#Force-sensitive Leia

[supertaliart]

A continuation of my previous Skywalker Twins comic - feat Yoda part 3

[megamindsupremacy]

So like, y'all know that popular Star Wars fic trope of Time Traveling Obi-Wan Kenobi where he dies and then wakes up in his 11ish year old body back in the Jedi Temple? You know how usually he wakes up, has a few minutes/hours of confusion, and then goes about trying to act like he was at age 11 while slowly fixing everything wrong with the Jedi Order? Personally I think he would not do that.

I think that Ben "Lived As A Wizard Hermit For Two Decades On Tattooine, Left, And Then Died Immediately" Kenobi would wake up as an eleven-year-old, have a panic attack, attack the nearest adult Jedi while accusing them of Doing Weird Sith Shit To His Brain, fucking flee, only then realize he has time traveled, steal someone's ship, go flying out of the temple to god knows where, continue panicking, crash into a random moon while distracted, nearly die, build a survival camp out of his broken ass ship and eat whatever bugs he can find, get kidnapped by pirates, overthrow said pirates, steal their ship, and then very calmly return to the Jedi temple like nothing happened.

Then and only then do I think he would start trying to act like a normal human person (while also dodging questions such as "what the fuck was that" and "where were you" and "is that a pirate's ship?"), except he'd be bad at it due to having lived as an Insane Wizard Desert Hermit for the past twenty years who has experienced enough trauma and time that he doesn't super well remember the details of his childhood, what with all of the wars and death and wars and such.

His acting convinces nobody, but nobody is sure what exactly to do about All Of That so he's for the most part left alone (after very vehemently refusing sptherapy), all the way up until he catches a glimpse of palpatine out of the corner of his eye and then its On Sight

[antianakin]

No Order 66 AU where Anakin leaves the Order after the war ends and he and Padme end up retiring to Naboo to try to raise the twins together, but neither of them ends up feeling particularly satisfied with life on Naboo (for Anakin it just doesn't give him any purpose the way he desperately needs and for Padme it's always been this perfect rosy dream and reality doesn't measure up), so they end up leaving the twins behind a lot so they can pursue other things and are pretty absentee parents in general. They mostly end up getting raised by Padme's parents instead, and while they're perfectly good guardians for the twins and raise them kindly and love them a lot, there's always an obvious elephant in the room regarding who ISN'T there.

This causes a bit of a rift between Luke and Leia because while Luke is trying to keep the peace and give their parents the benefit of the doubt as he moves on and figures out his own life with what he DOES have, Leia is less willing to just forgive and forget.

Luke ends up becoming a pilot working for the royal palace for a while, but Leia goes into politics (something she'd entered while younger because it's what her mother did and she'd been hoping it would get Padme's attention and bring the two of them closer; it didn't work out that way at all and now Leia's sticking with it at least partly to spite Padme) as an aide for her cousin Pooja who is now Senator of Naboo.

And it's here, once she finally makes it to Coruscant and starts working in the Senate, that Leia meets Bail Organa, still working as Senator of Alderaan. The two of them click IMMEDIATELY and Bail ends up becoming Leia's mentor in politics, as well as the person who actually introduces her to the Jedi themselves. Anakin and Padme had never really bothered to do so, both because they were so rarely around, but also because they had chosen not to give Luke and Leia to the Temple and decided at that point that it would be easier to keep the twins and the Jedi separate. Bail of course has no such compunctions and even if he knew about Anakin and Padme's feelings on the matter, I imagine he'd find ways to allow Leia to accidentally bump into some of the Jedi while she was on Coruscant. If he just so happens to double book himself for lunch with both Leia and Obi-Wan, it's hardly anything malicious and they may as well all eat together!

Leia finally feels like she has a parent who gives a damn about her, someone who acts like a parent to her, the parent she's always wanted. Her grandparents had always been incredibly kind and they obviously had to do a lot of parenting, but they'd always been very strict about making sure the twins saw them as GRANDPARENTS and not their actual parents, which just make the absence of their parents that much more obvious and painful. But with Bail, she's finally got someone who doesn't care that Anakin and Padme aren't there and doesn't feel the need to create a wall between them for Anakin and Padme's sake. Bail takes her under his wing, teaches her everything she knows, allows her to explore things she'd never been allowed to explore before, connects her to even more people who can help her understand herself better than she's ever been able to before. THIS is what a parent was supposed to do for her and she knows it, THIS is what selfless love looks like from a parent and she THRIVES under it for the first time in her life.

