AN: This is from the point of view of some random rebel dude. Imagine him as you will.
VADER
Everyone was afraid of Vader, I don't think there was a person in the galaxy who wasn't afraid of him, except maybe the Emperor who didn't really count. But Leia, good Gods… I remember one day, before we evacuated Yavin IV, someone mentioned Vader and she got really pale and just dropped.
Everyone had good reason to be afraid of Vader, he could kill you without even touching you and other unspeakable things, but the Princess has witnessed these things, maybe even suffered some of them, no one really knew.
For someone we saw as a very strong person to be that afraid of Vader, it certainly didn't help, but we never said a thing about it, watched our words around her. We didn't want the same problem on our hands again.
Then, after Endor, the whispers started. Someone had heard Luke call Leia his sister, and everyone knew who Luke's father was. It was unthinkable. No one wanted to believe it but we did, there wasn't a choice, not after they announced it. No one outside of those who were on Endor knew until Leia was forced to tell High Council.
It hit us later what this meant, Vader, Leia's father, had, to the extent of our knowledge, tortured her.
There were rumors sometime later that Vader had also had a hand in killing Luke and Leia's mother.
Wonderful family, the Skywalkers. In my opinion, anyone who willingly gets involved with that family is just mental.
~Unknown
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