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Whims of the Force (50 Sentences about Luke Skywalker)
Character: Luke Skywalker
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Theme set: Gamma
Rating: G
Warnings: None
#01 - Snow: Though some time has passed since he left his sandy home behind, Hoth's perpetual snows are a stark and startling contrast; he's amazed that there's such a thing as being warm enough to endure the frigidity.
#02 - Child: Ever since he was a child, he's wished for other stars, other skies; though he knew the galaxy was vast, he never suspected what a wide variety of worlds he'd soon find himself on.
#03 - Brick: Vader's words--and the truth that lurks behind them--hits him like a ton of bricks; that he could be the son of the black-cloaked monster who helps the Emperor hold the galaxy in a merciless grip is unthinkable.
#04 - Judgment: He can't imagine what sort of lapse in judgment has brought Han back into the fight, when all the man had seemed to want was to get paid and get out; but he's grateful, overjoyed, to have him back again to help.
#05 - Powder: Here he is again: Back beneath the twin suns, back within the sand and the powder and the unending heat; he swore he'd never come back, but this is where Han is, and he won't let a friend down.
#06 - Grim: It's a grim task he's set for himself, to hand himself over, while his friends are working to take down the new Death Star; he should be helping them as best he can, but here is where his father is; this will be his only chance, perhaps, to try to save Anakin Skywalker from the shadows he's wrapped himself in.
#07 - Trap: Later, once he's had time to think, he realizes how foolish it was for him to run off to Bespin; it isn't merely that he walked into Vader's trap, and narrowly escaped it; it isn't even that he's lost his hand, and gained a troubling awareness of his own origins; it's that he forced his own friends to further risk their already saved lives to go back and rescue him, when the rescue shouldn't have been necessary.
#08 - Star: He's sick of the sight of the twin suns that he grew up orbiting; there are countless other stars in this galaxy, and numerous worlds circling around them, all more interesting than this dust bowl of a planet.
#09 - Possession: To be in possession of a power with as much potential as the Force, he realizes, is a burden and an overwhelming responsibility; he hopes that he'll use it well.
#10 - Bandage: They can numb the pain in his arm, can cover the stump that used to be his right hand with the most advanced prosthetic they can find; but there's no way to damage the wound to his soul that comes of knowing what sort of man his father truly is.
#11 - Pearl: The sight of the third Force Ghost, glowing there like a pearl, brings him joy; now he knows the true face of the man who'd lived behind a mask for too many years, youthful and proud, and looking just a trifle arrogant; his father's been redeemed, and is enough at peace to join Ben and Yoda in the light.
#12 - Glass: He's always feared the Emperor from a distance; now, seeing the tyrant face to face, and learning that all of his emotions and thoughts are being detected as though he were made of glass, he finds Palpatine more terrifying still.
#13 - Classified: Initially, he wants to curse everyone who kept the truth of his parentage from him; but, as time passes, he comes to understand the wisdom of keeping such information classified; he was only being protected from the darkness that has already claimed his father.
#14 - Buttons: Something about this dust bowl of a planet just pushes all of his buttons; he grew up here, but it doesn't feel like home, somehow.
#15 - Closet: If he had a closet, in this world-hopping life he now leads, he'd give a special place within it to the medal that he received in service to the Alliance, after blowing the Death Star into oblivion.
#16 - Ash: As he stands beside the pyre and watches it burn, he hopes that what there was of Darth Vader will be lost among the scattered ashes, and what remains will be the freedom and rest that the man within, who once was known as Anakin, has finally earned.
#17 - Definition: Now that he's seen what the Force is capable of, lifting his X-Wing out of the swamp, he realizes that he has to find a new definition of the word "impossible".
#18 - Staircase: His training as a Jedi seems like a staircase that Fate just won't let him climb; first Ben is slain; then he's drawn away from Yoda by the events on Bespin; and, when he returns, it's in time to lose Yoda.
#19 - Nail: If it gets found out that the little R2 droid ran off because of him, Uncle Owen will nail his ears to the wall; he's got to find it before something happens, and quickly.
