hadriel | Accidental Video; Horrible Roommates Being Horrible

[The video turns on haphazardly, staring up as if someone had flung it across the room and accidentally turned it on. Which, incidentally, is exactly what happened. There's a red glare as Kylo's lightsaber comes into view. He slashes at someone just out of view, missing them, and instead taking out part of the couch.]

I've had it with you! I'll make you wish you'd died as a child!

[Then his toe hits the video, sending it spinning and landing in another spot.]

Oh like I'm going to be scared of a pathetic version of Darth Vader. You have no idea how many times I wanted to abandon you on Hoth.

[There is a loud clambering as Hux got out of the way and when the video settles he can be seen with his blaster in his hand, eyes shining with a mad fury.

He raises the blaster and fires a few shots aimed at Kylo, but a few shots hit the walls and destroy the couch.

Kylo blocks the blaster shots with an almost contemptuous ease, his lightsaber twirling in front of him in a back and forth pattern. He stops the last shot in midair, sending it sailing back towards Hux.]

Is that the best you can do? My mother is a better shot, you Tarkin-wannabe.

[Now he was just hitting below the belt.]

You did not-

[Hux barely manages to dodge the reflected blast, which hit the opposite wall, leaving a deep mark. He's back on his feet to fire a few more shots with a growl of fury. He doesn't care where they land, he just wants to make Kylo suffer.]

Oh, please, you just sit and talk to your grandfather's helmet. 'I will finish what you started' - that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. You're just an embarrassment.

[Kylo goes very still for a moment, the video's skewed perspective making him look about seven feet tall. Everything nearby him begins to rattle with the power of the Force. Then, with a roar of fury, they all lift up, and began hurling themselves at Hux.]

I have more power than you could ever dream of! You think firing off your little superweapon gives you power? You're nothing. Just a bastard who got lucky.

[Hux's expression turns ugly, he's spent his entire life being called a bastard no matter how much he tried to put his past behind him.]

My little superweapon? The superweapon I could use to command the power of the stars when I destroyed the entire Hosnian System? I destroyed the Republic, their Senate, and their entire fleet in a moment while you sulked like a litt-

[He paused suddenly as he noticed the device, walking towards it.] You idiot, you left your phone on.

[Kylo looks over his shoulder at the phone. Great. They'd just broadcast that entire argument to the network. Now everyone knows about the Hosnian System. With a frustrated growl, he picks up a nearby lamp, and throws at Hux's head, not caring if it actually connects or not.]

This is your fault, you smug moron.

[Their physical altercation is done. The bickering is far from over.]

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It's a luxury in the current state of affairs in the galaxy.

The Emperor didn't have time to mourn losses during the wars, he did what he had in order to establish peace and stability. Nor did any senator or military leader for that matter during years of conflict that would have ripped the galaxy apart.

that's the funny thing.
you keep saying "peace," but i'm not sure you mean it in the way it's generally meant.

a world with no one alive to populate it?
sure, it's pretty damn peaceful.

but those ends don't justify any of your means, no matter what you choose to tell yourself.

The galaxy is a wide place and while the loss of the Hosnian System is a loss that will impact the galaxy in several ways, there are still many thousands of star systems out there.

so not a single one of those people mattered.
i see.

[At this point, he's just digging himself deeper with every word. Turns out that, yeah, you really can go a step beyond your run-of-the-mill genocide.

That's a new one.]

Prolonging the war by taking the system with the destroyers would have resulted in higher casualties and damage to multiple systems as the war spread. This was most the effective means.

small>[Hux is just special that way.]

bullshit.

lemme ask you something here.
do you know what human SOULs are made of?

[Sans, you did not just ask that question of a soulless ginger.]

I know there is something like a living energy flowing through each of us. But you would have to ask Kylo Ren about that, he's more in tune with such things than I am.

[He's just gotta talent for that sorta thing.]

i ain't asking him.
i'm asking you.

here's the thing about human SOULs.
no one can really say what they're made of.
monster SOULs are made of things like love, compassion. they need it to exist.

humans don't.

So you're saying it's possible for humans to survive without love or compassion.

[He's really not seeing the downside here, Sans. He's always been willing to go to any length to accomplish his goals.]

I'm not exactly an expert on what human souls are made of.

[He's not done just yet, buddy chum pal.]

well, that's the interesting thing.
there's a little "quirk" to SOULs where i come from.
the more people you kill, the more you gain a little thing called LOVE.

LOVE, you see, is an acronym.
it stands for Level Of Violence.

the more you gain, the less you hurt.
the easier it is to hurt others.

[That made sense to him, he had learned not to feel since he was a teenager. It had been for the best. He couldn't afford emotions when he was not only fighting to restore the glory of the Empire, a heavy burden placed on him as a child, but also to avoid any murder attempts from other First Order officers.]

I wouldn't argue with that. What is your point, then?

the point is that 20's the limit.
or it's meant to be.

i think you've pretty well overshot that.

So does that mean I have no soul which makes it easier for me to inflict violence against others then?

nah, you got a SOUL all right.
or, you know.
whatever you got that passes for one at this point.

I'm flattered, most assume I simply don't have one.

[Either way, he's amused. He knows he made his choices since he left Arkanis as a child to become who he was today.]

not sure there'd be a difference at the rate you're headed.

Perhaps you're correct, I've had to make sacrifices along the way.

that sure is one word for 'em.

I've never regretted it.

then you're even more far gone than i thought.

I suppose I am.

[He never had a chance given his background and father.]

then in the meantime, let's make something pretty clear here:

you try pulling any of that shit down here?
you'll have to get yourself a wig.
you get what i'm saying?

you'll have hell toupee.

and i ain't just saying that 'cause i'm a funny guy.
got that?

We'll see about that.

[Welp.]

i guess we will.

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