I have owed this to elizabeth_hoot for, like, ages.

[wyncatastrophe]

And it's still only halfway done!  So instead of Ten Things Head!Canon Luke Skywalker, it's only FIVE things.  But there was nice closure on #5 (I thought), so I decided to stop writing and post before I made a mess and gave up (again).

So here you go, elizabeth_hoot.  Five of your ten things!

Disclaimer: anything recognizable belongs to George Lucas. :)

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excuse me while i exhibit my ignorance of internet lingo

[wyncatastrophe]

I'd have to read more of the FFV (I read... two? three?) to try and get a handle on it, I suspect.

Nope, wouldn't help you. I haven't addressed it even remotely, except in the Luke/Areth fics you have already (presumably) read. It's something I can address, later, but at the point in the story to which I have written, none of the characters is really in a position to be aware of that problematic, so as a consequence it's not really brought out. The limitations of limited perspective, in a way. :)

So if you're evading EU canon and the general dialogue around the Death Star in RL, you can do whatever, but it was interesting to see an in-universe explanation.

I don't tie myself too tightly to the EU canon (as you are probably already aware), but Leia's antipathy toward Vader is made so much of, by contrast to Luke's acceptance, that I felt like it might be worth trying to get some kind of a handle on what's going on there. And the fact that nowhere in the canon, and rarely in fandom, is Tarkin blamed for Alderaan … just bothers me. So I wrote A Thing, to try and make sense of it. For better or worse…

I may be the only person who's really into Ryn + Luke, but there's just so much that can be done there. Especially in the immediate aftermath. (Random thought: does ghost!Anakin poke his nose into things like Obi-Wan? and if so, can Ryn see him?)

Yay! I am glad that you like them together. I tend to worry that readers may find the omnipresence of Ryn intrusive, but I do so love writing her. She's so weird, and at the same time so loving.

In answer to your parenthetical question: There Is A Thing, and now I will write it. :)

I've encountered Padmé!Luke, but rarely bothered to read him. It seems like a strange sort of back-formation, to me. And, here's a question: why would you do that ever?