#20 - Prey: When he was growing up, Uncle Owen always warned him to stay far away from places like Mos Eisley, and he sees why, now that he's here: There are so many individuals in this town, eager to prey on the naïve, that he's anxious to put this place behind him as quickly as he can.
#21 - Backwards: His training is difficult; for every step he takes forward in attempting to learn the ways of the Force, it feels like he takes several steps back.
#22 - Trouble: He'll only bring trouble to his friends if he helps them take down the second Death Star's shields; it's a risk he can't afford to take, to take the chance of sabotaging their work.
#23 - Little: For the little creature he found on Dagobah to turn out to be the very Jedi Master he was sent to apprentice under is startling; surely such a small being can't possess such immense power; but he's quickly proven wrong.
#24 - Collar: With the desperate rush to get back to the Falcon on the Death Star, he feels understandably hot under the collar, as he's sure those with him do; but seeing Ben being cut down turns his insides to ice.
#25 - Circle: He was so sure that he'd never return to this endless desert; but, with one of his friends being held here, he realizes now that his life was meant to go full circle by coming back again.
#26 - Hands: His hands feel out of balance, now; for all that the prosthetic answers well, he doesn't know how he'll get used to the mechanical fingers, as opposed to the flesh and bone that he's accustomed to.
#27 - Freedom: With Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru cruelly slaughtered, there's no longer a reason to remain tied to the moisture farm where he was raised; but the horrible circumstances of his escape from that dead-end existence that he resented make it feel so much less like the freedom that he'd expected leaving to be.
#28 - Last: Being the last of a vital tradition, now that even Yoda is dead, is a burden that he doesn't wish to bear; he wants there to be other Jedi out there to learn from, to talk to, to share whatever duties he's inherited from his training.
#29 - Scab: He swears he'll never return to that sand-scabbed world that he'd grown up on.
#30 - Crown: It's difficult for him to believe that Leia, of all the people in the galaxy, is his twin sister; between being raised as royalty, and her tenure as a Senator, she carries herself with the command that ought to wear a crown, while he was raised so ordinarily back on that moisture farm.
#31 - Time: Time doesn't heal wounds; he knows that; but time does make them ache less, and helps him learn to accept the truth that he wishes was a lie.
#32 - Rice: He's shocked to see the Emperor so close; the older man looks so feeble, his skin as pale as old rice; no one who appears to be so physically incapable ought to have the level of sheer power that Palpatine possesses.
#33 - Worn: He can't believe that this is the ship Ben's hired to take them offworld; the Falcon seems far too worn, and her captain much too arrogant, for either to be trustworthy.
#34 - Paint: No one, not even him, can paint his father's sins away into innocence; but he can sense the decency that still lies hidden beneath the armor and the mask, and he knows that it's up to him to reach through and draw it back out again.
#35 - Ache: He aches with sorrow at having to tell Leia the truth: That their father is the one person in all the galaxy who he knows she has the greatest reason to fear and despise; but she's intelligent, and Force-sensitive, despite her lack of training; he knows that his newfound twin would only have found out the truth eventually, anyway, and perhaps have resented him for not being the one to tell her what he already knew.
#36 - Cherry: With all that it's cost him, knowing that he's helped to liberate the galaxy is a source of great satisfaction; but finding a long-lost sister, and having friends who are almost like a new family, is the cherry that makes everything so much better.
#37 - Library: From what stories he was told about how the Jedi Knights faithfully served the Republic while it existed, he always expected that they'd live in palatial structures, with libraries filled with wisdom and lore; but he finds both of his mentors in tiny hovels, a far cry from what he'd expected from legends.
#38 - Win: The Empire will collapse, now that Palpatine is dead, and the second Death Star destroyed; but that victory, great as it is, is far less important in Luke's heart; he's won a greater battle today: The battle for the soul of his long-lost father.
#39 - Loss: It's strange to him, to think of how life seems to counterbalance itself; though he's lost what little family he knew, he's gained another in their place.
#40 - Fold: He'll bring his father back into the fold, even if it kills him in the process; it's a chance worth taking.
