“You’re Eleanor Shellstrop from Phoenix, Arizona. Your favorite meal is shrimp scampi. You listed your emergency contact as Britney Spears as a long-shot way of meeting her, and your favorite movie is that clip of John Travolta saying “Adele Dazeem.” You flew halfway across the world because you wanted to be a better person, and it was very brave. You’re sharp, and you’re strong. You make fun of me a lot. You once called me a human snooze button. But you also showed up in my classroom when I was drowning in despair and canned chili, and you basically saved my life. You have very high self-esteem, and a very low tolerance for men who wear sandals, and your worst nightmare is someone saying something nice about you to your face, but too bad because I need to say it because you deserve it.”
HOT TAKE
Ben and Rey are One Force Being, they are one person, two sides of a coin
this is why
1) Leia feels such a natural and deep attachment to Rey immediately, to the point of embracing her rather than Chewbacca in TFA because her Force signature already subconsciously recognizes her own child's soul
2) similarly, this is why Han Solo feels a familiarity and connection, but more importantly why Rey is so desperately willing to see Han as a father figure in the first day of meeting him, she recognizes a pre-existing paternal bond
3) this is why the attraction and belonging comes crashing down so potently for Ben and Rey, they are literally meant to be One Being, One person. these are not just soul mates, they're One Soul.
4) Rey and Ben have both been in each other's minds from the beginning, hence both of their disbelieving recognition and suspicion when meeting or hearing of the other
"she had seen him before in a daydream. in a nightmare"
"what. girl?"
5) Rey learns the ways of the Force so quickly and flies so talentedly
how is it possible without formal training? it's not, because she's been learning at the same time as Ben! she didn't just steal it from his mind or learn it from him, no she has a natural inclination for all of it because they were both learning these skills as One Being and it unlocked fully when they finally physically met
6) when Rey is in the cave and looks into the mirror she sees a shadow that looks eerily like Ben's figure and then it merges until it shows herself, it is literally telling her she is two people in One, her destiny and spiritual identity is two halves of a whole
this also foreshadows the eventual Unity of their Being in One Vessel (Rey)
they are both the Sith (Palpatine) and the Jedi (Skywalker), both unadulterated Light and Dark
the failure of the Sith and the Jedi were their staunch traditions, their rule-making, their desire for influence or the belief that one or the other "side" of the Force is better or greater than the other
but both Ben and Rey are the counterpoint to all of it, Rey faces the Dark without reservation, seeing it as just the Force "it wanted to show me something", and Ben faces the Light, capable to wield its most powerful aspect -- the ability to give Life, because of his passion and emotional attachment (something the Jedi would have rejected)
7) when Rey looks out into the desert of the place where the Skywalkers all began and sees Luke and Leia and they give their approval and recognition, she assumes the Skywalker identity
because when Ben gives his Life Force to Rey, note that his body is gone and his Force Ghost nowhere to be found, this is because he is finally One with Rey (a Marriage in the Most Spiritual Sense)
this is why she's Skywalker, she literally is Skywalker, because Ben literally lives as One in her
and because she is (they are) also Palpatine, they will live and rectify and make up for both of the Legacies. the Force was the push, the Force Bond evidence. and through both as One, they will bring a new Legacy, and a new and more absolute Balance
this is so soft and so heartbreaking, I want to yeet the entirety of DLF and then myself into the nearest supernova 😭💔
Lucifer rolling into a crime scene on roller skates and whisky: helloo everyone, I went to therapy this morning and im ready to project my feeling and trauma onto this corpse
Chloe, squatting next to the body with her third coffee of the day: ah there he is, love of my life, pain in my ass and bane of my existence
Clary: tell me a bedtime story
Jace: *tells her about how his abusive father murdered his pet*
Isabelle: tell me a bedtime story
Simon: *tells her the plot of Star Wars*
Reblog!! #soocute
Hahaha :) #omg #this #is #cool
This is so adorable. Second favourite couple in Vampire Academy. First always is: Rose and Dimitri
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