[ Padme mulls those words over, considers. Would she have found it possible to accept, if Anakin had chosen to ask her to accept him only as Darth Vader?

It would be difficult, certainly. It is hard enough, to understand both what he has done and what he has chosen here, and for her, and what she has hope he will continue to choose. But she has known him always as Anakin, more than half of both of their lives by now. And he did not take Darth Vader as a name except for as a servant to Palpatine. ]

There was a reason you chose not to be Ben Solo anymore. [ When she speaks, it's with certainty. (Why Ben Solo? Why not Organa or Skywalker? There are always questions in the back of her mind, even if she can guess many of the answers.) ] To take a new name. For it to matter so strongly to you that this is who you are, and that you not be Ben anymore.

[ She lifts her head from his shoulder, but only enough to face him and look into his eyes, her hand and arm still wrapped around his. ]

I do not fear you, Kylo. And I will not, no matter what you say. You have proven to me more than enough that there is good in you.