[ Cheater, cheater, Force-yeeter, to quote a very wise sage. Finn, of course, is not of a mindset to actually be thinking something like that. He's more taken by an immediate and familiar thought process, the intensity of which he hasn't hasn't properly experienced in a very long time. Since those first few days after getting away from the First Order, arriving in Riverview and constantly waiting for a fleet to touch down.
That is to say, Finn is instantly, viscerally sure that this is probably where he dies. And while dying in itself is the kind of thing he was raised to view as a necessary means to an end in some circumstances, let alone being less theoretically final in a city like this one, his broad hope has been to only do it once, and to have a lot more direct control over the circumstances. Doing it for something worthwhile to him, knowingly taking a risk.
Something that's not this. And Rey and Poe are gonna be really upset about it which is?? Maybe even worse. (It's literally not worse.) Possibly the best actual motivation he has to try to get scrappy and put running fast to good use.
It's a lot harder to drum up his usual shade of anger reserved for Kylo Ren right now, even though he knows he has it. He goes back to the well and it's mostly cold fear, which is arguably not helped by that thing where he's being choked.
Finn gets a tight hold on Kylo's forearm with both hands, which he doesn't expect to amount to much of a grip-breaker with Force powers in play. His plan of action from there so far is to just bring his knee up really hard and hope he hits anything with the capacity to get hurt by a knee. He can't believe this is the worst day of his life so far. ]
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That is to say, Finn is instantly, viscerally sure that this is probably where he dies. And while dying in itself is the kind of thing he was raised to view as a necessary means to an end in some circumstances, let alone being less theoretically final in a city like this one, his broad hope has been to only do it once, and to have a lot more direct control over the circumstances. Doing it for something worthwhile to him, knowingly taking a risk.
Something that's not this. And Rey and Poe are gonna be really upset about it which is?? Maybe even worse. (It's literally not worse.) Possibly the best actual motivation he has to try to get scrappy and put running fast to good use.
It's a lot harder to drum up his usual shade of anger reserved for Kylo Ren right now, even though he knows he has it. He goes back to the well and it's mostly cold fear, which is arguably not helped by that thing where he's being choked.
Finn gets a tight hold on Kylo's forearm with both hands, which he doesn't expect to amount to much of a grip-breaker with Force powers in play. His plan of action from there so far is to just bring his knee up really hard and hope he hits anything with the capacity to get hurt by a knee. He can't believe this is the worst day of his life so far. ]