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However, I would love to see more of the Star Wars fandom make a big deal about Leia's adoptive parents, Breha and Bail Organa. I mean, they're amazing people and I see a lot of amazing content about them, don't get me wrong! But in concerns to Leia as a person and her actions.

Leia became the Huttslayer and this is narrative gold because her father and her grandmother had been slaves under that particular Hutt in the past. But let's not ignore the fact that she grew up the man who knew Palpatine was a Sith Lord (and seen his friends and children murdered because of it) and still ran a damn resistance under his very nose. Leia grew up knowing she would be Queen of Alderaan and what that meant - if you pay attention to EU canon, she had to undergo three trials in order to be declared heir, trials which had almost killed her mother when she was a teenager. Leia is the biological daughter of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala and that is a part of her history, but the parents who raised her and loved her were two people who knew full well the price of fighting against tyranny, and did it anyway.

And her biological father is part of that tyranny. I believe Shmi Skywalker would look at her granddaughter and be proud but I believe that Darth Vader can't say shit about it, not when he has managed to enslave and terrorise so many more people than Jabba the Hutt ever could.

I would love to see more of the fandom discussion around Leia to be how she's upholding her parents' legacy when killing Jabba the Hutt, and I mean the parents she knew and loved, who worked to end evil like Jabba. Not the man who helped it thrive.

"Why?" the answer comes out in a tone that is unlike him, with a pressurized bite.

"The Force chose you, that's why," Leia says with more than a little urgency and impatience- as if talking to a gonk droid that can't seem to keep the pace.

Din looks askance, light reflecting silver off the soft edge of his helmet. His eyes ever hidden within the viewport's dark sleeve. His slow manner of speaking comes only after several moments of silence, through which she waits. He can feel her at his back like a fire throwing off smoke.

"How can you... possibly know that?"

Leia turns full on her heels, hands coming to her hips in a delicate manner which suddenly overtakes her and lands with soft concern that is reflected in her voice. She tilts her head, "Because Luke loves you. That's enough evidence to me."

Her tone has taken on an almost exasperated melody, as if talking through something obvious. She laughs, looking away, as if the mandalorian could ever understand even if she spelled it plain in front of his face. How could he?

They? They are some barometer of the Force, her brother and she. It doesn't make any sense - but it is there all the same. Luke showed her. She believes it now, too. She believes it with more fear than she can ever admit to. But Luke - Luke is different. Luke, she knows in the deepest place of her heart, is the one who is never afraid.

Din's hands stall, letting go of the frayed wires he was trying to reconnect, his back still to her. As if processing the words. Because Luke loves you.

Just as she is about to duck out of the ship, he interrupts her. The words coming like they were forced out, as if he was desperate for the conversation to continue but too unfamiliar with the social grace.

"And you - what about you?"

"Me?" Leia says incredulously, with a laugh. "Well, I think you're an idiot."

She's gone, out the whoosh of the door and onto the planetside, before he can say anything back. He looks down to Grogu, who is staring at him curiously from the height of several overturned storage crates in the hold.

Din sighs.

"And what do you think?"

1. the people who started screaming upon seeing aotc anakin’s back view with his padawan ponytail

baby yoda

Rey: are those gummy bears rolled up in a fruit roll up?