#bail/breha

[gffa]

TARKIN SEEING VISIONS OF ALL THE PEOPLE HE MURDERED WITH THE DEATH STAR RIGHT AS HE'S ABOUT TO DIE ON IT INCLUDING THE ROTTING CORPSES OF KRENNIC AND BAIL AND BREHA AND CASSIAN AND JYN AND SAW AND ALL THOSE OTHERS???? OH SHIT THAT'S THE NIGHTMARE FUEL I'M HERE FOR WITH THAT ASSHOLE

[stealingpotatoes]

If Bail and Breha had survived ANH, how would they have reacted to Luke if they finally met him? The same applies to Owne and Beru. What would they think or how would they react if they found out about Leia?

you’re just one step away from the true greatest meeting that ANH took from us

(commission info // kofi support!)

[varpusvaras]

Can you imagine how the clones' speech patterns change once they are out of Kamino? Not just the slang they use, but in general how they speak. At some point you can start to differ the different battalions based on their speech. This is even more notable when it comes to the Commanders or other clones who deal more closely with their generals. Rex is distraught when he realises that he sounds like a teenager. Cody just proceeds to sound even more like a wisened old Commander despite being the middle child. Fox sounds like a tired retail manager trying to calm down a Karen.

[galactic-rhea]

not sure if that's how sith titles work,

More of this AU> first || prev || next

and all of this was because this gave me the idea:

also some people were curious about what other characters thought about Padmé's sudden -ahem- rise to power, and this seemed like a perfect opportunity nkdjfssdf

[eli-should-sleep]

Bail Organa is actually the greenest flag in all of Star Wars. He believes in the Republic and after it fell he founded a rebellion. He's married and took he wifes last name. He raised the daughter of his best friend as his own. On that note, his best friend is a woman in politics. He supported the Jedi during the Republic and the Empire. He probably wears Sweaters Breha bought him to Senate Meetings. I love him sm.

[riyo-soka]

The Organas and the Lars family are all well aware that the children they’re raising each have a sibling somewhere in the far reaches of the galaxy. They can never say anything, since Luke and Leia would be in grave danger if the truth of their heritage were to get out, but sometimes the twins’ adoptive families can’t help but think about the other child that they will never know.

Breha notices her daughter’s title causes her to struggle with finding companions her own age and wonders if that loneliness might have been lessened had the twins never been separated. Sometimes, she imagines taking Leia’s brother by the hand and introducing him to the people of Alderaan as a beloved member of the Organa family just like his sister.

Beru starts stitching a family tree -a tradition among slaves and former slaves on Tatooine, meant to bring together families that were separated by slavery- but struggles to finish it when she realizes it’s too dangerous to include her niece. After the war, Luke and Leia create their own, and Leia displays her connection to the Lars family line like a badge of honour.

Bail is always concerned about Luke’s wellbeing somewhere in the back of his mind. The Lars family are supposed to be good, hardworking people, but even under Obi-Wan’s protection, Tatooine is a hostile place to live: especially compared to a temperate core world planet like Alderaan. Since he is unable to directly intervene so far out in Hutt Space, his contacts within the rebellion are occasionally tasked with checking in on the state of things in and around Tatooine’s settlements. On the occasions where Owen and Beru found themselves struggling to put food on the table, an off-world traveller would soon arrive offering to pay handsomely for something like mechanical help or a ride to Anchorhead.

Owen tries not to dwell on what-if scenarios and focus on keeping his nephew safe, but raising a force sensitive child -much less a force sensitive child of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala- is stressful on the best of days. When people in town murmur under their breath about how odd the Lars boy is, he worries. Both that the empire will take the whispering about Luke being odd seriously, and that the little girl Obi-Wan told them about when he arrived with baby Luke hidden under his cloak might be put in danger by those same whispers.

