Given the pressure that was unceremoniously dropped on his tiny back when he was ten, he would have even more understood Kylo changing his name. It was too much to drop on a child.

"I'm not surprised in my case." He kept his life a mystery on purpose. "But it grieves me to think you don't know about her." Her, the center of his universe. His reason for being. "Your eyes are darker than her's but I do see their influence. She wanted to help people. To make the galaxy better for them."