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theroyalhousewhittingtonts4 · 5 months

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12/10 Update on the King James II from Whittington Palace

His Majesty is resting peacefully. Recovering from a mild health episode on the 4th of December. In the meantime we would like to pay tribute to The King by showing moments throughout his life.

Our beloved King with his father James, The Prince of Sulani and his Grandfather, His Majesty, King Leonidas IX

6 months into his Gap year he got married to his longtime girlfriend Princess Yasmine bint Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Mustapha bin Ali, a commoner from Oasis Springs in a modern royal wedding where they didn't wear traditional Islamic garb but their Royal Uniforms. Pictured above from left to right, his uncle HRH Prince Charles, The Duke of Myshuno, his mother Anne, Princess of Sulani (at the time), his wife Princess Yasmine, his father James, The Prince of Sulani and heir to the Whittington Throne, and last but certainly not least his grandfather, His Late Majesty of such blessed and happy memory, King Leonidas IX. his uncle Joseph, The Duke of Copperdale took the photo.

Here the then Prince of Sulani graduated from Britechster class of '78 with a Masters of Science in World History.

During an expedition in Central America, The Prince discovered an Ancient Tome which bestowed upon him this very mysterious light which looks like a miniature sun. He said he felt enlightened beyond measure.

Taken during his Aunt Elizabeth's wedding to the Crown Prince of Windenberg.

After his father passed away, he inherited the throne and with that a new world of responsibilities. Here he is pictured with his legitimate brother Isaiah in 1995.

Here all the siblings are together for their fathers funeral, surround the new King with love and support.

Here the new King poses for his new official portrait in 1996.

Above: 2035, The King and Queen attending the wedding of their eldest daughter Judea, The Princess Royal to George, The Prince of Wales. Thus uniting the more prominent members of the Royal Families. The Kings younger brother Isaiah marrying the Princess Eugenie of York back in 2020.

Below: After the ceremony they had the reception in the Abbey and didn't leave until 1am. Prince George adoring his new wife, with her Aunt Maria standing behind him. Her brother, The Crown Prince Christian standing in his Royal Uniform, with him being under the age of 18 he was not allowed in the military which explains why he did not have any medals.

The King remained busy always writing to his constituents and subjects. Here is is writing a speech to present at the Thanksgiving celebration for the lands previous monarchs.

As he got older he remained active in his duty, going out and meeting the people. Of course cameras were always around waiting for the King to make a mistake which they never caught. Above, he and his cousin Hakim, The Earl of Copperdale is seen chatting with a U.S tourist, Celeste Michaelson.

He was also seen chatting up world renown author, Romona Burchill. As to what he said that made her blush was subject to much speculation and controversy. She commented only saying he was such a gentleman and she is currently writing a book and the encounter is said to be included.

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mofffun · 9 months

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a little IRL future spoilers/speculation:

the tochigi film society posted ep24 & 26 is filmed there (at Ooya = Bugnarok base cave) and now I can see why 25 isn't included because it's set in Shugoddom (studio) so it means the whole team visiting the Bugnarok base in 26 (and that plot wrapped up in the same episode) is looking firm 🤔 Deathnarok turned giant next ep so he's dead, what are they searching for in 26? (unless they are reviving him as Deathnarok IX) Who will tell them the history prior to 2000 years ago? (ehto, Shido-san/Rainoir said his schedule is open in November.)

#just that assuming 29-30 is Truth of God's Fury as Phase 3 finale I have NO IDEA what 27-28 is and I WANT TO KNOW!!#but i'm actually leaning closer to Truth being Phase 4 and the Phase 3 big bad can be Kamejim (who serves a higher command?)#is it about time to introduce the third power?#bugnarok cannot be completely written out yet because Jeramie needs a people to rule over #the contradicting feeling of God's Fury is too soon but what else can make Yuzuki cry and 'they had to clear plot for Kyoryu crossover'#so maybe a teaser/more clues then crossover?#a more sensible guess is Karras only returned BECAUSE the culprit escaped so now they have a new target and the reunion is what moved Yuzuk #mon mon

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giantsteppes · 2 years

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All these questions are purely academic, Russell oracled out of his shadow. I mean, whether Hamlet is Shakespeare or James I or Essex. Clergymen’s discussion of the historicity of Jesus. Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. The painting of Gustave Moreau is the painting of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom, Plato’s world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

– James Joyce: Ulysses, Episode IX: Scylla and Charybdis

#James Joyce #there are more things

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misscrawfords · 4 years

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“Cyclops”

Finally a cryptic spoiler made just for me!