[phoenixkaptain]

Canon straight ships in Star Wars always crack me up like

You have Mutually Obsessed and Making That Everyone Else’s Problem (anidala)

Or maybe you want Roguish Princess and Rogue Turned On By That (hanleia)

Maybe even a little “I’m Trying to Kill You, Stop Daydreaming About Being My Best Friend” (lukemara)

And over there in the corner is Only Considered Normal In Comparison to the Given Competition (obitine)

And outside, not even apart of the conversation: Actually Normal Human Beings Who Just Love Each Other With Little to No Murder Being Involved (Bail&Breha, Owen&Beru)

[swshows]

OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022) | 1.01 'PART I'

[girlrandomstuff]

Bail Organa is literally for Star Wars what Nick Fury is for Marvel and Charlie for Charlie's Angels and I'm so up for it.

Man brought Mon Mothma, Riyo Chuchi, Ahsoka Tano (aka Vader's former Padawan) and Obi Wan Kenobi (aka Vader's former Master) and many other others to fight with the Rebelion under the noses of the Empire without them not even suspecting. Deserves more recognition.

[chromanebula]

Seriously, if they don't win I'm going to scream.

Round 1 - Bracket #9

[nerdyerror]

I had a stroke of genius

A Venn diagram of galactic views of Obi-Wan Kenobi

[twinterrors29]

Bail, thwarting the Emperor's legislative agenda in the Imperial Senate: not today, Sidious Breha, outmaneuvering an Imperial Moff trying to secure an outpost on Alderaan: not today, Sidious Leia, 10 years old, narrowly avoiding stubbing her toe: not today, Sidious

[stealingpotatoes]

organa twins au because I want them to grow up together (and also bc I'm in my bail organa stan era)

(ko-fi requests are open!)

[varpusvaras]

Luke and Leia would not be the same people if they had grown up with their bio parents. If they had grown up with their bio parents, they would've grown up in the suburbs. Luke is like that because he grew up as a gay kid in the middle of nowhere tuning up 20-year-old cars he could then drive around without a proper licence while five different gangs roamed around. Leia is like that because she was raised by people in their forties who were on the radical left. They are not the same.

[galactic-rhea]

Can you imagine the sheer amount of horror and panic for the rebels if Padmé decided to be evil and "yeah, okay, you know what, let's cut Palpatine's head and let me see what I can do to fix this galaxy my way"?

No no like they're like "The Chancellor tricked us, almost all the jedi are dead, there's no republic anymore, but there's still hope! There's still a fight in us, there's still---!" and they see Padmé, with Anakin/Vader following her close with raging, horrible, yellow eyes, but what's more scary is that Padmé is just smilling? With a sith so close to her? Padmé, he's- he's a murderer, Padmé? Why are you giving him pats- Oh damn, he's the father, oh damn-.

"We're doomed" the rebels mutter when they realize Senator Amidala- wait, what? Is Empress Amidala now? Okay-.

Yeah, okay, theorically she would be a better choice than the bastard of Palpatine. But at the same time she's so loved, so clever as a politician and Anakin is so devoted to her that forming a rebellion against her would be twice as hard. Even more when she actually originally was one of the founders of that very same rebellion? And General Skywalker is insane now, and he's very insane about her too, and he's very murderous and did I say insane? and...

What, all the highly trained look-alikes handmaidens are now secret service? Well that's...complicated, but...What, Naboo supports her? The whole planet? That's not so much of a shock, but...Bail, wait, listen to yourself, Bail what are you saying, she's evil now, stay with us, Bail. Okay, well, you might have a point-

"We're doomed." The rebels mutter again as they facepalm at the most cheesy and dumb royal wedding between the worst power couple in existence and the Organas are guests of honor and the groomsmen/honor guard are a chained General Kenobi, an astromech and a protocol droid.

[antianakin]

I will fully admit that this response went through like 3 or so iterations before I settled on the answers I gave above.

Originally, I had HanLeia down as "The Best" and Kanera were vying for "The Best," "Most Compelling" and "Most Potential" for a while. With Han/Leia, I just don't have enough nostalgia for them, but I do genuinely feel like they were written really well and really convincingly as a couple who care about each other. With Kanera, I have issues with how they got written in season four when their relationship stopped being ambiguous, but I do like the dynamic they had in the first three seasons, and I appreciated the way the aftermath of Kanan's death was handled.

