Leia Organa/Relationships

The relationships of Leia Organa from the Star Wars universe.

Romance

Han Solo

Leia: "I love you."

Han: "I know."

―Han Solo and Leia Organa

Leia and Han share their first kiss.

Leia initially had a rocky relationship with Han - due to Han being a greedy and selfish smuggler at the time. During their escape from the first Death Star, she became extremely annoyed by Han's recklessness, as he placed them at risk and almost got them captured several times. During the Battle of Yavin, however, when Vader almost succeeds in killing Luke - Han saved him - after this Leia's opinion of Han changed - and they slowly fell in love with each other. Leia and Han developed a relationship that would last throughout the war.

In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes, Leia did not admit she had romantic feelings for Han at first. However, after they were captured by the Empire, moments before Han became frozen in carbonite, Leia realized that she loved him and admitted her romantic feelings for him.

In Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Leia, Luke, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian go to Tatooine to rescue Han from Jabba the Hutt. Their rescue mission is successful and Leia and Han lovingly embrace each other.

After Luke revealed that not only is Vader his father but hers as well, that he is her older twin brother, and left to be captured by the Empire - Han appeared to question Leia about the relationship between her and Luke, unaware of what their conversation was about. Leia was initially unable to tell him, as she was still in shock to find out that Vader was her father and Han became jealous of Luke, but soon apologized and comforted her.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Endor, Han reassured Leia that Luke had surely survived and that he had got off the second Death Star, before it was destroyed, but she already knew it, as she felt her brother's presence though the Force. Han told her he would not interfere in their relationship, but Leia informed Han that Luke is her brother, much to his shock and and embarrassment, and they subsequently share a passionate kiss.

Sometime after the Battle of Endor, Leia and Han married and had a son named Ben. However, when their son fall to the dark side, becoming known as Kylo Ren, they separated for years in agony and grief, each mourning the loss of their son in their own way.

In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, after not seeing each other for many years, Leia and Han are happily reunited. Before going with Chewbacca and Finn to rescue Rey and destroy the Starkiller Base, Leia and Han share a lovingly embrace, and she asks him to bring their son home. Unknown to either of them this would be the last time Leia would see Han alive. Upon Han's murder at the hand of their son, Leia senses Han's death through the Force. She is devastated by the death of her husband, as she mourns his loss.

After her husband's death, Leia seeks comfort on Chewbacca that embraces her while they mourn their loss. Leia also shares her grief with Rey. After the girl arrived the Resistance base, they two of them hug each other, recognizing that they are both suffering for Han's demise. Later, Leia asks Rey to tell what happened between Han and Ben at Starkiller Base. While Rey cries and narrates the event, explaining that she felt helpless upon seeing Han dying and not be able to do anything and that he never asked for help or tried to run away, Leia tells the girl that Han always knew when to stay and when to escape, so while trying to reach Ben, Han would have chosen to stay.

Family

Anakin Skywalker

“Sometimes I wonder what he was like.”

―Young Leia to Obi-Wan.

Moments from being tortured by Vader.

Leia did not meet her father until nineteen years after she was born. When Leia was 10, she still wondered what her father was like. By the time she met him on the Death Star, the encounter with her father was a cruel twist of fate, both Leia and Vader were unaware of their relationship with each other at the time. Vader treated her as an enemy to the Empire and severely tortured her aboard the Death Star for information regarding the location of the rebel base - all before letting Wilhuff Tarkin destroy her surrogate home; Alderaan.

Leia saw Vader as a monster willing to destroy the weak, however, she became shocked upon learning of her true relationship with Vader from Luke - that Vader was in fact, her father. She likely had mixed feelings for her father after this discovery.

Despite Anakin's sacrifice to save Luke, Leia never forgave him for his actions as Vader until her final moments. Before using the last of her strength to call out her son, Ben Solo, she let the voices and faces of her family surround her. She then saw the face of her father and finally accepted his apology and returned his love.

Padmé Amidala

After Leia was born, unlike Luke, she never had any direct interaction with Padmé. However, Leia was left with a lasting impression of images and feelings of her mother - that she was "very beautiful, kind, but sad", but Leia possibly created those memories as a way to cope the fact she never met her biological mother.

