LAST EDITED ON Dec-23-15 AT 03:10 PM (EST)
 
Kylo suffers from what Gryph called, when talking about Anakin, trying to fit into a square hole when he's a round peg.

The difference is that it's not George trying to get him into that hole, it's Kylo himself. He's written as feeling the call of the Light Side, and trying actively to not be pulled in by it. He's sitting there, going "I will get in here!" and wondering why he's scraping so badly. What he does to his father is just trying to drive himself in farther.

....and what's his father's last act before dying? Touching his son's face in a way that says, "You are my son and I love you." That can't do anything but leave a mark in him - even at last his father believed there was good in him.

Now, his other big issue is that he lacks one thing - and that's something we've touched on with our stories here at EPU - and that's control. Look at when something frustrates him, his first act was to draw his lightsaber and beat on something and scream in frustration. He lacks self-control, which is very much a Dark Side thing when you're Doing It Wrong. (And everyone around him knows he's got that loose cannon thing going on - the guy who has to tell him they lost the droid when the freighter took off, the two stormtroopers who just nope right out when they get near the detention room...)

And don't tell me Han didn't know what he was doing there. He knew. He knew what he was looking at, he knew what was going to happen, and he walked right up to it and accepted it. There was a price to pay, and Han Solo paid it. The question will be, did he buy what he thought he was buying?

Which leads to the question: is Kylo redeemable?

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