CT Leia Organa's Personal Flaws

Does Leia have any personal flaws? I mean serious flaws? I have read articles that referred to her anger issues. But I haven't encounter anything else. I've always believed that a well rounded character has both flaws and virtues. I mean not just one flaw and a whole slew of virtues, or vice versa. I mean that a well written character has more than one virtue and/or one flaws.

Does Leia have any other flaws, aside from her anger?

 

She likes to kiss her brother. So, sibling attraction. That can't bode well for a solid, loving relationship with a Corellian pirate.

 

Sure. She is narrow-minded which you can see in her interactions with Han. All she seems to care for the first one-and a half movies is the Rebellion, to the exclusion of everything else. She doesn't want to understand that Han has to deal with Jabba, that he really does have no choice.

You've already mentioned the quick temper.

 

Also, she has an obsession with super-tight, almost painful-looking hairstyles. Almost as though her hairstyle were a metaphor for her closed-mindedness.

 

^But how would she stop Vader and all the Stormies?

 

She thinks because she herself is height challenged that it gives her the right to question the heights of others.

 

Lol. I agree.

 

She straps down her boobs with duct tape.

 

In connection to her utter devotion to the Alliance, she may have little sense of self. She may view herself in terms of how she helps (in terms of the Alliance and Luke) or hinders (in terms of the Empire and Tarkin & Vader) others, rather than what she, herself, might want. For all we know, she's been attracted to Han for quite a while, but she isn't able to deal with it because it involves her own emotions and desires, not those of others.

Sorry if that sounds like a bunch of psychobabble crud.

 

If "walking carpet" isn't a racist slur, then I'm a Wookiee's uncle.

 

She does understand that he has to deal with Jabba. What she can't understand is his refusal to stay with the Alliance once he's done. That is what upsets her, because she knows that there is something there, but his refusing to stay is upsetting.

 

She seems to think she can only rely upon herself, to the point of being recalcitrant at times. This may be a result of her position and being accustomed to her orders being heeded, but it can be problematic when she needs to work with a team and listen to the input of others before acting.

On one hand, Luke and Han are in sore need of the leadership she provides on the Death Star. On the other, shooting the grate off a garbage chute and insisting everyone jump in is impulsive at best. They were in a dangerous situation already, but this led to further peril, which they were lucky to escape.

Likewise, on Endor, Luke tells her to wait as she jumps aboard a speeder to give chase to the troopers. Leia doesn't wait at all, and Luke barely manages to jump aboard with her as she speeds off. They end up separated, and Leia is nearly captured. Luke might've had a better idea, but Leia wasn't willing to wait and hear him out.

 

I just view that as being cranky and frustrated, not racist.

 

I would say that Leia has a lot of her father's anger and impatience. But I've noticed that even Padme is capable of impatience. So, whereas she may have inherited her father's temper, who knows from whom she had inherited that impatient streak.

However, she seems to have a self-righteous streak that I find particularly unpleasant. Especially in "The Empire Strikes Back".

 

Yes, she probably picked up the slur in the core. Our social circles inform how we speak.

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I agree with your first post. And this is a nice quote. I'll have to tell my friends about it.

 

Self centered, self important. Puts herself on the pedestal. A bit racist towards Wookiees (and probably other life forms she does not deem to be at her level). I have a feeling Han leaves her after so many years and reclaims his bachelor life lol.

 

The flaws are mainly in the writing. There's a lot of focus on her in ANH, but they act as though they forgot where she came from, and they mainly focus on her for her relationships with Han and Luke in TESB and ROTJ. She had lost her homeworld and was a tough leader in the Rebellion. Surely they cold have done more with that. However, I still love the character, and I'm glad we got to see her take out Jabba and shoot some stormtroopers after she had been shot.

 

Personal flaws? She's bossy as hell!

 

That's just absurd.

 

I think Leia might be the most flawed character of the OT main three. Han was a smuggler, but it was a 'bad guy with a heart of gold' and he changed that within the first movie. Luke was impatient and a bit angry, but was a clean-cut guy overall. But Leia? Rude, hard-headed, arrogant, impatient, reckless, angry, vengeful, bossy, dismissive, critical... Her flaws are on display very early, about the time she thinks the best bet is to play innocent while insulting Vader and Tarkin. (Tarkin's sarcastic remark about her charming self suggested that's just how Leia is normally.) When her rescue starts, she manages to insult Luke, Han, Chewie and the Falcon. At the beginning of the next movie, she kisses Luke in front of Han, an action that was spiteful to Han and misleading to Luke. She needs a carbonite freezing chamber to admit she loves the guy.

Granted, it seemed like the 'I love you' was a turning point for Leia. She seemed calmer and softer in ROTJ, even considering her actions with Jabba. You'd think a relationship like Leia/Han would continue to be snappy, but an unguarded Leia didn't fight and mock like that. I guess that's another flaw: she puts on a prickly facade instead of dealing with her feelings.