Okay, so, I gave those a bit of thought...
- ToCM : I think Crent will live the rest of his days in the frustration that the child couldn't speak. He's had that one shot at having a jedi in his presence, a real one, and that one couldn't tell him squat about the Force or his holocrons or whatever.
- FullDiag : It's hard to find one without spoilers for the end of the story or that you didn't confirm, really. x) But I will shoot this one at you from Vivian's past : when she was at the MIT, she did the dorm thing before having a flat and despite actually living in Boston, both as a way to get away/independent from her parents and to "live her student life", which really summed up to eating pizza and drinking way too much coffee but that's beside the point, point being that she eventually moved to a flat because the promiscuity in the dorms was becoming too taxing for her and she needed a space "she owned" to be able to focus properly again.
- ToCM : Crahl kinda became instructor by accident. It was not the path he was walking down with his life, but he ended up in a situation where he had the skills and the patience required and there was a need for an instructor, so he stepped up and became awesome at it.
- FullDiag : Vivian likes salt and vinegar chips and I will die on that hill. GO FORTH MY HALF-BRITISH CODE BABY I LOVE YOU. ❤
Ok, um, this goes under "read more" because it will make a long post to answer to all this!
ToCM — About Crent.
Mmh, this is an interesting headcanon! 🤣 My poor Crent really wasn't prepared to live that day of his own life, that's for sure. BUUUUT, he's fine. Don't worry too much about him.
The holocron part is a real frustration though.
But there is also the fact that, yes, he was *this close* to know long lost facts, to make a breakthrough... But he's a scholar and he has to name his sources! All of them. And to prove them. (Or else, he will have a little "article lacking sources" tag everywhere in his article!) And he could never have done so with the kid, and Din. Not without putting them at risk. And he knows it.
There, for him it was just a most needed shot of faith in their work, and the burning hope that Jedi will return... and that maybe Nadié and him helped in making it happen, that very day. He just has to continue searching for answers on his own (and maybe help others along the way), but the answers ARE real, and out there!! He just has to find them. Which is the very definition of his work as a scholar, researcher, doctor in history, whatever he calls himself these days.
In conclusion, you're right, but there is another layer of depth that makes the frustration bearable to him, and the purpose of his works lives on. So, I give this one a 8/10.