#and leia does not care

[mearchy]

The best fics are the ones that recognize that although Luke Skywalker may APPEAR on the outside to be a normal friendly twink who happens to have cool powers, especially when contrasted with such ship partners as Boba or Din or even Han, he is arguably the scariest person alive in the galaxy around the prequel era. AND, crucially, he is also a fundamentally weird guy. This man was homeschooled on a rural farm his entire life and then apprenticed to a swamp gremlin who showed him how to tap into the cosmic power of the universe. He blew up the death star age 19, killing approx 2 million-ish Imperials. He is a vortex of Force power that can communicate with the ghosts of dead Jedi. He’s staring into the distance and mumbling to himself and doing Yoda aphorisms and casually pulling out the “yeah I could crush that guy into a paste with my mind (:” and nobody around him knows what to do with that. I think he is a character who has very little frame of reference for how a Jedi or a person in general is supposed to act and there is some thing about him that is by necessity really fucking weird and a little scary but he’s so nice that it can throw you off the scent a little bit. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

#This can be played for comedic value eldritch horror BAMF moments and also just overall weirdness. #not even in a manic pixie dream boy way but just like. #a very unsettling guy… and you don’t know why… #but he also exudes enough light and friendliness that everyone overlooks it #and now HAN is used to this #and leia does not care #but boba fett is doing the 😧 #and i just think that’s funny. #all jedi should be weird but luke is weirder because he doesn’t even have any context for this shit. #like normal jedi learn to be normal from the temple environment #or from being around lots of normal people. #so he’s like everything kind of Off about the jedi distilled into one friendly blond surfer dude. #star wars #original trilogy #ot #star wars original trilogy #luke skywalker #bobaluke #dinluke #the mandalorian #boba fett #din djarin

[poelya]

team "poe and han are alike but not like that (fanon arrogant playboy stereotype)"

#sorry I read that han solo 2016 comic and god han has this little soliloquy about the stars and the freedom he finds in them and it's. #the same exact sentiment poe expresses in age of resistance. #It makes sense tho Poe was - snorts - conceptualized to be the st's han #they've been clear about that since tfa which I find mildly hysterical. besties you accidentally knocked Leia's archetype in there too #but still. #and free fall goes hard on the han/qira parallels #altho I maintain that zorii does more to prove poe is more leia than anything. oh ur ex is a smuggler who acts like she doesn't care but #actually does?? and isn't as selfish as she likes to claim? #yeah that's what I thought you'd say you adopted organa you (fond) #anyway. #nym speaks #unrebloggable bc I'd rather. [Remembers suicide jokes are bad for ur mental health] shower w a bear than this break containment

[jynjackets]

cassian andor 🤝 hadder ponta

- rebels (spirit and lofty interpretation count right?)

- men

- have a mother

- rebel insurgent (one is headcanon)

- brunette

- they would be friends because they have equal amounts of characterization for me to make that determination (hc)

- treated as solely love interests even though one is written with the entire intention to be a love interest but i’m going to say the treatment by fans of a lead and a supporting stereotype are comparable for centrist blind feminism i mean men’s rights

#i don’t care if you love a character u do u #it’s the overcompensation of erasing character and identity in order to make women more digestible #ur not doing feminism any favors by comparing qira and leia organa like #nobody needs to do that because they have enough character on their own #nobody DOES that #am i angry about a centrist ass take? that’s what having an opinion is like #shut up lila #andor talks #jyn erso

[sotangledupinit]

“You don’t have to call me [Princess]. I’m just Leia.” / “I’m a person and my name is Anakin.”

