Isn’t a Force-user without any peace, by definition, in dire peril from the dark side? I think that Kylo would have to find peace of some sort in order to achieve redemption at all. And regarding the Padme thing… the point of Padme’s character is finding ways to make peace, and her trying to assassinate Anakin would be both OOC and not in the spirit of the movies, in which love redeems and vengeance is a path to the dark side, and where Padme was right in the end about there being good in him.

If he needs to find peace from people patting his ass and telling him it wasn’t his fault, then fuck his peace. That sounds, again, suspiciously like a threat that the people he hurt need to swallow down their pain and anger and endlessly accommodate him to avoid a greater threat, whether from the First Order or Kylo Ren’s own darkness. It’s his own damned responsibility to find peace, not the people he tortured and tried to murder.

The same goes for Padmé: There is no peace without justice, and if she was seeking “peace” by literally getting in bed with a mass murderer at the expense of justice for murdered children, then her idea of peace is not peace but appeasement.

I also never said the stabbing attempt would be a positive thing, I specifically said it was suicide and too little, too late. It would be an expression of despair born out of Anakin’s crimes and guilt for her own silence, not a positive development. At least it would show an awareness that she had made a terrible mistake, not a doubling down on the same make-nice avoidance of accountability that had worked so spectacularly (as in, not at all) before.