10K. [ She repeats, wondering if it's a designated name he'd chosen for himself, or a name given to him ... something like the identity-marker Finn had been given before he left the First Order to join the Resistance.
It hardly matters here and now anyway, and a quick moment later her expression softens. ] I'm Rey.
[ She shrugs a shoulder. ]
And it's all right. About seeing whatever you saw. I'm not ashamed of it, it's just — complicated.
[ he almost expects the usual question of "what does that mean", since most people tend to think it's stupid or not a real name at all. with 10k, he doesn't get as many strange looks, but if he leads with "ten thousand" instead, there's the usual insistence that a number can't be a name.
but she seems to accept it pretty easily, his own lips quirking up into a partial smile when she offers her name in return.
he nods, glad that she's at least not mad at him or anything. ]
Most things are. I mean, if you saw my stuff, you'd probably think it was all really weird and crazy. So I get it. We can't really help the kind of stuff we get thrown into, you know?
[ Rey almost has to laugh at his comment, struck by just how incredibly true she feels it in her own life. She was nothing more than an orphan on Jakku, no name, no destiny, no real idea of what the rest of her life was going to look like outside of her desperate dreams. And then out of nowhere, a droid showed up, and Finn showed up, and then she'd been thrown alongside myth and legend and a rebellion that meant to change the fate of the entire galaxy.
Okay, fine. Yeah. She does have to laugh. At least a little. ]
You're right. We can't help the kind of stuff we get thrown into. [ She shakes her head. ] Look where we are, after all that.
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Date: 2020-04-25 11:21 pm (UTC)10K. [ She repeats, wondering if it's a designated name he'd chosen for himself, or a name given to him ... something like the identity-marker Finn had been given before he left the First Order to join the Resistance.
It hardly matters here and now anyway, and a quick moment later her expression softens. ] I'm Rey.
[ She shrugs a shoulder. ]
And it's all right. About seeing whatever you saw. I'm not ashamed of it, it's just — complicated.
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Date: 2020-05-07 02:16 pm (UTC)but she seems to accept it pretty easily, his own lips quirking up into a partial smile when she offers her name in return.
he nods, glad that she's at least not mad at him or anything. ]
Most things are. I mean, if you saw my stuff, you'd probably think it was all really weird and crazy. So I get it. We can't really help the kind of stuff we get thrown into, you know?
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Date: 2020-05-20 01:39 am (UTC)Okay, fine. Yeah. She does have to laugh. At least a little. ]
You're right. We can't help the kind of stuff we get thrown into. [ She shakes her head. ] Look where we are, after all that.