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Yeah, I can definitely see it as just Tarkin being an ass -- I suspect it depends on how you read his tone, because to me he sounds almost as if his feelings are hurt which is just bizarre. Either way he's really squicky and Leia is a total badass, though.

And yeah, Mata Hari!Leia is pretty much made of steel-coated steel. (Also it'd put the whole slave bikini thing, and its lack of ramifications, in a slightly different light if it's not altogether new.)

Oh, I do rather like the idea that Vader picks up on people's supposedly super-secret shenanigans without really knowing why -- and, being Vader, is undoubtedly prepared to use them to his advantage. Even if that advantage is just sneering at him.

Hmm, Daala is of course EU, but I think it could work. I don't get the impression that fidelity is exactly his thing, and I tend to think his choice of mistresses would be at least partly calculating. I don't doubt that Daala is *useful* to him in the military, and I think whoever he chose while he's being a politician on Imperial Center would likely be someone who he could reasonably expect to be a, idk, credit to him in that regard. Leia's probably the last in a line of brilliant and extremely attractive politicians. (Just the only one who was brilliant in a spy-for-the-enemy kind of way.)