[The shadows around them darken almost to black and the air chills quickly as a tired frown comes to his face, and he can't help but take a breath that's almost like a sigh.]
Do you really think something brought on by that thing would be fixed that easily?
[He has no hope about it being fixed, at least as long as he's here. The Reaper's left a permanent mark on him in a few ways.]
[Leia turns to face him fully, reaching out to place her hand on his disabled arm, a further chill blowing in around them. She can't help it, especially after hearing him confirm that his arm's current state is a result of his ordeal with that monster. She still doesn't like his punishment initial punishment, doesn't think he deserved that, and was more than disturbed at what the reaper creature had done to him. She'd want to wrap her arms around him, but she knows that wouldn't go over well with him, and that if she's allowed to comfort him in any way, this is likely as far as he'd allow her to go.]
[If he could feel that arm, he probably would have shaken her off quickly, but as it stands he can't feel her gesture and therefore it doesn't count enough for him to bother. He just continues working.]
It's never been about "deserve."
[Nothing is fair, not in their own galaxy and certainly not here. It's part of why he's determined to work to take control of things himself, so he can make it work the right way.]
[Ren sniffs, grabbing a metal piece to fit it onto the edge of the one he was working on and a different tool to make that happen. He does, however, have an expression on his face that implies Leia has asked a stupid question.]
[If things were fair, Alderaan wouldn't have been destroyed, Ben wouldn't have killed Han, and Ben wouldn't have gone to the dark side in the first place. Not to mention everything else that happened in between all that, or the fact that she got to live on Alderaan in the first place, while Luke was stuck on Tatooine of all places.]
That doesn't mean I'm not allowed to express sympathy for you, and it doesn't mean that you deserved that barbaric punishment they put you through.
[Still frustrated, he decides to put his annoyance into completing the parts for his saber, and resolves to ignore Leia as best as he can. ... after another comment.]
And I'm telling you that "what I deserve" and your sympathy mean nothing to me.
[Or put in more simple terms, since she seems to have a hard time understanding:]
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lostapprentice) wrote2035-01-06 02:37 am
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Do you really think something brought on by that thing would be fixed that easily?
[He has no hope about it being fixed, at least as long as he's here. The Reaper's left a permanent mark on him in a few ways.]
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I'm sorry. You don't deserve that.
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It's never been about "deserve."
[Nothing is fair, not in their own galaxy and certainly not here. It's part of why he's determined to work to take control of things himself, so he can make it work the right way.]
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Then what is it about?
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The Force works in strange ways if left alone.
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And what do you mean by that?
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Do you want a lesson on the philosophy of the universe?
[He doesn't really want to talk about that right now. He's got something concrete in his hands and he'd like to focus on that.]
Things aren't fair. That's it.
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[If things were fair, Alderaan wouldn't have been destroyed, Ben wouldn't have killed Han, and Ben wouldn't have gone to the dark side in the first place. Not to mention everything else that happened in between all that, or the fact that she got to live on Alderaan in the first place, while Luke was stuck on Tatooine of all places.]
That doesn't mean I'm not allowed to express sympathy for you, and it doesn't mean that you deserved that barbaric punishment they put you through.
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And I'm telling you that "what I deserve" and your sympathy mean nothing to me.
[Or put in more simple terms, since she seems to have a hard time understanding:]
I don't care.