#obi wan kenobi spoilers #kenobi series spoilers #kenobi series #leia organa #Princess Leia #anakin Skywalker #the phantom menace #THE WAY WE SEE SO MUCH OF PADME AND ANAKIN IN LITTLE LEIA #SO MUCH OF WHAT SHE DOES REMINDS ME OF OTHER STUFF THEY DO #THIS ENTIRE SCENE WITH HER CARING ABOUT THE DROIDS AND THEN THIS LINE #WAS SO COMPLETELY ANAKIN #I CRIED

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

When Leia asks Obi-Wan, "Are you my real father?" and he says, "I wish I could say that I was," that means so much. He says it because he wishes he could remove the painful reality of Leia's true father being someone so evil, and he wishes he could offer the comfort of knowing her real father. He says it because he was Anakin's brother, his best friend, his other half, and if anyone could have raised his children for him it would have been Obi-Wan. He says it because he is drawn to Leia; he loves the pieces of Anakin and Padme he sees in her, but what's more, he loves her, and he wants to protect her for more than just whose child she is.

But most of all, he says it because he wishes he could have raised her--and Luke. He wishes he could have trained them to be Jedi, like their father, but without the pain that scarred him and eventually drove him to the Dark Side. He wishes he could have had a family in them, that he could have been free to show them the love that he has for them. But he hasn't been able to, because of the danger that would put them in.

He wishes he could say that his love wouldn't kill what he touches.

But he can't.

#star wars #kenobi series spoilers #kenobi series #obi wan kenobi #leia organa #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #quality meta seal of approval #not to hype my own post up i just put that on all meta posts so that i can find them #meta #my meta posts #kay can i just catch my breath for a second #and like he didn't even like kids when he was younger. he found young anakin frustrating and annoying #but now he's so clearly fond of leia and is so paternal and protective...he calls himself her father at basically every chance #like it's a twofold thing of wanting the family he never had (and to fill the whole left by the jedi family that was slaughtered) #and also in some way he feels that taking care of the children would make it up to anakin somewhat for his failure to anakin himself #like it's his last duty as his friend and brother #it's the last thing he can do for him really #and he can't even do that because obi-wan himself is a threat to them. because he loves them. just like he loved anakin #like he still does. #kay has a party in the tags #(and it was that love that made obi-wan turn and leave without striking the final blow...) #(it was that love that made obi-wan overlook the warning signs and trust anakin because 'he's never let me down') #(he trusted anakin. and now we can see that he is struggling so hard to trust anyone else. and it hurts him so much) #(and somehow even his lack of trust still fails and leads vader to them and endangers leia and it's still his fault) #(it's just...'what if i can't?' and he tries anyway and finds that he was right: he can't.) #right in the feels #augh the pain

[samuraijackpostdump]

I miss Jack

#samurai jack #I get so excited when i see fun bloggers abt samurai jack bc most of the people still involved here are the opposite of chill and normal #I’m stuck here between ppl dressing jack up like princess leia (w very uh. Not Racially Sensitive style stories??) #the proshippers that are shipping Aku with fucking Blossom Powerpuff Girl #(sorry to bring up proshipper term it’s just the term they use to describe themselves) #the Johnny Bravo shippers (generally the most tolerable but also the ones frequently doing the ‘sex servant’ stories :/) #and the people that think Aku needs a redemption arc and should be shipped with whoever they lay eyes on #and every now and then an Ashi and Jack super fan will emerge to talk about Jack and her fucking and it’s almost a breath of fresh air #like those guys (the ones that are always like ‘we won deal w it stinky anti shippers’ despite no one saying anything to them) #are annoying but I’ll take the normalcy of that compared to what the tag has become 😭😭😭 #does anyone here care about the story…. the art…. Jack himself…. hello….

[seth-shitposts]

We finished the Obi-Wan Kenobi Series

There were a lot of things I was/am endlessly frustrated over

But there are also many bits and choices that were made that I have an appreciation for too.

