Oh, yeah--- Lucy's adoration of her father just works, and I am eagerly anticipating how it'll play out along the way!
Re: Leia: not only excellent ladies, but... that sort of formal upper-class background. (Okay, now I totally want to see Elizabeth Bennett with serious firepower. *facepalm*)
And, yeah, totally with you on confronting the misogyny head-on. And also on Han--- I think it's EU!canon that he was in the Imperial Navy for a while, so maybe he picked up some of the veneer of it there, but it never really took?
he's a widower with two infant girls...
*wharlgarble* *flail* *EPIC SQUEE OF SQUEEING* Especially how you put it. "A widower with two infant girls" is somehow orders of magnitude more endearing than just, "he's raising his two daughters after his wife dies". Also Palpatine. (I may have a far too high affinity for fluff, but somehow I sort of want the awesomeness of the Skywalker twins to... mellow him a little? And, um, Leia in particular just wrapping him around her finger. Because he starts out being all gloaty about two budding Sith, but... what he wants also gets him. See: so wrong it comes about to be right. See also: *facepalm* :>)
ACK! Somehow I missed this comment! *flails*
Re: Leia: not only excellent ladies, but... that sort of formal upper-class background. (Okay, now I totally want to see Elizabeth Bennett with serious firepower. *facepalm*)
And, yeah, totally with you on confronting the misogyny head-on. And also on Han--- I think it's EU!canon that he was in the Imperial Navy for a while, so maybe he picked up some of the veneer of it there, but it never really took?
*wharlgarble* *flail* *EPIC SQUEE OF SQUEEING* Especially how you put it. "A widower with two infant girls" is somehow orders of magnitude more endearing than just, "he's raising his two daughters after his wife dies". Also Palpatine. (I may have a far too high affinity for fluff, but somehow I sort of want the awesomeness of the Skywalker twins to... mellow him a little? And, um, Leia in particular just wrapping him around her finger. Because he starts out being all gloaty about two budding Sith, but... what he wants also gets him. See: so wrong it comes about to be right. See also: *facepalm* :>)