Aw, thanks! Some of this is more my interpretation of canon -- like Lucy's idolization of her father. Obviously we don't hear Luke thinking of him because it's a movie (and blessedly free of voiceovers), but it seemed to naturally follow from what we see. Though Lucy's adoration is a little different, I think, because she's stifled even more than Luke. Anakin represents a sort of freedom for her. And Lucy's adoration of Leia is even more different, of course.
if there was ever a character who benefits from being written by an Austen-fan it is Leia Organa
<3 <3 Thank you about this! I had a blast writing Leia for both stories -- when my friends and I were working on our bigbangs, I'd be all 'oh, it's going to speed up, I have a Leia section coming up!' The Austen tradition of excellent ladies did rather feed into how I thought of her, so I'm glad it worked.
And then the Rebels being misogynist jerks as much as the Empire at least where pilots are concerned
Yeah. It's -- in a meta-sense, obviously it's the androcentricism of the creators, but I've always disliked dealing with an issue like that by just erasing it. So I didn't want to go with, oh, they do have women, we just NEVER EVER SEE THEM. Though I kept going 'how am I going to make this work without changing the end?' Then the epiphany came, of course (lol, just change it), but it was a rather late change -- originally they let her in when Biggs vouched for her (there are probably still hints of that). But I'm glad it didn't seem too out there, anyway. (And yeah, Han can be a misogynistic jerk sometimes, but not in that rigid way, I don't think.)
Because the former Anakin Skywalker with adoring twin tomboys capering about at his heels is so wrong that it comes around to be right.
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if there was ever a character who benefits from being written by an Austen-fan it is Leia Organa
<3 <3 Thank you about this! I had a blast writing Leia for both stories -- when my friends and I were working on our bigbangs, I'd be all 'oh, it's going to speed up, I have a Leia section coming up!' The Austen tradition of excellent ladies did rather feed into how I thought of her, so I'm glad it worked.
And then the Rebels being misogynist jerks as much as the Empire at least where pilots are concerned
Yeah. It's -- in a meta-sense, obviously it's the androcentricism of the creators, but I've always disliked dealing with an issue like that by just erasing it. So I didn't want to go with, oh, they do have women, we just NEVER EVER SEE THEM. Though I kept going 'how am I going to make this work without changing the end?' Then the epiphany came, of course (lol, just change it), but it was a rather late change -- originally they let her in when Biggs vouched for her (there are probably still hints of that). But I'm glad it didn't seem too out there, anyway. (And yeah, Han can be a misogynistic jerk sometimes, but not in that rigid way, I don't think.)
Because the former Anakin Skywalker with adoring twin tomboys capering about at his heels is so wrong that it comes around to be right.
This is so much truth. As soon as I started writing, I couldn't help but imagine how it might have turned out if, say, Obi-Wan hadn't stowed on Padmé's ship so Anakin didn't go quite so nuts and she went into labour while they were arguing and he rushes her off to the hospital and she dies and he's a widower with two infant girls. And then I'm imagining how they'd get on with creepy uncle Palps and ... *flail*