#sunshine farmboy luke

[prankprincess123]

[kalak]

Outer rim hillbilly luke my beloved. Redneck Luke who chugs alcohol like nobody's business and then gets on his insanely rigged up x-wing to do loop de loops. It's about the juxtaposition between jedi and feral farmboy. Wide eyed sunshine boy who charms everyone with his southern belle outer rim accent going aw gee fellas I reckon yall can break up this fight yeah?

Luke getting culture shock going from planet to planet and seeing all the different fauna and cultures my beloved. Desert boy who's baffled by water bathes and swimming pools. Moisture boy who loves exploring new planets my beloved. He would absolutely love moss

[luke-shywalker]

Why do you like Luke Skywalker? (feel free to ramble or write a lot :D)

Oohoohooo! Digging back into my 2015 brain…before Kylo Ren ruined my life…

I like Luke Skywalker because of how much he develops as a character over the course of the original trilogy. I mean!! Compare the antsy farmboy who wanted so badly to join the Imperial Academy because he was bored of his life, to the calm Jedi who stood before the Emperor and was prepared to die rather than kill his father, even to avenge his friends.

I love Luke’s story. Going from living his own life, a very small life, pursuing his own whims and focusing on all he doesn’t have, to suddenly being thrust into something much bigger than himself, realizing he’s part of something much bigger than himself, that he can make a difference in something much bigger than himself.

I love his bond with Leia and Han. I love thinking about all the meaningful relationships Luke had, with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, with his buddies on Tatooine, with the droids, with fellow Rebels, with his father for that brief amount of time.

I love that Luke chooses to love his father and see Anakin. Luke said, “No, you’re not more machine now than man. You’re a person and your name is Anakin.” Luke was the OG Anakin stan!!

Other people have posted much more thoughtfully about this but it really is easy to stereotype/oversimplify who Luke is. We meme about him being super whiny (“power converters”) or being a pure cinnamon roll hot cocoa sunshine boy. And like yea I think those are freaking hilarious extrapolations of elements of Luke’s personality but he really is complex. Luke has darkness inside of him in Empire and in Jedi (I think when he rolls up in all black in Jedi we’re supposed to be kind of like “…oh???”). He hates Vader as much as Leia does when he says “I’ll never join you.” There’s the joke about “boohoo you lost your martial arts instructor I lost a planet” but Luke has experienced a lot of legitimate loss in his life.

Luke gets way overshadowed by Han when it comes to popularity of Star Wars characters, and I get that, Han Solo is cool (even though when you actually, like, look at Han he’s such a dork and a dumbbutt and, affectionately, not cool at all). I think it’s because Han is like, the hot one, the ladies’ man, the shooty-shoot-pew-pew guy. Luke is a different kind of guy, more sensitive, in tune with what’s inside of him and the people around him (especially as he matures), and I love that about him. My husband is kinda like that actually.

I’m sure I could write even more but. Yeah that’s why I like Luke ^-^

[officialfoxsquadron]

14 and 18. Bring it on 🔥

hehehehe yes let's be toxic!

fandom violence asks

14. that one thing you see in fics all the time

sunshine kind boy golden retriever characterization of Luke Skywalker my BELOATHED. sooo many fics infantilize luke (esp certain pairings) and i'm just over it. not even just because of power level/scaling reasons. by the time of return of the jedi that is a Man. that is an Adult Man who has Seen the Horrors. of course there is still a silly, goofy, kind, loving side to him but he is a war veteran and killer of millions and the Last Jedi. there is something deeply tragic about his character that the typical fanon and fanfic characterization lacks

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on…

luke skywalker as a political animal/activist in the galaxy! i don't think he's on the level of leia (in that i do not think he's interested in becoming a political figurehead or using political power in that way) but he is certainly active and engaged in galactic politics. he wants to learn and he wants to understand but more importantly he wants to figure out how he can bring his unique skills and benefits to advance the rebel cause. man went from farmboy to violent political radical in a weekend that didn't just happen by accident

[kaleidoscope1967eyes]

Luke's Favorite Nicknames

What he calls you:

Angel

Moonbeam

My Love

Starflower (courtesy of @dailydragon08)

Beautiful

My Light

Goofball

What you call him:

Sunshine

Shooting Star

Farmboy

Commander (this one has more sexy undertones)

Handsome

Blondie

Golden Boy

[fire-sabre-shadow]

Turnin' Tables

For @mayxthexforce

It was not as though Mara had been scanning frequencies listening for any sign or whisper of him. She had merely opened the intercom on the Jade Fire to get a sense of what news traversed the galaxy. And there it was - the rumor that one of the elite former generals of the Republic was captured. One who had purposefully gone to Tatooine, it seemed.

