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Father's Heart by Fernwith
Hullo. I'm Deanna, and I'll be your Star Wars Original Trilogy dealer this month. Since my two lovely predecessors have covered the slash end of things, I'm going to try to deliver a month of gen and het to avoid redundancy.
Title: Father's Heart by Fernwithy
Fandom: Star Wars Trilogy (minor references to the prequel trilogy)
Pairing: Leia and Vader friendship ... yes, friendship. Leia and Vader. Yes. A touch of Anakin/Amidala in the background, but it's not a prequel fic.
Author's Website: http://www.vadersmask.homestead.com
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fernwithy
Why this must be read: This is a long, meaty series that takes a teeny tiny event in canon and runs with it. In the very first movie, Leia and Vader seem to know one another already, and Leia to carry a particular contempt for him. Sure, the explanation could be as simple as them having met before in the Capital and seeing natural tension arise as a result of her being a liberal politician who secretly runs missions for a conspiracy to overthrow the government and he being an evil warrior who strangles people for giggles ... but what's the fun in that? Father's Heart is a plotful, well-written character study of a young, idealistic Princess and a thoughtful, not-entirely-Dark Lord of the Sith. Written before Attack of the Clones, some minor bits of it may have been Jossed, but everything is at least consistent with canon in the original trilogy, which is my job. I don't think that the small amount of prequel background used should confuse anyone who hasn't seen the prequels (all two of you), but just in case I've done some quick character sketches of the prequel characters appearing in Father's Heart.
Bail Organa, Viceroy of Alderaan: Bail is the head of the royal family of Alderaan and, in the prequel trilogy, its representative in the Galactic Senate-- a post later filled by his adopted daughter, Leia. Alderaan is a planet of pacifists, so one may assume that Bail's ideals are no different from his people's in that regard. Regardless, with the rise of the Empire he sacrifices the ideal of pacifism for the necessity of armed rebellion, and with his fellow Senator Mon Mothma secretly forms the Rebel Alliance some time before the original trilogy begins. Another secret that he keeps is the true identy of the child he adopts-- neither Leia nor anyone else knows the identify of her biological parents, and Leia, for her part, doesn't really care. While Luke searches and suffers for the identify of the man he can call "father," Leia has the only father she'll ever acknowledge in Bail.
Senator Padmé Naberrie Amidala Skywalker, former Queen of Naboo: Padmé Naberrie comes from the planet Naboo, which is ruled by an elected monarch. At or around age 14, Padmé was elected Queen and took the formal name Amidala. Politics was evidently a popular occupation for teenagers in the Star Wars galaxy. She proved to be a strong and generous ruler, so well-loved by her people that they offered to amend their constitution to allow her to be Queen for life, but easily manipulated by older and underhanded politicians. Just how and why she's manipulated is pretty much the backbone plot of both trilogies, so if you want to know, watch the movies, or wait til someone summarizes that fandom. After her term as Queen ended, she became Naboo's representative in the Republican Senate.
During an adventure to free her planet from an illegal occupation (otherwise known as The Phantom Menace), she met, among others, the young Anakin Skywalker, age 10. A decade later (otherwise known as Attack of the Clones, they married, hence her fourth name. At some point down the line, she became pregnant with twins, Luke and Leia. Somehow-- Episode III will probably show exactly what happened-- she managed to conceal her pregnancy from her husband while he was busy becoming Mr. Dark Knight and to send the children into hiding: Luke to Owen and Beru, poor farmers on Tattoine, Leia to the royal family of Alderaan. In Return of the Jedi, Leia claims to have vague memories of her birthmother, suggesting that Amidala was in hiding with her daughter during the earliest part of Leia's life. Personally, I think that Leia was simply told so many (carefully-edited) stories about her mother that she's carrying around some false memories, but I doubt George Lucas is going to call me up to consult on that any time soon.
Amidala was a brave woman, talented fighter, and charismatic leader with questionable taste in men and a tendency to accumulate names like some people accumulate mismatched socks-- Leia inherited a lot from her.
Saché (here called Saché Organa): During her term as Queen of Naboo, Amidala was constantly accompanied by five young girls around her own age. Officially her handmaidens, the girls were in reality the Queen's bravest and most trusted bodyguards. In times of danger, Amidala would disguise herself as one of her handmaidens, and one of the handmaidens would pose as the Queen. Saché was the oldest of these girls. In The Phantom Menace, Amidala put her in charge of organizing a resistance force on Naboo while Amidala left the planet to ask the Republic for help. FernWithy here suggests that Saché later married Bail Organa and adopted Amidala's infant daughter, whose true parentage she kept hidden from everyone, including Leia herself.
Title: Father's Heart by Fernwithy
Fandom: Star Wars Trilogy (minor references to the prequel trilogy)
Pairing: Leia and Vader friendship ... yes, friendship. Leia and Vader. Yes. A touch of Anakin/Amidala in the background, but it's not a prequel fic.
