Things I think about at work: where the hell did the Ewoks get human-sized clothing for Leia? Did they just have it hanging around, or did they whip it up in the few hours they had between Wicket bringing Leia by and then Han, Luke, Chewie, etc getting captured? ?? ?????
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I have this headcanon that Leia was a total surprise for the empire.
They probably laughed when they heard that a teenage girl had joined the Senate; they probably thought that a princess would be so easy to break. They never expected so much trouble from her or that she’d ever have much of an impact on their plans. Like most people, they underestimated the teenage girl.
But she stood face to face with two of the most feared men in the galaxy, and she withstood everything they threw at her. They never thought that she would have the strength to withstand all the pain, or that she’d have the cleverness to redirect them to Dantooine. Can you imagine how differently things might have turned out for the empire if they had not so vastly underestimated Leia’s strength and fury and intelligence?
A word to the wise: Don’t underestimate teenage girls or princesses. They just might end up destroying you.
Yes!
…I was writing something like this five minutes ago!
Leia is furious with Darth Vader, because anger and willpower is how she’s always gotten what she wants. (She is so his daughter.) How DARE he try to intimidate her? How DARE he step foot on her ship like a big luck void, sucking away all of her usual good luck?
(Something questionable is going on with the Force when Leia and Vader go toe-to-toe.)
And Vader HATES her. Because she looks so much like Padme. And she has the audacity to stand in front of him looking like his wife. And she is not diplomatic, she does not try to smooth things over, she acts nothing like Padme. How dare Bail have such a daughter? (On any number of levels–years ago the rumors about Bail and Padme had made their way freely through the Senate, and whose baby was she carrying, anyway? And Anakin had been forced to grit his teeth and endure them.)
Leia Organa has personally thwarted at least three of his plans in her brief tenure as pseudo-adult. He has a galaxy to organize, and she is in his way. How dare she stand in front of him with that look on her face–that furious, burn-it-down look? (It is his look, the face a copy of his, but he doesn’t recognize it.)
yesssssss
Headcanon that when Han and Leia are reunited after the destruction of Jabba’s barge Han takes one look at her and his eyes get big and he goes, “Oh my God, are you all right?” and she nods and sort of smiles and leans into him and he immediately takes off his shirt and gives it to her because he doesn’t want her to feel exposed without her consent.
YES. I hate the bro idea that Han would be all about saving the slave outfit for later sexy times. He worked for Jabba; he knows how horrible Jabba was, especially to women. I really do think his first concern would be that Leia was okay and that nothing happened to her. And he respects Leia; he would be furious that Jabba objectified her and enslaved her, not turned on by it.
Can someone please draw Leia wearing Han’s big white shirt while Han swaggers around in just his vest?
Slight logistical problem: Han’s vision was still returning. He had recovered his ability to see light and darkness, but he couldn’t make out shapes yet. So he probably wouldn’t have realized what she was wearing until she hugged him.
She still ends up with the shirt, though.
The Princess is everything Luke wants to be. She is socially conscious, whereas he is thrown into things; intellectually, she is a strong leader, and he is just a kid.
– George Lucas
People often talk about how Han influenced Luke, but we should also look at how Leia influenced Luke.
(via apolla-savre)
I’ve always really liked this idea—that they’re the exact same age, but their different lives have given them very different levels of maturity, and Luke is envious, but fascinated, and idolizes her a bit.
(via another-skywalker)
It’s kind of weird to think of Han as being a big influence compared to Leia. I mean, yes, they were close. But it’s made reasonably obvious that close male friends aren’t something Luke’s ever lacked. If anything, I’d say they’re mutually influential. Han’s experience and training help temper Luke’s youth and inexperience, and his cynicism demands that Luke account for his own faith. Luke, in turn, cracks Han’s shell with hope and faith, and his earnest belief that Han can be better than what he’s let himself become won’t let him crawl back into the hole he’s dug for himself.
But Leia?
I mean, come on. Luke’s got these vague intentions to run away and do…something. He’s dissatisfied with his home life, he’s dissatisfied with the future he sees for himself, and he resents, in an equally vague way, the expectations of his family. He thinks of joining the rebellion because he’s romanticized it. He thinks of going to the academy because it’s anywhere but where he’s at. All of his ambitions amount to this sort of nebulous, Anything But What I Have aspiration. He goes running after Kenobi on the strength of a shitty, recorded hologram because it seems exciting. He has no real idea about what this sort of mission would entail, or cost, or achieve. It’s an Adventure, and he’s bored.
Then he meets Leia, and she’s literally everything he ever had some mindless daydream about being. Only instead of being a cardboard cut-out hero in some story he’s using to distract himself from a shitty frontier subsistence-farmer life, she’s a real person who’s actually fucking doing it. She’s a leader. She’s a fighter. She’s risking life and limb for a cause she completely and utterly understands and absolutely believes in. This isn’t some thing she ran away to do because she got sick of being a princess and a senator. People look up to her, and follow her, and obey her, because she’s spent her life earning it.
He’s looking around and going “Empire bad? We blow up ships?” and she’s going “Here’s ten political treatises on why the Empire needs to go, here are the details of troop movements and expected reinforcements and supply lines for the upcoming battle, and here are the family photos of everybody in the next ten systems that are going to get stomped into bloody paste in retaliation if we fail here.” He finds her, and within five minutes she’s gone from the princess he’s rescuing because that’s what action heroes do to the person he needs to emulate if he’s ever going to make something of himself.
(via theharlequinrose)
My favorite part of this echo is the completely different meanings attributed to each exchange, like, people characterize Han Solo’s “I know” as him being ~cool~ but dang, no, I’m sorry you didn’t actually watch the film, but the emotional context for his saying “I know” is that this is the first time Leia—who has refused to express or even acknowledge the exact nature of her feelings for Han even after they get together—has told him she loves him, and Han is about to be literally frozen in carbonite, which, as they’re informed, is experimental and might result in his death, and even if he doesn’t die, he’s still being shipped to a nigh impenetrable fortress, so that Leia should tell him now—he can’t tell her he loves her, he can’t do it, because either way this carbonite thing goes, as he sees it, he’s dead, and the emotion is just too much; he has to throw up shields or else he’ll just straight up lose it and he’ll lose this one last moment with Leia with it.
And the echo in Return of the Jedi in which their positions are reversed has a very different context, but it’s also notable because it is Leia being cool. Yeah, Han loves her! She knows, and she knows why he first fell for her: because even if the odds are stacked against them, she’s still in charge. She’ll break into Jabba’s palace to save him, making her way past guards, conning the whole villainous lot of them. She’ll stone cold murder this dick who tries to enslave her. When Stormtroopers have her and her allies surrounded, she’ll shoot those assholes down. Of course Han loves her; she never doubted it. And Han is just overwhelmed with his love for her! Because damn, y’all, HE ALMOST DIED. AND SHE CAME TO RESCUE HIM. SHE FREED HIM FROM THE CARBONITE. SHE ISN’T LETTING HIS PUNK ASS ROT, AND SHE ISN’T LETTING SOME IMPERIAL DOUCHEBAGS SHOOT HIM UP.
~*~romance~*~
