yayyyyyy!

After which I must be evil and crash :E

we're both competing with each other for Slowest

YAY smuggler

cornichaun 100% we are!

But he's just after Rogue One, I'm pinching from the ANH novel thingy, where Bail's sent a falsified document notifying him the Tantive VI hit an asteroid field and everyone aboard died and boom.

LITTLE DID HE KNOW

tag the rest of the Skyfam original_fine with_discipline

Oh right

I guess I'm too late with Ben, it's been a rough week

it's a long flood, it goes until friday

original_fine don't stress too much either, it's a short month, I forgot it was over so soon. XD

And also anyone tagging this will have to cope with it bleeding into next month. XD

Grandda

with_discipline Poppop wants to meet the bundle of joy. :3

HAH

oh right Obi-Wan and Bail should talk...

hells yes, really he's going to feel all the feels talking to Luke ;.;

Look at him

yuuuus

she's shorter but Luke's the orphan waif

Yes! I bet he worried a lot about him and thought about him, and wanted to be there to see him and Leia be reunited :3

which he will be soooo happy they are.

awww!

Ben, too.

I mean, reunited and know it

BEN YOU AGED BAD.

He's going to be soooo surprised about how Anakin turned out

And also grandbaby Ben.

well we weren't exactly starting with Ewan, here

This image just makes it all the more weird that Obi-Wan Kenobi and Wedge Antilles are related RL

They are?

the things I do not know

bit of an awkward boy

Yeah, Denis Lawson (Wedge) is Ewan McGregor's (Obi-Wan) uncle

OH I missed the RL thing, I thought you meant in the series, that's so cool though

As my friend in Edinburgh said, why is Scotland so damn small?

Anyways, I'm trying to think of a reason for Wedge to tag Bail

It's all the British places, really. Siddig el Fadil and Malcolm McDowell are related. Like. What.

You're going to live there aren't you corellian? I loved my visit to Edinburgh.

Oh really?

Not Edinburgh, Glasgow

But yeah, I'm moving to Glasgow

I didn't know that!

I've never been, that's exciting.

Oh sorry. I went there too. that was also lovely! Drowning in the accents of loveliness XD

My accent's a mess already thanks to all my Glaswegian friends

also this lil thread with the lightsaber Luke and Leia <3 I just love everything with them. IE: Leia says maybe anger muppets just shouldn't train with the Force, okay

I don't think she has fully grasped the concept that you can be born all FORCEY and knowing it with_discipline obviously because she's like lol if you didn't tell/train me, I'd have never really known.

Ahaha

(which btw empire's end confirms Leia and bab Ben have a pretty strong force bond and she can kinda connect with/calm him even before he's born.)

she sucks at connecting with everything else around her, as with Luke and his floaty rocks, but Ben works. XD

she should like, say that to Luke?

Because he hadn't even heard of the damn thing before

I mean the "if you didn't tell me" part

Yes, she will :3

Because I think she's like, got this weird image of his life or something.

maybe she'd heard of it, I feel like with the education she'd had, she would.

yeah it's like that assumption we sometimes make about people like they've always been good at it

he hasn't

exactly!

I mean, canonically he is really good? But it's like assuming the actor you're looking at started yesterday.

I hope that works okay, anyway XD

oh no baby connections ;;

have a lost little Luke face

with_discipline: yeeees. Already able to sense light and dark in him, Luke says it's normal. I can give you the bab kylo stuffs if you want XD

so it's Luke's fault

NO OMG. XD

gimme

Or is Leia like that parent who's like, so strict about tv they force their kid into rebellion or something

he was just a wee bit emo and she overreacted

I think she probably did

IT'S MILITARY SCHOOL FOR YOU, BRAT

I HATE YOU MOM YOU'RE THE WORST

"Oh my god is this what I think it is? are you a sith lord?"

/waves around a tube of eyeliner

And she kept to herself how concerned about it she was. :| in the TFA novel she tells Han she kept from him that there was some looming darkness (that turned out to end snoke. :E) that had a hold on from from day one :|

But also she was def like omg omg I don't want this to go badly for him TRAINING

End? BE

maybe it was the family threat

You brush you teeth young man right now.

Or you're going to the island with uncle Luke where there's NO PLAYSTATION.

with_discipline: I am lazy so tumblr link. All the Baby Ben in Aftermath: Empire’s End

yessss thank you!

First three is the fruit stuff we already read. XD

As lots of people have said, not a fan of how Wendig writing Han. I think they're pushing too hard on that lol HE TURRIBL. and they make him kinda buffoonish?

