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(also, this is from a while ago, but I kinda love the name “Death Star Drop In” for that au lmao)

oooo okay so something I think might be really fun to explore with them is the way they approach sacrifice in war—specifically sacrifice of other people, since we all know they're both totally cool with offering up their own lives for a cause (and have been since, like, age eight. (yikes))

Leia is, first and foremost, a pragmatist. She can't afford not to be—she's been fighting a losing war since she was thirteen. I can't imagine Bail and Breha didn't try to shield her from some of the realities, but I also can't imagine they would obscure the seriousness of their situation from her. She can't treat it as a game, can't make careless mistakes. If she messes up, she dies, her parents die, and Alderaan gains a new dictator. Sometimes she has to let people die. Sometimes she has to send people to their deaths. And she knows that, she accepts it, the same way she accepts that the people she's sending to their deaths trust her with their lives.

That's not to say she's not possessed of enormous compassion—but she's measured in it. She knows when to care, when to shut off that side of herself, and—most importantly—she knows when she's going too far. Leia has had a front-row seat to the damage "the greater good" can cause for the galaxy at large, and she knows exactly what justifications sound like, even if she's the one saying them.

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I...honestly don’t remember my exact thought process? Other than I really, really like the parallels between Leia and Anakin and I feel like they don’t get enough attention XD (and also the parallels between Luke and Padme, of course; but I think even from the start I was more focused on Leia and Anakin.)

Anyway, the plan was always for Anakin to have Leia and Padme to have Luke, it was just a question of figuring out the in-universe justification for it. Which ended up being Super Arbitrary because how else were they going to decide?

But as for what that might have looked like...Leia would be a lot more into the political side of things than Luke is. I think she still would’ve approached Lavinia at that event, but their dynamic would’ve been different, for sure.

Luke as raised by Anakin...I think he’d be pretty similar to how he is in the main storyline. Maybe a little less aware of the possible implications of everything (since growing up out on Tatooine, even with Obi-Wan as the broad-view thinker to balance the others out, isn’t the same as living right under Palpatine’s nose and watching Mom and his aunts be so very careful of how they act.) And, despite all the demands on Obi-Wan’s time, I think he’d end up gravitating towards him the way Leia does to Ahsoka, in terms of as a primary master.

Most of the events surrounding them would still probably be the same (i.e., Anakin would still make That One Real Dumb Decision, they’d reunite at age ten on Alderaan...)

...so, yeah! Like I said, I never really thought about the alternative, so this is mostly me making things up off the top of my head XD

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first of all, thank you so much for this! i'm so happy to hear that there are people who still enjoy and read that fic even after all this time =) i'm sorry that fic's been left hanging for THIS LONG. it really was not the plan lmaooo i'm genuinely sorry that some folks have been waiting for the last chapter for over a year now and i have zero excuse honestly, just got caught up in other fics and other fandoms and life and being a Serial Procrastinator™