Star Wars Recs!
Aug. 12th, 2003 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darth_stitchNo. I have not left the Harry Potter fandom. I'm just temporarily switching channels for the moment.
Yes, as you can tell from my usernames (Jedi Skysong / Darth Stitch) and bio, I am a Star Wars nut. I wasn't old enough to see the first two movies on the big screen - hell, I was still floating around in my mother's womb when the original Star Wars came out - but I did get to see Return of the Jedi as a six or five year old.
I loved it. Needless to say, I loved the Ewoks, I was a little scared of Darth Vader and Jabba the Hutt scared the shite out of me. (Hey, he looked like this big icky frog that seemed to eat people - at six, I mixed up Jabba and the Rancor. Also, I hate big icy frogs - except Kermit, who's not icky at all)
Anyways, I finally got to see the whole trilogy at 10 years old, got hooked and never looked back.
The fun thing for a Star Wars fan is the amount of fantabulous fan fiction out there. I'm not much for the Expanded Universe books, except maybe for Timothy Zahn. The trouble is with EU is that all the wonderful backstories/insights I wanted to see never come through. And don't get me started on the way EU used to treat Luke Skywalker as a character! *rolls eyes* Jedi on Prozac, anyone?
Anyways, SW fan fiction has had some great writers and one of them happens to be FernWithy a.k.a. Jedi Galadriel. She is one of my all-time favorite SW fanfic authors - I've come to mentally consider her stuff 'canon' - she IS that good.
Father's Heart
Father's Heart is a four-story cycle exploring the relationship of Darth Vader and Princess Leia. This is not quite AU - if the only thing you know about Star Wars are the movies then you can seamlessly weave in this heart-wrenching, gorgeously written tale of young Princess Leia, growing up on Alderaan. As she matures, becomes active in Alderaani and Galactic politics, and eventually takes a position in the Rebel Alliance, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Darth Vader. Vader is drawn to this little girl who's the age of his "lost" son and develops paternal/protective feelings for her, though he can't quite understand why.
On the other hand, Leia deals with her own inner demons and has her own choice to pick the dark or light paths. Her guide is her "mother," seen only in her dreams and yet, oddly enough, has blue eyes instead of brown.
The development of Leia and Vader's friendship is brought to life beautifully and gives you an additional perspective when you see movie Leia and Vader on the screen. Is there something in the way she looks at him and he at her that hints of a shared and painful past? It looks that way and Jedi Galadriel gave us all the tale to go with it.
There are beautiful fanwritten works on Vader and Luke's relationship (which I will rec later). But Gala gives us a different side of the story - a father, a daughter he never knew and it makes watching one of the final scenes of Return of the Jedi "Tell your sister, you were right..." all the more poignant.
Read it now at her website: http://www.vadersmask.homestead.com/index.html
This also houses some excellent AU's and round robins, one of which, I was proud to have been a part of (heh, thanks, Jedi Gala!) - check them out too!
Yes, as you can tell from my usernames (Jedi Skysong / Darth Stitch) and bio, I am a Star Wars nut. I wasn't old enough to see the first two movies on the big screen - hell, I was still floating around in my mother's womb when the original Star Wars came out - but I did get to see Return of the Jedi as a six or five year old.
I loved it. Needless to say, I loved the Ewoks, I was a little scared of Darth Vader and Jabba the Hutt scared the shite out of me. (Hey, he looked like this big icky frog that seemed to eat people - at six, I mixed up Jabba and the Rancor. Also, I hate big icy frogs - except Kermit, who's not icky at all)
Anyways, I finally got to see the whole trilogy at 10 years old, got hooked and never looked back.
The fun thing for a Star Wars fan is the amount of fantabulous fan fiction out there. I'm not much for the Expanded Universe books, except maybe for Timothy Zahn. The trouble is with EU is that all the wonderful backstories/insights I wanted to see never come through. And don't get me started on the way EU used to treat Luke Skywalker as a character! *rolls eyes* Jedi on Prozac, anyone?
Anyways, SW fan fiction has had some great writers and one of them happens to be FernWithy a.k.a. Jedi Galadriel. She is one of my all-time favorite SW fanfic authors - I've come to mentally consider her stuff 'canon' - she IS that good.
Father's Heart
Father's Heart is a four-story cycle exploring the relationship of Darth Vader and Princess Leia. This is not quite AU - if the only thing you know about Star Wars are the movies then you can seamlessly weave in this heart-wrenching, gorgeously written tale of young Princess Leia, growing up on Alderaan. As she matures, becomes active in Alderaani and Galactic politics, and eventually takes a position in the Rebel Alliance, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Darth Vader. Vader is drawn to this little girl who's the age of his "lost" son and develops paternal/protective feelings for her, though he can't quite understand why.
On the other hand, Leia deals with her own inner demons and has her own choice to pick the dark or light paths. Her guide is her "mother," seen only in her dreams and yet, oddly enough, has blue eyes instead of brown.
The development of Leia and Vader's friendship is brought to life beautifully and gives you an additional perspective when you see movie Leia and Vader on the screen. Is there something in the way she looks at him and he at her that hints of a shared and painful past? It looks that way and Jedi Galadriel gave us all the tale to go with it.
There are beautiful fanwritten works on Vader and Luke's relationship (which I will rec later). But Gala gives us a different side of the story - a father, a daughter he never knew and it makes watching one of the final scenes of Return of the Jedi "Tell your sister, you were right..." all the more poignant.
Read it now at her website: http://www.vadersmask.homestead.com/index.html
This also houses some excellent AU's and round robins, one of which, I was proud to have been a part of (heh, thanks, Jedi Gala!) - check them out too!