Only recently had she been able to reforge a tennuous connection to the Force. With Palpatine's death, and his curse upon her, Mara thought she might never reconnect with that power. But after her encounter with C'baoth and killing that clone of Skywalker...it seemed whatever curse had been over her vanished.

It would have been logical to stay and ask for help in mending that bridge between her and the living Force, but Mara's pride would not allow it. That sinking, hollow pit in her gut wouldn't allow it. She wouldn't put herself in a position to ask for anything, and she certainly would not want to be in a debt to Luke Skywalker. Even though he had offered to help her and even as decent a person as he (surprisingly) turned out to be...

Well, some things couldn't be erased.

So Mara had left Coruscant. Left any chance at connecting with him again. But she had been working on her own, attempting to meditate and focus. Until this morning, nothing had worked. But finally, after weeks of quieting her mind, trying to reach the Force without using any of the cruel and harmful ways the Emperor had taught her, a single thought echoed back through the connection: listen.

Listen to what exactly? Fat lot of good that did. All was silent aboard the Jade Fire. But that had been what clued her in. Maybe she needed to listen to the right sound. And sure enough, there came the report.

No matter the mixed feelings she had towards him - although most days his memory brought her to the point of frustration - Mara knew he did not deserve to die in any of the gloriously horrific ways the Hutts delighted in subjecting victims to.

And now she had landed just outside the familiar sight of Jabba's palace. Since Organa had strangled the wretched gangster prince of Tatooine, a new host of Hutts had come in to take his place. And take their vengeance. Thankfully, Mara had snuck into Jabba's palace before. Ironically, back when she was attempting to gather information about Luke Skywalker for the Emperor, all behind Vader's back. At that time, she had been Arica, a dancer who had been forced out of Jabba's palace - cover having been blown - before Skywalker was forced to the Pit of Carkoon.

Even so, she well knew the secret passageways in and out of the palace. And one that led directly into the deepest, darkest parts of the dungeon. If Mara was in their disgusting shoes, that's where she would put him.

She was smart, waited for nightfall, and then twisted her body through the tracherous, rocky cavern. Occasionally she had to shift, hold in a yelp of pain as the jagged edge cut into her clothing and made her bleed, but eventually she found the trap door. A place to dispose of dead bodies and leave them to the dunes.

Growling and holding her nose at the smell of old, rotting flesh, Mara lowered her body and inched in through the tunnel. With her past as Hand, she knew how to move silently and swiftly, and finally she came to an open clearing. A cell block. She dared not reach out through the Force. Not now. But thankfully, her intuition proved right, and in the second row down, she spotted a familiar mop of sunshine-gold hair.

"Farmboy," she whispered.

[love-bokumono-fics]

Fresh Crops! September 2 - September 8, 2024

This week's newest fics and chapter updates for Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons on AO3!

Rainy Days - by Perversions; Complete, 1/1, 1.4k

Rating: Explicit; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: M/M Fandoms: Save the Homeland Relationships: Kurt/Toy; Characters: Kurt, Toy Additional Tags: **NOTE: Some tags have been removed to remain Safe For Tumblr. Please see AO3 for complete list** Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Crushes, Kissing, Boys Kissing, Bottom Kurt, Top toy, Hand Jobs, First Time, Unsafe Sex Summary: Kurt is visited by Toy one night. Things get unexpectedly a little heated.

Farmboy Forever - by foxcassius; Complete, 1/1, 13k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: M/M Fandoms: A Wonderful Life Relationships: Male Farmer/Gustafa; Characters: Gustafa, Male Farmer, Original Characters, Muffy | Molly, Nami, Cody | Gordy Additional Tags: Gustafa POV, Canon Compliant, Man I’m really not good at AO3 tags. Give the fic a shot, this one is for all the other mlm hell yeah, Fluff, First Kiss, First Dates, This fic tells the story of the first year of the game thru the pov of gustafa, With a highlight on romance with the farmer Summary: The tale of a world-traveled musician and the farmboy he fell in love with.