A few things are suggested by this:

The key aspect of the Cyclops episode is Odysseus calling himself “Nobody”. “Who is hurting you, Polyphemus?” “Nobody is hurting me!” “If nobody is hurting you then stop yelling!” Rey is associated a lot with being nobody. “Who are you?” asks Luke. “I’m no-one.” “You’re nobody, you come from nothing, you have no place in this story, but not to me,” says Kylo. The mystery of Rey’s identity is central to the story. So with the clue “Cyclops”, this could go in various ways. Could Rey’s very lack of background be the key to defeating Palpatine? Will Palpatine be yelling “A nobody has hurt me!” Alternatively, is this a sign that Rey is lying about her origins? Odysseus is calling himself “Nobody” as a trick. (The word for “nobody” in Greek, μη τις, is actually a pun: μητις as a single word means “cunning”.) And in fact he ends up getting cursed when his desire for recognition causes him to tell the Cyclops who he really is - knowing Odysseus’ true name gives the Cyclops the power to curse him. Does Rey know something about her background that she is concealing from everyone? Could this be linked to dark!Rey? “Me too, big secret,” she says back in TFA and I do wonder...

The meta point to Odysseus’ trick in terms of his character is that Odysseus must become a true nobody in order to succeed in the world of The Odyssey - he must give up his very identity and name and everything that makes him him. There is no place for heroic arrogance and glory (themes of The Iliad) if Odysseus is going to survive and return home. If the Cyclops episode is Odysseus at his cleverest then it cannot be divorced from the overall theme of The Odyssey which is the return of a war-scarred wanderer to his home, his father, his wife and the power that is his right and from which he has been stripped. But in order to succeed at that, he must first be stripped absolutely of all these things. Calling himself Nobody is the most overt and extreme example of the ways in which Odysseus denies his identity throughout the poem - such as becoming a beggar, lying about his identity and his past, losing his clothes, being made invisible... When he arrogantly proclaims to the Cyclops that he is “Odysseus, son of Laertes, King of Ithaca” at precisely the wrong moment, he is cast back to square one and cursed. Only when he has totally denied himself and hit rock bottom can he slowly be rebuilt as son, father, husband, king and reclaim his home from usurpers. I mean, not to read too much into this or anything, but... Bendemption, anyone?

On a totally different note, the way in which Odysseus and his companions escape from the Cyclops is by blinding him and then tying themselves to the underside of his precious rams and letting them take them out of the cave in the morning, avoiding him even when he’s reaching blindly for the rams. Could the Resistance try a similar trick to escape from a tricky situation, somehow disguising themselves to escape from right under the First Order’s nose, attaching themselves to FO ships, for example? I don’t know, but I think there’s the potential for a fun plot that mirrors the escape from the Cyclops’ cave.

#star wars #rey #kylo ren #bendemption #episode ix speculation #spoilers #tros #the rise of skywalker #reylo #meta #i really MUST finish my massive meta on how SW is very Greek this weekend #also I just want to spend my entire life writing about the Odyssey #love love love

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extrakyloren · 5 years

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THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

#am i happy?? who knows #episode ix #episode ix spoilers #episode ix speculation #the rise of skywalker #star wars #text post #melissa likes to chat

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agirlacrossthegalaxy · 5 years

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Okay guys hear me out

I was looking at the tecnical details about Ben’s tie silencer. The most interesting thing I found was that it has an advanced stealth field generator. What does it mean? It basically means that it can become INVISIBLE. What if he was training her force abilities, without her relying on sight. I AM CALLING IT

#star wars #ben solo #reylo #kylo ren #rey #star wars episode ix #the rise of skywalker #tie silencer #star wars speculation #episode ix speculation

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elrieltwit · 5 years

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Some possible findings from the preview for the “Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire” novel 🧐 (SPOILERS?)

