This article contains spoilers forThe Volume of Boba Fett episode two.

Star Wars has subtly suggested Luke Skywalker wouldn't have survived life on Tatooine had he not left the planet. There comes a time when every person looks dorsum and imagines how their life would accept worked out if they had fabricated slightly different choices—and the more influential the person, the more tempting the siren song of nostalgia becomes. Even Luke Skywalker wasn't allowed to the tantalizing question "what if?"

Jason Fry'southward novelization ofStar Wars: The Concluding Jedi reveals Luke nigh certainly succumbed to nostalgia during his exile on the remote water world of Ahch-To. Luke dreamed of an alternate timeline where he never left Tatooine, and it may well have merely been his ain mind inventing a scenario given his dissatisfaction with how his life had turned out. In this imagined reality, Luke saw himself living on Tatooine with his wife Camie, fulfilling an Imperial quote and paying water taxes to Jabba the Hutt, considering neither Jabba nor the Empire had ever fallen. ButThe Book of Boba Fett episode two subtly suggests even this chilling glimpse of a timeline where Luke Skywalker never became a hero may have been optimistic.

The Book of Boba Fett episode ii includes a scene in which Luke'due south childhood friends Camie and Fixer were threatened by members of a dive gang. Fixer made the mistake of continuing upward to the thugs, who proceeded to beat him upward, reveling in the hurting they acquired him. Fixer was only saved by the intervention of Boba Fett, who turned the tables on them. The scene is a reminder of merely how lawless and untamed Tatooine can exist, and it strongly suggests Luke Skywalker—impetuous and headstrong, even more inclined to step upwards in the face up of an obvious injustice than Fixer—only wouldn't take survived on the inhospitable desert earth.

Owen Lars seems to have gone a piffling too far trying to shelter his nephew Luke, and thus he was sick-prepared for life on Tatooine. Luke's naivety is actually suggested in the firstStar Wars movie, in one telling scene in which he couldn't even terminal v minutes in the Mos Eisley Cantina without needing Obi-Wan's intervention to continue him alive. Had he stayed on Tatooine, he'd accept come into contact with the seedier side of life there sooner or later, and he'd have soon died. Luke'due south daydream in theStar Wars: The Last Jedi novelization was actually overly optimistic.

In reality, it's entirely questionable whether Luke would have ever married Camie had he stayed on Tatooine—bold, of course, that he wasn't killed along with his aunt and uncle during the Empire'southward search for R2-D2. She and Fixer first appeared in a deleted scene fromA New Promise, where they were already a couple, and it's notable they seem to accept stayed together. While it's quite likely Luke had a kittenish trounce on her, there's been no indication she ever returned his feelings. It's possible Luke Skywalker would have married earlier he died in this dystopian alternate Star Wars timeline, but Camie probably wouldn't have been his married woman.

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