Don't Eat Flowers - by Maymist; Complete, 29/29, 68k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/F Fandoms: A Wonderful Life, DS Cute Relationship: Nami/Pony | Aya | Jill; Characters: Nami, Pony | Aya | Jill, Rock, Reader Additional Tags: Lesbian Character, Inspired by Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons, Mentions of Other Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons Games, Blue Feather, Romance, LGBTQ Character, POV Lesbian Character, Canon Lesbian Relationship Summary: The new farmer girl in Forgotten Valley attempts to give Nami some flowers to, er… totally give the hint that she's romantically interested in the very much reserved tomboyish red-head. Nami completely jumps to conclusions and misunderstands though, and that's where this silly romance begins. What kind of other madness will ensue?

Burning Gold - by AppleBeryll; WIP, 10/?, 25k

Rating: Mature; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M Fandom: Friends of Mineral Town Relationships: Claire the Farmer/Gray, Gray/Mary the Librarian | Mari, Claire the Farmer/Rick, Karen/Rick, Ann the Innkeeper | Ran/Cliff, Kai/Popuri; Characters: Kai, Claire, Cliff, Ann the Innkeeper | Ran, Doug | Dudley, Rick, Popuri, Saibara, Karen, Mineral Town Residents, Gray Additional Tags: Slow Burn Summary: Claire seeks a new life, will mineral town be what she's hoping for ?

Reject Me - by almakazam; Complete, 1/1, 2.2k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings; Category: F/M Fandoms: Island of Happiness, Sunshine Islands Relationship: Chelsea/Mark; Characters: Chelsea, Mark Additional Tags: One Shot, Love Confessions, Awkward Romance, Rewrite, Chelsea is mad, Chelsea Swears, Chelsea is a tsundere, And Mark is a dense idiot, Swearing, Tsunderes, Love Letters, my god i remember this, yeah i wrote him a letter and tried to get it back when he would NOT reject me Summary: How frustrating it is to fall in love with someone so dense, so immature, so carefree… so lovable.

If a Carpenter Falls in a Forest - by Trans_Nerd; Complete, 1/1, 1.5k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: M/M Fandoms: Animal Parade Relationship: Harvest King Ignis/Luke the Carpenter; Characters: Harvest King Ignis, Luke the Carpenter Additional Tags: Gay Male Character, One Shot, Fluff and a little Plot, Mind Control, those two tags do not contradict each other I promise Summary: That morning, Ignis hadn’t paid much attention to Luke. He tried not to make a habit of staring at eye candy for too long, for he had a whole island of residents to look after. But then, while monitoring the main part of town that evening, Luke's heart cried out for help from Fugue Forest.

[vorbarrsultana]

star wars moodboards: luke skywalker

you’ve failed, your highness. i’m a jedi, like my father before me.

[solesnati]

yes,  he’s skill and grace,  but he’ll also fall on his face so if a famed jedi master trips over his own cloak in front of you wyd?

[jackdaw-kraai]

There's something really funny about Obi-wan and Bail's outsider POV on Luke and what's happening, and Luke's actual nature.

Obi-wan & Bail: Oh no that poor innocent farmboy who would never harm a fly, taken right under our noses and no doubt being corrupted by Darth Vader into murder and evil and death!

Luke: Aunt Beru sent me my lethal poison kit? She knows me so well.

Luke is such a good example of Good Is Not Soft and I love it.

Luke knows how to keep a secret well enough that poor old Ben never did learn what his favorite non-attachment kid got up to. How he could have ever imagined that a place like Tatooine would produce an innocent and untouched soul, I'll never understand.

Especially since Luke got almost an entire extra decade to marinate in the distinct ruthless wilderness of Tatooine and forge his soul and convictions into something strong enough that now he is being the bad influence on Vader instead of the other way around.

Luke is sunshine personified, yes, but every Child will tell you that sunshine on Tatooine is nothing short of tempered death.

[prankprincess123]

Just for fun, what is the first (or first few if there's several funny ones) thing that come up when you type the names of the Star Wars disaster lineage in your tags? I'll go first!

[willowcrowned]

WAIT SHIT WHAT IF BEN AND LUKE AND HAN (and Chewie and R2 and Threepio) FOLLOW HER INTO THE PALACE TO RESCUE HER AND FIND THE ARTIFACT AND END UP IN THE PAST ALSO

Vader sees Ben and enters murder mode, Leia is yelling at him to stop, Luke is still in his Farmboy Clothes, Han is ready to tear out his hair, etc.

