LINKDING

<blockquote>Two months ago, Emperor Palpatine died, and his presumed heir passed the galaxy off to the newly-elected senator from Alderaan. She finds her second-in-command in the strangest of places.</blockquote>

<blockquote>If you’d asked Rose what would happen after Paige died, making friends with General Organa wouldn’t have been on the list.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I don't mean to offend," Luke said. His ears were turning hot, because Han was looking at him again with that condescending starpilot look, like Luke was a child. "It's just—water is purple?" "Purple?" Han looked absolutely baffled. "Why would water be purple?" In which moisture farming involves a lot more cacti than in canon.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Darth Vader eavesdrops on a very interesting conversation.</blockquote> ➤ Vader discovers Leia is his daughter. ➤ Series consists of: On the Day Before On the Day After An Interlude (The Passing of Some Days) On the Third Day

<blockquote>Luke kills his father and Falls, and Leia becomes the last resort.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luke and Leia, growing up and watching the stars.</blockquote>

<blockquote>To earn her place on the Falcon, Leia has to be useful, so she tries to learn everything she can.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"We should take the general on a mission," Rose said. "One that's useful and not fatal." “We have those?” Finn asked. “Probably not fatal if well-executed,” Rose amended. The surviving members of the Resistance decide the best way to help Leia is to take her on a recruiting mission to Rose's home world.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"If Vader captures you, if he threatens to torture or kill you, you tell him you're Padmé Amidala's daughter."</blockquote>

<blockquote>She's older now, and so is he. Far older now. She wonders: will he have lost any power with his age? Will he be shorter, weaker? An old man on a ventilator? It's hard to imagine that he won't still be dangerous. But then, that's exactly what she's counting on.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It's darkest before the dawn.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The messenger arrives a few weeks after Crait, dressed in cloth of gold and piloting a ship that costs more than the entirety of the Fleet. (Not that that’s saying so very much these days). “On behalf of Her Royal Majesty Queen Hoyoan and her Consort the Princess Ji’ii of the system Reylouris, I humbly beg audience with the personage known as Rey,” he says. Possibly she, or some other pronoun; Leia literally can’t see more than a pair of eyes under all the cloth.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luke is desperate to learn the ways of the Force. Leia can't really help him there, but she knows how to wield a blade.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When your father dies, say the Coruscanti, you are left clutching a star map for a different galaxy.   In this, as in many things, Leia is her fathers' daughter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sometimes, Leia feels as if she's spent her whole life grieving.</blockquote>

<blockquote>You take responsibility for your actions if you’re in the Resistance, even if those actions are, you know, mutiny. “There’s—” Okay, There’s nothing wrong with me is clearly not accurate.</blockquote> ➤ Author's note: <blockquote>Even though I appreciated the character development in TLJ, the writing for Poe and Holdo’s storyline was so sloppy it hurt me in my soul and (as is the case for like 90% of everything I write) I immediately started trying to fix it. Particularly, I was interested in finding logical reasons why: – an experienced vice admiral, in an organization so informal most people go by their first names, would not just tell her panicking crew that actually, they did have an escape plan – an experienced military pilot would suddenly start second-guessing all his commanding officers, even when they have stellar records and/or he's personally loyal to them – said commanding officers would react to this with “lol what a scamp” instead of anger or betrayal or brig time</blockquote> ➤ yes good this author and I agree on what was wrong and so we agree about what needs to be fixed. This is a good fic.

<blockquote>"Yeah. About that. Did you know that the Falcon had a history of hyperdrive malfunctions? Because I did not, in fact, know that this ship had a history of hyperdrive malfunctions. What I am saying is, the hyperdrive seems to have malfunctioned."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Leia was not adopted. She was stolen in the middle of the night and registered to House Organa with forged papers. This was kidnapping, a class one felony, and her parents could be executed -- unless she returned voluntarily to her rightful father. Immediately. A man called Grand Moff Tarkin explained this to Leia when she was eleven years old.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After her shuttle crashes on a desolate world, Leia has only one person to keep her company.</blockquote> ➤ leia and force-ghost-anakin in new trilogy era

<blockquote>Leia begins showing signs of force sensitivity at an early age. Her parents struggle to dissuade her from investigating her new powers before Vader discovers the daughter he never knew he had.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Leia dreams of a beautiful woman with long curly hair. Sometimes, she's smiling brightly, and sometimes, she's sad, but Leia knows, deep in her heart, that this is her birth mother, and that she loves Leia very much.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Summary: In a war where entire planetary systems may fall victim, remembrance is key, and joy goes with grief. Notes: This was written for peradi, who asked me what Hallowe'en was like in Star Wars, but was probably expecting a 600 word ficlet. I don't really do 600 word ficlets. I do 6500 words of thinking about inversion festivals, rituals of grief and remembrance, and what you do to mark a loss when you have nothing left to mourn. Say because your planet's been blown up.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I don’t know how this happened. I don’t yet know why. But this is definitely Anakin’s fault." Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master, Exile, and now Force Ghost, was pleased with the way things had turned out. The Sith were dead. His padawan had returned to the Light. And Luke Skywalker was beginning to lay the foundation for his new Jedi Order. And while Luke, Leia, Han, and the Rebellion cleaned up the last traces of the Empire on the physical plane, he and Anakin would devote the next stage of their afterlives to repairing the damage Sidious and his ilk wrought on the Force itself. At least, that was the plan. After a disaster on the cosmic scale that Obi-Wan is still trying to wrap his mind around, he finds himself back in the early days of the Clone Wars, Commander Cody loyally at his side, Anakin at his back, and Sidious plotting against the Jedi at every turn. He's been given an unasked for chance to do everything over again. And with the Force as his ally, he intends to set the galaxy on a brighter path than the one it's currently on.</blockquote> ➤ through part 2 as of last checking

<blockquote>Food and love have a lot in common. Leia learns how to cook. This takes some time.</blockquote> ➤ three times Leia cooks with someone else

<blockquote>Rey and Leia bond after an ambush leaves them stranded.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Leia makes Finn an offer.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Padmé wakes to the back of Obi-Wan’s head, his hair mussed and his arms spread, outstretched over her knees as though to shield her from all that would come. (Too late, Padmé thinks, feeling the dull ache around her throat, where phantom hands tightened. Much too late for that now.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Feral Desert Child and Former Stormtrooper Learn How To Food, Beleaguered Resistance Pilot Watches With Love And Horror</blockquote>

<blockquote>things that happen after the war: diplomacy, bureaucracy, sex</blockquote> ➤ concerning the long process of negotiating a treaty/truce between Republic, Resistance, and First Order. First half of the fic is about Finn and his place in this process, and his sort of mentor/mentee relationship with Leia. Second half is when Poe, years into the process, comes back into Finn's life. I liked the first half better, but all of the fic was good

<blockquote>After the second Death Star, Leia had an unexpected visitor.</blockquote> ➤ au in which vader doesn't die