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jedi!Finn and jedi!Rey training

Finn is just as driven as rey, but in different ways, for slightly different things. he learns easier, remembers his form better, shifts more and frowns harder when they meditate. Rey focuses easily, fights easier, then clenches her teeth when she tries to follow through a set of steps without changing them

when they fight someone together, though. they stumble at first, and they both need to work to remember where to step, how to react, what to try. but they don’t need to work at doing all that together, at moving around each other, at letting each other be their best and filling in their own selves in the constantly shifting spaces between them

they fight each other too. how else will they get better? Rey’s not quite at the point where she can be playful yet, not during something that’s supposed to be helping her survive. Finn smiles, shakes his head at tricks even as he remembers them, narrows his eyes before playing his own. They both push themselves to be better, to grab each other’s offered hands and pull themselves up in turns but there’s something in Rey—especially at the start—that drives her to go for a win if she’s going for anything at all.

something that pulls on her lips to give bared teeth, something that makes her feel that same desperate unyielding resolve she felt when she was on her own with the sand adding its own weight to every step she took, something that eggs her on to do more, go on, you’re strong enough, what’s stopping you-

it (mostly) settles after while. but before it does, well— being hungry isn’t something you forget so easily, Finn thinks