ST So now that Han is gone, shouldn't Chewie's life debt..

go to Kylo Ren technically since if the person who you are indebted to dies, you're supposed to serve the son?

 

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We're assuming a life debt extends beyond the life? Perhaps the life debt ends with death. In any case, since Kylo Ren is both the cause of death as well as possible recipient, wouldn't the two cancel out,like what would happen if someone killed Grandma to get her collection of Faberge eggs? In any case, related, but tangential, I would assume Chewies aim isn't usually off. You think he only injured Kylo rather than kill him just because he is Hans son?

 

I think Chewie is in it for the long haul simply for Luke and Leia and now Rey - his friends.

 

I don't think there's anything that officially says how the life debt works. I would tend to agree with LadyPadme's point and say it probably ends with Han's death, and even if it didn't usually, there's no way Chewie would immediately transfer his loyalty to the man who just killed his best friend. Now, if Ben were to come back to the light, might he and Chewie join up? Possibly, though I'd still be doubtful - kinda get the feeling he could stick with Rey.

 

If that is the case, I'd imagine there is some sort of exemption if the heir is the one who murdered the original.

 

Pretty sure Chewbacca made his statement on the Life Debt issue when he shot Kylo in the stomach and almost killed him.

I think Ben lived because he's just that powerful and tough.

 

Is Chewie's life debt even canon anymore?

If it is, then it's over, but Han and Chewie were best buds so even though it might be done, Chewie's still going to stick around with the same crowd. It's not like Han treated him like a slave. Han probably would've let him break the debt if he wanted to at a certain point, I bet.

 

If Chewie has a life debt, it's to Ben, not Kylo

 

Yeah, it seems to be canon still, but obviously it was way beyond that. Han and Chewie were brothers, and in TFA it seemed like Chewie was almost taking care of Han.

TFA might be Chewie's best movie-he was so well handled in it.

 

I would think that the life debt would be null and void at this point. However, I think that Chewie will end up sticking around and palling around with Leia, Rey, Poe, etc simply because he's fond of them.

 

I thought they were just friends?

 

Looks to me like the life debt has transferred to Han's daughter Rey.

 

Pretty safe to say Rey is not Han's daughter. Also, this isn't just about life debts anymore. The visual guide points out Chewie was at home when Han asked for his help and the two paired up for some smuggling. Now his best friend is dead at the hands of Kylo Ren and the FO threatens the galaxy again...do you really think Chewie is going to sit on his big furry butt and do nothing about this?

 

Not sure if the life-debt is still canon.
Chewie would probably still protect Leia, Rey, Finn, Luke, etc regardless.
In the EU, Chewie put Leia, Luke, Mara and the kids under the life-debt.
And after Chewie died, his son and nephew Lumpy and Lowie, wanted to continue the life-debt.
Well before Denning changed that in DNT.

 

Chewie owes Kylo a life debt alright. Eye for an eye you could say.

 

He tried paying the debt....but between Kylo's toughness and Chewies anguish he failed to make good on the Payment. Never forget people, two in the head and one in the chest solves anyone.

 

I think the life-debt idea is pretty antiquated at this point and it lessens their loyalty to each other (also I don't think it was ever in the movies so I'm dismissing it as non-canon). They're buddies. That's all that was ever needed to explain why they travel together.

 

Life debt is a dumb racist trope that evolved in the Victorian times. Good riddance to it.

 

Life debt essentially equals slavery. I prefer to think of Chewie as something more to Han than an indentured servant.

 

By the way, life debt is still canon as the second Aftermath novel is entitled Life Debt. Unfortunately.

 

One of the next aftermath novels is called 'Life debt', so maybe it is explained in this novel.

 

Crap! Of all EU inventions they had to keep that one.

 

Maybe Chewie will become Wookie Drax the Destroyer to Kylo Ren's Thanos and he will just be obsessed with killing him for the next two movies

 

I would also expect that even if the life-debt were a thing, pretty soon after it was established on one of the many times [assuredly] Chewie saved Han's life, Han would have said something like "Chewie, we're even, considered it fullfulled, but I'd like you to join me as my first mate." ...I think that would serve both of their characters better to clarify that they hang out together because they both want to.