#uncle harlo

[szyszkasosnowa]

Incredible things happening on star wars facebook.

[timetochillnow]

you've just killed your worst enemy and you need an alibi, as well as someone to help you get rid of the body before the isb find out. you can only pick one person. who do you pick and why?

dedra

syril

heert

partagaz

krennic

eedy

uncle harlo

Voting ended onJun 16, 2025

[pbandjeveryday]

Uncle Harlo lore drop? Kind of? What exactly has he done to be in ISB files? I guess they probably have access to anyone who’s been processed for criminal activity, but still. Maybe that will come up later

[hegodamask]

Does anyone want to hear my “Uncle Harlo is Syril’s real Dad” theory?

No? Too bad.

So to begin with, I don’t think Harlo is an uncle to Syril in the traditional sense. He’s not related to the Karns by blood or marriage. From Syril’s dialogue, he seems too distant to be a close relative, with Syril implying he won’t even remember who Eedy is

I realise he’s also taking a jab at Eedy here, but even she reveals Harlo doesn’t keep in touch with them often (”he’ll respect me for having waited so long in asking and being so prudent about it.”) 

We already know Syril has grown up without a Dad. If we go by the backstory Kyle Soller and Kathryn Hunter devised, Eedy’s husband left the family in an “acrimonious, horrible way” early on in Syril’s life.

Without her husband around, Eedy tries to frame Harlo as a replacement father figure for her son, giving him the title of “uncle”, emphasising how important his favour is and his supposed interest in Syril’s career:

But to Syril, Harlo is just as absent as Mr. Karn. He doesn’t understand Syril’s career ambitions, he doesn’t make the effort to speak to Syril directly. As far as Syril’s concerned, he doesn’t know him at all:

Which leads us to wonder, why does someone as influential as Harlo have this detached investment in a guy he barely knows? To a family he’s not particularly close to? What is this “family favour” Eedy is supposedly calling on?

Idk how gospel it is, but Kyle has said in interviews that Syril’s corporate security job was a handout just like his Bureau of Standards one. If uncle Harlo facilitated that position for Syril too, then surely the favour has already been called on?

And this is the basis of my theory: Syril is the child of an affair between Harlo and Eedy. Due to Harlo’s position (and Eedy being married at the time) it’s far too scandalous for him to acknowledge his son, so he keeps his distance. Whenever Eedy calls he lends a hand time and time again, out of a sense of obligation.  

Of course, I don’t think Syril knows any of this. Eedy has always told him Harlo is an “old friend” and because they see so little of each other, he’s never questioned it. I do think Mr. Karn found out and that is why he walked out on the family (yes this sounds like a soap opera, but is Star Wars not just a soap opera in space??) 

I don’t propose any of this will actually be revealed in season 2, but if it is, it could add some very sad context to the relationship between Eedy and Syril. Maybe that’s why she pushes him to succeed so much: so the Karns can prove themselves to people like Harlo who keep them in the shadows. 

I doubt Andor is the type of show to reveal Harlo is actually some major Star Wars character we already know. But if there is any sort of twist coming with him, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was something like this.

[internetenjoyerman]

found myself in the tags on wookieepedia

[lurkingcake]

Very pleased with this idea that "uncle Harlo" is Palpatine

[notasapleasure]

The Saga of the Coal-Biter and the Skraeling

[COMPLETE: 45 chapters; 105k]

A medieval family saga AU for Andor During the last few decades of the tenth century, travellers Maarva and Clem bring a foreign orphan back to Iceland with them. Cassian's history is opaque and he's a long way from home as he tries to find a place in the small community of the western valleys. Brasso, outsider and scrap-picker, illegitimate son of an old viking, finds in Cassian a kindred spirit and a new sense of purpose. He's spent so long avoiding the responsibilities his father tried to force on him, though, that he's afraid to commit to defending himself when the local chieftain - Árló, brother of Eedy - begins causing trouble. A prophecy of doom leaves him more reluctant than ever, even as Cassian becomes less willing to live with the local injustices. What will it take to get Brasso to act, and how can two odd-balls take on the most powerful man in the district?

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Please give my huge FPN baby a chance! Do you like ominous dreams? Hauntings? Oblivious idiots in love? Gift-giving and wearing each others' clothes? Outsiders standing up to unjust social structures? Perhaps you will find something to like here.

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Inspired by the moment in @r0b0tb0y's Size of the Fight in the Dog when Cassian bites a man's throat out. Actually inspired by a lot of stuff in that fic that's pushing the boundaries of friendly physical contact about as far as it can go.

Will probably get me killed in my sleep (affectionate) by @distressednoise.

[tiyetiye]

I don’t think it will happen, but I would love it if “Uncle Harlo” turned out to be Luthen. If the man who got Syril this job that allowed him to get back on his feet turned out to also be “Axis” that would just be hysterical.