Bail Organa

After Padme's death, Bail took Leia in and raised her to devoted her life to overthrowing the Emperor and restoring the Republic he had destroyed but to keep this part of herself to herself so their people don't get in trouble.

After Bail was killed when the Alderaan system was as destroyed by the first Death Star, as Bail was on the planet Alderaan, when it was destroyed; Leia grieves over the death of her adopted father.

Luke Skywalker

Leia and her twin brother Luke.

Leia and Luke were separated after they were born, she did not meet her older twin brother until nineteen years later. Luke, along with Han Solo rescued her from the first Death Star; after Luke becomes a member of the Rebel Alliance, the two became close friends.

In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes, Leia only considers Luke a friend, however, she kissed him in a failed attempt to prove she doesn't have any romantic feelings for Han; much to Luke's annoyance.

In Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Luke revealed to Leia that Vader was his father and she - his twin sister. Leia is not overly surprised 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 the Empire. Leia and Luke lovingly embrace each other as brother and sister.

In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Leia's faith in her brother, has increased to the point where she believes that the Resistance cannot defeat Snoke and the First Order without Luke's help.

Ben Solo/Kylo Ren

Han: "We lost our son. Forever."

Leia: "No. It was Snoke. He seduced our son to the dark side. But we can still save him. Me. You."

Han: "If Luke couldn't reach him, how could I?"

Leia: "Luke is a Jedi. You're his father. There is still light in him, I know it."

―Han and Leia about their son, Ben Solo

Leia sensing Kylo Ren hesitating to fire the ship that she is aboard.

Leia had a loving relationship with her son and only child, Ben, prior to his fall to the dark side. When her son started to struggle with his Force powers, Leia was terrified that he might ended up like his maternal grandfather, Anakin Skywalker, so she sent him to study under the tutelage of her brother, Luke.

Unfortunately, Luke was not able to prevent Leia's son from falling to the dark side, as Snoke preyed on Ben's internal conflict. Ben, upon conversion to the dark side, became known as Kylo Ren. Leia was devastated that her son had become evil and mourned him bitterly. Yet, despite the atrocities that Ren had committed over the years, Leia still believed that Ben could come back to the light side and be redeemed. However, she was left with no choice but to reluctantly renounce her belief of her son being redeemable after he killed Han, although she was clearly saddened by this when referring to her son upon meeting Luke.

Despite this, it seems Leia still remains unsure of her forced acknowledgment of her son as an enemy, as she did not act when Ren's TIE silencer approached her due to her sensing her son's presence. It is proven to Leia that her son still loved her when he chose to spare her only for his wingmen to fire on her instead, although whether this affected Leia's belief of his son's redemption being possible remains uncertain.

Sometime after the Battle of Crait, Leia seems to have realized that there is nothing she can do to help her son. As Rey told Leia how Kylo Ren asked her to join him and that she had thought she could help him but failed, Leia noticed that Rey cares for her son and that the girl is heartbroken because of him. Leia explains to Rey that as much it is good to hold out hope, she tries to be rational. Leia states that the only one who can save Ben is himself but she is not sure if that is something he wants.

Ultimately, Leia could never stop loving her son and willingly gave her life to reach out to him, which caused him to be distracted and defenseless during a duel with Rey. After Rey healed the fatal wounds she inflicted on Ben and confessed her romantic feelings before leaving a confused Ben behind, he was conflicted because of past events and now also devastated by his mother's death. He briefly lost hope that his redemption would mean anything without his mother. However, as Han's memory successfully reached out to him, he is inspired by his loved ones to turn back to the light side.

Leia, Han and Rey are proven to be right in believing that Ben could be saved from the dark side, and they are also the reason he decides to come to the light. Ultimately, he helps and sacrifices himself for Rey during the battle against the resurrected Sheev Palpatine.

Friends and Allies

C-3PO

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R2-D2

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

Leia heard a lot about Obi-Wan Kenobi from her adoptive father, Bail Organa. She finally met Obi-Wan Kenobi as a child when she was kidnapped by mercenaries hired by Reva Sevander, who was hunting for the Jedi Master himself. After Kenobi rescued her, Leia was wary to trust the Jedi Master and her distrust of him grew when she realized she was kidnapped so her captor could lure Kenobi out of hiding. However, after being saved by Kenobi when he uses the Force to save her from jumping off a building, Leia began to trust him. While on the run from the Inquisitorius, Leia and Kenobi began to bond while she eagerly listened to him compare her to her birth parents.

