Headcanon that Luke and Obi Wan got the money to pay Han Solo by selling the moisture farm at bargain-basement prices in Anchorhead without telling anyone that it was totally torched, and by the time anyone find out they were well off planet. Luke now has a reputation as one of Tattooineās most famous con men despite the fact that it was Obi Wan who ran the con.
#I donāt know if you meant it this way but I totally interpreted this as them selling the farm multiple times to different people#luke: *wrestling over selling the wreck of the farm to someone he knows is a complete scumbag*#obi-wan: hello are you interested in buying a farm#complete scumbucket: *interested noises*#luke: Ā wait didnāt we already-? *gets zapped by R2* ow!#luke: oh#luke: ohhhh#luke: >:)
i havenāt cared about star wars ācanonā since i was 3 years old- I LOVE the idea that the reason Luke had to dramatically speeder in and out of Jabbaās without hitting up any of his local connections is he is like, wanted by a bunch of scum inĀ Mos Eisley. Can you- can you imagineĀ Vader or whoever doing a recon in town onĀ āthe last son of the Jedi who blew up the death star.ā His closeĀ friends and family have all a) died b) moved off planet or c) both.Ā
So the only reputation he has is āthat bastard con artist who banked 19 years of aw-shucks-wormie-ness and used it to outrageously fleece everyoneĀ whoās almost anybody.ā Vader reading the report likeā¦damn you Kenobi did you get HONDO to raise my son??
Jabbaās reaction to Lukeās message is INFINITELY funnier if we consider the idea thatĀ āSkywalkerā amongst the wretched local villainy (who mostly ignore imperial and rebel propaganda) is actually synonymous with TWO things - that brat who totally messed up the podrace bookies 25 years ago, and the infamous Anchorhead Con. Jabba gets this message aboutĀ āJediā and is like LOL i think the other Skywalker tried to pull some hotshit with that too before wimping out.
Everyone openly laughs like sureĀ youāre a Jedi and Iāve got a bargain vaporator farm I want to sell you.Ā
AND THEN HE WRECKS THE JOINT WITH A DEBT-RIDDEN HALF-BLIND SMUGGLER A RANDOM SLAVE GIRL ONE GUARD AND TWO BEAT UP DROIDS WHAAAT
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