Among the many mystery seeds planted in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, arguably the most intriguing one is how Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren became so emo. Ren, you may recall, is actually the son of Han Solo and Leia. We learned in the movie that Ren was training with Luke Skywalker when..."something" went wrong and Ren turned over to the dark side, sending Luke into hiding. And in case you doubted Kylo’s evil bona fides, he went from angry teenager to villain awful quick when he killed his own dad.

In a new featurette, Driver and director J. J. Abrams explain how Kylo turned into such a complicated baddie. Driver explains that Luke's teachings played a big role, as Kylo's separation from his parents during his Jedi training made him grow resentful of Han and Leia as he began to harness his powers.

"Imagine the stakes for him in his youth," Driver says of Ren. "Having all these special powers and having your parents absent during that process on their own agendas, equally as selfish. He's lost in the world that he was raised in, and feels that he was kind of abandoned by the people he was closest with."

Yeah, all right, Kylo. Basically, this privileged child is complaining because he had a cool-ass superpower and his parents allowed him to train that power with his legendary uncle who also happens to be the person most famous for having that same cool-ass power. I wish my childhood were so rough that I were stronger than all the other kids and my parents let me harness that power so I could be even stronger. This is why we hate teenagers.

To be fair, Abrams brings up an even more interesting point about Kylo's emo tendencies: that the supervillain Snoke, the shadowy (literally) figure from The Force Awakens who was directing the First Order, always had his eye on Kylo. "Snoke had targeted this kid; [he] knew that this kid was going to be incredibly powerful in the Force and wanted him as an ally," Abrams says.

Star Wars: Episode VIII comes out next year, and we'll have to wait until then to (hopefully) find out at least some of the answers from Kylo's childhood, and how Snoke got a hold of him. Until then, we'll have Emo Kylo's Twitter account to hold us over.