#Courtship of Princess Leia

[holonetwork]

The Skywalker Twins and the Expanded Universe This graphic pulls together quotes Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher have made over the years regarding their characters' futures in the EU. Although neither of the two actors were readers of the EU material, they knew of the goings-on of their characters through friends and family informing them of the events of the novels. Carrie was said to have picked up a copy of Courtship of Princess Leia in the '90s due to liking the cover art. In 1997, she was interviewed for Star Wars Galaxy #12, where she provided some remarks shown here; later, in 2000, she also commented a bit on the subject of Leia's EU life at the Star Wars Weekends event at Disney Hollywood Studios. When her fictional twins of Jacen and Jaina were brought up, Carrie asked if they behaved themselves, and when an audience member said they did not, Carrie quipped, "They don't behave, seriously? That sounds like they'd be my kids." Carrie would sometimes remark that her preferred lightsaber color would be purple, if she was to have one; the closest this came to being realized is Leia's reddish-pinkish (nearly purple) lightsaber, as presented on the Japanese and American covers of Star by Star, in the New Jedi Order. Mark has remarked over the course of several years on his EU self, repeatedly commenting that he approved of Luke's relationship to Mara. In 2004, Mark even took to the stage with Shannon McRandle, Mara's actress for the trading cards; Shannon says they got along well, and Mark enjoyed meeting her, with him saying later to Insider, "The model who plays her is just adorable." The quotes compiled here for Mark's section are from Insider #73, from 2004, a Tweet of his from 2016, and a Hyperspace chat Mark conducted with fans in 2004. Three pieces of art were used to create this piece: the immaculate Star Wars #20 by Hugh Fleming for the starfields, a piece illustrated of the Solo family for West End Games' The Last Command Sourcebook, and a drawing of the Skywalker family by FalconFan on DeviantArt.

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Gethzerion: Did you know you have 306 bones in your body? Gethzerion: Now 305, 304, 303, 302, 301, 300..... Han Solo: *206? Or am I missing something? Gethzerion: Oh crap I added 100 more bones.

[ereneda]

[mariahjade2]

Waytha ara quetha way, Waytha ara quetha way! ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ I am Teneniel Djo, a daughter of Allya, and you are my slave!".

~Courtship of Princess Leia, Teneniel capturing Luke. Why is this the only fan art of this scene?? That is a crime that needs fixing.

~Luke: Wait, You can't just take men as slaves and mate with them anytime you please!

Wanna bet Luke? ;)

[magnetarbeam]

I can't help but guess that Zsinj is really just Like That in Courtship, and his character in these books is Allston wanting to write a competent villain while having to make it fit.

[delusionspod]

It's here! The thrilling conclusion* of The Courtship of Princess Leia. 🦎🌈 iykyk

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/delusions-of-grandeur/id1685009355?i=1000619455912

*We'd say "climax" except you know by now there's none of that happening here. Like, at all.

[sailforvalinor]

Leia: *suddenly falls out of love with Han in the space of seven days and is swept off her feet by a dashing space prince*

Han: *gets C-3PO to announce that he’s technically the rightful ruler of Corellia in front of the entire New Republic Senate, wins a planet in a game of sabaac, kidnaps Leia with the aid of a mind-control gun and brings her to the planet he won (which is, surprise, DATHOMIR) to try to convince her that she still loves him*

Luke, fifteen minutes late with lost Jedi artifacts and Starbucks: ���What”

[swlegends]

Am I so ugly that you would rather be captured by the Nightsisters?

requested by @politicalmamaduck

[edge-lorde]

the most striking difference between my talzin fic and the romantic fantasy genre is instead of there being a do-gooder society the protagonist is a part of, the nightsisters are universally hated by everyone because they kill people constantly. she very badly wants to have the pretentious do-gooder image so she can manipulate outsiders, (not actually do good, very important) but instead she has to open every conversation with "top 10 normal girl things! haha so relatable. im normal btw. 👁️ 👁️"

[swtechspecs]

Republic Fleet Systems Jedi Praxeum Ship "Chu'unthor"

Source: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Del Rey, 1996)

[foolhardyfrolic]

Headcanon proposal: The Courtship of Princess Leia but with the Endor wedding also canon. Han and Leia had been married this whole time, but the New Republic politicians refuse to recognize it as legal since there was technically no official government at the time. If I was Han, I would be pissed at them trying to sell off my wife as political pawn too.

