#valianted

[frcmnowhere]

“ we both must take the risk together. ” (from luke)

“oh but… it looks so gross,” she said with a scrunched up face. rey wasn’t the sort of person to turn down any sort of food, especially when she had to deal with the barely scraps in jakku from lack of currency and especially when it was something new. but this… this was a different kind of disgusting. “look at it! i swear, i just saw it move. what even is this?”

[heatwavcs-blog]

“ doesn’t matter how big the gun is if you don’t know where to point it. ” (from luke)

“okay but look at the size of this thing!” orion exclaimed, hoisting it up onto her shoulder. she was fairly tall but had an incredibly slim build and the giant gun wasn’t helping her balance. “i could knock out like, five stormtroopers with one shot!” she said before pretending to whirl around to hit some enemies, a few ‘pew pew’s’ escaping her lips.

[forceforgotten-blog]

“ better terrible truths than kind lies. ” (luke to iris)

more than anything, iris wanted to rebuff the jedi. she wanted to tell him that he was wrong, but she was sure that if she did, he’d see right through her. “i really wish you weren’t right,” she admitted.

[warstraincd-blog]

“ is this my fault? ” (obi-wan to ahsoka)

“Obi-Wan…” Ahsoka trailed off, feeling her heart break. The guilt he carried over Anakin may be the only one who surpassed her own. When Ahsoka was a child, she had looked to Obi-Wan for guidance and insight. Now it seemed that he was looking to her. Or maybe he was looking for comfort from a friend. “No,” she insisted. “That was his choice. What he did… that was not on you.” And perhaps that’s what she needed to hear as well. 

[warstraincd-blog]

“ he was just a kid. ” (luke to rose)

Rose lowered her eyes. While she despised Kylo Ren, she could understand how difficult it would be for Luke. Rose looked back up to Luke, dark eyes searching his face to read what he might be thinking. No such luck, she’d never been great at reading beyond expressions. “It’s not your fault.” 

[warstraincd-blog]

“ have you ever seen the life leave someone’s eyes? ” (luke to ahsoka)

Ahsoka sighed. She saw so much of his mother in Luke. Sometimes it almost hurt to see such similarities. She remembered when she first met the boy– fresh out of war. Ahsoka had been younger then. She had been on Naboo and told him and Leia stories of their parents. Their role in the clone wars. How they were before everything went horribly wrong. 

Which was why Ahsoka couldn’t lie to him. She offered a small, sad smile. “Yes.“ And sometimes I caused it as well, was the unspoken ending of that answer. 

[cosmosaced-blog]

@valianted

it’s the first quiet moment wedge has found since they left naboo.

everything else has been a flurry of activity - getting organized, finding everyone space, clearing out some of the junk that was still in the falcon - and he’s tired. he often doesn’t show it, but like anyone else, there’s points where he feels stretched thin so close to breaking, but there is no time for breaking. so he finds himself a quiet area in the falcon, which means the corner of a hallway where no one treads unless they’re looking to just take in some quiet, legs stretched out against the floor of the falcon.

he knows who’s down the hallway with barely a glance. “you know, i thought the whole deal with this was that i wasn’t supposed to feel like my actual age.” fifty-five, now. and yet the war rages on. he never thought he’d be sixty years old and still fighting a war that is mostly about all the same things, just with some new players. but that’s how it’s looking.

and it’s vaguely depressing. “let’s take a vacation,” he offers. “me and you. some outer rim planet. the rules are no sand and nothing too humid.”