Poe "Fite Me" Dameron (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
flightforfreedom) wrote2017-07-06 04:53 pm
flightforfreedom) wrote2017-07-06 04:53 pm
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You've reached Poe Dameron. I'm off flying something or trying not to get killed, so go ahead and leave a message and I'll get back to you eventually.
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He knows the gist, I think, but I didn't give him the details. Not sure they would do any good.
They aren't really important. Not for you guys. I would say buying thirty years of piece is good enough. Our war is my burden, not yours.
Video.
Then… Cassian actually smiles.
Quietly,]
If we were capable of thinking that—not feeling everything in the universe as our own burden—would we have lived these lives at all?
[…Jyn hadn't thought that way. Kay hadn't thought that way. Other things had driven them. It makes Cassian love them all the more fiercely. Again: programming versus choice. He would never have been able to walk away because he'd been incapable, pathologically—molecularly, of doing anything else. They could have and didn't.
Bodhi did also seem to think that way. Not as abstractly as Cassian, but as intensely. Cassian loved him fiercely for that too.
And Poe, now. It's in Cassian's smile. As if you hadn't been before: welcome to the family.]
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... No. Probably not. [He lets out a sigh and wets his lips.]
I just - didn't want to cause grief where there was no point. Whatever this place is, for whatever reason we ended up here, it's not that War anymore. Even if I really wish I could just deal with Hux here and end it.
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[Because he knows Poe already knows that. He doesn't need to know Poe better to already know: this man would never shoot the messenger. We can know for everyone except ourselves.
Cassian's mouth tightened: what on someone else might be a rueful smile.]
I know. The Timeline Project… my idea was to make that point. Leave the war where it applied.
But he… people like him…
[Ugh. Start from opposite:]
…For us… [Presumptuous as hell but, again, doesn't think it's a leap and doesn't think Poe would mind even if it were] …it's about trying to fix something that's actually happening.
For them…
[tries to remember that Varadan saying. Translates to Basic:]
"A fire-eater must eat fire, even if he must light it himself."[*]
[[*]OOC: Isaac Asimov = ancient space wisdom, yeah?]
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[The smile grows a little more fond at the saying. He recognises it - his grandfather used to say it.]
Little more literally then I think Grandpa ever meant it, but yeah.