[ She decides that's what this needs. Carbonated sugar. She's addicted already. Rey asks, but she's already on her feet and settling on 'yes, everyone wants a soda.' Also it gives her something to move forward onto that doesn't involve dragging this. ]
Thor showed me how to make the vending machine dispense as many as I want.
[ It's too late tbh it's a trick now. Regular Finn: oh okay so you just press the button that seems straightforward and exactly like what I expected. Hooded kermit Finn: Rey pressed a button twice, she's amazing and the greatest hacker in the world.
Some part of him isn't even surprised that she can namedrop a god when he's basically just met a normal guy named Matt since getting here though. Shoutout to Matt. Matt is great. ]
I guess it's good to know gods don't get passed over to volunteer. I mean, is he-- is that an actual god, or more like someone people decided to make a god?
[ Like it's gonna make any difference to him personally anyway? He doesn't know. If there's a friend-knows-a-god protocol, he hasn't gotten the XP to learn it yet. ]
[ She says that with a simple kind of certainty. She'd been on the fence for a while too, but Loki's repetitive dying pretty much sold her on it. Which is still sad. She's still mourning and having a rough time with that, but it's fine.
Oh, she hasn't told Kylo about that yet.
Oh …
He's going to be upset.
Anyway. ]
He seems thrilled to be here, honestly. Definitely welcoming the vacation.
[ Huh. Real god. NBD. Finn's gonna live his life and drink some soda like this is absolutely a casual life situation that happens all the time. ]
Vacation's a nice way to put it. [ It's a word that never crossed his mind, even with the fancy beach and the free food and everything. ] Felt a little more like a mission to me.
[ She grins a little as she says it because ? ?? a mission to have sex sounds absurd. Yet they had both fallen into that together, showing that they are even now more alike than they would have guessed. It's reassuring. She clings to it, evidence that she and Finn are still Bonded For Life. ]
Just a job that we have to get done. Another way to save the Resistance.
[ The friends who decide it's easier to think about this whole endeavor as a mission together stay together. That's real legit Bonding. Finn huffs, and it's definitely closer to a laugh than not. ]
Save the galaxy and then go home to... save the galaxy again. [ Which would realistically be easier without Kylo Ren trying to murder them. So that's not. Bad. ] I didn't know we were making careers out of this.
Someone has to. Every story about every Rebellion hero you've ever heard — they were all just people, once.
[ She's starting to get that. Starting to, at least. It still feels like a distant thing, the notion that she might be able to be the Jedi that the Resistance needs. And she still can't quite bring herself to separate it from Ben, or decide what their solution ought to look like. Could they make any change without tearing the entire First Order down? ]
[ Finn pulls a face. A super dignified face. Not that he has a ton of cool-sounding Rebellion hero stories to pick from yet, but he knows what it's all about. He did that "people believe in Leia" speech.
But he can also relate the desire to go live on an obscure isolated planet and not deal with stuff, so honestly shoutout to all of the Jedi masters ever. ]
Well, I'm still working on being people. Maybe it'll be better to try the hero thing and work back from there.
[ Rey laughs. It's a bright, refreshing sound of relief. She's working on being people too, and somehow, Finn has found the way to put it to words in a way she couldn't. He's better at expressing himself than she is. ]
Here's hoping.
[ Because she's, in turn, better at that than he is. ]
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[ She decides that's what this needs. Carbonated sugar. She's addicted already. Rey asks, but she's already on her feet and settling on 'yes, everyone wants a soda.' Also it gives her something to move forward onto that doesn't involve dragging this. ]
Thor showed me how to make the vending machine dispense as many as I want.
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Nah who am I kidding, Finn is straddling the Neutral Good line and smoothly executing vending machine life hacks isn't on his radar. ]
Yeah. Sure. [ He is 100% here to watch this trick in motion. ] Who's Thor?
[ They've got to be cooler than DJ. Not that that's hard. ]
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that's it. that's how the machine works. it's literally its design. ]
Asgardian god of thunder. Thor Odinson. I knew a different version of him, too, in Hathaway.
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Some part of him isn't even surprised that she can namedrop a god when he's basically just met a normal guy named Matt since getting here though. Shoutout to Matt. Matt is great. ]
I guess it's good to know gods don't get passed over to volunteer. I mean, is he-- is that an actual god, or more like someone people decided to make a god?
[ Like it's gonna make any difference to him personally anyway? He doesn't know. If there's a friend-knows-a-god protocol, he hasn't gotten the XP to learn it yet. ]
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[ She says that with a simple kind of certainty. She'd been on the fence for a while too, but Loki's repetitive dying pretty much sold her on it. Which is still sad. She's still mourning and having a rough time with that, but it's fine.
Oh, she hasn't told Kylo about that yet.
Oh …
He's going to be upset.
Anyway. ]
He seems thrilled to be here, honestly. Definitely welcoming the vacation.
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Vacation's a nice way to put it. [ It's a word that never crossed his mind, even with the fancy beach and the free food and everything. ] Felt a little more like a mission to me.
[ .......... i mean ]
A weird mission.
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[ She grins a little as she says it because ? ?? a mission to have sex sounds absurd. Yet they had both fallen into that together, showing that they are even now more alike than they would have guessed. It's reassuring. She clings to it, evidence that she and Finn are still Bonded For Life. ]
Just a job that we have to get done. Another way to save the Resistance.
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Save the galaxy and then go home to... save the galaxy again. [ Which would realistically be easier without Kylo Ren trying to murder them. So that's not. Bad. ] I didn't know we were making careers out of this.
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[ She's starting to get that. Starting to, at least. It still feels like a distant thing, the notion that she might be able to be the Jedi that the Resistance needs. And she still can't quite bring herself to separate it from Ben, or decide what their solution ought to look like. Could they make any change without tearing the entire First Order down? ]
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But he can also relate the desire to go live on an obscure isolated planet and not deal with stuff, so honestly shoutout to all of the Jedi masters ever. ]
Well, I'm still working on being people. Maybe it'll be better to try the hero thing and work back from there.
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Here's hoping.
[ Because she's, in turn, better at that than he is. ]