#i am never going to forgive them for doing the pau'an like that #or for just how utterly underwhelming and unintimdating they made The Grand Inquisitior (and im holding a chunk of that onto the actor+ #himself because he even had to open his mouth&state that he chose not to watch rebels to “respect the character”. im salty.) #but also how they wrote obi-wan engaging with others and have him be tatters of who he once was #and little quib bits with leia #and how he cares for luke #how guilty he feels over what he thought were his own short comings #and then reva #stars i love her and i need more. i want her to struggle finding her way to the light of the force and learn how to reliquish herself to it #and trust it again. i want to know wjat she does i want know what she chooses #i can count on a single hand the number of people that im aware of that hated Anakin Skywalker #and she fucking should. andxhdkdjjejdjfjfjdjejwjdhc #i wish i had more from Roken #loved him dearly but stars i want more pls- #im thrilled with so many bits from this series #i have so many ideas and dbksjdbcjwkksjd

[diapereddarling]

This is Leia!

She's about 5'3'', chubby, loves everything cute and works in a cafe! She and Dorian met while in the same course in Uni.

She's a trans lady and aged 25

This is Charlie, he's Stevens ex, they decided they were better friends than lovers. He's fucking BUILT. He's about 6ft and works in delivery- he'd live off the grid if he could tho.

He's a trans man, about 27/28.

This is Maxine! Her and Dorian met on gothic forums. She runs a true crime channel and podcast and does her best to be good to the victims of the crimes they talk about. They're built like a twig, a stiff breeze could blow them over.

They're nonbinary, use she/they pronouns, about 5'8'' and aged 29.

Bonus Steven with his natural hair colour and Dorian without his red accents

#darling mumbles #padding preferences also just because: Leia prefers pull ups but likes some cute diapers Charlie likes wearing but not often #usually plain and discreet #maxine aint into it #steven while more iften than not in more of a care giver role does wear as well #dorian is dependent likes having patterns and prints tho

[merrysithmas]

is it too much for a gay to hope for young Leia and Amilyn Holdo content in Andor??

#amileia #amilyn holdo #leia organa #leia deserves a mean lesbian wife after enduring han and luke for 20 years #she deserves someone who will stick up for her and fight for her as hard as she fights for everyone else #someone tough who wont crumble under pressure and who she doesnt have to take care of #where she can be the soft one #someone who has the same dreams and passions as she does #and an intellectual equal

[jayaorgana]

Mara is so intense. I loove her.

#pippa.txt #in reading the thrawn trilogy comics #because the last time I read the thrawn trilogy it was just the first two and I was 10 years old and I only cared about Leia #now Im 19 years old and I only care about Leia and Mara and Winter #(JUST KIDDING DON’T REVOKE MY LUKE FAN CARD) #does this count as a liveblog

[agoldengalaxy]

me: actually, han solo did nothing wrong

someone else: but he -

me, louder: actually, han solo did NOTHING WRONG

#star wars #han solo #harrison ford #this is inspired in part by the lego star wars summer vacation special #but also because I love him #objectively #does he suck #yes #but who cares #he’s my dumbass and I’m sick of the slander #kylo ren was snoke’s fault or whatever #I’m choosing to believe han and leia were both amazing parents #fuck canon #my post

[fanfic-obsessed]

Knowing

I have just had the worst, or best, brainwave and I need to share it. 

Here is an AU for you.

Vader thinks that he killed his wife and child, right?

Right up until he meets little Leia Organa when she is 10 years old. Like his one brain cell woke the fuck up when he was confronted with a passionate, angry little girl with Padme’s eyes and his chin. This is maybe a month after she was kidnapped and returned to Alderaan. Leia decides that she would need to learn how to be a senator and insists that Bail takes her with him to the next session of the imperial senate.  

Bail does not want to bring her to the imperial senate. However he knows very well who her birth parents were, it is either Bail brings Leia to the Imperial Senate or Leia brings Leia to the Imperial Senate, probably bringing with her someone she really shouldn’t (Like actual Obi Wan Kenobi-I just want you to picture for a moment, because Bail certainly did, looking up and realizing that Leia is charging down the halls outside his office, dragging with her a bemused and sandy Obi Wan, both in badly conceived disguises).