Aw Luke. Do you want her to tell you you can be a pain in the butt sometimes. XD

ahhhh reading it now

hiccups

I KNOW. I died.

also Lando being kind yet inappropriate, I think the link is in the commenty things. DGI this kid was LOVED by a whole bunch of people okay.

oh no

"Hey. It's you and me, kid. Whole damn galaxy against us but we'll make it through okay. I'm not always gonna be the best dad - c'mon, I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I can barely take care of myself. But I'll always keep us pointed in the right direction..."

She has a connection with the kid he could never have - weh that's why he's closer to mom than dad

I mean that's a pretty common new dad feeling I guess, but theirs also involves magic super powers. SOOOO.

well that was a bit crushing

Right now Leia's contemplating with Luke that maybe there are just people who should stay the fuck away from tapping into the Force (herself included) ..she doesn't really know how it all works and they have no one super experienced to tell them, I guess.

Kylo is right here

Maybe that's the mistake they made, encouraging Ben to be Forcey and Jedi-y. Maybe they should have been like IDK why you can make stuff float lol do your homework.

LOL

the worst thing is I can see him being like MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST ASK ME >( but I don't actually....know....so I'll have to pretend he'd just be huffy and silent

But, yeah as far as she's concerned, if you don't know about it, what it is. You don't really know it's there.

I bet it explains some things she did and was capable of, but yeah. She could have just gone on not knowing, and maybe it would have been better if he was just raised to be a regular lil bab. IS THAT POSSIBLE who knows.

I'd love to have her ask him! I don't mind if you want to kinda go through some stuff to figure it out, we could always brainstorm what he'd know. XD

we could do that! I think this backs up the idea that he has a lot more feelings about and around Leia in general

I don't know that he'd be able to give her clear answers anyway, so we'd probably be fine - like, he doesn't think Snoke is a mistake yet

he kinda opened the window for it , but

Yes absolutely! I think you were kinda playing that way to begin with! It tempts me to update her at some point to post empire's end so she really understands/has that connection too and also, obviously loves him and knows him as a perfect lil angel. :| but it would also make her extra sad and feel more all the NAUGHTY PANTS things he keeps doing.

Yep! I was going in that direction and I feel like this kinda justifies it, which is nice :3

and LOL man that could be heartbreaking

sure it could XD

I mean I don't know if she'd have a better idea WHAT do to about him, but, but ..she wouldn't be so confused about how she feels about him, and so on.

I think he is like,semi-consciously trying to ignore how much the idea that she doesn't know him and doesn't love him is affecting him

he knows he isn't supposed to care but

oh maaaaan ;.;

he was telling her to go home mostly so he just wouldn't have to deal with it, but partially because hnnn this place is not safe, goooooo and also partially like ah, she is my age, or younger, she doesn't know me, she won't care about me, MAKE HER GO AWAY

/kid plot/

one day

HE DOES LOVE CUDDLES :3

Aw yes though. Her thoughts are more wrapped up in responsibility and seeing him suffering basically hurts and why would I have a kid not in a ugh dumb babies way, more like I wouldn't put someone though this/bring them into the world and I must've known this had the potential la la la all that sort of stuff.

YEP

I'm trying to be careful about how he feels about her and Han - cause if he feels like they drove him toward Snoke and he's angry about it, then it implies he's falling out with the idea of Snoke and I don't think he's quite there yet

like he might be in the nearish future, or at least I hope he will

but right now I think he's stuck on well you didn't love me enough, you didn't want me around, so I turned to someone who cared, don't make me doubt him

where as mom Leia would just be like whelp tiny baby you was actually the greatest thing that happened, like she has all the postive feels for him too.

(he's doubting him)

Yes, that definitely makes a heap of sense.

I feel like if Snoke was with him from day one (is that what the darkness is all about in the book? I hope not) he would know just how to twist what was going on in their lives to suit.

I mean Leia could have easily been so blinded into being that desperate/worried not to have him go down this bad, dark path like Anakin that, even if he'd wanted to stay with them, she would have been like you have to go train. etc. I couldn't see her as not comforting or loving though at any point, just sending him away could be twisted to that.

that was the impression I got - idk about in the new books, but from the movie and the novelization, it seemed like it was basically from the beginning, and that he was resisting for a while. being sent away was the straw that broke the camel's back, in my headcanon

yeah - like, I don't think they were necessarily bad parents, I just think they basically missed each other in communication

Ben couldn't articulate what he wanted or needed, and maybe Snoke messed with their connection or something was clouding it. or maybe Leia was just so busy with the Republic that she had trouble balancing it

and Han I figure was kinda there and not, and when he was there it was great! until maybe they'd start fighting and he'd bail again, and Ben is left interpreting that as his father doesn't love him or want to be around him

I really get the feeling something happened before Ben went dark.