Fancy seeing you again, Nonny. Allow me to take my time to answer you properly since you explayed yourself aswell.
So, the thing is: JJ Abrams had a plan, then they changed the director and script. Alotta shit happened. Rey parents were supposed to be important? That was cut off, destroyed, buried and never talked about again. Rey’s visions? Fuck that, bring shirtless Ren. Finn story? Sidequest with light romance because apparently reylo wasn’t enough. Snoke’s death? A literal joke of April’s Fool. Knights of Ren? What the fuck would we bother with that, bring the Praetonian Guard (the coreography was kinda amazing but those badass motherfuckers are the best of the best and you are telling me that the girl with bare to none training and Ren can take them down unhurt? Please). Seems pretty convenient to me.
I would rather have an epic battle of seven force-users as strong as Ren himself BEFORE he even gets close enough to Snoke AND THEN he kills him. But he dies because of the wounds. He may tell Rey he didn’t do it to save her. She didn’t need to be save. He did it because he needed her as a distraction. Cause that was her role on his vision of this precise moment. That was the cosmic reason for her being there. “What vision?” She may ask. Well…
I’m going to tell you my headcanon, which was about Ren being what we call a Grey Jedi that turned to the Dark Side to destroy it from the inside once and for all, even if he himself was lost to his impulses on the process. He realiced when he was young that the pacifism that Luke was teaching him would’t save the Galaxy of what has to come (insert a vision for example) and SOMEONE had to step up and get that shit done. So he went and decided to do it himself. A little bit of pride. A little bit of imprudence too. Just like his grandfather. I would like him to die on the Dark Side, consumed by the hatred and rage he was forced to endure in order to get there, but he went too deep.
His spirit was lost to the Dark Side, but the Light won that battle with his sacrifice. He went as far as it was necessary. He sacrificed his father in order to get closer to that goal. He gave it all. And then he died. Like a villain, like a hero.
And the tragedy here is that Snoke wasn’t the real villain. Darth Sidious was (as we heard on the Rise of the Skywalker trailer). He was so focused on destroying Snoke that he lost the perspective (something that as a pure Jedi would never happend), and he died before completing his life’s mission true objective. That’s what I call an epic fail.
Imagine that soul being reached out by his grandfather’s ghost just to tell him he was proud, but he was a fool and Snoke wans’t the threat he sensed. Imagine Ren coming back as a Force Ghost just to reach out for Rey to fucking help her to finish the cicle. Imagine her reservations to follow a Dark Side Ghost’s advice, but also sensing the Force telling her it’s the right thing to do.
Imagine him giving her advice, more calm, the all-consuming rage gone now. I wouldn’t mind if it’s then, and only then, that they may develop feelings towards eachother. A love that would never be complete (I’m a sucker for irony/tragedy) because it couldn’t flourish when he was alive, but now is also too late. Somehow they take down the Dark Side together. Never again Jedis are needed, or Siths raise again. Ren bid farewell to Rey, and he vanishes breaking her heart. True story ending.
Unfortunately, what they brought us was a kid with anarchist ideals and zero self-control leading an army with no military education known so far (because c’mon. We are Sith. Aint nobody got time for that.) that seems to plan to destroy the entire galaxy for the sake of it and no particular reason beyond “all old must die”. I don’t expect a lot of ren/hux interactions but even if they are few if the tone is more serious/mature/professional i would be happy. My inspiration could work with that, but if they keep the tone of TLJ it’s a turn off for me.
And here I finish my essay, Anon. I hope you enjoyed. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and expect Adams to deliver the ending this saga deserves. And if he doesn’t well, this HC will always be here for me and everyone willing to read it. Kisses and kittens for u ^^.
PD: PLEASE SEND ME A LINK TO THAT COMIC. I NEED TO SEE IT 0.0
