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Search your feelings. [[Ho Yay|You know everything expressed on this page is true.]]

 

 

A lot of the [[Ho Yay]] in the Star Wars EU seems to surround [[Ace Pilot|ace X-Wing pilot]] [[Ascended Extra|Wedge Antilles]] and the Imperial [[The Chessmaster|master strategist]] [[Magnificent Bastard|Mitth'raw'nuruodo]]. [[Crack Pairing|Who knows what would have happened if they had ever met]].

 

 

* In the [[X Wing Series]], Wedge and Tycho get paired together frequently, despite both having their own well-liked het marriages. During the period where Tycho was framed for {{spoiler|Corran's apparent death}} and suspected of being [[Manchurian Agent|an Imperial]] [[The Mole|agent]], Wedge defended him ''constantly''.

** He also was not shy in praising Tycho at any occasion. When either appears in a novel, so does the other, and of all the [[Aaron Allston]] characters these two spend the most time together.

'''Tycho''': Aww. You're going to make me cry. }}

** And at one point Wedge says "I feel about Tycho what Iella feels about Corran", Iella and Corran being old partners on the Corellian Security Force. Old partners who once fell for each other, but didn't do anything because that would have ruined Iella's marriage. Now, Wedge was subtly courting Iella at the time.

** In ''Starfighters of Adumar'', Wedge spends a couple pages describing himself, Tycho, Hobbie, and Wes. Wes looks youthful, Hobbie is perpetually hangdog, and Wedge thinks he personally looks average, but Tycho? Tycho's features are handsome, and he "looked in every way the cold aristocrat... until one looked in his eyes and saw the humanity and the [[The Woobie|signs of distant pain there]]."

* Look at the end of ''The Krytos Trap''. Luke greets Wedge with a hug and says something that takes several sentences and more than a quarter of the page to finish before he finally steps back. Then he meets Corran Horn, grandson of a Jedi, and with Wedge there and watching, tells Corran, "I want you to join me. Come with me. Train and learn with me."

* Just in general, Wedge is... popular with the Big Three. In [[Return of the Jedi]], Luke hugged him; they rarely interact face-to-face in the EU, but they do hug again in ''The Krytos Trap'', as stated above. Leia [[Anywhere but Their Lips|kisses his cheek]] after [[Holding Hands]] and asking him if he's thought about having children. Han hangs out and ruffles his hair; a later novel has him self-consciously tell the narration that he's got the kind of hair that invites ladies' fingers to run through it. [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] / [[Platonic Life Partners]], or is there just something about Wedge Antilles?

* During ''Isard's Revenge'', Wedge and the Rogues end up in an [[Enemy Mine]] with Ysanne Isard and some of her pilots. One of them, Colonel Vessery ends up training the Rogues for a mission, but really he's never shown even talking to any of them but Wedge, to whom he is unfailingly polite and sympathetic, even trying to comfort Wedge about some of his pilots dying. Later Isard asks Vessery if he has developed "affection" for the Rogues. Vessery says he has, but he will do his duty.

* In ''Dark Apprentice'', Wedge hugs Luke. Harmless, right? It takes half a page to describe it. Yeah.

* Then there's that time in ''Solo Command'' when Wedge orders Wes Janson to strip. [[It Makes Sense in Context]], but still...

 

* Thrawn himself might as well be [[Asexual]], but quite a few characters clearly don't feel that way about him.

* [[Timothy Zahn]] also wrote the [[Hand of Thrawn]] Duology. Pellaeon, who at that point in time is the Supreme Commander and basically the head of the Imperial forces, violently denied the rumors of Thrawn's return - "''I watched him die!''" - actually losing his temper, which is a big deal for [[The Stoic|Pellaeon]]. After calming down he told his second in command that he'd been with Thrawn for just over a year, and was his senior fleet officer, his student... perhaps even his confidant. Thrawn had not picked him at random; very little that he did was random. But if he ''had'' returned, and he hadn't come back to Pellaeon...