She eventually decides not to stay on as Pooja's aide because she has no real desire to become a senator for Naboo at any point, but she IS good at politics and desperately does want to help people any way she can, so she starts up some sort of organization of her own to help people around the galaxy (and connects it to the Jedi because deep down she KNOWS she was supposed to be one of them even though that path is now closed to her). But she doesn't go back to Naboo, she doesn't make her home on her mother's home planet.

She goes to Alderaan instead. And this time, she gets to stay there for the rest of her life.

[autumn0689]

Happy May 4th! May The Fourth Be With You! Shoutout to some of my favorite force sensitives!

[varpusvaras]

The nights on Alderaan were a dark shade of blue.

Leia had seen nights on other planets. Most of the planets she had been on had moons that illuminated the sky even during the darkest hours of the night. Alderaan had none, but still, they had clear skies and countless stars shining down on them, and she loved the nights like they were.

Especially as the darkness made a very good cloak for anyone who knew where to step when sneaking around.

She wasn't the one doing the sneaking tonight, but she welcomed the cover anyway. She knew he was coming, even before there was a light knock on her door. Two-one-two-two.

Come in, she thought, and listened as the door slid open and then close, as soft steps made their way to her bed.

"Can't sleep?" Even asked quietly, as he climbed up next to her.

It was a rhetorical question more than anything. Even already knew that she couldn't sleep, and he already knew why.

"No", Leia answered anyway. "I had the dream again."

"Of the boy and the Suns?" Even asked. Again, a rhetorical question.

"Yes", Leia still answered, again.

It was not a bad dream. It was a good dream, actually. Leia liked seeing the boy, his light hair, bleached in the rays of the two suns, his eyes, just as blue as the sky above the sea of desert around him. He was always radiant, even more than the suns, and every time Leia saw him, she felt warm, like she had been standing there with him.

But every time she opened her eyes after the dream, all she was left was the feeling of the heat leaving her body, and doing so, leaving her only with the cold sorrow of longing.

Even always knew when Leia had that dream. She was almost sure that he could see it too, every time she did. Just like they seemed to know each other's thoughts and feelings, like they were whispers only they could hear. Leia had never felt anything like that with anyone else, and she couldn't bear the thought of not having him in her life.

But still, it felt like-

It felt like she was missing something. Someone. Like there was a violently torn seam on her side where Even wasn't.

Even took her hand into his, and tugged it lightly. She scooted over to him, and leaned her head against his shoulder. Even was already almost a full head taller than her, despite being several months younger. Leia didn't mind it too much, though. He reminded her of Papa and Buir more and more every single day, and she found it more comforting than anything else.

"You miss him", Even said.

"I do", Leia said. "I just- I have you."

It felt unfair, for both her and Even, for her to miss someone like that. He was her brother. It should've been enough.

"You do", Even said, calmly and patiently. He really was more like their parents, every single day, even like Mama. "It's alright. Buir has us, but he still misses his family, every single day. It doesn't mean he loves us less than he loves them."

That was true. Leia knew that the sadness and yearning she could feel coming from Buir wasn't because they weren't enough for him. They all occupied his heart just as much, but there were holes in it, holes that just weren't the right shape for Leia, or for Even, or even for Mama and Papa to fill back up. Leia understood that, but still-

"But Buir knows them", she said. "He misses them because he knows them. How can I miss someone I don't know so much?"

Even was quiet for a moment. Leia could feel him thinking, but for once, not the exact thoughts going through his head as he tried to figure out what to say to her.

"I think", he said, after a moment, "I think you do know him, already. Maybe you always have."

Leia's eyes burned.

"It's not fair", she whispered, trying her best to make the burning go away. It wasn't working, not that night. "It's not fair."

Even didn't admonish her, nor did he try and make it better by saying something to make her not sad. He just leaned down and pressed his forehead softly against Leia's, and let her pour her silent tears into the night.

