leia organa

nooowestayandgetcaught:

As always when Leia thought about this, she called upon what Luke told her of their father’s last hours. He had renounced darkness, saved Luke, and became Anakin Skywalker again. 

Whenever Luke told the story, a beatific smile lit up his face; his memories of that event gave him a level of comfort and even joy that sustained him. 

Those were memories Leia couldn’t share.

Yet Leia couldn’t relax. She found herself thinking of her mother—the birth mother she hadn’t known, Padmé Amidala. After Leia had learned her mother’s identity years ago, she’d done what research she could to discover something more about the former queen and senator. She’d learned that her mother had been present at the vote that had given Palpatine ultimate power over the old Galactic Senate, and Leia could imagine the despair that must have been within her heart.

I’M LIT. LEIA KNOWS PADME’S NAME. SHE KNOWS.

(via irhinoceri)