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Rey ([personal profile] talentedscavenger) wrote in [community profile] riverview2017-12-05 12:02 pm

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If anyone has been contacted by Poe Dameron about being turned into a bird...

He is fine. He is well. For the time being. [deleted]

I'm taking care of it...

And I truly do apologize for his...excitement, for lack of a better term.

If anyone is upset, just contact me directly.


Thank you.

[personal profile] jelmazmo 2017-12-06 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Slavers are evil; why else would one seek to control the fate of others so absolutely?

It was repairing the ship which led to this adventure you took, then. Between that and how you were able to survive in that desert alone — you're a resourceful woman. I admire that in you.

( But the others... her heart twists in her chest to think of them. )

Possibly no one else?

[personal profile] jelmazmo 2017-12-06 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
My point exactly. Greed is a monstrous thing. And if he truly was, then I hope someone returns there to remove him and free the others like you. They should be at the helm of their own lives; not bound in servitude.

But you were able to do it; and now you've found your freedom. I'd call that resourceful, and it is.

( Her expression remains softer, now. ) I disagree. Anything is possible for you now that you're away from that brute, and that desert.

I do hope that you find your family one day. Or at least learn of their fate.

( Either way: she honours them in surviving so well. )

[personal profile] jelmazmo 2017-12-06 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
If it weren't, he would have been paying the lot of you even a pittance for your services, and not the other way around. You're well rid of such filth.

Hardship can destroy many. Others are hewn into something altogether stronger for having experienced it. We are the latter. Assassins hunted me all my life; at times we were homeless throughout my childhood, or relying on the pity and self-interest of those who would use us. They thought my life would end when I was sold like a broodmare.

Like Jakku was for you, that was but the beginning for me.

( Something shifts in her expression; a knitting together of her eyebrows, a softening around her eyes. They hold empathy, not sympathy or worse, pity. )

It is a difficult thing. But then you can do no other than live on, one way or the other. I am the last of my family, too.

[personal profile] jelmazmo 2017-12-08 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
No one should endure what we have; not simply me. And I wouldn't give myself so little credit were I you. You're a survivor, as I am.

( And it's definitely something she values and admires in others. To her, it doesn't matter what Rey have achieved just yet. It sounds to her as though whatever journey she'd embarked upon had just begun before she'd been brought here.

She'd been in her place, and not so long ago as all that. She bestows a small but genuine smile upon her, one which reaches her eyes. )


Don't ignore it. Embrace it. For example: I am the last, and that is an asset rather than a hindrance. Whatever you might see as a weakness in yourself, take it, hone it and turn it about into something which gives you power, a feeling of confidence.

I don't see you being beaten by anything so easily after all you've been through.

( She doesn't need to know her well at all to know that is a truth. )

[personal profile] jelmazmo 2017-12-10 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
One leads to the other, I think. The enduring hones one's strength so that they can survive and then thrive in adversity. I was sold to a horselord, and his people became mine. A disadvantage turned into an advantage.

The skills you learned on Jakku have given you a like advantage; resources as well as resourcefulness others cannot share because they have not experienced what you have. Which is why I urged you to embrace it. All you have suffered cannot be for naught if you make it otherwise. Were you alone in your quest to vanquish what threatens your stars?

( She doubts it, and Dany smiles, a gentler expression than previously. ) And you are strong.

( Beautiful, too. And so many other things, but Rey's strength is what shines the brightest in her when Dany watches the image playing on her glass painting. )

You've been thinking on this of late?

[personal profile] jelmazmo 2018-01-04 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
A great lady once imparted some valuable advice to me: that as the sigil of my House is a dragon, I should embody its nature to the very core of myself. It may not be yours, but you must fight as fiercely if you and others are to survive and emerge victorious. In my country, the dead rise from the grave to consume the living. I will burn them all before I allow them to harm my people and make a wasteland of our home.

Your world and mine may differ greatly, but the situations we find ourselves in don't seem so radically different. You'll need to face this evil again, for the sake of all those stars and all those other worlds. And for yourself.

( She understands both things well: because she is doing what she does as much because it's right as much as she is because she feels the need to prove to herself and to others that she deserves their allegiance. I'm not coming to conquer the North; I'm coming to save the North. They'll remember. And so will all those other worlds at stake in Rey's realm.

Wherever it is. There is respect in her gaze now as she eyes her, and finally nods her head. )


The answer might already rest within yourself. I hope you discover it in time.