"Always Known," Luke and Leia gen flashfic

Jul 01, 2007 10:44

Originally posted in a comment in a flocked post elsewhere.

Title: Always Known
Fandom: Star Wars (Disclaimer)
Categories: Gen, PG
Word Count: 525
Summary: Luke and Leia were more aware of their connection when they were children - to their guardians' dismay.

In an airy room filled with white, child-sized furniture in the Royal Palace, Leia Organa drew two suns blazing over a desert landscape. )

organas, luke skywalker, fiction, bail organa, skywalkers, leia organa

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baleanoptera July 6 2007, 10:48:30 UTC
Oooh! I'm adding this to my personal SW canon!
I really like how it manages to be sweet and creepy all at the same time. You've also managed to make the kids sound like kids - and at the same time creepy Skywalker kids strong in the Force. I also really like the juxtaposition of Bail and Owen - and both in manners of character and in how it shows the differences in the kids upbringing.

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sunnyskywalker July 8 2007, 21:51:07 UTC
Thank you! I'm flattered :D And I'm so glad the kids came across as convincing to you - I think that was the hardest part for me to write. And I loved doing the creepy undertones. That's one of the things I like about SW, the combination of the fun kid-movie feel and often dark and creepy things happening that aren't really explored.

I had fun with Bail and Owen. We have a pretty good model for how Owen would handle something like this in ANH (just forget about the droids and Kenobi and all that, Luke). I figured Bail would be a little more subtle in trying to distract Leia - he must be an expert at that sort of thing, surviving as a Rebel in the Senate for so long. I really must do something with Beru and Breha one of these days, though; they get left out too much. (Understandable so with dialog-less Breha, but I like Beru.)

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baleanoptera July 10 2007, 08:25:27 UTC
That's one of the things I like about SW, the combination of the fun kid-movie feel and often dark and creepy things happening that aren't really explored.

I could not agree more. I think that is one of the strengths of the Sw 'verse - that is all adventure and excitement at first glance, and then there are these really creepy, very disturbing flows beneath. I sometimes wonder if Lucas realizes this, or if he still thinks its all just fun and games. I'm inclined to believe the latter based on how obvious he does evil in Revenge of the Sith. After all he doesn't need to make the emperor that obvious with the distortion of his face and so forth. His talk with Anakin at the opera is evil enough. You get that this guy is bad, bad news.

Also yes, Bail had to be a master at that type of subtlety. And a Beru and Breha thing would be for the win.

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sunnyskywalker July 11 2007, 05:57:43 UTC
I think you're probably right about Lucas. I mean, he has the Rebels use the Ewoks' belief that Threepio is a god to get the Ewoks to fight and die for them - and it's cute. The characters can't spare so much as a line wondering about ends and means?

And yes to the over-the-topness of Palpatine's face distortion. I figured he got that way by RotJ because he used the dark side to extend his life too long and his body was falling apart, but no, it turns out that evil makes you ugly.

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