MCA #1- Wednesday evening

[thatwaslucky]

For whatever reason, the Skywalker-Solos- including adoptees- had rough Augusts. Rey herself had lost four people in that month a couple years apart. Which was why in talking to Anakin, they'd decided maybe they needed to get people together for some commiseration. Also drinking.

Rey didn't have people over very often but it wasn't like there was a ton of stuff to clean in her stupid-giant apartment. As long as the kitchen worked and there were places to sit (the furniture was mostly mermaid!) it was probably fine.


[For said Skywalker-Solos. Because we have spent a lot, a lot of years being mean.]

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[tatooine_doofus]

"It doesn't," Luke agreed, "but I was greatly outmatched by Vader." His lips quirked up humorlessly. "Everyone was. You've seen him fight?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I have," she said. "Vader at his peak would be..."

[tatooine_doofus]

"Terrifying," Luke said, nodding.

[thatwaslucky]

"I've heard that's how..." She glanced at his hand.

[tatooine_doofus]

Luke nodded, turning his hand in its black glove. "And after he did that, he told me who he was."

Anakin had amazing timing.

[thatwaslucky]

"There's no way to respond well to that," she said simply.

[tatooine_doofus]

"That's why I went with screaming," Luke agreed.

[thatwaslucky]

"What about after?" Rey asked.

[tatooine_doofus]

"It took a lot of time after," Luke admitted. "I needed to become reconciled to the new reality. It's not every day that you find out your father is the person used to scare children into bed across the entire galaxy. I didn't tell anyone else, but I really thought about why he had told me and came to the conclusion that he didn't really want to be Vader. There was still some good in there." He smiled. "And that changed the course of history."

[thatwaslucky]

"How long did it take you to... cope with everything?" she wondered.

[tatooine_doofus]

"I'm still coping," Luke said with a tiny smile. "Our...heritage...isn't widely known and people still don't have a lot of nice things to say about Darth Vader."

[thatwaslucky]

Rey paused, and asked, "Has Anakin told you about me?"

[tatooine_doofus]

Luke shook his head, eyes fixed on hers. "He doesn't tend to share."

[thatwaslucky]

"Don't drink when I say this," she warned, frowning. "Palpatine was my grandfather."

She shrugged.

[tatooine_doofus]

Luke choked on nothing anyway. Oh, the horrifying mental images.

"I'm so sorry," he finally said, completely sincere.

[thatwaslucky]

"I sort of don't care anymore?" Rey admitted. "But it took me a long time to deal with what that meant, or what I thought it meant, and everything I'd known about my life till then."

[tatooine_doofus]

"How did you find out?" Luke asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"Another version of you told me," she said. "I think it helped, after all the denial."

[tatooine_doofus]

"I hope I broke it to you gently," Luke said.

[thatwaslucky]

"You did," she told him. "You knew what it's like."

After the whole bit where he told her to get off his lawn.

[tatooine_doofus]

"I do," Luke agreed. "And you're never just who you came from, but it's definitely something you still have to account for."

[thatwaslucky]

"I think I worried about that too much," she said with a frown. "What about you?"

[tatooine_doofus]

"I don't think I would call it a worry any more," Luke admitted. "Just an awareness. If I pull too strongly from the Force, or start to feel out of control of my emotions, I stop. There's too much history not to take the Dark Side seriously."

[thatwaslucky]

Rey blinked. "I almost can't imagine you not having control."

Blame her version.

[tatooine_doofus]

"I haven't been doing this all that long," Luke said easily.