Padmé Amidala gives birth to twins, Luke and Leia.
Abiological parent, or birth parent, was the biological progenitor of an offspring.[3] Among somespecies, such ashumans, the act of becoming a parent often involved a pair of beingsconceiving achild together as biological parents.[4] Humans were born to amale father and a female mother.[5][6] Humans were also capable of havinghybrid children with members of certain other species: For example, the femaleTwi'lekHera Syndulla became a mother after she gave birth to the son ofKanan Jarrus,Jacen.[7]
In some animals likefathiers, the male parent was referred to as the "sire," and the female parent as the "dam."[8]
Some people chose to have a child without a sexual partner, such asSola Naberrie, who delivered a daughter,Ryoo Naberrie. Sola was uninterested in having a partner, though she was comfortable with having children, a position not uncommon on herhomeworldNaboo.[9] The famedMandalorianbounty hunterJango Fett became a parent by requesting an unaltered genetic replication of himself fromKaminoanscloners, which resulted in the cloneBoba Fett, who was raised by Jango as his own son.[10]
Creation[]
Anakin Skywalker was conceived by the Force and had no other parent than his mother, Shmi.
"You really love the boy. Like he's your own." "He is my own."
―Reva Sevander and Owen Lars, about Owen's step-nephew Luke Skywalker[13]
Leia Organa was adopted by Queen Breha and Senator Bail Organa.
The term "parent" could also refer to a caretaker of the offspring who was not biologically related to them:[14] Adoption was a process where a person assumed the parenting for another and raised the offspring of the biological parents but was not related to them.QueenBreha Organa and herhusband,SenatorBail Organa, adopted the newbornLeia Organa after Leia's biological mother,Padmé Amidala, died in childbirth, and her birth father, Anakin Skywalker, fell to thedark side of the Force.[15] Because of near-deadly injuries sustained by the queen during herDay of Demand challenges, Bail and Breha had decided not to conceive a child and strain the queen's body, and instead talked of adopting a child one day,[16] more specifically a baby girl.[15]
Luke Skywalker, Leia'stwin brother,[15] was adopted byOwen andBeru Lars[17]—Owen was Luke's father's step-brother.[10] Owen was initially reluctant to take in Luke, as he had only met his step-brother once, and they were barely family and not even by blood. Another mouth to feed would also be a substantial burden for the strugglingmoisture farmers. However, Beru, who was unable to have a child of her own, wished for a family and convinced her reluctant husband to adopt Anakin's son. The moment the infant Luke was placed in her arms, Beru was smitten and loved the child as if he were her own. Owen grew to care for the boy in his own gruff way.[3] FormerInquisitorReva Sevander noted that Owen really loved Luke, like he was his own, to which Owen replied that Luke was his own.[13]
TheMandalorianmercenaryDin Djarin was the caretaker of thefoundlingGrogu, and wished for his foundling to become a true Mandalorian. This led to him officially adopting Grogu as his son, as Grogu was too young to speak theMandalorian Creed, but parental consent would allow the foundling to join theclan as Djarin'sMandalorian apprentice without needing to recite the creed.[18]
Parental figures[]
"A foundling is in your care. By creed, until it is of age or reunited with its own kind, you are as its father."
While theForce-sensitive youngling Grogu was under the care of the Mandalorian Din Djarin,The Armorer declared Grogu to be a foundling. As such, Djarin was from then on seen as Grogu's father, until Grogu was of age or Djarin returned him to his kind.[19]Ahsoka Tano described Djarin as a father figure to Grogu,[20] and eventually, Djarin formally adopted him.[18]
Hunter, a formerclone trooper, had taken a fatherly role withOmega, one of his fellowclones and members ofClone Force 99. As they arrived onPabu,Shep Hazard referred to Hunter as Omega's father, saying that it was a great place to raise a child.[21]Royce Hemlock, who was trying to kidnap Omega, was greatly surprised by how paternal Hunter acted towards her.[22]
People who had no parents in their life would sometimes look for parental figures in others:Anakin Skywalker, who had no known father and may have been conceived directly bymidi-chlorians,[5] viewed hisJediinstructorObi-Wan Kenobi as the closest thing he had to a father.[10] Similarly, whenRey metHan Solo, she felt like he was the father she never had.[23] According toKylo Ren, Rey was looking for her parents "everywhere," first in Solo, then in Luke Skywalker.[24]Leia Organa, Rey's Jedi instructor, came to see Rey as the daughter she never had.[25]
Significance[]
Genetics[]
"Princess Leia Organa, you are wise, discerning, kindhearted. These are qualities that came from your mother. But you are also passionate and fearless, forthright. And these are gifts from your father. Both were exceptional people who bore an exceptional daughter."
