“He focused on Luke once again, and saw his son was crying. Yes, that was it; he was tasting the boy’s grief – because he looked so horrible; because he was so horrible.
“But he wanted to make it all right for Luke, he wanted Luke to know he wasn’t really ugly like this, not deep inside, not altogether. With a little self-deprecatory smile, he shook his head at Luke, explaining away the unsightly beast his son saw. ‘Luminous beings are we, Luke – not this crude matter.’”
– Return of the Jedi, Ch. IX, by James Kahn
luke skywalker
this is my favourite part of star wars because this is exactly how i react any time someone asks me about something i don’t want to deal with
#he tried to DIE so he wouldn’t have to answer what kind of next level evasive tactic
But considering Obi-Wan felt Alderaan’s destruction so keenly, do you think Luke, too, felt the loss of the New Republic planets?
Did he feel all those voices cry out in the Force?
Did he, hours later, feel guilty that all those beings had been erased, and yet it only took one light, one blazing soul in the Force extinguishing to finally bring him to his knees on the grassy mountaintop, his hands trembling?