'''Second''': * hesitates, reaches out and touches Pellaeon's arm* "It's been a long road, sir. Long and hard and discouraging. For all of us, but mostly for you. If there's anything I can do..." }}

* Then there's ''[[Outbound Flight]]'', set before the Clone Wars and featuring a much younger Thrawn and three Corellian traders he's hosting as captives/guests. One flatly dislikes him and tends to be ignored. One idolizes him from almost the moment she meets him. One is the viewpoint character. Thrawn likes the viewpoint character; he's curious, observes everything, is generally pleased and amused by this curiosity and quick learning and the fact that the viewpoint character can be nudged into [[Sherlock Scan|picking up on some of the things Thrawn picks up on]]. Okay, that's not a lot, considering, but there's this exchange.

'''Car'das''': * blushes* }}

** The viewpoint character also notices that the idolizing character is giving Thrawn the kind of look "a language student shouldn't be giving her teacher. An unpleasant sensation began to drift into his gut. She couldn't actually be falling for Thrawn, could she? Surely she wouldn't let herself be drawn in by his intelligence and courtesy and sophistication."

* ''Command Decision'', a short story Zahn wrote for the Star Wars Adventure Journal, has a brief section where Parck, the captain who brought Thrawn back from the Unknown Regions and is going into "exile" with him is the viewpoint character. As part of an [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Obfuscating Weakness ploy]], Thrawn sent Parck and some troopers out unarmed to be captured, and Parck's faith in his admiral is absolute. And rewarded, since like in every similar situation, the enemy is doing exactly as Thrawn planned, and Parck is either informed of these plans beforehand or is savvy enough to pick up on his own that everything is falling into place.

** A chunk of that story is about the viewpoint character for most of the story, a [[Commander Contrarian]] who doesn't know Thrawn, doesn't like the plans he's using, and discusses committing treason in order to get someone else in command - but stops short of actually doing it, because Thrawn talked him into trusting that the admiral knew what he was doing. At the end he has a talk with Parck where he's told that his resignation as captain was denied, because even though he'd contemplated treason, he hadn't done it.

'''Parck''': "Oh, you were proving you were trustworthy, all right. But you weren't proving it to Thrawn. You were proving it to yourself." }}

*** The discussion then turns to both of them getting inspired by the knowledge that under Thrawn they would do great things, and Parck smiles dreamily.

** Niriz clearly learns the lesson. In ''Side Trip'', when Thrawn goes on a potentially dangerous mission disguised as Jodo Kast, he fusses over his safety, and expresses great relief when he returns.

* ''[[X Wing Series|Isard's Revenge]]'', set directly after ''The Last Command'' - the first scene actually takes place during the Battle of Bilbringi - has Prince-Admiral [[Red Right Hand|Delak Krennel]] as its villain. ...He spends every bit as much time thinking about Thrawn as he does about the Rogues. See, he used to serve under Thrawn, and he didn't like the Grand Admiral's tactics and the whole art-analysis thing, so he tried to teach Thrawn that ruthless conduct worked better. Thrawn didn't appreciate this lesson and sent Krennel back to Coruscant. When he's not talking to the [[Cloning Gambit|Isard clone]], smirking at the New Republic, or drastically underestimating the Rogues, Krennel thinks back to Thrawn and how ''wrong'' he was with his ''art'' and his ''not being completely evil'', and while a couple scenes of this is a simple enough demonstration of a petty villain feeling snubbed, Krennel does cross the line into seeming ''jilted''. There's even a scene where he destroys something, looks at the wreckage, decides that it's art, and thinks ''How better to be the artist than to be the one studying the art.''

* Voss Parck, in the [[Hand of Thrawn]] duology, regards Thrawn with almost worshipful levels of respect. He believes so firmly in Thrawn's rightness, in the promise Thrawn made to return a decade after he was reported dead, that Mara Jade thinks he's a little delusional.

 

* In ''[[Death Star]]'', it really does seem like the bouncer and the Force-Sensitive trooper have some chemistry. The bouncer even told the bartender, near the start of the book, that he'd admire girls, but he wasn't interested.

* ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy|The Last Command]]'' also has what Joruus C'baoth [[Mind Rape|did to General Covell]]; there's a chunk from Covell's viewpoint, and he's become so fanatically dependent on C'baoth that there's absolutely nothing left in his head. He literally ''dies'' when C'baoth <s> leaves</s> is cut off from him by [[Applied Phlebotinum]].

** The same comic has Biggs and [[X Wing Series|Hobbie Klivian]]. ...Oh dear. It starts as mild [[Foe Yay]]. At one point when they're being antagonistic, Hobbie [http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/4632/blz15.jpg takes] a cup from Biggs, drains it, and hands it back. Biggs takes it back. They pose like [http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7097/blz04s.jpg this] while arguing. When they become friends and Hobbie has become a cyborg, there's [http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4452/blz05.jpg this] exchange, which is generally taken to mean that Hobbie lost his penis. [[Fridge Logic|How does Biggs know that]]? And of course there's the whole thing where Hobbie gets hurt and has a nasty disease, and Biggs is [http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1233/blz22.jpg so intensely concerned] and has to find the cure himself, and Hobbie opens his eyes as Biggs dies. Biggs does have a girlfriend late in the comic, but she seems like a very last-minute sort of character.

* In [[Marvel Star Wars]], the nearhumans called Zeltrons are attracted to Force-Sensitives. On a visit to their world, Luke briefly picks up a gang of Zeltron fangirls... and one fanboy.

** There's [http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/c/cb/Kam_spars_Corran.jpg this picture,] representing a scene sometime during Corran's training in ''I, Jedi''. Technically, that's a duel between Corran and Kam Solusar, with Luke keeping an eye on them. However, one can't help but notice which part of Kam's anatomy Luke is actually staring at, and ''his very pleased expression''..

* ''[[The New Rebellion]]'' has Brakiss, handsome Dark Jedi. Everyone comments on his good looks, from Luke to Leia... to a young mechanic who thinks Brakiss is the most beautiful male he's ever seen.

She was right. }}

** Brakiss literally ''breathes'' his trope in ''The New Rebellion''. In addition to his good looks, he also has a fixation on Luke Skywalker that is supposed to be that of a traumatized student for his former mentor, but comes up as that of a man who's had to face a hopeless situation of unrequited love.

** Later, Brakiss talks to the current Dark Lord, Kueller, and tells him "I hate Skywalker." Kueller denies this.

* [[Incest Subtext]] - Jacen names his flagship the ''Anakin Solo''. [[Freud Was Right|Symbolically]], Jacen is inside his brother.

* The <s>first two</s> second and third gay characters are Goran Beviin and Madrit Vasur, who [[Bi the Way|act like any other married couple]].

** What's especially notable about these two is that they're openly gay but no one makes any big deal about it. This troper didn't even realize they ''were'' gay until halfway through the book, and certainly none of the characters ever point out that there's anything unusual about them.

* [[Les Yay]] - If [[Knights of the Old Republic|Revan]] is female, you get a [[Gay Option]]. If LSFR redeems Juhani, Juhani becomes a non-canon romance.

* [[Matt Stover]]'s [[Adaptation Distillation|superior]] [[Novelization]] of ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' has its share of this.

** Anakin and Obi-Wan are said to be "closer than friends, closer than brothers." A short ways into the book, Anakin has a vision of Count Dooku on his knees with lightsabers held at his throat, thinks this means the end of the war, looks into Obi-Wan's eyes, and is overcome by emotion. The audiobook version puts soft, swelling happy music in at this point, too.

** The climactic battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan has the narration lamenting that the two are closer than brothers, closer than lovers, two halves of the same warrior. Obi-Wan has to let go of his love for Anakin to beat him.

** The moments are collected [http://community.livejournal.com/starwars_slash/6098.html here], and there are many.

** Also, in the first chapter, both Obi-Wan and Padme try to visit a wounded Anakin in the Temple Infirmary, causing the healer to remark that that he is "just as bad as her." In regards to the other, both Obi-Wan and Padme think to themselves the equivalent of "I love Anakin more than you ever could" at separate points in the book.