Bail is super stressed as he tries to run a rebellion while riding herd on his well meaning but very direct 10 year old daughter on top of his normal duties as an imperial senator. Bail is also very afraid that the moment the Emperor sees Leia, he will make the connection between Leia and Padme Amidala (The emperor does not socialize with the senate any longer, thank the stars). He has no idea that Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, so has no cause to be more careful than normal (because Vader) about Vader seeing Leia. As such Bail does not even notice when Vader stops to consider them from the shadows. Leia is haranguing another planet’s senatorial aide who had chosen the wrong moment to make a bigoted joke. 

Vader is very abruptly, though mentally, thrown back to this very hallway 12 years earlier where he watched his wife do the same thing, for the same reason, possibly to this same aide. Though Leia is still a child and Padme was an adult, he can still see his wife in this little girl.

The realization that this is Padme’s child hits him with the force of a Ventanor. Followed immediately, before he even realized that this meant that his child was standing in front of him, by the soul deep knowledge that she must be protected from the Emperor at all costs. 

Vader had known for years that his suit had been designed to cause him more pain, he just thought he deserved it. The thought of Palpatine getting ahold of Padme’s daughter was abhorrent. Vader sticks to the shadows and watches, seeing how well Bail loved and protected Leia. 

While he is thinking(read Obsessing) about his daughter, the part of him that is always centered on Obi Wan points out that his old master had been one of the last people to see Padme after Vader choked her. But the little voice that spoke in Padme’s tones piped up, the shock of Leia living being enough to finally make this little voice loud enough to be heard, saying that until recently Obi Wan believed that Anakin Skywalker was all the way dead, he was protecting their child as best as he knew how. 

And Vader has issues with just about every choice Obi Wan Kenobi ever made. But he will admit that hiding Padme’s daughter was the best option. 

As Vader knows that paying too much attention to Leia would draw the Emperor’s attention, he would be willing to wait until the right moment to get his daughter back. His one concession to his need to protect her was taking one of his personal guard, one of the few units still made up almost entirely of clones, and assigning them to be Leia Organa’s bodyguard, her shadow (I also want you to take a moment to consider what that did for Bail’s stress level).  And then Vader gets to planning. 

With his one brain cell awake and focused on the Organa’s it takes Vader all of 15 minutes to realize that Bail Organa is running the Rebellion (I want it to be clear, this is not a slight on Bail at all, Anakin Skywalker was a war general, well educated through the Jedi on a number of subjects, and does have a fair measure of politics learning from both his former master and his dead wife).  However Vader is no more loyal to the Empire than Anakin was to the Republic.  In fact, upon realizing that Padme’s daughter had lived Vader firmly decided that he needed to find a way to kill Palpatine to crown Leia.  With the realization that Bail, and likely Leia (neither Vader nor Anakin have any idea what activities are appropriate for a 10 year old), are part of the Rebellion, Vader decides that The Rebellion would succeed (or everyone would die trying). 

Note: Vader only really gets away with no one realizing that he now supported the Rebellion because, well, no one can quite believe that Darth Vader supports the Rebellion. Most people think there is a new type of Space Madness, and that one of the symptoms is hallucinating Darth Vader giving you intel for the Rebellion.

By the time Leia was a teenager, rumors abound about the odd way that Vader acted around her. By sheer happenstance (and some judicial violence on Vader’s part) these rumors had never reached the Emperor. A good deal of these rumors implied that Vader was looking to the Princess of Alderaan as a wife.  The reaction Vader had, the only time it was brought up in front of him, was…impressive, even for the amount of violence he normally dealt out. Still there are members of Vader’s personal guard who watch over Leia whenever she is on Imperial Center, and no one wants to repeat the time when she was 12 when one of Bail enemies tried to kidnap her for ransom.  It took an entire corps of engineers to put those levels back to rights (after they scrubbed the blood off).  

So we get all the way up to the timeframe of ANH. The Death Star in this does not start out under the control of Darth Vader. It starts out under the control of Tarkin, it is important to note this. Leia still sends out R2D2 and C3P0 to find Obi Wan Kenobi, none of that part changes. 

