#sw bracket

Padmé Amidala | Identity: bisexual | Media: Established in Queen’s Trilogy

E. K. Johnson’s Queen’s Shadow established Padmé as bisexual, harboring unacted upon feelings for her handmaiden Sabé. This was further explored in the final book of the trilogy Queen’s Hope, where it became a tragic love triangle for Padmé between Sabé and Anakin. Sabé represented ideology, duty, and thinking about the bigger picture. Being with Anakin represented forgetting all these things, a selfish love where she could just be herself. As the movies already established, she chose Anakin. And we all know how that went.

Alexsandr Kallus | Identity: mlm | Media: Star Wars Rebels

Gays in Star Wars, its more likely than you think.

Welcome to the bracket for queer Star Wars characters, from movie characters quietly confirmed to be queer to the most minor of book characters. Here they will compete to find the ultimate gay in space! This is for characters who are textually (or almost so) queer, and as such there is no need for nominations.

Every poll comes with a description of each characters, but we encourage you to submit propaganda for each character about why they should be voted for. Any propaganda against another character that is judged overly hostile or more for discourse shit-stirring than good fun won’t be published (if its off anon, we’ll let you know what’s wrong with it)

The bracket will begin on July 5th, with 3 polls per day, each running for a week. Only after all polls resolve will the next round begin.

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The bracket is being run by @absolxguardian and @bisexualwintermoon

Aleksin/Pavol | Identity: mlm couple | Media: Lando comics

“Would you fuck your clone?” “I’m gay, so I’d totally fuck my clone.”

Aleskin and Pavol are a pair of very strange characters, who if it wasn’t for all the rest of the queer characters in Star Wars, would stand out as problematic. They’re two cat-man clones in a relationship with each other. Lando Clarrisian hires them to help him hijack Palpatine’s personal yacht the Imperialis. They planned to use the money from the job to buy another clone they could raise as their child. Further context for their existence has yet to be provided.

Aboard the Imperialis, Aleksin was corrupted by Darth Momin’s mask (of building Fortress Vader fame) and turned on his crew. In attempting to stop him, Pavol was likewise corrupted. They were killed by Lando and the bounty hunter Channath Cha while they escaped the Imperialis.

Moff Delian Moors | Identity: wlw | Media: Lords of the Sith

Moff Moors is technically the first queer character in the New EU, Lords of the Sith coming out a few months before Aftermath. But since she isn’t what you’d call representation, people prefer to forget about her.

In the early days of the Empire, Moors’ wife Murra was killed in a transport accident. Around the same time, she was given the governorship of Ryloth. Due to her grief, she neglected her duties and became a spice addict, spending her time on Ryloth’s largest moon surrounded by scantily clad female Twi’lek slaves.

Kalandra | Identity: wlw | Media: Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original

Kalandra was an archeology student at the University of Bar’leth and one of the future Doctor Aphra’s many lovers. They were together, but after Kalandra started waiting outside of Aphra’s classes, she broke off the relationship, calling Kalandra a “stalker”. Afterwards she first became involved with Sana Starros.

Sana not gathering Kalandra for the “save Aphra” team in 3/4ABY suggests that Sana either has no idea what happened to her, or because she only appears in an adaptation, she isn’t canon. 

(Apologies if there are any errors in the summary, this is one of the few characters in the poll I have no personal experience with.)

Eustacia Okka| Identity: wlw | Media: Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original

Eustacia is another one of Aphra’s failed relationships at the University of Bar’leth. After Eustacia graduated, she became a professor at the Shadow University (despite the name this seems to be a normal academic institution). She was later expelled for the Shadow University for publishing a seemingly poor paper about the Rings of Vaale.

Kip Ostar | Identity: nonbinary | Media: Jedi Survivor

Kip Ostar is one of the non-story bounty hunter bosses from Jedi Survivor. They are one of the first Haxion Brood Commandos you can fight, which occurs in Dredger Gorge on Koboh. All that is known about them is contained in their database entry: “Imperial records- now suspected to be doctored- hold that Kip Ostar’s body count exceeds that of the Imperial campaign on Subterrel. Doctor or not, what is not in dispute are Kip Ostar’s vicious tendencies and the violent streak they’ve carved across the galaxy.”

KLE-0| Identity: nonbinary | Media: Jedi Survivor