Author's Website: http://www.vadersmask.homestead.com
Author on LJ:
fernwithy Why this must be read: This is a long, meaty series that takes a teeny tiny event in canon and runs with it. In the very first movie, Leia and Vader seem to know one another already, and Leia to carry a particular contempt for him. Sure, the explanation could be as simple as them having met before in the Capital and seeing natural tension arise as a result of her being a liberal politician who secretly runs missions for a conspiracy to overthrow the government and he being an evil warrior who strangles people for giggles ... but what's the fun in that? Father's Heart is a plotful, well-written character study of a young, idealistic Princess and a thoughtful, not-entirely-Dark Lord of the Sith. Written before Attack of the Clones, some minor bits of it may have been Jossed, but everything is at least consistent with canon in the original trilogy, which is my job. I don't think that the small amount of prequel background used should confuse anyone who hasn't seen the prequels (all two of you), but just in case I've done some quick character sketches of the prequel characters appearing in Father's Heart.
Bail Organa, Viceroy of Alderaan: Bail is the head of the royal family of Alderaan and, in the prequel trilogy, its representative in the Galactic Senate-- a post later filled by his adopted daughter, Leia. Alderaan is a planet of pacifists, so one may assume that Bail's ideals are no different from his people's in that regard. Regardless, with the rise of the Empire he sacrifices the ideal of pacifism for the necessity of armed rebellion, and with his fellow Senator Mon Mothma secretly forms the Rebel Alliance some time before the original trilogy begins. Another secret that he keeps is the true identy of the child he adopts-- neither Leia nor anyone else knows the identify of her biological parents, and Leia, for her part, doesn't really care. While Luke searches and suffers for the identify of the man he can call "father," Leia has the only father she'll ever acknowledge in Bail.
Senator Padmé Naberrie Amidala Skywalker, former Queen of Naboo: Padmé Naberrie comes from the planet Naboo, which is ruled by an elected monarch. At or around age 14, Padmé was elected Queen and took the formal name Amidala. Politics was evidently a popular occupation for teenagers in the Star Wars galaxy. She proved to be a strong and generous ruler, so well-loved by her people that they offered to amend their constitution to allow her to be Queen for life, but easily manipulated by older and underhanded politicians. Just how and why she's manipulated is pretty much the backbone plot of both trilogies, so if you want to know, watch the movies, or wait til someone summarizes that fandom. After her term as Queen ended, she became Naboo's representative in the Republican Senate.
During an adventure to free her planet from an illegal occupation (otherwise known as The Phantom Menace), she met, among others, the young Anakin Skywalker, age 10. A decade later (otherwise known as Attack of the Clones, they married, hence her fourth name. At some point down the line, she became pregnant with twins, Luke and Leia. Somehow-- Episode III will probably show exactly what happened-- she managed to conceal her pregnancy from her husband while he was busy becoming Mr. Dark Knight and to send the children into hiding: Luke to Owen and Beru, poor farmers on Tattoine, Leia to the royal family of Alderaan. In Return of the Jedi, Leia claims to have vague memories of her birthmother, suggesting that Amidala was in hiding with her daughter during the earliest part of Leia's life. Personally, I think that Leia was simply told so many (carefully-edited) stories about her mother that she's carrying around some false memories, but I doubt George Lucas is going to call me up to consult on that any time soon.
Amidala was a brave woman, talented fighter, and charismatic leader with questionable taste in men and a tendency to accumulate names like some people accumulate mismatched socks-- Leia inherited a lot from her.
Saché (here called Saché Organa): During her term as Queen of Naboo, Amidala was constantly accompanied by five young girls around her own age. Officially her handmaidens, the girls were in reality the Queen's bravest and most trusted bodyguards. In times of danger, Amidala would disguise herself as one of her handmaidens, and one of the handmaidens would pose as the Queen. Saché was the oldest of these girls. In The Phantom Menace, Amidala put her in charge of organizing a resistance force on Naboo while Amidala left the planet to ask the Republic for help. FernWithy here suggests that Saché later married Bail Organa and adopted Amidala's infant daughter, whose true parentage she kept hidden from everyone, including Leia herself.
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FernWithy is a great choice, also. I love this series, as well as "By the Grace of Lady Vader."
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Honestly, neither am I; I just really really really like Leia and didn't want to see an entire wave of new Star Wars ficcers who've missed out on her entirely.
FernWithy is a great choice, also. I love this series, as well as "By the Grace of Lady Vader."
I'm in the middle of reading that right now. It's got some plausibility issues (For starters, why has the Emperor not either killed her as a threat or used her to make Vader even darker? And just how do you defect from Hoth except by doing it the way Dak did?), but it's a fun plot when I suspend my disbelief.
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Leia is on the top of my "Strong Female Characters" list. I love her muchly.
A few het and gen links, for anyone who may be looking:
http://www.hansoloprincess.com/ANH-ESBfanfic.html
http://home.mindspring.com/~colinf68/_wsn/swfic.html
http://www.rtis.com/nat/user/golledge/
http://www.dg2e.com/dg2e.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Organa-Zation/
http://www.useakiss.org/
http://fanfic.theforce.net/
http://www.vadersmask.homestead.com/
I'm in the middle of reading that right now. It's got some plausibility issues
I read it quite a while ago, so I'm fuzzy on all the details. I was delighted to find a good fic that treated all the characters with respect, though (and I adore fics that bring Leia into the family dynamics).
I'm looking forward to your recs!