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(1) is from this interview. I definitely like the implied house-spouse, lol.

Han. Grilling burgers in the backyard. That will never not be made of win and love!

I also love your analysis of Leia! Though the one(s) in my headcanon just cannot keep their fingers out of the political pie any more than their dear departed Mama could have said no to the Senate appointment. (I almost want to think of Leia as being the one who ends up with the Vaderesque arc--- where the rest of the NR leadership just sort quietly acknowledges that she periodically has to go tilt at windmills or otherwise lead a frontline assault of some kind, and she's good enough at running things that they'll hold down the fort while she gets it out of her system. But then it's also my headcanon that it is so not coincidence that as of ANH, the Rebellion has just won its first battle shortly after the daughter of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala comes of an age to take a leadership role, hint, hint, smirk, smirk. In other words, that was all Leia's doing, lol.)

3) Crimefighting quartet of badassery FTW!!!!! Yeah, I can totally see that. Though I also sort of see a more... political-sciency... approach, in which most of the NR who is not related to Anakin Skywalker by blood or (impending) marriage is all O.O and *shiftyeyes* about Darth Vader's defection (and Leia isn't exactly too chill about it either) which Vader resolves first by pointing out ever so sensibly that since he's in effect in the top slot of whatever's left of the Empire, Mon Mothma and Co. might be advised to make nice... and then he promptly turns around and hands the reins of the Empire over to Leia. Without having asked first, because in Anakin!logic, the mistakes he made the last two times he tried the give-you-the-galaxy approach were a) he asked first, and b) he made it look like to the other person like his relationship with them was the means to the end of power, when in fact he means the exact opposite (he and Luke might have had a heart-to-heart about Bespin by this point, which might also be the reason he gets this bright idea). So now we have Empress Leia. (I... might think about this way, way, way too much?) Also, I am kind of nuts for the idea that he and Han would end up just getting along at some very elemental level, though I think Anakin might feel obligated, possibly after one too many glasses of Correllian brandy, to remind Han that, you know, he is Leia's father, make-her-cry-and-I-will-put-you-back-in-the-carbonite. To which Han would respond that Leia was the one who got him out the last time, and do you really want to explain that to her? Cue mutual theatrical shudders and more brandy. (Um, there's no "might" about it; I think about this fandom way too much.)

And OMG, the interaction of 7) and 10), because here is a creator who is being incredibly validating of fannish response and fannish... absorption and transformation, and... yeah. I have no words for my squee at this.

And, yes, exactly! He... just can't square the circle in his head, and he has no tools for coping with emotion. And when he's hit with a huge dose of it--- wham. Tusken massacre.

(I also handwave the otherwise cringeworthy scene in Padme's room on Coruscant, where he's blurting out All His Feelings to her with headcanon that says he's been having imaginary kidcrush conversations with her in his head for, like, the last ten years, not least out of sheer loneliness. And maybe he started off doing that with his mother, but I think he had a lot of guilt for leaving her in slavery, but, hey, he saved Padme, right? So no guilt there. And then when she tells him to stop looking at her that way, it's the first time his backbrain catches up to, "Oops, she hasn't actually been privy to all my thoughts about everything ever for the last ten years, better watch myself.")