Artist: Drake
Date: June 26, 2011 — 23:41
Original Image size: 2806 x 2040
Source: ron-stoppable.de (German🇩🇪 Kim Possible fan gallery)
This vibrant fan illustration shows Drakken and Shego doing something fandom has always known they’d be good at: actually relaxing.
Set on a bright tropical beach, the piece depicts Shego lounging confidently in a green-and-black swimsuit while Drakken stretches out beside her, perfectly content in the sun. The mood is playful, indulgent, and unmistakably affectionate—very much in line with how later Disney's EU material quietly frames Shego’s personal tastes.
What makes this image especially interesting is how well it aligns with canon and EU-established details about Shego’s love of beach aesthetics, something I’ve previously documented on this blog:
• In “Attack from Outer Space / Cosmic Invasion” (January 24, 2008), published in Micky Maus Magazin Sonderheft: Kim Possible Nr. #01-2008, Shego is shown explicitly enjoying the idea of going on vacation, wearing beach attire and carrying a suitcase decorated with bright tropical flowers.
https://www.tumblr.com/gregoryelliottgrosberg/803977024127614976/merry-christmas-2025?source=share
• In “Shego’s Secret Weapon” (March 26, 2009), from Micky Maus Magazin Sonderheft: Kim Possible Nr. #02-2009, her bathroom is decorated with flower-shaped beach stickers, reinforcing that this isn’t a one-off visual gag but a recurring personal preference.
https://www.tumblr.com/gregoryelliottgrosberg/686457675202035712/happy-kim-possible-day-in-celebration-of-the-20th?source=share
Seen in that context, this 2011 artwork doesn’t feel like a random AU—it feels like a natural extension of what the EU repeatedly hinted at: Shego genuinely likes the beach, and Drakken is more than happy to be there with her.
A great example of how fan artists often picked up on subtle canon patterns long before fandom meta caught up.
Original source (archived): http://www.ron-stoppable.de/include.php?path=galerie/pic.php&pid=778
Prompts! 5 Little things that Leia always does for Han that make Han mushy inside but of course he would rather die than tell her that.
This is a good exercise because I think most of us like to imagine a Han Solo who is the ideal husband, who cooks and is amazing with his children and is the kind of man Leia Organa deserves. I know I fall into that category. So thinking about Han’s needs and how Leia meets them is good for me. I had a lot of fun writing these, so thank you, anon!
1. Leia Organa has on more than one occasion stood up for her husband in front of the galactic press. When they first start appearing together after Endor, the press is a non-entity. The big deal there is the Alliance hierarchy: how they view the relationship, how they pressure her to focus on her work and not her dalliance.
But a few years after settling on Coruscant finds both Han and Leia thrust into the spotlight. A free press is a novelty for their generation and they represent the new blood of a new government. And people also want meaning in the wreckage of war. A young couple’s drama sells holos and if there isn’t actual drama, they’re damn well going to create some.It gets so bad that Leia starts to worry that it will impact their relationship. After all, how many times can one man be accosted coming out of a spaceport? How many times can they accuse him of cheating on her with the holofilm actress of the week? Han is a private person by nature; it was difficult for him to open his boundaries for this life with her in the first place. How long could she expect him to sit still and accept the abuse without fighting back?
Leia decides to do a sit-down interview in their home. She invites a holo reporter of decent repute to a tour of their apartment. Han is instructed to stay away, if she even tells him what she’s doing at all, and he is not consulted about the interview.
And Leia does what Leia does best. She finds that line of self-assuredness and passion and walks it carefully, leading the holo reporter through a sitting room full of holos. She shows them the kitchen, the dining room, the ins and outs of Han and Leia’s physical space. There are tiny details thrown in—this is a bowl stolen from the Alderaanian Winter Palace that Han tracked down and gave me before we lived together; I love this holo of us vacationing on Corellia—and she is magnetic and soft and confident.The immediate reaction is positive. The novelty of Han and Leia’s love story never quite wears off, but the naysayers are silenced for the moment. Leia shows the galaxy stability and support: the last Princess of Alderaan in a healthy, committed domestic partnership and Han is flummoxed by her care. It means everything to him and while he might make a crack about hiring extra security to keep Leia herself in line, he holds her commitment to easing his discomfort tightly to his chest.