* In ''[[New Jedi Order|Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand]]'', Face Loran of Wraith Squadron is working undercover with Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade, wearing a mask that makes him look like one of the Vong. As he's about to go scout a potentially dangerous bridge, he asks Mara for a kiss for luck, prompting her to remark that she doesn't know whether to mark that down as 'exceptionally daring' or 'exceptionally stupid'. Undaunted, Face turns to Luke.

"Get out of here." }}

* Also in Rebel Stand, Jaina and Jagged have just entered into a relationship; this being an Allston book, Jag teases her rather than acting like a block of wood. Jaina's supposed to find someone and persuade them to leave their squadron and join hers, another reason for all the other squadron commanders to hate her.

"I'm going to break a bone you'll need later." }}

* Allston seems to like [[Ho Yay]]; at a convention, a [[Yaoi Fangirl]] asked him if Wes and Hobbie were friends or life partners. One question later, he joked that Hobbie was with Wes throughout the NJO.

** There's Wynn Dorvan and Raynar Thul in the same series. The former is the aide of a president who is the epitome of anti-Jedi thinking, while the latter is a full-fledged Jedi Knight. And yet, Dorvan takes to having lunch with Thul everyday on the steps of the Jedi Temple, something which even Dorvan's boss finds amusing. Later, Dorvan even risks his life to protect Thul from a whole army of Mandalorians sent by his own employer - and he does so ''in front of the cameras'', with half the Galaxy watching...

* There's a Scholastic book series, ''Last Of The Jedi'', following the adventures of [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ferus_Olin Ferus Olin], an Order 66-escaping Jedi who'd previously featured in another series alongside Anakin. He's got a close friend in Roan Lands with whom he formed a business, called Olin And Lands. Ferus Olin's fondest memory is of skinny-dipping with Lands. Vader kills Lands to provoke Ferus.

** Early in the ''Rebel Force'' series, Ferus thinks about all the people he'd lost. Most are just a name, but...

** When Vader finally kills Ferus, Ferus has a vision as he lies dying.

And then he heard nothing at all. }}

* [[Even the Guys Want Him|Everyone]] in the Jedi Academy Trilogy describes Kyp Durron as "handsome". Yep, even the guys.

* Not sure if it counts, only because Dorsk 81 is neither male nor female, but in ''Darksaber'', Kyp and Dorsk 81 [[Have a Gay Old Time|"fit together"]].

* There is a noncanon comic in Star Wars Tales called ''A Wookiee Scorned''. In it, Chewbacca is [http://images.plurk.com/4f259770e5c38735194dc6bc3ae1b69d.jpg jealous] of Leia. ''Very'' jealous. He feels like Han's blowing him off to be with Leia, and fixes a [http://images.plurk.com/bc6bb78f4bfedac9733a0bf53272e65d.jpg feast] for Han which goes unappreciated. Han has to reassure him by saying that he's [http://images.plurk.com/d6c72cd7e3c7e82f43e83142ddadab64.jpg finally found someone he loves as much as Chewie]. Leia reassures him by saying that [http://images.plurk.com/6e502fcb57a865140c9709859704c220.jpg she would never want to come between them].

* In a comic mini called ''My Brother, My Enemy'', focused around Luke's childhood friend Tank, who'd become an Imperial, Tank knows Luke's on the Rebel side. All through a fight against Rebels he thinks of Luke, but not the way you'd think. "I had a dream last night, Luke. You were in it." He thinks they're destined to meet again, and though he feels hurt and betrayed and focused, he doesn't seem angry. When things go wrong for the Imperial side, [http://images.plurk.com/8f000d1b562ae94c9c74221fcfd9b7db.jpg this] happens in his narration.

** Cut back to a closeup of Tank, and he's got tears welling in his eyes, one sliding down his cheek.

* R2-D2 and C-3PO, in most of the EU, have much the same antagonistic buddy dynamic that they have in the films. But in ''Rebel Force: Firefight'', they reunite after a particularly intense mission.

** Threepio then bickers with him some and says "I think it's best that from now on, you stay close to my side, for your own safety."