‘That is not how the Force works.’ a drabble
Leia has, for various reasons, a very dubious outlook on classic Jedi training methods. This is not just because of various circumstances surrounding her son, she’s had this opinion for many years before his birth. But Luke was insistent when Ben proved Force sensitive and there was nothing Leia could say otherwise that had any documentation, any records, any proof.
(she’s concerned that her use of the Force might be considered Other, or Grey, or Dark)
It’s like this: the Jedi are unsubtle.
It’s like this: Moving a blaster’s nose a half centimeter causes the shot to miss by a feet. It’s much easier to make 5 blasters miss than to throw 5 Stormtroopers backwards.
It’s like this: when Leia speaks, she is Forceful. When she speaks to a room, she starts with nudges to make everyone listen, she slides in quiet elation at her words, she ends with encouraging a feeling of being able to do absolutely anything in the Universe.
And she lets her speech carry out the rest of the details, rather than her Force, she lets her people decide how to act, she lets choice finish their decisions and these decisions and choices lasts longer when she leaves the room than if she simply Forced someone to say, “I will do as you command.”
(she takes after her mother, she hears)
Leia wonders if that was how Palpatine caused her father to go Dark, and remains quiet when Luke trains her son.
And when Ben turns, she feels the reverberations, and can’t find it in her to blame Luke for it entirely.
(she wonders if she should have Spoken, or if it would have made things worse)
[[[because lol]]]
The base is collapsing around their ears, their TIE fighters are falling from the sky, and That Girl has come back with That Lightsaber and more training and for the life of him Kylo cannot hold his ground against her so he’s running but those are things he’s not examining too closely. Instead:
“HIGHLY TRAINED FIGHTERS, he says,” Kylo swears under his breath and dodges around more Stormtroopers, hoping they’d stall his pursuit. The Force tells him they don’t do a damn thing. “PICKED from a YOUNG AGE, he says, BETTER than CLONES, he says, THEN WHY CAN’T YOUR STORMTROOPERS HIT THE BROADSIDE OF A DEATHST–”
Hux suddenly skids to a stop. “She’s here.”
“WHO’S HERE?!”
“I don’t know what she has, the scientists can’t figure it out but when she’s around,” Hux staggers, panting, “at this point, no one can aim straight if she’s even on the same planet, let alone the same room and–”
“WHO?!” Kylo reaches out and grabs Hux by the throat, pulling him to his toes. “GIVE ME A NAME.”
A throat clears behind him.
“Ben,” His mother says.
Kylo freezes.
“Put that back where you found it. We need to talk.”
THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH. How else HOW ELSE I ASK YOU could a whole pack of storm troopers fire down a narrow hallway and hit nobody?
This is EXACTLY how I picture LEIA’S abilities holy shit good shit wow A+++ I want to write this a million times and have everyone write Leia like this.
Hello yes this is canon now. Because it’s too good not to be.
I imagine New Year’s Eve parties at the hub involved Jack and Ianto sneaking off periodically to Jack’s office and snogging while the others were too drunk to notice. In the morning, everyone wakes up with massive hangovers, but they are still coherent enough to notice that Ianto is wearing Jack’s coat.
Jack Harkness and Castiel like to switch coats and stand around quietly in the background during team planning, waiting to be called the wrong name.
Only the Doctor seems immune to these shenanigans.
Watched Road to El Dorado again last night and I have feels and new headcanons.
Tulio: I think he’s from a VERY poor family. He is the eldest child and became privy to their financial situation. From a very young age he helped scrimp and save and penny pinch and this is why he’s so fixated on money as an adult. Also, since magic is canonically real I’m feeling the idea that he’s a demigod of luck but doesn’t know it. He spends a lot of time making his own luck (loaded dice, staged arguments, etc) but when he really needs it he gets super, ridiculously, improbably lucky (a seven when all the winnings are bet against a map, a volcano tease that stops when he yells stop, etc).
Miguel: Comes from a huge family. He’s one of the youngest but not the baby. He got lost among the other kids and had lots of time to daydream and play adventure. He dreams of leaving a mark, of being noticed.
sherrinfordeductions replied to your post “I bet John and Sherlock pull pranks when they’re bored between cases”
This is canon.
Imagine though stupid prank calls on Mycroft. Or like sneaky putting salt in his tea instead of sugar. They couldn’t do much of anything substantial to him because he’s all knowing and shit, but they can get him with the little pranks.
And with Lestrade, Sherlock relaying a series of bullshit deductions at a crime scene and then standing upright and looking him dead in the eye, and saying “We’re looking for a werewolf” or some shit in the most serious voice. And John gives them away by giggling in the background which makes Sherlock’s serious facade break as he starts chuckling too, and Lestrade rolls his eyes and tries not to smile and threatens to ban them from cases (but never does as long as they take the rest of the case seriously)
Or making Molly jump by like setting something up to inflate and deflate in a corpse’s stomach. Or actually, hiding in the cold chambers right before she comes in so when she slides out the body it’s one of these two losers making a face at her.
And I imagine (even though WE never see him) that they see Mike sometimes, and prank him a lot because he takes it in stride and always chuckles with them afterward, never holds a grudge.
Mrs Hudson is the only one safe from their shenanigans because they tried once and NEVER AGAIN
I like to think that humming old tunes into Ianto’s ear before he falls asleep is something Jack would do. Or singing/humming the open theme from out dated alien sitcoms. And Ianto doesn’t know what it means most of the time but those tunes are catchy so he finds himself humming them while making coffee.
