You know a lot of Star Wars AUs with the twins are just the plot of the old She-Ra show from the 80s.
Tell me this scene would not be Biggs and Luke if Biggs lived to find out his weird little freak of a best friend was magic.
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It’s always so heartbreaking to me that every time we see Owen display how he really feels about Luke in canon (the books, and Kenobi) Luke is never there to hear it.
When Owen faces down the inquisitor and declares that Luke IS his son, Luke is already way out of earshot (even though I do sort of consider the Kenobi show non-canon). When Owen talks to Beru after the argument with Luke on the day they die, telling her he feels bad about having to squash Luke’s dreams and wanting to find some way to make it up to him, he never hears it.
Owen’s relationship with Luke WAS complex, and it was rocky sometimes. I’ve always read this as Owen having difficulty being emotionally open, at least as far as the ANH novel and Kenobi show have shown. Owen loves Luke DEEPLY, right to his core. But he doesn’t know how to put that into words. He’s an awkward man! He’s been raised on nightmare hell planet where becoming too attached to someone might end up in them being killed or sold into slavery and you being miserable! Look at what happened to both of his mothers!
When someone you love dies, you look at all their actions with a new light and deeper introspection. Can you imagine the absolute world-shattering thoughts Luke must have had after Owen and Beru died?
Realising he was more deeply loved than he could have ever realised, even if Owen had a harder time showing it.
And Owen’s parental anxiety is shown in Kenobi! Owen Lars, one of the most dedicated fathers in the galaxy, probably died wondering if his son would ever know how much he really loved him.
Owen probably died with so, so many regrets. Owen probably died wondering if he deserved to raise Luke (which he DID) and if he had done enough to prepare his son for the world (HE DID).
Owen Lars has always been a heartbreaking character for me.
There’s a lot of criticism laid on Luke for expressing sadness over Obi Wan’s death but nothing about Owen and Beru, and I firmly believe that Luke is nowhere near ready to contemplate their deaths at that point and that it probably takes him years to be able to unpack all of it.
Oh BIGTIME. Obi-Wan’s death was instant and simple to comprehend. So he was really sad about it all at once.
The stages of grief are a thing obviously but idk if that quite illustrates how losing someone so integral to your life is. You know it, but you can’t fully believe it. You catch yourself thinking they’re just in another room or something. You have so many realisations about how things were that you never thought about before that person was gone. Like there’s a point where it’s so crushing you can’t physically be sad about it. Your brain won’t do it.
And this is like. Combined with Biggs’ death as well. Combined with the sudden and abrupt destruction of his childhood, his home and everything he knew. That boy is moving waaaay too fast to stop and comprehend anything as big as the death of his parents (Owen and Beru).
I honestly think that going back to Tatooine in the 3rd movie, necessary as it may have been, contributed a lot to Luke almost falling. He’s just had a sudden reminder of everything that’s been taken from him. His home. His parents. His best friend. His way of life. His childhood. To not let your anger and frustration about all of that overcome you is nuts.
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The Star Wars Original Trilogy is peak fiction because they took a fairy tale and set it in space, then they gave the princess in distress a GUN. But even better they gave her a sharp tongue and the power of revolution. They made the “dragon” a depressed cyborg father with asthma who doesn’t understand his own emotions and does murders because of it. And they made the knight a blond Barbie boy who attempts to solve problems with the power of love like he’s Sailor Moon or something.
And then they said, “oh yeah they’re all related btw. All the galaxy’s problems are this one family’s fault. Hope this helps 😘”
Let’s not forget that the one who can talk to the animal sidekick is not the princess, not the magic protagonist, it’s the rogue/scoundrel - Some Fucking Guy with an attitude problem.
On an Owen Lars high so I drew this. Excuse the shit quality. I’ve not taken Graphics courses yet.
I know Owen can’t come back as a ghost but the idea of him and Obi-Wan reaching solidarity in death over not being able to do anything for Luke anymore just GOT ME.
Owen Lars appreciators this post is for you.
One of the few things I really liked about Kenobi was the time to shine it gave Owen and Beru Lars. I know that scene with the inquisitor was absolutely ridiculous in every way possible but it was so in character for those two that frankly I didn’t even care like the whole show is non-canon to me anyway.
It shows the people Luke gets it from, and why. And it gives me all the feelings, especially because I know he probably only realised all of this once they were already dead and he couldn’t make it up with Owen anymore.
Luke deciding to die with his training unfinished and face Vader head on is the most Owen Lars move he could have ever made. He’s a simple man - not stupid, just has a simple worldview - if you’re one of his, you’re his and he’ll go to the ends of the earth (or galaxy) for you. (Yes, I was very affected by “He IS my own.”)
