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eluvio2017-02-10 09:53 pm
ex_forcechoke292) wrote in eluvio2017-02-10 09:53 pm
[video;] un: gen.skywalker
First off, whoever built these buckets of bolts in the hangar bay need to be let go. This is what happens when you let factories churn out garbage in large numbers: who's quality checking?
[He is. He's been here all of a few days, and he's already sequestered in the hangar, lamenting (loudly) over the sad state of automated affairs. This is where the video starts: he has the communicator propped up a short distance away as he's digging into the mechanics of one of the robots that had glitched out and come to a jerking halt with a wrench still clenched in its hand.
He mutters something about matrices before finally looking back up. This isn't the real point behind the message, regardless of how distracted he currently seems.]
Sad state of mechanical affairs aside, I have a question. [He sounds suddenly hesitant, as if he honestly doesn't want to ask it at all. He even rolls his shoulders back uncomfortably, before taking a long, deliberate breath.] I'm looking for a sparring partner. Swordsmanship proficiency if I can find it.
[Hoping against hope, but he doesn't sound too hopeful at all. As far as he knows, those who can really challenge him in this area are all back home, and neither side of that equation has a way to get back to the other...yet.]
Might as well make the most of being stuck out here, anyway.
[He is. He's been here all of a few days, and he's already sequestered in the hangar, lamenting (loudly) over the sad state of automated affairs. This is where the video starts: he has the communicator propped up a short distance away as he's digging into the mechanics of one of the robots that had glitched out and come to a jerking halt with a wrench still clenched in its hand.
He mutters something about matrices before finally looking back up. This isn't the real point behind the message, regardless of how distracted he currently seems.]
Sad state of mechanical affairs aside, I have a question. [He sounds suddenly hesitant, as if he honestly doesn't want to ask it at all. He even rolls his shoulders back uncomfortably, before taking a long, deliberate breath.] I'm looking for a sparring partner. Swordsmanship proficiency if I can find it.
[Hoping against hope, but he doesn't sound too hopeful at all. As far as he knows, those who can really challenge him in this area are all back home, and neither side of that equation has a way to get back to the other...
Might as well make the most of being stuck out here, anyway.
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[He's fairly certain, judging from glances at Council meetings that even Yoda and Master Windu have their differences. For as much as Obi-Wan's criticism can grate, there are small favors in never being left to anyone else on the Council for a significant length of time.
Though it doesn't sound as if the Council matters much anymore, if the Republic is no longer a republic.
Does that mean his relationship is a secret he no longer needs to keep? He's always known there would come a point where neither he nor Padmé could continue to hide it, and Luke's existence seems to make its denial a swiftly moot point.
There's a silver lining in all of that failure. Thin, perhaps, and not what he'd ever expected. But if he doesn't have to lie anymore...]
I'm surprised he didn't tell you that you were too old.
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He... did, actually. At least once I figured out he was actually Yoda and tried to convince him to train me. I didn't make the best first impression.
[ It was an interesting encounter, but a very long story. ]
Ben convinced him, though. Or... Ben's ghost, I guess.
[ Force ghosts are weird, OK? ]
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[They've moved past the part where Anakin and near everyone dear to him is dead. He's choosing to ignore most of it, lest he gets caught up in trying to prevent something he can't when he's here alone with no way to effect change.
But that, he can't ignore. Force ghosts are weird. Because they shouldn't exist.]
That's not--that's possible?
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[ Luke thought that was... basically just the Force being the Force. Luke frowns, brow furrowed. ]
But... Yoda told me that we're luminous beings. I mean, I almost didn't believe it myself when Ben talked to me again, but he was there. He spoke to me. He spoke to Yoda.
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[He doesn't doubt it--he doesn't have a reason. In fact, quite the opposite. This only reaffirms an assumption that the Order is holding back. That they've always been holding back.]
I don't--I don't doubt you. This is just...new.
["New." As if this isn't just one more secret in a life he apparently never gets to finish living.]