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tushanshu2016-05-15 09:22 pm
generalginger) wrote in tushanshu2016-05-15 09:22 pm
1. console: video
[When the video feed begins, there is a redhead frowning at the screen.]
As far as planets go, this isn't the worst place I've been to. Though I suppose this hardly counts as a planet.
[The frown deepens, and it's obvious that he is struggling to wrap his head around the fact that he has found himself here on a turtle and it's difficult to grasp.]
However, there are some deep-seated issues in this city that should be addressed. How do you expect to have any sort of progress when this place is so divided? There is strength in unity, which all of you seem to fail to see. Instead of competing with one another for power, wealth, and resources, it would be much more logical for all of you to fall in line. Some who have power and autonomy do not always deserve it, and are too feeble-minded for it. Should they cast their support in favour of those who are fit to lead, there will no longer be chaos.
If you're honest with yourself, you can admit that it's what's best for any society.
As far as planets go, this isn't the worst place I've been to. Though I suppose this hardly counts as a planet.
[The frown deepens, and it's obvious that he is struggling to wrap his head around the fact that he has found himself here on a turtle and it's difficult to grasp.]
However, there are some deep-seated issues in this city that should be addressed. How do you expect to have any sort of progress when this place is so divided? There is strength in unity, which all of you seem to fail to see. Instead of competing with one another for power, wealth, and resources, it would be much more logical for all of you to fall in line. Some who have power and autonomy do not always deserve it, and are too feeble-minded for it. Should they cast their support in favour of those who are fit to lead, there will no longer be chaos.
If you're honest with yourself, you can admit that it's what's best for any society.
I'M NOT SORRY
Seeing that Starkiller Base was far from being a ship, this means little to me.
[How dare she not know who he is. He's been in so many propaganda videos.]
BUT YOU SHOULD BE
it's the smirk's fault.]— I meant, base, not ship. Regardless if you're really a person of higher ranking, I would have found out much earlier than now.
So, what are you? Someone who shoves stormtroopers around and berates them when they're not behaving as you'd like?
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[He's undecided whether he should tell her or not, but after a moment, he figures that if he doesn't tell her, Ren will just make something terrible up. Somehow.]
A General, and I was the commander of Starkiller Base.
[:|]
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[ of that she has no doubt; Ren is powerful, but he's reckless and unfettered. apparently all she has to do is channel the Force through herself, as she did on Starkiller. she could have killed him. perhaps next time, she will.
but when he says General, and commander of Starkiller, Rey's bravado deflates somewhat at the realization of just what this man has done. his finger had pushed the button. ]
— You, [ she murmurs, disbelieving — someone who'd murdered billions in mere moments should have looked differently, she thinks ] you were the one who fired on the Hosnian system.
That was you. [ her eyes change, perplexed and sad and angry all at once. ]
...Why?
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[Hux doesn't like the way she looks at him when she realises what he's done. He doesn't care about what Rey thinks, or how she feels, but to some extent, the emotions he's reading from her reflect some of the ways he feels about it that that he's locked away.
He's not sure whether the very brief flash of guilt made it to his face, but it's gone as soon as Hux is aware that it's there. He can't be an effective leader if such minor things get to him.]
I gave the order, yes. [Which is probably worse, since in that situation, he was the one who had agency. BUT HE'S NOT THINKING ABOUT THAT.]
It was a strategic necessity at the time.
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it's gone just as suddenly, but Rey sees it nevertheless. ]
...Do you think about it? Sometimes, what you've done?
All of those billions of voices, crying out in terror and anguish. [ she hadn't heard it as it'd been actually happening, as her Force-sensitivity hadn't fully awakened yet at the time Starkiller was fired, but Finn had mentioned to her later that he'd heard screaming in his head that hadn't come from anywhere on Takodana. ] You extinguished them as though they were nothing more than tiny candles being snuffed.
[ she looks at him shrewdly. ] Does that make you feel powerful?
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It all boils down to numbers, and he's not sure if there is a way to quantify the countless lives affected into something meaningful. It doesn't keep him up at night, if only because he hardly sleeps anyway, and he's insisted on viewing this as something necessary, strategic, or just another terrible thing that happens in war.
Nevermind the fact there's never been death and destruction of this magnitude before. But it's war, and using the weapon is only wrong if the First Order falls.]
The way it makes me feel is irrelevant, and it's hardly something to be discussed with you.
[In truth, it really wasn't something he'd discussed in depth with anyone, apart from the destruction of Starkiller Base itself.]
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The way you feel after murdering that many people should be the most relevant. Not the least.
I called Ren a monster, for having murdered his own father. [ she chews her lip, almost thoughtfully. ]
I'm not sure exactly what I would call you.
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[he doesn't care about what she thinks. and his opinion of himself isn't influenced by what others think, particularly not an enemy.]
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[ her smile is as bitter-tinged as she can manage. ] Perhaps I'll even be the lucky one to teach you such a lesson.