Kylo Ren’s behavior during Rey’s interrogation is so erratic. He keeps telling her not to be afraid, even while he’s invading her mind and going on about how he can take whatever he wants. It’s like he legitimately wants a human connection, but he so desperately needs to be in power that such a connection is impossible.
So it’s beautiful when Rey reads his mind, and he reels back with a look of utter terror. It’s easy to tell her not to be afraid when he’s the one in power–but now the tables have turned, and he’s utterly lost. He finally has to see the situation from her point of view, and realizes that she has every reason to be terrified of him. I think this might be the first moment he has to take a good, hard look at what he’s become–and that moment of self-awareness is his first step toward realizing that falling further into the Dark isn’t what he truly wants.
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