[holonetwork]

George Lucas and the Bantam era Part of a series I’ve put together focusing on the history of the EU. Sources: Tom Dupree (1, 2), Drew Struzan (1, 2), Michael A. Stackpole, Kevin J. Anderson, Dave Wolverton (1, 2, 3), Pablo Hidalgo (The Essential Reader's Companion), Michael P. Kube-McDowell (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), A.C. Crispin (1, 2, 3), & Roger MacBride Allen

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Isolder: It's important, alright? I have to keep this physique tight! Tenenial Djo: For what? Isolder: Kissing. Tenenial Djo: What?

[from-a-legends-pov]

Star Wars Legends: Poll of the Week - Crimes of Fashion

Which of these fashion crimes from a Star Wars Legends property is your favorite?

The rejected designs for Mara Jade’s wedding dress, which included a computer-generated dress, a “traditional” design from a Hutt, a neo-Imperial design with a black cape and hood (Leia: “Yes, but the bride doesn’t want to look like the father of the groom”), and one design that was simply a thong and a large bow, which Mara refused to try on (Star Wars: Union comic)

Wes Janson’s cape that he had specially made for him on Adumar, adorned with flatscreen panels that played a holo of “a line of Jansons, arms linked, doing high kicks like a dancing chorus” (X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar)

Leia Organa’s Kabray dress – which, due to a luggage mixup, was the only dress she had to wear to an important diplomatic banquet – after a group of enthusiastic Zeltrons “fixed” it (read: cut it to pieces and added glitter) to make it more in keeping with Zeltros fashion and to hide the stains on it (Star Wars #95, original Marvel comics)

Prince Isolder of Hapes’ outfit when presenting the Hapan Consortium’s 62 gifts (plus himself, gift #63) to Leia Organa on Coruscant: “He wore a silver circlet that held a black veil in front of his face, and his long, blond hair fell down around his shoulders. The man was bare-chested except for a small silk half-cloak fastened with silver straps…” (The Courtship of Princess Leia)

The disguises for “Yokel Group” (Wedge Antilles, Myn Donos, and Face Loran) of Wraith Squadron, who for a mission dressed up as a group of stereotypical backwater tourists who had traveled from Agamar looking for brides, wearing shirts with loud prints, clashing shorts, and mismatched hats. “Sir, permission to kill Face?” “Granted. But keep your hat, like Face says” (X-Wing: Wraith Squadron)

Hobbie Klivian’s dress outfit to meet the perator of Cartann, “a riot of lines and angles…every hem of every garment was decorated with trim of eye-hurting yellow, making it almost a dizzying experience to look at him walk.” As Hobbie said: “There are three types of dress clothing…the type that offends the wearer, the type that offends the viewers, and the type that offends everybody. I’m going for the third type” (X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar)

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[fullbattleregalia]

So stoked to get to explore Dathomir in Fallen Order! It’s sort of surreal, though, because my introduction to Dathomir and the Nightsisters wasn’t the Clone Wars series. It was this:

This was my favorite of the EU books as a teen largely because it focused on Han and Leia’s relationship (my very first OTP) and also because it featured a planet of matriarchal, force-wielding, badass ladies. And Han won an entire planet in a card game. (Yes, the planet in question was Dathomir.)

There are some significant differences between book Dathomir and what has since become canon. First, it wasn’t just the Nightsisters on Dathomir - there were clans of Dathomir women whose force magic tapped into the light side, who were also matriarchal. Both sides were interrelated - it was an ideological divide. Second, using the Nightsisters’ type of dark side magic caused visible, physical damage (bruising). (Over all, it was an interesting concept, but some of the writing hasn’t aged well. It was progressive for when it was published in 1994 - not so much by today’s standards.)

Honestly, I like what they’ve done with the Nightsisters since the book for the most part (I do miss the balance of not having the planet be 100% dark siders), but there is one thing that got left out that always disappoints me: In the book, rancors are native to Dathomir (that’s why there’s one on the book cover). And all those badass, force-wielding ladies? They rode rancors. They kept them as massive, lethal pets. It was the best thing ever.

