#FOCUSED TRAINING!!!! I CAN START DOING SHIT FOR REALSIES!!!!!

[llycaons]

FEELING THIS. ORIENTATION PROGRAM IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gizkasparadise]

I´ll take the 500 word passage challenge - feel free to comment whatever you want! The selection comes from "And I´m Here, chapter 6": "And then he breaks. Power unleashes around him like a newly broken dam, the Force and his body becoming one in the same as Kylo clenches his fingers in the air" (...) Kylo runs forward through the water, and before Rey knows what is happening he has his arms around her, gripping her so tightly to him that her body rises from the muddy sand beneath their feet.

so i want to preface this one by saying that “fire, fire” was my favorite chapter of fanfic to write...uh, pretty much ever and i had just way too much fun doing all the Extra As Fuck action scenes-- of which this one is the most Extra. a little long so i’m gonna post commentary under The Cut!

And then he breaks. god me and my emphatic italics this is a writing tic that i am trying v hard to quit/phase out

Power unleashes around him like a newly broken dam for some reason i always use dam or river metaphors with force powers idk, the Force and his body becoming one in the same as Kylo clenches his fingers in the air. At the motion, the distant part of the Finalizer, Snoke’s wing, begins to shake. get fucked, snoke! It’s not enough. He needs it to be enough. 

Kylo throws up his opposite arm, mimicking the motion of the other. He makes as though grabbing, and then there’s the unmistakable scream of metal echoing throughout the beach of Lehon. yeah this pose was totes inspired by Toph metalbending in avatar the last airbender. GRAB THAT METAL

For a moment, everything goes still. And were he more aware of his present, Kylo would see the halting ground fight around him, how Resistance and First Order forces alike stare at him with unmitigated awe and fear. How the flying units begin to stall and make wider distances away from the star destroyer. everyone on that beach is pretty much stopping in unified “What. The. Fuck.” at this

But he isn’t. Instead, he keeps his eyes trained on the sky. He doesn’t let go of the grip he has on the metal, on the Force. He lets out a groan, tearing again, and this time everyone can see it:

Snoke’s wing is ripping apart from The Finalizer. WHAT THE FUCK!!!!

Kylo hunches over, eyes trained dead at the sky as he focuses, as he brings the power of his legacy to fruition in that one moment. He draws back one of his arms, elbow to his ear as though about to let loose an arrow, and the ship breaks apart further--a clear, blue “v” of sky between it and the main body of the ship. so i wanted something that demonstrated that kylo is a power house in the force because he’s spent the majority of this series either restraining himself or not knowing he’s even force sensitive. since rey had most of the action/fighting scenes and finn got shatterpoint, i figured this was one way to show that he’s still a force (ba dum tish) to be reckoned with

Nothing’s been done like this. It shouldn’t be possible. nope. snoke is sitting in his robe just like 8|

But it is.  Because he wills it to be so. Because there is a light he can’t afford to let die out. pssst that light is rey but also himself

Kylo brings back his other arm, and he feels something warm trail down from his nose. The coppery taste of blood hits his lips, but he doesn’t care. you know powers are getting #SRS when there’s a bloody nose okay He is one with his power, and his power is the whole of the Force. nod to the concept of the Unifying Force, which was what i wanted to sort of build kylo toward using

He screams from the strain of it, but he waves both his arms down.

And sends Snoke’s personal wing crashing down to the planet’s surface. BOOM

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They’re falling. Some invisible Force knocks Rey away from Snoke, sending her sprawling on the steps below him.

“What is it this time?!” She swears.

Snoke lets out a wheeze of a laugh, the sound bone-chilling.

“My apprentice,” he whispers, smiling with bloodied teeth. “Has finally grown into his own.” he’s so full of shit he did not believe this was possible for 2 minutes

Rey tries to stand, but is knocked back down. “Kylo?” She demands. because who else is going to actually break a star destroyer???

But Snoke gives her nothing. Instead his head falls back, the blowback of Rey breaking his Force Horror and Finn’s shot apparently enough to send him into shock. i wanted him to be kind of a Squishy Wizard in this fic, which i think is supported by canon. not physically strong but super good at the Mind Fuckery

“Rey, pretty sure this is the way toward the ground!” Finn says. hey rey pay attention!!!

She looks at him, tries to get her heart to slow down enough to think. “Then we’d better make a harness.”

“Got any ideas?”

She thinks about the barrier. Winces. “One.” she is so damn tired at this point and now she has to make a protective hamster ball around them with the Force

The room shakes again, and this time Rey feels the air rushing in as one of the walls suddenly isn’t there anymore. It’s as if someone grabbed hold of the metal, bunched it in his fist, and teared.

...Her eyes widen when she remembers where she’s seen that before. It was years ago, when she was trapped in an X-wing and her evacuation had malfunctioned. It was when Kylo had torn her from her ship and saved her life. i thought this callback was really important as we moved toward the end of the series. it’s kind of the catalyst that started the whole thing off / it was also when kylo For Realsies realized he loved her and wouldn’t accept her dying in the war

“Force,” she swears in disbelief, but she is brought back from her revelation by Finn slinging one of her arms over his shoulders.

“Force later, survival now -” he demands, before they’re both tossed to the other side of the room. he is the best friend in the whole world and is just like 100% done with all their bullshit by this point. LET’S LIVE TO REMINISCE, REY

Rey grabs his hand, and summons what is left of her near non-existent energy into a final barrier.

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Kylo drops to his knees as he fights to keep hold of the wing. He aims for the shallow depths of the shoreline, for a softer landing. He tastes more blood in his mouth, but he ignores it.

He holds onto the falling wing with everything he has, expanding with the Force to give it a barrier while he also slows its descent. In the back part of his mind, he feels a presence. An anchor that allows him to keep summoning more and more power. force bond but also ghost!anakin!

Kylo’s nose is bleeding, his eyes are bloodshot, and his ears are ringing when the hunk of star destroyer hits the ocean just outside the beach.

His body is moving before his mind tells it to, wading through the clear, syrupy blue water that is about waist high. It’s not deep enough to drown in, but he thinks about the vision in Dagobah’s cave and he has never felt more fear in his life when a single word rips from his throat. this is a callback to a chapter in Stars Don’t Come Down where he had the Cave Vision of Rey drowning / him finding her face down in the water. This is something that Could Have Happened if kylo didn’t get his shit together (which he fortunately did)

“REY!”

There’s a moment of silence, of too long stillness that makes him think what if-

But then he sees Finn, jumping out from wreckage and into the water. And after him, he sees another figure, jumping out of the caved out-wall.

Kylo runs forward through the water, and before Rey knows what is happening he has his arms around her, gripping her so tightly to him that her body rises from the muddy sand beneath their feet. HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! god im a sucker for desperate hugs i think that shows up in almost all my ship!fic

thank you for requesting :D :D