Notes for myself

[valarltd]

The female form of Han is Hana and she's 5'8"
The female form of Luke is Lucia and she's 5'2".
The male form of Leia is Lane and he's 5'3".

To save me recalculating every time I decide to genderswap.
Looks like a femHan/post-RotJworld is the next stop. Need to get the Princess Lucia segment proofed and up.
(Wonder how he'll take his counterpart being pregnant?)


Speaking of (sort of), I have a bodyswap going, and can't decide what to with the characters now that Luke is in Leia's body and vice versa. Am considering having a crisis come up that only Luke can handle. Or alternately, having a punchline to it. Wondering, if at some point, Leia will try out this interesting new body on her husband. (Han is NOT bisexual in this, for a rare change)

irene_heron's package got in safe and sound. Others should be starting to arrive.
walkerminion, your package still hasn't been mailed. I'm digging for your address in my copious archives. (Help me out?)
gblvr yours hasn't gone out because I'm a lazy sod and scared of my printer.

Comments

[spitefairy.livejournal.com]

I've never quite understood the attraction to gender swapping characters in fics. (Body swaps I enjoy though), but I've never been a big fan of the "what if Luke was a girl" thing. I was wondering if you could try to explain why you like it. Sometimes an inside opinion helps me see it from a new light and appreciate them more.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Actually, right now, I'm working on a AU series. And Girl!Luke was just the section I was stuck on. There will be worlds where Han is still imperial, where Luke is the prince and Leia is the farmer, where Han didn't make it in time on Hoth, where Wedge is the hero of Yavin and Luke is just a second-stringer.

Genderswap is one of my kinks, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because it makes someone reassess the world in a whole new way. So much of Luke's personality is MALE, not "Hey y'all watch this" guy-like, but actively masculine if you understand. A female Luke is an interesting thing to write. She seems to develop his control and maturity much earlier, without the impetuous, somewhat whiny, headstrong phase.

I see Lucia as being not so much father-driven as family driven. She is not just focused on being like Dad, but on honoring her whole family, and gaining the power to avenge them.

If a character who has been one gender is plotdeviced into becoming another (a la the ST "Procrustean Petard") it's interesting to watch them cope. Jim Kirk is a lovely lady, but does not deal at all well with being "Miss Kirk." While some characters, being the opposite gender is no problem, for others, it changes everything from the work they are capable of doing (Uhura's male hands are too big for the comm board) to how everyone around them treats them.