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Post #1473630

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RogueLeader
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The Rise of Skywalker: Untold (WIP)
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Date created
23-Feb-2022, 7:17 PM

Outside the parameters of this edit, I think something that would help make Kylo more sympathetic (and more palatable as a romantic interest) would be to clarify his motivation for joining the dark side earlier in the trilogy. Maybe when he speaks to Vader’s helmet, he could see a Vader-centric vision that illustrates the Jedi as bad for the galaxy, and he could hear/see stuff from the films.

Palpatine: If the Jedi are not all destroyed, it will be civil war without end.
Vader: Bring order to the galaxy!

And then, once he realizes Palpatine has been manipulating him all of this time in TROS, we can see Kylo’s worldview begin to crumble, and struggling with the sunk cost fallacy regarding his actions. He could tell Rey that, “Palpatine lied to [him]”, but he still is holding on to his vision of a new order. Such a line might be craftable for TROS (“It was Palpatine”, “I never lied to you”, “Show me”).

Anyway, that’s beyond the scope of Sherlock’s idea, (maybe you could put such a vision when Kylo is connecting with the helmet before he finds Exegol, like he is using the visions to help him find the Wayfinder’s location. And it would make more sense for to connect with the helmet before he reallizes Palpatine has been using it to manipulate him) but I am interested in seeing what Sherlock has in mind for Kylo’s motivations in general.