So I searched “Rey” on the Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire preview & I found some interesting things! On pg 163, it says that Rey helped kill Snoke. From the context it seems like someone is saying this in conversation, so did Rey admit that her & Ben teamed up? Is this common knowledge amongst the Resistance? 🤔

I also searched “Kylo” & “Leia”, and it appears that they’re mentioned on these same restricted pages: 241, 242, 250-251. Some mom vs. son, leading two opposing organizations, commentary? Rey is also mentioned on pg 242, along with Leia and Ben. I wonder what it’s about? 👀

This story is being told from the perspective of a Resistance spy, Vi Moradi, so I wonder what’s the story that was diseminated to the remaining members of the Resistance about Rey’s escapade on The Supremacy 🤔 From these little excerpts, I’m thinking she told the truth or at least some version of it

BONUS: In the epilogue, Kylo Ren shows up in a Star Destroyer at Batuu (the planet where Vi is trying to set up a Resistance sanctuary) with elite stormtroopers also known as the 709th legion 😶

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neonvqmpire · 4 years

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The Rise of Skywalker song countdown: day 9 of 22

Did I save you cause I know you saved me too?

If you take a step towards me

You will take my breath away

So I'll keep you close and keep my secret safe

No one else has ever loved me

No one else has ever tried

I never understood how much I could take

Then I saw the worst was over

When I laid my eyes on you

It was all that I could do to know my place

I don't follow past illusions

I don't bother, dreams come true

I was gone until I finally saw your face

If you cried out for more

If you reached out for me

I would run into the storm

Just to keep you here with me

I have gone beyond my years

I've wasted half my life

But I found it all in you

Did I save you cause I know you saved me too

Yayy, I absolutely love this song! It has such big sappy Reylo vibes sisbsjsbsos whatever

It just shows how much Rey means to Ben as she was the one who started him turn to the light, which will hopefully continue in tros.

“I don't follow past illusions”

Hopefully tros will be the time where they finally let the past die (being Vader’s helmet and Ben’s connection to the bad guys.;))

I CAN NOT believe that it’s only 13 days until I’m gonna die in the cinema, can’t wait tbh

see u in hell reylos 😘🖤

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itsmaruchanbaby · 5 years

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EPISODE IX TEASER

Palpatine :

#star wars #save ben solo #reylo #kylo ren #adam driver #reylo fandom #kylo ren it's there too #ep ix #star wars episode ix #starwars #star wars meme #rey #star wars memes #episode ix speculation #luke skywalker #star wars epix #theriseofskywalker #palpatine

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dracosollicitus · 5 years

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The Pilot and the Jedi (Song Day: Hopeful theme on the IX soundtrack)

#damerey #jedipilot #episode IX speculation #star wars #episode IX soundtrack speculation #soundtrack #does this count as song day #damereyconnection #poe dameron #rey #my edit #photoset

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space-romance-blog · 5 years

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TROS ending speculation

Okay so after hearing what Kevin Smith said about JJ calling the set of the last scene ”mind melting” I’ve been thinking of what it could actually be that ends this entire saga. I’ve come to the conclusion that I think we’re gonna get a wedding and a huge one at that between Ben and Rey.

Star wars have often ended with a big celebration:

Episode l : Celebration/parade for the relationship between Naboo and Gungans and for securing the planet’s freedom.

Episode ll: Marrige of Anakin & Padme (not a big celebration but still a union and on a happy note)

Episode lV: Royal award ceremony at Yavin.

Episode VI: Celebration across the galaxy and ewok party.

With this being the end of the whole saga, they have to go out with something big. And what would be bigger than the marrige of the two heroes that brought balance to the force?

It would also parallell with Anakin and Padmé (as they so often do), but while anidalas wedding was in secret, Reylos wedding will be known to everyone. I could also see that they’ll use the location on Yavin as the place they get married just because that’s the place where the first movie ended and now where the last one ends.

