Luke Skywalker/Relationships

The relationships of Luke Skywalker.

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader
Anakin/Vader was Luke's father. Luke did not meet his father, until nineteen years after he was born, when his father's mentor told him, how great a Jedi his Anakin was, Luke developed a lot of respect for his father, when Obi-Wan told Luke that the person who killed his father was Vader, Luke developed hatred towards Vader, unaware at the time that Anakin/Vader were the same person, and that Obi-Wan was speaking metaphorically, in A New Hope, during the Battle of Yavin, Vader almost succeeds in killing Luke, if it had not been for the intervention of Han Solo.

In The Empire Strikes, Luke directly meets Vader, when the latter reveals that was his father at first Luke did not believe him, until he told Luke to use the Force, when he did Luke was horrified.

By the events of Return of the Jedi, Luke has accepted that Vader is his father, and his hatred towards his father had disappeared completely, and it turned into love, like his late mother, Luke correctly believed there was still good left in his father and he can be redeemed.

Luke could not bring himself to kill his father, despite knowing the terrible things he had done, in Luke's final encounter with his father, on the second death star, Anakin read his son's mind and discovered he had a second child, and he found out his second child is Leia, when he said "if you will not turn to the dark side perhaps she will", Luke became enraged by this statement, and attack his father in anger, he lost control for a moment, when Luke realized what he had done to his father, he felt guilty and remorseful.

when Darth Sidious was torturing Luke to death (by using Force lightning), Luke asked his father for help which Anakin did, in his father's final moments, he wanted to see his son with his own eyes, (realizing that Anakin was dying) Luke granted his father his last request, Luke and Anakin made peace before he dies and became one with the Force, Luke was devastated when his father died, and out of respect for his father, Luke gave him a Jedi funeral.

Padmé Amidala
Padmé was Luke's mother. After he is born, the only direct interacted Luke had with Padmé, was one when she touched him on his belly, as a sign of love and affection for her son, shortly after giving birth to his twin sister Leia, she dies, Luke was devastated by the death of his mother, that they he cried, despite having an amazingly strong connection to the Force, unlike Leia, Luke does not have memories of his mother, however, before her death, Padmé believed that Luke along with Leia could save his father Anakin/Vader and redeem him.

In Return of the Jedi, Luke shares his mother's belief that there was still good left in his father, and that he can be redeemed; these beliefs by both Luke and Padmé, is ultimately proven to be true, when he was being tortured by Sidious, and Anakin broke away from the dark side of the force, becoming the good person he once was, Luke is also sad that he never knew his mother.

Leia Organa
Leia is Luke's younger twin sister. Luke and Leia were separated after they were born, he did not meet his twin sister until nineteen years later, Luke's first impression of Leia as he saw her in an hologram was "She's beautiful", Luke, along with, Han rescue her from the first Death Star, he initially had a crush on her before learning of his relationship with Leia.

By the events of The Empire Strikes, Luke's crush on had completely disappeared, as he only considers a friend, he became annoying when Leia kissed him in a failed attempt to prove she doesn't have any romantic feelings for Han.

In Return of the Jedi, Luke discovers that Leia is his younger twin sister, before allowed himself to be captured by the Empire, he revealed to her that Vader was his father and she is his twin sister, she is not too surprise as there was always a part of her that suspected the relationship between herself and Luke, after the second Death Star, Luke joins the rebels in their ultimate victory against Empire, Luke and Leia lovingly embrace each other as brother and sister.

Ben Solo/Kylo Ren
Ben/Kylo is Luke's only nephew and former apprentice.

When Ben started to struggled with the Dark side of the Force, he was to sent to study under Luke by request of his mother, Luke's sister Leia, hoping to prevent them from ending up like his maternal grandfather Anakin Skywalker, Luke taught Ben most of what he knew of the ways of the Light side of the Force and lightsaber combat.

Unfortunately he was not able to prevent his nephew from fallen to Dark side of the Force, as Snoke preyed on Ben's internal conflict, Ben then became known as Kylo Ren, and aided by the Knights of Ren, he killed several of Luke's apprentices, This act greatly delayed his uncle's plan to restore the Jedi Order to it's former glory and left his uncle despondent while Kylo went on to terrorize the galaxy as a leader of the First Order.

Luke was one of the few who managed to survive and escape the Jedi massacre; In the aftermath of the Jedi massacre; Luke was deeply grieved and wracked with guilt, blaming himself for his students' deaths and Ben's turn to the dark side.

Luke then mysteriously disappeared; as he chose to seek out the First Jedi Temple. Kylo under the orders of Snoke, is to find and kill Luke, as Snoke knows that as long as Luke alive, a new generation of Jedi Knights can rise again, Luke probably had a good relationship with his nephew; prior to Kylo's all to the Dark side.

Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan was Luke's mentor and good friend.

After Luke was born, Obi-Wan took him to Tatooine, to be raised by his father's step-brother Owen Lars, and his wife Beru Whitesun, in order to hide him from Palpatine, Obi-Wan watch over him for nineteen years, before discovering who he really was, Luke believing him to be a strange hermit and knew under the name Ben Kenobi.

Upon the arrival of R2-D2 and C-3PO, Luke learned of Obi-Wan's identity and life as a Jedi from the latter, after this he gained a lot of respect for the jedi master, during there journey to Alderaan, the two quickly became good friends, and on the first Death Star, Obi-Wan was killed by Darth Vader well attempting to escape, he was clearly devastated by the death of his friend, however, he continued to fight in in the Galactic Civil War, so Obi-Wan's death would not be in vain.

When he discovered that Vader was his father, Luke became angry that Obi-Wan had deceived and lied to him, Luke apparently had a far better relationship with Obi-Wan, well his father's relationship with Obi-Wan was strained, as Luke quickly forgave Obi-Wan for his deception and lies.

Han Solo
Han was Luke's old friend and brother-in-law.

Luke initially had a rocky relationship with Han, due to him being a greedy and selfish smuggler at the time, during their rescue of Leia and escape of the first Death Star, he became extremely annoyed by Han's recklessness, as he almost got them killed or captured several times, during the Battle of Yavin, Vader almost succeeds in killing Luke, however Han saves him, after this Luke's opinion of Han changes, and they become close friends after this.

Sometime after the Battle of Endor, Han married Luke's sister Leia, becoming his brother-in-law.

Palpatine
Palpatine was Luke's enemy.

Luke initially had no direct interaction with Palpatine, however, he hated the latter because he was the tyrannical leader of Galactic Empire who oppressed the people of the Republic.

In Return of the Jedi, Luke learns from Yoda and Obi-Wan; that Palpatine was responsible for his father becoming Darth Vader in the first place, Luke's hatred for Palpatine increases even more.