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Yes. Leia, in some ways, is like her mother. But at her core, and in her beliefs, she is SO MUCH like her real father, Anakin. :)

True Leia is quite suborn.

R.I.P. Carrie Fisher. No one can play her like you could.

Really good!

I never really thought about it, but your analysis/comparison of Leia to her parents is actually pretty spot-on.

I. Absolutely. LOVED. This.

Very interesting - and brilliantly executed !

Anakin and Leia! Yes, yes...the stubborness has to have come from somewhere.

Pure excellence.

Great, fantastic story and very spot on!

I love stories like this so much.

Another absolutely fantastic one.

I always felt like this would be the case...Leia really does seem more like Anakin than Luke ever did, at least to me. Wonderful story.

I've always found this sort of thing one of the most interesting things about Leia, she is good at politics, but it seems more of a skill born from determination than an innate skill as a diplomat. It's one of the things I liked a lot about the latter Yuuzhan Vong books, how Leia becomes more and more a warrior before a politician, while Luke continues to go deeper into politics.
This story also reminded me of an alternate universe comic book in which Vader and Palpatine figured out who Leia was pretty early on and turned her to the dark side relatively quickly.
This is very well done, and the ending is particularly good.
-Dyslexic Nerd

A good sequel to this might be a point on Luke and how he's the soft, merciful, diplomatic one despite being raised on a farm on a distant rim world. I mean, he has anger issues, but not like Leia or Anakin. His anger usually comes in a form of determination (IE, when his aunt and uncle died and he became determined to leave and train to become a Jedi) and he also seemed to be the more forgiving of the two.

It's just funny because Luke reminds me of Padme and Leia reminds me of Anakin. *shrug*