Haha, I don't think we have to worry too much about cross-pollination since mine's psychic mindfuckery with a mix of good and bad parental decisions ?fluff??, but I'm glad you enjoyed!
I'm not really attached to any particular headcanon about when Ben gets The Vader Talk, but for the fic's purposes it's relatively late, yep. Particularly since Leia deals with her issues by compartmentalizing them away and throwing herself into the mission/cause/fight, so I imagine that it actually takes her a long time to process things, when she does at all. So there's a lot of just ... not talking about things during Ben's childhood, esp since he was born so early.
(Finally managed to put things together a bit more precisely: Poe is 32 in the TFA script and the Visual Dictionary says he was born two years before Endor, so that's 30 years before TFA, and Ben is 29. So Leia really must have gotten pregnant damn near immediately.)
And Han and Luke aren't much for let's stop and really talk about this, either. So I imagine there's this whole array of Things We Don't Talk About, but they all know (esp Luke and Leia about... anything the other one's thinking about it!), so it's not terribly uncomfortable for them. But then there is a whole new person they made???? And like, okay, a baby is one thing, but they turn around one day and he's asking questions about Alderaan and his heritage, welp.
(So while my approach is much heavier on 'Snoke's psychically creeping on him', I definitely do feel there's a bit of these people being very loving parents, and in some ways even good parents, but woefully unprepared.)
no subject
Haha, I don't think we have to worry too much about cross-pollination since mine's psychic mindfuckery with a mix of good and bad parental decisions ?fluff??, but I'm glad you enjoyed!
I'm not really attached to any particular headcanon about when Ben gets The Vader Talk, but for the fic's purposes it's relatively late, yep. Particularly since Leia deals with her issues by compartmentalizing them away and throwing herself into the mission/cause/fight, so I imagine that it actually takes her a long time to process things, when she does at all. So there's a lot of just ... not talking about things during Ben's childhood, esp since he was born so early.
(Finally managed to put things together a bit more precisely: Poe is 32 in the TFA script and the Visual Dictionary says he was born two years before Endor, so that's 30 years before TFA, and Ben is 29. So Leia really must have gotten pregnant damn near immediately.)
And Han and Luke aren't much for let's stop and really talk about this, either. So I imagine there's this whole array of Things We Don't Talk About, but they all know (esp Luke and Leia about... anything the other one's thinking about it!), so it's not terribly uncomfortable for them. But then there is a whole new person they made???? And like, okay, a baby is one thing, but they turn around one day and he's asking questions about Alderaan and his heritage, welp.
(So while my approach is much heavier on 'Snoke's psychically creeping on him', I definitely do feel there's a bit of these people being very loving parents, and in some ways even good parents, but woefully unprepared.)