When Leia was captured by Reva Sevander, she did not reveal information regarding Kenobi and the Rebel cell known as "The Path". Leia was nearly tortured by Reva, but she was rescued again by Kenobi whom she was relieved to see. After escaping from the Inquistors' base on Nur, Leia and Kenobi took refuge at the Path's base on Jabiim where they were followed by Reva and Darth Vader. When Leia volunteers to get into the vents of the base to open the sealed hangar door, Kenobi lets her do the job while asking one of the Path's members, Hana to keep an eye on her while he distracted the Empire. While still being pursued by Vader and his forces, Leia was upset to hear Kenobi planned to draw the Empire's attention away from the Path, but she reluctantly accepts his decision. Kenobi instructed Leia to tell her father about his efforts to rescue her before giving her the late Tala Durith's empty gun holster as a parting present. The two embraced, with Leia telling Kenobi to come back.

After Leia reunited with her adoptive parents, along with Kenobi saving the Path, the two reunited on Alderaan where they shared a warm embrace. After reassuring her adoptive father that he can always count on him against the growing Empire, Kenobi told Leia that she was wise, discerning, and kindhearted, which he described as qualities from her mother. He also described Leia as passionate, fearless, and forthright, which he attributes to her father. He even told Leia that her parents were exceptional people who bore an exceptional daughter and apologized to her as he could not reveal more about them. Leia accepted his apology as she did not need to know more about her birth parents as she had her adoptive parents who loved and cared for her. Before Kenobi departed, Leia asked if she'll see him again which Kenobi replied she will when she needed his help one day.

Many years later, moments before she was captured by the Empire, Leia gave the secret technical plans of the Death Star, to R2-D2 as well as a message for Obi-Wan; she sent the astromech droid to find the Jedi Master; to recruit him into the Rebellion.

After Obi-Wan was killed by Darth Vader, she was upset over his death, Leia named only son and child after Obi-Wan, albeit after his alias; "Ben Kenobi", despite the fact that she never personal known the elderly Jedi Master.

Lando Calrissian

Leia didn't trust Lando at all when she first met him. Her doubts were (apparently) justified when he helped Vader capture Leia and her friends (unaware that he only did this; because Vader, under the orders of Palpatine, threatening to take over Cloud City if he didn't help them) Leia forgave him after she learned why Lando did it, especially after he helped rescue Han. Both Leia and Han continued to work together in defeating the Empire, resulting in the Rebellion's victory in the Battle of Endor.

The two continued to remain good friends, especially during the final days of the war between the Resistance and the First Order. When Leia sent a message to Lando, asking him to help Rey, Finn, and Poe Dameron in Pasaana, Lando agreed and asked Rey to give Leia his love. When Leia died after reaching out to her son, her death motivated Lando in helping the Resistance in their final stand against the First Order.

Poe Dameron

Leia demotes Poe Dameron after he disobeys her.

Leia shared a strong, trusted relationship with Poe Dameron, one of her best pilots in the Resistance. Leia sees Poe as a surrogate son and someone with a lot of potential to be a great leader for the Resistance and beyond, as Poe also reminds Leia of her brother Luke.

When learning of a map that could lead to the location of her brother, Leia sent Poe on a mission to retrieve the map from Lor San Tekka on Jakku. When Poe was captured by the First Order, Leia refused to believe that Poe was dead and showed gratitude towards Finn for saving Poe's life.

When the First Order attacked the Resistance as they were evacuating from D'Qar, Leia ordered Poe to not continue attacking the Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought, but Poe disobeyed Leia and continued to lead the attack. Though Poe and his squad were victorious in destroying the dreadnought, Leia was furious that Poe recklessly sacrificed so many lives in the process, so she demoted him from commander to captain. Poe tries to defend his actions by saying that they were heroes on the mission, only for Leia to say "Dead heroes, No leaders" and walks away.

When Poe attempted a mutiny against Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo for having the Resistance forces abandon their vulnerable cruiser, Leia, who recovered from injuries, stopped him and remarked how impressed she was at Poe for making such a daring move. Leia then reconciled with Poe and had him lead the Resistance to escape from the First Order during the Battle of Crait.