A wedding is also a set that would be spoiling things by only seeing the location and something that everyone (except reylos) would find ”mind melting”. And it would certainly be what Daisy has called it: a satisfying ending. What do you guys think?

#reylo #reyben #kylo x rey #tros speculation #episode ix speculation

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mygrandmathinksimsassy · 5 years

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“Flight Lessons”- (TIE Silencer one-shot)

Rey sinks into the sand until Ben holds out his arm to help her up.

She wouldn’t be able to stand otherwise. That’s what she tells herself when takes his hand.

“Catch your breath,” he says sternly. “We’re going again.”

“No,” she wheezes. “We are not.”

“It’ll be dark soon enough,” he insists. “You can stop then.”

“You could always have a go at it,” she pants. “Switch with me if you think it’s so easy to land.”

“I’m not going to leave you in my ship unattended, Rey.”

“You’ll run off with it,” he scolds. “And then where would I be?”

In her dreams, she’s running.

On snow. On salt. On sand.

Always running, never stopping.

Terrified of looking back

Rey’s eyes are closed, but she can always see the pilot chasing her.

Ben, he’s still Ben even after all this time, is always just behind her, breathing down her neck, and she doesn’t know what scares her more each time she floats through the air.

Fearing that he’ll catch her.

Or fearing that he won’t.

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There are rumors of a First Order coup, even in the Resistance camp. A faction led by General Hux finishes the work that another, someone whose name she’s only ever heard in whispers, started so long ago.

The Emperor’s ghost will not abide those who know the Force.

He knows all too well what the Light can do.

They are only rumors, gossip learned second-hand then third, but she has no reason not to believe them.

She hears that Ben was attacked, left to die in the ruins of the Death Star.

The cause he’s dedicated his life to spits him up and swallows him whole.

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The Resistance finds the man who used to be the Supreme Leader in the sands of Tatooine.

He’s bathed in the Force, as he always is, as he always has been, but the pulse that surrounds him is weaker than it once was. Flickering instead of beaming, a dying star instead of a burning sun.

The prisoner comes quietly.

If he didn’t want to captured, he would have gone free. The restraints fastened to his wrists by two terrified privates as they dragged him to the Falcon are only for show.

She knows that. He knows that.

But it’s easier for the others to pretend.

He’s kept in one of the Falcon’s unused rooms. One of the smaller ones that could have easily once been his.

She’s in charge of guard duty although she is the sole volunteer.

The bond has been quiet these past months, but now they’re alone, trapped together with her back against the wall and his saber on her hip.

Ben doesn’t say anything, just stares at her with a split lip and bruises coloring his cheeks.

He’s not in her mind, she told him she’s kill him if he tried and he seems to honor her request, but he’s seeing more than she wants.

Poe wanted to shoot on him sight. She’s starting to think that wouldn’t have been the worst idea.

“Why are you here?”

“I was looking for you.”

“You found me,” she snaps. “And then you got yourself captured. Excellent job.”

Silence is his only reply. His Force signature is growing healthy, strengthened by his captivity, a band of Darkness wrapped around a ring of Light.

The Light was there the last time they spoke. There, but almost too weak to see.

“Why?”

“Why what?”

“Don’t be stupid,” she says. “Why were you trying to find me?”

“I’m supposed to find you.”

He’s loud now, almost shouting, and she reaches for her saber without thinking.

“I keep having these dreams,” he continues. His voice is softer now, almost apologetic, and she moves her hand when she notices the hurt in his eyes. “Where the Order is after you. After us. Trying to kill us both.”

“You try and outrun them, but then you land on my ship right as they’re about to shoot,” he says. “I don’t know what it means, but it’s the same dream every time.”

“I can show you if you don’t believe me.”

He bows his head, offering up the contents of his mind, and she fights every impulse in her body not to take full advantage.

To witness the future he saw. To scavenge all the other dreams that might have led him here.

“You don’t need to show me, Ben,” she whispers. “I’ve seen it too.”

He lifts his head and something within her, neither Light nor Dark, grows stronger.

“You can tell Dameron I’ll cooperate,” Ben says. “I’m in exile now. I’ve got nothing left to lose.”

