text; un: ren

[killthepast]

Explain to me what a "ram stein" is and why you would describe a person as looking like one.

And who or WHAT is a "goth"?

[ Brought to you by: somebody calling Kylo a "Rammstein-looking goth motherfucker." HE SUSPECTS IT'S AN INSULT. ]

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[killthepast]

[ NO, UR HORRENDOUS.

He's surprised, he'll admit, to actually get a response after calling Hux out. And more so, he's a bit surprised by the song itself. It's probably another ten minutes before he responds, now: ]

It sounds melancholy. [ Or maybe it's because Ren's AN EMO KID.

Anyway, it's a bit... awkward to leave it at that. So have an attempt at stepping up his conversation game: ]

But I can see how it would help you focus.

[fhux]

[ Ren really is one to talk when he apparently listens to music that amounts to little more than aggressively enthused screaming. But at least he isn't being as much of an arse as he could.

Similarly, he isn't sure what else to say. They haven't ever chatted before, there just ... hasn't been the time. When Ren had first arrived on the Finalizer Hux had been keen to get to know Snoke's apprentice, perhaps use them in some way, but those hopes had been swiftly crushed like a throat by the Force. ]

It's not to your tastes, I can imagine.

[killthepast]

[ Really, it's only because of the realities of his life in Quarantine-- being forced to get on with strangers, without the backing of Snoke or the First Order to lend him any authority-- that Ren is now somewhat more approachable than he'd been back in their galaxy.

Sometimes.

His new life experiences have been helping in that regard, too. Here's Kylo Ren with approximately 45% less repression! ]

It is, actually.

[ It reminds him of what he hears when he meditates-- outside, in nature, as opposed to in the sterile confines of a starship. ]

[fhux]

[ What does he say to that? ]

I have more.

[killthepast]

[ Ren doesn't know what to say to that, himself. He doesn't know what to say to any of this conversation, with its tenuous, fragile civility.

Honestly, he's half-tempted to just hang up or insult Hux, just to return to a more familiar, comfortable dynamic. ]

I wouldn't mind listening to more.

Perhaps we can trade.

[ You can get some sweet, sweet metal tunes. ]

[fhux]

[ Not about to lie and saddle himself with music he hates, he pauses to consider what this might mean for their working relationship. It's a new angle and suggests Ren will listen to Hux's opinion. Maybe it shouldn't be discounted so quickly.

And nothing says he has to actually listen to that "metal" racket.

Picking a list as he considers a blend of both genres, he sends it over in another link. ]

This band may be better to your liking.

[ As much as Ren can be mindlessly angry, Hux opts to appeal to anything else alive and thoughtful in that Force-laced chest. He may as well try. ]