It is after Leia is captured that Darth Vader shows up (does he lurk silently in any system that Leia is due to be in as often as he can get away with…why yes, yes he does). Tarkin had wanted Leia tortured, however no one wanted to find out how many decks Vader would spread their entrails across for touching her.  Vader arrives on the bridge just as Tarkin is threatening to blow up Alderaan. Tarkin orders the weapon to begin its charge. 

Leia, Leia who is so like her mother in that she will use every weapon in her arsenal, turns to Darth Vader and speaks to him for the first time. ‘Please’ she said, no effort to hide her distress, ‘please save my planet’

Something Leia had no cause to know-An angel who she resembled once thanked Anakin Skywalker for saving her planet. 

Tarkin is dead almost before she finishes speaking. Vader orders the DS weapons to power down and disengage, which is done post haste. Then announces that Leia Organa was now in control. 

So Leia now owns a Death Star (genuine article-never used). Leia is not sure if that is how this works, but no one is arguing with the tall man in black who has OPINIONS and will enforce them.  Leia manages to communicate this to her parents, who take a shuttle up to the space station to figure out what the fuck is going on, and what, if anything, they need to do next.

Two hours later: Obi Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, R2D2, C3P0, and Chewbacca have just been caught trying to sneak onto the Death Star. The Organas are still on board, trying to get answers (In that time Vader has said precisely five words to them ‘You have raised her well’).  It is to this room that the troopers manning the station (who are deeply confused and a bit conflicted because it seems like they may have all been forcibly defected from the Empire, but no one is willing to disobey Lord Vader) bring Obi Wan and co. and present them to Leia, as she is considered in command.  Somehow Luke’s full name (I kind of picture him still dumbly introducing himself to Leia, followed with ‘we’re here to rescue you’) gets used before the situation deteriorates. Which naturally causes everything to deteriorate further and faster than before.  

Far away on Imperial Center, the Emperor pauses in the middle of a hallway ‘I feel’ he says to no one ‘a disturbance in the Force.’ another pause ‘like some shit has just hit the fan’

Far away on Dagobah Yoda looks up, ‘weird, shit just got’

#star wars #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #star wars au #sheev palpatine #fanfiction prompt #anidala #leia organa #luke skywalker #bail organa #darth vader

[stealingpotatoes]

In your AUs when Snoke tries to turn Ben does force ghost Anakin and Obi-wan turn up to force punch Snoke in the face?

leia took care of that already <3 BUT anakin can totally provide post-yelling backup!!

#anakin skywalker #ben solo #kylo ren #leia organa #princess leia #star wars #rey skywalker-djarin au #my doods #thanks for the ask! #force ghosts #comic

[nonasuch]

Did you ever write more to the "vader finds out that leia I'd his daughter" story?

No but it’s been percolating in my head for a while so let’s go

(continuing from this)

The first thing Vader does is cover his tracks. Wipes the security cameras for the whole cell block, wipes the prisoner logs, makes sure that no trace of Leia’s capture or escape will be in the files synced daily with Imperial Center. Puts in transfer orders for that nervous junior officer to somewhere very far away and very quiet. Saves only one short vid clip, to the secret hard drive hidden in his own respirator.

I’m Luke Skywalker. I’m here to rescue you.

While he’s doing this, his children (children! plural!) are getting themselves into trouble, and out again. Apparently the trash compactor was involved. He will have more footage to scrub. Somehow they’ve acquired a Wookie.

Kenobi is with them.

Vader should have foreseen this. Of course, Kenobi.

His presence saturates the Force, nearly drowning out Luke— and Leia, too, now that Vader knows to look. It’s enough to break Vader free from the chill of shock, his rightful fury seen as through a window right up until it shatters, and engulfs him again.

But he forces it back. He wants answers, before he kills Kenobi.

(I’m Luke Skywalker. I’m here to rescue you.)

He hasn’t played the clip again, but it echoes in his ears nonetheless.