He is the son of OWEN LARS. The man who faced down an inquisitor with a fucking farming pole so Luke could get away. Facing up to an enemy you know you can’t possibly defeat, assuming you’ll die? In the hopes of protecting those you love? Lars family shit.
Owen is stubborn and loyal and despite his rough exterior he’s kind to his enemies. The way Kenobi acted surprised that Owen would defend him, that to me is a big part of Luke’s worldview. Owen hates Obi-Wan’s guts but he won’t sell him out to the Empire to be killed. Luke learned kindness and forgiveness from Beru, and he learned respect, loyalty and mercy from Owen.
Luke grew up on the biggest galactic shithole in all of Star Wars, and he came out of it being the kindest beacon of hope for the Galaxy and restarted the Jedi Order that had failed Anakin. And he learned it from his aunt and uncle, the parents that did their goddamn best to raise their son. He learned it from Biggs Darklighter, his childhood best friend with revolutionary fervour who he buried before he was even out of his teen years. He learned it from the stubbornness of a group of people that settled and farmed in a stupidly harsh environment where they were constantly in danger of being sold into slavery or killed by sand people.
Luke may have inherited Anakin’s midichlorians, but what made him Luke was his upbringing. He’s Owen and Beru Lars’ son. And they raised him well.
Was anyone else disappointed as a kid after watching the prequels? (But not for the reason you think. Read further.)
The answer, broadly, is yes, I know. But not for the reason you’re thinking. Just for one, hyper-specific reason that has little to do with the quality of the films.
Owen and Anakin weren’t actually brothers. Owen and Anakin met like… once. ‘Too much like his father’ the fuck you mean Mr. Lars, the man you met ONCE?
You mean to tell me we were robbed of what had the potential to be the funniest sibling dynamic in ALL of Star Wars? Angry old dirt farmer vs the Chosen One/Dark Lord of the Sith? Objectively hilarious. The implication (in the og film and book) that Anakin just fucked off one day to become a jedi starpilot, leaving Owen at home thinking “What a fucking nob.”? Peak comedy.
Can you imagine if these two were actually siblings? Owen watching the look in Luke’s eyes develop into the wild, idealistic look that cost him his brother. Telling Luke his father was a drug smuggler on some old cruiser because that was an easier story for Owen to tell than the reality of it, and after a while Owen himself starts half believing it. Despising Obi-Wan for both taking his brother from him, and then in his eyes causing him to become a monster. The tragedy of Vader ordering the death of his brother.
Say what you want about the brotherhood between Obi-Wan and Anakin, it’s a brilliant dynamic. But the idea of Anakin and Owen coming from the exact same nowhere, same family, same upbringing and everything… it hits me in the feels. Because they represent two polar opposites that ended up with a sort of reverse parallel fate.
Anakin wanted adventure in the stars and he got it, at the price of everyone he loved and never getting to see his kids. Owen wanted a simple life minding his farming and he got it, at the price of dying without ever seeing the stars and becoming alienated from his son. If these two men had been brothers, the TEARS THAT WOULD HAVE COME OUT OF MY EYES-
It would have humanised Owen to the audience long before Kenobi (which I do still basically consider non-canon even though it was a fun ride) did him the - admittedly a little bit over-the-top/ridiculous - justice he deserved. There have always been appreciators of Owen Lars but a lot of people see him as just a bastard. Give him some real PAIN behind that exterior. Give him a VERY good reason, an even better reason than the one in canon, for being the way he is.
Plus, the idea of Owen partially having the force is objectively the funniest concept ever (although I’d still go for the whole “Anakin had no father.” thing and have Owen be normal).
Sorry for the incoherency of my ramblings, I love Owen Lars.
Thank you to the original ESB novel for confirming Han’s thought process when using Luke’s lightsaber to cut open the tauntaun could basically be summed up as:
Han: “Is this blasphemy?”
Han: “Yeah probably lmao.” *continues*
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Anonymous asked:
Tl4j discovering Luke’s old nickname of Wormie? Maybe from Din who spends time on Tattione still?
I think DIN finding out would be funny enough
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Reblogging this to add - Luke’s fight or flight reflex is FLOP. FLOP.
In the novelisation of A New Hope they call attention to the fact that 15 years of intense survival school on Tatooine culminated in him fainting the second he’s threatened.
I will forever be sad that Biggs Darklighter did not live to watch Luke become a jedi because he would have teased him MERCILESSLY.
Just remembered I made a crappy GCW Era Quotev quiz
Yes I was bored. Yes it took me a straight day. Yes I was meant to be revising.
Brought to you by procrastination.