#ben lives

[dark-and-endless-sky]

“Be with me.”

(Rey and Ben Solo - OC digital art)

[iiamendless]

BEN SHOULD'VE BEEN THE ONE TO KILL PALPATINE. HE IS THE LAST SKYWALKER. HE WOULD BE THE ONE TO RESTORE THE FAMILY LEGACY AND FINISH WHAT VADER STARTED...THEN REY WOULD BE THE ONE TO RESSURECT BEN BECAUSE SHE WOULD WANT TO RESTORE HER FAMILY HERITAGE BY SAVING THE LAST SKYWALKER TO SAY SHE'S SORRY FOR WHAT HER BLOODLINE DID TO THE SKYWALKERS. the palpatine saves the skywalker and peace is brought to the galaxy. sure this is still a sad end but it's better then what we got and THIS makes more sense to me, rather then ben dying. ben was rising in the moment of saving rey so sure the title for the movie works there but for him to die DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. HE NEEDS TO RISE. NOT FALL.

[lovemomentsandlife]

“We can rise up from the dust and walk away”

Kylo Ren / Ben Solo

The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

[marvelous-maximilian]

I just want more Ben Lives AU where Tony has a massive crush on his mentee’s uncle and is a fucking disaster about it.

[chandrilawanderer]

I don't have time today and I won't be home long enough to make a good video and to dig deeper into the TROS soundtrack but I didn't want to leave you hanging, so here's a quick one for @mypianodreams and for anyone curious.

[enemyofinnocence]

BLOOD IN THE WATER (A Reylo Fix-It Fic)

It doesn’t have to end here. I’m writing the ending I wanted for the Reylo community. It’s my own personal love letter to this wonderful ship and the larger network of shippers that have always been so kind over the years. 

I’m already up to chapter 5 (17k+ words)!

LINKS:

FF: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13456553/1/Blood-In-The-Water

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21869635/chapters/52197730

[real-baddie-boi]

F*CK I just wanna see two married couples going on SPACE ADVENTURES and dismantling the devastating effects of the First Order... Disney, why do you hate me?

There's enough room for Reylo AND Stormpilot, both in the galaxy, and our hearts

(No but think of them all, married and getting into SO Many SHENANIGANS!!! It would be very good, yes thank you please).

[iheartkyloren]

Wanting him to feel all the wonderful things she was feeling no matter how painful, she grasps his face, abruptly smashing her lips against his.

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Her eyes glare eerily hollow into his own, before he chokes her name out through a sob, yanking her to his chest. “Rey,” he pleads uselessly. He has fucked up bad now. He should have worked with her more closely, trained her himself and left his allegiance to the First Order behind. It had always been his contingency plan, but the darkness always weighed heavier in his mind. They could have used the power of their Dyad to change the Force entirely and the politics of the galaxy right along with it. He was losing his other half. Half a of a Dyad he was blind to. He knew she was something different, special. He was so consumed with power his ego wouldn’t let him see clearly.

It had been years since he had felt so vulnerable, years since his mother’s voice crept inside his head. He felt the dip in the Force while she was dying, but a piece of her clung to one last fragment of hope, her energy almost fully waned. She speaks to him now through the Force. Reminding him, I love you, Ben. SHE loves you, don’t let her go this easily. Don’t give up. You are my stubborn boy, just like your father. Use that to pull her back. I know you sense her lingering. It is time you remember where your roots are from, you ARE as strong as you grandfather. He found the light in the end, and so will you. I love you, my son.

Tears are matted to his cheeks as he cradles Rey back into his arm placing his hand upon her belly. Closing his eyes, he sends energy into her core giving her a portion of his life’s force, willing her back to him. Be with me, he thinks knowing he can only give so much, or the attempt would be pointless. He won’t leave her behind. Not when he has finally, found a way to accept his love for her.

Even in death she is beautiful, he considers the smoothness of her skin, though pallid now, he only sees the sun-kissed marks she acquired living on Jakku. As he waits for the Force to work its way in, he is swaying her gently to assuage the panic coursing through his thoughts. He closes his eyes tight to pull back in the next round of tears with another choking sob, believing it is taking longer than it should. He can feel his nerves begin to fray, soon they will turn into that numb sensation he is so used to. The place he would go after his father, Han, had left him behind with his mother, Leia, so many times. That is when the dark began to claim him. It wasn’t Snoke, the Emperor or anyone else, but the despair of a traumatic childhood. It wasn’t validation for his acts, for the murderous snake he became. He could see now how his father had loved him, and the trauma was meant to be Han’s own pain, not his.

Rey had been the one to make him feel emotions again that didn’t align with anger and rage. When they first met in the forest of Takodana, the spark ignited when he took in her scared face through his mask. He could see the brave in her so desperate to be seen, but maybe he saw what the Force had wanted him to see instead. It was hard to tell. All he knew for sure is the Force had said not to kill her, but his memories are so fuzzy now holding his hand firmly to her. Knowing only a minute or so has passed, his mind racing to keep his rage at bay. If… no, when he brings her to, the first thing she sees will not be a fit of rage.

His eyes search her face, looking for a sign of life. She lay still in return, her eyes blankly looking back into his. He yanks her to him again, hugging her to his chest protectively. “I’m sorry, Rey.”

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Ben is suddenly aware of how much he needs Rey, and Rey is fighting to save him after he sacrifices everything for her. When they end up captive on the new Resistance base trying to make sense of each other and why they have the bond they do, they find that it won't be easy to convince the rest of the Resistance that Ben is no longer Kylo Ren. Survival is imperative, but nearly impossible if they want to explore their relationship. Together, at last, can they make it work?

Mature/Erotic/Fluff/Angst

Complete

Word Count-  51,605

Personal Note+

After my writing colleague jumped ship and my computer died a couple of years ago, I stopped writing altogether. This is my first attempt back into fanfiction after having a series published. It wasn’t a huge hit or anything wild, but it did fare well amongst the group it was intended for. Only wanted to mention this as my skills have dampened up over the years, and this was my first exercise in writing since that point, but I just could not handle Ben Solo fucking dying. Fuck that shit, what a damn awful way to break thousands of hearts. Listen friends, we as a fanbase, as Reylo’ers, deserved more than a death. Hell, I’d have taken a fucking Force Ghost of him in the end watching over her. Something that escalated their bond even through the death would have even been fine, but not he’s dead sorry, see ya. The biggest psyche out in my opinion and should be nearly criminal. I’m all for understanding the end of a character, but give me reason to understand the end of his character after all of the build between them. Give me fucking something... I was oddly devastated, angry, and exceptionally frustrated that I invested years into this ship to see it go down in flames with no completion even in death. So, I wrote. It brought the writer in my soul back to life and I have been at it since. So thank you my fellow Reylo friends and family, and the ship of all ships, for giving the writer in me purpose once again. To forever breathing life back into Ben Solo.

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