Which would cause you more emotional trauma.
- Father who you never knew and who you thought was dead, and just found out he is this evil man
- Nephew who you knew from birth, and whom your sister (who was with you through all the previous trama about your vader daddy) entrusted to you to train correctly, is a dark dark soul, and you FAILED to save him.
The first one is trauma for sure, but I don’t think it compares at all the the extreme trauma of the second one. The second one brings back the first trauma, and then adds layers and layers of extra trauma on top.
So yeah, Luke was pretty upset that he failed Leah and Klyo.
And i posted this earlier, but there is a good chance i deleted the post. but in my take on things, the luke we saw in the OT was three movies of a young idealistic kid who valued his own take on things above anyone elses. He trusted himself to be right more than he trusted what anyone told him. When these types of people fail, the fail HARD. I am this type of person.
Notwithstanding the capitalization of “failed,” the notion that Luke failed to save Ben and that Luke came to that conclusion falls entirely flat. More is needed to establish such a reaction. If Luke is now that brittle, I’d want to know what happened to make him that way in the decades prior to sensing bad stuff in Ben’s mind.