This fic. Is. GLORIOUS. Like, I have no words for the awesome of it. Or perhaps I have too many!
I love your Shmi--- dear Force, you made me love Shmi, this is amazing! You made her awesome and epic and winful! And your Leia! Who shoots Force lightning!!!! That could not be more awesome if it tried! And the fact that Luke is totally chill about her possibly turning to the Dark Side! Actually, everything ever about your Luke! And your Vader who is and isn't Anakin and is and is awesome! And Anakin who is... "Papa's going to make everything right for you" or words to that effect and that's why he turned and oh how perfect! (And he has an apparent aversion to furniture, why do I love that so much? But I do!) And Anissa is... I want more of her!!!! Yes, please! And I can't wait to meet Luke's twin sister! And you made me like Yoda, after the PT! I have no words for what an accomplishment that is! "Important nap", indeed! (And you also made me like Luke and Leia not being twins! Because... okay, I'm an irnan fangirl, but also and more generally I'm just a fan of Leia as Vader's kid. But she's Vader's BFF's kid here, that's awesome in its own right! And Vader's BFF is female, that is also awesome.)
And I love Leia's line about how we have enough enemies without making a friend into one, and Vader's thought about not mentioning what he'd been doing with a lightsaber at thirty and Luke's thought about how his father is Obi-wan's star pupil and how kriffed-up the Jedi were (mercenaries selling their swords and so forth) and I cannot squee enough about this fic, I really can't!
Also, I know you were worried about your dialogue being too stilted, but really, no, not at all! The only people who were ever highly formal were people who would be and you made them pitch-perfect and the ones who wouldn't be were pitch-perfect as well! And this is gorgeously character-driven and there is plenty of Stuff Happening, stories don't always need a Conventional Plot, and this one definitely didn't, because it had deeply engaging people growing and changing in their relationships with each other and themselves and the world/the Force and that is better than plot for making a story hold my attention at least. Plot can sometimes be detrimental to letting characters grow and it is good that this isn't slaving the characters to a Conventional Plot. (And there is plenty of plottiness, too, because we have the Sun Crusher and the overthrow of the Emperor and New Alderaan and so forth, but we also spend enough time on these people to care if they achieve their plotty goals, which matters!)
And Leia. With Force lightning. I know I mentioned that but it is so amazing and wonderful that I have to bring it up again. (I have heretical opinions about the Dark and Light sides of the Force. Which fact I admit freely.)
Anyway, in summary, this is kriffing amazing and I love it epically and yeah.
I could not love this fic more if I tried. Really, I couldn't.
I love your Shmi--- dear Force, you made me love Shmi, this is amazing! You made her awesome and epic and winful! And your Leia! Who shoots Force lightning!!!! That could not be more awesome if it tried! And the fact that Luke is totally chill about her possibly turning to the Dark Side! Actually, everything ever about your Luke! And your Vader who is and isn't Anakin and is and is awesome! And Anakin who is... "Papa's going to make everything right for you" or words to that effect and that's why he turned and oh how perfect! (And he has an apparent aversion to furniture, why do I love that so much? But I do!) And Anissa is... I want more of her!!!! Yes, please! And I can't wait to meet Luke's twin sister! And you made me like Yoda, after the PT! I have no words for what an accomplishment that is! "Important nap", indeed! (And you also made me like Luke and Leia not being twins! Because... okay, I'm an
And I love Leia's line about how we have enough enemies without making a friend into one, and Vader's thought about not mentioning what he'd been doing with a lightsaber at thirty and Luke's thought about how his father is Obi-wan's star pupil and how kriffed-up the Jedi were (mercenaries selling their swords and so forth) and I cannot squee enough about this fic, I really can't!
Also, I know you were worried about your dialogue being too stilted, but really, no, not at all! The only people who were ever highly formal were people who would be and you made them pitch-perfect and the ones who wouldn't be were pitch-perfect as well! And this is gorgeously character-driven and there is plenty of Stuff Happening, stories don't always need a Conventional Plot, and this one definitely didn't, because it had deeply engaging people growing and changing in their relationships with each other and themselves and the world/the Force and that is better than plot for making a story hold my attention at least. Plot can sometimes be detrimental to letting characters grow and it is good that this isn't slaving the characters to a Conventional Plot. (And there is plenty of plottiness, too, because we have the Sun Crusher and the overthrow of the Emperor and New Alderaan and so forth, but we also spend enough time on these people to care if they achieve their plotty goals, which matters!)
And Leia. With Force lightning. I know I mentioned that but it is so amazing and wonderful that I have to bring it up again. (I have heretical opinions about the Dark and Light sides of the Force. Which fact I admit freely.)
Anyway, in summary, this is kriffing amazing and I love it epically and yeah.