The artifact blows up before Palps can follow them through.

Somehow this leads into Vader watching one of his kids make out with his father figure while the other one makes out with Quinlan Vos and Crazy Old Ben cracks PTSD jokes in Qui-Gon's general direction. IDK what Han is doing other than being upset about the fact that he got dragged into this Force Bullshit mess.

Maybe Han meets and charms Shmi and Vader just has to scream because NO, CAPTAIN SOLO, YOU CANNOT FUCK DARTH VADER'S MOM.

At first, Han doesn’t think much of Shmi. She’s almost a nonentity compared to the loudmouth princess, or any of the stuck up Jedi, and definitely compared to the evil trashbag-looking asshole in a mechsuit. She’s pretty, but she’s not gorgeous, not like the princess, and she doesn’t have the whole sunshine thing going on like the twink does.

And then he sees her face down Darth Vader.

Han Solo, contrary to popular opinion, is not an idiot. He’s survived this long by knowing when to hedge his bets and when to cut and run. He’s intimately aware of the fact that he’s the most vulnerable person here— all he’s got is a blaster and his wits— and he’s not stupid enough to give up an opportunity for protection when he sees it. He knows Vader won’t kill anyone that will upset his kids or his mother, and since the princess is wrapped up in the Jedi with the terrible haircut, and the twink thinks that Han is a dick, he’s going to have to find someone else.

So he seduces Shmi— or tries to, at any rate. 

Shmi knows exactly what he’s doing from the first wink, nailing him with an even stare that makes Han feel like he’s being stripped down to his bones. Skywalker women, he’s beginning to realize, are scary. Still, she doesn’t let Vader hurt him— even introduces him to her kid. She’s kind to him, presses back a smile at his antics, but doesn’t let him get away with anything.

He might not be able to seduce Shmi, but Shmi is sure seducing him.

[insertmeaningfulusername]

Like Sunshine after Rain for the fic title ask

Thank you dear :D

Today's a head empty no thoughts day but this sounds a lot like it could contain hurt/comfort, maybe with a side dish of fluff 👀 However, one concrete example my brain came up with is this: Somehow, Darth Vader learns of Luke's existence pre-ANH and sends out several bounty hunters with tracking fobs. Din is one of them. He catches up to Luke in a canyon on Tatooine, minutes before a violent rainstorm hits and sweeps over the desert. Luke, sweet summer child that he is, doesn't realise that the stranger in shiny armour is after him (because there's no way anyone would ever put a bounty on Luke's head - he's just a simple farmboy after all, right?) and cautions Din about the dangers of flash floods on Tatooine, especially in such a rugged area. Then, he slips away for higher ground (heh) before Din can even so much as say peep. Now, since Din is very much a potato (read: himbo) at times, he does not heed Luke's warning - and ends up being swept off his feet by a wall of water that's at least twice as tall as him and also came out of nowhere. Cue Luke swooping in with his skyhopper as the unlikely hero of the situation and rescuing a half-drowned and very unconscious Din from the floods. A few hours later, Din wakes up on a cot in a room of the Larses' moisture farm. Because he's just That Guy Who Always Moves Quietly Even In Armour, he gets up and manages to observe some of Luke's daily life without being observed in turn. In that short amount of time, he realises what an endearing, funny, and kind person Luke is, and before he knows it, the needle of his moral compass has budged a good amount in the direction that's least favourable to his trade (aka guilt). By then, Luke has noticed him and (despite Uncle Owen's best murderous glare) is offering him a place to stay overnight. Naturally, Din declines. Naturally, Luke then offers to accompany him back to his ship - just to make sure it hasn't been damaged by the rainstorm, and not at all because he hates to see the tall and most-probably-handsome-under-his-shiny-beskar-helmet stranger leaving already. Din is left to contemplate the moral dilemma of abducting a living ray of sunshine as they walk back to the Razor Crest, with Luke prattling on excitedly by his side and the desert around them breaking into full bloom, fuelled by the sunshine after the rain.

[newswcanonprompts]

the skywalker family tree

so, we were all saying that the empire chain of command is just... so, so messy and weird and doesn’t work (because palps never had a plan for if he or vader got killed). convo spiraled. eventually we said that the only reason the empire survived for so long was sheer dumb luck, and that the skywalkers were all dotted across the galaxy and not banded together (yet).

we ended up making a skywalker family tree. there’s 30 of them, which is why the galaxy is such a mess. now, without further ado...