[qulrikkek]

Summary:

All this facade of cheerfulness on both sides was to mask the bantha in the room. They were leaders in their own right, just in different ways, and yet, they didn't dare to address what was hanging in the thick air between them. It was quite embarrassing, that even as adults, they were no more mature in this topic than teenagers.

Emotions so deep were uncharted territory.

[whorcruxes]

"Her gaze fell across Coruscant, to the Jedi Temple. She knew he wasn’t there, he was off somewhere in the far flung planetary systems in the Outer Rim. But it was habit to always look for him there... The sun was dipping low beneath the horizon and the hues of red and orange and pink battled against the constantly steady light of the city planet."

  follows Padmé through the months Anakin is in the Outer Rim to the time they are reunited

[callmedax]

New Year’s Eve hits different when you’re a parent

[merrysithmas]

so as many who watched TCW presumed, it appears Anakin, Luke, and Leia eventually became the Father, Daughter, and Son in the force afterlife - therefore they are omnipresent in the Star Wars Universe even if stories do not focus on them or stray away from the Skywalkers -

but with Filoni's Ahsoka the white & her being reanimated by Anakin using the Daughter's lifeforce in TCW that makes Anakin the Father, Luke the Son, Ahsoka the Daughter and Leia just like... some lady. 😂

[zaddymaul]

no one ever:

me: fuck this im going to rewrite star wars

[supertaliart]

Skywalker Siblings Part 3

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[walkawaytall]

Look, I love Force-sensitive Leia, and I love how easily retconned the idea is because of very weird choices made by Lucas & Co. during the filming of the OT. But it is absolutely cuckoo-bananas-bonkers to me that the original plan for her was to be Just Some Princess. Like, if you watch ANH and ESB, the whole time they were filming those movies, Luke's sister was somewhere else in the galaxy. Leia wasn't the "another" Yoda talks about at the end of ESB; they consolidated the two characters in ROTJ to wrap everything up without adding some new person in the mix. Which means Leia, Just Some Princess, didn't break under the interrogation on the Death Star or allow Vader to infiltrate her mind or whatever it was implied he was doing to get answers from her I guess through sheer determination and willpower, and Leia, Just Some Princess, hears Luke call for her on Bespin.

Absolutely chaotic choices made for Leia, Just Some Princess, the entire time. I love that we can pretend that it was purposeful foreshadowing. It's like they somehow accidentally nonesensed themselves into a workable plot twist. Utterly wild.

[oreolesbian]

does… does dave filoni know that the whole “anyone can be force sensitive if they put their mind to it” bullshit fundamentally shatters the entire core of star wars world-building around force users? like - does he understand that?

[leiainhoth]

Unofficial headcanons of IJADIHIM pt. 2

Bo-Katan wasn't originally supposed to survive. I had a pinnacle sacrifice planned for her in the final confrontation. She was slated to sacrifice herself for the kids, but it killed the tension. She survived and became a cornerstone of the new mando government instead.

She and Paz have a Thing, which is just as dramatic as Leia and Han in ESB. He thinks she's the hottest piece of ass he's ever met (the perfect mando spouse to raise a battalion of ade with), and she thinks he's a moron for staying in the archives when there's real work to be done.

Speaking of real work, part of the reason I sent Han to the caves on Mandalore was to find the vein of beskar I hid there. Once he tells the Armourer, they're able to outfit new Mandos again, including the kids, who get their baby beskar'gam.

I had a commenter confused about Mand'alor Leia not exhibiting proper mando qualities.

However, have you considered: strong leadership, takes shit from nobody, fiercely protective over her family and saved two dozen babies from imps. She's Mando bait baby

Din tried so hard to avoid using his saber, mostly to keep the attention off of him should anyone come looking. After the war ended and the Rebels dispersed, rumours started swirling, and Force-sensitives started looking for him instead of Luke.

Which leads to lots of sexy dinluke time.

Luke has a competence kink, it's a problem

I saw a comic several years ago (pls tag me if you find it) of Ben seeing Din and just... losing his little mind on how cool he is. He's got a jETPACK he has ARMOUR, and a DOUBLE-BLADED SABER. He's the coolest cat Ben's ever seen. Plus, learning to temper and use his emotions via the Mandalorian ethos could balance him out in ways the Jedi couldn't. Leia saw this and kept the throne for him.