I was hoping that maybe - just maybe - Fallen Order might throw in a rancor somewhere to fight. Or even just seen shambling in the distance. But no dice.

Le sad.

Merrin deserves a terrifying rancor to ride in style.

[ctcaptaincorgi]

Alright, so I've been collecting books, one of the ones I've recently acquired was Courtship of Princess Leia and so I've been reading it. I've been enjoying it a lot, there's some drama but overall it's fun and interesting. Anyway, I decided to write out my thoughts after each chapter. I'm currently reading chapter 8, so here's the first 7 chapters.

Chapter 1: The Hapans seem an interesting people. Dang they're pulling all the stops for this. Oh, there's music, what a show. Leia counted all 62 the number of gifts that they gave her prior to the last one? Oh no, why's there a man coming out. Oh no, why does the queen mother want her son to marry Leia of all people? Leia has been to Hapes before? Oh poor Han... WHY DO YOU HAVE TO POUR THE SALT IN HIS WOUND MOTHMA. HAN'S ALREADY GETTING A LITTLE WORRIED AS IS.

Chapter 2: Huh, what's Luke doing in an abandoned cave? Aw... He was looking for surviving Jedi... Oh... He was wanting to know the Jedi's history and how they were taught... The Jedi he was looking for was protecting the Jedi archive? And Palpy had all the data cells destroyed... R2 is trying his best to help. There's one that was missed? Whoop whoop! What's the recording say? Huh, a bunch of Jedi are giving reports on their missions to the Jedi council. Oh, Yoda is talking. People were killed in Dathomir? Knowing the Nightsisters, that's hardly surprised. Of course there's no record of Dathomir. Luke's thinking it might have been a planet devastated by the clone wars. Now I'm thinking back to Grievous and f the separatists invading the Dathomir and killing the Nightsisters. Ooh, Luke's getting a vision of Dathomir. The description seems about right.

Chapter 3: Leia hasn't said yes... But also not no... And she's inviting this Isolder for dinner... Han has flex to fix up the Millennium Falcon. Oh no, they got in a fight. Now they're talking about how the war feels like it'll never end. Aw... Leia said "-then we'll fight for our children"... Oh, Han is calling her out, Leia does kinda seem to have a low for the worlds of Hapes. Ooh, it's because of homesickness. There's other Alderaanians? Of course there would be... It was a whole planet. Why wouldn't there be refugees? Wait, you're telling me that she won't be able to keep ANY of the other 62 gifts she was given in chapter 1 if she doesn't marry Isolder? That sucks. Han may be a tad paranoid, but I honestly can't say I'm mad at him. Leia was there to invite him to dinner with her and Isolder? Oh, Han POV. Horm is seriously catching so many insults. We're spending so much time doing little dogs at him about his weight. Uh oh, Isolder is there. Oooooh, Han's got no filter today. Isolder has an odd accent with elongated vowel inflection? Have no idea what that sounds like, he gets to have a vague nothing accent. Huh, Isolder isn't mad? Oh, shoot, never mind, this man is serious about shooting his shot with Leia and trying to get Han to leave. The prince was a privateer?

Chapter 4: I'm trying so hard to imagine Han in formal wear and I'm not sure that it's possible. Ok, I'm pretty sure Horm is seriously wanting Leia married to Isolder, he keeps trying to get Han to tell her what he said to the prince. Huh, Isolder is mildly steering away from that... Wait, the prince was a pirate for 2 years? He had a brother avenged? So Hapes was originally ruled by pirates who had a thing for kidnapping beautiful women and taking them to Hapes, ergonwhy apparently everyone from that planet is ridiculously beautiful. Very uncomfortable the moment I think at all about that, but moving on. Oh good, the Jedi defeated those pirates and Hapes was just forgotten so the women there decided they'd take charge of their own destiny and never allow a man to control them which was why they had the queen mother as ruler who was said to have no equal in the Hapan language. Very interesting. I was wondering about that. Oh, the prince is the one who wanted to marry Leia specifically? Ok, now that's making more sense. Aw... Leia can't sleep. Yeah, go talk to Luke. Oh my goodness, Leia said it was an emergency so I guess Luke must have bolted because it says he was breathless when he asked what happened. Aw, he's trying to help and not make her feel bad about calling him about an "emergency". Luke's meeting up with her 3 days. Aw, Han's apologizing, ok the "I ended up going to one of the ship's galleys in the middle of the night, looking for something tastier to eat" did make me laugh- Crap, they're fighting again. NO DON'T SAY YOU NEED SOME SPACE. Horm is totally proving Han so right about people talking about Leia as if she already decided she'd marry Isolder. Oh Han, he's going to some shady places to get a planet for Leia's people... The was this is playing out is now making that decision make sense and seen even more desperate. Oof, there's an assassination order for someone? Why does the prince's guard think the order isn't referring to Leia? Oh, Isolder has an aunt? AND he's the last heir of his mother? Oh I see... Fair enough.

