The Past is Gone
Song: Dream On by Aerosmith
Characters:Kylo Ren
Note: A dark twist on the first few lyrics of "Dream On". ;)
"Let the Past Die. Kill it if you have to"-Kylo Ren
Every time when I look in the mirror
Ben Solo stares into the opaque wall within the cylindrical elevator shaft. The helmet of the illustrious and feared Kylo Ren states back at him. Ren, the sole figure of destruction, a plight to perfection; Solo, the imperfect being. Solo, the weak. You are just a child. In a fit of inexplicable rage, the figure slams the mask atop the shaft, shattering into two.
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The figure follows the lines of his scared face; Solo was no more. Ren had assured that. Now, the figure would assure the same to Ren; no more than an empty shell, the past would fall.
The past is gone
It went by, like dusk to dawn
The past is neither what the figure was, nor will it be what the figure is to become. Snoke was right, he was no Vader, just the same as he was no Solo, nor was he Kylo Ren. He was something else, something greater; to what extent, he does not know. That remains to be seen.
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got the dues in life to pay…
His path indeed was not set in stone. They would all pay; his mother- as had his father, Snoke- as had Vader, and Skywalker- as had the Jedi. This was not the force's will, he knew- it was his own; the force, after all, was nothing more than a body that could be bent to one's will. Manipulated, within the light and the dark; fate was at hand, and this time, it would choke within his grasp.