Leia's armour is painted to match her saber: copper, and silver with a super cool blue cape.

Side note, her saber is the prettiest thing I've ever seen.

Speaking of sabers, the saber making scene on Concord Dawn was one of my favourite scenes to write in the whole fic. That and their wedding on Yavin IV.

But Luke, with his two sabers, is learning jar'kai and doing pretty good at it.

Grogu is learning to be less possessive of his people, to not let it go into the Force (which feels... unhelpful in a child with that much trauma) but to shift it into a more peaceful ethos. He loves his siblings to death and he and Rey are chaos babies together.

[triscribeaucollection]

Lonely Shadows

 Lonely shadows following me, Lonely ghosts come calling Lonely voices talking at me, Now I’m gone, now I’m gone, now I’m gone

Jango couldn’t find any record of a ship arriving. And yet.

The woman wasted no time, striding through the halls, introducing herself to any and every clone she crossed paths with. General Organa, she said. Leia, if any of them wanted to address her informally.

Her shadows pressed the ‘informal’ aspect a little harder. Just call me Poe; it’s only Commander Dameron in emergencies. He smiled wide and joked easily, inviting the troopers to relax more smoothly than his superior. The other one stayed quiet, for the most part. Drifted to the edge, if they happened to meet a large group of clones at once. Managed to find the wariest soldiers, every time, and kept repeating the same words.

 My name is Finn. I used to be FN-2187.

And each time, without fail, he got those same soldiers to loosen up. To look at him with awe in their eyes, and easily transfer it to Dameron, who’d offered him that name, and Organa, who never acted like he was anything other than a trusted confidant.

Jango didn’t think he was the product of a Kaminoan cloning vat. But. Wherever he’d come from, Finn carried himself like someone used to marching in armor, and said exactly the right things to make the troopers trust him, from those fully grown down to the smallest cadets. Even Dameron, for all his relaxed posture and open smiles, couldn’t manage it nearly so easily.

Neither of them paid Jango the slightest bit of attention as he stalked after their group, watching with folded arms at each stop. Organa, though. She glanced at him at least once per interaction, a single eyebrow arched in challenge.

 And my mother told me son let it be, Sold my soul to the calling Sold my soul to a sweet melody, Now I’m gone, now I’m gone, now I’m gone

Despite no record of the ship that dropped them off, the Kaminoans didn’t dither over assigning private quarters for the trio. Organa and Finn, after all, both carried lightsabers on their hips. Blasters, too, but the Jedi weapons stood out as more important. When Jango first tried to confront them, in the hall outside Lama Su’s main office, Organa looked him up and down, snorted, and flung Jango into the wall without lifting so much as a damn finger.

“Technically not a Jedi,” she told him, keeping Jango pinned in place with his feet dangling. “But my brother is. And I learned plenty from him.”

Clearly. He knew how some Force-users could make a phantom fist around their target’s throat, choking off airflow until they collapsed. Organa took that to a new extreme - it felt like getting flattened inside a trash compactor, with no room to move a limb or his head or even his lungs.

Only when the woman had walked halfway down the corridor with her two shadows did the pressure ease off, letting Jango drop to his knees and gasp for breath. And even so, he could still feel a sense of her watching him. Not malevolent, not amused, but assessing. And Jango liked that even less than he would if Organa acted like she was toying with him.

 Oh give me that fire Oh give me that fire Oh give me that fire Burn, burn, burn

[qulrikkek]

Chapter 21: Torn Apart

Summary:

Padmé comes up with a fabulous idea that involves Din Djarin and the destruction of the Death Star. Din has to let go of Grogu. Obi Wan and Padmé realize the price it will take them to turn Anakin back from the Dark side. Bo Katan knows Anakin is Darth Vader, she confronts Obi Wan about it. Dreams are shared, goodbyes are bittersweet and Windu feels a foreboding coming on his way...

General Rampart gives orders... Mon Mothma knows how to use them to their advange...

Notes:

The LONG FINALE is to begin next chapter!!!