen was this close to killing ben

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Josha Stradowski as Rand al’Thor

The Wheel of Time 1.05 “Blood Calls Blood”

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Josha Stradowski as Rand al’Thor in The Wheel of Time.

The Wheel of Time 1.03 "A Place of Safety"

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON TWO SENTENCE STARTERS

❛ Duty is sacrifice. It eclipses all things, even blood. All men of honor must pay its price.

❛ War is coming, to the whole of the realm.❜

❛ I am indebted to you. ❜

❛ I'm afraid. ❜

❛ We should've just killed her when we had the chance. ❜

❛ When the king speaks, Your Grace, all hear it. ❜

❛ I find myself wondering...do we pursue the same end? ❜

❛ You must accept that the path to victory now is one of violence. ❜

❛ Did you think I would wither in your absence? ❜

❛ You only blame me because your true enemies are out of reach. ❜

❛ She holds love for our enemy. That makes her a fool. ❜

❛ I promise you, you will have all the vengeance that you seek, but you must keep a grip on your impulses. ❜

❛ Do anything but what I ask, and I'll bleed the whole lot of ya. ❜

❛ The gods punish us. They punish me. ❜

❛ This is not the time for blind accusations. We'll know who did this soon enough. ❜

❛ I will not be seen as weak. ❜

❛ Sometimes, we have to pretend. ❜

❛ I cannot trust you. I've never trusted you, wholly, much though I wished to, willed myself to. But now I have seen that your heart belongs only to you. ❜

❛ You think me some kind of monster. ❜

❛ You're pathetic. ❜

❛ We can afford no further mistakes. ❜

❛ You are mad. Mad! You cannot think that I did this! ❜

❛ You would send me to my death. ❜

❛ I would remind you only that when princes lose their temper, it is often others who suffer. ❜

❛ I see all your great adventures have done nothing for your looks. ❜

❛ For too long, I made it my aim to be of consequence. But now, I see that was the wish of a child. ❜

❛ I wish to spill blood, not ink! ❜

❛ Instead of judgment, you display impetuousness, and diminish us in the eyes of our enemy! ❜

❛ Fuck dignity! I want revenge. ❜

❛ They wish now not for the good of the realm, but for the petty satisfaction of vengeance. ❜

❛ Soon they will not even remember what it was that began the war in the first place. ❜

❛ There is no war so hateful to the gods as a war between kin. ❜

❛ I'm as fearsome as any of them. ❜

❛ You showed me grace when you could have withheld it. I'm not often surprised. ❜

❛ I cannot promise to make you happy. But I ask you: make this sacrifice willingly, for all of us. ❜

❛ If you've not yet surmised, you are welcome here. ❜

❛ Sin begets sin begets sin. ❜

❛ If dragons begin fighting dragons, we invite our own destruction. ❜

❛ Do not coddle me. Grant me at least that dignity. ❜

❛ Sadness is a condition of motherhood. ❜

❛ You have as much claim to grief as anyone. ❜

❛ Tales take on a life of their own, like weeds. Unless they are tended. ❜

❛ Always coming and going, aren't you? And I have to clean up afterwards. ❜

❛ You will die in this place. ❜

❛ I have been, at times, unkind, but never untrue. ❜

❛ You must go before you are discovered. ❜

❛ Your mother must've been very beautiful. ❜

❛ You should've burned them when you had the chance. ❜

❛ Is there no honor left in this world? ❜

❛ This is a better death than a traitor deserves. You should thank me for it. ❜

❛ I will not be made to look a fool in front of my allies and enemies. ❜

❛ I believe it is a sin to deny your appetites. They are what make us fully alive as mortal men. ❜

❛ If I may be so bold, you have not seemed yourself of late. ❜

❛ I've barely had the hours to grieve one tragedy before suffering the next. ❜

❛ I've come to know the face of tortured rest well enough. ❜

❛ Do you think simply wearing the crown imbues you with wisdom? ❜

❛ You have no idea the sacrifices that were made to put you on that throne. ❜

❛ What would you have me do? ❜

❛ Do simply what is needed of you: nothing. ❜

❛ Where have you been, these last days? You vanished without so much as a word.❜

❛ There are those who have mistaken my caution for weakness. Let that be their undoing. ❜

