After TROS, I swore to myself I'm giving up on ST-era SW. I've kept the promise, mostly, and I'm not sorry. But every now and then, there comes a ST-era fic that interests me enough. Some of them, like this one, is amazing. Honestly, those just make me angrier. How is it possible that this little thing has more fleshed-out characters, more depth, more SENSE, than anything TLJ and TROS have given us?
Great work, I enjoyed this very much. Thank you.

Such an interesting, unique, beautifully peculiar piece. It has a poetic quality about it, as well as powerful yet subtle emotions. Definitely made me feel a lot of things.

I quite enjoyed the slight vagueness in the story. It made me think and kind of drew me into the story more. I think it makes readers more active participants in the story rather than passive observers, because we're having to interpret some things ourselves.

[(She pays a price; now, she had loved ones she can lose.)] I thought this was quite a powerful line, and it's the truth about Rey's situation. Yes, being a lone is awful, but there is a price that comes with having people you love: you can lose them. I also liked that it's applicable to Anakin's situation too.

["There are worse people you could take after,"] I know this was written before TROS and was also probably based on the theory that Rey was a Skywalker by blood, and that this line was probably meant to be Anakin referring to himself. However, I thought it was cool that the line also works with her being a Palpatine.

["One of the old clone soldiers,"] Rex!

["To save someone I loved," he says.] Another powerful line.

["I'm not you." "I know you're not. Don't forget that."] I really liked this exchange too. There's so much meaning you can give those words. Don't forget that you're not destined to fall to the Dark side, don't forget that you are your own person, don't forget that you are not defined by any family or Jedi that have come before you.

Overall, I absolutely loved this story. I don't truly know how to describe how I felt reading it. It's absolutely beautiful and so well written. Well done!

ADD MORE PLEASE! HOOKED!

This is so strange but I love it so much

*screams incoherently* - this is amazing

Yes.

This was beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.

I love the way Rey meets Anakin, how she instinctively recognizes him. How she learns from him, in a way. I love the way you added references to the old movies, to Anakin's fall, to other characters. And the way you portray them - Leia's grief, Luke's guilt. Rey's doubts that vanish, in the end. (And Finn, waking up again.)

Thank you for this wonderful story.

Anakin, oh, Anakin.

Trust you to decide you serve best as an object lesson and *own* that.

I liked it.

While I am personally a supporter of the, "Rey is some sore of Kenobi," Theary. This caught my imagination Big Time!

Nicely done. Love the inclusion of a clone, whether it's Rex or anyone else. ;)

I'm not even quite sure how I came to read this, but I'm glad I did.

This is the first time I've read anything Rey related that I've liked :) This was gorgeous, Anakin was always my favourite character and I feel like his echo has a place in the new story they are creating. Don't get me wrong, I wish they'd left it to grow old with grace as it was... but I also really hope they bring something of him back in the next few they are planning. Ren is not Anakin, isn't broken at the core in the same way he was... he's just a teenage rebel, caught up in a dark dream so far, but Rey has real potential and I'm desperately hoping they don't waste her.

This was perfect, and I'd love to see more like it.

Oh Lord these parallels: "She falls and pulls the Resistance down with her" and Anakin's fall pulling down (destroying) the Jedi Order. There's so many little (and not so little) similarities between them in here, little hints and clues interwoven together.

I think the most wonderful part though is when Rey establishes in the end that, no matter how similar they are, she isn't Anakin.

Wow. This is amazing, simply but beautifully written and thought-provoking. I love your interpretation of Rey. What you wrote about her now having loved ones to lose is a concept I've been wrestling with while trying to write a piece about her. Your comparison of and interaction between Anakin and Rey is unexpected but somehow fitting-it's something I'll have to think more deeply about.

I wondered: is there supposed to be a line break between "She would know" and "He's not going to die"? Because those seemed to be different scenes. Then again, I was kind of confused about whether the scenes with Finn missing from his bed and Finn waking her up were dreams or reality.

I just love everything about this story. I am digging your take on Rey. Her interaction with Anakin and the other characters rang completely true to me. I love the hints of potential darkness in her. I saw those fleeting moments during her duel with Kylo Ren - just a few seconds where her determination to stay alive and defend herself and Finn became something more, something primal and frightening. But as she says here, she isn't Anakin, and she hasn't made those decisions yet. She can still choose.

I also really enjoyed how you played up the potential family connection but left it open enough to fit with canon regardless of who Rey's family is. (I still think/hope she's Luke's daughter, though.)

Just a really great read. I love dream sequences and Force ghosts, so this was a lot of fun to read. Bravo!