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[t65]

[Hey, it's Luke Skywalker, sitting at his pastel desk. There's plenty of junk littered on it, mostly scraps of droid parts and tools, but the inquisitive observer will notice a few mystery vials of colorful chemicals, and a hypo of fast-penta scattered among the rubble.]

I noticed there aren't any service droids on the ship-- when I mentioned that to the captains, they said I should... make some? [Luke has a distinct look of 'what have I gotten myself into' on his face.] We definitely need some mouse droids and basic repair droids-- we already have good engineers, but this would help them out in a pinch. Do you think we need gonk droids?

[Well? Do you?]

Have you noticed any droids we could use? A 1B prototype couldn't hurt...

[That's right, request a droid, Luke might be able to make it for you eventually. He's serious. Though they probably won't have much in the way of lively personalities, who doesn't want a robot?]

Oh- and Doctor Yewll? Mr Banner? Ed? I know we discussed some kind of prosthetic... if I'm going to be making droids, I might need that sooner than later. [He kind of cringe smiles before cutting the feed.]

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[t65]

[Luke's expression settles into one of relief. They didn't lie. Owen never mentioned his mother, or having a stepmother, but Owen didn't mention plenty of things. He never lied, though.]

[...Did he know Anakin was a Jedi? That he became Vader? If he did, that was different; it was never information he desperately needed at a critical time. Owen and Beru would have told him if... if they'd gotten the chance.]

[It doesn't occur to him that his father might be lying.]

Thank you. I- I wasn't sure... of a lot of things, lately.

[ex_forcechoke292]

What do you mean?

[It could, honestly, be the result of a lot of things. The Moira as a whole--which often leaves him too with more questions and answers, something back home, something to do with Owen specifically, or something...else.

All Anakin knows is that something here is off. The connection between them, already distant for all of their relative proximity, is constantly tense, wary, and sometimes downright fearful. But it's elusive too, tenuous and unsure, like that connection really has yet to solidify itself into anything at all.

He can't push and be the reason that shatters before it's even formed, but that fear...

It's too recognizable. And that's precisely what worries him.]

[t65]

[Luke shifts nervously on the video feed, avoiding his father's gaze. He often finds it just as intense as the soulless eyes of a metal helm. It doesn't seem to bother Leia, though; maybe it's just him.]

[Staring at his hand, he considers his options. He could say anything to that; his father couldn't argue.]

[But Luke is getting very sick of lies.]

A lot of what I was told... wasn't true. About you, mostly.

[ex_forcechoke292]

From who, Owen? [He doesn't exactly sound too shocked. It's the only assumption he can easily make, and given that Owen had only Shmi to hear about him from...well.

No one knew much of anything when he left, did they? It's not as if she'd ever sent letters, or kept correspondence. His own stepbrother had been a surprise, why wouldn't that work the other way around?]

We met once. [Under awful circumstances that didn't really lend well to "what have you been up to"s.] He's a good man, Luke, I doubt he'd lie.

[At least not intentionally. He can't be that bad at reading people. He knows he isn't.]

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[Luke, in turn, leaps to his uncle's defense.] No! I know- I know he didn't. It's why I asked. He didn't... tell me things, but it was probably because I didn't know. And I- I always asked questions at bad times. [There's a moment of boyish embarrassment as he bows his head, scratching at the nape of his neck.]

I'm sorry you only met him once. He was a good man- you would have gotten along. [Luke has absolutely no proof of this other than a biased hunch that says people he loves ought to be easy to get along with, and family most of all. He knows, objectively, that Owen was never an easy man to love, but his own experiences as an only child longing for family tell him that brothers should overcome that. He doesn't question it.]

[ex_forcechoke292]

Luke, it's okay. [The sudden defense seems so out of nowhere when he hadn't been especially pressing about it.] I don't blame him for it, it's not like the circumstances were really ours to change.

[Which, he hopes, sounds more wistful than bitter.]

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Don't I know it. [Luke can certainly sound bitter enough for the both of them. Mentions of Owen have brought the circumstances of his death to the fore-- he wonders how much influence Vader had in that decision. He wonders if Vader knew.]

[After a moment-] You were asking about droids-? [He's trying, for once, though the effort is noticably strained.]