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anghraineI had to do things like “teach” and “clean things,” so this chapter’s coming along more slowly, but:
i’ve been saving this series to read but i JUST realized that it’s gonna be lucy and leia both as girls and now i’m EVEN MORE EXCITED
I replied:
:D
That’s one of the main things that convinced me to start it back in (eep) 2011. Since I see Luke and Leia as very similar in basic temperament but developing under different pressures, I really liked the idea of being able to play with that with twin sisters, and just exploring ways their relationship would be both different and the same (along with some things feeling different even when they are the same). So the Lucy-Leia relationship is a pretty major thread throughout.
Leia didn’t usually let people get close. Lucy had never known why Leia made an exception for her, almost from the first—they’d just felt it, like something snapped into place as they ran hand-in-hand through the Death Star. Just like they’d have done if … somewhere else, if …
The thought—it was more like an impression—slid away.
smallblueandloud responded:The thought—it was more like an impression—slid away.
i’ve been saving this series to read but i JUST realized that it’s gonna be lucy and leia both as girls and now i’m EVEN MORE EXCITED
I replied:
:D
That’s one of the main things that convinced me to start it back in (eep) 2011. Since I see Luke and Leia as very similar in basic temperament but developing under different pressures, I really liked the idea of being able to play with that with twin sisters, and just exploring ways their relationship would be both different and the same (along with some things feeling different even when they are the same). So the Lucy-Leia relationship is a pretty major thread throughout.