to your stations, and may the Force be with us

[protectingthelight]

Who: Amilyn Holdo and YOU.
What: Holdo settles in at Riverview, has some awkward conversations, and generally has to deal with being here after mumble mumble spoiler mumble. Feel free to tag in off a prompt, or roll your own. Also, there will be comments for threads with specific people.
Where: Various locations including but not limited to: housing, government buildings, around town.
When: Over the first week or so that she's here.
Warnings: 'ware spoilers. I won't include any here, but threads will no doubt include them of necessity.

1. Community housing
If you live on the eighth floor, you will probably see Amilyn fairly regularly. She cuts a pretty unmistakable figure, being nearly six feet tall and with that purple hair and all. She's hung up her Republic-style gown for the time being (saving it, maybe, for some suitable occasion), but even with her civilian clothes she still wears her bracelets and rings.

2. Government offices
Amilyn shows up for work pretty much the day after she gets her assignment. So if you work as a community ambassador—congratulations, you have a new coworker. She's diligently setting up her workspace and getting caught up on all the latest news.

3. Entertainment and shopping district
All work and no play and all that stuff. Amilyn goes for walks, taking in the new sights and sounds, maybe stopping for a bite to eat somewhere interesting.

4. Wildcard
Feel free to suggest anything!

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closed thread - Kyle Ron

[protectingthelight]

[Continued from here]

She's so ... confused. Was Leia mistaken? Amilyn doesn't want to believe that she was lied to; it would be more comforting to imagine that her friend had simply gotten incorrect intel. A misidentified body. Something.

"What happened to you?" she asks. It's just above a whisper. She feels a chill and isn't sure why.

[killthepast]

"What my mother always feared would happen." Another vague answer, deliberate in the information he's withholding. Now, at least, Ren moves closer to Amilyn, voice still soft, despite the... touchy subject. "Did she ever tell you why she sent me away?" He wonders what, as his mother's closest confidante, Amilyn knew. Not that he's the one who destroyed his uncle's temple; that much was obviously kept amongst the family as their dirty secret.

But did she ever tell her friend how she feared the darkness in him? Feared him so much she gave up on him and shipped him away. For his own good, of course.

[protectingthelight]

"She sent you to train with your uncle..." Amilyn says, trying now to remember those conversations from years ago. "She—she told me that she wanted you to have his guidance, that it would be good for you..."

She trails off. Leia. By the Force, what did you not tell me?

[killthepast]

He studies Amilyn's face. Her confusion, so sincere, says as much as her words. So he really was such a shame to his mother that she had to weave lies about what happened, even back when she sent him away. Ben Solo, always the afterthought.

"Ah... So that's all there is to it." With bite in his voice, he adds, "You should ask her for the whole story, the next time you see her."

[protectingthelight]

Something about that tone of voice hits her hindbrain and it's all she can do to not snap Don't take that tone with me, young man. He's not a boy anymore, for pity's sake. Her jaw tightens, but she keeps her tone controlled.

"I will. Since you don't seem to be especially forthcoming at the moment." She folds her arms and looks at him steadily. She's annoyed, she realizes—annoyed because he's not handling this situation in any kind of empathy, has decided to play games. A trace of the annoyance bubbles right up then. "Am I keeping you from something?"