—

What’s left of High Command gathers in one room after the interrogation.

It’s been months, but the seat that would have been Leia’s, the throne at the head of the table, is still left empty.

Rey is present, but not quite there, standing on the outer edge of the inner circle as Poe relays the intel he’s gathered.

Ben told them more than they could have ever hoped and for the first time, the war feels like it could end.

“Why should we believe anything Ren says?”

The senior officer speaking has been scowling since the meeting started.

“For all we know, this is a trap. We’re playing right into his hands.”

Half the room murmurs its agreement and the Darkness slinks past her ankles, letting out a warning hiss before it disappears.

“You’ve seen the holos. The First Order’s offering five million credits for his head,” Finn says. “He’s a dead man walking. He might be telling the truth.”

“Even if he’s telling the truth-“

“-he is.”

It’s the first time she’s spoken in a council meeting and a roomful of eyes are locked on her. Her hand rests against her saber, Luke’s saber, and the Light helps craft every word.

“He wouldn’t lie. Not about this.”

There are more murmurs after that. Some more content than others.

Poe calls the room to order in a weary voice, turning to her once more before he issues a final decision.

“Are you sure, Rey?” Poe asks. “Can we trust him?”

He sounds tired.

Tired of fighting. Tired of war.

She nods, trusting Ben even if she isn’t sure why.

The Force cursed them both with the same vision. She’s no longer fool enough to pretend to understand what it means.

What little she says is enough to stay Ben’s execution.

The borrowed saber on her hip whispers its thanks.

—

Ben is a free-range prisoner.

He’s her shadow, a constant companion, in the weeks that follow.

None of the enlisted dare to approach him. Even most of the officers look the other way when he enters the mess for the first time, allowed out of his cell in exchange for the intelligence that reduced a First Order outpost into rubble.

An officer, the same one who had been so eager to condemn him, shoots Ben in the leg.

Or at least he tries.

Rey freezes the blaster bolt as it comes inches from Ben’s thigh. The Force flows through her fingertips as it lands with a thud and it isn’t regulation to strike Ben’s would-be assailant with her staff, but it’s kindness compared to what the Darkness suggests.

She’s stronger now that Ben’s with her. It’s intoxicating to think of what they could do.

—

They meditate.

She wakes him up while the rest of the camp is still asleep, before the suns have even risen and their only company is a silent dawn.

He says it’s been years since he even tried, that there were easier ways to find the Force when Darkness was all he knew, but he allows her to guide him as they ready for the end.

They sits across from one other with crossed legs and closed eyes, both searching for the balance she once struggled so hard to find.

They spar.

Using sticks like unruly padawans.

She tells him not to hold anything back, to teach her everything he knows, and the constellation of scrapes all over her limbs is evidence enough that he’s doing exactly as she acts.

Their matches become something of a spectacle, drawing crowds of anyone that can stop the task at hand.

He’s killed more men than she could ever name, but she wins enough to keep her ego from being bruised.

It might be the only part about her that isn’t.

—

They practice, readying themselves for the day their vision comes true.

It will come true. It’s only a matter of when.

She had to fight tooth and nail, but he’s finally been allowed use of his ship.

There are orders to cut his throat if he tries to go off-planet.

But he wouldn’t leave.

Not when there’s still so much to do.

She stares at the horizon for the millionth time, watching as Ben’s ship gathers speed.

She runs, just like the dreams, holding tight to her lightsaber when she closes her eyes and takes the leap.

She’s weightless, breathless. The Light soars as she spins through the air and she’s forgotten how it feels to stand when she bangs her head against one of the wings.

Gravity is her cruelest enemy.

She waited too long to jump.

Ben veers his Silencer off course, swerving so she doesn’t end up burned to a crisp, but it isn’t really mercy when she crashes into the sand.

It hurts, but the pain is nothing new.

She’s already fallen a thousand times.

What’s one time more?

Rey sinks into the sand until Ben holds out his arm to help her up.

She wouldn’t be able to stand otherwise. That’s what she tells herself when takes his hand.

“Catch your breath,” he says sternly. “We’re going again.”

