Brendol Hux II is sent away to be a cadet at the tender age of 11, he becomes a child prodigy assasin by 13 since no one expects a child to murder in cold blood or the First Order to stoop so low. He kills and blackmails his way up the ranks, ears and eyes always open, blade always sharp.
Benjamin Organa-Solo was a different case. Snoke groomed him while his parents backs were turned, coerced and cajoled him into acting against his nature. He nearly broke after he killed the padawans at Luke's school. Like all Skywalkers, he feels to much, too strongly, Snoke would not stand for such weakness in his tools. The First Order snatched him up, conditioned him, pared away his softness, shaped his thoughs to idolize Vader, and renamed him Kylo Ren.
tl;dr Black Widow!Hux and Winter Soldier!Kylo Ren/Ben Solo, up to A!A weather they conspire to escape the FO and reclaim their lives (and kiss) or rule as two deeply broken emperors (who kiss)
+ startling moments where Ben Solo breaks through the Kylo Ren shell (tantrums? oddly kind comments? bouts of sobbing?) before he's dragged off for another round of reconditioning +++ Hux going full assasin (to protect Ben from being conditioned again?) and killing an entire room of people while barely armed
kylux/gen - The Spider and The Soldier (cw: brainwashing, the FO is a cesspool of fucked up stuff)
Benjamin Organa-Solo was a different case. Snoke groomed him while his parents backs were turned, coerced and cajoled him into acting against his nature. He nearly broke after he killed the padawans at Luke's school. Like all Skywalkers, he feels to much, too strongly, Snoke would not stand for such weakness in his tools. The First Order snatched him up, conditioned him, pared away his softness, shaped his thoughs to idolize Vader, and renamed him Kylo Ren.
tl;dr Black Widow!Hux and Winter Soldier!Kylo Ren/Ben Solo, up to A!A weather they conspire to escape the FO and reclaim their lives (and kiss) or rule as two deeply broken emperors (who kiss)
+ startling moments where Ben Solo breaks through the Kylo Ren shell (tantrums? oddly kind comments? bouts of sobbing?) before he's dragged off for another round of reconditioning
+++ Hux going full assasin (to protect Ben from being conditioned again?) and killing an entire room of people while barely armed