[ The trouble with encouraging Rey to embrace the Dark Side as part of her is that it sounds so much like what Kylo Ren has been trying to get her to do for a year, now, more emphatically now that he knows the truth about her lineage. Sure, Riku is Sora's friend, Riku is someone who claims to have overcome the Darkness, and these things should make it impossible for him to be the kind of person who would deceive her, who would lead her down that path, but ...
The relationship she'd had with Ben here felt like it threw everything else into question too. How could she be so blind? She'd expected him to give up his power, had really believed him capable of it, and then he'd thrown it all aside for power. He'd gone to Palpatine. Knelt to him. He terrorized planets like Kijimi all to get what he wanted. If she had blinded herself to the danger in him, might she have also blinded herself to that in Riku?
Might that have even been what drew her to Riku in the first place? ]
You're not listening. [ She wants to believe Riku. She wants to trust him. But she's so afraid. ] I know what happens if I accept the Dark Side as part of me. The Force gave me a vision of it. Until I know that I won't give in, I can't— [ She chokes on the words, exhales heavily. ] There's more Dark than Light in me, Riku. And there's just too much at stake.
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The relationship she'd had with Ben here felt like it threw everything else into question too. How could she be so blind? She'd expected him to give up his power, had really believed him capable of it, and then he'd thrown it all aside for power. He'd gone to Palpatine. Knelt to him. He terrorized planets like Kijimi all to get what he wanted. If she had blinded herself to the danger in him, might she have also blinded herself to that in Riku?
Might that have even been what drew her to Riku in the first place? ]
You're not listening. [ She wants to believe Riku. She wants to trust him. But she's so afraid. ] I know what happens if I accept the Dark Side as part of me. The Force gave me a vision of it. Until I know that I won't give in, I can't— [ She chokes on the words, exhales heavily. ] There's more Dark than Light in me, Riku. And there's just too much at stake.