Chapter 5: Oh, I'm getting to see how Han gets a planet? Huh, interesting rules for pazaak, gonna have to pocket that in case I need it. Ok, cool, he won. Dathomir is up for grabs? Dang, well at least Han is getting the high stakes games he was looking for. Sweet! Han won Dathomir and is telling Leia! She's happy and he's happy. It's too early for something to not go wrong here. Ah... It's in imperial warlord Zsinj's territory (don't ask me how it's supposed to be pronounced). Poor Han... Leia wants to travel to the underworld of Coruscant and Isolder wants to come with her. Oh don't look at each other like that. Thank goodness Horm is there to kill the mood. Oh shoot, it's an assassination attempt. And the assassin speaks the same language as Isolder? Give Leia some space Isolder, she's trying to push- NOOOOOO... STOP KISSING. THINK ABOUT HAN. NO DON'T GO CHECK OUT HAPES WITH THIS MAN. PLEEEASE.

Chapter 6: Oh no, Han's drunk. Aw, C3P0 is trying to help. Aw... He wants to prove himself. Oh my goodness, I can't with these random bystanders talking. They're just too much. The women especially. SOOOOO thirsty for Isolder. And poor Han can't catch a break. Ok, so now they're all at that one special gathering of Alderaanians to discuss Leia's and Isolder's wedding (despite no agreement being made yet). Oh, C3P0 wants to talk? Oh boy, I can't wait to see the mess. Yeah, he supports the Han x Leia ship. Dang it Horm, I know you're like used to thinking of marriage as a political thing, but- HAN'S KING OF CORELLIA? Ok, he's heir to that title, BUT STILL!!!! HOW???? Thank you C3P0, thank you for explaining how you found this information and how the bloodline traces to Han. Oh shoot, Han doesn't look happy about this reveal. He already knew, didn't he? And now he's embarrassed? Wait, his grandfather was a notorious pirate and king pin? Ah... That's not great for people taking him seriously. Oh my goodness the sass and the T spilling, C3P0 is coming through to wreak unintended havoc and leaving now survivors.

"I am just an ignorant droid and confess that I don't really understand how the actions of one's ancestors enhance our detract from one's respectability. Such concepts are beyond the ability of a model AA-One Verbobrain to process. But since Dalla Suul's illegitimate daughter was [Horm's] mother, I expect that you are infinitely more familiar with the logic of the arguments than I am."

Chapter 7: Hm.... Don't like Leia and Isolder spending time together like this. Of course Horm is calling to tell them that she's off duty for the next few months and that Han has been assigned to deal with the same problem that she was supposed to handle. Man is trying to keep them away from each other. And Leia was supposed to meet up with Luke on Rosche. Aw... Han's so sad. Oh, he quit? Great, guess this is also when he quits being a general like it was mentioned in Heir to the Empire (though never specified beyond that he did some time ago). So he's got himself a plan to get to Dathomir. Not unreasonable to ask Leia to come, I mean she DID agree to go to Hapes with Isolder, I don't see any reason- oh no, Han is loosing it. This- and he's kidnapped her. Oh shoot, Han is going to have to watch out for the queen mother's ships. Because this is a scenario where it is really more ideal that Isolder finds him before his mother does. At least the prince apparently has no intention of killing him. I hope.