I love the progression of Renaissance Yasha: barbarian, member of a travelling circus, amateur flower pressing enthusiast, harpist, and now… sapphic poet.
Honestly Obi Wan not knowing Anakin was alive the whole time changes everything. When Padme tells Obi that there’s still good in Anakin its seemingly implied that Obi Wan doesn’t want to tell her that he’s a sith now but it’s actually showing that Obi Wan fully believed that Anakin, Padmes wife, the father of the newborn babies, was dead and that he himself had killed Anakin, and couldn’t bring himself to tell her seconds before she died still believing
“Are you my real father?” hit like a truck because Leia Organa is tremendously powerful in the Force, some part of her remembers her mother, just vaguely, but she does. “She was beautiful, kind, but sad,” Leia says in Return of the Jedi. She remembers that day on Polis Massa in some way, just brief, fleeting memories, but she does.
“Sometimes when I look at Luma, I see her mother’s face. We all miss her very much.“ rings with so much truth in the Force that Leia, with her ability to see into people, to know when they’re lying, to read them like an open book, knows that’s true.
Somehow, he knew her mother. From there, it’s not a big leap to, “Are you my real father?”, it’s a reasonable conclusion, if the wrong one.
But some part of her feels it, too. Because some part of her must remember him as well, Obi-Wan was there that day, even if she may not knowingly recognize him.
If Leia remembers her mother, she likely remembers Obi-Wan, too.
“The frightened child who sheltered in my manse died on the Dothraki sea, and was reborn in blood and fire. This dragon queen who wears her name is a true Targaryen.”
a few weeks ago everyone i knew sent me a link (tee hee) to this 1986 illustration from a Japanese magazine. i had already seen it before the hi-res scans were acquired but i am proud to have cultivated such a strong brand. decided to make a new version of my Link sticker/charm design (will be up on my shop at some point)
