[Kylo reads the message through more than once, trying to work out what it is about it that has him so irritable. It isn't Ezra's defense of Kanan— as misguided as Kylo believes it to be, he can understand that. It isn't even Ezra's continued choice to call himself a Jedi despite all accumulating evidence to the contrary.
And then he realises... it's all of it. The framing of it, the way Ezra mistakes Jedi philosophy, Sith philosophy, for inherent truths about the Force. The way he himself had.]
Fall into what. From what. You call yourself a Jedi. Then you say you reject their methods, or that they would have rejected yours. But you still define yourself by their standards. You use their words. Their concepts.
What if you had never been taught it was possible to fall. If you had never been taught to fear the possibility of disqualifying yourself. If it had never even been suggested everything belongs to either the Light or Dark side of the Force, that your choices align with one or the other. What if you had never been told any of it.
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And then he realises... it's all of it. The framing of it, the way Ezra mistakes Jedi philosophy, Sith philosophy, for inherent truths about the Force. The way he himself had.]
Fall into what. From what. You call yourself a Jedi. Then you say you reject their methods, or that they would have rejected yours. But you still define yourself by their standards. You use their words. Their concepts.
What if you had never been taught it was possible to fall. If you had never been taught to fear the possibility of disqualifying yourself. If it had never even been suggested everything belongs to either the Light or Dark side of the Force, that your choices align with one or the other.
What if you had never been told any of it.