Let's talk about our feelings

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The tl;dr CR meme

• Post with your characters
• Respond to other people's characters with your characters
• They tell you in detail what their character thinks of your character
• Other people do the same to you!
• Good to use for CR charts or just or just ramble about your characters' feelings

Comments

[imahologram]

Somebody needs to teach this girl to shower and at some point, i should have leia hit up the girl's inbox to that general sentiment.

The Girl is a little like Leia might have been on Tatooine. Parochial, big-mouthed, not a lot of polish, but more than enough determination to make up for it. Dusty, too, and too used to the vicissitudes of life in a desert to really imagine life beyond it.

Leia doesn't think of her that way, though. What she sees is a child whose opportunities have been shamefully narrowed by her circumstances--never leaving her planet! never knowing a life without radiation!--but who hasn't been beaten down by that fact. She does see herself, in the Girl's boundless energy and questions, however.

And seeing all that, she has two goals. First: Ensure she has a friend on this ship, especially early on, when the Girl is entirely among strangers. Second: See if she can't help her learn some of the things she's never had a chance to pick up. Help her explore new places, give her a sense of how much there is out there beyond one little irradiated desert, how much the Girl can do or be, if she chooses. Her opportunities might still be limited when they finally go home, but until then, she can pick up skills and virtues (like diligence and discipline and follow-through, go to your job, Bee). It's what her father would do, Leia thinks, and she trusts in the memory of her father.

(And that's point the third: Help her get home, if at all possible. A child shouldn't be here, even a brave, sharp-tongued one. She ought to be with her people, and Leia feels a responsibility towards her to make that happen. She can't leave this place and leave the Girl behind--not after knowing her--and she's deeply unconcerned with the possibility that the Girl might be dangerous. She's faced worse.)

[kidjoy]

Do iiiit

This is all very sweet and really fits into why the Girl finds Leia maybe a little too trusting. That narrow ideal of the world makes it hard to her to realize that Leia's being nice isn't a sign of foolishness or weakness. And Girl has been raised to be so cocky in her own abilities that she really doesn't understand no adult in their right mind would really be afraid of her.

Really she needs someone like Leia around to give her that balanced view of the world she's sort of lacking from her home experience.