The technical reason behind Kylo Ren's unstable lightsaber and his crossguards is because he cracked his kyber crystal. This happened after his fall to the dark side when he “bled” his original blue crystal to red. And the impressive-looking crossguards are meant to vent the unstable crystal.
The lightsaber's redesign was a byproduct of the bleeding process that damaged its kyber crystal, rendering it dangerously flawed and unstable, and necessitating the lateral vents were meant to prevent the cracked kyber crystal from overloading.
When Kylo Ren did this, he poured so much hate and anger into the crystal, causing it to crack. in the lightsaber itself, the crystal was extremely unstable. This is why his lightsaber has that crackling effect. He also made use of cross guards to make sure.
When a kyber crystal becomes damaged through some extreme wear and tear of a lightsaber, it becomes unstable. The crystal generally continues to work well, but a Mystic, with the right ritual, may be able to draw some of the crystal's power for themselves.
We've known for years now that Kylo Ren's lightsaber crackles and sputters the way it does because the kyber crystal that powers its blade is unstable.
Kylo Ren's lightsaber had a cracked kyber crystal, which generated an unstable blade. The excess power was vented out the sides, thus creating a crossguard-like design. The most important and prestigious vessels of the First Order had weapons upgraded with kyber crystals from some secret source in the Unknown Regions.
Properties. Kathracite crystals were the weakest of the Adegan crystrals and often used to create training lightsabers for the younglings who were apart of the Jedi Order.
The Solari crystal was one of the oldest and most powerful lightsaber crystals of the Jedi Order.
For other uses, see Blood (disambiguation). Bleeding was the process that a dark side adept used by way of the dark side of the Force to bend a kyber crystal to their will, turning it red.
In The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary, it's confirmed that Kylo Ren's lightsaber contains a “cracked kyber crystal that is the cause of [the] ragged, unstable appearance” of the central blade and the two smaller blades that comprise the crossguard.
Even though Kylo Ren uses a red lightsaber, harnesses the dark side of the Force, and wears a cape, he is not a Sith. Because of that, he can never hold the title of Darth. Instead, he was just a chaotic mess of the dark side (until he eventually found his way back to the light).
A crystal embodies the Jedi as the heart of the lightsaber, and pure kyber has no color until it's bonded to the Force user. This process likely resulted in Rey Skywalker's lightsaber being yellow.
The breaks in Ren's mask were meant to be a visual representation of his fractured character. Instead of hiding him as it did before, the mask tells his history, and his behavior is revealed.
Although a grown man, he throws destructive temper tantrums. Many mental health practitioners like Adam Smith (The Cantina Cast episode 115) suggest that he may have borderline personality disorder, that chaotic condition defined by poorly formed personality with erratic, unstable traits.
However, Ren's greatest strength also appears to be his greatest weakness: fear. Kylo Ren is afraid of who he might be (in possession of the light side), or who he many not become (Darth Vader), and this is further demonstrated through two key moments.
Barab ingots were a type of kyber crystal found on the irradiated planet Barab I. The crystals were found in clusters in the planet's mountains and were hot to the touch. They also glowed and, when used in a lightsaber, created a powerful, fiery blade and made the entire lightsaber slightly radioactive.
Black lightsabers are extremely rare in the Star Wars universe, and only a few have been seen on screen. These lightsabers are typically associated with the Dark Side of the Force and wielded by Sith or Dark Jedi. The most well-known black lightsaber is the Darksaber, which was created by the first Mandalorian Jedi.
While there are many one-of-a-kind lightsabers in the Star Wars universe, there is only one with the history and legend of the Darksaber, which was created by the first Mandalorian Jedi named Tarre Vizsla.
The Firebrand was a basic design of lightsaber hilt that was used by Jedi Initiates as well as Knights of the New Jedi Order as of 14 ABY. An all black hilt, it was known to have a stable grip and was equipped with a thin deflector ring to protect the wielder from energy backlash.
Kylo Ren's crossguard lightsaber is an ancient design that recalls weapons seen millennia ago during the Great Scourge of Malachor.
By hitting himself in the wound, Kylo was accentuating the pain and using the pain to focus himself; using the adrenalin/endorphin rush to make himself stronger; feeding off of the anger caused by the pain and bringing the Dark Side to bear more strongly against his opponents.
Kylo Ren's lightsaber form was something of a hybrid, which blended three styles together: Djem So, Juyo, and Niman. Djem So used an irregular reverse grip and was meant for practitioners who loved fighting with a more...