THE SKYWALKER FAMILY, DURING THE TIME OF THE EMPIRE/OT (most of them honorary)

1) Luke- sunshine son living on a farm, not knowing where or who the rest of his family is, doesn’t know what it means to be a skywalker™

2) Anakin- lost most of his limbs in a fire and is now in a medical nightmare, has become a cyborg murder bot

3) Leia- angry rebel princess who also doesn’t know she’s a skywalker™

4) Obi-Wan- sad desert hermit who wants his family back, watching over sunshine son

5) Rex- former captain surviving on a deserted planet with two of his identical brothers

6) Ahsoka- little sister of cyborg being a badass rebel spy

7) Cody- marshal commander who BETTER be okay, but we still don’t really know

8) R2- badass droid working with the rebellion but can’t do much since he’s a DROID

9) 3PO- memory wiped and is literally a protocol droid, can’t really do shit (but means well!)

10) Han- a smuggler who isn’t a skywalker yet but will be soon (def not prepared to marry into this disaster of a family)

11) Shmi- dead grandma/OG family member who’s not a force ghost

12) Padme- dead wife / queen who’s also not a force ghost

13) the Force- the actual Force itself who is not very good at parenting, helicopter parent and deadbeat dad (there is no in-between, it is a good parent but also a shitty one)

14) Qui-Gon- sad desert hermit’s weed dad who bowed out of this bullshit a long time ago, him and his ponytail are chilling in the cosmic force or something, watching his foundling (the cyborg) fuck up the galaxy

15) Feemor- weed dad’s other child who is the only sane member of this family, he’s hiding out on some backwater planet trying to get away from his insane family members (he really shouldn’t take vacations, he left these idiots alone for ten minutes and the galaxy went to shit) 

16) Hondo- chaotic pirate lord who’s *technically* not a part of the fam but is anyway, they adopted him (more like he adopted himself into it, but they still call him one of their own)

17) Ventress- edgy former sith assassin who’s other family got killed so now she’s saddled with these weirdos

18) Satine- former duchess of mandalore who is now dead and not a force ghost (but when she was alive, she was the wine aunt)

19) Maul- other former sith assassin who wants to beat the sad desert hermit, just once, please, let him win something 

20 & 21) Owen and Beru- Tired Desert Aunt and Uncle who just want the best for everyone but Jabba (have kept a skywalker off his bullshit for 19 years, which is much longer than desert hermit’s record of 2 hours- it was so short because the hermit is just as bad as the rest of the family)

22 & 23) Bail and Breha- tired royal parents who are trying to politician the skywalker out of the angry rebel princess (spoiler alert, it doesn’t work)

24) Yoda- troll great grandpa who went kinda crazy and now lives in a swamp and is  waiting for farmboy sunshine son to come so he can get some training as a magical wizard knight

25) Dooku- tired dead royal grandpa who is looking down on his family like “seriously” and has many ghost conversations with his crazy troll dad on the swamp planet

26) Chewbacca- the massive walking carpet that has the most braincells out of anyone, smuggler’s best friend 

27) Xanatos- the weird neighborhood kid who lights your garbage can on fire during family dinners

28) Quinlan- desert hermit’s chaotic brother, has zero braincells and is sounds stoned all the time, is good at tracking people and nothing else

29) Aayla- dead daughter of chaotic stoner, surprisingly graceful and composed but also mischievous, cousin of murder bot (fell in love with former captain’s brother, blyla is real y’all)

30) Jocasta- dead librarian wife of tired dead royal grandpa, is still mad at him for messing up her archives that one time

[myevilmouse]

What kinks do you headcannon Luke having? 👀

Thank you so much for this ask Anon!  I love to think about Luke and his kinks, naturally.  You can get a pretty good taste of what I headcanon his sexual tastes to be by exploring my AO3 page.

