[image description: three digital drawings of Princess Leia Organa from star wars. the first one shows her from the chest up and shows both her outfits from a new hope; her hair is significantly longer, and her hairstyles have been altered to reflect that. the second drawing is a grey sketch showing Leia in her jedi robes from the ankles up. she is wearing a pale jumpsuit that tucks into her knee-high boots, a wide belt, and a light robe; her hair is put up in a braided crown similar to her hoth outfit. she is looking to the right with a determined expression, and holding her lightsaber in her left hand. the third drawing shows Leia in her dress from a new hope again, this time with her looking over her shoulder as she runs away. she has her hood pulled up and her blaster is attached to her belt. end image description.]
i know this is not in my usual fandom but I cannot began to explain how much both Star Wars *and* Leia Organa mean to me.
one of the few things I could bond over with my parents, hours of watching and not feeling lonely even if we were in story on a galaxy far, far away and most of all…hope.
hope that no matter how dire things could look like everything will turn out all right! and that meant a lot as a little girl 🖤
anyways I’ll stop being sentimental on main—Happy Star Wars day!!
feeling that ache deep inside remembering that the characters, books, movies, tv shows and stories i love so much are not real. that i love these characters as real people, with all my heart, but i will never get to know what it feels like to be loved by them, to be with them, because they do not know me.
i am a universe away from them yet somehow, i so deeply feel the absence in my life of people and stories who are not real
Lost her home, lost her parents, lost obi wan, lost her son to the dark side, lost her husband, lost her brother and not once did she give up. Not once was she tempted by the dark. She didn’t run off to live on some distant planet and give up as other jedi had. She founded the first order and trained the first Jedi in a new order. And with his last breath, she turned her son away from Palpatine. That is why Leia is the best Star Wars character.