Why didn't Luke and/or Leia display Force powers when they were young?

Jacen and Jaina in champions of the force were shown playing with objects with their minds and such so why didn't Luke or Leia do the same thing?

 

Inactive Force-ness? ?

 

Who says they didn't? Luke lived in obscurity, and the Royal Family of Alderaan would hide Leia's abilities from the Emperor. Eventually, without proper instruction, and as they got older, their powers would become latent.

 

i remeber reading in a book that luke would tell his uncle were a tool was before his uncle would ask him and uncle owen would scould him for it,don't remeber wcich book though.

 

I think Luke used the force when he was two to fix something of Beru's. Uncle Owen gave him what Luke would recall as the "Worst yelling-at I ever got in my life."

Source: TimeTales.

 

Jacen and Jaina were surrounded in the Force. Leia would sooth them with it and Luke would juggle them with it. The Force has been a part of their life since before they were born. It's only natural for them to pick up on it quicker.

 

The Solo children's force abilities were nurtured from birth. Luke and Leia may have only brushed the force before they knew they had it. When they did touch it it was probable only thought of as luck or good fortune. In the Jedi Apprentice (Fight For Truth) Qui-Gon Jinn and Adi Gallia gave some information to parents of a Force-Sensitive child on what the child "might" be able to do even without training. So the more training one has the easier it is to access the Force and know what can be done with it.

 

Luke probably was touching the Force to some degree when he was flying through Beggar?s Canyon with Biggs and the rest of his friends.


I?ve heard a theory somewhere that Obi-Wan or Yoda put some sort of block on Luke and Leia?s abilities to use the Force so that they would be undetectable unless someone was looking for them specifically and so that they wouldn?t spontaneously start using the Force. According to the theory, Obi-Wan removed Luke?s block while they were in the Falcon, en route to Alderaan. Since Leia never had her block removed, her abilities have always been a little crippled.

I?m going to have to go looking for said theory now.

 

I've never heard that theory before, though it would explain why Leia seems to have significantly less power than Luke. Wouldn't Luke or some other Jedi be able to sense that block though?

 

Well, the block would be designed so that it couldn?t be sensed. Otherwise, there wouldn?t be a point to it. Vader or the Emperor would destroy the block, sense her potential, and jump to the appropriate conclusions. And Luke would have no reason to suspect that it even exists, so he wouldn?t go looking for it. And even if he did discover it, seeing how it might have been created by Yoda, Luke might not even be able to break it without knowing exactly how it worked.

 

Luke finding the hydrospanner under the couch was in Children of the Jedi, I believe.

 

I always wondered why the trained luke instead of leia. Maybe there is an actual in universe reason, beyond the fact that leia wasn't luke's sister until RotJ was written.

 

<<Adi Gallia gave some information to parents of a Force-Sensitive child on what the child "might" be able to do even without training. So the more training one has the easier it is to access the Force and know what can be done with it.>>

In a flashback during I, Jedi, Hal Horn has a force tanturm, breaking one of his toys - without knowingly being able to touch the force.

 

Why Luke and not Leia? Possibly the original plan was Obi-Wan was to have started training Luke at a younger age--but Owen forbade it. The middle of the desert--far from *peering* imperial eyes was a much better place to train someone. Alderaan was too much a center of activity. Someone would have noticed.

Elegos' Jedi uncle was on Alderaan--perhaps he was there to keep an eye on Leia. And maybe he was supposed to have trained her, but again that was forbidden by the Organas?

 

yeah luke finding the tool for beru was in childen of the jedi. also in that book luke talks about waking up in the night and having this feeling. when he started wandering around outside he tripped the fence sensor so owen came and looked.then they heard the banthas. so hey had gotten warned throught the force when he was young also.

 

The theory on the dampening of his powers goes back to Obi-Wan's line to Luke on the deathstar "The Force will be with you, Always" - it is as if he has released the cover - As for Leia, her talents were more in the area of perception - and by seeing to it that she got a lot of 'diplomatic" training at a young age that may have been the best way to use it. I dobut that either of them were'tested" in order to protect them - who can say, maybe Luke was a bit whiny out of frustration on Tatooine?
Reb

 

One line that always bothered me from ESB about Luke and Leia was Obi wan saying, "That boy's our last hope." and Yoda replying with a barely audible "No, there is another." This may have been talked about before, but that almost implies that Obi wan did not know about Leia and that only Yoda did. I only bring it up because I don't think there was a force block on Luke and Leia (installed to protect them). I just think Luke embraced Jedi training and Leia didn't. That is why one is significantly stronger than the other...

 

Who says they didn't? Luke lived in obscurity, and the Royal Family of Alderaan would hide Leia's abilities from the Emperor. Eventually, without proper instruction, and as they got older, their powers would become latent.

Excellent points both. Actually, Luke was displaying his Force powers- they spoke of him as many did of Anakin, of being a great pilot. Biggs even said so. Leia, IMO, is weaker in the Force than Luke is, so it was probably easier to pass off anything she did as happenstance.

 

I figured since they were twins, the potential would be equal.

 

Doesn't appear that way, now does it?

 

Leia tapped into the Force during ANH. She used it subconsciously to resist Imperial torture at the hands of Vader.

However, that all happened off-screen during the movie.

 

Her resistance to the mind-probe was considerable.

True enough. But obviously not enough that Vader could sense it.