Han and Leia’s relationship god

I love their relationship because Han is scared of being emotionally vulnerable and not sure how relationships work, and Leia is scared of being emotionally vulnerable because she’s been a fucking revolutionary leader since the age of about 16 and everyone close to her DIED.

Leia is super clingy (like literally. She won’t let him leave for five minutes in ESB to pay Jabba the Hutt back so he can live in peace without a bounty on his head) because she’s seen so, so many people like Han set out and never come back again. Last time she left someone she loved alone, her whole PLANET was blown up. Partially because of her! Which is why she’s so scared to get into a relationship with him because he’s a hotheaded dumbass who can and will endanger his own life in all possible ways.

MEANWHILE Han has the same problem of being scared of being emotionally open and connecting in a relationship but handles it in the COMPLETELY opposite way, by going off on his own and doing stupid shit and ignoring Leia and pretending to be Mr. Cool with his best friend who keeps trying to talk him out of it.

Leia is overprotective over the most unstable “Hold my beer.” idiot with zero sense of self-preservation in the entire Galaxy and his response to her being overprotective and trying to love him is “Oh shit. Guess I should put myself in danger again.”

Like honey you two need THERAPY. You have the same issue in opposite directions. But also I am rooting for your relationship because there is nothing nicer than two people being each other’s equals. Especially when that thing they are equal in is trauma.

Additionally - Han is not going to be able to get out of being Leia’s trophy husband. She’s a revolutionary leader. A politician. A Princess. She has important events to be at. And he can’t be left unsupervised.

I’m imagining some Alderaanian servant survivor as one of Leia’s aides losing sleep over the shit Han might pull at the next fancy dinner. They comb his hair and put him in some sort of traditional Alderaanian piece to try and disguise the fact that he is an Unhinged Bastardous Goblin and tell him to behave for five minutes.

Tbh if it’s some politician wanker Leia can’t stand, I feel like she’d be so down for bringing Han along and watching him wreak absolute hell at a dinner setting. She just quietly apologises, hiding a smirk as her participation trophy husband horrifies the entire room with his personality. And I mean, who can blame Leia for all these shenanigans? She’s a competent leader, an excellent diplomat, a skilled politician. The Princess’ gremlin of a boyfriend can be excused as war trauma or something while she gets to upset all her annoying ass politician enemies by ruining their silly gatherings.

And just imagine. Leia’s having a terrible day. She’s got dinner later and so many people to impress, having to measure up to her father’s legacy. And she’s just… flipping out. She doesn’t show any of that, but Han’s dated her for long enough to know when she’s losing her shit even if she won’t tell him that.

And without any fanfare, without any gloating, Han shows up to dinner and he’s the perfect trophy boyfriend all night. He just smiles when he can’t figure out how to be polite or focuses on the food. He gets Chewie to feed him lines or translate something if he’s about to do some stupid shit. And you can tell that he hates this, but Leia just needs a break and Han will not intentionally make himself another problem on his girlfriend’s plate.

Because I mean that’s really the core of making Han and Leia work as a couple innit. They bicker and argue about stupid shit and one-up each other about things that don’t matter but when it DOES matter, they show up for each other. They fix themselves when they realise they fucked up.

(Plus I think it’d be funny as shit if some scholar gets chatting with Han because he speaks Wookiee and the guy’s like “Oh my god??? Finally my chance to learn about their culture and history??? How the fuck did you master this language are you hiding a second set of vocal cords in there???”)