#thread 01. ;; ( nctarebel )

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con. ;; @nctarebel

             longing, right along things like freedom, individuality : a will of your own to exercise as you choose. free as he is now, from the shadow, these concepts are well within finn’s grasp. yet reaching for proves harder now that he can, now that he has the choice. the knit of his jaw, drawn tight. brows ticked in towards themselves.

           ❝ that’s what everyone keeps sayin’, yeah, like it’s that simple ____________ that easy. like i know what it is i even want. what i long for.  ❞

     Mara shrugs. “ Do we ever really know what we want ? ” she muses, her green eyes flickering to regard the traitorous Stormtrooper. He had done the unthinkable - deserted, fled, and had joined the Resistance. A HERO, by the definition of individual Rebels. A hero, yes, but Mara knows all too well the crevices and pits Finn had crawled from in order to claim such a title. It was a blackened void she had once known for herself, when she was the Emperor’s PAWN. 

     “ You don’t have to know what it is you want right away, Finn, ” Mara says, with a low hum. She had been in her own state of confusion when she had been freed from the Emperor’s dying command. She had to reclaim herself from the charred ruins. “ It’ll take time. ”