I haven’t seen this talked about much yet, but I absolutely love that Leia chose the Organas over hearing any more about Anakin or Padme. Leia went on a whole journey this season ON HER OWN that was kind-of subtle. She starts the show unable to sit still, more inclined to put a different child in her place to pretend to be Leia Organa and run into the woods than face her own insecurities, her fears about not being a real Organa. And the moment she figures out that Obi-Wan might know more about her “real” family than he’s saying, she tries to push him on it, she asks if he’s her “real” father.

And by the end, she’s come into her own. She knows who she is, and she knows who she wants to be. She chooses to be an Organa. She chooses to be Princess Leia Organa. Not Leia Skywalker, not Leia Naberrie, but Leia ORGANA. She takes on that name, that mantle, because it is HERS now and she is going to make it fit her, not the other way around.

She tells Bail that if she’s going to do this, if she’s going to be an Organa and a Princess, if she’s going to take on the mantle of leadership, she’s going to make some changes. To which Bail replies, “Then let’s go make some changes” because this is everything he’s taught her, this is everything he’s WANTED in Leia, is for her to come into her own and decide to be an Organa HER WAY. Princess Leia Organa is going to change the world.

And she doesn’t need Anakin Skywalker or Padme Amidala to do it. She never did.

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