"Exasperation", Star Wars fanfic

[4thofeleven]

Just a quick little story, inspired by sunnyskywalker's latest Courtship chapter read-through...

Title: Exasperation
Fandom: Star Wars
Categories: Gen, G
Disclaimer: Star Wars and all characters, locations, ect. remain the property of George Lucas. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Luke gets a little too obsessive about philosophy.

It wasn’t that he didn’t like the kid – he was a nice enough guy – but sometimes he was a little too earnest. He got funny ideas in his head about how people should behave, or how Jedi should behave, and wouldn’t shut up about them for weeks. Right now, Chewbacca really didn’t have the patience to debate morality with Luke.

Normally, Chewbacca would foist Luke off onto Han or his sister when he got like this – they were much better at getting his mind off his latest philosophical obsession. But they were still away on their honeymoon, and he doubted they’d appreciate him sending Luke their way. Sighing, he tried to politely explain to Luke that he was very busy and didn’t have time to chat.

But nothing seemed to interrupt the human’s ramblings, as he pontificated on his latest theory of the importance of forgiving those who had served Admiral Zsinj, prior to the warlord’s recent death over Dathomir. Chewbacca realised he couldn’t even follow Luke’s argument, which seemed to be something about hatred and the dark side of the force … and something about his father?

Chewbacca often found himself realising how little he really understood humans.

”Listen, I understand you want to follow the Jedi code, and you like to see everyone else do the same.” Chewbacca finally interrupted Luke. “But lecturing them like this really isn’t the way to get people to see things your way. I respect what you’re saying – but all the Jedi I knew back in the Clone wars were more into leading by example. Like Master Yoda, or Master- what?”

<You knew Master Yoda?> The human gasped, his eyes bulging in surprise.

”Yes?” Chewbacca said, uncertainly, before laughing slightly at the human’s shock. “I did have a life before the Empire, you know. Now if you’ll excuse me, I really do need to get to this briefing…”

 

Comments

[sunnyskywalker]

I love it! Chewbacca teaches Communication 101 :D (And he's had more occasion to think about the nuances of communcation, given how often people have meaningful conversations in front of him as if he's just furniture, and few people understand him when he speaks...)

And shocking Luke with his pre-Empire life and Jedi acquaintances is just priceless.

[sodzilla.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, lovely! This is just what I wanted!

Agreeing with sunnyskywalker's comment - this really shows how often Chewbacca gets overlooked not just by fans, but by his friends.

Also the whole dilemma of working with someone with whom you don't, or don't quite, have language in common is something I've been thinking about a lot during this term in uni... and at that, I have the luxury of being able to speak Basic, as it were. Try as I may I don't think I can imagine how frustrating it must be, being Chewie.

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

There was a guy from Jamaica in one of my first year classes, and he had the thickest accent imaginable... It's really hard to deal with, because you don't want to just nod and agree with what someone's saying if you're not entirely sure what they're talking about, but it feels very rude to ask someone to repeat everything five or six times until you can understand them.

[emavalexis.livejournal.com]

Playing catch-up here. :)

I really enjoyed this short fic, and it was neat to see something written from Chewbacca's point of view for once. I like that Chewbacca is shown to be just as intelligent (if not more so) than the humans and droids with which he's often surrounded -- unfortunately, I've seen too many writers give him (and other aliens) short shrift. You did a nice job here.

You realize, however, that this sort of begs for continuation. Heh.

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I kinda do want to write some more about Chewie - focusing on how he's one of the few people in the rebellion who actually knew Jedi and lived under the Republic...

[were-lemur.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

This kicks all kinds of ass.

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Thanks!