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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9841641" data-attributes="member: 78087">Honestly, I don’t really see that. Han in Solo is much the same guy as he is in Star Wars and in the various prequel books I’m old enough to remember - an outlaw who’s mostly out for himself and people he cares about (which, in SW, is basically just Chewie) but is also a decent human being, albeit one putting on a tough facade and who has to deal with the Galaxy the way it is, not the way he wants it to be. He’s no Rebel until SW, but that doesn’t make him a bad person and doesn’t preclude him being a good one. He didn’t need the other PCs to teach him basic morality.In SW Han basically has no relationship with these idiots and just wants to get paid (and Ben for one is totally fine with this, he’s not going to make him a recruitment pitch, but does trust him enough to reveal that he’s a Jedi, which is kind of a big deal when you think about it). Once said idiots have got him in way more trouble than he’d like, he’s just making it up as he goes along. Once he gets paid, he’s very conflicted about whether to join their hopeless cause (probability of getting killed: about 30% per year) or not, and again that doesn’t make him a bad or amoral person.His relationship with Leia is different, and much of it is simply the difference in gender politics between 1978 and 2018. Mostly I think Leia just pisses him off roughly 60% of the time on a personal level but he’s also very attracted to her and knows that she’s very attracted to him, and that neither of them really know what to do about it. Honestly, I don’t think their getting married was a good idea, but these things happen in war.</blockquote>

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