So Sail On

But Wentworth is only able to fully enjoy it for like A DAY before he starts realizing how terrible it is. He watches Anne suffer in silence and he hates it. He watches her being treated like an inconvenience and a joke and a piece of furniture and he hates it. He hears sneering comments at her expense and he hates it. He spends evening after evening in her company, where he is celebrated as a handsome, dashing hero while she is shoved to the side and ignored and he hates it.

He probably spent a lot of heartbroken hours out on the sea wishing revenge on her (like ten years’ worth), but then he gets to see it happening and revenge turns out not to be that sweet after all. He probably thought “I hope she never gets married to anyone else and she has to spend the rest of her miserable life with her miserable family, listening to them talk about nothing and regretting ever letting me go.” But then he has to watch her live through it, and it is just excruciating. Watching her bite her tongue. Watching her keep her eyes down on her clasped hands. Watching her silently accept everything as if she deserves it.

He’s like, “YES, it’s all HAPPENING! She’s all ALONE and PALE and OLD and…sad. And her family treats her terribly, and she’s— no one is talking to her. No one even knows that she’s funny and smart, they just— they just make her sit in the corner. She’s hardly eating anything. And she really isn’t that old, but they are acting like she’s dead? Her family is even worse than they used to be, how is that even possible? Why isn’t anyone helping her? Why is she the only person taking care of anyone? Why isn’t anyone taking care of her?”

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1:32​’ The Battle 

  2:51​’ Thrawn Theme 

  5:53​’ Love theme for Luke and Mara Jade( Mara Jade’s Theme) 

 Live in concert recording 

New themes composed and conducted by Arturo Díez Boscovich Star Wars Main theme by John Williams 

Colonel Brandon after he tells Elinor about his lost love Eliza? Stumbles out of the room, finds somewhere private, and bawls. Edward after leaving Barton Cottage thinking he'll never be able to marry Elinor? Make him weep! Mr. Knightley was glad it was raining when he rode back to Hartfield after learning about Frank's engagement because it gave his tears plausible deniability! Wentworth thinks Anne will marry her cousin? Sobbing mess of a man. Bingley can cry during the proposal when he thinks about all the time he lost not being with Jane. Edmund cries alone in his room after Mary calls clergymen "nothing". Henry Tilney cries without realizing it when Catherine accepts his proposal because he's so glad that no one is angry with him and confronting his father was way more emotionally taxing than he let himself acknowledge at the time. Henry Crawford feeling wretched and alone after the affair and sobbing into his hands. Show us post wedding and make Darcy cry after the birth of his first child.

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In ANH, Leia has a British accent when she’s still trying to bluff her way through Vader and Tarkin by pulling senatorial rank, and drops that accent when she becomes so agitated that the bluff falls apart, and she doesn’t pick it back up again.

I’d argue that this implies that Coruscant’s social elite tend to speak with a crisp British accent, and Leia adopts it when acting as a senator, because when in Rome and beat them at their own game and all that, but it’s not her normal accent.

And since Mara Jade is my fandom speciality, I can’t help but bring her into this by pointing out that she grew up within that Coruscanti elite - the Emperor’s own court, the most elite of elite, even - which would imply that her natural accent is British.

Now, she certainly had speech training that would allow her to speak naturally in any number of accents, because she often acted as an undercover agent where her own natural accent would be a dead giveaway, and she left Coruscant not long after the battle of Endor and then, in her own words, spent nearly five years “sloshing around the rotten underfringes of the galaxy”, surely places where she would want to conceal the upper crust accent that could potentially put a target on her back. Arguably she would continue to do so even after she joined Karrde; she would often be working with people and in places where such a social marker could be to her detriment. So probably by the time of HoT, Mara is so accustomed to speaking without it that her natural accent has effectively been replaced (presumably with the general American accent of the Big Three, which seems to be the accent equivalent of Basic within the GFFA).

But when Mara is really agitated, I’ve always imagined her slipping back into the crisp British accent she was presumably raised with, much the same way that, when she was really angry with her father, Hera Syndulla slipped back into a Ryloth/Twi’leki accent.