Definitions of Destiny: Chapter 20

[caryn_b]

Title: Definitions of Destiny
Author: Caryn B
Fandom: Star Wars (film canon only - see notes)
Timeline: 6 months after RotJ
Pairing: Luke/Han, slash
Rating: NC-17 overall; this chapter PG-13
Warnings: None
The list of chapters is here

Comments

[sandspirit]

> The Jedi feared the Dark Side of the Force.
Perhaps this was their mistake, though it's arguable of course. This topic isn't simple.
*chuckle* Han is anxious to understand something that he hadn't even believed once. Now that his own destiny depends on Luke's all this is not just 'religion' to him.
> The Chosen One was destined to restore balance by wiping the slate clean, so to speak.
That he did. Wiped them all. It was meant to be of course, but nonetheless - it was *dreadful*.
> And he did. He brought Luke.
Yes! And it's the best thing about him. If there's something that could balance the destruction he made it would be giving Luke and Leia to the galaxy.
Captivating chapter! I read it in one breath.

[caryn_b]

The Jedi feared the Dark Side of the Force.
Perhaps this was their mistake, though it's arguable of course. This topic isn't simple.

Not simple at all, and there's no single, straightforward answer. I think it's not so much that they feared the Dark Side and the Sith, but that they feared allowing certain types of emotions and activities that they believed might lead to the Dark Side. They did have a great deal of foretelling of doom going on, and sometimes I wonder if such things become self-fulfilling prophecies. A lot of the Saga does say that to me - but it says different things to each and every one of us, which is one of the wonderful things about it! Of course, the Jedi did have a real reason to worry about the Dark Side!

That he did. Wiped them all. It was meant to be of course, but nonetheless - it was *dreadful*.

Yes, the whole thing was a tragedy in many ways.

If there's something that could balance the destruction he made it would be giving Luke and Leia to the galaxyGeorge Lucas has stated categorically that Anakin

[sandspirit]

You're saying that there's no place for Jedi at all in the 'new' galaxy, aren't you? Hm-m, perhaps you're right. :) Though it's pity. It's a beautiful race.

[caryn_b]

No, I really don't mean to imply that. I think there's definitely a place for the Jedi in the new galaxy - more so, I think it's vital that there are Jedi. Luke is a Jedi, and always will be. Same for Leia. What I don't think would be right would be an attempt to 'turn back the clock', and for Luke to try to emulate the way the Jedi lived prior to this, and to try to recreate the Jedi Order in the same way that it existed before. My issues with the Jedi are not with the 'Jedi', but with the rules and codes of conduct that surrounded them, because I think, in then end, it was those same rules that helped bring about their downfall. I think Yoda's message to Luke in not telling him about the Council, and not making him learn the Code, was that he needs to continue the Jedi tradition in a new way. Of course, Luke has learned much from Ben and Yoda, and he will take that knowledge and pass it on, so it's not that he's severing links to the past, he's just building a new way forward

[caryn_b]

Sorry - I'm spamming you now