The key, as with everything, is to make it believable and true to whatever you are having the character live/experience in your fic.  So while, for example, I tend to think of Luke as naturally pretty dom—liking to be in control and on top, so to speak, you could easily write him as a bottom, enjoying the surrender of control to someone he trusts.  Or better yet, a switch! 💖

In general, I headcanon Luke Skywalker as fairly laid back and easy going when he’s not in full-on Jedi Master mode.  We should consider that his sexual personality likely evolved, and probably the casual flings he was used to as a fighter pilot may not be as appealing once he’s Master Skywalker and has that “Savior of the Jedi” mantle on his shoulders. Nonetheless, he’s confident and knows what he’s doing, so he’s usually up for a good time.  This means he’s ready to try almost anything once, and the fun things can get set on repeat!  Luke, in other words, would have a pretty open mind to sexual experimentation and adventurism, at least more than your average Farmboy, if you know what I mean 😉

look at that glove omfg nnnnnghhh the things he’s gonna do

As for particular kinks I think our handsome Jedi Master might have, here are some I have written:

·      Domming a strong lady

·      Being dommed by a strong lady

·      Imperial Uniforms mmm yessssssss

·      Sex in unusual locations (e.g. not a bed)

·      Outdoor sex

·      Rough sex (not to say he doesn’t love sweet sunshine sex, I just think the man can appreciate some extreme banging when the situation calls for it)

·      Alien Accents turn him on (don’t they turn everyone on?!)

·      Impact Play (when done responsibly!)

·      Clothes ripping (just tear ‘em off!)

·      Roleplaying

·      Bondage (I headcanon Luke would be more likely to tie up his partner than be tied up, but like anything, I can see a good author making it work both ways)

·      Anal sex, if you count it as a kink?  I dunno. And obviously he loves all the blowjobs.

·      Exhibitionism (possibility of getting caught being naughty, like doing it in the cockpit of an X-wing, rather than straight up public sex, fucking for an audience).

·      Inappropriate use of the Force such as Force choking for your erotic asphyxiation pleasure or Force-fucking mmm yesss

·      Orgasm delay/denial (plays into that control thing).  Also I think he’s into extended foreplay because dammit shouldn’t every guy be into that?! 😊

·      Food.  I can see him really enjoying all things edible in the bedroom up to and including body paint.

I hope that is sort of the answer you were looking for anon!  Feel free to reply to this post and tell me if I missed any you feel strongly about!  This is something evilmouse could talk about allllll day.  Luke is ready for you, look at that face:

[crispyjenkins]

Boba/Luke anon, voting for BoLu so there's no 'which fett/Skywalker' confusion. Maybe Luke helping Boba out with a bounty (Boba needed someone who could drive while he shot and Luke was the best according to word of mouth? Luke said yes out of boredom though he knew Uncle Owen would disprove?) Pre ANH/ep.4? Two start dating then but secretly because Uncle Owen? Boba has no idea what to do with a scarily competent boyfriend who is also so soft.

(“noon-ish” turned out to be two o’clock. in my defense, i was sharing a desk with a 20lbs cat. anyways.

how did they meet, i hear you ask? feck if i know, i'm saving the meet-cute from my bolu ramblings last week for a future fill so. have some soft competence kink in a collection of somewhat linear scenes.

thank you for the prompt, lovely, you’ve started a trend you cannot escape from)

  His fingers lightly skirting around Boba's eyes, Luke laughs behind closed lips and only smiles wider when Boba glares up at him. 

  "What's so funny?" he grumbles, as if his heart wasn't sinking faster than a Hutt in quicksand. Whatever this is between them —friendship, mutual affection, romance— it's hardly two Tatooine years old, and still so uncertain; Boba would have honestly put this off even longer if Luke hadn't scooted the last few inches down the table he's perched on and slid his hands under the edges of his buy'ce. Maybe he’d even have avoided it indefinitely, if Boba hadn't sat back and let this farmboy from the middle of nowhere remove what he rarely let even his whores remove. 

  When Luke sets his helmet on the table next to him and moves even closer, until Boba is gently caged by his knees, Boba lets him. The repair bay lamps whine as whatever insects that can survive out here beat themselves against the light, Tatoo I dipping below the horizon behind them with Tatoo II not far behind. He should really be getting Luke home. 

  "You're still so young," Luke mumbles, still with that bright, carefree smile as the rough pads of his fingers brush over the scars on his cheeks. 

  Which really isn't what Boba had expected, not when Luke is barely pushing twenty standard and Boba hasn't felt young since Geonosis. So he quirks an eyebrow and lets Luke chuckle when it jumps under his touch. 

  "What makes you say that?" he murmurs.

  "We've had others come through before," Luke says, finally leaning back enough that he can look down at Boba on the stool in front of him. "They're all old men now."

  The others. Those that Boba will not call brothers when he had been given everything they hadn't. 

