#empire's end

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: Empire's End #1 - New Republic troopship Pelagia, shortly before its destruction by Jim Baikie

[thelastenvoyyy]

sooo

I've just realised a bit of a problem with my SWTOR fan fic

I wanted to include a sub-plot involving the Dathomirian Nightbrothers/Nightsisters with Rynkor (my Sith Zabrak OC)

buuuuuuuuuuut

according to both Canon and Legends lore, the Nightsisters didn’t come about until around 600 BBY

my story takes place 3,000 years before that 😬

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

The Force is in all living things. It is what gives us our intuition, our drive, it's what connects us to one another. We are all one with the Force.

from Aftermath: Empire’s End by Chuck Wendig

[girlrandomstuff]

"Ben Solo didn't had a reason for turning dark, he had a good life"

Okay first of all, i do agree he did good life, and before you come here and start with Han this Leia that, because, they were not perfect parents but-

Han: was the one that help him with insomnia when Ben was just a toddler, Han was the one who stayed with him when he couldn't sleep or stop crying (reminder Ben was chaced by the dark side). Han was so proud of him just for being his son, just because he was lying in his arms, Han was just so excited to teach him what he knew and Ben even wanted to be a pilot like his dad bc he just enjoyed him being around and his father's friends, we even have more sentimental ties to "uncle lando and uncle chewie". Han was so afraid of being a dad but just the moment he hold him Han protect him.

Leia: Leia leave her jedi path just because of the vision of her son dying, she was the one to be with him in important little things about him when he was a baby (like you know basic stuff like first steps, first words etc). She did had a bussy laboral life but she isn't the mother many of ya'll saying she is. Leia felt the dark coming after him since Ben was in her womb, after his birth she tried to protect him from the dark side until her power wasnt enough (REMINDER THAT SHE WAS FIGHTING AGAINST THE FUCKING SITH LORD THAT TURNED THE CHOSEN ONE TO THE DARK SIDE AND ENDED THE JEDI ORDER). She had so much hope for him to return to the light and didn't even cared about anything that happened, she just wanted him back.

Continuating with the main topic, he did had reasons but just because Ben's case was different from Anakin's doesn't mean he shouldn't had fallen to the dark side, With this, I have this concept that he didn't turn to the Dark side the way Anakin did (we all know that he was indeed manipulated by the same fucking man that ab*s*ed his grandson) but he was pushed and throwed to the dark side. Let me explain.

Let me start with Leia's pregnancy: she literally sensed the darkness and the light fighting for him (proves that Ben's light was so strong that it got him out of the darkness for years and sometimes by his own when his mother didn't notice it).

She literally can feel the darkness watching her and her baby (know we know it was Ben the one they were watching).

Ben had insomnia/sleeping troubles before turning 4, can you imagine what it should be for a kid? Ben was so much forced sensitive that he could sensed his mother and father fear and preocupation (just as normal parents do and normal children sensed things but plus a child that can sense 10 times more than a regular child) he experiment sensations, feelings, emotions and troubles (lonely, insecurity, preocupation, fear and sleeping problems) that many people don't experience until their teens or aduthood.

Summary: Ben Solo was chaced by a creppy old Sith Lord since the womb, his emotions where manipulated in his moments of weakness and experience fear, self doubt and anxiety before turning 5.

"The dark side and the light both claimed me for their own the moment I was born, do you know how that feels?"

This quote breaks my hear because even when I thought he did had a choice in that very moment (he didn't killed luke or the padawans and he didn't wanted to kill hennix) he did thought he was the one who caused it and that he didn't had a choice but to be that, a murderer, but it breaks my heart too bc the firts part it's true the dark and light has been fighting from him.

Then this, again my poor feelings, and again I do think Han and Leia didn't put in him any expectations, LIKE HELL, Han just wanted to travel the galaxy with his son and Leia just wanted Ben to be safe. I do think that his way of looking at things + Snoke manipulation, he came to the conclusion of this (at this point he already knew everything, that his grandfather was Darth Vader one of the most feared Sith Lords, -his uncle the jedi who defeated the Empire and blow up the Death Star, his father the greates pilot of the galaxy and his mother the last Princess of an ancient planet, war general and Republic Senator-)

In conclusion: Ben Solo wasn't a spoiled child making tantrum, he had his own ways very different from his grandfather, even his own parents (again, even thou I do think Ben is his parent's child an Organa-Solo as much as a Skywalker).

[onthequietisle]

“He is less a human-shaped thing and more a pulsing, living band of light. Light that sometimes dims, that sometimes is thrust through with a vein of darkness.”

[fluffycakesistainted]

History would remember that the New Republic was victorious on this day, and that is true. History will forget, however, how in reality this final wound was a self-inflected one: a contingency plan by a callous, vengeful Emperor who never wanted his Empire in the hands of a successor.

Aftermath: Empire’s End

[harrypotterhousequotes]

HUFFLEPUFF: "That's what you're good at, making things right." –Chuck Wendig (Leia Organa: Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End)

[diariesofareyloshipper]

"You ever need help... Come find me, we'll sort it out." - Lando to Ben

(This was told to Ben in a note celebrating Ben's birth - as a part of the natal gift he gave to Han and Leia)