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The Tether
The Tether App
After the raging success of their previous code push, the creators of The Tether have decided to push their app again, an app intended for helping new arrivals find Tethers.
Unfortunately for those who don't want to participate, the prompt for the application will keep popping up on their screen until they fill out the mandatory fields and post their profile. If you don't want to participate, it might be best to fill in the blanks with prank answers!
Once posted, the app creates a profile that looks like this:
| The Witch | ||||
| « |  | » | ||
| Age: ageless Gender: female Interests: three interests About: 30 words or less | ||||
| base code by photosynthesis | ||||
| Tian | ||||
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It is a simple swiping type app like many dating apps, swipe left to ignore a profile, swipe right to initiate an instant messenger conversation with the person in question on the app's proprietary chat program, complete with emojis!
NOTE: This meme is game canon.
The Code
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Now he was markedly less concerned with comfort. Almost resents it even.
Still, the smell of the caf is noted, and the politeness is appreciated. He turned towards her and beckoned a metal tumbler up off the floor and flicks his wrist to land it next to what she's brought. Once he walked over to her, he picked it up and slid it inside the tumbler. "A personal shield prototype." He completely expected to have to remake it several times at this stage. "Something small, which can be worn concealed, to be deployed if caught unaware." Taking the idea from Padmé's jewelry, of course.
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"So long as you're not planning on testing it by having people shoot you, I imagine it'll make you even harder to kill."
She says it with more than a bit of humor, since that's how she's decided she's dealing with this entire Vader situation. If she can't be vaguely amused by her circumstances she's going to lie down on the floor and cry about them, and that seems unproductive at best.
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"I hadn't been." Was he joking? Was he serious? Time would tell. "It isn't for me ultimately, regardless."
At least he responded well to the humor?
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She's trying very hard not to ask which of his descendants gets the first one, or whether it's meant to stop them killing one another. Instead she sips her own caf and leans against the edge of a table that doesn't look likely to tip over. She's not exactly comfortable here, but at least she's grown used to Vader's presence in the Force such that it no longer makes her uneasy on its own.
"Speaking of which, I said I'd tell you what happened between Luke and Kylo. You said Kylo's spoken of it. How much has he said?"
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Among others. He's used to demanding things, getting them, even from the Force. Even here, if not reliably. Vader may be able to make it be reliable.
"He said Luke grew afraid of him, and he awoke one night to find him standing over him with his saber ignited." That he finds that distasteful is somehow clear, despite most of his face being covered.
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At his recounting, she nods soberly. There's nothing untrue about it, and there's no way to deny the effect that it had had on both men. But she still feels as though further context is warranted.
"He said it was a vision. He saw a future that Ben -- Kylo -- would cause, and in a moment of fear he thought to avert it. I don't believe he would've harmed him. He told me he regretted it instantly, but Kylo lashed out, destroying Luke's Jedi school and killing the other students."
She doesn't know that that last part isn't actually the clear truth of the matter, though she's always gotten the sense that it was an instinctual reaction gone wrong rather than the massacre it seemed. She can't believe Kylo had any intentional cruelty in him toward the students who had been his friends -- not back then, anyway. Not before he'd been with Snoke for long enough to shape his darkness into a weapon.
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Vader listened, taking the words into account. Which words were chosen instead of others. "Force visions can be manipulated, but he may not have been taught that." A lesson Vader himself had come to learn and appreciate far too late. "Was that one action? Or?"
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Understandably so, but it meant she didn't have a full picture, even having heard both sides and believing the truth to be somewhere in the middle.
"My instinct tells me that Kylo believed he was acting in self-defense, and also that Luke never would have harmed him. Each of them believed the truth of things as they told it."
Luke had hidden the whole of the truth from her at first, but his shame had felt true enough when he revealed the rest. And he'd come back in the end to try to set things right.
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Although yes they would believe it would be self defense. Vader sighed and picked up his cup to fidget with it.
He needed to stab things.
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"If you ask Kylo about that night he'll tell you the truth of things as he experienced them. I haven't known him to lie. When I asked him before it wasn't exactly as a friend."
She'd wanted the truth, and what she learned had been enough to sway her to his side at first. But she hadn't been in a position to really sit down and listen to all of it.
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Seems the Jedi had infected his son more than he knew.
"No I don't believe he'd lie to me."
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"You won't take it out on the Luke who's here, will you? He doesn't want to become that person, and it's not really fair to him to judge him for things he hasn't done yet."
She doesn't want to have just signed Luke up for conflict with his father beyond what they've already dealt with back home. If there's a chance for the entire family to mend things between them, she'd like to see it happen.
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How that was different than what he had done, well. It simply was.
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She's not sure, herself, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth trying. If things here can't change anything at all back home, then she's set herself up to break her own heart by allowing herself to care for Kylo as much as she already does. Not to mention befriending and tethering to a man who was dead back home, who hadn't been the teacher she'd asked for, and who she's not sure ever forgave her for being what she was. Going home with all of her memories intact would almost be crueler than losing them again if nothing at all could change.
"I put myself in between them, and I don't regret it, but I don't want my actions to contribute to hurting either of them. I don't even know how much I should have told you, but it seemed important that you know."
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Not that it was strictly Rey he was thinking of, so much as his grandson.
"Placing a buffer between them would be best. I exist in such a place myself at the moment." Did he wish to fix that? Yes. "I do thank you for telling me. I've shied from the situation due to lack of information. Have you told Luke these details?"
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She doesn't dwell on it long, as Vader's question draws her back out of her internal speculation.
"Only briefly. He knows what he did to Kylo and that it pushed him further toward the Dark. He didn't want all the details at the time, and I didn't have many of them myself. I thought it better that he talk to Kylo about it eventually."
She still thinks that conversation ought to happen, whether or not the end result helps the current awkward state of things. Possibly with the two of them as referees.
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"It may be best had with one or both of us present." Both he thought - he could pull Kylo to heel if needed, and Rey could keep Luke from running. Physically if needed.
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"I think that would be best, yes. History suggests they aren't good at communicating on their own."
She hasn't historically been a lot better, but she's trying, as evidenced by current circumstances.
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Well. They were always a strong pull he was unable to resist.
There had to be something better, because his children, his wife, his family deserved better.
"Luke prefers to avoid confrontation, Kylo attacks it, yes." To be fair - he also tended to attack as well.
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Pushing that flicker of concern aside for the moment, she only hums thoughtfully before responding.
"I think it's more a matter of degree. Anyone would seem less confrontational than Kylo. Or me, for that matter."
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Vader and Kylo together will, Vader believes, likely be more aggressive. But Vader is attempting to steer that aggression in a place that helpful to his own goals and the common good here and into an acceptable target save Kylo tends to follow his lead. It will without a doubt be a nightmare for the Slyphid.
But her comment makes him laugh - a brief, quiet sound that's more in his throat and suggestive of a chuckle than an outright laugh.
Oh the problem of not leaving witnesses.
"Are you so sure of that?"
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Please spare the entire community the sight of every Skywalker -- including the one who hasn't claimed the name yet -- yelling at each other in the middle of camp for at least a little while longer. No one needs that.
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Right circumstances would not be trying to create some kind of peace between Luke and Kylo of course. That he'd like to avoid.