notbecauseofvictories:

white-throated-packrat
replied to your post “in another universe, beru whitesun lars and queen breha organa of…”

oh, Han would be so intimidated when Beru and Breha turned to look consideringly at him. Chewbacca would roar with laughter.

it is a truth universally acknowledged that han solo is a freewheeling fast-talking smuggler who never met a law he couldn’t flout and answers to no one

……..riiiight up until the moment an older woman looks at him severely, at which point he folds up like a bunch of flimsi and goes biddable and harmless as a kitten. He holds out for a while against breha, because he’s a corellian, godsdamn it, they don’t recognize any kriffing royalty, and the obvious noblesse of Her Majesty, Queen Breha Organa, Dukesa of House Antilles, Prinsesa of Aldera, Jewel of the Core, rankles him.

(he doesn’t hold out very long, because breha is terrifying but she is also leia’s mother, and it’s hard to like one without liking the other. plus, she plays a mean hand of sabacc.)

but han is sold on beru whitesun lars from day one, when she patted his hand in that dingy mos eisley cantina. he calls her ma’am without a trace of irony in his voice and gave up his bunk to her on the way to yavin and cloud city. (she was hardly the only one who slept there, but leia wasn’t about to ask permission and luke fell asleep there more often than not, talking to leia or beru. beru was the only one invited.)

luke and leia have agreed it’s probably because han lacked a strong maternal figure in his childhood. 

shut up, han told the both of them, wiping away a smudge on the teapot with his sleeve and then fussing with the pair of chipped cups chewie managed to find somewhere in the hold. I don’t have a thing about mothers.