saw rotj today and. i am so jealous of kids who grew up seeing every movie in theatres. i can’t even put it into words. my dad was 6 when new hope came out and i just wish i could’ve lived that, growing up alongside this franchise. i also wish i could watch the first two trilogies for the first time right now bc i’ve been watching them since i was born (i was born a month before rots) simply bc i don’t remember what it felt like to learn vader was anakin, luke and leia were twins, etc etc. i’m glad to have grown up with these films but damn i wish i remembered the first time experiencing it.
No Order 66 AU where Anakin leaves the Order after the war ends and he and Padme end up retiring to Naboo to try to raise the twins together, but neither of them ends up feeling particularly satisfied with life on Naboo (for Anakin it just doesn't give him any purpose the way he desperately needs and for Padme it's always been this perfect rosy dream and reality doesn't measure up), so they end up leaving the twins behind a lot so they can pursue other things and are pretty absentee parents in general. They mostly end up getting raised by Padme's parents instead, and while they're perfectly good guardians for the twins and raise them kindly and love them a lot, there's always an obvious elephant in the room regarding who ISN'T there.
This causes a bit of a rift between Luke and Leia because while Luke is trying to keep the peace and give their parents the benefit of the doubt as he moves on and figures out his own life with what he DOES have, Leia is less willing to just forgive and forget.
Luke ends up becoming a pilot working for the royal palace for a while, but Leia goes into politics (something she'd entered while younger because it's what her mother did and she'd been hoping it would get Padme's attention and bring the two of them closer; it didn't work out that way at all and now Leia's sticking with it at least partly to spite Padme) as an aide for her cousin Pooja who is now Senator of Naboo.
And it's here, once she finally makes it to Coruscant and starts working in the Senate, that Leia meets Bail Organa, still working as Senator of Alderaan. The two of them click IMMEDIATELY and Bail ends up becoming Leia's mentor in politics, as well as the person who actually introduces her to the Jedi themselves. Anakin and Padme had never really bothered to do so, both because they were so rarely around, but also because they had chosen not to give Luke and Leia to the Temple and decided at that point that it would be easier to keep the twins and the Jedi separate. Bail of course has no such compunctions and even if he knew about Anakin and Padme's feelings on the matter, I imagine he'd find ways to allow Leia to accidentally bump into some of the Jedi while she was on Coruscant. If he just so happens to double book himself for lunch with both Leia and Obi-Wan, it's hardly anything malicious and they may as well all eat together!
Leia finally feels like she has a parent who gives a damn about her, someone who acts like a parent to her, the parent she's always wanted. Her grandparents had always been incredibly kind and they obviously had to do a lot of parenting, but they'd always been very strict about making sure the twins saw them as GRANDPARENTS and not their actual parents, which just make the absence of their parents that much more obvious and painful. But with Bail, she's finally got someone who doesn't care that Anakin and Padme aren't there and doesn't feel the need to create a wall between them for Anakin and Padme's sake. Bail takes her under his wing, teaches her everything she knows, allows her to explore things she'd never been allowed to explore before, connects her to even more people who can help her understand herself better than she's ever been able to before. THIS is what a parent was supposed to do for her and she knows it, THIS is what selfless love looks like from a parent and she THRIVES under it for the first time in her life.
She eventually decides not to stay on as Pooja's aide because she has no real desire to become a senator for Naboo at any point, but she IS good at politics and desperately does want to help people any way she can, so she starts up some sort of organization of her own to help people around the galaxy (and connects it to the Jedi because deep down she KNOWS she was supposed to be one of them even though that path is now closed to her). But she doesn't go back to Naboo, she doesn't make her home on her mother's home planet.
She goes to Alderaan instead. And this time, she gets to stay there for the rest of her life.
I just finished the book "Leia princess of Alderaan" by claudia gray and oh my fucking god I'm distraught like I'm actually speechless I wanna lay on the floor in fetal position and cry oh my god.
does… does dave filoni know that the whole “anyone can be force sensitive if they put their mind to it” bullshit fundamentally shatters the entire core of star wars world-building around force users? like - does he understand that?
I loved the original trilogy (never been fond of Obi-Wan there though, too Gandalf, I liked the prequels in general, and I started to loooove obi, loved every second of the clone wars serie, loved the general extended universe of the novels/comics, but in general detested the new trilogy and most of the new characters. Enjoyed the mandalorian a lot, though it got me 2 seasons to get invested. That just as a disclaimer.
I'm loooooving the new obi one serie. I love seeing leia and obi, obi's guilt and not being able to tell her the truth, I just love it!
Let me know if I tag anything wrongly or if more tags should be tag, it's not a hate post just my personal opinion on the saga
I do... I will officiate the wedding by Profundity (TanTales)
Leia and Han ask Luke to officiate their wedding.
Luke is very confused about the whole affair.
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“Kid, what do you think we are asking you to do?”
“To marry you?”
“Yeah, sure, but what do you think we mean with that?”
Luke’s neurons tried. They really did. “You want me to marry the two of you? A throuple marriage. I mean, I love you guys, but I am confused about why we have to get married to show that. You are my best friends and will always be; why would exchanging vows help with that?”
“Okay, kid, so that’s where we lost you. No, we don’t want you to get married to us. We want you to officiate our marriage.”
Luke’s brain rebooted. It took him a while to get back online.
1.8k words. One Shot. Luke has no idea there is a real re