( He shrugs one shoulder, and there is honesty in that. If he were to weigh the Resistance's chances against the First Order's, Kylo would pick the latter every time. More firepower, more manpower, the Supreme Leader himself, although Snoke's approach has always been to rule from afar without exerting too much of his direct control. That has always been Kylo's responsibility, and the other Knights of Ren. Even without his own assistance and power backing the Order's military prowess, and as loathe as he is to laud Hux's accomplishments in any way, shape, or form, he must concede the point that the First Order simply has every odd stacked in its favor.
Of course, that hasn't stopped the Resistance from toppling them before.
It's a sour memory for more than just the reason of his own defeat and disfigurement at the hands of the girl currently blocking his path out of the bunk. There are a million memories of Han Solo waiting here, pressed into the cracks and eddies of this trash heap of a ship, and all of them recall with perfectly clarity every line and detail of his face as it was bathed in red light before falling away. Kylo lets Rey become the center point of his focus, grounding himself firmly in the present and future in a desperate attempt not to get pulled under the current of the past.
He wishes she would stop making that face every time he says something that isn't an actual affront to her character or anyone else's just by virtue of having come out of his mouth. He'll stand up again, if that means she'll stop doing it. She looks far too pleased for it to mean anything good, especially when he's nearly eye level with her while sitting down and as such more or less has to maintain direct eye contact or look away. Less easy to do when she crowds and dominates the field of his vision the way that she does, leaning against the bunk. )
I've seen worse plans put into action and achieve more success than was expected. ( It's as close to praise as he gets when he isn't trying to bait her into abandoning her crusade for the Resistance and join him among the ranks of the First Order. Funny how that one worked out. ) They won't send the entire fleet after us, if it comes down to what you're posing as an optional solution, but at least it might afford your pilots some measure of time to improvise and clear a path.
( Again, and he knows not for the last time, the words that come out of his mouth strike him as intrinsically odd. And yet the more he says them the more natural they begin to feel. It isn't the way that he would have things done, not the way that he would go about any of this had he any say at all in it, but his options are limited, and Kylo works with what he has. Speaking of which - )
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Of course, that hasn't stopped the Resistance from toppling them before.
It's a sour memory for more than just the reason of his own defeat and disfigurement at the hands of the girl currently blocking his path out of the bunk. There are a million memories of Han Solo waiting here, pressed into the cracks and eddies of this trash heap of a ship, and all of them recall with perfectly clarity every line and detail of his face as it was bathed in red light before falling away. Kylo lets Rey become the center point of his focus, grounding himself firmly in the present and future in a desperate attempt not to get pulled under the current of the past.
He wishes she would stop making that face every time he says something that isn't an actual affront to her character or anyone else's just by virtue of having come out of his mouth. He'll stand up again, if that means she'll stop doing it. She looks far too pleased for it to mean anything good, especially when he's nearly eye level with her while sitting down and as such more or less has to maintain direct eye contact or look away. Less easy to do when she crowds and dominates the field of his vision the way that she does, leaning against the bunk. )
I've seen worse plans put into action and achieve more success than was expected. ( It's as close to praise as he gets when he isn't trying to bait her into abandoning her crusade for the Resistance and join him among the ranks of the First Order. Funny how that one worked out. ) They won't send the entire fleet after us, if it comes down to what you're posing as an optional solution, but at least it might afford your pilots some measure of time to improvise and clear a path.
( Again, and he knows not for the last time, the words that come out of his mouth strike him as intrinsically odd. And yet the more he says them the more natural they begin to feel. It isn't the way that he would have things done, not the way that he would go about any of this had he any say at all in it, but his options are limited, and Kylo works with what he has. Speaking of which - )
Where's my lightsaber?