Since hunkering down for this Ben Solo character study essay, I’ve had his motivations on the brain. And it just occurred to me–
While I’m NOT convinced Ben was solely and completely responsible for the destruction of Luke’s temple (I could talk circles around the quotes that imply he was; maybe I will sometime)…if he was…
Does that make it the Star Wars version of a school shooting?
Jesus. And we thought killing his father was dark…
Was Ben bullied? There were only twelve other kids, but it only takes one, right? He totally could have been. I mean, he’s got that whole emo misfit thing going on–though maybe he didn’t at that time–and there’s his pedigree (minus Vader, cuz he didn’t know), and he was probably better than all of them, and he might have been an entitled little Malfoy-like prick.
