well, everybody bleeds

Like, Luke your father was a drug smuggler and so we don't talk about him. Your father was a drug runner and he crossed the line from Good Person to criminal and drug peddler and brought shame on our family. Luke, your father was a drug dealer and he was involved in shady things and it really hasn't been that long and people are probably after him to this day and we have to keep our heads down and stay safe. Luke, your father made it so that we have to pay the consequences of his actions. Made it so that you, Luke Skywalker, can't sing with the stars that call your name because of what he did whilst racing among them.

Luke, your father was a bad man who did bad things, but they were choices, and you can make different ones. You share his last name but you don't share his greed. Luke, addiction is genetic but your father wasn't a drug addict. He was a drug smuggler. He chose to became part of a system that exploits pain and fear, but his decision isn't running through your bones. Luke, you're kind and good and have reached nineteen, on a planet made to break things, whole and gentle.

Then the few older ones choke up a little because Anakin had kids. He had kids and they were safe.

But then he meets Quinlan. And Quinlan just breaks down. Because Anakin was basically his nephew. The little twerp that pestered him into helping him prank Obi-Wan had kids. He figured something was up between him and Padmé but KIDS!

Then Luke mentions Obi-Wan and Quinlan breaks down all over again. “What do you mean he was alive 4 years ago?” Totally spiraling because Obi-Wan was alive up until 4 years ago. They could have seen each other. But they didn’t.. and Quinlan is mourning all over again.

Hera: Got any embarrassing stories?

obi-wan: Really? Can you now?

I don’t do that.

Because it’s not a real problem. People can characterize them however they feel and write them however they feel and it’s not more or less valid to the ways I would characterize them because canon only exists skewed through the lens of your own perspective. Everything you ever make in fandom of someone else’s IP will necessarily be fanon because none of us are the arbiter of truth for Star Wars. So maybe Obi-wan was a callous and uncaring mentor and maybe he was a patient and caring older brother type and maybe he was none of those things and maybe he was both. Maybe Luke was a bountiful fountain of starry-eyed hope that will never fade and maybe he was just a naive young man who inevitably became as jaded as everyone else. Maybe Leia was a stone cold bitch who could kick ass and take names and didn’t hesitate and maybe she was the soft politicians daughter who was hardened into a commander but not a soldier.

space catholic “will my dog go to heaven” since droids don’t have a force signature