milk-pls: platinumsupa: platinumsupa: platinumsupa: the Star Wars universe is great because you read enough you eventually find out things like the fact that the Stormtrooper whose armor Luke stole in Episode IV was gay and in an affair with fucking Grand Moff Tarkin, which is a completely canonical fact that I am not making up. […]
— SWpromptsandask
There is… quite a lot to unpick here I guess, but three thoughts:
- Thank god, there are gay characters in the Star Wars expanded universe now! Enough that they don’t seem to be seen as an anomaly! For as long as I remember there were like… two or three and that was it. Everyone else was straight. (Obviously, this has all yet to make it to the movies.)
- Honestly, even when he was the age he was while filming A New Hope, I still don’t think there would really been a shortage of people willing to sleep with Peter Cushing.
- And also, based on what I’ve heard about Cushing as a person, I don’t think he’d have minded in the slightest that Tarkin might’ve swung that way.