in this house we stan magneto

lots of good posts out there are asking the question, “what is Poe and Leia’s relationship like?”, and i believe this important discussion would be enhanced approximately 3000% by the knowledge that these two nerds are #space latinxs.

And yeah, the entire goddamned galaxy knows that Leia is a Skywalker and Skywalkers are as pasty as the snow on Hoth, but these are Leia’s adopted parents:

(played by Jimmy Smits, who’s Puerto Rican, and Rebecca Jackson Martinez, who’s Filipina)

These were the people who changed her diaper, who fed her and sung her lullabies. Leia is an Organa, and totally an adopted #space latina.

And then Leia loses it all when Alderaan was destroyed. She lost bolero music and the smell of plantains sizzling in the pan. She lost thunderstorms on the beach and peanut vendors shouting in the streets.  She might have gained a brother and a family tree, but her history is twisted and dark and none of it can replace the smile in her father’s voice as he called her nena.

Her friendship with Shara Bey has got to feel like getting a little bit of that back.

Just a little, because Yavin IV isn’t Alderaan, but when Leia mutters “coño” at a failing engine Shara says, “el modelo GX1 no incluye uno de esos.” Kes Dameron makes a mean tamale, and is only a little horrified when Leia calls them “pasteles.” (Kes’s tamales are sweeter than Leia remembers, made with corn like her dad’s side. Her mom’s folks always made them with rice.)

This is the home where Poe Dameron is born.  Leia is his general, but she’s also the woman who called her dad a cabrón when he wouldn’t pass her the rum.  She once yelled at Poe for twenty straight minutes because he pulled a risky maneuver mid-battle, shouting that Poe’s life is worth more than that, his plane is worth more than that, only to stop him out the door with a quiet, “pero fue de pinga.”  It’s a complicated relationship.

My. Fucking. Kidney.

I am not broken. I am free.