Star Wars

- what if Qui Gon had trained him

- what if he still turned but beat Obi Wan and didn’t get dismembered and burnt to shit

- the obvious what if he didn’t turn and was around to raise Luke and Leia

- what if he’d left the order with Ahsoka

- what if he’d turned but Ahsoka and/or Obi Wan had been able to bring him back

- what if he’d convinced Obi Wan and Padme to turn with him

HAN SOLO

Uncle Owen is not afraid Luke inherited the cruelty of his father. He doesn’t even know Anakin became Vader, he thinks Anakin got killed.

Uncle Owen doesn’t hate Obi-Wan because they had an argument or because something happened between them while Obi-Wan was on Tatooine.

Owen Lars was handled a tiny fragile baby to protect, and told that this baby’s father, who was always restless on Tatooine as a child, who loved speed and flying, who brought his starfighters into the most dangerous battles, to whom there was never enough excitement and adventure, has gotten himself killed in a war he was so eager to fight in, and which Owen never understood. 

He watched over and raised this baby for 19 years. He is afraid. He is afraid when Luke becomes restless just like boy Anakin. He is afraid when Luke falls in love with flying, just like Anakin. He is afraid Obi-Wan will drag Luke off Tatooine, just like he dragged off Anakin.

He is afraid Luke will be like his father, never content to stay on their farm where it’s safe, but fly too fast, and fight too hard, and be too idealistic, and then get killed.

So when Owen says he’s afraid Luke has too much of his father’s in him, he is not worried Luke will be like Anakin, he is afraid Luke will die like Anakin.

One part that seems to be lost is the same emotional misery that Han and Poe go through in their respective last movies.

Han is ready to give up if Leia is truly in love with Luke, feeling insecure and abandoned by the secrets seemingly shared between the two. While Poe goes through the same turmoil, regarding the discussion and bond between Finn and Rey. Their secret so heavy on his soul that that is the last thing he wishes to hear before dying.

walks in holding another 'sw character lives' au because i love bail organa a lot