Funny / Of Queens, Knights, and Pawns

• Leia pointing out how not telling Luke and Leia how they're related nearly ended in disaster, claiming that she's only telling how close when she's very, very drunk. She later gets very drunk and cheerfully almost elaborates to an aghast Obi-Wan... who then decides that I Need a Freaking Drink.
  • Leia and Obi-Wan getting absolutely hammered is equal parts hilarious and tragic.
• Chapter 11: Luke teasing Leia and Han about their Belligerent Sexual Tension.
  Luke: Is this going to be a thing with you two? Because once again we are facing mortal peril and you two are flirting.
• Chapter 12:
  "Vader is definitely making more of an effort to court the Imperial Navy hierarchy," translation, he wasn't killing them as often...
• Leia and Vader's conversation while she's sick with the flu.
  • Vader warns Leia in utter seriousness not to risk Obi-Wan's cooking, explicitly comparing it to poison.
  • Leia finds out Vader built Threepio. Her brain just stalls.
  • Leia calling Artoo an "overqualified screwdriver."
• Chapter 16: The chapter that introduces the Whiforlans begins with Luke and Leia first trying to avoid telling Rex that they were going off-world, and Han still having his issues with the droids.
  Luke: Rex took that better than I thought, I only got one swear word.
  Leia: Only one?
  Luke: Oh yeah. However, there were many colorful expletives that were aimed at Mon and Dodonna though. I really wish I could see the chew out he’s going to give them.
  • Trehhipoi meets Luke and is properly stunned that the Alliance sent in the pilot who blew up the Death Star to meet him. Then he recognizes who Leia is, someone with the highest bounty ever…and his first reaction is about her short height.
  • Kivas and Farnay are The Everyman who end up assisting our characters after the Falcon takes fire from an Empire ship. While they don’t learn anyone’s real identities, they are bemused by how Han is trying to corral the twins, and in the end they label Han as the crazy one.
  • Luke finally gets to meet Qui-Gon.
  Luke: Ghosts? Of course. Long lost siblings, time travel, not dead father's, why not throw in ghosts? My life, how did this become my life.
• During a conversation about the future, Obi-Wan wonders if VADER ever made any subtle attempts to overthrow Palpatine. Leia gives him a look and he immediately takes it back agreeing that saying so was stupid.
• Hondo's hilarious, naturally, but Obi-Wan's reaction to him takes the cake.
  Hondo: MY FRIEND!!
  Leia watched in fascination as Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Negotiator, and a man renowned for his calm and placid demeanor in the face of his enemies, pinched the bridge of his nose in clear distress. His face was a mixture of dread and resignation. He also said, to her ever-lasting shock, something loud enough for everyone in their immediate vicinity to hear.
  Obi-Wan: Oh, fuck me.
• Scenes from the Middle Game: Luke, completely drunk, trips over a grate and, well...
  Han: "Either I’m drunk, or you're floating."
  Luke: I am floating because I am a Jedi!"

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