He kept his lightsaber. 💙
He kept his lightsaber. 💙
Damn, I understand this lightsaber is a metaphor for Ben’s mutilated soul and that the lack of basic safety features is a great character design detail of someone who doesn’t believe in what they’re doing and is trying to sabotage themselves at every opportunity
but the shitty-electrical-mods subreddit style unhoused wire just stapled right on to the outside, kid what are you doing??? Its such amazing prop design, it’s such a metaphor for his character. Turn a light being like a person or a semi-sentient kyber crystal dark, but it can’t handle the trauma of the process so it cracks in half. Keep it in a state of torment enabled by destructively venting its extra energy. Spray paint yourself black. Do some decent welding work and then lose conviction and halfass the rest or make it a deliberate hazard. Need a last minute electrical fix after you’ve already reassembled the blade? Just throw it on there. Use a hot glue gun if you run out of cable cleats.
I mean yes we also need this thing to be reconstructed as a personal metaphor, but I personally need Rey the lifelong Hack Everything engineer girl to be really really mad about this disaster object in IX in the way only an engineer can be. I can tell that this lightsaber is a piece of crap that’s about to spontaneously combust, but I know I don’t personally have the EE knowledge to be even a fraction as mad about it as I should be. jj, give it to me.
Seeing it written out makes it so transparent he got “Kylo Ren” from “Ben Solo” using one of those “What Would Your Star Wars Name Be?” patterns where you mix up the letters from your names and your mom’s maiden name, getting “Ky” and “R” from “Skywalker”
