SWC Do you imagine pairings for characters in Star Wars?

Have you ever imagined your own made up romantic pairings in Star Wars for characters in the movies?
If so which characters?
(EU isn't really taken into consideration so if a character I listed has a pairing in the EU, I am not really counting that, this is what I can imagine for the movie characters)

I can see Jocasta Nu and Count Dooku at time having feelings for each other.

I can imagine Palpatine having someone in the Senate that likes him, but with him not returning her feelings. Palpatine- bachelor for life

I can see Shmi having a past husband. I don't like Anakin being fatherless. There is no reason for him to be a "chosen one." Maybe she could have married a former Jedi and he dies or leaves her.

Moff Tarkin- A wife that is killed in a Rebellion (not associated with the Alliance many years ago, so he dedicates his life to trying to bring order, but loses his way and will go to extreme lengths and becomes the bad man we see in ANH willing to destroy planets)

Yoda bachelor for life.

 

Not everybody is obliged to have a partner. Sure Nute Gunray and Mon Mothma would've made an awesome couple, but yeah, the fate stood in their way. Same goes for Boss Nass and Ackbar's niece.

That said, I've been a shipper of the first couple hinted in SW TV shows since childhood and their awkward teenage flirting is well depicted and not creepy like, say, the PT romance. Both characters had a thing for behaviour not typical of their gender, at least not by media standards, and the idea of pairing an artist with an artist was so much better than, say, pairing a hero with a noblewoman, which happens in about every other work of fiction. Nowadays, when a snarky, attractive girl is paired with an awkward, lost-in-clouds guy, there is always the manic pixie dream girl stuff, saving the poor nerd by sex or whatever...me no likey.

I was over the moon when a comic released in 2013 basically confirmed their relationship. I can't even.

 

I see Bail Organa and Wilhuff Tarkin both as widowers.

I agree no one is 'obligated' to be wed but neither is it a negative thing. Casual relationships I don't condone so I don't consider any possible for any characters.

I can see Jocasta and Dooku wed.

I'd prefer Luke either be alone or a widower with children.

Obi-Wan and Yoda celibate.

 

I don't think everyone has to have a romantic pairing, but I imagine some for some characters.
If by casual relationships you mean sex without being married, I also don't condone either.
I don't mind Luke have a romantic interest, but I don't really like the ones I've seen him given in the EU. I think if Luke were to marry a girl it should be a decent girl, not a bad girl.

Obi-wan I can see with Satine had she lived.
Yoda and Palpatine celibate, although I can see someone in the Senate having a crush on him, and he doesn't care about her.
I can see Jocasta Nu and Dooku in something similar to Obi-wan and Satine. If Jocasta left the order with Dooku I can see them getting married.

 

To answer your question. No. I didn't like shipping in the first place, and then it was developed into a full blown loathing after spending some time with a Roleplay group (that I've since left).

So while sometimes I think certain characters would be better for other characters in real life, I just leave it the way the creator saw fit to create.

 

The Order seeming to forbid marriage is ridiculous.

I don't like when a man puts a lady before his faith. I think that's disastrous.

Thuro: I don't like how minorities of fandoms try to force ships on other fans. I am not a major shipper due to this.

 

I don't think a man should put a lady above his faith either, but the Jedi were wrong to forbid marriage and they were raised that way. People can change their beliefs later. If Obi-wan can to realize he didn't agree with the code, he could have left the Order and married. I would have liked to see that. I think the Jedi Order that is the main one headed by Yoda went to extremes and put in place rules unreasonable.

Jedi don't allow families, but without loving relationships how many of them would even exist? After all many were taken from families and they seem okay with non-force users having families.

 

Agreed. However, by the time we met all such characters they were adults and seemed to have chosen to stay with a celibate Order. That is a choice.

 

By the time of the end of ROTS, I think some of their beliefs changed. After all Obi-wan and Yoda didn't raise the kids themselves and Luke was trained as an Adult.
I hope Luke isn't going to be like the old Jedi order in ST.

I'd rather the Jedi were more like an order of knights(not the realistic kind that pillaged), but the fantasy kind that would help people, with them free to marry and have families.

If the TPM was done differently I think Qui-gon could have been Anakin's father instead of Obi-wan's master.

 

I'm actually glad they didn't. It feel like a rehash of the whole I am your father thing but with a different spin to me.

 

Movie-wise I stick to those pairings.
EU-I am more open to different ones.

 

Their Oder died I would hope that would wake Obi and Yoda up.

So do I. Luke doesn't even need to be a 'Jedi' though I suspect he'll still claim the label.

 

I just hope he becomes EU. Well at least until LOTF. That whole "Mercy is for those who deserve it." Sthick can be forgotten and left behind.

 

Agreed. That is a HORRIBLY judgemental sentiment and it seems very out of character for him.

 

Luke says " Mercy is for those who deserve it" in a book?
That is out of character. He wanted to save his father who did terrible things. I don't like EU after ROTJ. Why would Luke say that?
The Luke I know is compassionate, merciful, and forgiving.
Mercy is given to those who DONT deserve it.

 

I know right? That was slightly out of character at that point. But he had been written into being largely the Mace Windu of the New Jedi Order towards the end of FOTJ.

 

I like Post-RotJ EU till NJO best but I don't care for Luke's characterisation in NJO onwards or L/M. Luke doesn't suit being Mace-like at all.

 

I don't like Luke/Mara either or Luke being Mace like. I haven't read all the books with Mara, but I don't like her.
Luke and bad girl pairings I don't like. Luke is better suited for a sweet nice girl in my opinion.

 

How far had you in had you read with Mara's character? She softened a lot towards as the story went on. Always a fighter. But a wife and a mother as well.

 

Agreed. Strong doesn't equal mean for me. I quit reading straight through amid NJO and stopped for years entirely after Betrayal.

 

I have not read far and not everything in order too. I read Visions of the Future I think and Thrawn trilogy comics and Vector Prime

 

I would love to see a pairing of Hego Damask and Palpatine, Anakin's true fathers. I wonder how they would get along with Shmi, their surrogate mother?

 

Given how this thread focuses sort of on plausible 'what if's surrounding characters, this seems slightly more like an SWC thread than Saga.