I did not consider Bail/Breha and Owen/Beru and that was a crime on my part. Might not have changed my answers lol, but Bail/Breha have a special place in my heart (mostly because Bail is one of my favorite characters). I really liked the way the Kenobi show in particular wrote both of those relationships, both with each other and with their respective adopted children. I've definitely enjoyed both Bail/Breha/Obi-Wan and Owen/Beru/Obi-Wan before. I think I've also read one or two Owen/Beru/Obi-Wan/Cody, as well, which was fun.

With Jyn and Cassian, I do think that they probably wouldn't be the HEALTHIEST couple in the world, at least to begin with, just given their respective traumas and triggers and how little they actually know about each other by Scarif, and I could definitely see some of that trauma leading to them being somewhat more co-dependent in a fix-it AU where they survived, but I agree with you that part of what compels me about them is how their feelings for each other interact with their commitment to the cause (as well as their different motivations for that commitment and how that changes things). They're so compelling to me because you could honestly take this ship SO MANY different ways, with them actually being a really functional couple who can speak to each other without saying a word aloud and seeming like they're one mind in two bodies, or a somewhat more dysfunctional route where they're so traumatized after everything they've been through and they're the only thing they have left to hold onto sometimes, even when they hurt each other accidentally. Their feelings go so deep and I think they feel a kinship to each other that they haven't felt with anyone else and they've had an undeniable impact on each other, but that doesn't necessarily equate to having a particularly healthy or functional dynamic, at least not at the beginning of the relationship. I love the idea that these two could have to work SO HARD to make this relationship work, both while fighting for the rebellion with all of the problems that creates, and AFTER the Empire is destroyed when they have to figure out who they even are during peacetime and whether the people they become are still good for each other or not.

I kinda like Rebels era Rexsoka as well, but I actually like it mostly in a dysfunctional way lol. I don't know if that's just my bitterness over Ahsoka as a character coming through or not, but I kinda view their relationship as like... these two people who feel like they've lost everything except each other for a while and are perhaps too afraid of connection to do anything except find pleasure with each other temporarily before they run off to their respective causes again. They don't seek each other out, they don't talk to each other much, but they can't help but reach for each other when they cross paths. Rex I think moves past this a lot faster than Ahsoka would, he finds a way to reconnect with the other clones and gets himself a purpose in saving them that helps him a lot post Order 66 whereas Ahsoka has a tendency to isolate a lot and never interacts with the other Jedi survivors that pop up every so often (sometimes she even actively avoids them). Ahsoka barely knows who she is or who she wants to be and her inability to acknowledge what's happened to her or how she feels about it makes her unwilling to try for anything deeper with Rex, even if she wants it, and Rex doesn't push her.

I have an entire concept in my head about this variation on Rexsoka that interacts with my Rex/Zeb pool noodle where Ahsoka comes back post Malachor and goes to Rex and discovers he's in a genuine relationship with Zeb now and doesn't know what to do with that but she's even more shattered than ever after having seen what Anakin's become and she can't quite manage to back away. Zeb doesn't mind, he knows what Ahsoka means to Rex and he knows how Rex feels about him. They've also ALL been in a place where their loss of everyone and everything they've ever known has caused them to sort-of reject a lot of it, so the three of them end up sort-of falling together and it seems like it shouldn't work, but it does. Somehow, adding Zeb to the mix turns the dysfunctionality of Rex and Ahsoka's relationship into something more healthy. Some of it is probably also that Ahsoka's just been pushed so far now that she can't keep it bottled up anymore and she's finally willing to open up and acknowledge some of the things that have happened to her and how it's made her feel.

I don't mind Cal/Merrin, they're quite cute, though I didn't love the way Jedi Survivor implied that the relationship was something that could only happen now that the Jedi were dead or whatever. I think Kanera had a similar line when they were made explicit in season four, too. If I ignore that one line, though, I liked the connection Cal and Merrin had over being survivors of a genocide and the difference in their senses of humor and the ways that Merrin is actually in some ways more stable than Cal in Jedi Survivor and the way that allows her to help him through his pain in the way he was able to help her with hers in the last game.