When he faces Kenobi, Vader is still off-balance. Kenobi seems as calm, as unruffled as he ever did, though he’s far too obvious in buying time for Leia and Luke to attempt an escape.

Vader asks him: “Do they know?”

“You’ll have to be more specific,” Kenobi says, light and unconvincing.

“You kept them from me,” Vader says, and that is a thought that feeds the Dark, that lets him hammer at Kenobi’s saber until he’s nearly past his guard—

“I kept them from your master,” Kenobi says, his voice still even and pleasant and false, hardly betraying his exertion.

“I’ll kill you for this,” Vader vows.

“I expect so,” says Kenobi. “I swore I’d die before I let Palpatine harm another child in my care. If dying will keep them from him, it’s well worth the cost.”

(I’m Luke Skywalker. I’m here to rescue you.)

By the end of this speech Kenobi recovers a little of his old skill, turning Vader’s blows aside instead of merely bearing up under their weight. Too soon, Vader falters, losing the momentum of rage. They both fall back to defensive positions. Any living troopers have long since cleared the area; the whole deck is a ruin of saber gouges and shattered armor.

Vader rarely speaks without thinking. The nature of his breathing apparatus makes this a necessity, more often than not. But the words escape him anyway.

“Who named them?”

And now Kenobi is the one who falters. It is satisfying, if short-lived. “Their mother,” he says. “With her last breaths.”

A long time ago — a lifetime away — there was a list of names. Two lists, really, to start with, and then another of the names held in common to both. No record of it survives, not even on the hard drive hidden next to Vader’s heart.

On Naboo, children are often named for virtues. A child might be called Aluuk, for kindness, or Alié, for wisdom.

On Tatooine, a child’s name is the parent’s hope for its future. Perhaps Lukka would grow to be free; perhaps Leyah would grow to be fierce.

And perhaps they have. Vader does not know. Kenobi took that from him.

Vader won’t kill him yet, though. He still has questions.

#asked and answered #star wars #i wrote a thing

[short-wooloo]

It just occurred to me why certain fans (particularly stanakins) have such rabid stupid hate boners for Reva...

It's because Reva does something rare for a higher canon character, she hates Anakin

See, hating Vader isn't uncommon in universe, most people do, but most aren't aware of anakin in the Vader equation, nor did they know him personally, and of the characters who know both anakin and Vader, most don't hate him

Yoda pities him

Obi-Wan is wrecked with guilt over him

Padme died believing in him

Luke loves him and still believes in him

Really the only one who hates anakin is Leia, but critically, this doesn't come up in higher canon, it's mostly a books/comics thing, the most we get of Leia's thoughts on anakin is shock and disbelief that he's her father in rotj

(Also I notice people give Leia a pass for hating anakin, a combination of "Leia's allowed because she's his daughter" and of course, racism, white characters are allowed to despise a white villain, but if a black character does then they're literally the worst)

But Reva hates anakin, hates him for what he did to her, to her family, for betraying the Jedi, and she's open about it, she doesn't care about the "good man" Anakin used to be like the others (minus Leia) above, she doesn't lend him sympathy

And that drives stanakins insane

#wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #star wars #sw #reva sevander #pro reva sevander #in defense of reva #anakin skywalker #anti anakin apologist #anti anakin skywalker #anti anakin apologists #anti anakin skywalker stans #anti anakin stans #anti anakin #anakin critical #anakin skywalker critical #anti stanakins

[littlebabyyd0ll]

KINKTOBER DAY FIVE, FIRST TIME PARENTS

After your daughter’s very first birthday, you and Steve admire the life that you’ve made for yourselves together.

Dad!Steve Harrington x Mom!reader

Warnings: Not much, talk of birth and Steve’s horrible parents. Talk of being young parents. Reader is described to have long hair.

Enjoy!

Main Masterlist ! Kinktober 2023

It’s quiet. 

