#shilmar iggson

[hollowjedi]

so recently, i made a shoutout post about all of the woc that star wars has so far, and i keep adding to it bc i keep discovering more! it’s great. so i figured i’d also make one about all of the lgbt+ characters that star wars has so far, bc why not.

as you probably guessed from the header pic, i’m going to start by going ahead & getting what we all knew was coming out of the way - stormpilot! a.k.a. the gay star wars ship to end all star wars ships, consisting of finn & poe dameron. sadly, this isn’t officially canon yet, although it is heavily implied - in both the movie itself, as well as in multiple interviews w/ oscar isaac. 

a bonus - the only other star wars character who’s merely suspected to be part of the lgbt+ community - is a black sun agent ahsoka encounters in the ahsoka novel who’s referred to with they/them pronouns only. it could be that they do have a binary gender, & the author wants it to be left to the imagination, but i’m still including them here bc fuck it.

now moving on to star wars characters who are canonically confirmed to not be cishet! (sadly, no pictures available.) starting with sinjir rath velus - so far the only case of a canonically lgbt+ star wars character who is also a main character. he works as a loyalty officer for the empire until disillusionment from its ways, caused by the sheer amount of destruction he witnesses at the battle of endor, drives him to join the fledgling new republic. throughout the aftermath series, he periodically interacts with his boyfriend, conder kyl, who works as a slicer for the new republic.

“Couple. Like - “ His face goes suspiciously and surprisingly red. “Like you and me? Together?”

“That is indeed what I mean.”

He laughs. “Oh.”

“If you’re going to laugh about it,” she says, suddenly stung. “Then you can take my invitation and stick it in your exhaust port.”

“No, I just mean... I’m not into... this.”

“This?” Her scowl deepens and her teeth bare. “Aliens?”

“Women.”

“Oh. Oh.”

“Yes, oh.”

“Oh.”

also in the aftermath series are shirene & esmelle, a lesbian couple & family friends of temmin “snap” wexley. (shirene is also in my woc list!) and then there’s eleodie maracavanya, an alien pirate who commandeers a super star destroyer & uses both he/him/his & she/her/hers pronouns, as well as “zhe/zhem/zheirs” pronouns. (sidenote - i’m not sure if those are real-life pronouns or just made up for this character, so if you know please clarify!) 

in the novel lords of the sith, there is an imperial moff named delian mors, who has a wife named murra mors. (i would expand upon them further, but i haven’t read lords of the sith yet.)

another bonus - in one of the interludes of aftermath, there is a very, very brief reference to the fact that its protagonist, named shilmar iggson, has two fathers.

“What happened to your parents?” the woman asks. 

Iggs freezes. He doesn’t want to think about it or even say it. He tries to block out the memories of seeing his two fathers lying there like that…

and another - in bloodline, a minor character named ledaney is confirmed to have recently started dating a man from corellia.

“You sure you’re doing okay over there, Seastriker?” shouted Ledaney, who was fixing up his own X-wing a few meters away. “Or do we need to fetch you some soda water and a fan?”

Guffaws echoed from every pilot in the place. Joph had made the mistake of being honest about his reaction to Port in a Storm, which meant he was going to spend the whole day hearing about it from guys who’d never once tried drinking the stuff.

So he shot back, “I’m good, Ledaney. But what about you? Word has it you’ve been hitting the Corellian stuff pretty hard lately.”

This time the laughter was louder. Anybody who didn’t know Ledaney would assume Joph was talking about the famed brandy, but every pilot in the squadron knew Ledaney’s new man was from Corellia.

that’s about it for now. if i discover any that i forgot, or if any new ones are introduced, i will definitely add them to this post! bless star wars for becoming so progressive.