#41 - Music: Han's voice coming in over his headset is music to his ears as he goes through the Death Star Trench; with that wily smuggler back, and covering him, he knows he can't fail.
#42 - Bell: The name Obi-wan rings no bells; Kenobi, however, does; he shouldn't follow the clue, but there's little reason not to, if it solves the mystery of that flickering hologram the R2 droid just played.
#43 - Sleep: He knows that he needs to sleep, in order to regain his strength after the injuries he sustained at Cloud City; but Vader's words keep him awake, haunting his very soul.
#44 - Contact: He's made contact; he can sense it; the desire in his father to be a better man than what he's become under the influence of the Dark Side, to not be a blight, an insult to those who trained him so long ago, to try to be worthy of the best efforts of the son he's only beginning to know.
#45 - Electricity: It's impossible to go through life without experiencing the occasional static electric shock; but the Force lighting the Emperor is torturing him with is another thing entirely; it's a thousand Hells, all unleashed at once.
#46 - Milk: He doesn't trust the smuggler any further than he can throw him; men like that are greedy and opportunistic, and this one's likely to milk as many credits out of him and Ben as he can, if given the chance.
#47 - Wild: The thought of Leia being turned to the Dark Side unleashes a wild rage in his heart; he hasn't regained the sister he never knew he had, after years of separation, only to lose her.
#48 - Expectation: As he writhes in agony, he calls out to his father, hoping, but not expecting, to trigger the protective instinct, parent for child, that might still linger beneath the armor and the life-support system.
#49 - Mechanism: They're so much more alike than he'd wanted to believe; perhaps it's true that the man who was his father is barely more than a mechanism; but he himself now has a prosthetic hand, less human than he was on the day he was born; he serves the Light, while his father surrendered to the Dark; but, beneath the skin, there's little difference between them.
#50 - Finale: He'd like to believe that this is the finale: Vader redeemed in his last moments; the Emperor destroyed, the Empire in tatters; but, as he celebrates with his loved ones, he knows that the hard work, the effort to rebuild the Republic, will be long, and is only just beginning.
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Theme set: Gamma
Rating: G
Warnings: None
#01 - Snow: Though some time has passed since he left his sandy home behind, Hoth's perpetual snows are a stark and startling contrast; he's amazed that there's such a thing as being warm enough to endure the frigidity.
#02 - Child: Ever since he was a child, he's wished for other stars, other skies; though he knew the galaxy was vast, he never suspected what a wide variety of worlds he'd soon find himself on.
#03 - Brick: Vader's words--and the truth that lurks behind them--hits him like a ton of bricks; that he could be the son of the black-cloaked monster who helps the Emperor hold the galaxy in a merciless grip is unthinkable.
#04 - Judgment: He can't imagine what sort of lapse in judgment has brought Han back into the fight, when all the man had seemed to want was to get paid and get out; but he's grateful, overjoyed, to have him back again to help.
#05 - Powder: Here he is again: Back beneath the twin suns, back within the sand and the powder and the unending heat; he swore he'd never come back, but this is where Han is, and he won't let a friend down.
#06 - Grim: It's a grim task he's set for himself, to hand himself over, while his friends are working to take down the new Death Star; he should be helping them as best he can, but here is where his father is; this will be his only chance, perhaps, to try to save Anakin Skywalker from the shadows he's wrapped himself in.
#07 - Trap: Later, once he's had time to think, he realizes how foolish it was for him to run off to Bespin; it isn't merely that he walked into Vader's trap, and narrowly escaped it; it isn't even that he's lost his hand, and gained a troubling awareness of his own origins; it's that he forced his own friends to further risk their already saved lives to go back and rescue him, when the rescue shouldn't have been necessary.
#08 - Star: He's sick of the sight of the twin suns that he grew up orbiting; there are countless other stars in this galaxy, and numerous worlds circling around them, all more interesting than this dust bowl of a planet.
#09 - Possession: To be in possession of a power with as much potential as the Force, he realizes, is a burden and an overwhelming responsibility; he hopes that he'll use it well.
