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millicentthecat:
Can I just remind everyone that the area of Jakku where Rey lives is called “the graveyard” and that, just for fun, she hoards and wears a helmet that she pulled off an actual decomposed person?
Keeping tokens to remember and honor the dead is not unusual, in the SW universe or ours. The only thing unusual about J.J.’s-barely-relevant-headcanon for Kylo Ren is that he honors the sacrifice of his enemies. He assigns meaning to their sacrifice, which is…an unusual level of caring and compassion, by our social and religious standards. It’s definitely ritualistic but…
IDK, sounds like some Light Side shit to me?

millicentthecat:
Can I just remind everyone that the area of Jakku where Rey lives is called “the graveyard” and that, just for fun, she hoards and wears a helmet that she pulled off an actual decomposed person?
Keeping tokens to remember and honor the dead is not unusual, in the SW universe or ours. The only thing unusual about J.J.’s-barely-relevant-headcanon for Kylo Ren is that he honors the sacrifice of his enemies. He assigns meaning to their sacrifice, which is…an unusual level of caring and compassion, by our social and religious standards. It’s definitely ritualistic but…
IDK, sounds like some Light Side shit to me?
