gffa:gffa:I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT LEIA’S STORY IN VADER DOWN AND THE STRUGGLE SHE FACES HERE.That sh

gffa:gffa:I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT LEIA’S STORY IN VADER DOWN AND THE STRUGGLE SHE FACES HERE.That she hates Vader so much she’s willing to die to take him out.  She is so full of fury and rage at him that she was ready to leave Luke to die because this was her chance to take Vader out.  She was absolutely willing to sacrifice herself to kill him.  But, when the moment came, Han begging her not to choose Vader over them, she chose to save her friends.I love this so much because it’s such a complicated thing.  Ultimately, she made the right choice, because we know the narrative needs these characters to defeat the ultimate evil of Sidious, but there’s a lot to be said for Leia’s feelings here–if they had been able to take Vader out in this moment, well, we the audience know that he’s the one who will kill Sidious, we the audience know that it’s Luke’s struggle and finally his victory at throwing away his anger and his weapon that inspires Anakin to come back, but Leia has no way of knowing that.Her rage at Vader clouds her vision, she becomes willing to make sacrifices that go against the whole entire reason they’re fighting, but, if you changed the circumstances slightly, would she have been right?  If this could have turned the tide of the war, if this could have stopped Vader, would she have been right?The problem is that she wasn’t just doing it because it was the right thing to do, because she wanted to help other people–but because she hated him.  Because he stood there while Alderaan was destroyed and that’s just one of his terrible crimes, crimes he could well go on to do more of–and clearly would, like on Bespin–and she wanted him dead, far beyond justice for what he’d done, she wanted him fucking dead.One of the best things the comics are doing is, despite that they don’t interact much in the movies, there’s still room for Leia and Vader to have a relationship at a distance, that she uses him as a motivation to keep getting up, to refuse to die on Hoth when she’s out exploring and gets trapped under an avalanche (in the Forces of Destiny comic), how she furiously wants Han to use the walker to stomp on Vader on Cymoon 1, how she’s willing to die in Vader Down to take him out.Her relationship with Vader is not the same as Luke’s relationship with him, hers burns so much more furiously and it is painful to watch at times.  AND I LOVE THAT SO MUCH because women being complicated and messy and burning with their fury, to the point it’s poisoning them, and yet their story is still worth telling, that they are engaging for this, is so good.  In the end, she makes the choice to save her friends over taking Vader out (whatever that means for the future people he’ll continue to hurt) and it’s the right choice, but it burns and it’s a hell of a struggle and nothing about her rage has been put to rest.GIVE ME ALL OF LEIA ORGANA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH VADER AND HER STORY ABOUT WHAT SHE DOES WITH IT.thewillowbends replied to your photoset: I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT LEIA’S STORY IN VADER…It’s also a nice inverse to her biological father’s story - she became self-destructive and single minded in her quest for revenge, and it was her friendship with Luke and Han the support system she got there that ultimately saved her.It’s really interesting to consider the parallels here, because both Leia and Anakin had an utter fury, which (nearly) blinds them to the people who are reaching out to them.Anakin’s anger and fury puts him in a situation where his loved ones beg him not to go down this path.  Padme begs him not to, Obi-Wan begs him not to, Ahsoka begs him not to.  He may hesitate for a moment, but he never really considers getting off the destructive, hateful path that he’s on.Leia’s anger and fury puts her in a situation where her loved ones beg her not to go down this path–fittingly, one that pits her against her biological father, further inviting us to draw these comparisons.  She seems like she might really keep going, like her biological father did (what an ending that would have been for Darth Vader, if we set aside that we all know he has to live for a few more years yet, that would have been an amazing ending to his story, the daughter he was never there for because of his fury is the one who finally ends him, because her fury led her to this point, that his own actions inadvertently caused his own death), but then pulls herself back and chooses to listen to the loved ones reaching out to her.Just as Luke is an echo and inversion of Vader’s choices–Anakin kills Dooku despite knowing that it’s wrong, Luke throws down his weapon and refuses to kill Vader, etc.–Leia is an echo and inversion of Vader’s choices as well.And both of Anakin’s biological children make the better choice than him. -- source link

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