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[prophesiedone]

[Late night thoughtful texts are the best...]

If you're the cause of someone's death, can you ever be forgiven?

[Asking for a friend. Right. Also "causing someone's death" obviously means murder.]

I'm not sure it's possible. Maybe that's the way it should be. There has be some justice in the universe.

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[kanyounot]

..."Becoming a Sith" won't save anyone. And all the power in the universe can't override the will of the Force.

Part of life is accepting that we can't control everything. No matter how much power we have.

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[prophesiedone]

I think it's possible to reverse a death, but it comes at a terrible price. [What happened to Padmé will always haunt him.]

That is difficult for me. I've always charged at any danger, trusting I can do something to fix it or change it. I am beginning to understand why I drove Obi-Wan crazy.

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[kanyounot]

Even if you *could* reverse a death, you'd need to think long and hard about whether you *should*. Being able to do something doesn't mean you should just do it without thought. Every action has consequences.

Everyone needs to learn to think before they act. Especially those of us with power.

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[prophesiedone]

I don't know how it's done. He never taught me. [But he trusts Sidious can do it and that he did it to keep him around in that horrible shape.]

I will try to think before I act.

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[kanyounot]

I'll just bet he didn't.

[ Kanan sincerely doubts even Palpatine can bring people back from the dead. ]

Don't make me quote Master Yoda at you.

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[prophesiedone]

Would you give away your lure if you are trying to catch an exotic animal? He knows my value - as a Sith does - and without the lure, he knows he can't hold me.

Oh no, anything but that!

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[kanyounot]

I have no doubt he's gone to great lengths to make you believe he can do a lot of things, just to dangle them in front of you and keep you in line.

That's what Sith do. They lie, and they manipulate. The less control you have over your own feelings, the more vulnerable you are to those manipulations.

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[prophesiedone]

Darth Plagueis could manipulate the Midichlorians. That is how he could extend a person's life. Sidious thought it possible I could do likewise and...

I couldn't lose her. I had visions of her death and I had already lost my mother.

All I wanted was to learn the method. Then Sidious's usefulness would have come to an end.

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[kanyounot]

Sounds like a pack of lies told in order to manipulate your already conflicted feelings.

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[prophesiedone]

How do I know one way or another? Killing him would mean accepting her death.

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[kanyounot]

Given that no one is still around from thousands of years ago, I think it's safe to say no one has managed to discover any secret to immortality.

Losing people we love is hard, and it hurts, a lot. But sometimes accepting it is what we have to do. Death is a thing that happens to everyone sooner or later.

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[prophesiedone]

I don't know how old he might be or who he called Master before he became one himself.

And if you could stop it, would you?

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[kanyounot]

If I murdered a bunch of innocent people in an attempt to save my wife's life, I'd lose her regardless, so no. I wouldn't do *anything*.