“No,” she wheezes. “We are not.”

“It’ll be dark soon enough,” he insists. “You can stop then.”

“You could always have a go at it,” she pants. “Switch with me if you think it’s so easy to land.”

“I’m not going to leave you in my ship unattended, Rey.”

“You’ll run off with it,” he scolds. “And then where would I be?”

She rewards him with a one-fingered salute, the first thing she remembers learning in Niima outpost, and it’s the first time she’s ever seen him smile.

—

He has a nice smile.

For a tyrant.

—

There are other dreams in the weeks that follow.

Dreams where she’s in his lap and in his bed, moaning his name as he makes her come undone.

She tries to forget them as soon as she’s woken up, tries to hide her blush when Ben strips down to an undershirt in his war against the midday sun.

Those are her dreams. Nobody else’s.

Some dreams don’t come true.

—

The war finds them on Tatooine.

Their armies are waiting, stationed in the mountains until it’s finally time to strike. Finn has her staff while Poe keeps watch, his comm at the ready when it’s time for the ambush to start.

She’s the sacrificial Bantha, standing alone.

Trussed up and ready for the slaughter.

She can’t see Ben, but she can feel him. The gears of his mind whirling from his hiding place in the shadows.

There’s fear there, the same worry she has that all their work was in vain.

Her heart aches, but she ignores it.

She ignites the saber, a blue beacon for the swarm that’s descending on the planet’s surface

They wanted a Jedi.

That’s what they’ll get.

The finest ships in the First Order are seconds away, larger than life and sharper than steel, but her feet carry her over the sand, out of the desert and into the open.

Their ships are fast. Ben’s is faster.

He breaks through their offensive, soaring toward her like they’ve practiced a thousand times.

Guns are firing, getting closer with each wasted moment, when he calls her name.

The Force bangs like a drum when she jumps.

She flies through the air.

And then he catches her.

Just as she always knew he would.

—

Then the Resistance claims its due.

—

To the victors, go the spoils.

A bottle Lando brought makes its rounds among the survivors, something bitter and strong that warms the fire in her blood.

Ben isn’t unwelcome, not anymore, but he lingers at the edge of the crowd.

Keeping to himself.

Looking away when she tries to catch his eye.

—

The rest of the camp has gone to bed.

They sit together with their thighs touching, watching as the fire slowly turns to ash.

“I’ve been told I’m not a prisoner anymore,” Ben says. “That I’m free to go wherever I please.”

His Poe impression is a good one, but that’s not why she forgets to breathe.

“Where will you go?”

“I haven’t decided.”

He sighs, staring at the embers like they’ll give him any sort of sign.

“I’ve never been free before.”

She might be imagining it, but his fingertips brush against hers.

“You could stay here.”

He doesn’t say anything and that hurts more than a no ever could.

“You don’t have to stay here,” she stammers, trying to salvage what would have been a perfectly fine goodbye. “But it’ll take months to help rebuild the moisture farms. We could always use another set of hands.”

“Do you want me to stay?”

Ben turns his head and her heart pounds in her ears.

Running from an army was nothing compared to this.

She misses being brave.

He has to know she wants him to stay.

He has to know that’s all she’s ever wanted.

But words fail her as they so often do.

So she kisses him instead.

He’s just as clumsy and unpracticed as she is, but it’s perfect either way, feasting on his lips as he wraps his arms around her.

She’s soaking through her leggings as she climbs into his lap and they’ve never been closer, but they’ll never be close enough.

“I dreamed about this too.”

He kisses a trail up her neck, leaving marks she never wants to fade.

“Rey, I’ve dreamed about you for so long.”

She cradles his face in his hands,

He’s looking at her the way she’s only ever dreamed of being looked at, like she’s the most precious thing he’s ever seen, and it’s all she can do to kiss him again, to make up for all the time they’ve wasted.

The dreams, as beautiful as they were, were a pale imitation of reality.

She’ll never wake up from this for as long they live.

—

Rey takes Ben’s hand and leads him to the Falcon.

—

She’s fallen for him a thousand times.

It’s easy to fall once more.

