If/when they had the conversation later… No. You're right. There are all the important differences. The Empire did what they did to consolidate their own power. Wanted to keep it going forever. The Alliance did what we did to stop them from doing that to people forever. Imperials were self-serving, didn't care the cost of life for their gains, and to defend it, would send others to die for them. No one in the Alliance wasn't willing to give their own life to try and make things better.
It's just that… the result for the individual lives might be the same. Whatever leads up to it, whatever the cause, the motives, death is still death…
…the Alliance was different… maybe it's just me that…
No. I can't. I can't.
He appreciates what she's doing. Choosing lightness. Choosing banter. For his sake as well as (maybe at the cost of) her own. He wants to thank her for it and honor it, go along with it.
He just… can't remember, right now, how.
Perhaps he does manage to follow her example, if onto a completely different train of thought. But managing to have one at all and latch onto it.
"What would we have called each other?" he whispered. "If we'd never been soldiers. If there wasn't war. If we just… met. Would I have a nickname for you…?"
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It's just that… the result for the individual lives might be the same. Whatever leads up to it, whatever the cause, the motives, death is still death…
…the Alliance was different… maybe it's just me that…
No. I can't. I can't.
He appreciates what she's doing. Choosing lightness. Choosing banter. For his sake as well as (maybe at the cost of) her own. He wants to thank her for it and honor it, go along with it.
He just… can't remember, right now, how.
Perhaps he does manage to follow her example, if onto a completely different train of thought. But managing to have one at all and latch onto it.
"What would we have called each other?" he whispered. "If we'd never been soldiers. If there wasn't war. If we just… met. Would I have a nickname for you…?"