I mean that is what happened, canonically! Corporate interests found leaked communications during Leia's run for Chancellor, allowing Centrists who were secretly trying to let the First Order take over to take power and allow this to happen "that should have been in the movie" I agree
— ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) October 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
in universe, the average lib voter is gonna be like "what did I tell you, you couldn't suck it up and vote for Darth Vader's daughter because that made her complicit in war crimes, and what happened? Darth Vader's grandson kidnapped your children and brainwashed them. I told you so"
— ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) October 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I just realized, like. Was "Vader = Anakin" some big secret? Or an open secret that's technically illegal to say but everybody knew, or what. Was Luke just comically uninformed about current events on account of how he grow up? When Vader was like "I am your father" did he think Luke already knew
— Larry (@larryskorke.bsky.social) October 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
ok so: it was quietly known that Luke and Leia were siblings but that was like, specialist/niche celebrity knowledge; if people knew who their family was, it was "Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala". Anakin being Vader was secret until the Centrist party obtained a holo of Bail explaining this.
— ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) October 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
this was a major political scandal, led to Leia losing the Chancellorship to First Order compromised politicians who allowed the Order to rise, and also led to Ben deciding to trust Snoke over his own family
— ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) October 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM