#c3po

[palfriendpatine66]

Woke up to Owen Lars thoughts. Specifically re: C-3PO.

Our guy Owen has avoided owning a droid for 20+ years because they remind him of Shmi. He’s had to deal with the Jawas the whole time and knows it would go a hell of a lot better with a translator, but every time he thinks about getting a protocol droid he thinks about Shmi. About how she doted on that insufferably annoying droid because it was her last connection to her son. And he decides he can go another year relying on gestures and paying more than the parts he’s getting are worth.

But now he only has Luke’s help for one more harvest and he’s not getting any younger - his joints ache more and more with each sandstorm - and he decides it’s time to face his ghosts. He can’t avoid reminders of the past forever. He sends Luke for some droids.

And the boy comes back with C3P0

The droid doesn’t look the same - he’s been treated to some upgrades over the years and some fancy gold plating they couldn’t have afforded to give him - but he gives his designation and it’s not just a similar robotic voice dragging up memories that both haunt Owen and remind him of better times. But it’s him, without a doubt. C-3PO human cyborg relations. Shmi’s most prized possession. Returned back to her home and final resting place, back to the last piece of her son.

To Luke.

And when the stormtroopers break down the door and pour in, he has a moment of pure relief that Luke isn’t home. That this time it won’t be a Skywalker’s body found broken in the desert.

He should have known. An R2 unit had rolled up and interrupted Shmi’s humble funeral and Anakin had swept away to whatever dangers waited for him in the stars. He’d brought the two droids with him and the Lars were left to mourn and heal and carry on under the harsh suns. They looked after themselves and weathered the heat and the sand like everything else that was born, and fated to die, in the desert.

But not Luke. Luke wasn’t born on Tatooine, even though the boy has the desert in his blood. Owen sees the same relief written in Beru’s eyes as he takes her hand. Luke isn’t going to die here.

He has the stars in his blood too.

Owen just hopes the boy will meet a better end than his father. That his story won’t end so soon.

[swedenis-h]

To be loved is to be changed

[nostalgia-incorporated]

Anthony Daniels having a cigarette break inside his C3PO costume whilst filming A New Hope in Tunisia

[stealingpotatoes]

when Leia visits Like in tl(4)j, does she bring along c3po? would all the padawans find him annoying? would Dar'shanna spend hours asking him questions? would the beef between him and r2d2 cause a r2-chopper alliance?

omg the 2nd idea i love that

(commission info // kofi support!)

[ahsokasloyalty]

I don't care what you think the perfect Star Wars fix it au is. If you think it's anything else than the Zillo Beast eating Palpatine, you're wrong.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The entire Christmas aisle at the dollar store was themed after C-3PO from Star Wars for no particular reason.

[sersi]

Look, a few minutes ago you said you didn't want to just wait here to be captured. Now all you want to do is stay? Marching into the detention area is not what I had in mind.

[that-vexaholic-cryptid]

Droid break

[teathattast]

[ventresses]

Star Wars: Original Trilogy (2/?)

Star Wars + Text Posts & Headlines

[lobbycards]

The Empire Strikes Back, French lobby card. 1980

[swedenis-h]

Leia and her emotional support droid (he’s the only thing she has left from Alderaan)

[bluemiilks]

✨️ Happy Star Wars Day ✨️

[stealingpotatoes]

@malakia215 kofi requested more of ahsoka joining padme after the wrong jedi!!

(kofi requests are open!)

[star-wars-forever]

Star Wars

by Studio Ghibli

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The Golden Girls were playing a Star Wars TTRPG where they all had their own Star Wars OCs. Blanche’s character was a sexy C-3PO with massive honkers.