Your mother believed in neutrality and peace. My father designed a weapon that destroys entire planets. [ the usual frown she wears deepens, eyes hollowing out. she knows her father believed in neutrality once too. look how far they'd both found themselves off track. ] He worked for the Empire to protect me.
[ she didn't realize how much guilt she bore for that until people had started congratulating her for surviving her father's weapon. the weapon he built as part of a facade to keep her safe. the weapon that destroyed entire city's, including the one where baze and chirrut and bodhi were raised.
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Date: 2017-02-06 08:32 am (UTC)[ she didn't realize how much guilt she bore for that until people had started congratulating her for surviving her father's weapon. the weapon he built as part of a facade to keep her safe. the weapon that destroyed entire city's, including the one where baze and chirrut and bodhi were raised.
she can't accept gratitude for that. ]