Vader would not be quick to shake off the touch unless they were interrupted. It wasn't weakness but vulnerability that he was protecting against. If other Sith had been able to cultivate families and it hadn't always ended in full-scale slaughter, he could as well. Especially here, it seemed.
He increased the pressure he was putting on Kylo's jaw, just a fraction, permission, not demand, to come in closer. You're safe with me, he wanted to say. But such things were easy to say and difficult to prove. And it was the proving he wanted to do. "Tell me about your name, how it came to be." Vader was both things, or at least he wanted to be. He became this to secure his family, to protect and provide for them. Whatever he had to do, whatever cruel act at Palpatine's hand or heel, he would preform, no matter the cost to his soul, to keep his family safe.
Now he was understanding Palpatine would never allow that to occur. But that didn't mean he couldn't, wouldn't, find a way out of spite if nothing else.
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He increased the pressure he was putting on Kylo's jaw, just a fraction, permission, not demand, to come in closer. You're safe with me, he wanted to say. But such things were easy to say and difficult to prove. And it was the proving he wanted to do. "Tell me about your name, how it came to be." Vader was both things, or at least he wanted to be. He became this to secure his family, to protect and provide for them. Whatever he had to do, whatever cruel act at Palpatine's hand or heel, he would preform, no matter the cost to his soul, to keep his family safe.
Now he was understanding Palpatine would never allow that to occur. But that didn't mean he couldn't, wouldn't, find a way out of spite if nothing else.