Ah, Thank You For The Essay; I Like Them And They Explain Things That Arent In The Fic, Yet, But Still

Ah, thank you for the essay; I like them and they explain things that aren’t in the fic, yet, but still important. :)

So when Finn arrives at Coruscant and by some twist of fate ends up becoming a Knight of Ren instead of a stormtrooper what would his name be?

I have a question about Whom Hades Seized, how do the names of the Knights of Ren work? When you join are you assigned a name based off of your gift(s) or is it selected from a list or do you take the name of one that died/retired?

My answer turned into a short essay? Oops.

Knights whose given birth names are already in High Basic are not renamed. Hecate, Thanatos, and Dion were all born to Imperial/First Order parents, so their parents would have given them High Basic names from the beginning. Morpheus also named Phobetor in High Basic, even though it was not his first language. For those whose birth names were originally in other languages, their name would be transliterated and sometimes shortened into High Basic (not translated!). So Strei-kai-loro became Kylo. Morpheus, Nyx, and Pasithea all changed their birth names into the High Basic ones they use now.

The knights’ familial names are dropped and replaced with the title “Ren.” It is essentially a symbolic marker that they have joined the Knights. For example, Hecate was born “Hecate Soteria,” but when she joined the Knights, she became “Hecate Ren.”

There is no concept of retirement for the knights. They keep the title “Ren” until death. It is very rare, but knights may choose to leave, or they could commit some grievous wrong and be banished from the knights. In those cases, they would not be permitted to keep the title.

The normal naming rules don’t apply to the King of the Dead. Kylo retains all of his names and titles at once, both on the maternal and paternal sides. That would include the title “Ren.” You might have noticed that Thrawn didn’t quite understand this, because the ways of the knights are fairly hidden and they stay out of court politics. It is a common misconception that Kylo, like the rest of the Knights, dropped his family names to take the title “Ren.” Which would have made the blood rite impossible, since it requires one person to confer a family name onto the other person. 

I am laughing right now at how funny this is!

you know what’s probably more fun than playing chess? cheating at chess

“ohhh would you look at that, my pawns found jesus and now they’re all bishops”

“so i realize it looks like i’m putting a thimble on the board but actually my rooks have been using their downtime to build another rook, one that’s better, stronger, faster—”

“hey welcome back. while you left to get a snack, those six pieces you’d captured slipped their guards, tunneled to safety and emerged right in the middle of your royal palace.”

“oof, looks like you’ve got my king cornered…maybe this is a good time to mention that shortly before we started playing, my pawns and knights revolted and instituted a representative democracy. feel free to kill the puppet ruler that was the one remaining vestige of our tyranny, you cringing servant of the crown. vive la revolution!”

These are from a hike on Sept 4th 2016 at Maiden’s Cliff and the associated mountain I did with my boyfriend, his sister and her five year old daughter. The cross is the spot where a young woman accidentally fell to her death chasing her hat and possibly her gloves as well. As you can see it would be easyish to fall off the edge in places because of how steep it can get and we watched the little one like a hwak. The cliff is reportedly haunted.

Edit I have done some research and according to sources the girl's name was Elenora French and she fell off the cliff in 1860s at the age of eleven years old. She survived the fall with no broken bones but died the next day from internal bleeding. Accounts differ on how she fell and the circumstances. One story, supposedly told by a sister years later, claimed that Elenora climbed the mountain with a sister, a schoolteacher and a young man. Elenora apparently sat on the edge of the cliff and fell when a puff of wind blew off her hat and she unthinkingly threw herself after it off the edge. Another one says that it was during a church picnic on the mountain that Elenora chased her bonnet off the edge. And before I forget: we are not sitting on the edge of the cliff. We are sitting on a rocky ledge with solid ground in the immediate vicinity.

Sometimes fan fiction is better than published books and it’s cheaper to read too.

EDIT: I am not in any way cheapening fan fic authors, I am one myself, what I mean is all you need to read fan fiction is an Internet connection, whether through an Internet provider or data through a cell phone, and you can read hundreds of thousands of fan fics on dozens of different sites for free and all that we should do is drop a review and/or like/favorite/give kudos afterwards (I’m not always good about leaving a review but I do try to like/favorite/give kudos).

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I feel that I should apologize for my short answer to number one since I don't consider what was done to the Imperial defector as mental manipulation but a brutal method of torture that left him for a time with a diminished mental capacity and since he seemed to recover as time passed. But I can see how it could possibly be mental manipulation and I should have been more descriptive since you asked for information and I just gave a short answer without backing up my reasoning.

I thank you for the opportunity to do better and be more thoughtful of others.

Thanks to everybody who answered my Rogue One questions / sent me spoilers. I’m still not sure if I’m gonna see it, but I appreciate being informed beforehand. Some of the things people mentioned are…definitely things I would like to know about before going in.

(More spoilery things under here.)

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This would only work if the controls on his belt were moved first. This prevents accidents like the one mentioned above or outright assassination via flipped controls. Of course if he had messed with the controls just before training and forgot to set them back into the right position that would allow a head butt to the chest plate to flip a switch or two. Or maybe even more unlucky she accidentally flipped the controls on the belt just before the head butt. Either way her reaction would amount to horrified shock.

leia only comes up to about vader's chest, so there's a rumor that she headbutted his control panel and he fell over unconscious like a giant jenga tower

This actually happened though.

It was an accident of course. Even without lightsabers involved, training gets kind of wild sometimes.

Leia was kind of terrified in the moment when she saw all the little blinking lights on his chest panel had gone dark for half a second, and then pretty embarrassed after he came to, and then terrified all over again when she realized that his suit was actually a life support system and oh no.

Anakin was mostly embarrassed tbh. Like, what an awkward way to announce, “By the way I’m on life support.” But later he actually finds it really funny.

(Leia thinks his tendency to turn the state of his health and life into a joke is a bit disturbing, but post-Alderaan, especially, she knows she’s got some unhealthy coping mechanisms of her own.)

Eventually they tell Luke about this, and Leia tries to downplay it but of course Anakin wants to play it up and Leia just sits there feeling embarrassed for both of them while Luke can’t decide whether to laugh or be horrified. Or both. Both is good.