TFA SPOILERS: Kylo Ren AU

fialleril:

wonderingalways said:
I’ll
be honest the only way that I can even read any emotional connection
between Ben/Kylo and Han is if I read Ben/Kylo as a double agent I just.
I want to finish my grandfathers legacy (destroy the sith) the
absolutely terrible light saber battle (Luke had started his training so
how the hell did he lose to two people who are using them for the first
time) that one line when he was about to win against Rey where he
hinted to use the force, deliberate sabotage via his temper tantrums to the point where all the
troopers just know to walk in the other direction, I honestly refuse to
believe he is actually as incompetent as they show in this movie okay,
and finally the potential for force ghost anakin to be hanging around
mentoring him on how to pass as a loyal servant to the dark side. I just
this is basically the only thing I will accept at this point.

In all honesty, I think a Double Agent Kylo Ren would be much more difficult to pull off than Double Agent Vader, in that it would have to be much more drastically AU. I can quite easily write Double Agent Vader without changing a single thing that happens in the movies for the first half of the trilogy. With Kylo Ren, I’d have to go AU in TFA itself.

My actual read on canon Kylo Ren is that he’s almost certainly been brainwashed (though I’m not yet willing to hazard a guess as to exactly how that happened).

BUT. Just for fun, here’s how a Double Agent Kylo Ren AU would go.

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It would make most sense if set in the Double Agent Vader universe (keeping the family tradition alive, lol), but in the variation where Anakin actually does die at the end.

So Ben Solo goes missing (however that happened in canon). His parents believe he’s fallen to the Dark Side. Everything is terrible. The First Order gets worse and worse and the Resistance is formed to deal with things in the far reaches of the galaxy.

And then one day General Organa receives a strongly encoded transmission. It contains the full technical readouts of Starkiller Base, a complete listing of First Order resources, personnel, and command structure, the location of Supreme Leader Snoke, and a full detailing of his security and level of preparedness.

It’s signed “Ekkreth.”

And Leia’s standing there in the command room, laughing and sobbing at the same time. Somehow she manages to track down Han and convince him to come back. (Actually, that’s a lie. She sends her agents out to kidnap him and bring him in. But it works.)

And she says, “Han, it’s okay. It’s okay. He’s following his grandfather.”

Han laughs in a way that’s mostly despair and says, “Yeah, I know. That’s what he said. Off to ‘be the man his grandfather should have been.’”

“No,” says Leia. “I mean he’s really following his grandfather.” And she shows him the transmission.

It takes a little while. Han reads it over three times, and he doesn’t say a word.

Then finally he starts laughing too. “That little shit,” he says, grinning in sheer relief. “He might have told us.”

(Meanwhile, several years ago and many lightyears away, please imagine Kylo Ren communing with the scorched remains of Darth Vader’s helmet.

“Ugh,” says his ghostly grandfather. “Must you keep that thing?”

“Sorry Granddad,” Ben laughs. “But you have to admit it adds to the act.”

“Oh it adds something, all right,” Anakin grumbles. He looks at Ben and sighs. “All right,” he says. “If you’re really going to do this, you have a lot to learn.”

Kylo Ren puts on his own helmet and waits.

“At least you look the part,” Anakin mutters. “Now. I can show you how to use your emotions as a shield…”)