Anakin-and-Padme-raise-the-twins AUs are great but
- please don’t forget about Bail and Breha and Owen and Beru
- they’re the ones who taught Luke and Leia about bravery and kindness and generosity and heroism
- they’re the ones who bandaged their skinned knees, helped them with their homework, punished them, and worried about them
- both sets of caregivers had to deal with pre-teen brattiness (I dare you to picture 12-year-old Leia sneering at you and thinking you’re uncool – now imagine seeing that EVERY DAY and tell me Breha didn’t deserve a medal)
- they’re the ones who gave them the “we’re not your biological parents” talk, and both talks must have been so difficult for each family for their own reasons
- if you’re a Legends fan and consider B&B’s infertility and miscarriage issues, jfc, can you imagine how extra precious Leia must have been to them?
- how long had they been planning on adopting a baby girl? were they waiting for the war to end? or had they just decided on adoption, but never imagined they’d get a daughter this quickly?
- if Owen and Beru never wanted children, can you imagine how much they must have loved Luke to take him in?
- (OWEN’S ENTIRE MOTIVATION IN ANH IS TO PROTECT LUKE AND KEEP HIM AWAY FROM IMPERIAL INFLUENCES AND THAT WAS HIS /BOY/ and if you think Owen was “too mean” or ever resented Luke, please come and fight me)
- (because haha okay yeah what kind of world is this where fic writers interpret “please Luke don’t move out even though we’re poor farmers and you’re an adult and you’re not our son and feeding you is probably very expensive” as “Owen Lars is an abusive asshole”)
- all four of them are so ignored when it comes to Luke and Leia’s characterizations
- Bail has a good amount of spotlight, but he’s always a Senator and we’ve only seen him as a parent for three seconds
- please remember them and what they did