#10 - Bandage: They can numb the pain in his arm, can cover the stump that used to be his right hand with the most advanced prosthetic they can find; but there's no way to damage the wound to his soul that comes of knowing what sort of man his father truly is.
#11 - Pearl: The sight of the third Force Ghost, glowing there like a pearl, brings him joy; now he knows the true face of the man who'd lived behind a mask for too many years, youthful and proud, and looking just a trifle arrogant; his father's been redeemed, and is enough at peace to join Ben and Yoda in the light.
#12 - Glass: He's always feared the Emperor from a distance; now, seeing the tyrant face to face, and learning that all of his emotions and thoughts are being detected as though he were made of glass, he finds Palpatine more terrifying still.
#13 - Classified: Initially, he wants to curse everyone who kept the truth of his parentage from him; but, as time passes, he comes to understand the wisdom of keeping such information classified; he was only being protected from the darkness that has already claimed his father.
#14 - Buttons: Something about this dust bowl of a planet just pushes all of his buttons; he grew up here, but it doesn't feel like home, somehow.
#15 - Closet: If he had a closet, in this world-hopping life he now leads, he'd give a special place within it to the medal that he received in service to the Alliance, after blowing the Death Star into oblivion.
#16 - Ash: As he stands beside the pyre and watches it burn, he hopes that what there was of Darth Vader will be lost among the scattered ashes, and what remains will be the freedom and rest that the man within, who once was known as Anakin, has finally earned.
#17 - Definition: Now that he's seen what the Force is capable of, lifting his X-Wing out of the swamp, he realizes that he has to find a new definition of the word "impossible".
#18 - Staircase: His training as a Jedi seems like a staircase that Fate just won't let him climb; first Ben is slain; then he's drawn away from Yoda by the events on Bespin; and, when he returns, it's in time to lose Yoda.
#19 - Nail: If it gets found out that the little R2 droid ran off because of him, Uncle Owen will nail his ears to the wall; he's got to find it before something happens, and quickly.
#20 - Prey: When he was growing up, Uncle Owen always warned him to stay far away from places like Mos Eisley, and he sees why, now that he's here: There are so many individuals in this town, eager to prey on the naïve, that he's anxious to put this place behind him as quickly as he can.
#21 - Backwards: His training is difficult; for every step he takes forward in attempting to learn the ways of the Force, it feels like he takes several steps back.
#22 - Trouble: He'll only bring trouble to his friends if he helps them take down the second Death Star's shields; it's a risk he can't afford to take, to take the chance of sabotaging their work.
#23 - Little: For the little creature he found on Dagobah to turn out to be the very Jedi Master he was sent to apprentice under is startling; surely such a small being can't possess such immense power; but he's quickly proven wrong.
#24 - Collar: With the desperate rush to get back to the Falcon on the Death Star, he feels understandably hot under the collar, as he's sure those with him do; but seeing Ben being cut down turns his insides to ice.
#25 - Circle: He was so sure that he'd never return to this endless desert; but, with one of his friends being held here, he realizes now that his life was meant to go full circle by coming back again.
#26 - Hands: His hands feel out of balance, now; for all that the prosthetic answers well, he doesn't know how he'll get used to the mechanical fingers, as opposed to the flesh and bone that he's accustomed to.
#27 - Freedom: With Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru cruelly slaughtered, there's no longer a reason to remain tied to the moisture farm where he was raised; but the horrible circumstances of his escape from that dead-end existence that he resented make it feel so much less like the freedom that he'd expected leaving to be.
#28 - Last: Being the last of a vital tradition, now that even Yoda is dead, is a burden that he doesn't wish to bear; he wants there to be other Jedi out there to learn from, to talk to, to share whatever duties he's inherited from his training.
#29 - Scab: He swears he'll never return to that sand-scabbed world that he'd grown up on.
#30 - Crown: It's difficult for him to believe that Leia, of all the people in the galaxy, is his twin sister; between being raised as royalty, and her tenure as a Senator, she carries herself with the command that ought to wear a crown, while he was raised so ordinarily back on that moisture farm.