Ahsoka/Ventress is amusing to me in the sense that Ahsoka's ended up a really bitter character recently (not unlike Ventress herself) and so the idea of them in any kind of relationship is hilarious. I think that the two of them wouldn't be a real romantic relationship so much as a fuck buddies thing when they have to work together AT BEST and like they care about each other more than they want to and that frustrates them enough that they have to fuck it out. At some point they just go their separate ways and decide amicably that that's enough, now. There's nothing sweet or gentle or healthy about them because neither of them is capable of accepting that or providing that. They'd definitely make each other worse and I love that for them.

You’ve talked a little about ships before but mainly in the context of how that is connected with the/a specific Jedi. And also a bit about ships you don’t like

But in Star Wars as a whole what’s your favourite ship, which one do you think is the best, and which one do you think is the most compelling?

(I know that the answer to all three could be the same but for me personally there’s often little overlap in these things so ymmv)

Also which ship do you think has the most potential?

I'll assume that canon and fanon are both options here.

"My Favorite" is the easiest to answer, so I'll start there. I've made an entire fic rec list for it and made no secret of the fact that I really like Codywan. Star Wars wasn't a fandom I really did any shipping in when I first was introduced to it as a kid. It wasn't until I decided to get back into Star Wars a little as an adult that I was even introduced to the IDEA of Codywan as a ship, but once I discovered it, it had me absolutely hooked. I will admit that I have a hard time with reading Codywan fics these days and interacting with other Codywan shippers because I often end up feeling like my interpretation of the characters is very different than the norm and what I want from the relationship - the thing that makes it compelling to me - isn't the same as most other people who enjoy the ship. But it was my first Star Wars ship and I still really enjoy the version of Codywan that exists in my head, so it will continue to claim the title of favorite.

For "Most Compelling" and "The Best" I'm actually going to exclusively define those as being IN CANON because anything in fanon can be compelling depending on how well someone writes it. I could obviously put Codywan down for both of these categories, but it would specifically be MY version of Codywan, the version that only really exists in my own head, and not necessarily the more popular version of them in the fandom.

I'm going to give "The Best" and "Most Compelling" to Jyn and Cassian from Rogue One. I will readily admit that, as someone who identifies as aroace, the fact that Jyn and Cassian never do or say anything explicitly romantic to each other is a major part of the reason I like them. I also personally believe it's the reason they're so compelling. Without being able to use any of the usual narrative shortcuts that romance tends to provide, Jyn and Cassian's dynamic relies on actually showing the two of them connecting with each other on a deeper level. I love how so much of their relationship with each other exists only in their eyes, in the way that they look at each other (whether the other person is looking back or not). I love the way their relationship comes through in-between the lines rather than stated out loud. I love the subtlety that exists for Jyn and Cassian in a way it doesn't for pretty much any other more "canon" ship.

I have also said before (though I'm not entirely certain I did it on this blog or not) that I really like angst, usually in the form of hurt/comfort but a good tragedy sometimes just hits the spot. Jyn and Cassian living in a "maybe," existing in a perpetual "what could have been," is so fucking sweet to me. That shit hurts JUST RIGHT. I love the idea that these two people meant everything to each other but only in the last few days before they died and they never even got to explore what exactly that could be. Their love is shown in how they impacted each other, the ways their relationship changed each other, because that's all they ever had time for. I fucking love that shit. The ambiguity of Jyn and Cassian's relationship is what makes it the most compelling to me and I think that the fact that they never get together forced the writers to show us they loved each other in far more interesting and nuanced ways than usually exist for couples that more explicitly get together on screen.

And finally, my choice for "Most Potential" is FinnRey. I really liked Finn and Rey's dynamic in TFA, I liked the way they both learned to rely on each other when they'd never had anyone to rely on before, the way they were able to escape their respective prisons and take their first steps into a larger world together. I liked the theme of coming back for each other no matter what, of reaching out for each other so they couldn't be separated, and the idea of shared fate where they would become the hero of the story TOGETHER. Obviously we all know how that dynamic got sidelined and ignored after TFA, but both characters are still alive and definitely have more story to tell, so the potential remains. Whether that potential ever actually goes anywhere, even if it's just in things like novels and comics, is still super up in the air. But I think these two could have an incredible dynamic if anyone was willing to give them the time of day.