2.) That one time she tried to bake a Wookiee celebration cake for Chewie’s son’s Life Day. Han teased her mercilessly because the thing was a culinary travesty, but he is gobsmacked by her thoughtfuless. This is the first time Han really, truly understands that Leia cares about all of him, not just the swashbuckling hero he tried to be. He tells her about Dewlanna that night and while that’s terrifying, it’s edifying, too.
3.) When she’s away for work, doing humanitarian or political business, she always makes sure to call him at a very specific time. Once during the trip to Bespin, he told her that holo calls should never, ever come to someone before their first cup a caf. He meant it as a joke; Leia was always flitting around with her eyes trained on her comm, stress and burden in the line of her shoulders, and Han, ever the opportunist, made the comment to force her to take time for herself.
It didn’t work the way he wanted. Instead of Leia taking time for herself, she made a point to never call him before his first cup of caf. On her holopad is a complicated algorithm that shows her what time of day it is on Coruscant, on Yavin 4, on Corellia, his usual haunts. She updates it regularly with his travels. He finds it hilarious and sweet, though he’d never admit that her habit had come from a joke at her expense.
4.) Leia consults Han about her career. Not the nuances of it; Han is in no position to give advice to the princess and he knows it. But every step of her career has been made with his full agreement. Before her first election after the war, she approached him with resigned nervousness about career choices. Politics was not something one did alone. Politics in this new galaxy was about the family, too. And as awful as the press could be, the media attention would only get crazier once she ran for the highest office in the government.
Secretly he hates her work. He hates that she has to worry so much about perception, that truth is a matter for debate. In his mind Leia is honest and smart and surrounds herself with capable people and that is why she should be elected.
This is probably why he doesn’t get politics. There is one truth in the galaxy for him and that is that Leia Organa is fucking amazing. But he’s not allowed to say that on holo anymore and so he values her talking with him about her next steps. She discusses her emergency appointment when Mon Mothma is poisoned, every election, when she is called into the office again and again. He loves it. It makes him feel important in her life, like she cares for his opinion.
5.) She holds his hand in public. It’s such a small thing and he’s embarrassed by his reaction to it.
But Alderaanians don’t hold hands: it’s a Corellian thing. Corellians were …. Uh, handsy, with their excessive physical demonstrations of affection. Alderaanians, and particularly the House Organa, kept public displays to a minimum. And hand-holding … not a thing for Leia until him.
The first time he did it was on a mission before Hoth, and she’d nearly decapitated him on the spot. She’d yelled about respecting her space, considering her body her own autonomous entity, things he honestly didn’t understand. Because most cultures fall somewhere between Corellia and Alderaan on this stuff. And he’d seen Leia be affectionate in public before. She’s hugged him after he’d helped blow up a Death Star!
He hadn’t explained it then, just been short and snippy right back to her. But when things started to heat up, when they’d had weeks to talk and explore each other’s bodies, he’d brought it up. He’d been astonished to learn that her anxiety about holding his hand had not been about him at all, but about culture.
So it was with great surprise that he noticed she would occasionally smooth a hand over his arm after Jabba’s, that she’d slip her fingers through his on Bakura, that she would try and calm him down those first few years together with a simple squeeze of her hand. Not an ingrained action: it was something she had to consistently build herself up to do. It made her feel vulnerable in public and she’d sacrifice her own well-being now and again to reassure him.
What a trip that was. She’d grab his hand beneath state dinner tables when the conversation turned nasty. She’d squeeze his hand when they walked their children outside and were ambushed by the media. She’d lean into his arm and take his hand between hers on the difficult days, the days when the kids were kidnapped or when Luke disappeared into the Outer Rim for whatever reason. When an assassination threat was made. When an enemy rose to power and threatened the life they’d built together.
Not often, mind. She didn’t do it lightly. Leia had her own boundaries and the very first thing he’d learned about her was that those boundaries were set in stone. But when she took his hand, she stepped beyond herself, met him in the middle, bridged a cultural gap and it always left him a little breathless.
What an extraordinary life he had, with a woman like her. Han might not tell her as often as he should. These things made him melt and he didn’t have the vocabulary for that. So he focused on reciprocating her attention, her care, and somewhere in the middle they found a sustainable happiness that made him grateful and proud.