#31 - Time: Time doesn't heal wounds; he knows that; but time does make them ache less, and helps him learn to accept the truth that he wishes was a lie.
#32 - Rice: He's shocked to see the Emperor so close; the older man looks so feeble, his skin as pale as old rice; no one who appears to be so physically incapable ought to have the level of sheer power that Palpatine possesses.
#33 - Worn: He can't believe that this is the ship Ben's hired to take them offworld; the Falcon seems far too worn, and her captain much too arrogant, for either to be trustworthy.
#34 - Paint: No one, not even him, can paint his father's sins away into innocence; but he can sense the decency that still lies hidden beneath the armor and the mask, and he knows that it's up to him to reach through and draw it back out again.
#35 - Ache: He aches with sorrow at having to tell Leia the truth: That their father is the one person in all the galaxy who he knows she has the greatest reason to fear and despise; but she's intelligent, and Force-sensitive, despite her lack of training; he knows that his newfound twin would only have found out the truth eventually, anyway, and perhaps have resented him for not being the one to tell her what he already knew.
#36 - Cherry: With all that it's cost him, knowing that he's helped to liberate the galaxy is a source of great satisfaction; but finding a long-lost sister, and having friends who are almost like a new family, is the cherry that makes everything so much better.
#37 - Library: From what stories he was told about how the Jedi Knights faithfully served the Republic while it existed, he always expected that they'd live in palatial structures, with libraries filled with wisdom and lore; but he finds both of his mentors in tiny hovels, a far cry from what he'd expected from legends.
#38 - Win: The Empire will collapse, now that Palpatine is dead, and the second Death Star destroyed; but that victory, great as it is, is far less important in Luke's heart; he's won a greater battle today: The battle for the soul of his long-lost father.
#39 - Loss: It's strange to him, to think of how life seems to counterbalance itself; though he's lost what little family he knew, he's gained another in their place.
#40 - Fold: He'll bring his father back into the fold, even if it kills him in the process; it's a chance worth taking.
#41 - Music: Han's voice coming in over his headset is music to his ears as he goes through the Death Star Trench; with that wily smuggler back, and covering him, he knows he can't fail.
#42 - Bell: The name Obi-wan rings no bells; Kenobi, however, does; he shouldn't follow the clue, but there's little reason not to, if it solves the mystery of that flickering hologram the R2 droid just played.
#43 - Sleep: He knows that he needs to sleep, in order to regain his strength after the injuries he sustained at Cloud City; but Vader's words keep him awake, haunting his very soul.
#44 - Contact: He's made contact; he can sense it; the desire in his father to be a better man than what he's become under the influence of the Dark Side, to not be a blight, an insult to those who trained him so long ago, to try to be worthy of the best efforts of the son he's only beginning to know.
#45 - Electricity: It's impossible to go through life without experiencing the occasional static electric shock; but the Force lighting the Emperor is torturing him with is another thing entirely; it's a thousand Hells, all unleashed at once.
#46 - Milk: He doesn't trust the smuggler any further than he can throw him; men like that are greedy and opportunistic, and this one's likely to milk as many credits out of him and Ben as he can, if given the chance.
#47 - Wild: The thought of Leia being turned to the Dark Side unleashes a wild rage in his heart; he hasn't regained the sister he never knew he had, after years of separation, only to lose her.
#48 - Expectation: As he writhes in agony, he calls out to his father, hoping, but not expecting, to trigger the protective instinct, parent for child, that might still linger beneath the armor and the life-support system.
#49 - Mechanism: They're so much more alike than he'd wanted to believe; perhaps it's true that the man who was his father is barely more than a mechanism; but he himself now has a prosthetic hand, less human than he was on the day he was born; he serves the Light, while his father surrendered to the Dark; but, beneath the skin, there's little difference between them.
#50 - Finale: He'd like to believe that this is the finale: Vader redeemed in his last moments; the Emperor destroyed, the Empire in tatters; but, as he celebrates with his loved ones, he knows that the hard work, the effort to rebuild the Republic, will be long, and is only just beginning.
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