“I’m a Republic officer, General. I swore an oath to protect the Republic, to—”
“No, you misunderstand. I like it. It was rash of you, as I said, it was foolish. But we could use some rash these days, and foolish and passionate are often confused, and passion is something we desperately need.”
#my favourite thing about this parallel is knowing how much poe would love it (via)
oh he WOULD he would love it SO MUCH, maybe he even volunteered for the Jakku mission because of the risk of getting captured by stormtroopers, he knew it happened to Leia and he’s all IT’S A RESISTANCE RITE OF PASSAGE I MUST SUFFER THROUGH THIS TO BE MORE LIKE HER