Supreme Leader Snoke/Relationships

The relationships of Supreme Leader Snoke from the Star Wars universe.
==Allies==
===Armitage Hux===
Snoke commands Armitage Hux with absolute authority, and in turn, Hux is apparently loyal to him. However, the Supreme Leader is aware that Hux is a schemming person, as Kylo Ren warned his master that he saw in Hux's mind that he wants Snoke killed to take his place. Despite this, Snoke is not worried and claims that he does not take Hux's murderous intentions personally because he knows that Hux wants to kill a lot of people, not only him.
While he values Kylo Ren, Snoke sees Armitage as a tool and a warmongering cur to be kept tight on a leash. He approves Hux's plans, particularly when they suit his needs, but when Hux's plans go awry, he does not hesitate to punish him, as he did when Hux failed to stop the Resistance from escaping the First Order's fleet and when his forces failed to stop BB-8 from escaping on the Millennium Falcon. Similar as he does with Kylo Ren, Snoke does not hesitate to physically harm Hux using the Force, to discipline him and make it clear that he should not fail again.
===Phasma===
Snoke's relationship with Phasma is unknown. He commands her with absolute authority and she worked dubiously in his name.
===Praetorian Guards===
Snoke has a close relationship with his guards, as they are completely loyal to him and follow his every command. Snoke keeps them around all times while he is on the Supremacy, even when interacting with allies, as the guards will immediately react to protect Snoke from anyone who threats him. This is seen when Kylo stands defiant against his master and the guards prepare to defend Snoke from him. Despite this, later the guards are not able to protect Snoke from being murdered by Kylo Ren, although they quickly move to avenge his death, but with no avail.
==Enemies==
===Luke Skywalker===
	
Snoke hates Luke because of his status as the last Jedi, but at the same time he is also terrified of the Jedi Master due to him being an immensely powerful Force-user. Snoke knows that if Luke remains at large, a new generation of Jedi will rise again. However, at the same time, Snoke respects Luke for the knowledge he sought regarding the Force, he even tells Ben Solo that if he had Luke by his side instead of him, he would be able to take over the galaxy. As such, Snoke views Luke as a threat and seeks to eliminate him and end the Jedi for good. On the other hand, when Luke finds out that Snoke has been corrupting his nephew, Luke views Snoke forevermore as his enemy. 
After Luke went to hide on Ahch-To, Snoke sends his apprentice to hunt him down with the intent to end the Jedi once and for all. He is infuriated when Kylo is not able to obtain the droid with Luke's location, as he fears that as long as the Jedi Master lives, there is the risk of the new Jedi resurfacing. In order to eliminate Luke, Snoke goes as far as to manipulate the vulnerability of his apprentice and the bond Kylo has with Luke's apprentice, Rey. He is pleased that his plan seems to work when Rey decides to meet Kylo on the Supremacy, which results in her being captured and brought before Snoke. To his surprise, upon using the mind probe on Rey, he finds out that Luke also wishes the end of the Jedi. This discovery leaves Snoke delighted, and he decides to fulfill Luke's wish by encountering and murdering him after killing Rey, but he is prevented to do so because of Kylo Ren's betrayal.
===Leia Organa===
Snoke and Leia are sworn enemies, because of how Snoke corrupted her son, Ben Solo, turning him into Kylo Ren. Leia also knows the threat Snoke and the First Order poss to the galaxy, and to that end formed the Resistance to fight him when the New Republic could not.
===Rey===
Snoke views Rey as a true threat due to her being an apprentice of Luke Skywalker while he is seeking to prevent the return of the Jedi Order. He is surprised that Kylo Ren lost the duel on Starkiller Base against her, even though she had never used a lightsaber before that battle, thus he scolds his apprentice for the defeat. At some point after this, he found out that she has a Force-bond with Kylo, so he concludes that she is the light to his apprentice's darkness. Snoke then attempts to exploit and manipulate both of them and their connection, expecting Rey to empathize with Kylo's vulnerability, and that their interactions will eventually reveal Luke Skywalker's whereabouts. 
Snoke's becomes satisfied as his plan seems to have suceeded when Rey decides to go to the Supremacy alone to attempt to bring Kylo Ren back to the light. Snoke is easily able to discover Luke's location after painfully torturing and extracting the information from the girl's mind and is impressed by her resistance. Despite his hatred for Rey, Snoke muses that had he found her in the past, she could have been a fine apprentice. After recognizing that Rey has the heart of a true Jedi, he orders Kylo to kill her, as he wishes to prevent her from fully becoming a Jedi. However, Snoke's plan ultimately fails, as he does not consider that the feelings growing between Rey and his own apprentice are genuine, which leads to his death at the hands of Kylo Ren who chooses to save Rey by killing his own master.
===Ben Solo/Kylo Ren===
During the time Ben was at the Jedi academy, Snoke started to communicate with him through the Force. Snoke presented himself as a "friend" to Ben while slowly corrupting him by creating doubts about the Jedi and his uncle Luke. After Luke almost killed him in his sleep, Ben is convinced that Snoke is right and feeling he cannot go back to his family or trust anyone else, Ben decides to go to him and turn to the dark side. 
After luring him to the dark side, Snoke takes Ben as his apprentice, and later rechristenes Ben as Kylo Ren after he joined and became the master of the Knights of Ren. During his time as Snoke's apprentice, Ren is devoutly loyal to the Supreme Leader and listens to his teachings closely. Snoke then believed that Kylo is the finest apprentice he had ever taught and considered him to be a focal point in the Force because of his relationship to Darth Vader as his grandson.
Furthermore, Snoke believed that if Ren fully embraced the dark side, he was destined for greatness beyond imagining. However, upon learning that Rey, a girl with no experience fighting with a lightsaber, defeated Ren and sensing how Kylo became consumed by remorse after Han Solo's death, Snoke is infuriated. He then begins rethinking his apprentice's future, planning to change his purpose due to his instability. Snoke's faith in his apprentice is irreparably damaged, and the ancient dark side Force-user begins to see Ren as little more than an instrument, calling him a child in a mask that was pretending to be Darth Vader. 
Sometime later, Snoke discovers that Kylo has a very strong and unique Force-bond with Rey, who was being mentored by Luke Skywalker. Seeing this as a opportunity to find out the Jedi Master's location, he manipulates their bond and exposes the weaknesses and sentimentality of his apprentice to her as a way to attract the Jedi apprentice into his trap. 
Ultimately, this leads Snoke to his undoing, as Ren realizes and feels humiliated by his master's abuse and manipulation over him, and later becomes infuriated when he realizes that Snoke is doing the same with Rey. When Kylo brings Rey before his master, Snoke fails to sense how his apprentice becomes enraged when it revealed that he had been manipulating their Force-bond and using them both as a way to uncover Luke's location. The growing feelings that his apprentice has for the young Jedi only further encourages him to defy his master. 
Failing to realize that Kylo had fallen in love with Rey, Snoke not only tortures her in front of Kylo but also orders him to kill her. Snoke becomes confident because he senses through the Force that his apprentice has reached to the resolve to kill his true enemy. However, Snoke does not notice that this resolve is not referring to Rey, as his apprentice is suppressing his thoughts and had chosen to save her life instead of obeying his master's order. As Snoke waits for Kylo to kill Rey, who is at his mercy, Ren subtly uses the Force to manipulate the Skywalker's lightsaber, making the Supreme leader think he is going to follow his order, before activating the blue blade of the weapon, cutting Snoke in half. Snoke, surprised and dying, can only look on in shock as he is killed by the very man whom he thought would and could never betray him.
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