Leia’s anger is so important to me. The way it’s portrayed is so important to me – it’s never mocked or ridiculed, or shown as overly emotional or overwrought or irrational. It feels like an inherent part of her, not just a by-product of everything she’s suffered since Alderaan got blown up in anh. You can just feel it seething up in her constantly, always under the surface, barely contained. And her anger is so, so incredibly justified, and I love that there’s a sort of balance between her stoic determination and her anger. It allows her to be strategic and efficient without seeming inhumanly Perfect and unaffected, almost like her intense anger is just the tip of the iceberg of all her repressed emotions, because anger is the most useful to her, because anger means action. Like all her pain and her grief manifests itself in her quiet rage, and it also reveals her intense passion and never actually hinders her, never makes her out to be the Melodramatic Female Character. Honestly, it reminds me of the way Luke uses his anger (though even his is much, much less pronounced than Leia’s is throughout the original trilogy) – he cultivates it, he doesn’t reject it, he uses that anger and fear for light, not darkness. A lot like she does. But I think Leia’s anger is a much more prominent part of her and I think it’s part of what makes her so special to me, because she’s bold and strong but also extremely impassioned, in a way that can be seen as abrasive (and has been, by the Misogynistic Fanboys) but just isn’t, she’s not going to apologize for it and no one expects her to, it’s just her, and it’s one of my favorite things about her.