(x)A shadow fell over her, and she dropped into a defensive stance, ready to rip into the threat, but it was only the alpha, his eyes searching hers before he began to nose around her ribs and flank, sniffing for wounds.
Rey whipped around and snapped her teeth a breath from his nose when he sniffed where he shouldn’t be sniffing, and he backed off guiltily. He trotted around her toward the moose with an apologetic lowering of his tail and returned with its heart to set it before her. He backed off again, watching intently to see if she’d eat it.
I keep thinking about how SW treats “jedi” as the ultimate power for good. Rey has to be a jedi, Leia had to be a jedi, and Finn has to be force sensitive so that he can eventually become a jedi. “Gray” characters like Han can have a shady past, but the narrative uses this to signal to the audience that they wouldn’t ever make him a jedi. We never expect Han to be able to use the force. Same with Poe, to some extent.
Idk about you, but idolizing of the Jedi kinda makes me side-eye. The idea that only truly good and blameless people - whose faults are not even their own but passed down by family - can use an ultimate force for good…I don’t know. I’m probably reading too much into it. But I think that’s why I liked Kylo/Ben’s character and Rey Nobody. Because they both challenged that notion in their own way.
TLJ!Rey is about to claw TROS!Rey to death like the feral gremlin she is. Meanwhile, TFA!Rey is still somewhat innocent and hasn’t yet experienced the bloodlust of finding out Luke tried to kill Ben, and therefore isn’t quite yet done with all of the Skywalker bullshit.
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