[ There is more to it than the obviously chaotic encounter. He's had to fight viciously before– the academy wasn't for anyone soft, regardless of how many seemed to think it was. Hux has gone to medical with broken limbs, cuts, scrapes, and bruises. It's lessened over the years as his rank rose, but he still remembers those instances.
And just like he isn't afraid of Ren's powers, he's not really scared of confrontation. What unnerved him more than anything was the shared experience, the looping of pain across all of his senses.
(Their delicate self worth fragmenting; when he broke Ren's, he felt his snap too). ]
I'll consider it territory not to cross. [ He won't go there again, believe him. All of him hopes neither of them will have to, not when it digs so much. Not when he's content to shove his own issues down and let them die. ]
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And just like he isn't afraid of Ren's powers, he's not really scared of confrontation. What unnerved him more than anything was the shared experience, the looping of pain across all of his senses.
(Their delicate self worth fragmenting; when he broke Ren's, he felt his snap too). ]
I'll consider it territory not to cross. [ He won't go there again, believe him. All of him hopes neither of them will have to, not when it digs so much. Not when he's content to shove his own issues down and let them die. ]