[Said more for his own benefit than for Hux himself, meant to cut short the anxious rush of adrenaline as it threatens to grip them both. The catalyst and its proxy.
Ren isn't a Jedi, nor is he Cathaway: he lacks the patience to tolerate someone else's fear for any significant amount of time and remain wholly unaffected.] You did not rise to power cowing to the unknown.
[Because for what little credit he grants General Hux, that much Ren believes is true, if only because the First Order is as savage a test as any: the frail, the incapable and unqualified are cut clean without mercy. Yes, there was a familiarity to be found in it that remains absent in the Nest for the most part, but if Hux was incapable of adapting he would have been a lieutenant, a commander at best, not Kylo Ren's supposed equal in name alone.
Ren slips forward from the edge of the chamber, sitting before Hux to leave their attentive stares level, the air around them silent as death.]
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Date: 2016-04-29 06:53 am (UTC)[Said more for his own benefit than for Hux himself, meant to cut short the anxious rush of adrenaline as it threatens to grip them both. The catalyst and its proxy.
Ren isn't a Jedi, nor is he Cathaway: he lacks the patience to tolerate someone else's fear for any significant amount of time and remain wholly unaffected.] You did not rise to power cowing to the unknown.
[Because for what little credit he grants General Hux, that much Ren believes is true, if only because the First Order is as savage a test as any: the frail, the incapable and unqualified are cut clean without mercy. Yes, there was a familiarity to be found in it that remains absent in the Nest for the most part, but if Hux was incapable of adapting he would have been a lieutenant, a commander at best, not Kylo Ren's supposed equal in name alone.
Ren slips forward from the edge of the chamber, sitting before Hux to leave their attentive stares level, the air around them silent as death.]
What do you know of the Force?