  Which of course doesn't explain how Luke even knows Boba is related to the dwindling number of clone troopers, when he would have been far too young to remember the clones at a time where they resembled Boba.

  "You feel similar," Luke offers quietly. "Not the same, you're all unique, but you feel... like a family." Heart now somewhere in his throat, Boba can only stare at him as Luke dips back forward and brushes a thumb up the bridge of his nose to his forehead, before settling his palm at Boba's temple. "Also, you all have the exact same nose."

  Boba doesn't remember the last time he laughed, not sincerely, but he swears he'll laugh himself into the grave if it keeps that startled happiness in Luke's eyes. 

-

  “I don’t think Uncle Owen would appreciate me getting blood all over the front of his speeder,” Luke jokes as Boba heaves his current bounty onto the hood of, indeed, his uncle’s landspeeder, even though Boba knows Luke’s replaced and repaired so many parts it should honestly be his. 

  So Boba snorts and lashes down the Gen’dai arms dealer with just enough rope to keep them from sliding off. “What does he think you’re doing with it when you’re out here helping me?” 

  Luke laughs that sunshine laugh, barely waiting for Boba to swing into the passenger seat before rocketing off down the road, trying to put as much distance between them and the rest of the Gen’dai’s gang as possible. “I find it easier not to say anything and just let him make his own assumptions,” he says, taking a sharp turn around a cantina and nearly, but not quite, hitting a drunk Twi’lek. Frowning, Luke yanks the controls again, and Boba has to grip the side of the speeder so he doesn’t get tossed out the back. “Actually, now that I think about it, he probably thinks I’m going to one of the brothels.”

 ��Which is a rather unfortunate thought, not that Boba has any sort of claim on the boy, but then he remembers Luke isn’t particularly interested in romps in the sheets. “And that you come home with more money than you set out with?” Boba asks before his mouth catches up with his brain.

  Tossing Boba a toothy grin, Luke blindly hikes up the speed and launches them out of Anchorhead into the desert. 

-

  When Boba ducks back out of Jabba’s palace, Luke is leaning against the landspeeder and smiling like the rainy season came early, which really isn’t fair to Boba’s poor heart, not when he already feels like he’s being cooked alive in the Tatooine heat. 

  “Here’s your cut, kid,” he says instead of anything more sentimental, tossing the pouch of wupiupi at Luke and feeling indorinantly pleased when he fumbles in catching it: the kid may be a genius behind scrap piece of machinery he can get his hands on, but his human reflexes could use a little work.

  “Aw, and I thought you kept me around for my company,” he teases, tucking the pouch away like he hadn’t just almost dropped it. “It certainly isn’t for my charming smile.”

  Cheeky little shit. 

  Boba smirks inside his helmet, and gently tilts Luke’s chin up just long enough to watch the bravado melt into fluster, before hopping back up into the speeder and waiting for Luke to drive them back to Mos Eisley.

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  It’s only after Luke has passed out on one of Boba’s arms that he realises he hasn’t let anyone on the Slave I that wasn’t an unconscious bounty since Geonosis, much less let anyone into his cabin. 

  And yet, Luke is just small enough to fit on the bunk beside him, even as sprawled out as the boy manages to be. Boba hadn’t even thought to tell him no when he’d weaseled his way on board for the first time (or the next, or the next, or the next–) not when it’s felt like Luke has already occupied a place in his home for months. By the Maker, he had already let Luke get elbow deep in the Slave I’s plasma couplings, is it really that much of a leap to let him inside properly?

  Boba is drifting before he realises it, the quiet hum of the cooling system a familiar background noise to the unfamiliar weight on his bicep, the weight of Luke’s arm thrown haphazardly over his torso. It’s still the middle of the day, Luke probably has chores to get to and Boba really should restock his blaster case, but kriff him, he’s too kriffing comfortable.

  Emboldened by the knowledge that Luke is well and truly asleep, Boba curls the arm Luke is using as a pillow to finally (finally) tuck his fingers into the sun-bleached hair at the back of his head, where the strands endearingly flip up despite Luke’s best efforts. It’s sand-course and thinner than he’d expected, but it really does feel as if Luke has just sucked up all the sunshine Tatooine has to offer –which is, admittedly, a lot– and let it make its home in him.

  When Luke snorts rather unattractively in his sleep, Boba still smiles, and pretends it’s only to hide his laugh.

buy’ce — “helmet”