With his father's nose and his mother's eyes, Ben Solo resembled his parents, Han Solo and Leia Organa.
It was possible for a child to inherit their biological parents' physical features. As a teenager, Leia Organa looked strikingly similar to her biological mother, Padmé Amidala, and when she wore thejubilation dress that Amidala had once worn it greatly shockedQuarsh Panaka, an old friend and ally of Amidala's.[4] Organa's own son, Ben Solo, had his father Han Solo's pronouncednose and lopsided smile, and his mother's piercingbrowneyes. Organa, in turn, was sure that this feature was inherited from her own birth mother.[3]
Other characteristics could also be passed on from a parent to their offspring. For example, the human Force-sensitive Leia Organa was described as wise, discerning and kindhearted, like her birth mother; and passionate, fearless and forthright, like her biological father Anakin Skywalker.[26] Ben Solo's inherentForce ability came from his mother, whereas he gained his amazing reflexes and piloting skills from his father.[27] He also hailed from a bloodline of expertpilots that included not only his father, but also his maternal grandfather.[28]Snoke also claimed that Solo had "too much of his father'sheart" in him, which was why he was unable to fully commit to the dark side of the Force.[24]
Organa's brother Luke Skywalker was known to be a great pilot, just like his father Anakin.[29] He also showed an aptitude for mechanical engineering, a skill that Luke seemed to have inherited from his father, along with his father's quick reflexes and love for flying. In addition, both father and son hated living onTatooine.[3]
DNA could only be passed down genetically: The humanRush Clovis was raised in part as the adopted son of an influentialMuun family onScipio, who treated him as though he were their own child. Because of how well integrated he was into Muun society, Clovis was unbothered by the fact he was a human,[30] even though his species raised eyebrows to those who associated Scipio and theBanking Clan with the Muuns.[9] According to Clovis, he almost forgot where he was from, until he looked in themirror.[30] Despite always knowing that she was adopted, and therefore knew any shared traits were just a coincidence, as a little girl Leia Organa used to look in the mirror to see if she shared any traits with her adoptive parents such as Breha Organa's wisdom and beauty or the kindness in Bail Organa's eyes.[4]
The saying "thejogan doesn't roll far from the vine" referred to a child taking after their parents.[31]
The role of a parent was associated with certain forms of behavior: For example,Sabine Wren felt that fellowSpectre member Hera Syndulla was ordering her around like she was her mother.[33] When Obi-Wan Kenobi instructed ten-year-oldPrincess Leia Organa on how to behave while they were trying to escapeDaiyu, Organa retorted that Kenobi sounded like her adoptive parents.[32] When Hunter was trying to protect Omega from being kidnapped by Royce Hemlock, the latter commented on how paternal Hunter was.[22] When Luke SkywalkerdueledDarth Vader onBespin, he observed Vader go from taunting him to praising him almost instantaneously, "as if he were...," yet he stopped short of finishing the thought. At the end of the duel, Luke was aghast when Vader revealed a stunning truth: that he, the man Luke believed had taken his father's life, was actually his father.[34]
Other significance[]
"Your parents threw you away like garbage." "They didn't!" "They did. But you can't stop needing them. It's your greatest weakness."
The Jedi of theOld Republic were normally taken in by theJedi Order when they were little, with the oldest typically being no more than fiveyears old. Although Jedi were not expressly forbidden from communicating with their birth parents or siblings, most of them felt little connection to their biological family because they had been inducted into the Order as infants.[3]
The revelation of one's parentage could have profound implications for an individual. Luke Skywalker was shocked upon Darth Vader, who was formerly Anakin Skywalker, telling him that he was his father.[36] Although Luke did not accept this at first, he eventually came to believe it and used the information to bind them together and convince Vader to save him from the ravages of hismaster,Darth Sidious.[2] Leia Organa, the other child of Vader, was forced to exit theGalactic Senate of theNew Republic upon the truth of her parentage being revealed.[37]
Rey's mother and father were forced to abandon their daughter in order to protect her.
Rey, an orphanedscavenger fromJakku, remained on theplanet in the hope that herfather andmother would oneday return for her. Even after leaving the planet following the awakening of herForce powers,[23] she sought desperately to learn the identity of her parents.[24] Eventually, however, a journey on the planetAhch-To and a conversation with Kylo Ren, who had killed his own father, Han Solo, led her to confront the seeming truth: that a part of her had always known that deep down that her parents werejunkers who sold her off fordrinkingmoney and were nowdead in a paupers' grave in thedesert wastelands of Jakku.[24] Further revelations, however, led her to learn that they in fact had secreted her away on Jakku in order to hide her from hergrandfather, theSith Lord Darth Sidious.[38]
This article is astub. You can help Wookieepedia byexpanding it.
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "The Lost Crystals of Qalydon"
