Palpatine specifically says that a "Dyad in the Force" is a rare and precious thing not seen for generations and it's only because they're both there that he's able to drain their power and regain full health He wasn't able to just drain Rey on her own and get 50% health
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
"rare and precious" doesn't really say what it is though. Needing them both there helps but it still doesn't tell us if it gives extra power or how it works. Could Palpatine have drained any sufficiently strong force user? He didn't seem to know they were a dyad until that point.
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Replying to @chton @BootlegGirl
What we're told and what we see is that Rey and Kylo were already individually as naturally strong as Force users get
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
yeah exactly. So if Palps is able to drain any force user, it would make sense that he'd want to drain Rey (or use her body or whatever) even with out the dyad. It feels like the dyad just wasn't important to the Palpatine's whole plan at all and it just happened to work out.
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Replying to @chton @arthur_affect
It felt like a GM improvising at the last second because Ben and Rey's player found a rule that said they could share items and so Ben won a fight he was supposed to lose and interrupted the planned monologue
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
It did. Now imagine if he lost that fight. Or he didn't show up at all. Would Palps' plan have been competely fucked? "Shit, you're half of a dyad, i can't drain you. shit shit shit..
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Replying to @chton @BootlegGirl
It... seems like he was sincere about the ritual to let Rey kill and replace (and in some sense become) him, and the Drain the Dyad thing was a plan B he had in mind (because only with Ben present could killing him be an act of love rather than despair or some shit)
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Note that his original plan A seems to have actually been that he did want Kylo to kill Rey so he could take Kylo as a host Because Kylo would've been much more likely to be so far gone to the Dark Side at that point he wouldn't resist being possessed
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The one time we see Palpatine talking to his minions *without* Kylo or Rey around (so we know he's not manipulating them) he says he senses "Skywalker's daughter has interfered for the last time" etc So we actually know for a fact he didn't want Rey to survive
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It's in the title of the movie so we hear it a lot
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I mean of course Palpatine acknowledges Anakin wasn't Darth Vader anymore You throw your boss into a pit to save the Rebels, you don't need any formal paperwork, you can assume you've been fired from the Sith
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