A year later, when the revived Palpatine broadcasted a message of revenge, Leia entrusted Poe to gather information on Palpatine's return. She also allowed Poe to accompany Rey in finding a Sith wayfinder in order to reach Palpatine's hideout on the Sith planet of Exegol. When Leia died by reaching out to her son through the Force, she appointed Poe as the new leader of the Resistance in her dying moments. Poe was grief-stricken over Leia's death and was not sure if he could lead the Resistance, but after a talk with Lando Calrissian, Poe decided to honor Leia and her legacy as a true leader where he led the Resistance in the Battle of Exegol where he managed to secure their victory against the First Order.

Finn

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Rey

Leia embracing her student, Rey.

Leia first met Rey after the destruction of Starkiller Base. Rey, knowing of Leia's love for Han Solo, and Leia, sensing Rey's fondness for her husband, embraced each other as they mourned over Han's death. When the map to Luke Skywalker was completed, Leia entrusted Rey to find and convince her brother to join the Resistance in their fight against the First Order.

Before Rey left to find Luke on Ahch-To, Leia asked Rey to tell her about the events of Starkiller Base and what the girl saw happening between Han and Ben, and they had another moment in which they shared their pain of the loss of Han. Rey tearfully told Leia that Han never asked for their help and didn't try to escape while confronting Kylo Ren. As the girl cried, Leia replied that Han used to run away from dire situations, but that he always came back and he always knew the moment to stay, thus he had chosen to stay while trying to reach and turn his son. When Rey asks her how would she stand and have hope even when everything seems hopeless, Leia says that she can do it because she is not alone and assures Rey that she isn't either.

Following the Battle of Crait, Rey and Leia sensed Luke's death through the Force and mourned for him together. As Rey worried on how they would continue the war against the First Order, Leia assured her that they had everything they needed to continue the war.

Sometime later, Rey and Leia bonded discussing their grief about their losses during the war, and Leia assumes that Rey seems to be sad because of her mentor's demise until the girl mentions her son. Rey asks Leia if she could tell her more about Ben's fall to the dark side, explaining that she wants to understand him. Rey also tells Leia how she wishes to help Ben, but when Kylo Ren asked her to join him on the Supremacy, she was disappointed as she realized that he just wanted her to be like him. Upon noticing that Rey is heartbroken because of her son, Leia concludes that the girl cares for him and tries to comfort her. Leia shows admiration for Rey's hope to turn Ben and save him, but she explains that only her son can save himself and she is not sure if that is something Ben Solo wants, so she advises Rey to be rational. When Rey replies that she does not know how to do it, Leia reassures her that she won't be alone.

Rey would continue her Jedi training under Leia's tutelage, making their relationship more like a mother-daughter relationship. Before Rey went on a mission to find a Sith wayfinder in order to get to the planet Exegol, Rey shared one last embrace with Leia, who assured her to not be afraid of who she truly was. During her duel with Kylo Ren on Kef Bir, Rey sensed and was devastated over Leia's death, which causes her to snap out of her rage. She heals the wound that herself inflicted on Kylo, and for a moment, they both mourn Leia together. When meeting with Luke's Force spirit on Ahch-To, Rey was surprised to hear from Luke that not only he, but also Leia, had known of Rey's lineage as a Palpatine. Rey was assured by Luke that Leia trained her because of what her grandfather lacked: a spirit and a heart.

After the defeat of the First Order and the death of Darth Sidious, Rey was proudly watched by Leia and Luke as she adopted the "Skywalker" name in order to honor the ones she considers as family.

Enemies

Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious

“So Palpatine's been out there all the time, pulling the strings."
"Always, in the shadows from the very beginning.”

―Poe Dameron and Leia Organa

Unlike her father, Anakin Skywalker at first, Leia hated Palpatine from an early age; Bail raised her to be dedicated to overthrowing Palpatine and restoring the Republic he had destroyed. He also taught her to keep these sentiments to herself so Alderaan would not get into trouble. When Leia was discovered to be a Rebel - Palpatine used her allegiance as a pretext to do what he had always intended - to dissolve the Imperial Senate permanently and destroy what was left of the Old Republic's bureaucracy - making himself an absolute monarch.

Wilhuff Tarkin

Leia being threatened by Tarkin.

