Just because you're used to it doesn't mean it's fine. [There's a bit of an edge to Keith's voice here. If he has to stand up for Loki to Rey, he will.]
Because this is a place you can change it. Letting her think that is just reinforcing the wrong story. I like this version of you.
Full of expectation, and hungry to see worst. She's one person, but so are you. However ... your belief means more than her assumptions. That's a start for me.
Besides—what will we do? Force her to see things differently?
No! It's just ... Loki, she used to believe in people. She believed in Kylo Ren. That's why she ended up like this. I don't know how it turned into her listening to him and thinking everyone else is bad.
I understand the way he thinks. When Shiro left and I had no one else, I didn't have anything. I didn't know what I wanted.
[It's hard to draw that comparison. Keith knows that no people would think he and Kylo Ren have a lot in common. But when it comes to that degree of hopelessness—he can get it. All too well.]
When Shiro ... disappeared for a while ... before he came back—I took it out on everyone around me. I stopped believing in our cause because I couldn't see the cause. Just that Shiro was gone.
But Rey and Kylo Ren ... they never had a Shiro. Or ... I guess ... Kylo Ren's version of that betrayed him. If all you hear is bad stuff, then—maybe Rey can't help but empathize with it. To the point that she's become it.
There's a path that I've walked, dangerously close, I just didn't think ... [ it's odd for him to trail off, but he does. then he picks up again. ] I didn't think it of Rey.
[ he doesn't want to go back to that time—that was a bad time, one that has far from been repaired. he would still rather run from his own trauma, rather than face it.
it's like returning to Asgard. ]
That was something different. Maybe I'll tell you about it sometime.
[That makes sense. But Keith still wonders what may have happened there. The problem is that he doesn't know the right questions to ask.]
Well ... all right. I'll be ready to hear it.
As for the path ... if what it takes is doubting everything, just remember that you and I have come a long way. I'm willing to knock some sense into you about it. Something tells me I might be successful when it comes to you.
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Because this is a place you can change it. Letting her think that is just reinforcing the wrong story. I like this version of you.
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[ there's a drag in his voice. ]
Full of expectation, and hungry to see worst. She's one person, but so are you. However ... your belief means more than her assumptions. That's a start for me.
Besides—what will we do? Force her to see things differently?
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it's easier to think of her as someone who never believed at all, but he knows that isn't true.
for a long moment, he's quiet. ]
His motives with her are not conniving enough to be lost on her. Really, I don't think he truly knows what he wants.
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[It's hard to draw that comparison. Keith knows that no people would think he and Kylo Ren have a lot in common. But when it comes to that degree of hopelessness—he can get it. All too well.]
When Shiro ... disappeared for a while ... before he came back—I took it out on everyone around me. I stopped believing in our cause because I couldn't see the cause. Just that Shiro was gone.
But Rey and Kylo Ren ... they never had a Shiro. Or ... I guess ... Kylo Ren's version of that betrayed him. If all you hear is bad stuff, then—maybe Rey can't help but empathize with it. To the point that she's become it.
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[ a pause, and his voice drops. ]
There's a path that I've walked, dangerously close, I just didn't think ... [ it's odd for him to trail off, but he does. then he picks up again. ] I didn't think it of Rey.
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[ it's an earnest question, low and partially defeated. ]
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How close were you to returning to that path last year? I ran into you in the mall, remember? You couldn't tell a lie.
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[ he doesn't want to go back to that time—that was a bad time, one that has far from been repaired. he would still rather run from his own trauma, rather than face it.
it's like returning to Asgard. ]
That was something different. Maybe I'll tell you about it sometime.
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Well ... all right. I'll be ready to hear it.
As for the path ... if what it takes is doubting everything, just remember that you and I have come a long way. I'm willing to knock some sense into you about it. Something tells me I might be successful when it comes to you.
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No ... I don't plan on going back. I don't think I could, even if I wanted.
[ there's a comfort in that, at least. ]
I don't know what the future will bring, but I'll write a good story for as long as I can.
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You've gotten this far, anyway.
[And that counts for a lot.]