Too quiet. There hasn’t been a moment like this since Laila was born, a whole year ago. To the day. You spent Halloween night last year with a scrunched up, sweating face and pushing with all your might. One good thing comes with having a child born on an evening of festivities — birthday parties. Yours and Steve’s home comes alive on her birthday, with people celebrating and bringing their own little ones, everyone dressed up as characters from books or TV shows. Yourself and Steve had dressed as Leia and Han, with Laila snuggled down in an ewok onesie. Steve had insisted on you dressing up as her namesake – since you had refused to name your actual daughter leia. Steve, in his ever loving and altruistic glory, had let you have your way. It’s not very often that Steve doesn't bend over backwards to make you happy, and he’s come so far to the teenage douchebag that tried to hook up with you at a halloween party in your Junior year. 

You look up at your husband now, tucked up in his chest as he stares over the bars of your daughter’s crib, and you’ve never seen something more beautiful, so peaceful. You admire him as he admires the creation that you made together. His hair is falling from the hours of wear on the spray, half of the luscious locks covering his forehead. His white shirt is untucked from his blue jeans, Han’s signature belt discarded somewhere. Your own outfit is a mess too, crinkled up, a stain from Layla’s throw-up hours earlier resting on your shoulders, hair let down from the signature buns. A dreamy sigh flows from your lips as you stare up at your lover, your height difference even more prominent without your party shoes on. He’s so soft, so soft despite everything he’s been through, despite the scars lining his back, despite the viscous words from his asshole father, despite the way that everyone believed that he would grow into nothing – probably spend the rest of his life at Family Video after he chose not to pursue college. He’s so kind, so caring, so loving. The man has nothing but love in his heart for you, for the baby that lies peacefully asleep. 

He doted on you desperately while you were pregnant, and has been the same ever since Layla arrived. 

He dotes on you now, without realising it. One of his large hands stokes down the length of your hair. The other warms the curve of your waist, and his heartbeat is enough to settle your own. Though it beats much faster every time you look at him. 

“We have a one year old.” He acknowledges lowly, in those voices that you use to try not to wake her. Still, he speaks like he can’t believe it, and neither can you. The time has flown by so quick. 

You hum in reply, pushing your face a little deeper into his chest. You can’t wait to give him his dream, provide a family of Harringtons that love and adore one another. Harringtons that support each others dreams and aspirations, that believe in one another despite all else. You can’t wait until that next positive test, to give him another baby, to see him flourish in the same way that he does with Layla, being her father. He’s perfect. 

“She looks more and more like you every day.” It's not strictly true, because Layla most definitely looks more like Steve, with her button nose and dark brown irises, she only really has your hair. But still, you entertain his notion. 

“She’s the prettiest little girl in the world.” 

Finally, he looks down at you. His hand is still moving against your hair, and he tucks some away behind your ear. His lips curl upwards at the way you look up at him, the same way that you looked at him when he very first saved you from the Demogorgon. It’s a look that says you’d never accept another fate, never breathe in a universe that doesn't have him in it, and where he isn't yours to keep. You look at him like he hung the moon and stars, with your chin against his beating chest. He would never trade anything for this – for his girls. 

“You’re my girl.” He murmurs before dropping a kiss on your lips, then to your forehead. “My two girls. Given me the best life I could’ve ever asked for, you know that?” He gets sentimental a lot, but it still pulls at your heartstrings and has your eyes filling with tears. He places his hands on each of your rosy cheeks, thumbs swiping at the tears that fall. Because, suddenly, you've realised that you're the luckiest girl in the world. Perfect husband. Perfect daughter. “You're the best thing that ever happened to me. Made my dreams come true.”

“I love you,” You croak between tears, and you wish that your motherly hormones would give you a days rest. 

Steve presses his lips to yours once more, before tucking you back into his chest. He releases a heavy sigh as you both look down into the crib. “I love you so much. I love you both more than anything in the world.”

And in the moment of silence that follows, you thank your lucky stars that they gifted you with such devout love, and the most handsome boy in Hawkins.

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