“Governor Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board."
"Charming to the last. You don't know how hard I found it signing the order to terminate your life."
"I'm surprised you had the courage to take the responsibility yourself.”

―Leia Organa and Tarkin

Tarkin and Leia did not have much interaction with each other, but they know each other enough to be enemies. When taken prisoner aboard the Death Star, Leia insulted Tarkin and his "foul stench" while imitating his accent, while Tarkin pinched Leia's chin as he mused giving the order to terminate the princess's life. However, when Leia refused to give the location of the rebel base, Tarken threatened to destroy her home planet Alderaan. When Leia (apparently) reluctantly provided the location of the rebel base on Dantooine, Tarkin went back on his word and destroyed her home planet anyway before promising to deal with her rebel allies later. However, it was later revealed that the location Leia gave them, Dantooine, was a rebel base that had been abandoned for some time. Leia had mislead them, knowing that if the rebellion had fallen, the Empire's tyranny would continue, and she also did not believe Tarkin would keep his word. Tarkin would become enraged to discover Leia had lied to him that he ordered her to be executed immediately only to be prevented Tarkin's actions - as Alderaan was completely innocent, and was not even a part of the rebellion.

Jabba the Hutt

Leia as Jabba's slave.

“We have powerful friends. You're going to regret this."
"I'm sure.”

―Leia Organa and Jabba the Hutt

Jabba was a crime lord and an enemy that Leia met during her attempt to rescue Han Solo, who had been captured for not being able to pay his debts to him. Leia initially arrived to Jabba's palace and disguised as the bounty hunter Boushh with Chewbacca as her "prisoner", but while Leia freed Han from carbonite, Jabba and his court discovered them. Ignoring Han's pleas, Jabba had him imprisoned with Chewbacca, then took particular notice of Leia and found the princess attractive as she was brought before the gangster. Leia boldly tried to threaten Jabba, only to turn away in disgust as his tongue lolled out of his wide mouth. She recoiled as he licked her, his tongue brushing against the side of her face. Jabba thought Leia had a pleasant flavor, so the gangster forced the princess to serve in his court as his personal slave.

During her enslavement, Leia was forced to wear a skimpy dancing-girl costume that left very little of her unexposed. After being forced to submit to Jabba, the miserable and helpless princess had begun to lose hope as she lay slumped beside Jabba's slumbering form at all times, her neck secured to a long chain to the gangster's throne. Her spirits only rose again when Luke arrived at the palace. Leia watched as Luke tried to bargain with Jabba for his friends' liberation and the young Jedi's battle with a rancor where he killed the beast. Enraged, Jabba punished Organa by strangling her. Jabba declared that Luke, Han, and Chewbacca were to be taken to the Great Pit of Carkoon and to be executed and eaten by the Sarlacc. Meanwhile, Jabba spared Leia as he preferred to keep the enslaved princess by his side.

On Jabba's sail barge, the Khetanna, Leia patiently waited until Luke started retaliating with his lightsaber. In the ensuing panic, Leia destroyed the barge's controls to throw the vessel into darkness (thus making it so that Jabba wouldn't be able to stop her), and jumped over Jabba's tail. Grabbing the slack of the very chain with which Jabba had enslaved her, Leia brought an end to the criminal reign by throwing its length around his huge neck, bracing her legs against his back, and leaning back hard while pulling the chain, slowly but forcefully strangling him to death. In Star Wars: Bloodline, it is hinted that Leia was able to strangle Jabba to death by tapping into the dark side for additional strength to pull it off.

Carise Sindian

Despite the fact they were both members of the Elder Houses, Leia and Carise were both bitter enemies due to the fact they were both members of the opposing factions that were created after Mon Mothma stepped down as Chancellor of the New Republic; Leia was a member of the Populist faction, which idealized the Rebel Alliance and wanted to empower the secters of the galaxy and strengthen local militaries, while Carise was a member of the Centerist faction, which idealized the Galactic Empire and called for a stronger central government and a more expanded military, and a secret agent of the First Order. When Carise learned that Darth Vader was Leia's father, she exposed this fact to the galaxy at large and destroyed Leia's standing in the Senate. This backfired when Leia got her excommunicated from the Elder Houses and formed the Resistance to fight the First Order.