[ she huffs a soft breath, looking down at the picture as her mouth slants down in a faint frown. ]
He was ferocious, like a lion, and he made decisions no one should ever have to make. And he kept me alive, sometimes at the expense of other people. He was paranoid and distrustful and he knew exactly how war worked, even when other people tried to convince him there was still hope. People flocked to him and died for him, abandoned their homes and families and lives to fight for him -- not with him, for him.
And when I was eight years old he put a mattress in a tiny closet so I would have my own room.
[ she shrugs, looking away from the lion in her hands. ] They aren't wrong about him: he was paranoid, sometimes unhinged, he did monstrous things, he didn't believe in peace. Sometimes I think he was fighting because he didn't know of anything else to do. But he fought, when no one else would and he taught me to fight.
[ and that did work out to the benefit of the galaxy, even if not to jyn's own benefit. ]
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[ she huffs a soft breath, looking down at the picture as her mouth slants down in a faint frown. ]
He was ferocious, like a lion, and he made decisions no one should ever have to make. And he kept me alive, sometimes at the expense of other people. He was paranoid and distrustful and he knew exactly how war worked, even when other people tried to convince him there was still hope. People flocked to him and died for him, abandoned their homes and families and lives to fight for him -- not with him, for him.
And when I was eight years old he put a mattress in a tiny closet so I would have my own room.
[ she shrugs, looking away from the lion in her hands. ] They aren't wrong about him: he was paranoid, sometimes unhinged, he did monstrous things, he didn't believe in peace. Sometimes I think he was fighting because he didn't know of anything else to do. But he fought, when no one else would and he taught me to fight.
[ and that did work out to the benefit of the galaxy, even if not to jyn's own benefit. ]