“What are you most afraid of?”
“Myself.”
“Because you’re a Palpatine? Leia struggled with that same fear.”
“She didn’t tell me…she still trained me.”
“Because she saw your spirit…your heart.”…
“She was quick to learn in our training. But she feared our family’s darkness within her. She surrendered her saber to me and said that someday it would be picked up again…by someone who would face that darkness, and overcome it.”
Yeah, if I didn’t want to have the second twist of the established truth Palpatine can bring I’d probably have Luke say something like this after “Because you’re a Palpatine?” It mayyyy just be worth it enough to still consider, anyways.
But I like how you wrote the flashback voice over so I’m definitely gonna borrow that, if you don’t mind.