Power isn't about armies, or funding, or system-destroying weapons, or public recognition, or using the Force. Power is about what you can take, how you can control it, and how you can use what you take to control something else. Power is a tool even one person can use. The First Order had it before it ever started stealing soldiers or blowing up planets.
Finn really can't bring himself to look Poe in the eye and say "hard pass on trusting you right now, thanks." It wouldn't be fair. Or true, just as a general statement. For a second, he wishes he didn't trust Poe at all, because trust is making it awfully hard to do what he has to do right now, and he doesn't have that kind of time. ]
It's not you that I don't trust right now.
[ Just everything else. He wants to be moving. He wants to get what matters and get it far enough away that the itch beneath his skin stops, that thoughts hold more weight than an idea pressing into the edge of an empty space. He wants to be able to breathe. ]
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Date: 2017-12-07 08:16 pm (UTC)Power isn't about armies, or funding, or system-destroying weapons, or public recognition, or using the Force. Power is about what you can take, how you can control it, and how you can use what you take to control something else. Power is a tool even one person can use. The First Order had it before it ever started stealing soldiers or blowing up planets.
Finn really can't bring himself to look Poe in the eye and say "hard pass on trusting you right now, thanks." It wouldn't be fair. Or true, just as a general statement. For a second, he wishes he didn't trust Poe at all, because trust is making it awfully hard to do what he has to do right now, and he doesn't have that kind of time. ]
It's not you that I don't trust right now.
[ Just everything else. He wants to be moving. He wants to get what matters and get it far enough away that the itch beneath his skin stops, that thoughts hold more weight than an idea pressing into the edge of an empty space. He wants to be able to breathe. ]