#leiara

But. A big thing, especially with some of the more traditional coverts and clans, is that tactileness is pretty much exclusively reserved for clan/family ...and courting. Not to mention the connotations of sparing outside of structured training.

Luke knows none of this. And is, as per usual, completely unaware how how much mando bait he is.

Hes a very tactile and open guy. (As well as a little bit of a flirt....but there are so many attractive men being attractive; showing their strength, being sweet with foundlings and talking softly, and hesitantly, of a brighter future. What is a simple guy to do!)

He'll touch hold people's arms and shoulders. He'll fully lean against someone when he laughs while they're sitting together on a building break. And sometimes, with those who don't wear helmets he'll ruffle their hair. Not to mention batting his pretty blue eyes and long lashes at them (he's only human).

And most mando killing of all he'll challenge people too and offer to spar with people. (He wants to improve his hand to hand combat after a few uncomfortable force cuff encounters).

The Mandolorians who are exposed to Luke are suffering. Din most of all.

Luke continues having the time of his life flirting up a storm and helping a civilisation and teaching force sensitive children.

Then Leia, the diplomatically functional twin, visits. Within the hour she has grabbed Luke by the scruff of his tunic and dragged him away from his fawing troop of mandolorians.

"You, are going to cause a diplomatic incident!" (The you whore is unspoken, but it's there).

Luke is confused, and his chest hurts from Leia poking him violently.

She then gives him the run down, and he realises he's basically been courting every mandolorian ...maybe is engaged to some??? He also realises that Din has no idea he is genuinely interested in him. He probably thinks he's just like the others.

Cue Leia, Cara, and (a very jealous) Han 'who is this buff woman making heart eyes at my wife' Solo helping Luke try and properly court Din without him thinking its not deliberate.

Obviously everything goes wrong and derails into pure chaos; but, Luke and Din confess their feelings and get married.

FanFic ask game ✨

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

I think right now I'm most proud of this dialogue between Leia Organa and Cara Dune. Trying to find a good balance between solemn (mostly in the paragraphs before but this snippet is pretty long already lol) and humorous was a challenge, but I'm happy with how it turned out! There's a spoonful of world building that I wasn't planning on including initially, but I felt it was necessary to emphasize the common experience(s) these two share.

“I never did make it up past the Inn, you know. Always thought that there would be next year to make it to the summit.”

“Figures that you’d only go up so far as you could get a drink. I made the summit." Through sheer force of will, Leia shed some of her reserve. "And then I carved my initials into the bar counter on the descent."

Cara cheered and jabbed at where she had drawn the Peak. “‘Highest altitude bar on the planet — bottoms up!’ And of course you did. I remember the parties when the news came through from on high. And with the Queen, too.”

“If you remember it too well, you’re doing it wrong. Besides, she was my mother, you can call her by her name. She would have liked you -- and certainly would have found you very entertaining.”

“I call you by your first name because I’ve wiped your lipstain off of the milk carton — disgusting, by the way, who the hell drinks straight-up milk?” Despite herself Leia snickered and kicked back at Cara. Unhindered, her bedmate continued, “But let me tell you right now, my grandmother would rise from the catacombs to twist my ear like a screw if I tried that on Queen Breha.”

“I might twist your ear — have you considered that?”

“And dismissed it. You couldn’t reach.”

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

Angst with a happy ending is definitely one of my favorites, possibly THEE favorite. As you could probably guess by the everything about me, I'm also big on taking the magnifying glass to off-the-cuff details so fics that take a look at the deeper implications of things are a favorite!! Things like looking at, for instance, what the Fire Nation thought of Zuko's defending the recruits in ATLA, and how that might affect his eventual rule.

His best friend is married to a man who is good friends with the guy who put him in carbonite and sold him to jabba.

And if that wasn't bad enough, one of his best friend's besties is a big sexy muscle lady who used to hook up with your wife and flirts outrageously with said wife.

I think he gets up quiet early and gives Din a little forehead kiss before getting out of bed. He goes out to enjoy that moment of peace before everyone wakes up (he's on Mandalore ofc) and do meditation while everything comes to life around him.

Hes normally then found by Grogu and Din who drag him to breakfast because 'food is very important Cyar'ika please".

Then Din has to go off Mand'alor-ing. And Luke spends the morning teaching Grogu and more force sensitive foundlings, he often has a crowd of love sick mandos standing around and watching him. At first he was embarrassed but he's used to it now.

Him and Grogu will have lunch (normally joined by Cara and Paz, cause Din told them to make sure Luke has lunch) and Grogu has nap time.

He then has some alone time in a little corner of the Palace that's his garden area. Here he experiments with the Force, trying to learn the peaceful abilities the Force can have, like growing plants, healing and so forth. But he does it on his own he doesn't like people watching him fail and get frustrated, cause he's a dumb baby who thinks he's not allowed to feel bad about things.

The rest of the afternoon and early evening is either rebuilding effort or Paz, Cara and Luke causing chaos having fun and being sensible and upstanding citizens.

Then in the evening it's clan/family eating (unless ofc there's a communal event) which ofc includes Cara and Paz (who are both officially Clan Mudhorn- Paz rejected the Viszla's after they tried to hurt Luke). Every few days he has a holo call with Leia, where he often has to ban Paz and Cara (normally pushing them out gently with the Force) because they won't stop flirting with his sister which is 'super embarrassing you guys!!' 'Leia doesn't mind.' 'BUT I DO! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR SEX JOKES ABOUT MY SISTER!!'

And, well at night...👀after Grogu has been put to bed...👀 more often than not Luke and Din will make love. Its a mix of sweet and rough depending on what they need or feel like.

*a smaller, fiesty, no nonsense woman appears*

LEIARA

First off: ladies.....

Secondly: In all iterations that don’t take place in an AU where Alderaan is spared, Leiara is fundamentally a post-apocalyptic love — the actual worst has happened, their homeworld has been absolutely destroyed, and the both of them are two of the last surving members of a scattered and hunted people. They have a strong shared cultural background and in large ways would understand eachother (think like, meeting someone from your hometown/ your neighborhood halfway across the world after it was destroyed — you would be the retainers of all this hyper-specific knowledge and context that maybe no one else alive would get, and getting it is such a huge part of personal connections) ITS ABOUT THE SHARED BURDENS OF A LOST HOME, CULTURE AND GRIEF

Third: they contrast really nicely — we have Cara, an Alderaanian who isn’t all about the New Republic’s milquetoast era, and Leia, who knows how to wage war but in peacetime is trying to salvage what she can of her people (on top of the New Republic, in Mandalorian-era, when we meet Cara). Leia is stretched thin trying to deal with the bigger picture, and Cara is hunting down individual Imperials for sport. Let them balance each other out

Fourthly: Leia could easily have been Cara’s wlw awakening. Imagine

Lastly: Leia deserves a cool, buff princess consort to help her deal with all the Alderaanian to-dos and also get things off of high shelves, c’mon