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[ID: Illustration of five TTRPG PCs. From left to right there’s an orc holding a javelin, a blue dragonborn, an armored human, a red tiefling, and a blue-haired woman. END ID.]

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the thousands of space rom-coms that use the ‘secret and torrid love affair with a Jedi’ cliché

actors who talk about how they ‘learned everything about the Jedi and even read their Code so they’re almost a Jedi themselves’

the numbers of articles from trashy holomags about the ‘10 things we should adopt from the Jedi way this summer’

conspiracy theories on the holonet about the Jedi Order controlling the Chancellor thanks to their magic abilities or how grand master Yoda is actually just a puppet

rich and bored upper-class coruscanti citizens who are ready to pay a fortune to get a Jedi doing a few tricks at their fancy soirées

how many times Windu had to stop Vos from going to said soirées

how many kids dress up as Jedi for the space version of Halloween in the core worlds

how entire systems don’t believe in the Jedi and think they’re just characters in children’s stories because they haven’t seen one in centuries

Din is used to being around Luke, who is so powerful in the force that it just like leaks out of him. It’s almost unconscious but honestly, Din begins to find it kind of weird when it doesn’t happen.

Like Luke is so strong with the force and able to sense most things around him, thus it’s just easy for him to move Din out of the way of an impending blow or blaster shot. He gets used to the rhythm of fighting with the Jedi. He must learn to trust Luke to move him this way and that, sometimes the Jedi will even reinforce Din’s strength with a light push of the force.

At home it’s more simple.

Luke’s school is everything to him. It’s best to just assume that if you are on the planet then Luke Skywalker knows, who you are, what you are doing, and what you want.

For the sake of his students he is always aware of everything. His use of the force extends across the vast acres of land used by the school. Thus, when Din moves in with Luke as partners, he has to get used to the force as yet another roommate.

One day, Din finds the mug that he just dropped hovering three inches from the ground. He stands there confused for three minutes as Luke is almost half a mile away on a walk with Grogu.

Or another time when Din is out working on the ship. he realizes that he grabbed the wrong tool and is all pissed that he is going to have to walk back up to the school when he hears a sudden ‘ting!’ Against his helmet.

He looks up to see the exact tool he needs hovering above his head.

The best is when it’s late at night. Luke is tired and the children are in bed. He can feel light tugs on his armors buckles. Luke doesn’t seem to be aware of the almost absentminded pulling at Din’s clothes and armor. Not until almost an hour later when Luke literally picks Din’s entire body up and pulls him into the bedroom using the force.

But like... it should take as long to get a superfreighter from Tatooine to Coruscant as it does to get a container ship from Japan to Ireland (48 days).

I want to imagine that they (the cargo ships) are also more dangerous at FTL speeds so they have dedicated slow lanes. Extra wide for safety, with really long "exit ramps" so they can accel/decel out without hitting anyone. We want to avoid an accidental Holdo Maneuver.

There are also emergency lanes that are kept clear for, well, emergencies. It's not like you can DODGE in a hyperlane. You can't pull over to let the emergency ships speed past you.

So. Service lanes.

So you have the extra slow lanes for freight/cargo/other huge liners.

"Normal" lanes for personal or small group transports.

And emergency lanes for the military, relief aid, political officials, etc.

So the military gets there in two days (ftl equivalent of Mach speeds), solo travelers get there in anywhere from one to three weeks (you can pay for the faster lanes, but it's restricted for safety; bounty hunters usually pay for the faster lane).

You get it!

you're owen lars. the woman you call mom had another child once. it doesn't make her love you less, but she talks about him in a way that makes it clear that she loved him, too. he's off to be a jedi now and she's very proud.

you're owen lars. your mother's been kidnapped and you have to assume the worst. a man and a woman step into your home and the man announces himself to be that kid who went off to become a jedi. he knows you less than you know him and before anything else can happen, he takes off to bring back his mother, a feat you think is impossible.

you're owen lars. anakin skywalker brings your mom's corpse to your doorstep. her funeral is interrupted by a message of utmost galactic importance.

you're owen lars. your brother is dead. you never saw him again after that first time. there is another jedi on your doorstep, with a baby in his arm and you know what it means and you can't bring yourself to face him as he hands your nephew off to your wife.

you're owen lars. obi-wan ben kenobi is a pain in the ass. he was more your brother's brother than you ever were and he doesn't understand your particular kind of grief, is drowning in his own. you don't even know the full story and kenobi will never tell you all of it. but you have a child to care for so you tell him off and get back to work.

you're owen lars. you didn't know your brother, but you know your nephew and your nephew wants out of this place as soon as possible. you know he won't be safe out there but in the end you're helpless to stop him. and you know the stories, you remember the one time you met him, the days your mother died. and you do this for her and you do this for your father and you do this for your brother and you do this for your nephew.

HE'S FINE DW o66 was avoided, he's safe, he's just gotta deal with being sad about losing some friends (and having one friend reach new never before seen pits of misery)

5. out

4. guilty

3. wanting

2. lacking

req'd by @crescentmoonsandroses

is this like, benjamin franklin bishonen or am i thinking the other way around