❛ If you die, all is lost. ❜

❛ The horrors I have just loosed cannot be for a crown alone. ❜

❛ Do you take issue with me? ❜

❛ I can sit still no longer. I must act. ❜

❛ I did not think they would be so eager to die. ❜

❛ I need them alive. I came here to raise swords, not corpses. ❜

❛ Will you goad me? When your bread and shelter now depend on my pleasure? ❜

❛ I mislike feeling powerless. ❜

❛ I do not know my part. The path I walk has never been trod. ❜

❛ What you cannot do, let others do for you. ❜

❛ There is more than one way to fight a war. ❜

❛ I do not wish to stand alone. ❜

❛ Has your loyalty faded? Or does it flourish only at night and flee the sunrise like a moth? ❜

❛ What we must do now is... terrible. ❜

❛ This is not war. These are crimes against the innocent, that any upright man would repudiate. ❜

❛ And once again, in the name of power, it's the weak and the women who must endure. ❜

❛ Was it worth the price? ❜

❛ I caution you, boldness is one thing, but overconfidence… ❜

❛ You have the impetuousness of youth, and its arrogance, neither of which is to be desired in a king. ❜

❛ Have the indignities of your childhood not yet sufficiently been avenged? ❜

❛ To claim a dragon, you must also be prepared to die. ❜

❛ You can't possibly still be angry about this. ❜

❛ You weren't going to bid me farewell? ❜

❛ It is your way, is it not? When something does not please you, you run. ❜

❛ There are older things in this world than you or I, or living memory. ❜

❛ You are not the player, but a piece on the board. As am I, for that matter. ❜

❛ It is my fault, I think, that you have forgotten to fear me. ❜

❛ It was worth the risk, no matter the outcome. ❜

❛ The enemy without may be fought with swords. The enemy within is more insidious. ❜

❛ Do you take me for a fool? ❜

❛ Oh, you make an art of provoking me. ❜

❛ Stop wasting your life waiting for something that'll never come. ❜

❛ I'm sure you did your best. ❜

❛ They will underestimate you, and this will be your advantage. ❜

❛ If the gods call me to greater things, who am I to refuse them? ❜

❛ Nothing is clean here. ❜

❛ The order of things has changed. Why not embrace it? ❜

❛ It does seem to me that you've made rather a mess here. ❜

❛ I don't need their love. I need their swords. ❜

❛ Mind your tongue. ❜

❛ I mislike all of this. ❜

❛ It seems you need us more than we need you. ❜

❛ So, what was the fucking point in all this then? ❜

❛ It's best to live, I think. However you do it. ❜

❛ You are not alone. ❜

❛ Will you prepare to face such an enemy? Or will you stay here and make yourself easy? ❜

❛ If you hinder our efforts through sloth or unreadiness, I will see you hanged, and your body fed to the dogs in the street. ❜

❛ You've arrived just in time to see my new army. What do you think of it? ❜

❛ This place will have you barking at the moon. ❜

❛ We must all make our sacrifices. ❜

❛ 'Tis no longer our rule that is threatened, our very lives. ❜

❛ Perhaps all men are corrupt and true honor is a mist that melts in the morning. ❜

❛ The dragons dance, and men are like dust under their feet. ❜

❛ We march now toward our annihilation. ❜

❛ There will be time enough to see which one of us is a coward. ❜

❛ There are omens here for those who seek them. ❜

❛ It's all a story and you are but one part in it. You know your part. ❜

❛ I am meant to serve you, and all of these with me, until death or the end of our story. ❜

❛ Be strong. You know you are just. ❜

❛ History will paint you a villain. ❜

❛ I am at last myself, with no ambition greater than to walk where I please and to breathe the open air. To die unremarked and unnoticed and be free. ❜

❛ You speak as if from a distant dream. ❜

❛ Come with me. ❜

❛ My part is here, whether I will or no. It was decided for me long ago. ❜

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listen, look, listen. he loves luke, he’s never not loved luke. but it’s so hard not to feel inferior next to him and how understanding his father is just makes it worse because of course he gets it, of course he knows. of course he does that perfectly too -