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Queer Star Wars Characters (Round 1): Well Known Characters Match 1

Padmé Amidala vs Alexsandr Kallus

Padmé Amidala

Alexsandr Kallus

Voting ended onJul 17, 2023

Padmé Amidala | Identity: bisexual | Media: Established in Queen’s Trilogy

E. K. Johnson’s Queen’s Shadow established Padmé as bisexual, harboring unacted upon feelings for her handmaiden Sabé. This was further explored in the final book of the trilogy Queen’s Hope, where it became a tragic love triangle for Padmé between Sabé and Anakin. Sabé represented ideology, duty, and thinking about the bigger picture. Being with Anakin represented forgetting all these things, a selfish love where she could just be herself. As the movies already established, she chose Anakin. And we all know how that went.

Alexsandr Kallus | Identity: mlm | Media: Star Wars Rebels

Since it’s a TV show, I’m going to assume that people already know about the relationship between Kallus and Zeb. Unfortunately, other than his first name there are no fun EU tidbits for me to share. But as a reminder, Kallus and Zeb’s relationship being romantic hasn’t been officially confirmed via word of god. However, it has a level of textual support greater than any other popular slash ship (and similar to other canon ships), hence his inclusion in this bracket.

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Canon Queer Star Wars Character Bracket

Gays in Star Wars, its more likely than you think.

Welcome to the bracket for queer Star Wars characters, from movie characters quietly confirmed to be queer to the most minor of book characters. Here they will compete to find the ultimate gay in space! This is for characters who are textually (or almost so) queer, and as such there is no need for nominations.

Every poll comes with a description of each characters, but we encourage you to submit propaganda for each character about why they should be voted for. Any propaganda against another character that is judged overly hostile or more for discourse shit-stirring than good fun won’t be published (if its off anon, we’ll let you know what’s wrong with it)

The bracket will begin on July 5th, with 3 polls per day, each running for a week. Only after all polls resolve will the next round begin.

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The bracket is being run by @absolxguardian and @bisexualwintermoon

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Queer Star Wars Characters (Round 1): Problematic Characters from 2015

Aleksin/Pavol vs Moff Moors

Aleksin/Pavol

Moff Moors

Voting ended onJul 16, 2023

Aleksin/Pavol | Identity: mlm couple | Media: Lando comics

“Would you fuck your clone?” “I’m gay, so I’d totally fuck my clone.”

Aleskin and Pavol are a pair of very strange characters, who if it wasn’t for all the rest of the queer characters in Star Wars, would stand out as problematic. They’re two cat-man clones in a relationship with each other. Lando Clarrisian hires them to help him hijack Palpatine’s personal yacht the Imperialis. They planned to use the money from the job to buy another clone they could raise as their child. Further context for their existence has yet to be provided.

Aboard the Imperialis, Aleksin was corrupted by Darth Momin’s mask (of building Fortress Vader fame) and turned on his crew. In attempting to stop him, Pavol was likewise corrupted. They were killed by Lando and the bounty hunter Channath Cha while they escaped the Imperialis.

Moff Delian Moors | Identity: wlw | Media: Lords of the Sith

Moff Moors is technically the first queer character in the New EU, Lords of the Sith coming out a few months before Aftermath. But since she isn’t what you’d call representation, people prefer to forget about her.

In the early days of the Empire, Moors’ wife Murra was killed in a transport accident. Around the same time, she was given the governorship of Ryloth. Due to her grief, she neglected her duties and became a spice addict, spending her time on Ryloth’s largest moon surrounded by scantily clad female Twi’lek slaves.

Her poor leadership allowed the Free Ryloth Movement to almost assassinate Dath Vader and Emperor Palpatine. By managing to lead the crew that rescued the Sith Lords and killing the traitor that allowed this to occur, her life was spared. This event acted as a wake-up call forcing her back to competence and actually utilizing her skills. 

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Queer Star Wars Characters (Round 1): Aphra's Exes Match 2

Kalandra vs Eustacia Okka

Kalandra

Eustacia Okka

Voting ended onJul 16, 2023

Kalandra | Identity: wlw | Media: Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original

Kalandra was an archeology student at the University of Bar’leth and one of the future Doctor Aphra’s many lovers. They were together, but after Kalandra started waiting outside of Aphra’s classes, she broke off the relationship, calling Kalandra a “stalker”. Afterwards she first became involved with Sana Starros.

Sana not gathering Kalandra for the “save Aphra” team in 3/4ABY suggests that Sana either has no idea what happened to her, or because she only appears in an adaptation, she isn’t canon. 

(Apologies if there are any errors in the summary, this is one of the few characters in the poll I have no personal experience with.)

Eustacia Okka| Identity: wlw | Media: Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original

Eustacia is another one of Aphra’s failed relationships at the University of Bar’leth. After Eustacia graduated, she became a professor at the Shadow University (despite the name this seems to be a normal academic institution). She was later expelled for the Shadow University for publishing a seemingly poor paper about the Rings of Vaale.

Because of this, Aphra recruited Eustacia to her crew to find the Rings of Vaale, promising her sole academic credit for the discovery. Despite the job devolving into conflict with Ronen Tagge, she seems to have regained her position in the Shadow University after it. Sana later recruited her to help save Aphra from the Spark Eternal. 

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Queer Star Wars Character Bracket (Round 1): Battle of the Bounty Hunters Match 2

Kip Ostar vs KLE-0

Kip Ostar

KLE-0

Voting ended onJul 15, 2023

Kip Ostar | Identity: nonbinary | Media: Jedi Survivor

Kip Ostar is one of the non-story bounty hunter bosses from Jedi Survivor. They are one of the first Haxion Brood Commandos you can fight, which occurs in Dredger Gorge on Koboh. All that is known about them is contained in their database entry: “Imperial records- now suspected to be doctored- hold that Kip Ostar’s body count exceeds that of the Imperial campaign on Subterrel. Doctor or not, what is not in dispute are Kip Ostar’s vicious tendencies and the violent streak they’ve carved across the galaxy.”

KLE-0| Identity: nonbinary | Media: Jedi Survivor

KLE-0 is part of a trio of non-story bounty hunter bosses. With the Finau brothers Fenn and Masi, they are fought on Nova Garon after the story missions on the space station are completed. KLE-0 is a bounty hunter droid. All that is known about them is contained in their database entry: “KLE-0 - known affectionately as “Cleo” - is the companion droid of the Finau brothers, and assists them in every fact of their profession. It is said, although it cannot be verified, that Cleo has as much blood on their metal hands as the brothers combined.”