#rey #rey of jakku #kylo ren #ben solo #rey x ben solo #rey x kylo ren #reylo #reylo fanfiction #reylo fanfic #reylo fic #star wars #star wars episode ix #rise of skywalker #bendemption 2k19 #tie silencer #episode ix fic #episode ix speculation #sasstasticmad #the trailer got me good everybody

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raven-m-3 · 5 years

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Hi there @theknightdreamer:

Thank you for the ask- this was fun to tackle!!

How will Rey react if Ben told her his feelings for her?

My gut tells me that by the time Ben is willing to confess his feelings, Rey will be very receptive to him, and will reciprocate. Why?

Well, Rey has shown that she’s pretty damn into Ben Solo. (She resists Kylo Ren, but that’s a topic for another meta). The visual storytelling speaks for itself.

Exhibit A: Looking at him like he’s the center of her world. That nothing else exists but them.

Exhibit B: Looking for him eagerly with the softest expression on her face.

Exhibit C: Her “My body is ready” moment in the elevator-- the way she moves closer, letting her eyes skim over his chest, eyes, and mouth, while looking almost drunk (😂). All of these cues suggest romantic / sexual interest.

Exhibit D: Gazing at him with awestruck devotion after he saves her. (There is sexual subtext here too, in how she strokes the saber.)

And it’s not merely physical. Rey cares about Ben as a person. She wants him for who he is-- for his true self, Ben Solo. And it’s why she’s completely devastated when he chooses to go down a path she can’t follow. (Exhibit E).

Another (subtler) reason Rey declines his proposal is that she’s not ready for symbolic womanhood yet, and all it implies (i.e., a romantic / sexual relationship with Ben). (Disclaimer: sex / romance isn’t related to maturity in real life.)

In Ep. IX, however, I have every confidence that Ben will be ready to embrace his true self, and choose a better path, and Rey will be ready to complete her Heroine’s Journey and embrace him as her partner. It’s the final film, after all.

So by the time Ben is willing to lay his cards on the table and tell her how he feels, Rey will def. be ready, too. I think she’ll respond by kissing him, or professing her feelings in return. It’s even possible that she’ll tell him first.

If I had to guess, I’d say love professions will come in 1 of 2 ways: right before or after Ben sacrifices himself or goes into certain danger.

If we get love professions before Ben goes into certain danger, it would parallel HanLeia in ESB.

However, if we are going for BATB, we’ll get love professions afterward.

Clearly there are many ways this could go-- who says it first, whether she says it when he’s “dying” or already “dead,” etc. The only thing I feel certain of is that at the end, they are going to kiss and fly away in the MF to go make future Skywalker-Solos together, and it’s going to be goddamn glorious. 😭❤️❤️

Of course, I’ve assuming that we’ll get an explicit, mutual love profession here. I made this assumption because we did get them in the Prequel and Original Trilogies, it fits the BATB themes, and Reylo’s love story is at the core of the Sequel Trilogy. I’d be surprised if they don’t include one, but it’s not impossible.

If there is a kissing scene, who do you think will initiate it?

I definitely think there will be a Reylo kissing scene. Every major romantic couple in SW has kissed on screen-- usually several times. Reylo is behind compared to HanLeia, Anidala, and even FinnRose. This is why I’m actually predicting multiple kisses in Ep. IX. I really don’t think it would be that much of a stretch.

I think there is strong evidence that Rey will initiate the first kiss. Her agency drove the physical encounter between them with confirmed sexual subtext.

We also can’t forget about this scene.

Indeed, apart from the bridal carry, Ben has never actually physically touched Rey first. Don’t get me wrong-- he has definitely pursued and showed his interest in her. But his way of showing interest is subtle: he stares at her, moves closer, offers his hand, etc. and waits to see if she is receptive to his interest.

That said, however, Reylo is the consummately equal Star Wars couple. So personally, although I prefer (and expect) Rey to initiate their first kiss, I’d love for Ben to initiate their second. Pretty please, JJ? 🙏

Thank you again for the ask! Here’s hoping to all the Reylo kisses and professions of love in Ep. IX. BRING ON THE ROMANCE. 😍

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